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Iran escalated dramatically in the Persian Gulf, Ansar Allah blasted Saudi airports and took a key city in Yemen, and Trump threatened a major escalation before the midterms in partnership with Israel.

Hudson and Desai discuss the probable AI crash in the context of US tech policy, historical bubbles, and the contrast with China's approach.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, owners of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, have made an aggressive push into the AI market with Muse, an "agentic AI" product that is rapidly racking up downloads, claiming big user numbers and pushing past ChatGPT while it has s…

A useful discussion of the key China policy measures that have enabled it to achieve and maintain a dominant position in exports.

We have discussed the science and art of diet and the science and technology of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) here several times before.

The Saudi counter-offensive is either stalling or progressing and Ansar Allah missiles are either hitting or missing Saudi airports.

Debunking one of the pet memes of elite-serving finance orthodoxy: that national debt of a currency issuer should be seen as a problem.

The clock is ticking!

Russia’s Geran-5 bears a remarkable resemblance to Germany’s V-1 flying bomb, but eighty years of inexpensive electronics have transformed what such a weapon can accomplish.

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More on the debate over Persian Gulf oil exports as the Saudis launch an offensive to try to retake territory liberated by Ansar Allah.

Thiel warns globalism brings the Antichrist, yet his surveillance tech and dualism build the very control grid he claims to fights

This time the weakest link could be the Euro Area's second largest economy.

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CMBS managers shift from “Survive till ’25” (when low interest rates were supposed to return) to “Sell at today’s price, or the lender will.”

Having cleared the biggest legal hurdle, the Ellison media empire has assumed control of WBD, dumped all over the bond markets, and named their leadership team for the new organization which will be called Skydance after David Ellison's studio.

Electricity demand is skyrocketing, utility bills are spiking – but it could take years to build the new transmission lines that would address the problem.

Today's Iran war news: As the Saudis double down on failure with a new Yemen offensive, the debate over the state of oil and the economy continues.

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European political class doesn’t mind citizens being fleeced; just be polite about it.

Korybko makes a strained argument about Putin's motives for decisive action in Ukraine.

The Weather Report is a movie about living at the end of life.

POTUS Trump met with his war council at Camp David this weekend as Iran flexed new missile capabilities and the Saudis and Ansar Allah exchanged hits on one another's capital cities.

Per Max Planck, science progresses one funeral at a time.

The increasing intermingling of sports with politics and finance means that holding power to account often requires investigations that transcend regular sports reporting.

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The trial of Palestinian rights activists reveals Germany’s neofascist playbook for silencing dissent and its complicity in Israel’s genocide.

This is probably the biggest scandal involving the US in Latin America since the abduction of Maduro in January.

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The narrative battles to control perceptions of the Iran War continue as does the kinetic battle to control traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the American pressure on Iran's economy and the Saudi Arabia conflict with Yemen.

How Flock's own actions confirm that Flock and other surveillance schemes need legal limits, not mere promises of good behavior.

Frontier labs seek nationalization to socialize massive AI bubble losses and cement their place inside the government's ruling power structure

How I go about curating the Sunday Movie feature to try to please so many aesthetic palates!

The debate over AI in schools overlooks whether disadvantaged students have the means to learn.....but still puts too much faith in AI.

Despite screaming indications that the Clinton era of centrist Democratic primacy is dead as a doornail, the MSM and party establishment are doing everything they can to party like it's 1999....forever.

America has narrative dominance over the Strait, but does that translate into diesel at pumps around the world?

To pave the way for AI data centers, New England governors are aligning with Trump’s plans for nuclear.

Anthropic's S-1 filing is uglier than expected as they and other AI players sign Trump's "self-policing" AI accord.

Long-standing friend of Naked Capitalism Harry Shearer has saddled up for a big donor challenge!

As part of its "We're gonna fight those dastardly Russians" fantasy, the EU wants to create an analogue to NATO.