by Michael Wilkerson | Sep 8, 2026 | Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Gold, Inflation, Markets, Monetary System, Oil, Trade, War
Most Americans saving for the future have been well-pleased with the double-digit returns of their equity retirement plans over the past few years. Some are pausing to ask whether the stock market is too expensive, and if so, whether a reversal to the stellar growth...
by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 26, 2026 | Armed Forces, Banks, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Monetary System, NATO, Oil, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration, USA, War
The United States has levied various forms of economic sanctions on Iran for the better part of fifty years. They have never achieved their full objectives. With the US entering its seventh month of war with Iran, the Trump administration has declared an Economic...
by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 9, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Finance, Geopolitics, Germany, Iran, NATO, Oil, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA, War
The fact that China is America’s greatest geostrategic challenge is now so obvious as to have become cliché. Yet over the past five years, the United States has expended great effort and astronomical sums of resources—not to mention deficit spending—on two potentially...
by Michael Wilkerson | May 21, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Israel, Markets, Oil, Russia, Trump Administration, USA, War
What the U.S.-Iraq Wars Can Teach us The U.S.-led Gulf War (1991) saw Iraq’s large but unsophisticated military decimated, its vast infrastructure obliterated, and its formal leadership structures shattered, all within a few weeks of initial combat. U.S. President...
by Michael Wilkerson | May 18, 2026 | Banks, Blog Articles, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Oil, Politics, Trump Administration, USA, War
If the economy were represented by a dashboard, the warning lights have been switching on one by one over the past month. Each week brings not an alarm announcing an emergency, but discrete indicators quietly turning from green or yellow to red across multiple areas...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 31, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Oil, Trump Administration, USA, War
Prices for retail diesel and gas have each risen by over one-third ($1.30+ and $1.00 per gallon, respectively) since the launch of Epic Fury. Americans learned in the 1970s that Middle East conflict means energy pain, and that lesson has been reinforced through every...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 28, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Oil, Qatar, Russia, Trade, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA, War
And How the United States and Russia May Benefit The global natural gas market is now in disarray, and this negatively affects everything in the modern economy … from agriculture to transportation to semiconductor manufacturing and beyond. The market did not just...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 6, 2026 | Armed Forces, Blog Articles, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Germany, Gold, Healthcare, Historical, Inflation, Iran, Monetary System, Oil, Politics, Trump Administration, USA, War
A wartime economy is no longer a hypothetical future scenario to contemplate. It has already arrived. This week, with U.S. forces launching what the Trump administration labeled “Epic Fury” against Iran, the question is no longer whether war will affect markets and...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 19, 2025 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Oil, Sanctions, Tariffs, Trump Administration, Ukraine
Energy prices are falling, but perhaps for the wrong reasons U.S. inflation cooled in February, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising less than expected at 2.8 percent. Excluding food and energy, Core CPI rose by 3.1 percent, as services costs such as shelter and...