alix: that was my interview with the ceo of lyondellbasell, bob patel. that does it for me here on commodities edge. catch us every thursday at 1:00 new york time. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> welcome to bloomberg markets. i am matt miller. we continue to follow the developing story out of afghanistan where there have been at least two explosions in kabul and the u.s. government, pentagon have confirmed u.s. service members have been killed. for more, we will come retired u.s. retired brigadier general mark commit. clearly a tragedy no matter how you look at it, who is responsible. what kind of response, though, should the u.s. be prepared to give? >> i think we know what president biden wants to do. he is having a national security meeting now and he has to make the decision whether he wants to say this is over, let's finish the mission and not put anybody else at risk, or if he wants to say we made a pledge to the american citizens and the siv holders that we will get them out, so that may cause us to extend mission. matt: how important is it to get our afg

alix: that was bob patel. he spoke to me earlier for "commodities edge."ics, all the stuff that everybody is buying, basically. i asked him after, is it temporary? do you feel like you are going to get workers faster? he said, i really don't know. this could be a permanent shift in the industry. guy: there's huge amount of uncertainty, and i think this is something that is manifesting itself in so many areas. we were hearing from pioneer a little earlier on. rich clarida in some ways causing, as somebody said on the bloomberg terminal, we are at peak uncertainty right now. so many issues surrounding this economy we don't know yet. when do we start to get clarity i think is a key question that investors still don't have the answer to. cvs today upping it to $15. alix: but that is like 2022, so they are definitely pushing it out. in terms of demand side, he does not see this being a cyclical kind of thing. he says demand is huge. supply is not there. this is not a short-term thing. obviously talking his book, but the idea that this may not be a transitory si

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