Recent content by BlueSmoke

It seems to me the stock market moves because there are a bunch of traders and speculators who sit around every minute trying to figure out the tea leaves on everything so they can get a jump on the rest of us and make a killing. Reports of members of Congress and this Administration doing...

Don't doubt appointing a puppet is part of it. But the result is that it will be harder to negotiate directly with the U.S. Have a feeling Iran has had enough of negotiating with Trump and will seek to talk to the Gulf nations and get some sort of payoff. Like kicking Americans off a...

If Trump does a full TACO after demanding unconditional surrender, I can see once the fleet is removed Iran having a huge, in the millions rally all shouting death to America and death to Trump just like they did back in 1979. Other words, just like they did to Carter they would be declaring...

So Trump is thinking about addressing the Nation and declaring this is over? What would he say about Gulf oil traffic and gas prices? Pretty sure Iran will be listening to any of his claims and will be motivated to torpedo them. Don't know how much economic pressure Iran faces. They trade...

Trump may be declaring a TACO. But before he does that, he might want to ask if oil shipping has been normalized thru the Strait. Its hard to believe that Iran is going to just let him TACO out without extracting some pain and reestablishing their Strait deterrence.

Last week, there were folks in the shipping industry claiming that Iran's real weakness was its shipping industry. I guess, being under sanctions it depends on those ships for its trading lifeline. It may be possible the Trump folks noticed that claim.

Where can I buy some "Trump I did that" stickers? I'd like to cover this town.

Its disappointing that Russia will get a money infusion from higher oil prices. But it's beginning to look like some money investments will go to Ukraine from ME countries particularly the U.A.E. with something like a 30% investment in Fire Point that builds Ukraine's most significant drones...

LMAO! The economy he's talking about is ours and not Iran's. Have a feeling there are going to be some long conversations with Lindsey since he's claiming to have played a central role in this mess. I sure miss John McCain.

If the stock market goes down in the morning, I kinda wonder if he doesn't TACO out by lunch. On the other hand, this war is becoming like Tariffs to him. He may just go down with the ship on it.

Didn't Trump state 24 hours ago (or so) that he would take nothing less then unconditional surrender? Is it possible that he meant it would be himself rather then Iran that would be surrendering?

Why does Israel want to bomb the oil? For what purpose?

So when Israel bombs Iranian oil infrastructure or Iranian oil storage tanks and such, does that help oil prices go down? How do the oil trading markets react to that?

The Taliban had a saying that went something like; you Americans have the watch but we have the time. Seem like in Vietnam there was a similar saying. But I submit this war is different. The question everyday to ask -----When is oil shipping thru the Strait going to be normalized? This...

I would love for someone to plant a story that Iran and Russia are negotiating the transfer of a nuclear weapon from Russia to Iran. And then someone ask Trump about it. His reaction would be interesting.