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Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
WaterFifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
DemographicsMexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
DemographicsMexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
MaterialsCopper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
MaterialsCopper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
MaterialsCopper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
WaterFifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
DemographicsMexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
WaterFifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
DemographicsMexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
MaterialsCopper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on the midstream trap.
EnergyOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone how fragile the margin is.
FinancemBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier on optionality, not confrontation.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first. The peace was a pause, not an ending.
FinanceBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames. Monetary policy is tightening into a shock it cannot control.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
TradeIndia and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
WaterFifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising. South Asia's monsoon is no longer a season; it's a siege.
EnergyTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective dossier.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
TradeWith the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports — and Turkey is trying to broker a ceasefire for civilian ships. The world's breadbasket is being redrawn by drones.
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
ResourcesXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals. The world's magnet supply still runs through China — and the export-control clock expires in November.
MoneyNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure unpredictability. The adults in the room just lowered their voice.
GeopoliticsRussia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov's summary: you could have just called and told me to read your statement.
DemographicsMexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility — and nobody planned for it.
SecurityBomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
TechnologyThe EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks. The AI boom meets the continent's oldest anxiety: running out of everything.
Compute SecurityOne Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries. A 33/33/33 tri-perspective report on compute's single points of failure.
GeopoliticsOne week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot — while the two frontrunners accuse each other of being the cartels' best friend. Democracy, with body armor.
