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PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:53 pm
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Mugwamp, re your last post: just so.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:49 am
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Much of what happened in 2008 can be attributed to the $147/bbl spike in 2007 (as the 1991-93 recession related to the spike of 1990, the post-1998 boom to $10/bbl oil, etc). I don't think any other product has oil's volatility, or its ability to cause such ramifying economic damage - as shown by the fact that the rise of US shale has barely eased the price of oil below $100/bbl. That price stickiness is a result of the increasing cost of extraction from new sources, which makes the low-cost MidEast more critical, not less.

Again, let us clarify your claims.

The underlying inflation and inflation expectation which preceded the GFC were precipitated by the instability, uncertainty, and "peak oil" fears signalled by...yep, you guessed it, the lead up, farce, aftermath and 3T cost of the Iraq War.

Just the signal of war is enough to drive up oil prices independent of supply, potentially reversing your implicature that oil's importance justifies intervention. Like that worked a treat with the Iraq War.

Edit: Grr bad mobile connection!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 4:16 am
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pietillidie wrote:
Mugwump wrote:
Much of what happened in 2008 can be attributed to the $147/bbl spike in 2007 (as the 1991-93 recession related to the spike of 1990, the post-1998 boom to $10/bbl oil, etc). I don't think any other product has oil's volatility, or its ability to cause such ramifying economic damage - as shown by the fact that the rise of US shale has barely eased the price of oil below $100/bbl. That price stickiness is a result of the increasing cost of extraction from new sources, which makes the low-cost MidEast more critical, not less.

Again, let us clarify your claims.

The underlying inflation and inflation expectation which preceded the GFC were precipitated by the instability, uncertainty, and "peak oil" fears signalled by...yep, you guessed it, the lead up, farce, aftermath and 3T cost of the Iraq War.

Just the signal of war is enough to drive up oil prices independent of supply, potentially reversing your implicature that oil's importance justifies intervention. Like that worked a treat with the Iraq War.

Edit: Grr bad mobile connection!


No way, sorry. The 2007 spike was driven by short- term traders reacting to the "commodity supercycle" (the investment fad of the day). That was an investment thesis driven by rampant Chinese growth and the false boom in the West. This surging demand was nudging up against a supply system that was constrained, because low oil prices of 1998-2003 had deterred investment in that period. Oil prices had started to recover in 2004, and investment lead times for significant developments are ca 7 years. So the traders jumped on the investment fad, and I hope and trust they were duly scalped.

In response to Lehman, the oil price plunged from $145 to $47 in a matter of weeks, then levelled back to ca $100 (roughly the marginal cost of new barrels coming on stream) within a year.

The Iraq War had no material effect on world daily oil production as Iraq had been under fairly-well enforced UN sanctions. The ill-conceived Iraq War was a major cause of many of the issues we now face, but this surely wasn't one of them. It was a trading crisis, not a war shock.

As I said, we have no right to go to war to wrest away control of oil reserves from sovereign nations that now hold them - but I do think it's pretty plain that IS should not gain strength through genocidal violence and sectarianism to threaten the world's economic blood supply and gorge on that resource base. Whether IS could do that is a matter I am content to leave to EU and US intelligence agencies, who have the resources to examine it.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:14 am
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Mugwump wrote:
pietillidie wrote:
Mugwump wrote:
Much of what happened in 2008 can be attributed to the $147/bbl spike in 2007 (as the 1991-93 recession related to the spike of 1990, the post-1998 boom to $10/bbl oil, etc). I don't think any other product has oil's volatility, or its ability to cause such ramifying economic damage - as shown by the fact that the rise of US shale has barely eased the price of oil below $100/bbl. That price stickiness is a result of the increasing cost of extraction from new sources, which makes the low-cost MidEast more critical, not less.

Again, let us clarify your claims.

The underlying inflation and inflation expectation which preceded the GFC were precipitated by the instability, uncertainty, and "peak oil" fears signalled by...yep, you guessed it, the lead up, farce, aftermath and 3T cost of the Iraq War.

