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When oil spikes everything gets more expensive.
Fuel is the cost underneath every other cost. It moves food, medicine, and goods. When it spikes, inflation follows within weeks.
We’re already seeing it now-
Petrol is up 50 cents a litre in Australian cities since late February
Diesel shortages are hitting regional areas and farmers mid planting season
Jet fuel is tightening, airfares are next
Shipping costs are rising which flows into the price of everything imported.
The most hidden hit is interest rates.
If fuel driven inflation stays elevated, the rate cuts don’t happen. Every mortgage ho

Imagine our position if Australia had its own refineries

I don’t think anyone realises how screwed we are.

Australia just hiked rates to 4.10%. Second hike in a row, decided by 1 vote.
Every other major central bank this week is on hold, Australia is the only one raising.
The Iran war didn’t create the inflation, it just added fuel price pressure on top of an already overheating domestic economy
All 4 big banks are now calling another hike in May. That would wipe out every single cut from 2025.
Michele Bullock (governor of the RBA) has said recession isn’t out of the question.

Australia’s defence minister confirmed today that data collected by the Australian E-7 Wedgetail aircraft is being fed directly into the US combined air operations in Qatar, the same hub directing strikes on Iran.
Albanese has been on television for 2 weeks saying Australia is “not taking offensive action.” Technically true. The bombs aren’t Australian. But the eyes finding the targets? Those are.
Pine Gap, the US satellite base in Alice Springs, has been doing a version of this quietly for 50 years. Most Aussies have no idea it exists, let alone that it now hosts 45 satellite dishes with surv

The SEC just gave congress a blueprint for the Clarity Act

The SEC just issued an official interpretation stating that most crypto assets are not securities.
Paul Atkins said ‘the former administration refused to recognize that most crypto assets are not themselves securities’
This is the clarity we have been asking for since 2017.

Trump on Joe Kent: “I always thought he was weak on security”

Every single FOMC in the last 10 months, $BTC has sold off after.
— June 18 2025: Hold. BTC dumped 6.4%
— July 30: Hold. BTC dumped 5.6%
— Sept 17: Cut 25bps. BTC dumped 8.1%
— Oct 29: Cut 25bps. BTC dumped 5%
— Dec 10: Cut 25bps. BTC dumped 3%
— Jan 28 2026: Hold. BTC dumped 4.2%
Tomorrow we get another one, will it break the pattern?

Haven’t seen a single Epstein post since this war started

A TikTok livestreaming company just got board approval to dump 7,500 bitcoin to fund a $100 million share buyback.
The company is GD Culture, they bought the bitcoin for $841 million last September.
They didn’t use cash, instead diluted their own shareholders by issuing 39 million new shares to acquire a BVI shell company that happened to be holding the BTC.
Their treasury strategy also included buying $TRUMP.
5 months later the BTC is worth $500 million. They’re sitting on $340 million in unrealized losses, the stock is down 70%.
Their entire market cap is $210 million, less than half of