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The Dallas Federal Reserve is warning that ongoing sanctions against Russia will lead to a global recession.
The warning, which comes in the Fed report “The Russian Oil Shock of 2022,” was made prior to President Joe Biden on Monday calling for additional sanctions against Russia after reports of mass killings and war crimes committed by Russian troops in Bucha, Ukraine.
Russia denies the claims made by Ukrainian eye-witnesses. Biden called for a war crimes tribunal and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights called for an investigation.
If Russian sanctions continue, and international markets don’t have access to Russian exports of oil, natural gas and key agricultural exports for the rest of the year, a global recession is inevitable, Dallas Federal Reserve economists project in the report.
The economists don’t address whether sanctions should be imposed; they focus on economic factors contributing to a global recession.
In the Fed report, economists Lutz Killian and Michael Plante argue that immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine, “early estimates suggested that perhaps 3 million barrels a day (mb/d) of petroleum production – almost 3 percent of world production – had been effectively removed from the global oil market, constituting one of the largest supply shortfalls since the 1970s.”
Russia accounts for roughly 10% of global petroleum production.
The report refers to the “oil shocks” of 1973 and 1979 when the U.S. and other countries suffered economically from OPEC policies and weren’t energy independent.Since then, however, the U.S. became the largest producer of crude and natural gas worldwide. It has the opportunity to become fully energy independent if those in Washington prioritized energy policy as national security policy, industry leaders argue.“Our nation has an opportunity to reshape American energy policy that recognizes oil and natural gas as an asset rather than a liability,” Texas Oil and Gas Association President Todd […]
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