FORBES OP/ED blasts the global market.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't recall saying you were wrong about anything in this thread (other than calling the original article an OP/ED).

When did I say these countries don't buy oil, or that global markets are not interconnected?

Boru

No, you are still insistent on calling economists "experts"..... Well so what, ask one economist one thing they'll say it works, ask another economist the same thing they'll argue it doesn't and their view works. Calling economists "experts" assumes there is only one economic view, and that still ignores that our global economy is still intertwined.

And since we are intertwined oil matters on a global scale and as long as friend and foe fight over that, all  the different economic views worldwide argued by the "experts" are really only arguing for control, and still not taking into account short term gains for one population wont change the long term destruction to our entire planet.

In the first place, nowhere in this thread have I referred to any economist, or to economists in general, as 'experts'.  But I think you'll find that a majority of economists agree with you about the interconnectedness of the global economy.

Secondly, I think you may be overstating the case that short-term economic gains are necessarily bad (I don't hold that they are necessarily good, either), but they are sometimes necessary and can be achieved without the gloom and doom of planetary destruction.

Boru