The US continues to defy all rational valuation metrics as it continues to make new highs. I contend this is the result of the huge amount of liquidity being provided to the markets by the FED. This bubble now appears to be entering its blow off phase. As I have said before, just because a market is overvalued does not earn it cannot become more overvalued.
Nevertheless, at some point the music will stop and a massive decline in the stock market will occur.
Will the reduced economic activity caused by the coronavirus be the needle that pricks this bubble. So far the markets, with the exception of commodity markets, are shrugging off the news that China is basically on lockdown.
The German energy transition continues to fail as the country considers building more coal generation as energy rates soar and CO2 emission targets are not being met. A lesson for policy makers in the US to take into consideration.
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hey guys John Paula me here actionable
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intelligence
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today is Sunday February 16 2020 this is
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the weekly market update
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so before right before I get into the
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charts I just want to make some comments
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on the continuing coronavirus situation
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as it relates to what we’re doing when
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it relates to in the markets and I’m a
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little bit I don’t know
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shocked not shocked but what’s the right
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word confused we’re seeing all-time
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highs last week and in many stocks in
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the stock market and so you know it
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makes you wonder what’s going on is the
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market so efficient that its pricing and
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the fact that this isn’t going to be a
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big deal or is it more that I what I
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think it is which is a liquidity bubble
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plus all kinds of money coming into the
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US for various reasons safe haven flows
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if you will I think that’s probably an
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explanation for why stocks are going up
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there’s some stocks that are
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inexplicably not going down which should
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I’ll give some examples as we go and get
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into the discussion what I want to say
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though is is that I’m getting very very
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concerned about the bubblicious
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conditions we are at some of the highest
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bubble levels that I’ve ever seen
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now we’ve been talking about that for a
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while and we’ve said that liquidity
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flows matter you know the stock market
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isn’t necessarily correlated with the
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economy in the longer term it seems to
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be but you know it’s liquidity matters
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and with the QE for that that the Fed is
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doing that the QE for non QE for
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whatever they want to call it the repos
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that’s high-powered money that’s t-bills
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they’re buying this is the first time
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they’ve done that in many years and that
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money is going directly into the markets
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couple that with the fact that you
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already had dollar flows into the u.s.
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prior to the coronavirus and now the
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u.s. still being a safe haven that’s
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where the money’s going so I would
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caution you it what’s what’s fascinating
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is is the the only thing that’s really
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bad are commodities so the commodities
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are showing us that you know demand is
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obviously gonna have a knock-on effect
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from this you know when you shut down
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the Chinese economy basically you’re
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gonna in some largest consumer of things
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like oil largest importer of oil copper
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aluminum cement things like this you’re
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going to have a knock-on effect as China
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basically everybody’s in quarantine and
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Industry slows down we’ve also seen that
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in the supply chains we’ve seen more
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announcement this week we saw one
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announcement where the company went back
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to work and there was like a thousand or
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2,000 employees and what the employees
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had coronavirus now everybody’s
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quarantined to the factory they can’t
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even go home so I don’t know I’m back to
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what I’ve said before I don’t really
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know what’s going on here do you trust
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the data in China no if you look at the
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John Hopkins tracker coronavirus tracker
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they take in they don’t just take in one
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bit of information they gather
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information from several sources it
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seems like things may be starting to
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peak in China if you believe the data
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which I want I don’t believe the data I
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would say though that I think the rest
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of the world cases are still going up
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slightly they’re still under a thousand
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cases it’s like 750 outside of China
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most of them concentrated in the areas
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directly around China so there’s 15
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cases in the US for example so we’re not
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seeing this big epidemic now there are
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many commentators or people that I’ve
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listened to that said that the next wave
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is coming and this thing is going to
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explode outwards I don’t really know
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what I’m I’m not a you know happened
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epithelium ologist
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I don’t have not an expert on academics
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epidemics outside my circle of
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confidence we still have to look at
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those it’s affecting the markets that
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were involved with which is resource
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markets
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for in a large part so I would be very
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cautious if I was basically one of the
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things I’m recommending is you know I
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mean I think we’re going to see some
