EPRINC Trustee Larry Goldstein’s personal publications, including his Energy and Economic Perspectives. Larry wrote these columns for EPRINC until his passing in 2024 — read our In Memoriam: Larry Goldstein (1942–2024).
143 columns · PDF
- One Small Step…PDF
- Another Chip in the Strategic Brick of the U.S. WallPDF
- Rip Van Winkle(s) “Wokes Up” and Cries, “No Mas”PDF
- New Sheriff in TownPDF
- What Do the Saudis See?PDF
- Muddled ClarityPDF
- The Donald Trump Indictment: Who Is the Bigger Loser?PDF
- Book It Now, Pay LaterPDF
- China Can’t Lose for WinningPDF
- Take the Money and Run…PDF
- The Public is Not Informed, It is Deliberately Misinformed… And the Media is ComplicitPDF
- Waiting for GodotPDF
- Joe (Nero) Biden’s State of the Union AddressPDF
- Bursting the BalloonsPDF
- “Undecided”PDF
- One Small Step For…PDF
- Once Again We Would Benefit By “Just Don’t Do Something, Stand There”PDF
- Courting DisasterPDF
- Making a Mountain Out of a Mole Hill?PDF
- A One in a Never EventPDF
- A Tail Gate Affair: Missed OpportunityPDF
- The Tree Fell, Only They Forgot to Tell YouPDF
- Who Are You Going to Believe, EIA or EIA?PDF
- OPEC+ and the Role of ExpectationsPDF
- Monitoring the Moderate Moderator (Powell), But Who’s Moderating the Numerator and the Denominator?PDF
- Nothing from Column A (U.S.) and Less from Column B (China)PDF
- Ukraine: “No Matter How Long It Takes”PDF
- Trump Is Out of It, Yet Very Much In ItPDF
- Russian Roulette with Every Chamber Loaded with Live AmmunitionPDF
- At Least He’s ConsistentPDF
- The SPR Use Debate: Potential Political Interference Has Potential ConsequencesPDF
- Headline: The Saudi BetrayalPDF
- A Petroleum Export Ban, or Jerry Seinfeld’s Advice to GeorgePDF
- When Will We Ever Learn?PDF
- The Damage from Stable InflationPDF
- The Sound of Silence is DeafeningPDF
- Financial Markets Couldn’t Have Designed It Better…YetPDF
- In Search of an Identity: Confessions of a Lost SoulPDF
- The Answer is Blowing in the WindPDF
- What Most Don’t Know About the Student Debt Forgiveness is What Will Really Hurt ThemPDF
- Jackson Hole and OPEC: Dates with DestinyPDF
- Timing is EverythingPDF
- A Distinction Without A DifferencePDF
- The (Mis) Use of the SPRPDF
- Two Sides to a CoinPDF
- This Time It’s DifferentPDF
- Making a Mountain Out of a Mole HillPDF
- Russia, Russia, Russia: More Than Meets the EyePDF
- Much Ado About NothingPDF
- What You've Not Been ToldPDF
- Saudi Oil Minister’s Options LimitedPDF
- The West’s Response to the Events in RussiaPDF
- Pick Your Poison: Sophie’s Choice?PDF
- You Don’t Know What You Don’t KnowPDF
- And the Beat Goes OnPDF
- If a Tree Falls in the Forest…PDF
- Did You Mean What You Said, Did You Say What You Meant? I Believe You Were Disingenuous 100%PDF
- What Goes Out Doesn’t Necessarily Go In (At Least Not at the Same Rate)PDF
- I’m Confused: GDP or GDI; Why Not Both?PDF
- The SPR: Politics and Price Over ProtectionPDF
- Enough: The Wolf is at Our Gate, and He Has Broken Down Our DoorPDF
- Selling the Strategic Oil ReservePDF
- Short and Sweet or Hot and Sour?PDF
- Saudi ProductionPDF
- The President: Consummate Magician, Master of Sleight of Hand, and IllusionistPDF
- Mr. President: Can’t Win For Losing And Your Staff Needs To Be FiredPDF
- The Cluttered TablePDF
- A House of Cards (That Will Not Stand)PDF
- The Answer Is CrossoversPDF
- Sphere of InfluencePDF
- Saudi Oil Hobson’s Choice (Is No Choice)PDF
- Hypocrisy Has No Party Affiliation (You Can’t Make This Up)PDF
