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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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

PartnerOne acquired 3CLogic, an enterprise voice AI and customer-experience platform.

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.

Provision Labs, the physical-AI venture of Pronto founder Anjali Sardana, acquired Mumbai hardware startup Basilisk Industries.

CrowdStrike agreed to acquire Fiddler AI (AI agent observability) for about $400M and Dreadnode (AI security testing) for about $95M.

Corridian (New England) came out of stealth with a $38M seed round to build giant autonomous underwater drones for the US military.

Revolut completed a secondary share sale at a $115B valuation. Glade Brook, Coatue, Durable, T. Rowe Price and Baillie Gifford led it, and it raised no fresh capital.

Why do some booms run for decades and some busts haunt entire generations? A short walkthrough of the long-term debt cycle - how debt accumulates across multiple short-term cycles until interest payments swallow incomes, why a deleveraging is the only way out, and how deleveragings have actually played out in the 1920s, the post-war boom, and the run-up to 2008.