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interest rate cuts from the Federal
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Reserve as the economic numbers have to
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be affected by this they have to be I
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mean you’re just not going to have this
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kind of slowdown in China and not have
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it have a have an effect on the rest of
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the world so I expect that that means
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higher bond prices probably especially
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in the Treasury market that’s a good
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place play to put money in a short term
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cash is always good I have a lot of cash
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I like gold still Gold’s in a bull
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market I think with the accelerating
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monetary malfeasance that continues
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around the world especially in the US
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and I think you know what’s gonna happen
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in China I think gold is poised to go a
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lot higher especially with the debt
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levels in the US we’re gonna be hitting
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trillion dollar deficits I wrote an
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article this week that kind of pointed
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out the fact that I believe this is the
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first year when the Social Security
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trust fund now goes into the red and is
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now going to become an on budget item so
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you’re gonna have to pay out of the
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federal budget there’s the two hundred
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billion dollars that you don’t have in
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the Social Security trust fund and I’ve
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written articles about that people can
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go my my site and look at that so there
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is no lockbox there is no thing nothing
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to dip into it’s just a bunch of IOU use
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that now come do so things are not
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getting better they’re getting worse but
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yet the markets move higher and higher
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and higher because it’s all about
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liquidity so you know if you look at the
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Venezuelan and Zimbabwe stock markets
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when they went into hyperinflations
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that’s not what I’m suggesting is gonna
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happen in the US I’m not suggesting the
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hyperinflation but if you look at their
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stock markets they crashed upwards
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there’s people piled in the stocks who
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tried to hold some type of value so like
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I said all these bubbles and we’ve
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talked about bubbles even since I’ve had
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this channel we’ve went through two
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bubbles the Bitcoin
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bubble that was one of the first videos
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I did was about Bitcoin being a bubble
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it was it crashed people a lot of people
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lost a lot of money
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same thing with cannabis stocks we
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talked about that that’s now crashed
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people have lost a lot of money so you
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know we’ve seen bubbles before here’s a
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chart shows various bubbles what happens
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they crash they don’t usually come back
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for a while you see the this particular
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person chose excuse us what as
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disruptors it’s just the post great
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financial crisis that induced bubble but
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this is the greatest one of all and it’s
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now gonna go it’s I now believe it’s
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accelerating too far it’s blow off top
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and this is something we suggested in
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previous videos what happened I’ve
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talked about this I’ve got a Cassandra
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but I suggested that even though the
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stock market was overvalued and it’s
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been overvalued from a long time it can
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get way more it can get way overvalued
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you can get much more overvalued and it
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probably will another chart here you can
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see going back to 1991 this is the
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build-up to y2k that was going to be the
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you know computers were gonna lock up
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the world was gonna end the Greenspan
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Fed printed a bunch of money it led to
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the tech bubble it blew off but what
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happened this is the Nasdaq he crashed
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90% then you had your great financial
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crisis in here we’ve had nothing but
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money printing since and now QE 4 if you
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will and we are now accelerating to what
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I think is the blow-off top in this US
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stock market so you need to be you need
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to be concerned you need to be
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understand what’s happening now I don’t
know what’s gonna prick the bubble some
I’m looking at my my indicators as I
look at the high-yield debt market which
I think will be the first thing that
rolls over and it’s not there’s no fever
there there’s no issues there right now
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that can change you know as we start you
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know one of the things like forecasts
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are thought what could happen was that
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if we did go into a recession there’s a
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lot of zombie companies about 25 to 30
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percent
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the companies out there that have junk
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debt are zombie companies and they
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cannot afford to have rates go up rates
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won’t go up unless we have some huge
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breakout inflation so what could happen
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though is that the economy slows
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massively because of this China thing
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cash flows can be constricted and that
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could force companies into a situation
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where they do not have sufficient cash
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flow to service their debt and then you
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begin a cascading flow of waterfall
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effect if you will of debt explosions
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and and you know reorganizations so I
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think that’s a possibility but my
