Government shutdown over borrowing limit looms 3/11
$12B for Ukraine? SOLD!
$10B for Taiwan? SOLD!
$150/bbl from Iran and Venzuela? SOLD!
We are so fucked.
Who's a bigger virtue whore, Trump or Biden?
Switzerland, China, Poland, and Belarus are the biggest buyers of Russian oil, and they are now getting a helluva discount thanks to the USA.
https://warsawinstitute.org/largest-russian-oil-buyers/
Shell bought 100,000 metric tons of Russia’s flagship Urals crude on Friday, according to people familiar with the transaction. It paid $28.50 a barrel below the price of international benchmark Brent crude, the widest discount on record.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-04/card/shell-buys-russian-oil-at-bargain-price-2ZljvO2HQlmPm5d5aAgG
We don't even buy oil from Russia. Uncertainty in the market, from "war induced" supply interruptions are driving the price of oil up, not lack of supply.