Pulse Briefing: Strait Hormuz commerce collapse, U.S.-Iran military escalation, Energy price surge - Thursday, September 03, 2026

U.S. forces struck sixty Iranian targets while escorting forty vessels carrying eighteen million barrels through Hormuz, even as Iran retaliated against Kuwait and UAE bases. Dutch central bank moved 86.4 tons of gold from U.S. and Canada to Britain citing crisis preparedness. U.S. national debt hit record forty trillion dollars as Treasury yields reached multi-year highs. The Pulse Briefing is a daily preparedness-intelligence briefing on the national and geopolitical developments that matter for prepared families: energy, supply chains, security, health, and the economy.