By Paul Sankey
Published on July 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
As a battle-scarred veteran of being a US Travel Soccer Dad, it is no new experience for me to travel for days to a big match and come back defeated and furious with the coach. Briefly to get it out of the way, a couple of things from the point of view of being present in Atlanta for the worst England capitulation since the fall of Singapore (February 1942, some 80,000 British Empire forces under …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on March 22, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Goodness me, TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), indeed. I’m not talking about my own psychology. This “ahead of schedule” Gulf War III is going horribly ahead of schedule in the completely wrong direction. For an example of a total opposite effect, Iran flipping a ballistic missile at Diego Garcia did not fit with the original “Iran will quickly will run out of missiles”. My entreaty to the President to stop with the thesis drift and reset …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on March 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
We could be in for a wild week ahead, with March 20th, Friday a key date, after strong market rumours that the Treasury shorted April crude last Tuesday. The expiry on that short position – if market chatter is true – will be Friday March 20th, which synchronizes with the end of Ramadan Friday March 20th and the start of Iranian New Year, Friday March 20th. Just to start, a comment from a major US …
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