At first glance, August was a solid month. There was no late-summer wobble of the sort seen in recent years, and the economic data remained strong. But underneath the surface, there was a lot of tension... 

These observations aren't predictions of doom. They're diagnostic markers, like checking the oil in a car or reading blood pressure. They tell us something about the current condition of the systems we navigate daily...

New York's largest cocaine bust in at least a decade...with the DEA indicating that the supply chain ultimately has cartel connections.

A long-duration heavy-crude redevelopment option, not an emergency supply source - & specifically not a fuel solution.

...stagflation fears are rising... and so are worries about a rate-spike... we're gonna need a bigger buyback boat!

That's not how it's supposed to work...

The solar capacity has now risen to 1,286 GW, exceeding coal as the single biggest electricity capacity.

"There's no one checking this, right? It's entirely the honor system, unless the Feds check it..."

"Mind-bogglingly stupid" ?

""Bessent is really not doing a good service to the world by saying that this is an off-ramp to escalation..."

Zeng Weiheng, an undergraduate student from Canada, told the FBI that he believed his handler worked for one of China's security departments.

DeSantis warned against allowing Florida to become a "surveillance state" 

The agreement would give the US producer operating rights to two major fields in the Orinoco Belt...

The security concerns are not imaginary.

And this is a relatively little war for us. This is not a big war. You know where the money went was Ukraine.

...cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to impose an estimated $75 billion in charges on carbon-emitting companies for allegedly causing climate damage between 2000 and 2018...

"Today we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports..."