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What’s Driving Energy Prices Up? Will the Crisis be worse than the 1970s?

Blog Sep 29, 2022

It will be a cold and dark one as Europe battles an energy crisis, a looming energy crisis. Everybody needs energy security. These are all the things we need to have a stable standard of living. But what if we’re not really in a supply demand market? What if that wasn’t really driving the prices for Wall Street traders?

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Introduction
2:47 Energy Pricing
15:37 Collateral
22:43 Credit Lines & Margin Calls
35:18 Interconnected Financial Systems
40:45 Gold Prices

SOURCES:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/this-pipeline-s-one-of-the-few-things-still-connecting-europe-to-russia-and-it-might-not-last/

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/03/01/americas_emerging_energy_crisis_819404.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/why-europe-wants-to-change-the-way-power-gets-priced-quicktake?cmpid=BBD091022_WKND&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=220910&utm_campaign=weekendreading&sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-04/eu-to-debate-radical-energy-intervention-tools-as-crisis-worsens?sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.bis.org/publ/otc_hy2205.htm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-04/eu-to-debate-radical-energy-intervention-tools-as-crisis-worsens?sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-04/oil-s-plunge-below-zero-was-500-million-jackpot-for-a-few-london-traders?sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.eex.com/en/newsroom/detail?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=4966&cHash=28a26ba83aa5d8e9eed1ba37383cbbb8

https://www.greenwich.com/fixed-income/derivatives-market-structure-2022-identifying-opportunities-growth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-06/energy-trade-risks-collapsing-over-margin-calls-of-1-5-trillion?fromMostRead=true&sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-06/europe-s-lehman-warning-on-energy-prompts-flurry-of-cash-help?sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-04/nordic-utilities-get-33-billion-backstops-as-power-markets-fray?sref=rWFqAg1Y

https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/quarterly-report-on-bank-trading-and-derivatives-activities/files/pub-derivatives-quarterly-qtr2-2022.pdf

https://www.ft.com/content/b58480fb-b9de-4316-af21-b82167ef3e20

https://www.ft.com/content/3a188669-7eeb-4154-91a8-f808ed8ced71

https://www.statista.com/statistics/238414/global-gold-production-since-2005/

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