Negative Oil Prices: Explained

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    Earlier this week we've started seeing articles noting that oil prices have now gone into the negatives (meaning investors are paying to give away their oil).
    What is going on here? How does this make sense?
    As always with these weird and wonderful things, it's all basic economics. And to properly understand this, we're going to need to look at 3 things: Negative value items, the 2020 oil market, and how oil is actually sold!
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    Sources & Citations -
    Lee, K., Ni, S., and Ratti, R.A., 1995. Oil shocks and the macroeconomy: the role of price variability. The Energy Journal.
    Pirrong, C., 2011. The economics of central clearing: theory and practice.
    Guay, W., and Kothari, S.P., 2003. How much do firms hedge with derivatives?. Journal of financial economics
    Pirrong, C., 2009. The economics of clearing in derivatives markets: Netting, asymmetric information, and the sharing of default risks through a central counterparty. Asymmetric Information, and the Sharing of Default Risks Through a Central Counterparty
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    - nytimes.com/article/negative-oil-prices-facts-history.html
    - forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/04/21/heres-what-negative-oil-prices-really-mean/#2c19d87a5a85
    - barrons.com/articles/negative-oil-prices-from-the-folks-who-brought-you-the-financial-crisis-51587549601
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  • @EconomicsExplained
    @EconomicsExplained  4 года назад +38

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  • @FinanceOptimum
    @FinanceOptimum 4 года назад +2024

    *The world is in for a crude awakening*

    • @Mindforprogress
      @Mindforprogress 4 года назад +11

      Ha! mah man

    • @VocalMabiMaple
      @VocalMabiMaple 4 года назад +50

      Well I woke up with a greasy feeling

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      @@VocalMabiMaple and I m getting negative thoughts about the news 😅

  • @EconomicsExplained
    @EconomicsExplained  4 года назад +1377

    Last time I was this early we were predicting Peak Oil.

  • @l0lwutwtf
    @l0lwutwtf 4 года назад +487

    Gotta love these stock footage, 11:26 the pen doesn't even touch the paper lol

    • @BvousBrainSystems
      @BvousBrainSystems 4 года назад +51

      Get a load of 8:08. They can't actually tug on the tp roll because it'll break, so they look like they're playing with it

    • @nickacelvn
      @nickacelvn 4 года назад +9

      also 10:33

    • @NativeVsColonial
      @NativeVsColonial 4 года назад +7

      also at 19:06

    • @deek0146
      @deek0146 4 года назад +8

      Or at 5:56, when he says "hiccup" but the video clearly shows a car's suspension fully absorbing the shcok of the speed bump.

    • @gtbkts
      @gtbkts 2 года назад +3

      Stock footage is the best.

  • @MrNightpwner
    @MrNightpwner 4 года назад +419

    The only way I can understand this:
    -i have too much, running out of space, take it for free
    -no, I have enough, and it takes resources to pick it up
    - I'll pay your travel costs
    -okay

    • @thorin1045
      @thorin1045 4 года назад +31

      Mostly, they agreed on a price weeks or maybe months ago, and suddenly that price is total bullshit, and to make it worse, they agreed, if they cannot sell the stuff, they have to store it, and suddenly nobody wants it. It is the filling up of a pipeline. In the case of oil, sometimes even a literal pipeline. And our current economy made the pipeline sensible with much longer than wider, so to make a balanced trade, you need to know weeks or months before the amount of demand, to create the supply in time, but in two months, our demand plummeted like a rock, probably the greatest oil demand reduction pretty much ever, and the pipeline is filling up with the speed of the expected demand of two month ago. Our storage capacity is also limited, since it will go bad, quickly.

    • @Kenionatus
      @Kenionatus 4 года назад +8

      The really important part is that the drilling companies have not incentive to stop producing more crude oil because they get paid the prices agreed upon before the covid 19 crisis and that the other end of those contracts need somewhere to store all that oil they get delivered.

    • @romasromas73
      @romasromas73 4 года назад +8

      thanks for saving me 20 mins

    • @spamsam99
      @spamsam99 4 года назад +6

      Its like this - the speculator/investor buys a future contract for deliver of x amount of oil at a future date for a set price. He never intends to take delivery of the oil, but just wants to profit from a rise in the price of oil so he can onsell his contract to someone who actually wants delivery. If the price of oil fell a bit he can still sell the contract at a small loss. But in this case a lot of speculators had bet on oil going higher and all wanted to sell their contracts at once. The buyers kept dropping the price they would be willing to pay - then realising that there is no storage for the oil, they also did not want it - so the price went negative - you had to pay the buyer to take the oil. Apparently you must take delivery if you hold the contract, you cannot refuse it, so it becomes a problem that is going to cost you to make it go away; as it did in this case of negative valuations.

    • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
      @Homer-OJ-Simpson 4 года назад +13

      You forgot to add the following after the travel cost:
      -no, It also takes resources to store it
      - I’ll pay your travel costs AND storage costs
      - okay

  • @azazzelx
    @azazzelx 4 года назад +1238

    like how you silently diss about the diamond pricing industry...

    • @lamarnash2439
      @lamarnash2439 4 года назад +147

      I hate the diamond industry

    • @halfalawn3125
      @halfalawn3125 4 года назад +81

      @@lamarnash2439 yup. all bloody scammers

    • @AR15ORIGINAL
      @AR15ORIGINAL 4 года назад +2

      Wait, where and when?

    • @theend3905
      @theend3905 4 года назад +16

      @@AR15ORIGINAL 18:33

    • @nhandahooker
      @nhandahooker 4 года назад +29

      Anyone who buys into is an idiot who don’t have any balls to make their own decision

  • @alexandrub8786
    @alexandrub8786 4 года назад +667

    EE:"Russia is not part of OPEC"
    EE: * shows EU building *

    • @AdamTheBen
      @AdamTheBen 4 года назад +14

      These never get old xD

    • @AMacProOwner
      @AMacProOwner 4 года назад +43

      EE: Mr. Worldwide

    • @artman7780
      @artman7780 4 года назад +38

      OPEC is based in Vienna, Austria.

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 4 года назад +5

      @@artman7780 Holy shit, you're right....Why?

    • @rager1969
      @rager1969 4 года назад +25

      @@Seth9809 According to Wikipedia, the Arab countries wanted it based in an Arab country but Venezuela wanted it in a neutral location. OPEC went to Switzerland but then moved to Austria.

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    @rasmusholmgaardnielsen6554 4 года назад +647

    Can you do a The Economics of Economics Explained explained?

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      @herborbord8958 4 года назад +15

      That would take a whole college degree to understand lol

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      @mueezadam8438 4 года назад +7

      Rasmus Holmgaard Nielsen the world is not ready yet

    • @ronb7062
      @ronb7062 4 года назад

      hehehehe rofl

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      @TheDeadKingsRaven 4 года назад

      Meta asf 😂

    • @pradeepbm363
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      The economics of economics explained explained

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    @Rwpinkfloydfan 4 года назад +246

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  • @Deusriba
    @Deusriba 4 года назад +129

    This channel seems to be the world`s whole demand of stock footage.

  • @svyatoslavefremov6030
    @svyatoslavefremov6030 4 года назад +250

    Some people on the Moscow Trade Market literally made a trillion ruble loss on that day with no other money left.

    • @fatetestarossa2774
      @fatetestarossa2774 4 года назад +6

      WOW

    • @cookiecola5852
      @cookiecola5852 4 года назад +22

      Tho what is one Trillion Russian ruble 15 Million?

    • @backpackpepelon3867
      @backpackpepelon3867 4 года назад +36

      They pretty much killing the oligarchs holding the large share of the market in Russia.

    • @captaindak5119
      @captaindak5119 4 года назад +54

      @@cookiecola5852 13 billion USD if that's a serious question. A trillion is a million x million. Only countries with massive inflation (like Zimbabwe) should have currencies that weak.

    • @ithilweenshadowsong8151
      @ithilweenshadowsong8151 4 года назад +7

      Too big to fall, they said...

  • @Vid_Master
    @Vid_Master 4 года назад +386

    ive been doing the math to see how many barrels will fit in my yard

    • @TheMrNalsur
      @TheMrNalsur 4 года назад +20

      @@mr.boomguy the results? Not enough. D:

    • @bificommander7472
      @bificommander7472 4 года назад +4

      I'm sure your neighbors would be thrilled too.

    • @clam4597
      @clam4597 4 года назад +3

      OMG I ordered 3000 barrels and they're on it's way to my house.

    • @jascrandom9855
      @jascrandom9855 4 года назад +18

      You are not going to get actual barrels, but you will get a tanker truck on your doorstep with a driver expecting you to tell them were to pump the oil.

    • @bluemountain4181
      @bluemountain4181 4 года назад +18

      @@jascrandom9855 The tanker truck won't even come you your doorstep, you'll have to go to Cushing Oklahoma to pick it up

  • @VJ-bn1qg
    @VJ-bn1qg 4 года назад +391

    We live in days where sanitizer is more expensive than oil , lol
    I’m finally living in days which will be valuable as history in future
    I was waiting for this video , thanks

    • @dios5618
      @dios5618 4 года назад +43

      We live in a days where ink printer is far more expensive then blood

    • @fourtoes412
      @fourtoes412 4 года назад +23

      We live in a world where bottled water is more expensive than beer!

    • @ImBigFloppa
      @ImBigFloppa 4 года назад +29

      I understand the joke, but hand sanitizer has always been more expensive than oil. A gallon of hand sanitizer, before the whole rona, would cost about $15. Oil hasn't gone past $4 in years.

