Vance has already made his admiration clear publicly...

It works really well, until it suddenly doesn't...

"the economic impact should be nearly offset by the effects of higher equity prices, narrower credit spreads, and a weaker dollar, resulting in only a 0.1pp net hit to 2026 GDP growth"

IRGC claims "We have been hitting small ships & preventing them from passing for a long time, but America does not respond."

“A combination of robust growth and a recovery in the jobs market would allow the Fed to hike rates to fight rising inflationary pressures, provided that price pressures look concerning"

For the first time in almost two decades, TIGA -there is a good alternative...

"We can do that here."

"An African lady carries the bodies of two dead white men (mannequins)... This isn't 'Fashion', this is an ugly satanic circus..."

• US White House is reportedly tempering expectations of an imminent breakthrough between US-Iran, Semafor reported, with a source suggesting that "the bar is being raised very high."
• The Iranian government spokesperson said Foreign Minister Araghchi presented President Pezeshkian with a US proposal following his New York trip, which included discussions on Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, IRNA reported.
• UKMTO said that a crude oil tanker was struck on the port side by an unknown projectile in the Strait o

"The second stage marked the transition from an order-driven performance to execution-driven, as backlogs became rich..." 

While European nations are cobbling together policy fixes for the energy crisis, there are fears that the real supply crisis brought on by the Strait of Hormuz closure and the war in Ukraine cannot possibly be fixed by policy alone...

"We're appealing decisions that will force us to share people's private search history..."

"If in 2 weeks the United Kingdom does not halt the illegitimate exploitation, we will go to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea..."

Oddly the whole thing was sparked by a UK television show...