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The French Political Crisis That's Turning Into a Debt Crisis

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Jeff Yan's Plan to Bring the Entire Financial Industry Onto Hyperliquid

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Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

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How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Economic Problems in Europe

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Why Treasuries Are 'Risky' Again

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How Airlines Actually Hedge Higher Fuel Prices

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Everything in Markets Is Now Moving Incredibly Fast

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Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque

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Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse

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AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally

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How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub

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Introducing: Bloomberg Money

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A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los Angeles

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There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America

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What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'

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OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Doing Business in the Wake of Hugging Face

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Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of Copper

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Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real

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The Rise of Organized Retail Crime at Big Box Stores

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Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills

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Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense

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What's Behind the Big Surge in US Government Bond Yields

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Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed

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Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy

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Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating

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Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid on the First Jackson Hole of the Warsh Era

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The Nigerian Industrial Behemoth That Could Reshape the African Economy

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Jasmine Sun on What the AI Industry Got Wrong About the Public Backlash

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Nick Bostrom on What Happens if AI Solves All of Our Problems

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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Really Tells Us About AI Danger

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A Historic El Niño Is Coming That Could Cost the World Trillions

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Trucking Is Booming Again, And Drivers Aren't Happy About It

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NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on Running a Media Brand in the Age of AI

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Introducing: Our Town

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How a Sardine Gets From the Ocean to a Can

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Brad Setser on the US's Unusual Japanese Yen Intervention

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The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War

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Why Private Credit Got Entangled With Insurance

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How the Iranian Economy Actually Works

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Branko Milanovic on What Comes After Globalization

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How Financial Advisors Can Grow During the Great Wealth Transfer (Sponsored Content)

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How Franchise Restaurants Opened the Door to the Gig Economy

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Why Apple Is Heading Into a Pivotal Moment

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The Creator of Claude Code on The Hottest Piece of Software in the World

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Lev Menand and Nathan Tankus on Why Fed Independence Is Now Hanging by a Thread

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Why Soccer Analytics Works Like Volatility Arbitrage Trading

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NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium

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Why AI Might Actually Create More Work for Lawyers

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The Korean Levered ETFs Shaking Markets All Around the World

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One of the World's Largest Hedge Funds on Its 86x Growth in Token Spending

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These Are the Sharps Actually Making Money on Prediction Markets

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How a Major Grocery Store Chain Can Dramatically Lower the Cost of Food

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What Dan Wang Saw on His Last Trip to China

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Baidu's CFO on How It Became a Full-Stack AI Player

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How Lenovo's CFO Is Allocating Capital During One of History's Biggest Booms

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Rory Johnston on Why His $200 Oil Prediction Didn't Turn Out Right

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How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever

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Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI

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How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

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Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

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Jeremy Grantham on How to Tell If a Bubble Is About to Burst

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The Iran War’s Lasting Scars Across Asia

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Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute

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Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute

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How a Vibecoded Newsletter Is Making the Hay Market More Transparent

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

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Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Running a Bank in the Age of AI

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The Hidden Plumbing of Commodity Finance

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How the Invention of Rope Gave Us Modern Civilization

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Gita Gopinath on Why Interest Rates Have Surged All Around the World

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Brendan Greeley on the Real 500-Year History of the Dollar

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What It Takes to Run One of London's Most Popular Pubs

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

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'The Assassin' Fahmi Quadir on How to Survive as a Short-Seller

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Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip

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Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

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Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

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Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet

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Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back

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Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

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Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

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The Bank of England's Megan Greene on Monetary Policy in a World of Supply Shocks

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Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

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How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis

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Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

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How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

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What's Actually Going On With Private Credit

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Presenting Foundering Season 6: The Killing of Bob Lee, Part 1

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Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence

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James Bosworth on the "Orange Wave" Happening Across Latin America

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Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI

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Daniel Yergin Sees a 'Different World' Emerging After the Hormuz Crisis

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

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Jack McClendon on Why It's So Hard to Create a New American Oil Boom