Oil Jumps, Futures Drop On Fresh Iran Strikes, Hormuz Confusion

Trump Signs Pipeline Permits To Boost US–Canada Oil Flow Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump issued several pipeline permits on April 15, including one for the construction of a new pipeline to facilitate the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products between the United States and Canada, according to documents released by the White House. The action covers four permits in total. The permit authorizing construction was issued to the Bakken Pipeline Company LP for pipeline facilities in Burke County, North Dakota. Other permits were issued for...

It's The War, Stupid Authored by Sohrab Ahmari via UnHerd,An all-too common analytic error is to reduce complex problems to simplistic causes (sancta simplicitas, "holy simplicity", as Nietzsche mockingly referred to this tendency, particularly among religious believers). But there is also the reverse error: a deliberate seeking out of complexity when simple explanations suffice.In the wake of the Democratic blowout in Tuesday's midterms - South Carolina, Kansas, and Texas have gone blue - beware the preachers of holy complexity bent on obfuscating the obvious: President Trump and the GOP broke...