    • @eloisanzara237
      @eloisanzara237 4 года назад +8

      I’m very happy to be living in history (I’m a history geek), but I am not happy that these are the days people will look back and say, “Let’s not repeat what they did.”

    • @VJ-bn1qg
      @VJ-bn1qg 4 года назад +1

      Clark Anzara
      Absolutely true

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    @GamerzShit 4 года назад +11

    This channel makes you understand economics so well while critisizing it so hard. Absolutely fantastic.

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    @sambaniang1281 4 года назад +35

    This is why Behavioral Economics should be taught in universities everywhere in the world.

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    @Sultan-cf5wf 4 года назад +7

    > go to local gas station with zero dollars
    > ask for 200 gallons
    > walk out of store with $1000
    This is nice.

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    @liam1101 4 года назад +64

    This channel is honestly getting better by the day. Absolutely amazing!

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    @zacharyclipper9259 4 года назад +17

    as a texan I saw the pool at the beginning and said audibly "You're god dammed right its a real thing"

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    @moredac2881 4 года назад +262

    Loved the video. Topic idea: today’s monopolies

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      @austinflint8671 4 года назад +7

      But US government, i dont have a monopoly on shipping! Why? Oh... because im a web services company!

    • @JerzeyBoy
      @JerzeyBoy 4 года назад +1

      Disney.

    • @LostSoulAscension
      @LostSoulAscension 4 года назад +2

      Crony Capitalism.

    • @saricubra2867
      @saricubra2867 4 года назад

      Venezuela's economy

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      @MrJakson112 4 года назад

      Disney
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      Google and Facebook

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    @Q3hero 4 года назад +223

    to add to the confusion: Sweden have/does buy garbage from Norway

    • @hendrikdependrik1891
      @hendrikdependrik1891 4 года назад +13

      What about this: The Netherlands buying garbage of the British and the Napolitan mafia or Poland just burning everyone's trash.

    • @MartinNew14
      @MartinNew14 4 года назад +9

      And sweden has exported the garbage to south asian countries.

    • @glenglen6386
      @glenglen6386 4 года назад

      @@MartinNew14 Rather the ash that goes into groundfill

    • @tnix80
      @tnix80 4 года назад

      Classic way to make money in Sim City

    • @MrChuanhquan
      @MrChuanhquan 3 года назад +1

      U mean garbage?

  • @aykay1468
    @aykay1468 4 года назад +74

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    lmao I love this channel

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    @rootstone9883 4 года назад +86

    "This is crude oil" shows soy sauce

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    @pwsalc 4 года назад +137

    I'm starting to think some of these shots might be stock footage.

    • @katyungodly
      @katyungodly 4 года назад +5

      It looks like 100% of this channel is stick footage 😂

    • @knaz7468
      @knaz7468 4 года назад +8

      They are hilarious. Must be on purpose.

    • @X1erra
      @X1erra 4 года назад +3

      I'm curious how stock footage are made and how EE got their hands on them.

    • @Repz98
      @Repz98 4 года назад +6

      There are sites that allow you to make youtube videos of stock footage without how to download the footage. Instead, you edit your video on there website. You just upload a speech, and search and select footage. When done, you click done button and they render the video for you, and from there. You didnt even have to use an editing software

    • @csanton3946
      @csanton3946 3 года назад

      @@Repz98 lol i thought its an AI software speech recognition then automatic video matching

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    @RealVidjag 4 года назад +69

    2:10, I appreciate the Malaysian market clip

  • @rightwingsafetysquad9872
    @rightwingsafetysquad9872 4 года назад +59

    18:35 who hurt you Economics man.

    • @renixmar3373
      @renixmar3373 4 года назад +11

      he's referencing the scam that is the diamond market

    • @bluemountain4181
      @bluemountain4181 4 года назад +3

      De Beers hurt him

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      @Dommy521 4 года назад +7

      Aussie women are huge liabilities

  • @vinniechan
    @vinniechan 4 года назад +47

    Negative value item is not strange at all
    Remember the line in The Big Short
    "I got a negative carry of 20million a month"

    • @abrahamarbores3135
      @abrahamarbores3135 4 года назад +6

      Yes, but he was the one buying Credit Default Swaps, i.e. insurance contracts. Insurance isn't a negative value item for the insurance company (until the number of claims that have to be paid multiplied by the dollar amount of those claims is larger than the money earned on premiums for insuring the risk).

    • @jbjb679
      @jbjb679 4 года назад +4

      Yeah, as in his monthly premium. The bank is selling the security in that sense. They weren't paying him to hold the option

  • @Larry82ch
    @Larry82ch 4 года назад +8

    "This was kind of the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot to win an argument over who ran the slowest."
    This made my day

  • @nabil1908
    @nabil1908 4 года назад +45

    Last time I was this early Economics Explained was Economics Explaining

    • @MatthewStinar
      @MatthewStinar 4 года назад

      💩 ruclips.net/video/ps6YEbSTUkE/видео.html

    • @ronb7062
      @ronb7062 4 года назад

      ok.

