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President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping ended last week without a major breakthrough, but still achieved Beijing’s…
Iran’s regime has so far withstood U.S. and Israeli bombardment, but the economic forces that sparked the most serious conflict…
The Iranian economy was already in shambles before the U.S. and Israel launched their war on the Islamic republic, and…
President Donald Trump’s war on Iran has raised doubts about America’s superpower status and currency dominance as the Strait of…
The gold standard may have ended in the early 1970s, but something else quietly took its place for the next…
Even amid the torrent of disquieting news from the Middle East in recent weeks, an Iranian suggestion that it might…
Middle East oil has long been a linchpin of the U.S. dollar’s status as the dominant currency in global trade…
The year was 1974 and President Richard Nixon had dispatched his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Saudi Arabia to…
The U.S. Mint unveiled new designs for the country’s 250th anniversary and it left out one key detail: the olive…
Just hours after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs on Friday, he signed an order to…