...today's security state might be something to look back on with nostalgia when the 'post-AI-Regulation' revised worldwide surveillance and supply line controls kick in...

Investor anxiety remains high...while surface volatility remains eerily calm...

Zelenskyy “has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open. “There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting, that’s hurting the world.”

Since 2019, he has steered more than $7.5 million in outside donations to the nonprofit...

"...diesel is the key real-economy pressure point: shipping, trucking, agriculture, construction, mining... blasé markets + bravado policy = recipe for volatility"

Drawing the most attention was BRICS Pay, a decentralized payment-messaging framework that stitches together India's UPI, China's CIPS, and Russia's SPFS into a shared interoperability layer.

Trump declared a national emergency over Chinese grid batteries, but experts say the US lacks the time and money to catch up.

"Protests have broken out in different parts of Syria over increased fuel prices, with demonstrators blocking a main highway in Idlib province for several hours."

Singh faces at least 10 years and potentially life imprisonment following any drug conviction...

"Back then we were against the terrorists..."

...the major indices are 'churning' while 'new lows' surge (and watch AUDJPY)...

A direct relationship between ownership and control can no longer be assumed...

‘If you want more money in your pocket, you have to keep Republicans in charge,’ the House speaker said.

Oman postponed the Persian Gulf Foreign Ministers meeting, where Iran had planned to formally unveil an agreement on a temporary Hormuz shipping lane. Saudi sources stated damages to the East-West Pipeline will take over a month to repair.

One reason Adoph Hitler rose to power was that certain establishment figures treated him and his Nazi Party as within the respectable range of options, rather than doing what they should have done: isolate them both...

"The political backlash against data centers is real. Whether it translates into a sustained slowdown in AI-related capex remains unclear.... But a meaningful deceleration could reshape the economic and market narratives that defined this cycle." - Morgan Stanley

Yes because California cares about children...