To fuel the countrys economy and military. [sachs] typically, American Foreign policy like British Imperial Foreign Policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. That includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our Foreign Policy around oil. [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. If electricity is literally the circuitry, without which modern life is impossible, oil is the lifeblood. [jacobs] its both vital to our economy and its vital to our military. And that became true once we switched to an oil based military. [narrator] in recent years, the us Energy Revolution has shifted the geopolitical balance. [gordon] this is a new state of affairs. This was not happening a decade ago, but today 80 percent of the oil in america is sourced from north america; from the continent.
A steady supply of energy is needed to fuel the countrys economy and military. [sachs] typically, American Foreign policy like British Imperial Foreign Policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. That includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our Foreign Policy around oil. [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. If electricity is literally the circuitry, without which modern life is impossible, oil is the lifeblood. [jacobs] its both vital to our economy and its vital to our military. And that became true once we switched to an oil based military. [narrator] in recent years, the us Energy Revolution has shifted the geopolitical balance. [gordon] this is a new state of affairs. This was not happening a decade ago, but today 80 percent of the oil in america is sourced from
Happens. Its totally lacking in rigger but it happens all the time around here and thats what throwing us off today sending the dow dipping, nasdaq loss 0. 14 . Let me explain what im talking about so you can see how a bullish situation gets turned into a bearish one by mepessimists who want it bo way. Sell, sell, sell. And sell, sell, sell. This morning we awoke to a story of how the chinese are cooling to them. Oh, boy, did that freak people out. Shares came in for sale at the opening because of the chinese perhaps dumping the treasury you know the dow is down 100 points in lightning speed on that one of the principle worries of Portfolio Managers there is no inflection in the yield curve meaning youre almost getting the same return from shortterm treasuries as you are from longer term ones that puts news a situation where we have whats known as a flat yield curve. Something that is often a precurser to a recession makes sense fed raises rates too quickly, falls off and the economy w
Very good morning, everybody. Warm welcome to daybreak europe. Lets check out the markets. Picking up where we left off. The mse i asiapacific eating out further gains. We touched alltime highs in the United States in fridays session. We did have some action to talk about. , a yen is steadier now little bit weaker against the u. S. Dollar. We have seen a move higher in the japanese currency. Had the bank of japans governor corona guided the market higher, when he was at demos, apparently not. He was not changing his stance, changing his forecast. Busy one. It will be a we have a dollar a little bit stronger, which makes a change after seven weeks of losses. It will be a busy week. Yellen is in her last week of the fed. Lots of data including jobs data and a state of the Union Address i President Trump. The metal price for you, this is zinc. We could have shown you others, the zinc is up 2. 3 . Because of the weeks dollar affect, lme inventories coming down and thats something that is f
To fuel the countrys economy and military. [sachs] typically, American Foreign policy like British Imperial Foreign Policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. That includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our Foreign Policy around oil. [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. If electricity is literally the circuitry, without which modern life is impossible, oil is the lifeblood. [jacobs] its both vital to our economy and its vital to our military. And that became true once we switched to an oil based military. [narrator] in recent years, the us Energy Revolution has shifted the geopolitical balance. [gordon] this is a new state of affairs. This was not happening a decade ago, but today 80 percent of the oil in america is sourced from north america; from the continent.