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File de voitures devant une station service à Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo
À cause de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz, les automobilistes congolais ont du mal à s'approvisionner à la pompe et ont vu le prix du litre de carburant grimper en flèche. Une situation qui souligne la vulnérabilité du pays aux tensions internationales.
Mohammed ibn Fayçal al-Rachid,
Pendant des décennies, le franc CFA ouest-africain a été qualifié d'"impôt colonial" par les critiques du néocolonialisme.
Des États formellement indépendants - du Sénégal à la Côte d'Ivoire - sont tenus de déposer la moitié de leurs réserves de change et d'or au Trésor français. En substance, Paris continuait de tenir fermement les leviers économiques de 14 pays d'Afrique.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
April 11, 2026
Donald Trump sure has a strange approach to making housing more "affordable". He apparently wants lower costs for buyers and higher prices for owners and sellers!
"I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes."
Needless to say, as the Donald's scrambles about seeking housing affordability "solutions", we'd rather suspect that higher house prices are not quite what the economic doctor ordered.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
April 11, 2026
The rush to monetize automation / AI is self-liquidating.
Dependence is easy but crippling. When we're children or advanced in age, we're dependent on adults for our care. This is the normal flow of human life. But when we're dependent as adults, it cripples us, for it removes the pressure to acquire problem-solving skills that strengthen our facility with both processes and results.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
April 10, 2026
When you strip away the propaganda, foreign aid is rarely about charity. It is about strategy, war, and buying influence. The latest long-run data show that from 1946 through 2024, more than $1 trillion in inflation-adjusted U.S. foreign aid went to just five recipients: Israel at $337.0 billion, Egypt at $198.9 billion, former South Vietnam at $193.8 billion, Afghanistan at $168.5 billion, and South Korea at $127.6 billion.
By Drago Bosnic
InfoBrics
April 10, 2026
Despite the seemingly "good news" about a ceasefire, we're yet to see an actual end to hostilities as missiles, drones and fighter jets continue to be used in strikes on both sides of the Persian Gulf.
United States President Donald Trump is a rather colorful person, as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin once stated. As the Don Tzu meme postulates, if you don't know what you're doing, neither will your enemies.
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La France vient d'effectuer un mouvement financier discret mais puissant - rapatriant tout son or tout en générant près de 13 milliards d'euros de bénéfices. Dans cette vidéo, nous expliquons comment la Banque de France a restructuré ses réserves, pourquoi elle a choisi de vendre l'or détenu aux États-Unis pour racheter des lingot
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Les cours du pétrole ont plongé, le 8 avril, sous le seuil des 100 dollars après l'annonce par Donald Trump d'une trêve de deux semaines avec l'Iran, conditionnée à la réouverture du détroit d'Ormuz. Le Brent a reculé à 91,80 dollars (-16 %) et le WTI à 92,62 dollars (-1
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
April 8, 2026
It's not the price of oil per se that triggers recession, it's the underlying vulnerabilities that have been cloaked with happy story narratives to keep the game going.
Recessions don't require a spike in the price of oil/gasoline, but spikes in energy prices trigger recessions. This makes sense, as hydrocarbons are the foundation of every industry, from the so-called "green" industries to all the high-tech industries (SpaceX, AI data centers etc.) to transport, plastics and everything else.
SchiffGold.com
April 8, 2026
On Friday's episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter lays out a bleak picture for the near-term U.S. economy: weak job gains, rising energy costs, and mounting commodity inflation that threaten to push real interest rates down and gold up. He also ties in geopolitical risks and a recent Supreme Court decision on tariffs to argue that policy errors-from fiscal overreach to misguided trade measures-are piling on top of underlying monetary weakness.
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Les marchés mondiaux évoluaient avec nervosité le 7 avril, tandis que le Brent franchissait les 110 dollars le baril, à l'approche de l'ultimatum fixé par Donald Trump à l'Iran. Les investisseurs redoutent une escalade au Moyen-Orient, sur fond de blocage du détroit d'Ormuz et d
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La France refond une partie de son or pour l'aligner sur les standards actuels, remplaçant d'anciens lingots par des barres plus pures. En parallèle, une fraction conservée à New York (129 tonnes) a été cédée, évitant des coûts logistiques élevés et permettant de renouvele
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
April 6, 2026
The collision of hype and euphoric hallucinations with the real world will manifest across the entire socio-economic-political-legal spectrum.
The conventional narrative views AI dominance as inevitable. What's actually inevitable is the AI Depression, the economic fallout of unrealistic but oh-so-profitable hype, malinvestment, unprecedented legal liabilities and the second-order effects of AI replacing workers while generating dysfunction in core systems.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
April 6, 2026
The Donald plunged into one hell of a hornets nest when he took the bait from Bibi Netanyahu and launched an all out "kinetic" war on Iran (as distinguished from the brutal economic war Washington has been waging for decades). But now that the gasoline pump price has breached $4/gallon and is heading higher, he's desperately looking for an off-ramp.