The 'Real' Price Of Oil Is Below $17
"You see a big destruction in the income of the oil and commodity producers," exclaims on analyst but, as Bloomberg notes, while oil prices flashing across traders' terminals are at the lowest in a decade, in real terms the collapse is considerably deeper. Adjusted for inflation, WTI is its lowest since 2002 and worse still Saudi Light Crude is trading at below $17 (in 1998 dollar terms) - the lowest since the 1980s...
Slumping prices are a critical signal that the boom in lending in China is “unwinding,” according to Adair Turner, chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
In fact, while sub-$30 per barrel oil sounds very scary, Saudi prices would be less than $17 a barrel when converted into dollar levels for 1998, the year oil sank to its lowest since the 1980s.
Slowing investment and construction in China, the world’s biggest energy user, is “sending an enormous deflationary impetus through to the world, and that is a significant part of what’s happening in this oil-price collapse,” Turner, former chairman of the U.K. Financial Services Authority, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
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So while prices are very low any description, never forget about inflation - The Fed won't!
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Bring it Bitch....Waiting for $0.29/gallon like when I filled myu 69 Mustang 429 Fastback in high school with a $5.oo and still had money left for the date and a six pack of condoms.
sorry, state and municipal pensions need funding, expect gas taxes to inversely follow any price declines in oil.
$15.00 to fill-the-tank days are here again? Hmmm... and $4.00 an hour wages?
Deja Vu all over again...
connecting the dots tyme: china, fed zirp, oil price, hy credit, cargo drop, equities dropping, currency wars. did i miss a few dots? connecting them i see an image of something shaped like a doomer with a tin foil hat, ha-lol...
in 1980 dollar terms (the silver all-time high of 50/oz), phyzz silver today is selling for close to 1 dollar an ounce.
Keep stackin', bitchez! ;-)
This article was too damn short!
To adjust the price for inflation, was the politically-manipulated CPI used?
The answer to your question is addressed within the first 4 minutes of the excellent interview below via SGTReport.com
They state that they used John Williams (shadowstats.com) properly adjusted (non-gov-scum manipulated) calculations. Listen to this interview w/ Steve St. Angelo (SRSRoccoReport.com):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChT_hSwldyk
The "real" price of oil is below $17 just like the "real" unempoyment rate is above 15%.
I get this game and it's fun. It's the Wheel of Fortune. I'd like to buy a vowel.
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When the price of crude is less than the price of a new clean barrel, U R FKD.
safe sex in 1960, wtf is wrong with you db51. Fuck rubbers
429 Mustang! Damn. All I had was a Valient slant six. Puke yellow.
first car -dikty dik cheav mon
That slant 6 was a million-mile motor though... One of the best in-line designs ever put to blueprint.
the blocks were indestructible, but the stock carbs sucked and blew
++++ Precisely.
"sorry, state and municipal pensions need funding, expect gas taxes to inversely follow any price declines in oil."
Right....and also expect them never to go down again when the price of gas goes up to $6.00 / gal
Yep, the assholes at our state house here in S.Carolina are getting ready to add an additional 10% tax on gas.
Scum sucking bastards!
Why bother with rubbers in the 60s?
Especially with a fast car like that to GTFO with.
429 Cobra Jet. That was so sweet...if only I'd kept it. Back in the day we didn't get paid by Obama to pop illigitimate kids out. lmfao...hence the rubber. I remember when a tard at the gas station poked holes in all the packages while filling the machine as a joke. Do you realize how many births that guy is responsible for. On Prom Night too.
a six pack! what fuckin high school did you go to man?
Why isn't gas .99 cents a gallon then? Or better yet .69 cents??
ummm Taxes?
In the UK petrol is around £1.13 a litre assuming £1 a litre the break down is said to be
The cost of the actual oil is only a small part of the total cost at the pump
You make a good point. In the 50's and 60's gas pumps displayed the state and fed taxes per gallon. That went away and we all can figure out why.
I'ts 1.02 in n.ireland where I am, unless you're in London you're getting ripped man. Oh, then you're still getting ripped!
But you're breakdown is just about correct.
There figures are old, duty is 57.95p a litre and VAT has been 20% since Osborne raised it in 2011.
Hang on captain...I think it's on it's way!
Considering federal and state taxes on gasoline average 49 cents per gallon, that would leave 20 cents for transport, storage and profits for the refiners, trucking companies, and gas stations. Transport and refining cost 44 cents, so the gas stations would be buying at 93 cents per gallon even if the oil was free.
LMFAO!!! Talking about "prices" in the absence of price discovery is a fool's errand. Priced in what exactly?
NO means NO fuckers! The price could be $0 just as easily as it could be $100 per barrel.
such is life in the 'petrodolla kingdum'
unfortunately, all fiat will die. This time is different in so much as this time it will be global Weimar.
There isn't a central bank on the planet that hasn't been exponentially printing and issuing debt for 40+ years...
Debt jubilee or WWIII, period.
That's the plan! Then the IMF can come rescue everyone with SDR's
exactly-world central banks convien to solve the problem they created. ha-lol.
yes I love their use of "real" price. Did they take a moment to tell us the "real" price of extraction
Hey so, if WTI gets to $10 will they pay you to take a barrel of western canadian select?
Is that like Seagram's 7?
I prefer to think that oil is trading at near it's real price right now - adjusted for the fake growth created by leverage on leverage on leverage on debt. Can't compare to 'inflation adjusted' becuase it's being punished as part of the money printing / debt creation destruction.
I mean that if you're destroying the debt that created the inflation then you're destroying the inflation.
I think I understand what your are saying, but if there was an absolute halt to all borrowing in the world, the pace of debt repayment would deflate the "money" supply at a rate of approx. 1% - 3% per year. The commodity sector is being repriced at a rate far exceding even the most extreme scenario of deflation that is possible today.
The CRB index is at 1973 levels! And looking at a chart, there is zero technical support until it falls another 50%. How many hundreds of trillions of currency units have the various central banks of the world printed over the last 40+ years???
What an upside down insane world we live in.
So is Russia going to collapse?
Deflation, all I ever wanted...
Maybe Bruce Springsteen can write and sing a song: "All I ever wanted was deflation and a tank of gas."
russia will be fine. they have real resources and some tough ass people that have lived thru tough times.
and no debt.
I know I've posted this before, but this piece is great stuff
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2006-12-04/closing-collapse-gap-ussr-was-better-prepared-collapse-us
Saudi's / OPEC glutted the market to drive out higher production cost competitors, but then there's Iran. How low long can they go before they're ready for war? http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/24/news/oil-prices-production-costs/
The price of most commodities was artificial based on central banks flooding the world with money. When yields compressed to almost zero, speculators bought stuff that would hurt if you dropped it on your toe. Now that the tide is reversed, true price discovery comes into play . . and it ain't pretty. Yet, Bullard today is already hinting that his chart is not behaving, must go from bottom right to upper left or we will intervene . . . just let the markets clear for god sake.
This is how Mr. Bullard and family and friends make money. Can people seriously think the FED can control the price of commodities. Had we know what the FED was doing the last 8 years we would be billionaires like their friends and relatives. Mr. Bullard babbling about they may have to do something about the price of oil? Please.
If you think about Mr. Bullard's statements today. They must have been for one purpose. Try and send the market up. The FED must be spooked.
Well, based on that chart one would be inclined to be a buyer. The only thing you see and hear is how oil is going to $20.
Looks worth taking a shot to me.
Buy Crude-Sell Stocks....look for convergence.