In preparation for the 2026 Austrian Economics Research Conference, where I was presenting a forthcoming paper entitled “The United States: Chartalism’s Worst Nightmare,” I had been reading some of the work of prominent US monetary historians. One such work was Curtis P.
Incorrigible war-monger, Donald Trump, just can’t help but say the quiet part out loud. When interviewed on March 29 by the Financial Times, he confessed:
To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say: “why are you doing that?” But they’re stupid people.
It’s difficult to find much of anything we might call “good” coming out of the current US-Israel war against Iran. Yet, one positive development has been the fact that Israel’s deceitful practice of pretending it has no nuclear weapons program is now untenable.
The renewal of the discussion around Israel’s nuclear arms program was prompted in part by Iranian missile strikes in the area of Dimona, a city in southern Israel known to house Israel’s nuclear research facilities.
