Oil Prices and Energy Wars: The Empire of Frack versus Russia

Strategic Culture by Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA Energy prices started to move downward in late-2014, when Saudi oil began to flood … More

Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives

The Economic Collapse by Michael Snyder Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market?  … More

The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns

Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith It is these unforeseeable and uncontrollable consequences that are poised to wreak havoc on … More

Falling Oil Prices Could Cripple ‘Vulnerable’ Russia, Trigger World War III

SHTFplan by Mac Slavo The Cold War 2.0 is going hot, and while it may someday be fought with planes, … More

OPEC Fires First Shot In Global Oil Price War

OilPrices.com By Andy Tully OPEC’s decision not to cut production to shore up oil prices drove down the price of … More

The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 1

Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith Given the presumed 17% expansion of the global economy since 2009, the tiny increases … More

Did We Just Witness The Last Great Black Friday Celebration Of American Materialism?

The Economic Collapse by Michael Snyder Americans are going to spend more than 600 billion dollars this Christmas season, and … More

Oil Market: Lower Gas Prices not the Only Reason to be Thankful

The New American by Bob Adelmann When news from Vienna arrived on Wall Street early Thanksgiving morning that OPEC wasn’t … More

Saudi Oil War Against the United States – a Deja-vu?

New Eastern Outlook by Viktor Mikhin In history, just as in everyday life, different events tend to repeat themselves after … More

The US and Saudi Arabia Want to Crush Russia and Iran

New Eastern Outlook by Viktor Titov Listening to the opinions of experts regarding the continuing sharp decline in oil prices, … More

Russia Is Preparing For A “Catastrophic” Oil Price Collapse

Zero Hedge Vladimir Putin told the state-run TASS news agency that Russia’s economy faces a potential “catastrophic” slump in oil … More

U.S. Pump War on Russia or Debt Bubble Collapse? Gas Is Now Officially Cheaper Than Milk

The Daily Sheeple by Melissa Melton You’ve probably had more than one sigh of relief at the gas pumps lately … More

Putin Suggests Drop in Oil Prices Caused by Political Manipulation

The Moscow Times Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during a news conference after the Asia-Europe Meeting in … More

Has Washington Just Shot Itself in the Oily Foot?

New Eastern Outlook by F. William Engdahl By now even the New York Times is openly talking about the secret … More

How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed

Zero Hedge Two years ago, in hushed tones at first, then ever louder, the financial world began discussing that which … More

Saudi Arabia: on the Verge of Tough Decisions

New Eastern Outlook by Viktor Mikhin Saudi Arabia is once again in the center of international events. The international community … More

US – Saudi Arabia Oil Prices Collusion: Calculations and Errors

Strategic Culture by Dmitry MININ This is the time the markets should expect oil prices to go up but they … More

8 Reasons For Our Oil Price Predicament

OilPrice.com By Gail Tverberg A person might think that oil prices would be fairly stable. Prices would set themselves at … More

Political Manipulations with the Price of Oil

Strategic Culture by Mikhail AGHAJANYAN The drop in oil prices that began at the same time as Islamic State (IS) … More

US Economy Safety Margin Tested as Oil Prices Go Down

Strategic Culture by Alexander DONETSKY Oil prices fluctuations is a routine matter for world economy. After the abrupt fall in … More