The Everything Shortage: Why Global Supply Chains Are Breaking and What It Means for Energy Markets

The world is short of nearly everything. Shipping routes are under attack, refineries are maxed out, and energy policies have backfired. In this episode, commodities expert Jack Prandelli breaks down the “everything shortage”—the interconnected crises in oil, gas, food, and critical minerals that are reshaping geopolitics and creating the next commodity super-cycle. Discover why diesel […]

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is spot on: the new American tariffs will affect $1.5 billion of Alberta goods. The new Canadian counter-tariffs will affect $4.8 billion of the provincial economy.

That is not a talking point. It is the arithmetic of an integrated energy market that Ottawa cannot wish away, and Washington already understands. Smith’s warning, circulating widely after her CBC Power & Politics appearance and a clip posted by Stephen Taylor, is blunt: Alberta businesses will be hurt more by Canada’s own counter-tariffs than […]

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Kathryn Porter sounds the practical alarm on the UK Grid

Energy consultant Kathryn Porter, founder of Watt-Logic, has issued one of the clearest practical warnings yet about the United Kingdom’s electricity system. In her recent Daily Mail piece, she describes a nightmare scenario in which the National Grid collapses under the weight of Net Zero policies: supply-demand imbalance triggers cascading failures, plunging homes, businesses, hospitals, […]

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Will Turkey be impacted by a potential gas squeeze as new Iran sanctions kick in?

Turkey faces heightened risk of disrupted natural gas supplies from Iran following the U.S. Treasury’s launch of an intensified economic isolation campaign against Tehran on August 24, 2026. As a key U.S. ally and Iran’s third-largest trading partner, Ankara must navigate secondary sanctions threats that could complicate or sever one of its major pipeline gas […]

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