You had an ironclad contract with Shields Productions.

I mean, that's a fine logic, that sounds pretty convincing, pretty ironclad, doesn't it?

But the monetary policy story, while plausible, is not ironclad. Indeed, other factors may explain or at least contribute to current stock market trends.

Buying time for reform to work requires socialization of short term risk. There is no other way to keep bond yields under control and banks functioning, and there is no ironclad guarantee that the reform programs needed to do the job will be approved.

The most likely interpretation is that those at the top no longer want to concede anything when it comes to stability. By addressing economic instability through pro consumption rebalancing, and political instability by removing Bo, stability has gone from a risk factor to an ironclad commitment.

Both the investments of third country companies in the United States, and of United States companies abroad, basically in the form of mergers and total or partial acquisitions, exacerbate the extraterritorial effects of the embargo by reducing Cuba's external economic space and making it more difficult, and at times impossible, to find partners and suppliers to circumvent the ironclad United States embargo.