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Seven Minutes with Daniel Yergin
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Daniel Yergin has issued an updated version of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.
When I asked why he chose to release an update of his earlier work, Yergin identified four key factors that have to be added to the energy policy picture. First, oil has become a financial instrument in and of itself; two, globalization has broadened demand significantly with the entry of India and China into the global economic network; third, the climate change agenda; and fourth, the explosion of technological innovation in the energy sector.
This book is a must read for those who want to delve into the oil and energy drivers of US foreign policy, and I really enjoyed this discussion with Yergin. I hope others find this seven minute exchange useful.
-- Steve Clemons
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Okay, we went back to the hard right tact on foreign policy this past week re: Israel. This is Rahm Emmanuel channeling his inner Churchill.
You guys might remember that oil prices are less likely to be good when we tilt to Israeli settlement policy.
You lost all the voters who would get out and vote in their own interests economically, over trying to rally the same narrow corridor of voters that almost never votes your way.
Winning the race to the bottom, one failed state at a time.
New Jeresy and Virginia lead that category in their downward spiral.




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