The Biggest Oil Deal in History Runs Through a Company Still on the Sanctions List
Sanctions did to Venezuela's oil output what an OPEC quota never could. Now that oil might end up refilling America's own strategic reserve.
Sanctions and Evasion
Sanctions enforcement, evasion techniques, cryptocurrency mixing, and compliance risks.
Someone Just Made Your Server Delivery Worth Stealing
A Nvidia DGX B300, a high-end AI server, sells for more than $1.1 million on China's black market, more than double its roughly $550,000 US retail price. Export controls have created a real market for stolen equipment, one worth enough that people are already going to serious lengths to acquire the hardware.
Two Terrorist Groups Just Made Piracy Profitable Again
Somali piracy nearly disappeared after 2011, suppressed by years of international naval patrols. It came back this year in the worst wave in a decade: three tankers hijacked between April and July, with ransom demands of $3 million and $10 million on two of them.