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As Nate Hagens noted, "people think that the economy runs on money but it runs on energy," and as Art Berman details in the following interview how the current oil price collapse represents devaluation from over-investment in unconventional oil - and most commodities - because of cheap capital, and is simply a classic bubble.

By EconMatters

If the EIA report matches API tomorrow there should be some weakness in the Oil Markets on Wednesday. API reported large builds in Cushing, Oil Inventories and Distillates - a rather bearish report overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18fiBzjR6iY

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It is likely just a coincidence that just a month after we reported that China's real consolidated debt/GDP was far greater than the 280% or so accepted conventionally, and was really up to 350% if not higher after the recent record loan issuance surge, moments ago Moody's officially downgraded its outlook of China's credit rating from stable to negative, citing three key risks:

it was just last Friday, when roughly at the same time that Dennis Gartman flipflopped to bullish (just as the rally stalled, and just before turning bearish again ahead of today's torrid rally) we reported that in what came as a surprise to us, that just as Jeff Gundlach was warning about the impending failure of central banks, the lack of a "bullish case for oil", about a bear market for stocks, and about an imminent surge in gold in early February, the DoubleLine manager was buying stocks.