All across the world whats the whats the gambit go ahead. Well thank you yeah the timing the gambit of the gambit as well as a separate thing all this turmoil and black swans concurrently happening around the world really kind of begs certain geo political questions in my opinion you have coronavirus more or less announced really kind of command saying on new years eve and then the rollout is fairly rapid and. In a sense the attention being kind of collapsing of as you said already low Energy Demand but as a demand especially within chinas collapsing then you have the announcement of the pandemic and the timing then of opec really saudi arabia and to a certain extent now u. A. E. You know just insisting on the pullback which would in turn affect the desired medium term desired from russia to capture more of the Global Market share within the energy space and at some point there was a budding of heads russia i sensed saw through you know a certain coordination issues you had unofficial
Since 1980 sevens a black monday crash caused by investor fears over handling of the 1000 crisis. Taylor is here next hour with the latest updates but 1st. Prices are battering the world economy. Ways and the issues next day with. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle with the coronavirus now officially declared a pandemic the world faces the additional burden of an Oil Market Collapse this comes at a time when demand for crude was already low some are calling this the ultimate perfect storm. Ends is anyones guess. Crude carnage im joined by my guess was me in beirut hes a professor of economics and International Affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and political analyst as well as a former commodities trader and in toronto we Cross Alexandre Bruno he is an analyst at gulf state analytics sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate pilot may go to you 1
Mentioned that in the last episode and he was so prescient about this pandemic situation when he predicted sort of a pandemic basically that negative rates were signaling that he predicted that last june or july he says i think we have just witnessed the end of the petrodollar system non us countries will soon see a new unit of account medium of exchange and store of value a new Bretton Woods that will not be decided in america or by americans right well all the key players necessary for that are involved right now saudi arabia russia states so the petro dollar of course was established in the early 1907 days with america and saudi arabia when america defaulted on its sovereign debt remember Richard Nixon defaulted on the dollar default on the treasury market and we went on the petro Dollar Standard because america had to close the gold window could no longer fulfill its obligations to. Its creditors this was the beginning of the petrodollar era and the beginning of all things everywhe
System non us countries will soon see a new unit of account medium of exchange and store of value a new Bretton Woods that will not be decided in america or by americans right well all the key players necessary for that are involved right now saudi arabia russia states so the petro dollar of course was established in the early 1907 days with america and saudi arabia when america defaulted on its sovereign debt remember Richard Nixon defaulted on the dollar default on the treasury market and we went on the petro Dollar Standard because america had to close the gold window could no longer fulfill its obligations to its creditors this was the beginning of the petrodollar era and the beginning of all things everywhere are being priced in dollars oil is being priced in dollars all commodities are priced in dollars i gave america the us empire of debt it gave america the World Reserve currency it gave america one. Called seniority which which is basically they get a cut over every transactio
We also have the oil wars going on allegedly some oil wars we have russia versus saudi arabia the price crash you know kind of started with when the opec plus when they met you know saudi arabia essentially and russia and russia decided not to cut any production based on the decline in demand out of china and elsewhere but also right after that saudi arabia offered up to a 10. 00 discount per barrel just because i guess. Theyd been solomon got a little bit upset and threw a temper tantrum so thats what happened there but you know that seismic sell off a 30 percent and then followed by a like 101213 percent rise and boom bust and boom bust i thought this was an interesting tweet to kind of look at the whole situation is from royce we went to the last episode and he was so prescient about this pandemic situation when he predicted sort of a pandemic basically that negative rates were signaling that he predicted that last june or july he says i think we have just witnessed the end of the p