FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat
About this episode
From the show’s notesThis is our full interview with Alex Epstein, recorded live on TBPN.
We discuss how the Iran conflict and the threat to the Strait of Hormuz could send shockwaves through global oil markets, unpack why roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows through a single chokepoint with no real replacement routes, and debate what governments can actually do in a crisis from strategic petroleum reserves and Saudi spare capacity to scrapping the Jones Act and deepening energy ties with Canada to stabilize the global economy.
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