How power and money shape life.

Here I keep short entries on political economy and geopolitics as they unfold. Over time, they build into a record of how the world is being rearranged in prices and pay slips, in borders and wars, in debt, housing, work, and care.

Werner Mouton 5/7/26 Werner Mouton 5/7/26

7 May 2026: The War in the Sentence

Washington wants to move the Iran war into the past tense.

Werner Mouton 5/4/26 Werner Mouton 5/4/26

4 May 2026: Oil and the Cost of Passage

WTI crude is above a hundred dollars a barrel this morning. The move is sharp enough to matter. But the price is not the whole story.

Werner Mouton 4/20/26 Werner Mouton 4/20/26

20 April 2026 - Trump and Iran

This week Trump's ceasefire with Iran ends. I call it his ceasefire. He signed his name to it. He announced it on Truth Social and he called it a total and complete victory and he said it more than once.