Xi Says "Global Order Crumbling Into Disarray" As Trump Turns Up Pressure Campaign On China

Alarming Supply-Chain Stress Sends Transport Cost Soaring, Fueling Inflation Fears Nearly three weeks ago, UBS analyst Pierre Lafourcade reactivated his desk's supply-chain watch coverage after stress across global supply chains was "rising at its fastest pace since the early pandemic." That warning is now increasingly getting louder by the week, with ongoing disruptions around the Hormuz chokepoint and the resulting energy supply shock, pushing up input, freight, and other logistics costs across the global economy. Weeks after Lafourcade's warning, which can be read here, the May 2026 Logistics Managers' Index Report...

David Stockman On America's Debt Trap: Washington Is Running Out Of Time Authored by David Stockman via International Man,With the benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield recently above 5.0%, it's time to call a spade a spade when it comes to the fiscal culprits in Washington.Yes, the Dems are now and always have been fiscal miscreants. More or less, they have functioned since the New Deal and Great Society on the predicate that Washington has first call on the incomes and wealth of the American people; and that federally directed redistribution...

Armor-Piercing Ammo Metal Up 557% As China Chokes Supply, War Demand Surges Tungsten, used in missiles, tank rounds, armor-piercing ammunition, and some smaller-caliber munitions, has surged in price over the last year as China curbed exports and global supplies tightened. This is a major concern, as multi-front conflicts - from the Middle East to Eastern Europe - are depleting interceptor missile supplies. Bloomberg cites new data from commodity price reporting agency Fastmarkets showing tungsten prices have surged to $2,250 per metric ton this month, up 557% since Beijing added certain tungsten...