Showing posts with label exports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exports. Show all posts
Sunday, June 15, 2025

TACO Trump is negative for long term investment, 1Q2025 exports were the worst on record for their positive contribution to GDP

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Does anybody ever talk about exports anymore? You know, from domestic production?  ... In recent years, a cautious optimism had returned, a...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Israel has started attacking Iran's oil sector in Bushehr Province this morning, which will concern China since it imports 16% of its oil from Iran, buying 90% of Iranian oil exports

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 The cash China provides Iran in this transaction funds the ballistic missiles raining down on Tel Aviv this week.      
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Federal Open Market Committee says inflation remains somewhat elevated and the economic outlook is increasingly uncertain, leaves DFF between 4.25 and 4.5, i.e. 4.33

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  Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a sol...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Canada stopped exports of hydroelectric power to New England on March 6th

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On March 6 , at the start of the still-simmering trade war between the U.S. and Canada, hydropower generator Hydro‑Québec quietly stopped ...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Trump's biggest tariff, 50%, was on tiny landlocked poverty-stricken Lesotho inside South Africa, over a minuscule trade imbalance of $234.5 MILLION in 2024, which is under a treaty for godsakes

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  Lesotho's exports to the US in 2024 were valued at $237.3 MILLION lol. Trump now wants 50% of that. King George III, who also was nuts...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Normally you institute protectionist policies like tariffs when you already have something to protect, not before

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But our Orwellian Republicans put the cart before the horse. You can't return to something which no longer exists. The net trade deficit...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

The United States consumed 20.25 million barrels of oil per day in 2023, 3.88 million of which come from Canada and 3.38 million from Alberta lol

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    What could possibly go wrong? ... Canada is the fourth largest oil producer in the world and Alberta is the country’s biggest producer....
Monday, March 10, 2025

Ontario's Doug Ford slaps 25% tariff on electricity bound for Minnesota, Michigan, and New York, threatens total cut-off

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  Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to U.S. in response to Trump’s trade war    ... “I will not hesitate to increase thi...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Global coal electric capacity hit 2,175 gigawatts in 2024

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China added nearly 31gw of new coal electric capacity in 2024 and India nearly 6gw while the US retired almost 5gw, according to the story: ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Trump executive order reverses Biden's pause on new approvals of LNG projects

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 It is little discussed, but Biden's pause on the new projects was based, in part, on the negative impact on prices paid by consumers b...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

This is just BS from Speaker Mike Johnson about LNG exports and Joe Biden's memory

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 Whatever may be said about Joe Biden's memory, he didn't have a memory lapse in this instance as alleged by the Speaker of the US H...
Monday, August 5, 2024

New Zealand under Christopher Luxon will reverse a ban on oil and gas exploration, push the pricing of agricultural emissions back five years, and encourage more mining

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  The agricultural sector including fishing contributes 5% to the economy, and accounts for about 80% of total exports. The farmers who he...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Biden restarts Obama's war on new coal leasing ended by Trump . . . just in time for the election

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    In one of its biggest steps yet to keep fossil fuels in the ground, the Biden administration announced Thursday that it will end new c...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

I don't know about you, but my natural gas and electric costs are up 71% from two years ago

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 Why? Basically a combination of demand for domestic electric power production, demand for LNG exports to Europe because of the Ukraine war,...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The UK and The Netherlands join Germany in crying uncle over Russian energy embargo to stop Ukraine war

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CNBC here : Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. have appeared to back away from a coordinated Western embargo on Russian energy exports, ...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

And just like that we have a Russian invasion of Ukraine from every direction

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 Vladimir Putin obviously cares less about the money he can make off oil exports than he does about reincorporating Ukraine into Russia.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

The Grauniad: Barack Obama, poster boy for climate hypocrisy

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  The young people who were children when Obama took office did not clear the way for a 750% explosion in crude oil exports, as he did j...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is muting expectations for 2020 GDP growth as Wall Street predicts a pathetic 1.8%

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“I think our projections have been reduced because of Boeing and other impacts,” he told the Fox Business Network from the White House. “...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

US on its way to becoming a net exporter of oil, dominating global oil market and securing the dollar as global reserve currency

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Note to Chris Irons: This is not bullish for gold . The US is about to send a lot more oil into an already oversupplied world market:  ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

One term president: Trump's m/o is to dupe, trick and snooker, whether it's Saudi Arabia over oil or Americans over immigration

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'Duped,' 'tricked' and 'snookered': Oil analysts say Trump fooled Saudis into tanking crude prices : "The...