Category: Blog

How An Unnecessary Iran War Turned A Shaky Economy Into A Crash Test

Energy, insurance, and shipping costs are skyrocketing. Inflation is already here. Stagflation is next.

Entering Losing Wars We Can’t Fund: Congress and Trump Do What They’re Told, How High and Which Way, Sirs?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly described sanctions intended to collapse Iran’s economy, exposing the economic campaign behind the bombs.

Running a 1945 Play in Iran on a 2026 Balance Sheet

Washington turned postwar reconstruction into control of markets and allies. Iran cannot be remade by a debtor empire without money or leverage.

The Trump Protection Racket: How a Declining US Empire Extorts Friends and Enemies Alike

Washington demanded $350 billion from South Korea and $550 billion from Japan, showing how tariffs and alliances now function as extraction.

Peace Was at Hand

How a Diminishing West Got Scared, Played Its Last Empire Card, and Put World War III Back on the Table

Tariffs, Chips, and the Sovereign Debt Time Bomb: How America Is Engineering Its Own Decline

This article began as a letter to a friend and fellow analyst. As the evidence accumulated, it outgrew the envelope.

The Merger of the National Security State and Predatory Capital

How networked technology closed the private gaps in American life, how a rentier class captured the government, and why American world power is ending anyway.

Blob vs. Blob: The Texas Senate Primary and the Death of GOP Grassroots Enthusiasm

On March 3, 2026, the state of Texas held an auction. It was advertised as a Senate primary.

US-Israeli Attack on Iran Will Trigger Global Starvation

Operation Epic Fury killed Iran’s supreme leader and ignited a regional war. The food price shock that follows will be measured in famines, not headlines.

The Payoff Matrix of a Doomed War: A Game-Theory Analysis of the US-Israel Assault on Iran

The campaign rests on certainty that Iran will yield, yet game theory shows Washington must achieve everything while Tehran only needs to survive.