Gold Outlook Report 2023

Iran Strikes Should End In Regime Change, Senate Majority Leader Says, Ahead Of War Powers Vote Senate Majority Leader John Thune has made the maximalist hawkish US case on Iran, saying that any authorized strikes should result in nothing less than regime change in Tehran. "In my view, if you’re going to do something there, you better well make it about getting new leadership and regime change," the leading Republican Senator said Thursday. "If you’re going to take some sort of action, I think you want to achieve a result that actually...

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis Of A Zero-Flow Strait Of Hormuz Closure Authored by Craig Tindale via X: Executive Summary The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization. What appears at first as a maritime blockade is in fact the exposure of the entire global system as a hierarchy of brittle interdependencies. Oil and LNG fail as inputs into electricity, fertilizer, shipping, chemicals,...

Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon continued throughout Friday, with the casualty toll announced by Lebanon’s Health Ministry soaring to 217 killed and 798 wounded since Monday. Up until today, there had been relatively few reports of Hezbollah successfully inflicting casualties on the Israeli side. A rocket fired on an Israeli Army position along the border Friday […]