"Just Another Dip Investors Will Buy": Futures Drop, Oil Rises On Renewed Iran Tension

The Kohn Solution For An Uncertain Fed Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Dario Perkins of TS Lombard wrote a piece titled “How to Respond to Oil Shocks.” His analysis draws on the Fed’s history to address how it should respond to today’s oil shock. While researching Fed transcripts from the 1990 Gulf War, he discovered a proposal by Don Kohn, senior Fed staffer, that offers a solution to the central bank’s oil shock problem: nominal GDP targeting. Kohn’s logic is straightforward and makes sense in the current environment where the Fed is contemplating monetary policy as...

President Donald Trump, in his first and second administrations, broke with American tradition and rejected International Law and institutions. Washington’s foreign policy is fully militarized and is characterized by power politics. The present long-planned war against Iran is a war of aggression and is contrary to International Law. U.S. once supported international law and institutions […]

The Washington Post reported that it spoke with multiple US officials who confirmed that more American soldiers have been killed in the war against Iran than the Department of War has publicly disclosed. The Pentagon has publicly acknowledged 18 service member deaths and more than 830 injuries. The outlet reported on Thursday, speaking with five […]