America’s bid to control oil reveals a rentier strategy: collect the wealth of other nations as the industrial foundations of its own power erode.
The Empire Expels the World
Washington’s attempt to isolate Iran may instead accelerate the shift from SWIFT, weaken the dollar system and isolate the United States.
The Oil War Comes Home
The oil war is driving debt defaults at home while pushing China, Russia and Iran to build a payment system beyond US control.
The Dollar’s Original Sin
Keynes designed a monetary system to prevent debt, imbalance and depression. The United States chose creditor power instead.
Economics Belongs in Fiction
War, AI, climate breakdown and debt are converging into a civilizational crisis that conventional economics was built not to understand.
The Dollar’s Exit Fee
An energy crisis could force debtor nations to choose between essential imports and dollar creditors. What would a financial system built around that choice require?
Keynes’s Unfinished Monetary Revolution
An oil shock becomes a debt crisis, then a political rupture. The coming defaults may finally break the creditor rules built into the dollar system.
The Debt System That Ate The West
The West’s debt system is no longer financing growth. Creditor power is displacing industry, democracy, and public investment.
The Dollar’s Self-Expulsion
Sanctions meant to protect the dollar system are driving trade elsewhere, while debt and speculation hollow out the productive economy.
Bankrupting the Wrong Economy
The Iran economic war is boomeranging through oil prices, currencies and debt, placing greater pressure on the leveraged West than on Tehran.
