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The CIA and the Oil Price
The market for oil futures has been used to mask a host of manipulations for over four decades.
The Strait Is Open! (Maybe, Sort Of)
To the extent that it’s possible to take a step back amid fast-moving developments like these, let’s do so.
Trump’s Next Tax Cut
With “affordability” as the buzzword for this year’s midterm elections, Trump needs to do something big.
Just Because the War Escalates…
It’s tempting to dismiss yesterday’s stock market rally and oil sell-off as “hopium” or maybe as normalcy bias. But doing so might be hazardous to your wealth.
Inflation’s Choking Your Retirement
Whether you’re in retirement or just thinking about it, you need to wrap your mind around the fact that inflation will rule your life for the rest of the 2020s in a way it simply didn’t during the 2010s.
The “Rest Easy” Strategy
If you’re not an “adrenaline junkie,” then you need an approach to your portfolio that can withstand the market’s extreme ups and downs.
About That Iranian Proposal...
Let’s zero in on points 5–10 of Iran’s terms — seeing as the Strait of Hormuz was open to all before Washington and Tel Aviv launched the war on Feb. 28.
Just Another Tuesday
And so here we are: The U.S. president threatens “a whole civilization will die tonight” and the U.S. stock market sees it as just another Tuesday.
Lights out (Iran Edition)
Knocking out Iran’s power grid is easier said than done.
Rush for the Exits
“There’s a massive financial crisis heading our way, and it has nothing to do with Iran,” says Paradigm’s macroeconomics maven Jim Rickards.