Simon Johnson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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Bloomberg News Now · NATO Leaders Prepare for Trump, US Loses in World Cup, More · 7 Jul 2026
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So it's possible that it fired on these ships because they hadn't sought and got Iranian permission.
It's possible that Iran didn't know the nationality or the precise identity of these ships, that it may not have known they were Qatari.
But either way, it really speaks to how things are still very tense over Hormuz.
So it's possible that it fired on these
ships because they hadn't sought and got Iranian permission.
It's possible that Iran didn't know the nationality or the precise identity of these ships, that it may not have known they were Qatari.
But either way, it really speaks to how things are still very tense over Hormuz.
Donald Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center.
So it's the Kennedy, Trump and Kennedy Center or vice versa.
And a court just ruled that he had to take his name down.
So they took it down as far as anyone can see, but they put a big tarpaulin over it so you can't see that it's been taken down.
Historically in the US, there have been some big confrontations over power.
The system had become too slanted in favor of
oligarchs, people who got their money from from from business and put that into politics and made themselves into leading political figures.
So I would worry globally, Robert, about these US giants becoming so powerful and outrunning everyone except maybe the Chinese.
Have we ever seen anything quite so powerful, quite so global and so adept at taking value from other places?
I don't think we have.
I think we're in a new era now.
So I think wealth taxes will be part of it, Steph.
So the fact of the matter is that if you're sufficiently rich, you don't pay much tax.
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