Schizodoxe

En septembre 2006, Michael Power, dans le cadre d’une série de conférences organisées par Loewen & Partners, a fait une conférence où il a évoqué Dune pour expliquer certaines nouveautés géopolitiques :

Power draws some parallels to Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, “Dune.” If you haven’t read it, well, now is the time to pick up the trilogy. Herbert’s forty year old description of a universe driven by the dominance of one scarce resource, “spice,” predicts many of the geopolitical dynamics now facing the western world. Think O-I-L in the place of spice here, but also steel, copper, gold . . .

For commodity market managers these predictions suggest that the current downswing in the resource market is a minor retreat in what will be a prolonged and sustained bear market. Don’t forget politics though. WiIl the US stand by as the world’s resources are locked up by its economic partners? That is unlikely and recent activities in Iraq and Afghanistan may well have more to do with the “new” great game than with the defeat of global terrorism.

Source : Gagglescape.