25 years into transformation – what’s next?
A conference commemorating 25 years of Poland’s political transformation was held at the Warsaw School of Economics on November 19th 2014. Interested in what conclusions can be drawn from past events...
View ArticleOPEC decision – what’s next?
The London petroleum exchange saw the price of Brent crude slide to just under USD 70 per barrel today. What is more, after last week’s decision by OPEC, there is no indication that the downward trend...
View ArticleThe implications of oil price slump
Low crude prices are now a fact and likely to remain so for the next few (or more) quarters. This is how long it will take the market to absorb the current supply glut and non-OPEC producers to cut...
View ArticleThe Energy Union – not as black as it’s painted
The Energy Union is still very much like a yeti. Though no one has seen it yet, it is already feared. But this is to be expected considering that the concept was born out of concern for security in the...
View ArticleAre crude oil prices rebounding?
Since the beginning of February, the price of Brent crude has gone up by nearly USD 10 per barrel. Analysts agree that the recent price hike was driven primarily by data published by Baker Hughes, a...
View ArticleWhy Poland lacks innovation and how to change it
Being a hot topic of discussion, innovations seem to be everywhere. But when we try to take a closer look, they are like Winnie-the-Pooh’s best friend: ‘the more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t...
View ArticleAfter a digital revolution, time for a revolution in the energy sector
On February 28th 2015, I attended a very interesting event – the Polish Economic Forum. Held at the London School of Economics, the conference had been organised by Polish students of the LSE SU Polish...
View ArticlePower of latent demand
An innovation is a newly-invented product (service or technology) which has been successful on the market. When the first tablet came out, I was sceptical. How could it be better than a laptop...
View ArticleCan oil prices be predicted?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the future cannot be accurately predicted, and the same applies to oil prices. In the latter case, however, it is possible to consider alternative scenarios...
View ArticleDemise of oil nowhere in sight
In my previous two blog entries, I tried to explain why oil companies have developed the ability to view oil prices through the lens of supply and demand changes in the long-time horizon of up to...
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