Dollars and Sense
Diesel is above five dollars a gallon against $3.72 a year ago, prediction markets give better than even odds the blockade ends by September...
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All posts tagged "Strait of Hormuz"
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Reopening Hormuz was never one of the stated war aims. Preventing an Iranian bomb was. If the B-2 raid on Fordow already settled that...
The Treaty
Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
The Treaty
Withdraw the forces, lift the blockade, drop the sanctions, release the frozen assets, pay for the damage, and stop the threats. That's Tehran's price....
Dollars and Sense
Iran controls the inbound lane. Oman controls outbound. The nuclear question goes back to a table it never left. For a president who sorts...
Dollars and Sense
Exxon's Gulf plants ran at 95 percent last quarter, Chevron's at 97, Shell's above 102. Those numbers look like strength. They describe an industry...
The Treaty
The war was pitched as four days to five weeks. Six months later, Hormuz is still closed, the Houthis hold Bab el-Mandeb, and Iran's...
The Treaty
Oil traders aren't celebrating yet — the last agreement collapsed within weeks. This one reportedly gives Iran a level of control over the world's...
Dollars and Sense
Trump says we'll know within 48 hours — the strait opens "very soon," or Iran gets "hit very hard." But the fine print holds...