Iran isn't blocking the Strait. It's running a toll booth. Citrini sent an analyst to find out. The market is pricing the wrong scenario.

(Originally published September 22, 2021. The dogmas of the Biden time have been breaking since, but I’m leaving this up as reminder.) Western civilization is over. It may live on in some of us, but at the public level it has been replaced. Every major institution…

Tyler Oliveira goes inside the ghost offices gaming America's visa system. 750K views in 24 hours.

Yes, we’ve all experienced ridiculous and even malicious rules, but that’s not what I’m addressing in this post. Today my point is that rules by themselves – rules by their essence – are the opponents of righteousness. I know this strikes most people as absolutely…

(Originally published October 13, 2021.) I’m not telling you whether I’ve had the jab or not, because it doesn’t matter. What I am telling you is that a woman in Denver is about to die because the medical establishment won’t let her have a surgery, simply…

Fake DoorDash drivers, $13M stolen in SF, $66M in Arizona. Geographically distributed multisig makes it physically impossible to comply.

Yes, you. All reasonably healthy humans are demi-gods. I apologize for hitting you with a concept that may feel foreign and even dangerous, but it needs to be said. And regardless that we lack proper definitions for such concepts, it’s true. I’ll also remind…

From Lightning micropayments to nation-state oil settlement at Hormuz, bitcoin covers every layer of the exchange spectrum.

There is a kinship between productive humans; one that spreads all across this planet. It may be invisible to power and hierarchy, but we productive people recognize it. When we drive into a new town, we know, almost by instinct, that we can trust the hard…

Ten31's John Arnold on digital dollars, CPI at 3.3%, Carlyle's $7B gate, Ro Khanna beating the S&P by 112%, and the BOJ detonating.

We used to talk about things that “separated the men from the boys.” And however poorly the phrase may have been used, it had a legitimate point: It’s one thing to be male, it’s quite another to be a proper man. But on whichever side of the biological divide…