Emerging Markets Soar While Argentina Waits

Hillary Clinton Fears "Revolution" Preventing The US From Becoming A "Rainbow Nation" The word "Democracy" is thrown around frequently within progressive circles as a call to arms; a rallying cry based on a fraudulent narrative of patriotic duty.  Throughout the entirety of Joe Biden's first and last term, the political left painted conservatives as a threat to democracy.  Anyone who opposed pandemic mandates, compelled vaccination, open borders, mass immigration, gender ideology in public schools etc., was labeled a danger to society.   The inherent fallacy being that leftists (and by extension Democrats)...

Momentum: US Issues 60-Day License For Iranian Oil Sales As Tehran Agrees To Hormuz Access, Nuclear Inspections Update(0935ET): As part of the MoU framework, and ongoing technical peace discussions in Switzerland (with US and Iranian teams still though - though Vance and Ghalibaf have at this point departed after their 18-hour first round achievement - Treasury has issued a temporary 60-day general license authorizing the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian oil - it stated in a huge forward-momentum development. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on X: Under President Trump and Vice President Vance,...

Countdown Begins: Former Central Bank Advisor Warns Food-Price Shock Could Hit "Within 6 To 9 Months" Alexandra Prokopenko, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and a former advisor at the Bank of Russia, warned on X that the near-shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered an energy shock that risks morphing into a "slower, more consequential story": fertilizers. "A near-shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz is triggering a supply shock that will show up in food prices 6–9 months from now," Prokopenko wrote on X, adding, "Putin's gains...