Saudi Arabia’s security bargain created dependencies and adversaries. A U.S. retreat could cost the kingdom strategic autonomy before it threatens its borders.
Saudi Arabia’s security bargain created dependencies and adversaries. A U.S. retreat could cost the kingdom strategic autonomy before it threatens its borders.
The five largest American cloud companies will spend $770bn in 2026 on equipment with a 3 year life, serving a $64bn market, against a $40tn national debt.
Treasury drafted a voluntary AI safety rule, Zuckerberg, Musk, and Sacks killed it by phone, and two Oval Office signing ceremonies were called off.
Trump has announced four dividends. Two were never paid, one came out of soldiers’ housing money, and the $5,000 is payable only if he wins on November 3.
The New York Fed found American buyers paid about 90% of Trump’s 2025 tariffs. Four months later Scott Bessent told Congress the price effect was negligible.
Radar measurement of 12 US bases, the transit counts in the Strait of Hormuz, and the inflation record set against what the administration said it had won.
Trump’s Russia sanction never stopped the gas. It stopped a Korean shipyard from getting paid, and Arctic LNG 2 is now suing Hanwha Ocean for $1.02 billion.
Trump’s Iran war mistook a blockade for control while raising costs, enriching his family network and driving Republicans toward a midterm reckoning.
One Treasury weaponizes the dollar system against Iran and the Chinese banks that clear its oil. The other suppresses the memo warning the AI bubble could take that same dollar system down. They share a Secretary.
Trump denies. Bessent runs Treasury-side quantitative easing. Warsh refuses to cut. Japan weighs a Treasury sale. The multipolar order has already arrived.