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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

February

US president Donald Trump cannot hope to maintain America’s energy supremacy while also bringing Russia in from the cold

Peace in Ukraine would crush energy prices

President Donald Trump cannot hope to maintain America’s energy supremacy while also bringing Russia in from the cold.

December 2024

If the Saudis again decide to flood the world with cheap crude to recoup market share – as many predict – oil will fall below $40 and Russia will spin out of economic control.

Why Putin’s Russia may be closer to collapse than we think

If the Saudis decide to flood the world with cheap crude to recoup market share, oil will fall below $40 and Russia will spin out of economic control.

November 2024

Why the world’s biggest climate conference is a cynical scam

The COP process is now worse than superfluous: it has become a cynical exercise in moral blackmail against the West.

October 2024

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally on Tuesday, a week before the election.

From Bezos to Dimon, US billionaires tiptoe around Trump

It’s as if January 6 never happened. The US corporate world has either fallen silent or quietly ‘normalised Trump’. Could that be about their stock options?

August 2024

Going down? Jerome Powell looks set to cut rates in September.

An enormous error has overstated the US boom

Markets have been caught off guard by a drastic revision of non-farm payrolls, the worst miss since the Lehman crisis.

April 2024

Even voracious power users such as data centres can be accommodated in the new power-use model.

New Malthusians are wrong: a rich world will need less energy

We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres. So rejoice.

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