Show Notes:

Major. Qassim

Suleimani was killed in an airstrike.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander

Middle East geopolitics…. Your guess is as good as mine-

defer to people who do THAT for a living.

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=de2bc41f8324e6955ef65e0c9&id=a8d843ea82

Iran:  interesting facts: Produced 2.15 MMBO per day in

October which previous to sanctions imposed by the US was 3.8 MMBO/d. Domestic

consumption for 81 million people

Iraq 4.68 mmbo/d production in September. 38 million people

Kuwait: 2.7 mmbo/d.  4.2 million people. 

Saudi Arabia, 10 mmbo/d, 33 million people.

Backwardation of the oil market: a nice piece on Twitter by

@BrynneKKelly that I retweeted Jan 4 at @DavidRamsdenWo