Russia naming Britain a combatant, Mark Carney’s permanent-warfare bank, the Arctic icebreaker play, and Chrystia Freeland’s psychological operations against Americans ahead of the midterms.
After Mark Carney pulled Canada out of U.S. trade talks and called it a war, Susan Kokinda shows it isn’t about tariffs — it’s a midterm operation and a clash of systems. Scott Bessent is fighting the parallel battle: defusing the yen carry trade with tools like FIMA so Treasury rates don’t blow.
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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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.
Join us LIVE next Thursday! Not a bombing campaign — an ultimatum to every bank, registry, and swap line keeping Tehran alive. We dig into who the enablers are, and why the Kim summit is the other half of the story.
Barbara has the story behind the arrest. Susan has the Detroit numbers nobody in the media will touch. Plus her journey from RFK to Trump — and a straight answer to a 69-year-old who asked why he should still believe.
Replay now available. Join us LIVE next Thursday. Susan is on the ground in Michigan. Tuesday's returns from Wisconsin and Minnesota tell one story — and overnight, Hellfire missiles enforced the blockade.
