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Larry’s Corner
Larry’s Corner
EPRINC Trustee Larry Goldstein’s Personal Publications, including his Energy and Economic Perspectives
One Small Step…
Another Chip in the Strategic Brick of the U.S. Wall
Rip Van Winkle(s) “Wokes Up” and Cries, “No Mas”
New Sheriff in Town
What Do the Saudis See?
Muddled Clarity
The Donald Trump Indictment: Who Is the Bigger Loser?
Book It Now, Pay Later
China Can’t Lose for Winning
Take the Money and Run…
The Public is Not Informed, It is Deliberately Misinformed… And the Media is Complicit
Waiting for Godot
Joe (Nero) Biden’s State of the Union Address
Bursting the Balloons
“Undecided”
One Small Step For…
Once Again We Would Benefit By “Just Don’t Do Something, Stand There”
Courting Disaster
Making a Mountain Out of a Mole Hill?
A One in a Never Event
A Tail Gate Affair: Missed Opportunity
The Tree Fell, Only They Forgot to Tell You
Who Are You Going to Believe, EIA or EIA?
OPEC+ and the Role of Expectations
Monitoring the Moderate Moderator (Powell), But Who’s Moderating the Numerator and the Denominator?
Nothing from Column A (U.S.) and Less from Column B (China)
Fool Me Once, Shame on Me, Fool Me Twice…
Ukraine: “No Matter How Long It Takes”
Trump Is Out of It, Yet Very Much In It
Russian Roulette with Every Chamber Loaded with Live Ammunition
At Least He’s Consistent
The SPR Use Debate: Potential Political Interference Has Potential Consequences
Headline: The Saudi Betrayal
A Petroleum Export Ban, or Jerry Seinfeld’s Advice to George
When Will We Ever Learn?
The Damage from Stable Inflation
The Sound of Silence is Deafening
Financial Markets Couldn’t Have Designed It Better…Yet
In Search of an Identity: Confessions of a Lost Soul
The Answer is Blowing in the Wind
What Most Don’t Know About the Student Debt Forgiveness is What Will Really Hurt Them
Jackson Hole and OPEC: Dates with Destiny
Timing is Everything
A Distinction Without A Difference
The (Mis) Use of the SPR
Two Sides to a Coin
This Time It’s Different
Making a Mountain Out of a Mole Hill
Russia, Russia, Russia: More Than Meets the Eye
Much Ado About Nothing
What You've Not Been Told
Saudi Oil Minister’s Options Limited
The West’s Response to the Events in Russia
Pick Your Poison: Sophie’s Choice?
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
And the Beat Goes On
If a Tree Falls in the Forest...
Did You Mean What You Said, Did You Say What You Meant? I Believe You Were Disingenuous 100%
What Goes Out Doesn’t Necessarily Go In (At Least Not at the Same Rate)
I’m Confused: GDP or GDI; Why Not Both?
The SPR: Politics and Price Over Protection
Enough: The Wolf is at Our Gate, and He Has Broken Down Our Door
Selling the Strategic Oil Reserve
Short and Sweet or Hot and Sour?
Saudi Production
The President: Consummate Magician, Master of Sleight of Hand, and Illusionist
Mr. President: Can’t Win For Losing And Your Staff Needs To Be Fired
The Cluttered Table
A House of Cards (That Will Not Stand)
The Answer Is Crossovers
Sphere of Influence
Saudi Oil Hobson’s Choice (Is No Choice)
Hypocrisy Has No Party Affiliation (You Can’t Make This Up)
The Administration Might Have Their Eye on Product Exports
The Market Pays Too Much Attention to U.S.-Saudi Relations
There Will Be Blood
What Are We Waiting For?
Speak Softly But Carry A Big Club
Oil Price Forecasting - An Art Form Like Jackson Pollock
Do They? Don’t They? Will They? Won't They?
The Urge to Merge
Actions Have Consequences
Never Again...Again
Saudi Production
Buy Buy Buy: No No, No No
The Hidden Cost of Higher For Longer
Saudi Arabia: Economics Over Politics
The Buts Have It
Childhood (Childish) Games
Hiding in Plain Sight
Delay Gets You No Cigar
Mister President: Do the Opposite
Gravity Might Not Be Strong Enough to Pull the Economy Back Down To Earth
Blinded by the Light So You Can't See What's In Front of You
I Apologize ... Imagine
Play It Again, Sam
What Were They Thinking
Pick Your Poison
The Price Is Right
The SPR Issue: Waiting for Godot?
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Timing Is Everything
Are The Ideologues in D.C. Paying Attention to Risks?
Russian Oil Exports: What To Do, What To Do?
Administration and Industry Finally Talk – and the Dog That Didn’t Bark
Yes Virginia There Is a Santa Claus
Jerry Got it Right Part 2
Once Again the President’s Staff Has Put Their Foot in His Mouth
Damning With Faint Praise Or One Is One; Two May Be Impossible to Do
Once Again the Administration Is Setting Its Eyes on The Wrong Prize
Desperate Times Leads to Even More Desperate “Solutions” By the Administration
Biden’s Foreign Energy Doctrine: A Ban on Friends, Love Everyone Else’s Oil
Are the Mid-Term Elections, Domestic Politics, Economics and Inflation Influencing Our Russian Energy Strategy?
The Darling of the Global Oil Market…Diesel
The Administration Can’t Catch a Break…Even Mother Nature is Conspiring Against Them
Jerry Got It Right: George C. and Joe B. Got It Wrong
Are You Fed Up with Fed Forecasting?
U.S. Refining Capacity: She Ain’t What She Used to Be
The European SPR
Death Does Come in Many Forms
Rethinking the U.S. Strategy on Russia
You Can Count on Germany to Look Out for Germany
Gasoline Tax Holiday – Well-Intended or Self Preservation?
Only Western Governments Can Sustain Oil Prices Above $100
Everything Through the Prism of Politics
Economics 101 For Non-Economists
Markets Are Forward-Looking
Whole Lot of Guessing Going On
The Administration’s Constant Search for a Villain
Death by a Thousand Cuts
The President Needs a Basic Education on Economics
A Ban on Russian Imports; or Cutting Off Your Nose To….
Price is the Ultimate Rationing Vehicle
Inflation By Any Other Name: Iran to the Rescue?
Mister President, Use Some Political Capital Be Like Willy Sutton: Go Where the Oil Is
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!
Don’t Underestimate the Mischievousness of Government When They See Their Political Future on the Line
A Game of Tic Tac Toe: No Winners with an Invasion
Inflation: Transparent, or More Than Meets the Eye?
Price Will Dictate OPEC+ Response, Once Again Saudi Arabia is in the Driver’s Seat
Germany’s Slogan: One for All and All for One as Long as the One is Germany
President Biden’s Misdirection and Misuse of 17 Nobel Economists
Oil Export Ban Re – Dux
By Being Late to the Party You Might Kill the Buzz
Plus ca Change
Two Bites at the Poisoned Apple