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'Time Is Running Out For Iran': The Market Is Calling 'Bullshit' On Mainstream's Narrative, Hugh Hendry Explains...
'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...
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