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.
Not a bombing campaign — an ultimatum to the banks keeping Tehran alive. Gulf capital left London. Bessent’s credit plan is the one Wall Street can’t parse. Seven posts inside.
August 17–23, 2026 · Your week behind + the week ahead
Trump called it Economic D-Day — not a bombing campaign. An ultimatum to every bank, registry, and swap line keeping Tehran alive.
The same week, Gulf capital stopped landing in London. Bessent’s Hamiltonian credit plan is the move Wall Street and London cannot parse.
And the factory floor — physical AI, nuclear power, machine shops — is where the wealth actually is.
The midterms decide whether that floor comes back.
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.
Carney walks out and calls it a war — he's right, wrong reasons. Ratcliffe's C-17 lands in Moscow. Warsh smashes the Fed's crystal ball. Nine weeks to November 3. Seven posts inside.
Bessent says the Strait will be irrelevant in two years. The “rebel” was a Rhodes Scholar product. And 55 years after Nixon killed Bretton Woods, its replacement is underway. Five posts inside.
The yen strike, the American System midterm playbook, and the London money behind Michigan's 'new Obama' — seven posts on one war, fought in credit, not bombs. Break the Empire's money power and everything else follows.
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