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Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Deepened a Historic Shipping Crisis
“Hormuz is definitely a tool of leverage and a metric of whether Iranian responses are coordinated,” said Rachel Ziemba, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Securit...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Air War in Iran Gives Way to Crippling Stalemate in Hormuz
“As it goes on, we could see oil prices getting higher and some stagflationary risks mounting, so this is going to weigh on global consumers,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct s...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent Says Gulf, Asian Allies Request Swap Lines
“It is more likely that the ask is symbolic and one of the many ways that the UAE government has been trying to signal their commitment to the U.S., at least in national secur...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Threat to Blockade Hormuz Sets Up Risky New Showdown
“The de-escalation window for the global economy, such as it was, is over for now,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a W...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Energy Prices May Take ‘Months’ to Normalise, Despite Ceasefire: Analysts
For now, “an overhang of greater risk premium of supplies out of the Gulf means oil prices will remain higher than what they were before the attack started”, said Rachel Ziemb...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Threatens 50% Tariffs on Countries Supplying Iran with Weapons
However, “it’s a lot more complicated to do that after IEEPA was struck down”, Rachel Ziemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Al Jazeera....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Administration Expected to Keep Waiving Russian Oil Sanctions as Iran Call Looms
“Tinkering with Iranian oil is not a sanctions question at the end of the day; it’s about the market’s general assessment of this conflict’s direction,” said Capitol Peak Stra...
By Alex Zerden
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Free Trade is Dead in Washington
His trade negotiators have also put together bilateral trade deals that require countries to align their trade policies with the United States—and against China. The provision...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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The War’s Economic Impact Could Get Worse for Americans
“I don’t think the U.S. will avoid it. These are global markets,” said Rachel Ziemba, a New York-based analyst who advises corporations on geopolitical risk. “Experts, even a ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Anthropic: U.S. Statecraft Battles Go Domestic
“Given how reluctant so many private sector leaders have been to criticise this administration on anything notable, it’s a sign that they are quite nervous about how far [it] ...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic DisasterJanet Egan, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, described data centers to us as “large, juicy targets.” It is impossible to hide these facilities, which...
By Janet Egan
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Some Iranian Oil as Energy Prices SoarZiemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said she did not think the U.S would want money from oil sales to go to Iran's government - but it cou...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. Encourages Flow of Iranian Oil While It Battles Iran“Iran will likely profit from these sales, thereby providing more money to fund its regime, the war and its proxies,” said Alex Zerden, [adjunct senior fellow at the Center fo...
By Alex Zerden
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Qatar Says Iran Attack Caused Significant Damage at Ras Laffan Gas FacilityRachel Ziemba, a senior fellow at the think tank Center for a New American Security, said the fact that Ras Laffan had already paused production meant there would be no new gl...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Temporarily Waives Century-Old Shipping Law amid Rising Fuel Costs
Rachel Ziemba, a senior fellow at the think tank Center for a New American Security, said the Jones Act waiver is designed to support that move — but it will have limited impa...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Vladimir Putin Enjoys a Huge Windfall from the Iran WarThe energy crisis is meanwhile making it harder for Western countries to tighten sanctions—a second bonus for Mr Putin. Before it, the Trump administration had seemed willing ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Iran War Casts Shadow over Middle East AI Investments
“This war has been a stark reminder that indeed they’re in a rough neighborhood,” Daniel Silverberg, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for New American Security, said of ...
By Daniel Silverberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Iran War Exposes Fragilities in Global Critical Minerals Supply Chain“For Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the question is, how much will investing in critical minerals and the capacity to process investment … be affected by the war, and what other pr...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Iran Oil Hub Strike Raises Fears of Further Supply Upheaval“It’s Trump trying to escalate in order to de-escalate,” said Rachel Ziemba, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “The biggest risk to oil markets, and t...
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Two Main U.S. Inflation Gauges Are Telling Different Stories
To know where you’re heading, it can help to know where you’ve been. With that in mind, the pre-Iran war readings on US inflation aren’t entirely devoid of information. But so...
By Chris Kennedy