JPMorgan Issues Bombshell Warning about Where Oil Prices Are Headed

American multinational investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. has issued a bombshell warning about where it predicts oil prices could be heading.

JPMorgan analysts predict that the price of oil could soon reach “stratospheric” levels that would be catastrophic to the economy.

The price of a barrel of oil currently hovers around $111.

However, analysts at JP Morgan Chase are warning it could more than triple to a staggering $380 if Russia decides to cut its output.

With the price of a gallon of gas in America now topping $5 in many areas, such a dramatic increase in oil costs would be devastating to the economy.

“It is likely that the government could retaliate by cutting output as a way to inflict pain on the West,” analysts wrote.

“The tightness of the global oil market is on Russia’s side.”

The West is putting the squeeze on Moscow over its war in Ukraine, but Russia, which supplies much of Europe with oil for heating and gasoline, could easily flip the script by cutting output.

Cutting production by 3 million barrels a day would push global prices to $190, analyst Natasha Kaneva wrote.

Kaneva warns that the worst-case scenario of a 5-million-per-day cut would send the price of a single barrel to $380.

Western countries are dependent on Russia’s oil, yet want to limit how profitable production is to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Group of Seven (G-7) leading industrial nations are trying to hammer out a complex plan to cap the price Russia can fetch from oil sales to non-G-7 countries.

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The move is part of a menu of sanctions aimed at Russia.

“The goal here is to starve Russia — starve Putin of his main source of cash and force down the price of Russian oil to help blunt the impact of Putin’s war at the pump,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters.

“The dual objectives of G7 leaders have been to take direct aim at Putin’s revenues, particularly through energy, but also to minimize the spillovers and the impact on the G7 economies and the rest of the world.”

However, according to JPMorgan’s experts, such a cap could end up leaving Putin with more leverage than he currently has.

“The most obvious and likely risk with a price cap is that Russia might choose not to participate and instead retaliate by reducing exports,” the analysts wrote.

Democrat President Joe Biden acknowledged earlier this week that oil prices are on a rapid upward trajectory.

When asked how long Americans should expect to pay high prices, he offered little room for optimism.

“As long as it takes so Russia cannot in fact defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine,” Biden told reporters in Europe Thursday.

“This is a critical, critical position for the world.

“Here we are. Why do we have NATO?

“I told Putin that in fact, if he were to move, we would move to strengthen NATO.

“We would move to strengthen NATO across the board.”

On Thursday, White House Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese told CNN that American families must take the high price of gasoline in stride.

“This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm,” he said.

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By Frank Bergman

Frank Bergman is a political/economic journalist living on the east coast. Aside from news reporting, Bergman also conducts interviews with researchers and material experts and investigates influential individuals and organizations in the sociopolitical world.

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