Iran built a parallel financial infrastructure on the same stablecoin rails the US just legitimized. That contradiction is not an accident.
The Quiet Rewiring of American Finance
Stablecoins, Treasury markets, and the most significant shift in financial infrastructure that almost nobody is discussing.
Read the JD Vance Dossier
We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.
The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends - and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial
As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows
Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand Destruction
"This is how the attack by one petro-state (ours) on another (Iran's) may be turning out to be very bad for petroleum, because the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony." The Crisis The biggest news is always the climate news, and sometimes it's so big
The Weaponized World Economy
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was the true opening of the age of weaponized interdependence, in which the United States is discovering what it is like to have others do unto it as it has eagerly done unto others.
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
Trump-linked World Liberty crypto venture gets preliminary approval from currency comptroller
World Liberty Financial's proposed national trust bank would issue and manage the USD1 stablecoin under OCC supervision, but key preopening hurdles remain.
Iran’s Drone Advantage
The Pentagon copied Tehran's technology but is still struggling to keep up.
Private Markets Charge More
Also dual-class SpaceX stock, fake Iranian crypto fees and Global Tetrahedron M&A.
Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits
There is a touch of destiny with this one. We have real…
One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed In on Crypto.
Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn’t always fare so well.
Trump’s Venezuela oil deal gives US access to vast reserves as Iran war drives energy concerns | The National
Agreement deepens US involvement in Venezuela’s oil industry as midterms approach and energy prices remain elevated
A nation that never has to pay
Jeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida
Glass Half Full: Building a Decarbonized U.S. Power Sector -
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) was built, sold, and attacked as the largest climate investment in U.S. history. […]