Just the signal of war is enough to drive up oil prices independent of supply, potentially reversing your implicature that oil's importance justifies intervention. Like that worked a treat with the Iraq War.

Edit: Grr bad mobile connection!


No way, sorry. The 2007 spike was driven by short- term traders reacting to the "commodity supercycle" (the investment fad of the day). That was an investment thesis driven by rampant Chinese growth and the false boom in the West. This surging demand was nudging up against a supply system that was constrained, because low oil prices of 1998-2003 had deterred investment in that period. Oil prices had started to recover in 2004, and investment lead times for significant developments are ca 7 years. So the traders jumped on the investment fad, and I hope and trust they were duly scalped.

In response to Lehman, the oil price plunged from $145 to $47 in a matter of weeks, then levelled back to ca $100 (roughly the marginal cost of new barrels coming on stream) within a year.

The Iraq War had no material effect on world daily oil production as Iraq had been under fairly-well enforced UN sanctions. The ill-conceived Iraq War was a major cause of many of the issues we now face, but this surely wasn't one of them. It was a trading crisis, not a war shock.

As I said, we have no right to go to war to wrest away control of oil reserves from sovereign nations that now hold them - but I do think it's pretty plain that IS should not gain strength through genocidal violence and sectarianism to threaten the world's economic blood supply and gorge on that resource base. Whether IS could do that is a matter I am content to leave to EU and US intelligence agencies, who have the resources to examine it.

Please, Mugster, pass that weed around!

Oil prices spiked with the Iraq War *despite* claims it would unlock massively greater production.

Of course Chinese growth and world demand, and then *obviously* later Lehmann, an extension of the *very same* initial oil price increases and subsequent Iraq War driven debt fears, drove prices up further.

Fox News is about the only entity which claims to this day the Iraq War didn't precipitate a lot of the economics, including the demonstrable increase in oil prices prior to Lehmann and *regardless* of what was by then a consistent and heavily priced in China story, that followed.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:31 am
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^ you don't need the weed, you're incorrigible to reason already ! Wink

Where I can agree with you is that Iraq War II had a part to play in the 2008 comeuppance ; it was not through oil prices, but through the gross fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Government's decision to wage war without raising the taxes to pay for it. Like any massive fiscal stimulus, this rushed the US economy's adrenaline system, dilated the financial arteries, and left it ready for the cardiac arrest that the oil spike of 2007 brought on. It also limited Obama's room for fiscal manoeuvre.... but the oil spike wasn't caused by Iraq.

We would also agree, I suspect, that a flawed Neo-Con premise of the Second Iraq War was that the war would be self-financing, through lower oil prices. That credulous idea underlay the fiscal wish-fulfilment referred to above.

If, as I suspect, you're in England and around London or Oxford at the moment, let me know, and I'll buy you a warn English beer or two and you can try to set me straight ! Cheers

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:59 am
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Mugwump wrote:
^ you don't need the weed, you're incorrigible to reason already ! Wink

Where I can agree with you is that Iraq War II had a part to play in the 2008 comeuppance ; it was not through oil prices, but through the gross fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Government's decision to wage war without raising the taxes to pay for it. Like any massive fiscal stimulus, this rushed the US economy's adrenaline system, dilated the financial arteries, and left it ready for the cardiac arrest that the oil spike of 2007 brought on. It also limited Obama's room for fiscal manoeuvre.... but the oil spike wasn't caused by Iraq.

We would also agree, I suspect, that a flawed Neo-Con premise of the Second Iraq War was that the war would be self-financing, through lower oil prices. That credulous idea underlay the fiscal wish-fulfilment referred to above.

