Oil, Metals & the Physical Economy
A data-driven tour of the raw materials that move markets. Live commodity prices, proven reserves, resource-rent dependence and the boom-and-bust cycles that reshape petrostates.
Who Has What?
Reserves, output and rent dependence concentrate in a handful of countries — often not the same ones. The US pumps the most oil while holding little of it; Venezuela sits on a century of supply it barely produces.
The Dependence Quadrant
Every economy sits somewhere on the resource-rents / growth plane. Four archetypes emerge — from diversified rich to caught in the resource curse.
Boom & Bust
Fifty years of oil prices, broken into the shocks that made and unmade petrostates. Click any era to see who won and who lost.
The Reserves Clock
Reserves ÷ production = years of supply at today's extraction rate. Not a doomsday countdown: booked oil reserves doubled even as we extracted a trillion barrels. Transition metals, though, are more concentrated than OPEC oil.
Curse or Blessing?
A composite vulnerability score for every tracked economy — the higher, the more exposed to commodity swings. Beside the ranking: the oil price each Gulf budget needs, and who actually saved the windfall.