US Strikes Iran Energy Assets, Tehran Vows Retaliation; Iran Intel Chief Killed, Trump Muses On 'Finishing Off Terror State'

Intermittent Israeli military operations in southwestern Syria have been an ongoing reality since the invasion of December 2024, but usually only a handful of meaningful incidents any given month. During the past week, that number has been rising substantially. The monitor Syrian Record Center reported that they’d documented at 59 distinct Israeli violations within the […]

Trump Admin Pitching US Companies To Rebuild Gulf Infrastructure Hit By Iran, Arab Officials Say 'Tone-Deaf' Via Middle East Eye The Trump administration has told several Gulf states that they should use American companies to rebuild their infrastructure damaged by Iran's retaliatory strikes amid the US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic, US and Arab officials familiar with the discussions told Middle East Eye. Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE are among the countries the US has tapped as potential customers for US engineering, manufacturing and construction firms, given the extent of damage in their countries, the officials told MEE. Smoke...

Bob uses U.S. economic history, centering on the greenback era, to work through some subtle but important distinctions in Austrian monetary theory.