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The Petrodollar Is Dead and That's a Big Deal
The Forex Market· 4 days agoThe petrodollar quietly died this week. While it didn't get big headlines, the demise of the petrodollar could mean big trouble for a U.S. government...
Iraq: Radical Ideas Rattle Politicians
Strategy Page· 5 hours agoSeptember 25, 2018: Iraq has a rapidly growing population. A growing portion of the population has no memory of life under Saddam (where demonstrations or any dissent was forbidden) but do take ...
Iran: Power Comes At A Cost
Strategy Page· 4 days agoThe hardline decisions made since August in Iraq, Syria and Yemen have not had the desired result. In each of these countries there is a Quds Force general who directs the activities of all ...
Fight for control of Yemen's banks between rebels, government threatens to further wreck economy
Associated Press· 2 days agoYemen’s Houthi rebels and its internationally recognized government are locked in a fight for...
Net zero arbitrage is large, but no one-way bet
Reuters· 4 days agoIf macro investing has one signature strategy, it is exploiting the arbitrage between unsustainable policy and irresistible reality. The biggest...
Navy faces most intense running sea battle since WWII with Houthis
Navy Times· 2 days agoThe U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and...
Syria: Welcome To The Mad Max Zone
Strategy Page· 7 days agoFebruary 9, 2021: While the situation is relatively calm in Idlib province, in the east (Deir Ezzor province) there is a multi-sided battle between ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ...
What to know about Russia and North Korea's alliance before Putin's Pyongyang visit
Axios· 19 hours agoRussian President Vladimir Putin will meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang this week,...
Biden has used the dollar as a hammer — and Americans might be the ones to take the blow
BizPac Review· 2 days agoThe Biden administration’s recent sanctions against Russia mark another instance of the U.S. leveraging the dollar’s global reserve status to further its foreign policy aims — but the strategy ...
Yemen: Seeking Salvation With Spin
Strategy Page· 2 days agoThe war would have ended by now, from mutual exhaustion, were it not for the intervention of two local superpowers; Iran for the Shia tribes and Saudi Arabia for the Yemeni ...
