@georgemagnus1 Thanks George. What must do is to organise the inter and intra-block collaboration to build competing capacity at scale, minimising the reslience and security premium for doing so and enhancing the logic of de-risking. @edwardfishman sees multi block future. I agree.
@LordRickettsP Should consider that if Hormuz does reopen, Iran is un sanctioned, Russia un sanctioned and Venezuela flowing, the medium term impact (1-2y) would be strongly negative for crude. LNG sees big volumes flow in ‘28-‘29. I wouldn’t lock in to a high price view. High prices bring low.
@LBC@lewis_goodall Lewis what you should pursue is storage capacity. SoS has charge of this, yet 4 years after the Ukraine shock we have a gas storage capacity measured in days - partly reason why we suffer more price volatility. Not expanding storage, even if production low, is absolutely crazy.
@JeremyCliffe@ecfr@a_publica Super note. Thank you Jeremy. My concern is the time inconsistency. Europe (and Ukraine) are about to be squeezed into Russia deal they don’t want. Their ability to resist is practical not just rhetorical. So while i like the optimistic note, I man not sure it fits reality..
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Another excellent and thoughtful intervention from @SanderTordoir from the pugnacious team @CER_EU i have been to too many events to make the same arguments.. boggles my mind that we are still having them.
@TorstenBell You lay it out well Torsten, and if CX had laid it out similarly we might not be in this pickle today. The perception (and perception is v close to reality) is that the sequencing of OBR inputs and the production of speeches and interviews from CX don’t mesh That’s a big problem.
@andrewrawnsley Another good one Andrew, but I’ll say again the gilt market + investors must be included in analysis. A weak budget & market recoil will shape the future for PM & potential candidates This is likely to be a minimum tightening with very little growth emphasis. If so, not durable.
@andrewrawnsley Another Rawnsley classic. Thank you. If I were an advisor i would be asking what the bond market needs. Getting that wrong and seeing gilt yields rise again will be a lot more costly than displeasing a few MPs.. problem is, nobody in the discussion understands what that means.
The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing.
Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀
@Brad_Setser@pstAsiatech Quite right Brad. From what I can see the Aspire 910C is where Nvidia was 4 years ago. Semi volumes also look tiny in China. US leadership looks more likely to extend than to shrink in the high value chip AI/HBM and model development ecosystem. The US would be crazy to squander..
@SamCoatesSky@JoeCookJ Thanks Sam. It’s irrelevant where we are in G7 growth. To stabilise debt, the economy needs to grow nominally faster than our cost of debt. We are not even close. The repeated fiscal tightening of RR clearly pushes growth down. We are in the loop.. and about to do more of same..