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US Iran Conflict: Pentagon Calls It 'Self-Defense.' Wall Street Calls It a Crash. The American People Call It Oil War. So Why Is No One Asking Who Profits?
Stock futures tumbled overnight after the United States launched what it calls "self-defense strikes" against Iran. The Silicon Review asks: if this is self-defense, why is Wall Street running for cover like it is a full-blown war? Stock futures are down. Dow futures dropped more than 400 points overnight. S&P 500 futures fell 1.8 percent. NASDAQ futures tumbled 2.2 percent. Oil prices spiked above ninety dollars a barrel. Gold is up. Bonds are rallying. Wall Street just got the news it feared most. The US Iran conflict is no longer a threat. It is a reality. The Pentagon called them "self-defense strikes." The president called them "proportionate and necessary." The market called them something else entirely. A reason to sell first and ask questions later. Let us decode what Wall Street actually heard when the Pentagon said "self-defense strikes." They did not hear justice. They did not hear patriotism. They heard oil supply disruptions, shipping route closures, defense spending spirals, and a Federal Reserve that cannot cut interest rates while the world is on fire. Here is the truth that no one will say. The stock market does not care about the Apache helicopter. It doe...