If, as I suspect, you're in England and around London or Oxford at the moment, let me know, and I'll buy you a warn English beer or two and you can try to set me straight ! Cheers

Where we differ is that you're talking about the post-Lehmann oil spike; and I'm talking about the price rise over the period of the Iraq War. I shouldn't have used the word "spike" (though it was called a spike at the time, BTW) because the war is actually a long story, thus so was the rise over the war. The 3T Iraq War spending/inflation/debt (all the exactly the same thing), then blew the lid off as you say.

But Iraq is central to the story no matter which way you look at it and thus will it be again, which is my main expectation here.

From what I can tell, two things people regularly underestimate when it comes to oil are: (1) its proxy value as both a leading indicator and therefore powerful market signal (people tend to focus on the literal input cost effect, which lags expectations, though complicated by hedging and priced-in future expectations, I understand); and (2) the sheer size and power of its main peddlers, which as energy companies (not simply dealing in oil) have massive political influence, and indeed are in the business of political influence as natural resources are significantly non-competitive commodities (save for substitution effects, themselves well covered by the very same companies).

The natural resource business is very little about making something, and very much about slimy dealings and contracts with governments (hence the unsavoury thugs which keep interfering in Australian politics).

Yes, on the beer, for sure. Let me find a damned apartment first, though. It's a bloody nightmare finding anything decent here without breaking the budget!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:17 am
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The natural resource business is very little about making something, and very much about slimy dealings and contracts with governments (hence the unsavoury thugs which keep interfering in Australian politics).

A timely trivial local example of how it really works; scale up these sorts of incestuous dealings several factors of ten: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/afl-lobbies-state-government-over-bosses-private-company-20140916-10hmzn.html

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 7:12 pm
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Great, just as I arrive!

UK Gov wrote:
The threat to the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) from international terrorism is severe.

https://www.gov.uk/terrorism-national-emergency/terrorism-threat-levels

Well, I guess did see out Kim Jong-il, despite publically questioning the veracity of his golf score, so fingers crossed on this one!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:27 pm
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Considering this is a thread about both Isis and Ebola, what if Isis somehow manage get into the infected areas and get infected people out and into western countries.

Is this something to be feared or is my imagination running wild?
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David Libra

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:58 pm
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Well, they're not exactly next door to each other, for one... Shocked
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:00 pm
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stui magpie wrote:
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Read this and tell me your ok with doing nothing.

We are all people, we all matter.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/field-worker-on-the-ebola-outbreak/


Yep we are. I'm not advocating doing nothing, I'm suggesting that maybe sending more and more people into a zone where :
1. This virus is killing people
2. They have no way to stop it killing people. People will die or not regardless of whether other people go in
3. The more people go in and out, the wider it spreads

Is maybe not the smartest way to deal with it. Sometimes you have to fold and accept the losses rather than continue to raise and lose more.

What is the option that will result in the minimum number of lives lost? I support that.


That's fair enough. I put on the first page at least do some drops of medical supplies and protective gear etc, that's not putting lives at risk, as long as the don't fly Malaysia Air.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:09 pm
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David wrote:
Well, they're not exactly next door to each other, for one... Shocked


I'm not thinking they would invade or anything so obvious, just say a little graft and corruption to get a few ISIS people into the infected areas to throw a little cash around to get objective done.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:53 pm
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I think if they wanted chemical weapons they'd have plenty back in Syria. Just ask Assad! Sad
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David wrote:
Well, they're not exactly next door to each other, for one... Shocked


I'm not thinking they would invade or anything so obvious, just say a little graft and corruption to get a few ISIS people into the infected areas to throw a little cash around to get objective done.


Actually not that hard to do, and potentially fairly scary outcome. A human biological weapon.

Put someone with Ebola on a new york subway for example, it could be very nasty in the right (wrong?) circumstances.

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IS may be ambitious, but I think you guys are greatly overestimating their capabilities. And nobody has explained how a small group based in Iraq and Syria is supposed to casually waltz over 8000 km and a dozen borders, "get" (??) a West African virus, and transport it back for ... what purpose exactly? To accidentally infect themselves and everyone around them!? Shocked

I blame Hollywood.

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