23. OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Jack P Taylor's Political and Historical Curiosities
English - April 24, 2017 02:16 - 13 minutes - 17 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHistory Government international president history nuclear politics primeminister relations unitednations Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode I cover 60 years of history for OPEC - a tale of oil and power
Covering its founding
How its membership expanded
The oil embargoes of 1967 and 1973
A kidnapping ft. Carlos the Jackal
Oil prices instability in the late 70s and 80s
How OPEC made a $1 trillion in one year