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The Future of Money4:20
4:20

The Future of Money

Three monetary technologies are racing toward the same future at the same time: central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies. Each one solves a different problem and creates a different set of trade-offs around control, privacy, and trust. A short walkthrough of what CBDCs actually do, why programmable money changes the rules of every economy that adopts it, and why the transition will take decades, not months.

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Strait of Hormuz Crisis Sends Brent to $100
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Strait of Hormuz Crisis Sends Brent to $100

US forces struck three Iranian tankers overnight as Iran fired a ballistic missile at American warships, collapsing 95% of strait traffic and driving Brent crude to $100 in the worst oil supply…

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Geopolitics6 min read
August LEI Due as Dual Rate Hikes Tighten Credit Grip
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August LEI Due as Dual Rate Hikes Tighten Credit Grip

The Conference Board's August Leading Economic Index arrives Thursday at 10 AM ET, testing whether a four-year positive growth rate milestone survives the combined shock of back-to-back Federal…

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Markets6 min read
How Money Circulates Through an Economy3:51
3:51

How Money Circulates Through an Economy

An economy isn't a list of transactions - it's a circuit. Money moves in one direction, goods and services move in the other, and every paycheck, purchase, tax, and investment is a node in the loop. A short walkthrough of the circular flow model, why savings and investment create leaks and injections, and why understanding the diagram is the cleanest way to see why stimulus expands an economy and austerity shrinks it.

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Yen Carry Unwind Threatens NVDA, QQQ, AMD
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Yen Carry Unwind Threatens NVDA, QQQ, AMD

Simultaneous Fed-BOJ tightening puts $500 billion in yen-funded positions at risk, with Nvidia, AMD, and QQQ flagged as first forced-liquidation targets heading into the Friday close.

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Markets6 min read
BOJ Raises Rates to 1.25%, a Three-Decade High
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BOJ Raises Rates to 1.25%, a Three-Decade High

The Bank of Japan hiked its policy rate to 1.25% on September 18, the highest level in 31 years, driving the yen sharply higher as markets await Governor Kazuo Ueda's signals on December.

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Markets6 min read
Hackuity Raises €16M to Fight AI Vulnerability Surge
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Hackuity Raises €16M to Fight AI Vulnerability Surge

Hackuity (France) — Lyon-based AI vulnerability operations center raises €16M led by Forgepoint Capital International to combat the AI-driven surge in enterprise security vulnerabilities.

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RBA Rate Hike Odds Surge to 80% on Global Contagion
MAJOR

RBA Rate Hike Odds Surge to 80% on Global Contagion

Overnight swaps now price an 80% chance of a Reserve Bank of Australia rate increase on September 29, as simultaneous Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan tightening amplifies a global central bank…

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Markets6 min read
Salesforce, Nvidia Unveil Koa at Dreamforce '26
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Salesforce, Nvidia Unveil Koa at Dreamforce '26

Salesforce and Nvidia debuted Koa, a CRM-specific reasoning model built on Nemotron, at Dreamforce '26, lifting analyst price targets to $300 even as CRM shares retreated on SaaS pricing-power…

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Technology6 min read
The Real Economy vs the Financial Economy5:07
5:07

The Real Economy vs the Financial Economy

When the stock market hits a record high while wages stagnate and factories sit idle, two economies are running at the same time. A short walkthrough of the difference between the real economy (wheat, haircuts, semiconductors) and the financial economy (claims on the future value of all of that), why they're linked but not identical, and why bubbles, crashes, and the entire 2008 crisis make more sense once you stop confusing the two.

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syte Closes €9M Series A for Property AI
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syte Closes €9M Series A for Property AI

syte (Germany) — Münster-based proptech raises €9M Series A to expand its AI platform that automates early-stage real estate planning, land-use, and zoning analysis across Europe.

Funding4 min read
TUSK IC Lands €15M to Scale Ka-Band Chip Output
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TUSK IC Lands €15M to Scale Ka-Band Chip Output

Tusk IC (Belgium) — Antwerp semiconductor startup raises €15M Series A led by Matterwave Ventures to scale production of beamformer chips for electronically steered Ka-band LEO satellite antennas.

Funding4 min read
D-Robotics' $400M Series C Bets on Robot Chips
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D-Robotics' $400M Series C Bets on Robot Chips

D-Robotics (China) — Completes $400M Series C led by Mirae Asset and Meituan to expand its Sunrise chip portfolio and build full-stack AI development infrastructure for the robotics industry.

Funding4 min read
Stocks vs Flows4:03
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Stocks vs Flows

Most of the confused arguments about debt, deficits, GDP, and wealth come from mixing up two different kinds of quantity. A short walkthrough of stocks (amounts measured at a point in time) versus flows (rates measured over a period), why you can never compare them directly, and why the distinction is the single best tool for cutting through economic headlines.

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Temporal Raises $550M Series E at $12.55B Valuation
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Temporal Raises $550M Series E at $12.55B Valuation

Temporal (USA) — AI durable workflow infrastructure company raises $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, co-led by Lightspeed, as its open-source installs surpass 43 million and its 4,300+ paying customers include OpenAI, Netflix, and JPMorgan.

Funding4 min read
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply4:52
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Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

Almost every macro question - inflation, recession, stagflation, central bank policy - comes back to two curves and where they cross. A short walkthrough of aggregate demand (consumption, investment, government, net exports), the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves, what happens when each one shifts, and why central banks spend most of their attention managing AD.

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Google Ad-Tech Ruling Lifts MGNI, PUBM, TTD 4%
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Google Ad-Tech Ruling Lifts MGNI, PUBM, TTD 4%

The full DOJ written opinion in the landmark Google programmatic advertising antitrust case hit the federal docket, driving rival ad-tech platforms sharply higher on structural breakup expectations.

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Technology6 min read