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original thesis was that this thing was
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gonna rip and roar we were gonna have an
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energy was going to drag the inflation
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rate up I we were on that track and then
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the coronavirus had you remember we had
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WT I was over it was sixty two dollars a
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barrel at the beginning of January and I
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was forecasting higher oil prices
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because of the lack of investment and
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the slowdown in shale and I thought that
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that might be what kicks inflation into
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gear and forces the Fed to raise rates
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but now with the coronavirus and the
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collapse and commodity prices that’s
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happened that particular pin has been
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put back into the into the drawer so
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this is really amazing though because if
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you look here at what’s happening in our
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stock market I mean you could this just
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correlates perfectly with what happened
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with that we whole repo QE for non QE
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for is what I call it so liquidity
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really does drive these markets whether
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people can then me you know you
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supercharge this what the fund flows
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into the US as because of it being a
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safe haven or considered a safe haven or
10:47
the least dirty shirt in the HAMP or
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however you want to characterize it but
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this is what we are seen and this is not
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healthy this is not going to end well
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folks this is not good we’re gonna see
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this blow off and then we’re gonna see
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and I don’t know what’s gonna happen on
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the downside so let’s go back talk about
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some China stuff
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for a while here her the resource
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markets you know so the Baltic Dry Index
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you know 415 it’s been a decline since
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mid-2009 teen as the world economy was
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slowing down but then we’ve got this you
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know really what’s happened since the
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beginning of the year and this
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coronavirus took off and this things
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crashed by you know three quarters or
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two-thirds this is that lows we haven’t
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seen in a decade so or almost of the
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lows of 2016 so anyway this is not good
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this is an indication that you know iron
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or various ore concentrates they’re not
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flowing you know because China is
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basically shut down you know we’ve
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already seen China declare a force
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majeure on some energy deliveries like
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LNG deliveries not good but what I’m
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showing you this for is because I’m not
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seeing the knock-on effect the market so
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really don’t seem to be pricing any of
12:12
this in and it’s kind of it’s very weird
12:15
the signal is not good there’s China
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travel collapse this was the passenger
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transport volumes in China during the
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Lunar New Year you see that we are
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downed on rail roadway and air travel
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anywhere from sixty to eighty percent
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almost it’s a complete collapse the
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whole country’s in lockdown basically
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what I want to talk about why is this
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relevant I just picked this one company
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because I’ve heard other people talking
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about it and kind of piqued my interest
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this is wind resorts that’s a casino
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operator they have properties in Las
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Vegas but they also have two casinos I
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believe in Macau which is a another
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small island off the coast of China
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where they allow gambling a lot of
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Chinese well ninety five percent I’m
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sure 99 percent of the traffic there is
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is to these casinos is from China
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mainland China what I find fascinating
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here is is that the two casinos I look
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at some of the financials real quickly
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for Wynn Resorts
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and the casinos the two casinos in Macau
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are shut down now they’re still making
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payroll basically they’re not to just
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keep the casinos in the current state
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they are paying payroll the 12,000
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employees is about 2.5 million a day
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they have no revenue coming in I believe
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these two casinos if I read it correctly
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contribute 300 million dollars of EBIT
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da to the two Wynn Resorts bottom line
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last year I think a billion dollars in
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sales if I’m not mistaken regardless
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when you shut down a large portion I
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mean you had a bit of a drop off
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obviously I mean actually if you look at
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the beginning of 2020 when this virus
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took off this thing made all new time
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highs and then it it kind of did pull
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back but not like you would think I mean
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it pulled back about you know 20 percent
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and now it’s rallying again why is this
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thing rallying when there’s you know two
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of their major properties and their
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major revenue generators I mean are not
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you know in business they’re just
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sitting there we have no idea when
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they’re gonna reopen so well I like I
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said there’s two things going on here
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either the market is efficient and its
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pricing and the information and the
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coronavirus is gonna blow over in the
