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Slugcatcher and the geopolitical game of chicken

AND so we enter the final 100 metres of the oil industry version of chicken, that crazy ‘sport' of racing two cars headlong towards each other confident that the other guy will swerve first though, as Slugcatcher asked himself over the weekend: "what if neither swerves?"

Slugcatcher and the geopolitical game of chicken

The answer, quite obviously, is a smash and after the latest burst of grim news from two big Middle East oil producers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, a pile-up of monumental proportions seems set for the second...

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