Your gateway to a free society
Article
Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis Of A Zero-Flow Strait Of Hormuz Closure
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,...
aboutLiberty Portal
Liberty Portal is your gateway for free markets and free thinking. We aggregate open-sourced content to promote and popularize important people and lessons within the liberty movement.
suggested
Feb 16, 2026 / Dave DeCamp
Huckabee Says US and Israel ‘Absolutely Aligned’ on Iran
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Monday that the US and Israel are “absolutely aligned” on the need to “deal” with Iran as Washington continues building up its forces in the Middle East to prepare for a potential attack on the Islamic Republic. Huckabee made the comments when addressing the Conference of Presidents […]
Read more
Feb 27, 2026 / Tyler Durden
'Sense-Making Seems Impossible...'
'Sense-Making Seems Impossible...'
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
The Man Who Might Wreck the Country
“That a government’s primary responsibility is to its citizens should not be a controversial proposition.”
- Coddled Affluent Professional on X
The zeitgeist is a rough beast, hard to ride as it slouches into the unknown.
Our country is trying to hang on while a party of goblins vexes and needles the beast from behind, and you cannot make them stop.
Sense-making gets to seem impossible.
We don’t have an explanation from Senate Majority Leader John Thune as to why he will...
Read more
Feb 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Futures Fall As AI Selloff Resumes
Futures Fall As AI Selloff Resumes
US equity futures woke up after President's Day and chose to resume their selloff (after a modest bounce on Monday's holiday failed to hold) dragged by Tech, as the risk-off moves on AI disruption fears continue. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures were down 0.5% with Nasdaq 100 contracts falling 1.0%. In premarket trading, all Mag 7 stocks are lower and Semis are being pressured with AVGO / NVDA lower by more than 1%. Pockets of outperformance (and higher absolute returns) can be found...
Read more
support
If you like what we do and want to support us, then you are a fine humanitarian. Click the link below to find out more.
Want to get in touch?