Why the world needs a Trump
The last decade has seen a veritable explosion of new superhero movies. One of the most recognizable and also popular heroes is Thor. Son of Odin, the god of thunder and a member of the iconic Avengers team. In one…
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The Compliance Industrial Complex
Whoever has been to South Africa and really engaged up close with the local business world will have some tales to tell. One of them is the multiple, sandwich-like layers of affirmative action that lace everything that goes on in…
LNG for free – who can take it?
Ever since the very first cargo of LNG was shipped a little more than 60 years ago by now, the entire LNG world was dominated by the notions of reliability and financial safety. The dogma is that LNG terminals and…
Will an OPEC++ oil deal do any good?
If you are an oil and gas professional I want you to make a little mental exercise with me. Close your eyes, lean back and think very hard if you have ever seen such crazy times in your trade. Be…
Border Adjustment Tax – Control Knob for Free Trade
Last week we saw that unchecked free trade leads into the abyss of countries competing on how to better destroy country and people. How to fix it. In the developed world we like to give things a price. At least…
How free shall trade ever be
In nature, it often happens that two organisms form a mutually beneficial, stable relationship with each other. It’s called a symbiosis. Both organisms have an interest in the relationship. A very iconic example is the honeybee and flowers. The flowers…
How COVID-19 will reshape energy
In 1347, a ship of the Genoese merchant fleet arrived in Messina (Sicily). Most of the crew had already deceased when it pulled into the harbor. They had fallen victim to a mysterious affliction. The Black Death had arrived in…
Warming waters …
I grew up with tales of aliens that had visited Earth in ancient times. Crazy? It sure is in many ways but my father was an avid reader of the books from the Swiss author Erich von Däniken. Von Däniken…
The 5th Climate wave
Years ago, a friend of mine wanted to perform a financial transaction for a rather large sum of money. He resided in a country afflicted with rather prohibitive financial restrictions. The transaction was not illegal and there was no risk…
A flawed world laid bare by COVID-19
In 1955, the then-North Korean leader Kim Il Sung gave a speech. During this speech, he mentioned the term “Juche” for the first time. The exact title was “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work”. North…