Thoughtful Money with Adam Taggart · Thursday, August 27, 2026
Michael Every describes a geopolitical and financial dichotomy where countries must choose between aligning with US markets, tech, finance, and stablecoins, or engaging in business with Iran. He suggests that countries choosing the latter will face repercussions from the US, potentially leading to a significant disruption.
“There's going to be an emerging nexus around US markets, US tech, um, you know, US finance, US stable coins on one side. Or you can work with Iran on the other, it's up to you.”
“Now, we all know which countries are going to be targeted by that. It's a short, short list, and some of them are very large countries.”
“But we're aware of what that binary means. So that's then looming as a larger scale issue, which is really potentially going to pull the rug out from underneath a lot of people.”