23. OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) - a podcast by Jack P Taylor

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

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