The 50% Wall: How the US-Canada Trade Relationship Collapsed in a Week
Canada walked out of trade talks, Washington imposed 50% duties on $20 billion of goods under Section 338, and Ottawa...
August 30, 2026Section
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Kevin Warsh’s Fed: The Jackson Hole Sentence That Moved September
Kevin Warsh’s first keynote as Fed chairman pushed September rate-rise odds from about 35 to 56 per cent. What he...
August 30, 2026
The 55 Percent Deal: How Washington Claimed Venezuela’s Oil Without a Signature
Washington says it holds majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. No text is public, no operator is...
August 30, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 29: Trump announces majority control of 65 billion Venezuelan barrels, September Fed odds...
August 29, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief August 28, 2026: Fed chair Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole keynote and the day's key US...
August 28, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 27: Nvidia’s fifteenth beat, Jackson Hole opens with inflation at 3.7%, and Canada’s...
August 27, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 26: inflation prints hot at 3.7%, Nvidia reports after the bell, and Canada’s...
August 26, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 25: Washington opened an economic D-Day on Iran and put 50% tariffs on...
August 25, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief August 20, 2026: The Treasury Rewrote Its Own Buyback Plan
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 20: the Treasury will double its long-dated buyback operations from 9 September, after...
August 20, 2026