  • @keldelmini8243
    @keldelmini8243 4 года назад +46

    20 years ago, people played Fallout. A game about nuclear apocalypse triggered by lack of oil. Who would have known back then that negative oil prices would cause a crisis.

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 4 года назад +7

      "What do you mean too much oil?" - Environmental activists from the 80's.

    • @filippkhan3935
      @filippkhan3935 4 года назад +7

      An economic crisis caused negative oil prices, not the other way around.

    • @davidhamilton506
      @davidhamilton506 4 года назад +1

      *Delmini* Coved-19 has caused a glut of oil due to some Industry shut downs, travel bans on International and Domestic Air routes, and even to domestic travel in vehicles for holidays away. The irony is of course, is just when one is well able to afford filling the family car, we're told to stay home. What I cannot understand, is all these headlines bemoaning the fact that the World is running short of where to store the bloody oil. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there some logical reason why we cannot shut down the wells pumping it out?. HELLO!, time to turn off the taps baby, and go home...

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 4 года назад +2

      @@filippkhan3935 Are you forgetting how Russia and Saudi Arabia went ballistic on their oil production? This is a two-faced crisis, one caused by the kyogre attack (Covid) and the other is the direct result of the pyrrhic fight between the two aforementioned powers in the oil market.

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 4 года назад +3

      @@davidhamilton506 There is a logical reason though. Russia and Saudi Arabia are going ham on each other since their negotiations broke down. The rest of the world may shut their wells but that would result in an overdependence (as if the previous state of affairs isn't bad enough) on one or both powers. They (the two nations) won't cut their production because that's their weapon against each other and I wouldn't be surprised if they kept ramping up output even more until one or both comes crashing down.

  • @Mihalpalch
    @Mihalpalch 4 года назад +18

    You mentioned 'very poor underlying fundamentals' of the economy, could you expand on that ?

    • @radioactivetrees9626
      @radioactivetrees9626 4 года назад +4

      That would require either a five second video or a six part hour long series.

    • @tylerpeterson4726
      @tylerpeterson4726 3 года назад

      I would guess that it's non-participants participating in the market (people not in the oil industry buying and selling oil contracts without the physical capability to fulfill those contracts) and removing pricing incentives from oil producers. When oil exports from Russia and OPEC spiked, the most expensive oil producers (many of whom are American producers) should have shut down their wells immediately. Instead they kept on pumping because they had a contract to fill, despite there being no demand for the oil they were contractually required to produce.

  • @nicholasrevill6610
    @nicholasrevill6610 4 года назад +80

    Last time I was this early, people said the economy would grow forever

    • @MatthewStinar
      @MatthewStinar 4 года назад

      💩 ruclips.net/video/ps6YEbSTUkE/видео.html

    • @tnix80
      @tnix80 4 года назад +1

      Long term it will

    • @Theorychad99
      @Theorychad99 3 года назад

      Tyler Chamberlain yeah until the planet is dead

  • @tonysamaniego7875
    @tonysamaniego7875 4 года назад +1

    I love this Channel. I learn so much about current global economic events. I enjoyed this longer video format with more economic and financial terms for me to further my research. Keep up the great work and congrats on your seemingly exponential channel growth in recent months!

  • @hasanpatel9029
    @hasanpatel9029 4 года назад +3

    I just had a moment of clarity thanks to this video I live near the sea, and for the past couple of days I've seen an Oil Tanker anchored somewhat far from the coast and I was curious as why a Tanker that have tights schedules to delivery this product been anchored doing nothing for days, now I know. Thanks EE, great video.

  • @this...isabucket.6665
    @this...isabucket.6665 4 года назад +26

    Oil: drops to negatives
    US soldiers: *ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK*

  • @bypxr5298
    @bypxr5298 4 года назад +25

    Wow, This is really interesting!Thanks!

  • @PeaceToUsAll
    @PeaceToUsAll 4 года назад

    what I love about your channel is that it's a sequence of irrelevant stock footage but with great audio content attached and so i can treat it like a podcast of sort :)

  • @leothebro
    @leothebro 4 года назад

    Thank you for making this video so quick! Really informative.

  • @Pinned2Five
    @Pinned2Five 4 года назад +6

    Thanks for helping us understand this interesting chapter in world history.

  • @dibdab0
    @dibdab0 4 года назад +4

    7:06 That silver car created a phantom traffic jam

  • @SupaL33tKillar
    @SupaL33tKillar 4 года назад +1

    I was literally asking about this yesterday to a friend. Thanks!

  • @thedebatehitman
    @thedebatehitman 4 года назад

    As always, your work is great and highly informative. Keep up the great work.

