Turkey is abandoning Iran
October 12, 2025Erdogan has surprised both his allies and his adversaries: by freezing the assets of key Iranian institutions, the Turkish president is sending clear signals to Washington. A spectacular U-turn from the man who, until recently, portrayed himself as Tehran’s defender against U.S. sanctions. The Return of the “Snapback”: Iran Under Sanctions Again After the International…
Destabilizing the Fed: Trump Is Right
August 30, 2025The independence of central banks is destined to become a relic of the past. It is certainly the successive blows, increasingly frequent, of the President of the United States that threaten it. But in fact, they have only themselves to blame: it is their own actions that now drive governments to this major reassessment. Keynes…
Brussels is a Jellyfish
August 18, 2025The Americans and the Russians, as we know, are great predators. By abandoning Ukraine live on air, those who still place their hopes in it must recognize the factual reality: the European Union is nothing more than an invertebrate. Examples of invertebrates: Insects (ants, butterflies, flies) Arachnids (spiders) Mollusks (snails, octopuses, squids) Crustaceans (crabs, shrimp,…
Trump the Mastermind
June 21, 2025Russia managed to outplay Trump: no ceasefire. China managed to outplay Trump: no serious concessions on tariffs. Iran — whose ancestors invented the game of chess — will outplay Trump. The tactic is simple: Just resist, stand firm, ignore the threats … especially when only 23% of Americans can locate Iran on a map.
Trump Cracks
May 23, 2025A President: Who dictates his will to a company — and not just any company — telling it how to make its products. Who decrees 50% tariffs against the EU, the world’s largest economic bloc. The U.S. Congress must regain control!
First foreign official visits of US Presidents
May 14, 2025First foreign official visits of US Presidents: • Kennedy: Canada • Johnson: Canada • Nixon: Belgium • Ford: Mexico • Carter: UK • Reagan (term 1 ): Canada • Reagan (term 2): Canada • H. W. Bush: Canada • Clinton (term 1): Canada • Clinton (term 2): Finland • W. Bush (term 1): Mexico…
Make the Fed GREAT AGAIN!
April 21, 2025Unhappy with Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, for not complying with his demands to lower interest rates, President Donald Trump is seeking legal ways to dismiss him. Trump believes it is necessary to ease U.S. monetary policy to offset the economic impact of his tariff policy. His attacks on Powell have now…
Flip-flop policy
April 13, 2025Trump has just lowered tariffs on smartphones, computers, and electronic devices imported from China. Every day, the White House backtracks, revises downward, cancels… In such conditions, where can one find the motivation to set up a factory and bring industrial jobs back to the United States? Tariffs are not a policy, but a tool…
Trump’s Tariffs: Economic Voodoo at Work
April 7, 2025“They are to economics what creationism is to biology, and astrology is to astronomy,” tweeted Larry Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. A statement that highlights the sheer absurdity — even outright foolishness — of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Why then has Lesotho, one of the poorest nations in Africa —…
Trump: on a record-breaking streak
April 5, 2025The tectonics of global investment are undergoing spectacular upheavals, to the severe detriment of the United States, which is experiencing a full-scale exodus. Foreign investors and speculators are liquidating U.S. assets at the most dramatic level of the CENTURY, accompanied by massive capital outflows being repatriated outside the U.S. Breaking news: According to Bessent, U.S.…
The Liberation According to Donald Trump
March 30, 2025In our hostile environment, it’s every nation for itself. The lubricant of economies—globalization—is on its last breath. While just yesterday, nations collaborated to draft laws and regulations they pledged to uphold, they are now breaking apart past alliances and consensus. Through subsidies and tariffs, they are scrambling to promote their own industries while undermining those…
Trump: The Organization of Chaos
March 23, 2025Without explicitly stating it, Donald Trump draws a correlation between the undeniable reserve currency status of the dollar and its impact on the industrial competitiveness of the United States. In truth, the facts support his argument, as industrial jobs now account for only 10% of employment in the U.S., compared to 40% in the 1980s.…
Can we still trust the State?
March 16, 2025Kuwait is Purging its Citizens. For the past few months, this Emirate has been publishing lists of nationals stripped overnight of their citizenship. Some are even caught by surprise when they attempt to board an international flight, believing they are entering the airport as Kuwaitis, only to leave it stateless—not without having first been detained…
A Fatal March
March 3, 2025Trump’s Tweet and the Initial Reaction (March 15, 2025) On March 15, 2025, at 8:43 a.m., America is abruptly awakened. A tweet from Donald Trump, as brief as it is devastating, strikes the country like an earthquake: “America First! 20% tax on Mexican and Canadian oil, immediate. No more energy dependence!” This is not just…
But where are the translators of yesteryear?
March 2, 2025In the presence of a translator, who was not wanted by Zelensky, the Oval Office debacle could have been avoided. This translator would, of course, have allowed the Ukrainian president to be more precise in his communication. But, more importantly, they would have helped to defuse and calm tensions through their choice of words, their…
Champagne Shortage at the Kremlin
February 27, 2025As far as I know, I am not aware of any historical precedent, across the millennia of human adventure, where a hegemonic power has so joyfully and swiftly sabotaged itself.
The exorbitant burden
February 3, 2025“We consider it unlikely that customs tariffs will be put in place. The weapon of customs tariffs will always be loaded and ready to be used, but rarely triggered. Another differentiated point of view that we have is that Trump will pursue a weak dollar policy rather than imposing customs tariffs. Tariffs are inflationary…
Trump and Arab Philosophy
February 1, 2025The White House confirmed tariffs will be implemented today: 25% on Canada, 25% on Mexico, 10% on China. Did you know that “tariff” comes from Arabic from the word تعرفة (ta‘rifa), which means a “list of prices”? Ibn Khaldun, in his Muqaddimah, discusses taxation and economic policies, using terms like المكوس (al-mukūs), which refers…
War and business
January 27, 2025Last spring, I obtained confidential information that allowed me to write my article “Gaza 2035: A Clean Slate?“, which was picked up by the press in France and Switzerland. Trump has just called for the displacement of Gaza’s inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan as part of a peace plan aimed at “cleansing the Palestinian enclave,”…
The Price of Freedom
January 22, 2025The stock price of GEO Group has nearly tripled since Trump’s election. Why? GEO Group is a “private prisons” company. In 2021, Biden signed an executive order eliminating the very concept of private prisons. An order that has just been overturned by Trump. His Attorney General is Pam Bondi, who, before her appointment, openly…
Unemployment weakens a government; inflation kills it
November 8, 2024How many charts had we – economists and analysts, myself included – presented to show that the American economy’s health outpaced that of Europe? And how many official inflation indicators had we copied and pasted, proving, quarter after quarter, that price pressures were slowly but surely easing? Why, then, did American media, which prides…