Money versus Monetary Policy

Nearly 20,000 Americans Have Safely Returned Home From The Mid-East: State Dept Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly 20,000 U.S. citizens have returned safely from the Middle East since Feb. 28, when the Iran conflict broke out, Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary at the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, said in a March 5 statement. Smoke rises from a reported Iranian strike in the industrial district of Doha, Qatar, on March 1, 2026. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images “These figures do not include the many Americans who have safely...

The US Treasury Department has relaxed its sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector, allowing American companies to engage in certain transactions with the country’s state-owned energy firm. In a general license issued on Wednesday, the Treasury outlined broad exemptions for the US oil sanctions, which had prohibited most trade with Caracas’s state-run oil company, Petróleos de […]

'Time Is Running Out For Iran': The Market Is Calling 'Bullshit' On Mainstream's Narrative, Hugh Hendry Explains... The stock market is telling a different story from the 'Iran is strong, America is overreaching' narrative being spewed by mainstream media. For weeks, the financial war narrative has been 'Iran, strong; America, reckless', risk's like mercury and the thermometer rising. And yet, the stock market has done the opposite. As Hugh Hendry remarks in his latest 'Acid Capitalist' report: "the gap between what you're reading on the front page of the Financial Times or in...