  • @akshatasthana6261
    @akshatasthana6261 4 года назад +95

    The more I learn about economics, the more I realize it's been designed by clowns.
    PS: this video was really very funny

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 4 года назад +24

      Then you learned nothing. The markets are why you have a modern life, and aren't living in a dirt-floor cabin.

    • @mastertroll1780
      @mastertroll1780 4 года назад +17

      It isn't designed so much as it is created by the actions of several trillion greedy algorithms and maybe a few thousand non-greedy ones.

    • @684avatar
      @684avatar 4 года назад +8

      Slappy he’s one of those money is the root of evil people. If it’s so bad how do you get a haircut a house and a car. Stupid hippie.

    • @kristianstrm2375
      @kristianstrm2375 4 года назад +7

      @@slappy8941 I don't think he referred to the entirety of the last 6000 years of economic developmnent when he said that :

    • @wybo2
      @wybo2 4 года назад +19

      They are not designed at all, they came to be by circumstance.
      Designed economic systems, like Communism, tend to fall flat on their face because it is pretty mutch impossible to predict what the future will look like.

  • @jonrolfson1686
    @jonrolfson1686 4 года назад +15

    17:15 "Some very poor underlying fundamentals." That is a phrase that is crying out for careful, thoughtful, detailed elucidation. This is, of course, a request for explanation of something akin to 'life, the Universe and everything,' so give it an hour or two.

  • @princeofpills
    @princeofpills 4 года назад

    Thanks for making these videos! Really insightful and enjoyable to watch

  • @andrew3068
    @andrew3068 4 года назад

    Great video, I appreciate you giving all the surrounding context.

  • @jackson15williams
    @jackson15williams 4 года назад +73

    Get paid for taking oil
    Dump oil on ducks
    Invest in Dawn dish soap
    Profit

  • @brianhnatiak7134
    @brianhnatiak7134 4 года назад +46

    The price of oil doesn't go negative. It's the price of a futures contract that does. And all futures contracts are simply gambling.

    • @fallout560
      @fallout560 4 года назад +11

      That's not true. If futures did not exist, the price of cereal would fluctuate day to day depending on what the corn sellers feel like selling the price at that day. Futures help stabilize prices by locking them in ahead of time

    • @thanhlam8763
      @thanhlam8763 4 года назад +2

      fallout560 the problem is that they can be trade , resale, bet on. Affectively turn them into casino chip.

  • @abhisheklukhi9843
    @abhisheklukhi9843 4 года назад

    Mate , your explanations are crystal clear and hatsoff to thinking of those examples

  • @emilnamor
    @emilnamor 4 года назад

    The variety and abundance of stock video clips in these videos is fascinating.

  • @secrets.295
    @secrets.295 4 года назад +109

    I believe oil will never be as high as it was a few years ago. At least not in the next 1-2 decades.

    • @NoName-yv6yq
      @NoName-yv6yq 4 года назад +11

      fix they want price below shale gas and nuclear energy ... so price never cross 60$

    • @shivamshahorignal
      @shivamshahorignal 4 года назад +24

      In today's world you never know what is going to happen tomorrow
      Donald Trump hits Iran with someone missiles
      Crude at $100😅

    • @secrets.295
      @secrets.295 4 года назад +8

      @@shivamshahorignal I dont think so. Every commodities will always have its peak then they started falling off the drain. Just 200 years ago, Tin was king. Now its nothing. With more going into hybrid technology. My bet is Oil is not going to be king anymore.

    • @diegoaespitia
      @diegoaespitia 4 года назад +7

      not true. we arent in the renewable energy age. as soon as this is over price of oil will go back to normal.

    • @Flyingclam
      @Flyingclam 4 года назад +2

      If anything restarts it, it will be increased space travel

  • @adithyabhat4770
    @adithyabhat4770 4 года назад +3

    In the ending when you said "price gouging like good old days" I laughed my ass off

  • @loekieje13
    @loekieje13 4 года назад

    You are so quick on these topics. Thankss ❤️

  • @andreipirlea3102
    @andreipirlea3102 4 года назад

    I like how you blend visual stimuli with your storytelling skill of verbalizing. Neat

  • @steins-bricks4957
    @steins-bricks4957 4 года назад +22

    Last time I was this early Econocmics Explained was still good.......
    now you're fing amazing mate!

  • @gdehoyos006
    @gdehoyos006 4 года назад +1

    As soon as the economy reopens and I can open up my business again, I'm joining your patreon. This channel is Gold.

  • @debosmitbanerjee7290
    @debosmitbanerjee7290 4 года назад

    Great video! Just a minor suggestion:
    You could have mentioned the benchmarks WTI and Brent used to price crude oil worldwide and that the price of WTI contracts for May 2020 went negative. Brent stayed around $20/barrel and so did the WTI contracts for June.
    Thanks!

