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This video outlines the systemic economic consequences of a potential U.S.-Iran conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. While military strikes might achieve tactical goals like damaging nuclear facilities, they ignore the broader global contagion a conflict would cause - from supply chain freeze and oil prices soaring to $130–$180 per barrel, to the paralysis of the IMEC corridor, the vulnerability of U.S. AI compute infrastructure offshored to Gulf states, and the risk of a leaderless Iranian insurgency targeting energy and digital assets.

Russia confirmed US-mediated Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 10-11, and the Kremlin says a Trump-Xi-Putin summit at APEC in Shenzhen is being discussed.

Traversal raised a $120M Series B at a $1B valuation, co-led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint and Khosla, to build AI that runs and fixes production systems (AI SRE).

Fal, an AI inference infrastructure startup, closed a new round at a $16B valuation.

Every economy - no matter how complex it looks - is powered by three simple forces working in a loop. A short walkthrough of Ray Dalio's three fundamental drivers - productivity, transactions, and credit - and how their interplay explains everything from everyday spending to booms, busts, and the policy levers governments pull during a recession.

e2e, formerly TesterArmy, raised an $8M seed to build a verification layer for code written by AI coding agents.

Trajectory raised a $45M Series A at a $300M valuation.

Blue Arbor Technologies raised a $10.5M Series A.

Conlio (Germany) raised €6.4M, led by Piton Capital, for AI financial automation for road-freight forwarders.

An economy is the system a society uses to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. Learn its meaning, components, and the 3 questions it answers.

YGO (Berlin) raised an €8M Series A to make travel inventory bookable by AI agents.

Kremlin says the three powers are in talks, but China has only confirmed contact over a Xi-Putin meeting.

Where does money actually come from, and how does credit turn into debt? A short walkthrough of how money, credit, and debt move through an economy - the three jobs money does, how credit creates purchasing power before savings exist, why every credit transaction creates a matching debt, and the line between sustainable borrowing and a debt spiral.

Tutor Intelligence (Massachusetts), a robotics startup that rents out robot workers by the hour, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z.

Why do economies repeat the same boom-and-bust pattern roughly every 5–8 years? A short walkthrough of the short-term debt cycle - how expanding credit drives spending and confidence to a peak, why rising rates and tighter lending turn the tide, and how the contraction and trough finally clear the way for the next recovery.

Larridin (San Francisco), which measures what companies get back from their AI spending, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures.

US forces struck Iran's Qeshm Island, pushing Brent crude back above $105 after Monday's 7.6% slide and clouding the path to a peace deal.