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The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble

The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble Tech companies need to generate huge revenues fast, or the economy could be in trouble. By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic...

Peter Zeihan: The Biggest Global Risks Facing Investors Now 

Peter Zeihan: The Biggest Global Risks Facing Investors Now  Stansberry Investor Hour Host Dan Ferris and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan discuss the Iran conflict, global oil...

Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

Five of the biggest US tech giants are carrying $1.65 trillion in debt that does not show up on their balance sheets, more than the debt that does. It is bankrolling the AI data-centre boom, it is perfectly legal, and it uses the same accounting trick that brought down Enron. Look at what Alphabet, …

This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick (updated, shared)

This article has been updated to reflect news developments. There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea. Public health officials have reported more than 8,000 cases of the parasitic infection known as …

Trump slaps additional 50% tariff on certain Canadian goods

The tariffs will take effect 30 days from now. The Trump administration announced Monday it will hit Canada with a 50% tariff on many goods imported …

Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Trump Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

A cautionary tale. In a stunning reversal on Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration said that lettuce samples from Taylor Farms did not, after all, …

Colorado was the first state to cap a drug’s price – then a federal court stepped in

Colorado is one of a handful of states with a review board for drug prices and one of only four with a board empowered to set upper limits on what …

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? By Ben Thompson, at Stratechery   There’s a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management,...

Trump Bit Off More Than He Could Chew Suing BBC, So DOJ Will Chew It For Him

Discovery's a bitch, man. The president has a tried-and-true business model for media trollsuits: fire off a bumptious shakedown letter, sue for …

How AI is supercharging drug development

Artificial intelligence is dramatically speeding up drug development — and a proprietary survey shows how it's priming a bigger automation push …

Trump, Rubio and a Zombie State In Venezuela

For decades after the 1967 Caracas earthquake, seismologists warned Venezuelans that a major earthquake was coming. And we had been waiting for the big one. On Jun. 24, the prediction of horror came true. Twice. Two level-seven magnitude earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, the most densely …

PSW’s Weekly Webinar: Inflation, the FED, & Early Earnings (7/15/2026)

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Trump Has Only Terrible Choices With Iran

Some involve accepting Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. The rest call for escalation. Here we are again: Iran is shooting at traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump is ordering retaliatory strikes, and both sides have declared the latest cease-fire agreement “over” or “dead.” That Iran …

The World Is Cutting Ties With America. It’s Already Costing Us.

In March 2023, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, laid out a strategy for managing the coercive policies of China. Europe, she argued, should “de-risk” from its dependence on the economic juggernaut by joining forces and building homegrown alternatives. Three years …

Trump calls for revocation of ABC, NBC licenses over speech snub

The president said networks that didn't air his primetime address on election security had committed "fraud." President Donald Trump said TV networks that did not feature live coverage of his primetime address on election security should have their broadcast licenses revoked. CNN, ABC and NBC opted …

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab …

Europe hands Google a huge loss in AI search engine battle

If you've noticed Google Search getting worse over the past few years, you're not the only one. It has gotten so bad that recently Common Sense Media, …

Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts

Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday. Truth Social, owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), has become the president’s go-to place for announcing policy decisions. The president’s posts …

‘God forbid’: Expert warns Trump tempting an energy catastrophe as oil reserves plummet

President Donald Trump's war against Iran is drawing down U.S. oil reserves to an alarming degree, CNBC expert Steve Liesman told MS NOW's Nicolle …

The US and Iran are back at war. And with one main sticking point, there’s no end in sight

The US and Iran are back at war. And with one main sticking point, there’s no end in sight By Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The...

Trump’s New Iran Blockade Could Hit Oil Prices Harder

The first blockade in April choked off Iranian exports without causing a lasting price surge. Now global oil reserves are lower, and ships face heightened risks. President Trump’s first naval blockade on Iranian ports in April caused oil prices to rise, but not to the stratospheric levels some …

Trump’s Anti-Growth Agenda

When a superpower’s economy lags, hegemony becomes unsustainable. In June 1897, Great Britain, at the apex of empire, organized an elaborate pageant celebrating Queen Victoria’s 60 years on the throne. The industrial revolution had turned a small island nation into an economic and military …

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such …

A rare bipartisan housing bill just became law – but Americans will still struggle with affordability

A rare bipartisan housing bill just became law – but Americans will still struggle with affordability By Kirk McClure, University of Kansas and Alex Schwartz, The...

Trump cuts to advisory groups leaves hospitals without key expertise on disease

Under the Trump administration, dozens of advisory committees have been ended or frozen, including one on controlling infection in healthcare settings.

This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick (updated, shared)

This article has been updated to reflect news developments. There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea. Public health officials have reported more than 8,000 cases of the parasitic infection known as …

Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Trump Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

A cautionary tale. In a stunning reversal on Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration said that lettuce samples from Taylor Farms did not, after all, …

Colorado was the first state to cap a drug’s price – then a federal court stepped in

Colorado is one of a handful of states with a review board for drug prices and one of only four with a board empowered to set upper limits on what …

How AI is supercharging drug development

Artificial intelligence is dramatically speeding up drug development — and a proprietary survey shows how it's priming a bigger automation push …

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab …

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such …

Look Past the Jobs Numbers: Three Ways Trump Is Strangling the Economy

Look Past the Jobs Numbers: Three Ways Trump Is Strangling the Economy By Steven N. Durlauf, NY Times Mr. Durlauf is the director of the Stone Center...