US Energy Chief Says Hormuz Can Reopen Without Clearing All Mines, Warns Iran Shut-ins Could Be Devastating

Earlier this week, Israel announced that they’d begun their ground invasion of southern Lebanon. Early fighting was reported around the city of Khiam. That just continues to worsen, according to reports, and is starting to spread to other areas of the border region. In addition to Khiam, locals in the border village of Ayta al-Shaab […]

Vance Warns Iranians Ahead Of Pakistan Talks: US "Has All The Cards" & "We Want The Nuclear Fuel" Summary:  Vice President Vance (who's been tapped to lead talks) warns Iranians: Trump "has all the cards" and cannot have a nuclear weapon. Follows Pentagon/WH declaring "total victory". Iran says it has upper-hand. US, Iran agree to meet for first direct talks in Islamabad. Situation fragile given that Iran is threatening to hit Israel again over IDF's massive Lebanon airstrikes. Tehran says 3 clauses already violated. Iran meanwhile demands stiff fees for ships passing through Hormuz during the ceasefire, and...

Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.  What follows will shore up this intuition, using new techniques and numbers from an innovative project called RealityIndex.co.  It’s true that official data is bad enough, showing a 26% loss in purchasing power, slow growth...