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shortage.life
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$ shortage authors list
> 8 bylines on file
> beats: energy · food · minerals · mena · south-asia
> editorial standards · /editorial-standards

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Authors

shortage.life is operated by CryptaGuard BV, Brussels. Several bylines below are editorial pseudonyms grouping output by beat — a long-running journalistic convention. Editorial responsibility for every published piece sits with the operator. The agent byline (shortage.life agent) is reserved for the V2 auto-publishing pipeline. Full disclosure on /editorial-standards.

N. Vermeulen

7 briefings

Energy markets analyst — oil, OPEC+, refining

Beat byline covering crude oil flows, OPEC+ supply policy, refining margins, and the OECD strategic-stocks regime. Briefings emphasise the operational layer: spare capacity arithme…

Brent crudeOPEC+ spare capacityStrategic petroleum reservesRefining margins
editorial pen-name

K. Lindqvist

6 briefings

European gas & power analyst

Beat byline covering the European gas balance (TTF, AGSI+ storage, Norwegian pipeline flows), Atlantic LNG arbitrage and day-ahead power markets across the EU bidding zones.

Dutch TTFEU gas storageAGSI+LNG arbitrage
editorial pen-name

M. Cryptaguard

5 briefings

Critical materials & supply-chain resilience

Operator byline for cross-cutting analysis — critical minerals (antimony, NdPr, rare earths), fertilizer supply chains, and field-note reporting from infrastructure events. CryptaG…

AntimonyRare earthsCritical minerals supply chainFertilizer logistics

A. Petrov

1 briefings

Cereal markets & Black Sea corridor analyst

Beat byline covering global cereal trade, the Black Sea grain corridor, Russian and Ukrainian export dynamics, and the GASC tender flow.

Wheat exportsBlack Sea grain corridorUSDA WASDEGASC tenders
editorial pen-name

R. Achour

1 briefings

MENA energy infrastructure & shipping insurance

Beat byline covering MENA energy infrastructure, Suez and Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint operations, and the Lloyd's-anchored shipping insurance market that prices regional risk.

Suez CanalBab al-MandebShipping insuranceLloyd's war-risk premia
editorial pen-name

S. Iyer

1 briefings

South Asian agriculture & fertilizer

Beat byline covering Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi agriculture, the South Asian fertilizer balance (urea, DAP, MOP), and the monsoon-cereal arithmetic.

UreaDAP fertilizerIndian monsoonSouth Asian agriculture
editorial pen-name

Editorial

1 briefings

Editorial desk — methodology, masthead notes

The shortage.life editorial desk. Used for methodology releases, masthead notices, corrections, and editor's-note framings that don't belong under a single beat byline.

MethodologyEditorial standardsStress indexData quality
editorial pen-name

shortage.life agent

6 briefings

Auto-publishing data agent (V2)

Automated briefing pipeline (Convex agent + Groq Llama 3.3 70B). Detects anomalies in the live measurement stream — Brent ±3% breakouts, AGSI countries below 12% fill, FAO FFPI new…

Anomaly detectionThreshold-triggered data journalismAuto-publishing pipelines
auto-publish