As missiles rain down on Gulf infrastructure and the Strait of Hormuz sits effectively closed to commercial traffic, the region’s sovereigns are doing what elite borrowers...
On February 15, 2026, Sam Altman posted two sentences to X that encapsulated a decade of Silicon Valley ambition in a single breath. OpenAI had acquired...
Brent crude slips to $94 as US-Iran deal hopes lift markets — but with Hormuz still choked and talks collapsing in Islamabad, energy markets may be...
A $30 billion economic dream collides with the sobering arithmetic of inflation, geopolitics, and over-optimism. In the final weeks of March, Ed Grose, the president of...
There is a peculiar kind of irony in Wall Street’s first quarter of 2026. American equity markets endured their worst opening three months since the mini-banking...
The Quiet Outperformer in a Noisy World While markets gyrate on every Federal Reserve whisper and geopolitical tremor from Taipei to Tehran, a quieter, more durable...
The global economy has repeatedly survived political dysfunction in recent years. But survival is not immunity. With war in the Persian Gulf, a fiscal powder keg...
The potential Fed leader’s wealth, which appears to significantly exceed that of Powell, points to a potentially challenging vetting process for legislators. A hyper-realistic editorial photograph...
Imagine a supertanker—two football fields of steel carrying enough crude oil to power a mid-sized European nation for a day—sitting motionless in the Gulf of Oman,...
As the world’s most critical oil chokepoint becomes a two-front battleground, Washington has placed a $100-a-barrel bet that squeezing Tehran’s last revenue lifeline will force a...