North America leads the world in the use of cannabis, opioids and amphetamines...

It's also happening in Texas...

Ironically the spillover threat has lately come from errant Ukrainian drones...

There is broad support for deporting problematic foreigners but little political will...

• US President Trump's envoys Kushner and Witkoff are flying to Doha for talks; Iran believes the trip is focused on ceasefire compliance, and is not there for talks with the US, NYT reported.
• Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Baghaei said "we will not hold any negotiation meetings at any level with the American side in the coming days”, Tasnim reported.

And it is the recent underperformance of Systematic funds that has people increasingly concerned, because most still remember how the August 2007 quant fund blow up unleashed a massive market drawdown, and may in fact have led to the collapse of Lehman. .

...an accumulating culture of fear which is having a paralysing effect on wider society...

The world's largest semiconductor founder, TSMC, and Winbond are collaborating on a localized DRAM supply chain using 3D wafer-on-wafer (WoW) stacking technology, where Winbond would supply DRAM memory wafers to be stacked with TSMC's logic wafers.

China added another 20 entities, including Mitsui E&S Co., drone maker Terra Drone Corporation, nuclear fuel processors, and multiple units of OKI Electric Industry, to a watch list requiring enhanced licensing scrutiny. Both actions take effect immediately. 

In a system that concentrates gains and diffuses risk, the "rational actor" seeks to maximize rackets that distribute impoverishment and immiseration to the many in small doses over time that attract little attention...

Maybe Hollywood is hard of hearing?  How many times do audiences have to say "Get Woke, Go Broke"....?

It's a tragedy to see the once-heavenly Los Angeles turn into a hellscape...

"Oh my gosh. Very significant damage in Highmore, South Dakota from..." 

Amid record-beating electricity prices and a supply crunch in fossil fuels, many Filipinos have opted to install rooftop solar panels over the past three months.

"That's a constitutional crisis, when you have the leader of the country's largest city [saying] we're not going to follow or honor what the Supreme Court says..."

The division’s decision to disqualify Sullivan because it determined his candidacy was not filed in “good faith” was unconstitutional...

...oil UP, stocks UP, bonds (prices) UP... Gold DOWN...

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