Fool Me Once? Shame On You. Fool Me 39 Times...?

A Dollar Is Not A Dollar: A Plea To Make Dollar Policy Great Again Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets, Le Diplomate is one of the toughest tables in Washington, DC. When it opened in 2013 its wildly popular Burger Americain (with French fries) set diners back $14, according to the Washington Post. Thirteen years later, the same meal retails for $29. As Tim Carman and Federica Cocca report at the Post, "the wholesale price of ground beef has soared between 18 and 30 percent in the past few years." Ok, so...

Israel's Netanyahu Made Clandestine Trip To UAE During Height Of Iran War Amid the fog of the Iran conflict, some serious geopolitical chess moves were happening in the shadows, with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu having slipped behind what were once enemy lines, into the the quarters of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for a clandestine summit which could help realign the region. "This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE," Netanyahu's office confirmed in a Wednesday statement. It provides top level confirmation of...

Iran's Economy On The Ropes Amid Hyperinflation And Widespread Gas Shortages, As Trump Blockade Bites Bessent is on a roll: first his attempt to send yields sharply lower by announcing an aggressive TSY buyback expansion, failed spectacularly, and then today, the US “economic D-Day” against Iran and unviled by Bessent, turned out to be "less Normandy and more Grenada", according to Bloomberg. But maybe, just like in the case of last week's "failed intervention", Bessent doesn't actually have to do much - in that case, all the Treasury secretary needs...