Tehran and Delhi settlements expose payment systems built outside the dollar, as sanctions, war premiums, and bond markets erode U.S. leverage.
Tehran and Delhi settlements expose payment systems built outside the dollar, as sanctions, war premiums, and bond markets erode U.S. leverage.
Trump’s China visit with technology oligarchs turned an intended display of U.S. strength into evidence of a captured state and fraying hegemony.
A study in the audacity of those who set the house on fire and then write op-eds about how surprising the smoke is.
Bahrain accepted Fifth Fleet risks and a dollar peg, then faced a 134% debt burden and Washington’s withdrawal of its guarantees.
They’ll tell them how to rate their deals.
OPEC production fell 27% amid a closed Hormuz, leaving the UAE’s departure as evidence that the oil cartel cannot govern the crisis.
Wall Street and geopolitical analysts turn stalled peace talks, a constrained Hormuz, and Mag 7 earnings into rival narratives of certainty.
Americans Are Being Repaid With Unemployment and a Wrecked Global Economy
Trump’s AI orders clear democratic constraints for Thiel, Sacks and capital pools seeking data centers, automated labor and war at sovereign scale.
The petrodollar and the fifty-year protection racket now coming apart at Hormuz