- The Administration Might Have Their Eye on Product ExportsPDF
- The Market Pays Too Much Attention to U.S.-Saudi RelationsPDF
- There Will Be BloodPDF
- What Are We Waiting For?PDF
- Speak Softly But Carry A Big ClubPDF
- Oil Price Forecasting – An Art Form Like Jackson PollockPDF
- Do They? Don’t They? Will They? Won't They?PDF
- The Urge to MergePDF
- Actions Have ConsequencesPDF
- Never Again…AgainPDF
- Saudi ProductionPDF
- Buy Buy Buy: No No, No NoPDF
- The Hidden Cost of Higher For LongerPDF
- Saudi Arabia: Economics Over PoliticsPDF
- The Buts Have ItPDF
- Childhood (Childish) GamesPDF
- Hiding in Plain SightPDF
- Delay Gets You No CigarPDF
- Mister President: Do the OppositePDF
- Gravity Might Not Be Strong Enough to Pull the Economy Back Down To EarthPDF
- Blinded by the Light So You Can't See What's In Front of YouPDF
- I Apologize … ImaginePDF
- Play It Again, SamPDF
- What Were They ThinkingPDF
- Pick Your PoisonPDF
- The Price Is RightPDF
- The SPR Issue: Waiting for Godot?PDF
- Penny Wise, Pound FoolishPDF
- Timing Is EverythingPDF
- Are The Ideologues in D.C. Paying Attention to Risks?PDF
- Russian Oil Exports: What To Do, What To Do?PDF
- Yes Virginia There Is a Santa ClausPDF
- Jerry Got it Right Part 2PDF
- Once Again the President’s Staff Has Put Their Foot in His MouthPDF
- Damning With Faint Praise Or One Is One; Two May Be Impossible to DoPDF
- Once Again the Administration Is Setting Its Eyes on The Wrong PrizePDF
- Desperate Times Leads to Even More Desperate “Solutions” By the AdministrationPDF
- Biden’s Foreign Energy Doctrine: A Ban on Friends, Love Everyone Else’s OilPDF
- Are the Mid-Term Elections, Domestic Politics, Economics and Inflation Influencing Our Russian Energy Strategy?PDF
- The Darling of the Global Oil Market…DieselPDF
- The Administration Can’t Catch a Break…Even Mother Nature is Conspiring Against ThemPDF
- Jerry Got It Right: George C. and Joe B. Got It WrongPDF
- Are You Fed Up with Fed Forecasting?PDF
- U.S. Refining Capacity: She Ain’t What She Used to BePDF
- The European SPRPDF
- Death Does Come in Many FormsPDF
- Rethinking the U.S. Strategy on RussiaPDF
- You Can Count on Germany to Look Out for GermanyPDF
- Gasoline Tax Holiday – Well-Intended or Self Preservation?PDF
- Only Western Governments Can Sustain Oil Prices Above $100PDF
- Everything Through the Prism of PoliticsPDF
- Economics 101 For Non-EconomistsPDF
- Markets Are Forward-LookingPDF
- Whole Lot of Guessing Going OnPDF
- The Administration’s Constant Search for a VillainPDF
- Death by a Thousand CutsPDF
- The President Needs a Basic Education on EconomicsPDF
- A Ban on Russian Imports; or Cutting Off Your Nose To….PDF
- Price is the Ultimate Rationing VehiclePDF
- Inflation By Any Other Name: Iran to the Rescue?PDF
- Mister President, Use Some Political Capital Be Like Willy Sutton: Go Where the Oil IsPDF
- The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!PDF
- Don’t Underestimate the Mischievousness of Government When They See Their Political Future on the LinePDF
- Inflation: Transparent, or More Than Meets the Eye?PDF
- Price Will Dictate OPEC+ Response, Once Again Saudi Arabia is in the Driver’s SeatPDF
- Germany’s Slogan: One for All and All for One as Long as the One is GermanyPDF
- President Biden’s Misdirection and Misuse of 17 Nobel EconomistsPDF
- Oil Export Ban Re – DuxPDF
- By Being Late to the Party You Might Kill the BuzzPDF
- Plus ca ChangePDF
- Two Bites at the Poisoned ApplePDF