Frontrunning: February 9

  • Global Stocks Set for Biggest Weekly Fall in Years (WSJ)
  • What Just Happened? Six Views on the Correction (BBG)
  • Euro set for worst week since 2016 as dollar extends rally (Reuters)
  • Congress votes to end brief government shutdown (Reuters)
  • U.S. budget deal sets up wider fight over deficits, immigration (Reuters)
  • Feb 9, 2018 8:10 AM

Peter Thiel: "Crypto Is Libertarian, AI Is Communist"

"A sufficiently powerful AI could realize the bureaucrat's dream of accurately predicting peasant farmers' potato yields months in advance from thousands of miles away. No wonder the Chinese Communist Party hates crypto and loves AI."

  • Feb 6, 2018 8:50 PM