War Continues: Wall Street's Favorite Endless Conflict Pays Dividends
Bloomberg Businessweek Daily, in its March 20, 2026, broadcast, reported on cross-asset volatility tied to the ongoing conflict with Iran. Anchors Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec, alongside guests Jeff Mason and Adam Farrar, discussed President Trump's 'dilemma' concerning rising oil and diesel costs. Nathan Risser later chimed in, highlighting diesel prices as a 'new geoeconomic worry.' What
Bloomberg’s lamentable 'concern' conveniently overlooks is the direct correlation between this manufactured conflict and those very rising costs. The narrative framing by Bloomberg paints the US leadership as passive recipients of an external geopolitical problem, rather than active participants in creating it. They frame the war with Iran as a natural, almost elemental force, rather than the
culmination of decades of targeted aggression, economic strangulation, and the deliberate scuttling of diplomatic agreements like the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018. The real 'dilemma' isn't for President Trump. It's for the American public, funding a war while their cost of living skyrockets, enriching the very corporations and individuals who benefit from instability. This
'endless war' is a feature, not a bug, of a system designed to extract wealth. The 'new geoeconomic worry' of rising diesel costs is a predictable outcome. Global energy giants, many with deep ties to Washington, are recording record profits by leveraging engineered scarcity and geopolitical tension. Sanctions imposed on Iran since 1979, intensified dramatically after the US withdrew from the