  • @FreaknFreddy
    @FreaknFreddy 4 года назад +6

    I love how there is already stock footage of a toilet paper fight.

  • @samuelhaley6114
    @samuelhaley6114 4 года назад +33

    I can't imagine hows Venezuela doing

    • @bluemountain4181
      @bluemountain4181 4 года назад +19

      America: "Doctor Venezuela, now might be a good time for you to go into crisis"
      Venezuela: "That's my secret cap, I'm always in crisis"

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 4 года назад +8

      @@bluemountain4181 So fucking true lmao. Permanent crisis since 2013 nonstop.

    • @FAKELIEN
      @FAKELIEN 4 года назад +8

      Venezuela has no right to be in a crisis with the amount of petroleum under their lands, shitty government politics, with people who would rather leave for Colombia than fight for their country.

    • @useodyseeorbitchute9450
      @useodyseeorbitchute9450 4 года назад +4

      Tries piracy. Clash between its patrol boat and unarmed German passenger vessel ended up with sunk patrol boat.
      (Reality is crazier than fiction)

    • @fuehnix
      @fuehnix 3 года назад +1

      @@quisqueyanguy120 lol poor venezuela still doesn't know who's president. Us Americans thought we had it bad, but we pretty much figured things out after several weeks.

  • @choclate082
    @choclate082 4 года назад

    Very beautiful made and explained videos. Keep up the good work 👍

  • @adrianblaze
    @adrianblaze 4 года назад

    Finally, an explanation that makes sense to me! Thank you.

  • @emmanuelluchmun3981
    @emmanuelluchmun3981 4 года назад +13

    Thank you for the video. As always I found it very interesting, but I have an issue regarding the second part of the video (Pump and Dump).
    Most articles I read indicate that there were three major actors who contributed to situation on the oil market: Russia, OPEC and the US.
    Summarily put, what I read was that US producers pumped massive amount of oil to have the US dominate the market. The OPEC and Russia refused to stand down, and increased production in a defensive move. The increase in production led to the fall of prices, and ultimately the negative price situation when the production war met the virus.
    So why did you not mention the US at all in your video ? Why was everything pegged on Russia and the OPEC ? I hope I understood something wrong, because I am confused and questioning the reliability of information on your channel.

    • @Obscurai
      @Obscurai 4 года назад +2

      This is not widely reported in the media, but you are correct the US has been dumping since February 2017 as per US government data: www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrexus2&f=m

    • @radioactivetrees9626
      @radioactivetrees9626 4 года назад

      @@Obscurai nice.

    • @kuyaleinad4195
      @kuyaleinad4195 4 года назад +1

      It makes a lot of sense since it’s reported here in the UK that it’s specifically Texan Oil that’s reached Negative pricing. Texan oil primarily travels via pipelines and the main buyer is the US.
      Russian and Saudi oil doesn’t have this problem since they can be transported to net importer countries as usual. Texan oil doesn’t get exported as much so it costs to transport it thus the negative price

    • @matthewdupree3573
      @matthewdupree3573 4 года назад

      What you are referring to is the 2014 dip in oil prices. As US shale companies started producing more and as hydraulic fracturing became more profitable, US output rose significantly. Saudi decided to maintain market share instead of cutting supply to maintain price as it often does. This tanked oil prices from over 100$/bbl to 30$/bbl WTI. Ultimately this is a battle that Saudi backed down on which led to the movement back to 60$ oil in the previous years.
      Coronavirus presented itself as a prime opportunity to try to harm US production again. This downturn was specifically decided by Saudi and Russia.
      www.macrotrends.net/2516/wti-crude-oil-prices-10-year-daily-chart

  • @rockethola3515
    @rockethola3515 4 года назад +8

    Ancient Greece: *exists*
    Economics Explained: THIS IS

  • @jeanc3167
    @jeanc3167 2 года назад

    Awesome how you make it so clear, great job

  • @loganx7571
    @loganx7571 4 года назад

    Wow this was so well explained! You just got a new subscriber

  • @Lew114
    @Lew114 4 года назад +14

    Wouldn’t this be a perfect time for countries like the US with a strategic oil reserve to add to it?

    • @CMCSS-to3to
      @CMCSS-to3to 4 года назад +1

      Yes I heard that they are filling the tanks

    • @royalpillows7716
      @royalpillows7716 4 года назад +2

      Lewis Stockett Let the US save the 900,000 patients first though

    • @redtiger546
      @redtiger546 4 года назад

      They already did at 11$

    • @CMCSS-to3to
      @CMCSS-to3to 4 года назад

      @Thomas hmmmm interesting

    • @ikp4success
      @ikp4success 4 года назад

      Us reserve filled to capacity already.

