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29 Mar 2026
Targeted Killing Is Losing Its Stigma, and That Should Worry Everyone
The killing of enemy leaders is becoming routine. The evidence that it works is weak, and the world it creates may be far more dangerous.
28 Mar 2026
AI as Collateral: How Wall Street Is Learning to Price the Unpriceable
Wall Street is starting to securitize AI contracts, model weights, and infrastructure β€” and the valuation frameworks don't yet exist to price the risk.
28 Mar 2026
America's War on Poverty at 60: What the Numbers Actually Reveal
America's poverty rate looks very different depending on which measure you use, and that choice of lens has shaped six decades of broken policy debates.
27 Mar 2026
AI Is Forcing a Wholesale Repricing of Business Models Across Every Sector
Investors aren't just watching AI stocks rise and fall β€” they're trying to figure out which entire business models survive the decade.
25 Mar 2026
The Hidden Economics Behind the Expanding Sex Work Industry
As digital platforms formalize a once-invisible industry, the sex economy is exposing deep failures in labor law, tax policy, and regulatory thinking.
25 Mar 2026
China's Dividend Boom Reveals How Deep the Confidence Crisis Really Runs
Chinese investors are flooding into dividend stocks, and the reasons why reveal a confidence crisis that no stimulus package has managed to fix.
25 Mar 2026
Everyone Thinks the Market Is Wrong Except Themselves
Investors widely believe markets are overvalued, yet keep buying anyway. The resulting dissonance is not just irrational β€” it is structurally dangerous.
25 Mar 2026
China's 2030 Tech Masterplan and the Global Race It Is Quietly Reshaping
China's 2030 tech masterplan is not just industrial policy. It is a calculated bet to make Chinese technology the world's default infrastructure.
25 Mar 2026
SMFG's Jefferies Pursuit Signals Japan's Quiet Push Into Global Investment Banking
Sumitomo Mitsui's pursuit of Jefferies isn't just one deal β€” it's a signal that Japan's megabanks are done watching Wall Street from a distance.
25 Mar 2026
The Countries Hit Hardest When Global Energy Prices Spike
When energy prices spike, the pain doesn't land equally. The countries with the least power in global markets absorb the worst of it.
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