• "If you control the energy flow of any country, you control the destiny of that country." - Dr. Anas Alhajji [00:27:46]

• "Those hardliners of the IRGC... lose everything if everything goes back to normal... so they are behaving like a drug cartel. They are literally willing to fight for the money and the power." - Dr. Anas Alhajji…

"this is about being short the behavior of your of your government i mean if you think they're going to be disciplined and they're going to look after you... then don't do it." - Ned Naylor-Leyland [00:00:00]

"gold is the risk-free of the system always has been but things changed dramatically... when vulkar took rates of 20% we entered a system…

"our job is really to make money if markets are going up down left right or sideways and I'm often asked what our strategy is and really I answer it's to make money and not lose it" - Matt Heap [00:02:47]

"the human brain is still a very powerful instrument and combining that with technology to... help adjust and to see turns in the markets." -…

"you have to understand that the bulk of lending today in the world economy comes through repo refinancing of collateral... and global liquidity really comes out of that." - Michael Howell [00:05:19]

"something like four in every five transactions in world financial markets are debt refinancing transactions debt has to be rolled over and that's…

"It's not the ore in the ground that's important, it's the refining and turning these metals into something of value that go into end products." - Michael Walshe [00:02:19]

"If everything's critical then nothing's critical and so it's all just a gaping hole in the west's industrial capacity." - Jeff Dickerson…

"Starting the strategy... at the top of a bull market cycle, while probably better for my financial stability, was not nearly as intriguing as starting the strategy at the very bottom." - Adam Rozencwajg [00:04:04]

"That gold to oil ratio is almost never wrong... when it hits extremes like that, it is very, very, very predictive." - **Adam…

"Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart... we weren't expecting a major breakout in hostilities, but what we were seeing instead was just a very very tight energy market." - Adam Rozencwajg [00:01:57]

"A single ounce of gold bought 87 barrels at the high point in January. Gold has never been more expensive relative to oil; oil's never been…

"We are borrowing oil from the future to keep demand going... I liken it to that scene in Jaws where the mayor comes out and he goes 'Beaches are open.' Yet you see the Fins swimming around the shoreline..." - Jeff Currie [00:01:38]

"Oil is the same thing. From a price perspective and a share of GDP, it doesn't matter. But you pull it out of the system,…

"The impact of this crisis is a function of time, a length of duration which of course is unknown, as well as the damage done." - Paul Chapman [00:05:07]

"The old trilemma of cost, security of supply, and sustainability is now pretty much out the window and really it is all about security of supply." - Paul Chapman…

"We are increasingly facing a world where we're moving from a just in time to a just in case world... where the economy is basically... much more focused on having ample supplies instead of just having enough supplies." - Ole S. Hansen [00:29:35]

"Hedge funds... if there's one thing they're not, they're never ever married to their positions. If…

"The freight industry has long been thought of as the circulatory system of the economy." - Adam Taggart [00:00:23]

"I'm as bullish as I've been in many years... freight was in a recession for three plus years and we were seeing a pretty exhausted goods economy and now we're seeing anything but it is absolutely roaring in freight." - **Craig…

"It was the nightmare scenario that had been in not only for energy but for strategic planners for decades had happened. I think it's one of those things that people looked at as a scenario but thought it would never happen. But then it happened and it does change the world and it changed the way people think about energy." — Daniel Yergin…

"Demand coming down on top of supply is far less painful than supply coming down on demand. Pulling demand out of the fabric of the economy is going to be a lot more painful than shutting in a well." - Jeff Currie [00:00:48]

"All oil is, is solar energy stored in a natural battery that took a million years to create... hydrocarbons are just simply batteries for…

"So you have a shock like this, a supply shock today, and we're not in winter anymore but we have that looming in the horizon. It's almost like a deadline. Okay, you have seven months to fix this." - Samantha Dart [00:02:25]

"Even when the flows through the Strait of Hormuz are restored, Qatari supply is not going to fully come back to normal for…

"There is likely to be this rotation of capital back towards areas that are geopolitically important, industrially important, and are kind of the backbones of the global economy, away from areas that maybe have some threats to their business model." - Evy Hambro [00:14:05]

"You know the ongoing devaluation of paper currencies... means more…

"we're now in 2020 after COVID uh where we the the the AI world started people start talking about you know data centers the electric grid is insufficient we need to spend money there and so all of a sudden uh we're starting the next super cycle of commodities" - Josef Schachter [00:21:07]

"it's the emerging world that's really growing because if we need more lithium…

"We're just getting started to reflect the totality of the increase in oil prices in the markets both things can be true which is that it can be immediately inflationary and put the Fed on its heels... and over time be enough of a drag on growth that it could create a negative shock on the economy..." - Bob Elliott [00:00:00]

"The dots are nonsense and just like…