In mid-September 2026, JPMorgan Chase — one of the most powerful financial institutions on earth — quietly acknowledged the limits of human foresight by suspending its oil price forecasts entirely. The escalating conflict between the United States and Iran under the Trump administration has pushed geopolitical risk beyond the reach of conventional economic modeling, crossing thresholds that once seemed to define the outer edges of escalation. It is a rare and sobering moment when the machinery of prediction falls silent — not because the analysts have failed, but because the world has grown ge