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Interesting piece arguing that the strategic cost of America’s Iran war is now showing up less in dollars or casualties than in the assets Washington may have to trade to manage the fallout: Taiwan arms deliveries, rare-earth access, chip policy and election-year timing.

Is this a useful way to think about great-power overstretch, not as immediate defeat, but as a loss of bargaining freedom in the next theater?

Interesting piece arguing that Warsh’s first real challenge may not be choosing between inflation and employment in the abstract, but deciding who absorbs the cost of an oil-driven inflation shock. If gasoline and grocery prices hit lower-income households first, can the Fed really “look through” the shock?

Interesting piece arguing that the U.S. debt strategy is becoming harder to reverse because Treasury issuance, Fed reserve management and bank regulation now reinforce one another. How will Warsh's stated goal of reducing the Fed's balance sheet jive with this?

Interesting article that argues Trump is preserving the formal rules of American capital markets while changing how, when and against whom they are enforced. The result is not deregulation by statute, but a quieter shift from neutral enforcement to political discretion. What is the long term impact of this if it becomes the norm for all future presidential admins?