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Trump removed 50% Section 338 tariffs on 22 Canadian product lines, including Maine farm inputs, and added 100 others days before the midterm elections.

Secretary of State Rubio defended Russia's G20 invitation after Germany and the EU objected, and the US scrapped the Atlanta group photo over Lavrov's presence.

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.

Serval, an AI enterprise service management platform challenging ServiceNow, raised a $150M Series C led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation.

How fast a dollar moves through the economy is as important as how many dollars exist. A short walkthrough of the velocity equation (nominal GDP divided by money supply), why velocity rises when confidence is high and collapses in crises, and why a doubling of the money supply during 2008–2015 quantitative easing produced almost no inflation - because velocity fell faster than the supply grew.

Bedrock Robotics, a construction robotics startup, raised a $600M Series C.

Borrowing fuels expansion. Paying it back drags it. A short walkthrough of leverage as debt relative to income, the four ways an economy can deleverage (income, asset sales, default, inflation), why the process is inherently deflationary, and why the 2008 cleanup took more than seven years even with massive government intervention to soften it.

China's central bank and securities regulator met banks and brokers on buyback lending, lifting stocks after a record 12-week slide in the CSI 300 index.

Legora, a European legal AI startup, raised a €489M round.

Deleveraging is hard. Deflationary deleveraging is the worst version of it - a self-reinforcing loop where falling prices make existing debt heavier, forcing more cuts, which push prices down further. A short walkthrough of why fixed-nominal debt is poison in a deflationary environment, why savers win and debtors lose, and why Japan spent two full decades trying to climb out of one of these.

Flapping Airplanes, a one-year-old AI startup, raised a $1B Series A.

Most deleveragings are ugly. A small number are something Ray Dalio calls 'beautiful' - debt burdens fall, growth keeps running, employment holds, and inflation stays moderate. A short walkthrough of the four simultaneous policy moves required to engineer one (austerity, restructuring, monetary easing, fiscal support), why the composition of demand has to shift while the level holds, and the rare historical cases where it actually worked.