Crude oil is the world’s biggest and most important traded commodity. In some earlier articles, like this and this, I explored for relations between the oil price, the world’s credit creation and interest rates. This is a continuation of my exploration of how the world’s credit creation affects the structural level of the oil price.Continue reading “The Price of Oil”
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Developments in Energy Consumption and Private and Public Debt per 2016
For some time I have explored the relations in developments for total debt [private and public], interest rates, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) energy consumption and thus also the oil price. My theory has been that there are relations between changes to total debt and energy consumption and thus energy prices. Changes to total credit/debt shouldContinue reading “Developments in Energy Consumption and Private and Public Debt per 2016”
Oil, Interest Rates and Debt
At first glance it is hard to see how oil, interest rates and debt are connected. Two of them are human constructs while oil (fossil sunlight), a gift from Mother Nature, took tens of millions of years to process. Oil is an endowment extracted from a confined underground stock and is now the most denseContinue reading “Oil, Interest Rates and Debt”