When you’ve spent a decade in an ER, you learn how to triage. You ignore the loud, screaming patient in the waiting room to find the one who’s quietly turning blue in the corner.
By Josie Calloway ·
The U.S. Mint loves a good press release.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The United States Mint has done it again. In the name of "honoring 250 years of great American heritage," they have released a $1 coin featuring the likeness of Donald J. Trump.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The two days of talks in Asheville, North Carolina, were less an economic consensus and more a carefully choreographed piece of theater designed to justify unilateral action.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
You read the headlines about G20 finance chiefs gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, and you hear words like "global imbalances" and "sovereign debt restructuring." The…
By Ruth Behrens ·
The G20 meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, was not a forum for stability; it was a highly choreographed performance of control.
By Maya Ellison ·
The mechanics of global finance, it seems, are now subject to an internal security review conducted by the US Treasury Department.
By Tom Beckwith ·
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 ·
The architecture of modern global finance—that invisible scaffolding built on the supremacy of the U.S. dollar—is not merely an economic system; it is a geopolitical weapon.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
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 ·
When you watch the news from any corner of the Atlantic, it’s easy to forget what true economic asphyxiation looks like until you see it playing out on a global stage.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The numbers are clear enough for any man who has watched Main Street get choked by federal overreach to see.
By Grant Colby ·
The current geopolitical theater surrounding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz reads like an exercise in pure, unconstrained rhetoric.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The relentless performance of power—whether it is a military blockade or an architectural vanity project—has always been more revealing than the actual policy enacted.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The spectacle unfolding around Washington last week confirms what any serious observer knows: fiscal problems cannot be solved with market theatre.
By Klaus Berger ·
The market’s reaction to the latest round of Washington signaling is nothing short of theatrical. On Friday, Bitcoin surged over 25% since Monday, reaching an intraday high of $79,500 (Euronews).
By Adele Rutherford ·