Tucker Carlson · Everything You Know Is a Lie…

1. 1. Many people in the United States hold a fundamental belief in the transparency and reality of markets, governed primarily by supply and demand.
2. 2. The speaker challenges the common assumption that international commodities markets are genuinely reflective of reality, suggesting they might actually be rigged.
3. 3. Despite a war in the Persian Gulf closing a major strait and reducing global oil supply by 20%, the price of Brent crude paradoxically fell below its pre-war level.
4. 4. The speaker asserts that the prices observed in the Brent crude oil market do not accurately reflect economic reality
5. 5. One potential explanation for these anomalous oil prices is direct manipulation by determined groups of individuals.
6. 6. Another theory posits that AI, responsible for roughly 70% of oil futures trading, makes purchasing decisions based on public statements from officials rather than market fundamentals.
7. 7. The publicly reported 'internet price' for a barrel of oil is not the true price at which one could actually purchase the commodity.