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next you know a few weeks or month or
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two and then we’re gonna be back to
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business as usual that’s one option of
14:45
another option as the market is just not
14:47
getting this I mean the same thing
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you’re seeing like some of these cruise
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ship companies these things should be
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crashing who is taking a cruise with you
14:54
know to cruise ships go around like you
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know Typhoid ships that can’t even get
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into various ports I know I’m
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overdramatizing that one of the ships
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can’t but one of the one of the ships I
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think that’s in Japan they’re finally
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taking off British and American
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passengers the governments of the UK and
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the United States are dealing with this
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but you know this news is not good this
15:16
thing’s supposed supposedly is so very
15:17
early and yet people are still taking
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cruises and the you know it’s not really
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being reflected you think any stock
15:25
prices only stock prices it’s reading
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reflected as the resource markets you
15:30
know gold and copper down you know
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anywhere from 15 or that gold but what
15:36
copper or down anywhere from 15 to 20
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percent the stocks are down 30% which is
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what you would expect get priced in
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because of the you know like I showed
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you earlier China’s basically shut down
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so I don’t know this is not making a lot
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of sense this thing is either gonna blow
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over or it’s just going to we don’t know
15:55
what’s gonna happen and I just think
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that some of the reactions in this
15:58
market are just ridiculous and they
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don’t make any sense it’s just I think
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like I said liquidity driven and no
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fundamentals are even being considered
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so you got to be careful out there guys
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this is not this is really not textbook
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what’s going on here well like I said
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I’m still I still like gold I think you
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can’t go wrong at gold sir we already
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knows was in a bull market if we’re
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gonna see increased money or increased
16:27
currency units being put into
16:29
circulation then I think that that’s
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going to manifest itself in a higher
16:34
gold price at some point continued
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higher gold price we’re starting to see
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earnings come out excuse me
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cup sum up some of the gold companies
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ones that I follow I’ll just give you
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one that I like that I follow I don’t
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have it in the portfolio but I like it
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it’s a company called Caledonia mining
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they have a mine a very very profitable
16:55
mine in Zimbabwe and yeah I know people
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kind of scoff at that but the company
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really is a performer and they really up
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their guidance for this year next year
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because just of the gold price and how
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that leverage is translating with their
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low costs and their increase in
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production so you really you know with
17:17
lower fuel costs with the oil price down
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that’s a major component of a lot of the
17:20
miners and that’s going to have a
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knock-on effect also so it also depends
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where you’re operate if you’re operating
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in a country like Zimbabwe and your
17:29
costs are in Zimbabwe dollars which are
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being depreciated by the government and
17:33
yet you’re selling your commodity for US
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dollars that also helps quite a bit I
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want to give some other things here
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quickly us to create a uranium reserve
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we saw the news it was all over the
17:47
tortoise Twittersphere you
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twit it looks like that starting next
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year the Trump administration put into
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the budget to create a uranium reserve
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if you will 150 million dollars a year
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for the next ten years do I think that’s
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a major market mover no but I think it’s
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it’s part of the commitment the Trump
18:14
administration is making to uranium and
18:17
to nuclear power in the US I mean we are
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totally behind everyone else I mean it’s
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just ridiculous
18:22
I mean somewhere close to 20 percent of
18:28
our our power in the United States is
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from nuclear power and we don’t even
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mind 1% of our fuel and process it here
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I mean that’s just a national security
18:38
issue not only that just based on our
18:40
nuclear Navy fleet so I think that if
18:44
the if Trump gets reelected he is
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pro-nuclear I’m Pro nuclear I think this
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is good for the country
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we shouldn’t be relying on Russia and
18:56
causality z’ and for our uranium it’s
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just not in our interest to do that we
19:05
also need to get you know I’ve always
19:06
been an advocate for this I’m gonna say
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it again
19:08
you know if you really are into stem
19:10
which is science technology engineering
19:11
and math and you really want high wages
19:14
and you really want to deal with climate
19:16
change if you if you think that co2 is
19:19
the control knob for climate then why
19:22
not do something like build 100 nuclear
19:25
power plants in the next 10 years or 20
19:27
in 10 years or something like that
19:28
because these are high paying jobs and
19:30
long life construction projects very
19:32
technical even for the operations
19:34
personnel that work there you have to
19:36
have be very highly educated
19:38
these are high-paying jobs it would
19:41
create a infrastructure manufacturing
19:45
infrastructure based here in the US that
19:46
we could export and we’ve just left this
19:49
to the Chinese and Russians and that’s
19:51
just stupid because the Chinese and
19:53
Russians use their nuclear industry to
19:58
gain political footholds and countries
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and to cozy up with him and they
20:02
run the thing fullcycle they’ll come in
20:04
engineering procure and construct then
20:06
operate then deal with the fuel supply
20:09
and the waste you just sit there and you
20:11
know charge for the electricity while
20:13
they run everything so that helps their
20:16
home industries that are involved in
20:18
this it helps them politically as they
20:21
go around the world and try to woo
20:24
various countries to their block so the
20:31
u.s. from any perspective you look at if
20:34
you are look at it from wages climate
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change energy supply energy diversity
20:40
national security it just makes sense
20:42
and I think that you know a lot of
20:46
people make fun of Trump but I think he
20:48
does he spot-on on this so this isn’t a
20:52
game changer but it’s more you know more
20:54
wind in the sails and it certainly isn’t
