influence. trying to get to answers to those questions, i ended up in an economics framework. i ended up looking at what s wrong with the economy and how weak that made them, and when you combine their weakness and their ambition, you realize that the ways they ve had to try to compete are desperate and also pretty narrowly defined. and i didn t therefore, i had to learn a lot about oil and gas. and you know me, as soon as i learn about a thing currently involving subject x, i have to go back to the original history of subject x and tell you the story from the big bang. so to does have a lot of history of the oil industry. but only because i had to learn it in order to figure out these answers to these contemporaneous questions. will you take us from the time when new bedford was the richest city in america, the whale oil industry, into john d. rockefeller, what he meant to the oil industry here, what vladimir putin means to the oil market now. how oil has defined russian
we re in this fight between authoritarianism and democracy. and why russia took that wild swing auts. and why they re such a strange malignant actor internationally given that within our lifetime they ve been a world straddling super power with communist satellite states all over the world and they were our equal in terms of world influence. trying to get answers to those questions, i ended up in an economics framework. i ended up looking at what s wrong with their economy and how weak that made them. when you combine their weakness and their ambition, you realize the ways they ve tried on compete are desperate and pretty narrowly defined. and therefore, i had to learn a lot about oil and gas. and you know me. as soon as i learn about a thing currently involving subject x, i have to go back to the original history of subject x and tell you the story from the big bang. so it does have a lot of history of the oil industry but only because i had to learn to it figure out the answers to th
we re in this fight between authoritarianism and democracy. and why russia took that wild swing auts. and why they re such a strange malignant actor internationally given that within our lifetime they ve been a world straddling super power with communist satellite states all over the world and they were our equal in terms of world influence. trying to get answers to those questions, i ended up in an economics framework. i ended up looking at what s wrong with their economy and how weak that made them. when you combine their weakness and their ambition, you realize the ways they ve tried on compete are desperate and pretty narrowly defined. and therefore, i had to learn a lot about oil and gas. and you know me. as soon as i learn about a thing currently involving subject x, i have to go back to the original history of subject x and tell you the story from the big bang.