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Mikkal Herberg

@mikkal8888

20 years in oil industry strategic planning; Research Director, Energy and Environment, NBR; teach int'l energy and politics, focus Asia, at GPS, UC San Diego

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calendar_today23-12-2016 01:05:19

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Is anyone else having a mess trying to get #Toyota to get their digital car payment system straight? #Toyota is a disaster! She's spent two hours on three separate calls where they continue to insist that her email is attached to some other account so she can't pay electronically

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Unbelievable incompetent people on phone who actually give her a bunch of attitude, like its her fault they can't get their system to work. We had a 2015 Rav4, sold it back to them in December end of lease and got another 2018 Rav4. Her email remains attached to the old account

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After three long calls, #Toyota still can't get it fixed. Keep treating her like she's the problem! #ToyotaFinancial just sucks!!!!!

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#HarleyDavidson deciding to invest in #EuropeanUnion because of #tariffs is a perfect example of the second order impacts of imposing tariffs. Beautiful irony that #Trump feted HD execs as the perfect American company. Trump's #Navarro doesn't even understand first-order impacts

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Wonder what Gary Cohn, GS. thinks of the new Trump National Trade Council: what's economic policy strategy without trade strategy?

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How do you like having a President-elect who thinks he can dictate to foreign and domestic companies. No policy process, no information.

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Trump's immigration ban is cheap theatrics masquerading as policy. Completely ineffective while profoundly damaging to US. Sad!

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Trump quitting the Paris Climate Agreement...the old saying, you're known by the company you keep...hmmm Syria and Nicaragua.Well done Trump

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Let's truly show the world how completely out of touch the Trump administration and McConnell, Ryan and their cronies are with reality.

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Trump: more rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Kelly for Priebus, Scaramucci for Spicer, McMaster for Flynn. Circular firing squad!

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Another of a string of own goals by the Trump administration. Can someone explain how driving Rusal into the arms of the Russian government, the likely outcome of the ham-fisted new sanctions, serves US interests?

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And in the meantime further alienating the Europeans and Asian allies by wreaking havoc on the aluminum industry and supply outlook? Do these Treasury people get the impact of their over-reach secondary sanctions?

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The US under Trump is leading the growing isolation of the US globally and is fueling the "Balkanization" of global finance and trade.

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In the longer run, major trade and financial powers will increasingly shift out of the dollar towards the RMB transactions. Think about the long-term implications of the Chinese opening new oil trading market. Beginning of oil trade shift toward RMB long-term.

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Russia, MidEast, will increasingly trade with the world's largest oil importer in RMB, its already beginning and China is very deliberate about it. Of course, internationalization of RMB has a long way to go but the US is feeding other countries' incentives to make the shift.

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Trump's Iran policy is a further reinforcement of the fact that "America First" increasingly means "America Alone". The Europeans, Chinese, Indians, and others in Asia will increasingly position to insulate themselves from US capriciousness, unreliability, & disdain for alliances