20:56
going to hurt things now I want to bring
20:59
up some things this is gonna get me some
21:01
bad mail people don’t like this wanted
21:04
to talk about read some good articles
21:06
this week about the energy transition in
21:09
Germany’s fleet joke it’s it’s it’s big
21:13
problems I’ll put an article up had it
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really pretty good vignettes in there I
21:19
mean basically you know here’s that
21:20
here’s a slide from the article this is
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green Germany’s proposed coal plant
21:25
expansions you know you’ve got your yeah
21:28
just in the yellow that you’ve got for
21:30
these late-night mines
21:31
that’s that surface mining with that
21:33
cheap dirty coal of course you got the
21:35
other plant sees that these are plants
21:37
that are going to be built because solar
21:41
and wind are not getting that the energy
21:43
transitions not happening and the Merkel
21:46
regime there which is not going to be in
21:48
power much longer I don’t think well is
21:52
you know did a snap judgment on shutting
21:56
down or phasing out and shutting down
21:59
the German nuclear fleet which is in
22:02
progress so you have to get power from
22:04
somewhere so now you have a situation
22:06
where Germany is now suffering power
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rates are some of the highest in the in
22:10
Europe German industry is suffering
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people are suffering because they don’t
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have there’s poor people there that
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don’t have enough money to pay there’s a
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link to an article in the article that
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I’m going to link to where people are
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shifting to wood stoves and they’re
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sneaking out into the woods and chopping
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down wood illegally I mean it’s it’s not
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working it’s not gonna work and I think
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that you know just in the article the
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one article there’s linked to and
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they’re you know it gave it vignette of
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you know Merkel just as just does things
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on a snap judgment she’s a consummate
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grubby politician and with her finger in
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the wind so you know with the Greens
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party making inroads in Germany she’s
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counting to it but the problem is is
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that you know it’s hurting business and
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industry and jobs and most people
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there’s a lot of people that don’t care
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about that that green a lot of people in
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the green movement could care less they
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want deindustrialization they want you
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know they tie everything into socialism
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and equality and to you know however
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they define it rights of different
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indigenous peoples all this thing is
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just tied into one big goulash that they
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create and they’re in their philosophy
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and they could care less
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but the majority of people do care the
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majority of people do not want to see
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their standard of living go down the
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majority of people want a better you
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know standard of living and I believe
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that you’re going to see a big upheaval
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in German politics culminating with a
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reversal I think of the nuclear band and
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I think Germany may even start building
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nuclear plants
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I mean I’ve put up article after article
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you can’t even build a new wind farms in
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Germany the opposition out in the
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hinterlands and farms and rural areas is
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just too high they will not allow it and
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especially the East Germans East Germans
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have had enough of this they they see
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right through it and that’s why you’re
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seeing AF D alternative for Deutschland
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make inroads in some of the recent
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elections and you’ve also seen you know
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this this has led to the Christian
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Democratic Union Merkel’s
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Hera parents she actually resigned
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because of something that just happened
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in one of the states German states in
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East Germany one of the CDU person that
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was elected got elected with the support
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of the AFD in a coalition and that was
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determined to be racist and all that
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stuff to say FD supposedly is right-wing
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and so this governor resigned and that
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reflected back on the Hera parents so
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there’s a lot of upheaval coming in
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Europe that’s a whole nother video just
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about you know the EU is on its way out
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this is not sustainable
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there’s too many competing agendas and
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it’s just not going to last and breaks
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it is the beginning the populist revolt
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whether it’s populism coming from the
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left or the right
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it will continue around the world the
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other thing to point out and the article
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which I thought was interesting or I got
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this from somebody else I can’t remember
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here are the emissions of co2 in Germany
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I believe 2009 was the year they started
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the energy transition and I somewhere
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around here I can’t remember I have to
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look it up the energy and I can’t
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pronounce it so they long german word
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that means energy transition basically
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the solar and wind but you see there’s
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really not been no decline and that
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emissions of co2 in germany you know if
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you wanted to get this down you get your
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nuclear fleet back and you get rid of
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all those coal plants and why are you
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going to build more coal plants that
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does say in the article though that
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because these are supercritical boilers
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supercritical blowers are boilers that
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run at like 3000 psi coal-fired they
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actually have 30% reduced emissions of
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co2 but you’re still going to be pumping
