My first official job out of college was as a grains analyst for the USDA... I don’t follow grain markets closely anymore but I was interested to see
US Days Supply of Crude Oil… EIA
Days supply compares stock levels with daily demand... Here is the EIA’s chart:
Record US electricity generation in 2018… EIA
Another good piece from the EIA’s Today in Energy, here: “Population-weighted cooling degree days, an indicator of warm weather and air
China’s importance to the world economy… WSJ
From the Wall Street Journal’s The Daily Shot, here...
Gulf Coast gasoline cracks… EIA
Another gem from Today in Energy, here... ”Gasoline crack spreads typically decline to their lowest levels of the year in the winter months, but
China expects 2019 growth 6 to 6.5%… WSJ
Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal, here...
Crude by rail… WSJ
It’s always worthwhile to check in on The Daily Shot’s chart book, here...
European energy traders… Bloomberg
The story, here, by Lars Paulsson and Anna Shiryaevskaya, Bloomberg is about the big bonuses paid to European energy traders, but I especially liked
Interview with George Magnus… China Leadership Monitor
China Leadership Monitor interviews George Magnus on his latest book, Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy (Yale University Press, 2018),