  • @GavConnn
    @GavConnn 4 года назад +38

    8:55 so I should be able to get someone to pay me $160 to take a barrel of petroleum off their hands 🤔

    • @blackpanther9504
      @blackpanther9504 4 года назад +9

      Theoretically yes, but good luck storing it and refining it. :)

    • @tonyfriendly4409
      @tonyfriendly4409 4 года назад +6

      Lol, when he said petroleum costs roughly 4X what crude does, I thought the same thing... "what does that mean if the price is negative?"

    • @thequantitychannel1299
      @thequantitychannel1299 4 года назад +2

      Now you will never get the oil you get the futures position. You settle it in cash no one uses futures to arrange shipment

  • @Sheboobellach
    @Sheboobellach 4 года назад

    You're so good at this! I almost understand what you're saying...

  • @wolfy8006
    @wolfy8006 4 года назад

    Lovely Channel. Learnt alot from this channel. Would u mind talking about the oil, gold (precious metals) and other resources and what their relationship with economics is? Thanks

  • @raykehr1832
    @raykehr1832 4 года назад +13

    I’m waiting for weed to get in the negative lol.

    • @Bradex.
      @Bradex. 4 года назад +1

      I might buy it for an investment

  • @NoobToobJamarMemes
    @NoobToobJamarMemes 4 года назад +3

    These prices may be a bad thing for oil producers, but I'm loving the low prices!!! Gas is $1.49 where I am.

    • @boterham7144
      @boterham7144 4 года назад

      NoobToob per gallon!????!!?

    • @TuskForce
      @TuskForce 4 года назад +1

      Nothing's changed that much where I am. more than 4.10€/gallon

    • @NoobToobJamarMemes
      @NoobToobJamarMemes 4 года назад

      @@boterham7144 Yes, per gallon!

    • @NoobToobJamarMemes
      @NoobToobJamarMemes 4 года назад

      @@TuskForce I'm sorry to hear that. Truly.

  • @LostSoulAscension
    @LostSoulAscension 4 года назад

    Properly informative, thank you E.E.

  • @mathewriedhammer7175
    @mathewriedhammer7175 4 года назад

    Thanks for the video, you do amazing work

  • @furinick
    @furinick 4 года назад +7

    you know something is really wrong when the thing that runs the world has a negative price

    • @EconomicsExplained
      @EconomicsExplained  4 года назад +1

      yeah it's never a great sign

    • @ihl0700677525
      @ihl0700677525 4 года назад

      Lol. It's wonderful time for petrochem corporations and net oil importer nations.

  • @justicewarrior9187
    @justicewarrior9187 4 года назад +3

    Once the economy's open Oil prices will be as high as never seen before

  • @antiussentiment
    @antiussentiment 4 года назад

    Thank you for another great explanation. I'm slowly gathering a bunch of questions that I hope are worthy of your thoughts. So sometime soon I'll pop into discord.

  • @Thunderb1rdOne
    @Thunderb1rdOne 4 года назад

    Great stuff as always

  • @dffkll3058
    @dffkll3058 4 года назад +14

    "Sure, there is fuel to power our caaaaahs..."

  • @ImJustAoife
    @ImJustAoife 4 года назад +140

    NOOOOOOO! YOU CANT JUST PAY US TO BUY OIL! THATS GOING TO RUIN THE ECONOMY! NOOOOOOOOO!
    haha oil well go glug glug glug

    • @endurovro
      @endurovro 4 года назад +4

      More like
      Russia and OPEC: haha American oil markets go **screams* *of* *the* *damned**

  • @hengkitjen4875
    @hengkitjen4875 3 года назад +1

    i hear many retail trader in that time ( before price went minus) recommend long OIL, they said that oil will never went to 0 but wow,

  • @noahr.5026
    @noahr.5026 4 года назад

    Amazing video as always!

  • @hblaub
    @hblaub 4 года назад +12

    I immediately thought of nuclear waste: By sitting on tons of Caesium 137 for example, I would really pay someone to get rid of it.

    • @BearMeOut
      @BearMeOut 4 года назад

      Search RUclips: health bracelet radioactive testing
      They put a piece of radioactive metal inside a bracelet/neckless design for comfort wearing it 24h. It madness. Some conspiracy theory Suggest it's a radioactive waste disposal scheme.

  • @satyamkr7520
    @satyamkr7520 4 года назад +3

    Please add cc please

  • @30012
    @30012 4 года назад

    Great explanation!!! Thank you so much

  • @Luigiaco
    @Luigiaco 4 года назад

    Great video mate you’re really good at this

  • @blackkd0g
    @blackkd0g 2 года назад +3

    Take us back!

  • @shivamshahorignal
    @shivamshahorignal 4 года назад +5

    The fundamental economic assumption of economic man (rational behavior) is in itself irrational😂😂😂😂😂

    • @MatthewStinar
      @MatthewStinar 4 года назад

      Yeah, economists make pretty spreadsheets that bear no resemblance to the real world and then use the assumptions in those spreadsheets to trash the world.