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out a lot of co2 and this number is not
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gonna get better so something to watch
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you know like I said I’ve said this
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before you know Germany is a real-life
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Laboratory of a major industrial country
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that has attempted and we can argue in
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state if actually that is still trying
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to attempt to do an energy transition
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from fossil fuels to
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it’s simply you see what happens it’s
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not working it cost a lot of money power
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rates go up and you know what your net
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co2 doesn’t go down
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that’s like I’ve said before there’s a
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reason why we use Coal Fired there’s a
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reason why we use nuclear power because
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large base load generation is cheap and
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reliable that’s why we use it you’re not
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going to play solar panels into Baltic a
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lot of the Baltic Sea where you know and
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it does the Sun doesn’t shine that often
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that’s just I mean the certain areas
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it’s not Arizona or Texas where the Sun
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shines all the time or Florida or
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Southern California this is Germany for
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heaven’s sakes northern Europe but you
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can’t explain to some people I want to
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point out another thing saw an article
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shale pioneer John Hass heading off
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Shores Hess production Hess oil from the
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article production of the Eagle Ford
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Shale in South Texas is starting to
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plateau while the bat Bakken field North
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Dakota where Hess as a major producer
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will hit its peak production levels
27:45
within the next two years this is a
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speech that our presentation has gave at
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a recent oil conference the Permian
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Basin the top US shale field in Texas
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and New Mexico will plateau plateau in
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mid decade and is already facing well
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interference issues has said so has John
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Hess plans to use cash flow their Hess
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company it’s a big very big oil company
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plans to use cash flow from the Bakken
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to invest in longer-term offshore
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investments the company is relied on
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offshore Guiana one of the world’s most
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important oil and gas discoveries in the
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last decade so just another piece of
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information piece of the puzzle you know
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I really about shale peaking and shale
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accounted for 98 percent of the oil that
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met the demand increases over the last
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you know five six years in the world you
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know oil demand goes up a million
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barrels to a million point one point
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five million barrels a day every year
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increases by one to 11.5% every year
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and that increase has been met by the
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increases in shale production it’s been
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huge
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so non-opec conventional oil has not
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been invested in it’s not been a
29:05
contributor and OPEC is just sitting
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there we don’t you know it’s it’s the
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call on OPEC has not been to increased
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production so I think what’s going to
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happen if things stay correct and we see
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this decline in growth and shale which
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is happening if it stays consistent if
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in fact we are at the top and this
29:29
thing’s rolling over which I believe it
29:31
is that being shale the cup there’s not
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that enough investment main offshore
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that’s been my thesis and that’s where
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people that’s where the money’s gonna go
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now the problem is is with this
29:44
coronavirus it kind of short-circuited
29:46
the recovery in oil prices we don’t
29:49
really know we have to watch inventory
29:51
levels things are very chaotic right now
29:53
we don’t have enough information we
29:55
don’t know where this is going to end
29:57
but you know looking out three to five
30:00
years I hate to say that because you
30:02
know it’s like you just keep saying that
30:04
every year another three years and
30:05
people just aren’t going to wait that
30:07
long I get it but you know if you look
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at the Reserve life indexes of major oil
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companies if you look at the investment
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dollars that have went into oil
30:17
exploration it’s not been enough to
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sustain production and the penetration
30:22
of electric vehicles is not going to be
30:24
sufficient in the timeframe that’s
30:25
necessary to create demand destruction
30:30
and oil I mean in fact electric vehicle
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sales were down last year they weren’t
30:35
up so that should tell people something
30:39
I think oils gonna be around for a lot
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longer and once we get to this
30:43
coronavirus which has really been a
30:45
septic shock to the oil and commodity
30:49
markets we’ll have to see what happens
30:50
as we come out of this but I think as
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this thing gets back on plane and we can
30:55
see real data it’s gonna become more and
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more obvious what’s happening that the
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call on non-opec a conventional supplies
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will not be able to be met because the
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lack of investment
31:07
and then we’ll see if OPEC has the
31:09
weather with all or has the ability to
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increase production regardless these are
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extractive industries and if you don’t
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invest enough money in replacing your
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reserves you eventually go out of
31:21
business I mean I’ve said that over and
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over and over and that’s really where
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we’re at so a lot of information there
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guys that’s it for this week
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viewership you guys are the inspiration
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to why I do this more people keep
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enjoy the comments switching to a less
31:52
stressful career so I probably should
31:54
have more time and I’m hoping to make
31:57
some changes get some more interviews
31:58
but we’ll see how things happen over the
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next coming months that’s it for this
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week guys thanks a lot and we’ll talk to
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you next week