Daily Mail reporting biblical signs. All's well.

>90% of sulphur imported into Africa is from the Middle East… and therefore passes through the Strait of Hormuz Let that sink in. I have heard that traders are already struggling to source any. Sulphuric acid prices will therefore significantly increase across Africa… and if

Vibe-based war economy

Energy crisis are not just an energy crisis. If new supply of energy falls, current stocks get depleted. If stocks get depleted that has huge knock on effects. Just one example: If farmers can’t get enough energy (or fertilizer) to fully plant during spring window then 6 months

I can't begin to tell you how much this Hormuz situation is a structural shock to nitrogen fertilizer prices. Spring is just around the corner. Higher food prices, higher political instability.

543% increase in the Baltic LNG index this week - the largest % increase in history - on a rush to secure US, Russian, and LNG cargoes after the complete loss of Qatari volumes

Never seen anything like this in all my 5 days of trading oil.

Over the years I’ve been in many towns and cities when they were being bombed — in a few cases (Baghdad, Belgrade etc) by my own country. No matter what the justification, most of the victims have been entirely innocent. I’ve come to loathe the very thought of aerial bombardment.

There won’t be a second date but at least she now knows why the Strait of Hormuz is a major choke point for global oil supply

TRUMP DEMANDS TOOTHPASTE PUT BACK IN THE TUBE IMMEDIATELY

OK people, now we enter the export control phase : 1/ Control of food exports (Indian sugar for example) ==> Be long midcurve white sugar. Two of the largest sugar refineries in the world are unreachable (Al Khaleej in Dubai and Etihad in Iraq) 2/ Control of fuel exports (US,

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask

Avocado toast and lattes getting downgraded to a Tesco meal deal in 'here's why you can't afford a house' twitter is the clearest measure of inflation there is.

Obviously what these downed pilots need to do is find an old, abandoned fighter jet in an unguarded hanger and steal it

I just realized the IMF has expanded the basket of commodities it tracks, adding olive oil (among others). I think my job is done here.

"men shouldn't wear shorts." "men shouldn't wear backpacks." "men shouldn't wear sneakers." "dress up for airports." "no one dresses up anymore." shut the fuck up

unpopular take: the most underrated piece of object engineering in your house is your front-load washer door seal. it's a torus of EPDM rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer, picked because it survives hot water + detergent + bleach for 10+ years). it has 3 sealing lips,