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World Mostly Shrugs Off Bessent’s ‘D-Day’ Iran Sanctions Threat

You read the headlines and you see Washington puffing out its chest again. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, is calling this an “economic D-Day” against Iran’s shadow economy.

By Josie Calloway · August 30, 2026

The lesson of Iraq: Sanctions against Tehran force non-dollar commerce

The American playbook remains stubbornly simple: when a regime proves too difficult to conquer militarily—or perhaps too costly to ignore—they turn to economic strangulation.

By Bram de Vries · August 27, 2026

Everyone expected a Bitcoin investing boom. Why it never came

The narrative surrounding Bitcoin has been a masterclass in manufactured inevitability.

By Nikhil Raghavan · July 26, 2026