  • @distantfirst1723
    @distantfirst1723 4 года назад

    The stock footage you used when you mention oil barrels at 11:52 are actually wooden casks for cask aged Port Wine in Porto Portugal ;) Specifically Sandeman cellars Port Wine.

  • @isassetuba
    @isassetuba 4 года назад

    Been waiting for this this video like crazy

  • @ec8107
    @ec8107 4 года назад +68

    Last time I was this early, Russia was still doing Soviet things.

    • @MatthewStinar
      @MatthewStinar 4 года назад

      💩 ruclips.net/video/ps6YEbSTUkE/видео.html

    • @USSR413
      @USSR413 4 года назад +1

      Better red than dead

    • @kirillazarov6865
      @kirillazarov6865 4 года назад

      @@USSR413
      Typical thinking of a naive resentful kid.
      Why can't you just be normal?

    • @vkray
      @vkray 3 года назад

      Even I saw Dead Stalin Walking on the street.

  • @tthecreator743
    @tthecreator743 4 года назад +3

    Can somehow explain how a future contract has value? I mean, if I agree with a person to buy item X for Y amount of money (considering Y is a very fair and average price) then I will have to pay Y amount of money on average. So it shouldn't in general have a market value hovering around $0? (sometimes there are more people who think it will go up, and other times there are more people who think it will go down). So my question is: why is a future contract, on average over time (under normal circumstances) traded for money? Like if I buy the contract for Z amount, I now have to pay both Y and Z!

    • @DuyPham-xd8lp
      @DuyPham-xd8lp 4 года назад

      Tthecreator you dont paid double, once you buy a futures contract, you own it and wait for for the expiry date and exchange

    • @Speed001
      @Speed001 4 года назад

      P/F formula

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 4 года назад +1

      A futures contract is a promise by the seller to let the buyer have a commodity at a set price on a specific date. If on that date the current market price is higher than the contract price, the buyer completes the trade and makes a profit, but if the current market price is lower, then the buyer can choose to let the trade expire worthless, and the seller keeps the premium that the buyer paid to initiate the contract. A buyer may also sell the contract at any time up to the completion date.

    • @tthecreator743
      @tthecreator743 4 года назад

      @@DuyPham-xd8lp so you mean the price of the contract is the price of the goods, payed at the beginning when the contract is made/sold and then the goods are exchanged later when the contract expires?

    • @wybo2
      @wybo2 4 года назад

      Because you believe it will be worth more by the time the boat arrives than what the current owner is willing to sell it for.
      This obviously assumes that the current owner thinks he will get a better price by selling to some dumbass derivative trader right now than by holding on to it and selling it later, when the boat arrives.

  • @1293ST
    @1293ST 4 года назад

    Thanks for making this vid brah. I know a thing or two about stocks and economic principles but no matter how long I thought about it I didn't really find a feasible solution for negative value apart from intercompany trading and waste disposal of sorts.

  • @svetlanadelight8969
    @svetlanadelight8969 4 года назад

    Well explained. Thank you very much

  • @duo496
    @duo496 4 года назад +3

    Economics of stock footage day 4

    • @EconomicsExplained
      @EconomicsExplained  4 года назад +3

      hahaha you gonna do this every time ?

    • @duo496
      @duo496 4 года назад

      Economics Explained until it is done

  • @pudanielson1
    @pudanielson1 4 года назад +5

    All I've learned from economics explains is that everything they taught me in school was true, but it's even more complicated in how humans are irrational

  • @King-bx4ch
    @King-bx4ch 4 года назад

    Thank you, appreciate your vids.

  • @ctheodore91
    @ctheodore91 3 года назад

    love your work!

  • @Quwertyn007
    @Quwertyn007 4 года назад +7

    8:52
    This is in fact incorrect. Since currently oil prices are negative and petrolium prices are positive, their quotient is negative. Thus it's less than 4.

  • @alecgreen1322
    @alecgreen1322 4 года назад +13

    Why do you say American things like gas stations and gallons?? You're an Aussie mate stay Aussie!

    • @Stoneface_
      @Stoneface_ 4 года назад +2

      Alec Green I think many of the people who listen to his channel are Americans. I’m not sure 🤔

    • @alecgreen1322
      @alecgreen1322 4 года назад

      @@Stoneface_ Yeah that probably is the reason, still though..

    • @nicklrrueckert
      @nicklrrueckert 4 года назад

      Because he’s smart and growing his channel... you would rather have 365 million possible people being able to understand and learn what he’s saying the easy way cause most of us are dumb and ignorant. America’s RUclips demographic is unmatchable

  • @sn5131
    @sn5131 4 года назад +1

    Thank u for making this video. I was wondering why

  • @philip2111
    @philip2111 4 года назад

    Really interesting video, well explained thanks.