Dollars and Sense
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is not completely empty, but it has been drawn down to critically low levels not seen since the...
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Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points – For years, the economists’ watchlist was the same: AI, debt, trade, and demographics. The OECD just rewrote it. Its...
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The Iran War Has Already Hit Your Gas Tank. Next, Economists Warn, It’s Coming for Your Grocery Bill
Summary and Key Points: So far, the Iran War has hit Americans where they expected: at the gas pump, where prices have jumped 35%...
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China’s crude oil imports have collapsed since the Iran War began, but global oil markets have so far avoided the supply shock many analysts...
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Iran has time on its side — and every week the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, the danger to the global economy grows. A...
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Right now, a meaningful share of the oil that keeps the global economy moving is not being pumped from the ground. It is being...
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Summary and Key Points: With Iran’s blockade choking the Strait of Hormuz, America has quietly become the world’s oil backstop — shipping record crude...
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Summary and Key Points: The Strait of Hormuz has been shut since the war began in February. Iran has walked away from talks, and...
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Summary and Key Points: Iran has turned the world’s busiest oil route into a tollbooth — forcing ships through Hormuz to pay its government,...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird was built almost entirely of titanium to survive the heat of Mach 3 flight — but engineers...