Energy Price Surge Driving Populism, Trump American Empire | Doomberg

Interview recorded - 6th of January, 2025 On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Doomberg. During our conversation we spoke about the rebellion of the elite and how increasing electricity prices have impacted this in Europe, energy bottlenecks, geopolitical risk, the new American empire, potential for geopolitical vacuum, Trump accelerating growth, European Winter 24/25 and more. I hope you enjoy! 0:00 - Introduction 2:34 - What stood out in 2024? 5:04 - Numb to geopolitical risks1 8:39 - Energy bottleneck for data centres? 10:19 - Pressure on US energy prices? 12:49 - Gas pressure 14:52 - Difficult to predict energy markets 16:46 - What impact will Trump have on the world? 20:12 - Geopolitical vacuum? 21:51 - War for Africa 23:31 - Do demographics matter with AI? 27:49 - Trump accelerating growth? 35:04 - Bureaucratic elite  39:24 - Europe energy cost destroying economy 41:29 - Winter 2024/25 in Europe? 46:24 - One message to takeaway from conversation? Doomberg is an independent, widely distributed publication that delivers concise, entertaining, provocative articles centered on energy, finance, and geopolitics. They are a small team of entrepreneurs that started this business after long careers in the industrial sector. With trillions of taxpayer dollars and myriad government mandates thrown at the energy transition, there was a practical voice missing in the traditional media. They started writing in that voice, with the freedom of having no master to serve beyond the foundation of our own principles, experience, and work ethic. This publication is their passion, and the content is supported by our team’s deep experience in heavy industry, private equity, and the hard sciences. They are entirely reader-supported and have grown to be the most widely read finance newsletter on the Substack platform. Doomberg -  Substack - https://doomberg.substack.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/DoombergT Email - doomberg@doomberg.com WTFinance  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfn iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas