Rare Kremlin video: Putin with Witkoff and Kushner, then their first Kyiv trip this term and Zelenskyy's restrained reply. Moscow cites trust and economic projects; Bessent chokes offshore funding. Argentina presses Malvinas as Trump rethinks automatic U.S. backing of Britain.
Harvard’s battle against the American System spans centuries. Mike examines globalization, America’s skilled-worker crisis, and what President Trump is building to replace it.
The offshore empire gets named on live TV, Wall Street's forecasters get humiliated by the jobs numbers, and Europe moves to loot its own savers. One pattern runs through all of it — and eight weeks to settle it. Five posts inside.
Overnight: The Kremlin Confirms Ratcliffe’s Moscow Mission
Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed what flight trackers already showed: CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his Russian intelligence counterparts. Not with Putin. An unmarked U.S. Air Force C-17 flew him into Vnukovo on Tuesday — the first known Globemaster into Moscow in years — and he was gone in about eight hours.
Neither capital will say what was on the table. The speculation runs from Ukraine escalation warnings to Iran and Hormuz. What matters for this show is the pattern Tuesday named: a U.S.–Russia channel that cuts London and Carney’s plan to keep the war going.
Today: Jackson Hole Opens — Warsh Speaks Friday
The Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium opens this morning (Aug. 27–29). Theme: “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.” Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first symposium keynote Friday at 10am Eastern.
Tuesday we said calendar is strategy: Jackson Hole this week, Xi on the September board, Miami G20 in December. The empire’s speculative machine and the American System collide at the same table Trump’s midterm fight is being run against.
Barbara and Susan connect it all — with your questions — in a few hours.
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Bessent named the IRGC’s trusts in the British Virgin Islands on live TV. Barbara and Susan on two fronts, Carney, and less than 60 days to the midterms.
Today's LIVE show has ended. Check the replay and join us next Tursday. Tuesday’s CENTCOM wave: nearly 60 Hormuz targets, 40 ships, 18 million barrels escorted. Bessent named London’s offshore. Barbara and Susan take your questions.
Bloomberg says Bessent needs a reset. Susan says the midterms are economic war. Barbara says the C-17 to Moscow was a back channel you don’t put on a phone. Eighty days out — and the fight is the system, not Carney.
The Gulf’s trillions used to land in London. Not anymore. The strait that stopped mattering, the “grassroots” that turned out to be billionaires — and your 10-to-15-person assignment before November.