Liam Denning, Columnist

Oil's New World Disorder

The post-WWII framework for securing trade could be gone.

June 1, 2017 at 11:00 AM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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As you probably know, the leader of the free world thinks most of it has been getting a free lunch:

One of the more consistent refrains from President Trump is that the U.S.-led world order, in place since the end of World War II, just might not be worth the money and effort. Americans, the president has said, "cannot be the policemen of the world".