...long been controversial, in part because Americans can also be caught up in its warrantless surveillance dragnet.

...cooler core prices, US-Iran tensions, and total chaos in triple-levered inverse ETF-land...

"...but for the Zombie Filibuster, the House-passed SAVE America Act would now be on its way to the White House..."

The measure increases penalties for soliciting prostitution, creates a dedicated fund for victim services, and seals certain records for trafficking survivors...

Some potential creditors pitched on the margin loan had expressed concerns about the difficulty of reaching a valuation for an unlisted company like OpenAI

"America's defense industrial base stands at a crossroads. Adapting to persistent competition..." 

 

More than 80 percent of all nationwide cash assistance allocated to such households was spent in California...

Our IQs are so low that we're actually using [AI tools] to check out the recipe for, you know, French toast...

"Anthropic's strengths are particularly evident in coding, agents, and enterprise, where Claude has emerged..." 

"Investment analysts, particularly at HFs, are using a ton of AI. I’ve run into numerous analysts whose personal token budgets reach tens of thousands of dollars with some even exceeding $100K. If you’re not using AI in your investment process today, you are falling behind."

Retail leverage that felt like genius in May is now being stress-tested in real time - with the Korean market’s extreme concentration making the moves especially violent...

Commissioner Rodney Scott said that the primary border wall will stretch from San Diego to the Gulf of Mexico...

Fear is spreading across macro, tech, and emerging markets. The uncomfortable part is that this still feels like orderly de-risking rather than outright panic.

Data centers are planned everywhere, but there is an alarming lack of new power generation to supply them...

The history of elections suggests a Potemkin ballot: a public ritual of choice that frequently conceals prearranged outcomes driven by entrenched interests...

US CENTCOM said forces began launching additional self-defence strikes today at 17:15 ET against multiple targets in Iran.

The scary part isn't volatility. It's how little it takes to create it. Markets increasingly resemble a giant short-gamma ecosystem where relatively small flows can produce outsized price moves.

"With Ueda's absence, the BOJ may decide not to send clear signals on the future rate path. Given uncertainty on how long it may take for the governor to fully recover, it's also become more unclear on whether the BOJ would hike again this ​year."