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De Nederlandsche Bank moved 86 tonnes of gold from the United States and Canada toward London for crisis preparedness—liquidity and diversification, not a secret election forecast.
Inspired by theguardian.com · The Guardian
After reading the measure, Proposition 40 is a one-time billionaire wealth tax plus a broad billion-dollar net-assets declaration—not the two cartoons in the commercials.
Inspired by oag.ca.gov · California Attorney General
Terafab's 100-million-square-foot pitch is hard to ignore, but the more interesting experiment is collapsing mask design, logic and memory fab, packaging, and test into one SpaceX-style vertical manufacturing loop.
Inspired by terafab.ai · SpaceX / Tesla
A Chicago working paper on ADP payrolls shows firms kept 2–4% raise norms while inflation hit 7–9%, leaving a permanent real-wage cut after prices cooled.
Inspired by bfi.uchicago.edu · Erik Hurst, Christina Patterson, Nela Richardson and Ye Liv Wang
BBC coverage of CEO AI manifestos lands beside real headcount cuts at Block, Atlassian, Coinbase, and Rackspace—interested testimony from people who both sell the future of work and shrink today’s payrolls.
Inspired by bbc.com · BBC
Slashdot asks what switching among Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS really costs: not only licenses and apps, but years of muscle memory, utilities, and habits migration tools cannot move—classic economic switching costs and lock-in.
Inspired by ask.slashdot.org · Slashdot
July lost 23,000 payroll jobs and prior months were revised lower, yet unemployment fell to 4.1% as participation dropped—a hiring crisis masked by a lower breakeven job-creation threshold and people leaving the labor force.
Inspired by nbcnews.com · NBC News
PCPartPicker’s DRAM curves and manufacturer capacity math suggest AI HBM demand is squeezing consumer RAM—and also that demand destruction or a supply supercycle could reverse today’s nearly vertical price charts.
Inspired by ca.pcpartpicker.com · PCPartPicker
After tariffs were ruled unlawful, about $100 billion went back to importers of record—with interest—while consumers who paid higher prices get no comparable refund, only the hope that markets might lower prices later.
Inspired by cnn.com · CNN
John Naughton warns that AI gains may concentrate among owners while workers face displacement. Early adoption can freeze headcount, but if AI becomes ordinary infrastructure, larger AI-assisted teams may eventually have more leverage—and the real fight is over who captures the rewards.
Inspired by observer.co.uk · John Naughton
MIT Sloan coverage of research on AI financial guidance—showing models can give reasonable life-cycle advice when prompts include full finances and fiduciary framing, while incomplete questions and demographic stereotypes quietly worsen outcomes.
Inspired by mitsloan.mit.edu · MIT Sloan
CNN’s account of Situational Awareness—the AI-focused hedge fund that grew past $20 billion then lost about 67 percent of portfolio value in July—showing leverage, concentration and crowded trades can force sales even when a long-term thesis may still hold.
Inspired by cnn.com · CNN
The National Retail Federation estimates families with school-age children will spend about $863.86 on back-to-school purchases in 2026—arguing the season should not be another financial emergency, and that buying only essentials first is the sensible response when nearly everything else already costs more.
Inspired by nrf.com · National Retail Federation
Tim Hardwick interviews Ed Zitron for MacRumors on unsustainable AI economics— arguing the bubble is real while the technology is not fake, so the crash may cull valuations and promises without ending useful models.
Inspired by macrumors.com · Tim Hardwick
Joy Evers’s STAT essay on psychiatric insurance denial shows how even strong coverage can stop paying for recommended inpatient care—arguing mental health treatment must follow patient need, not how quickly insurers cut costs.
Inspired by statnews.com · Joy Evers
Truth Social plans to sell banks and trading firms the fastest access to the president’s market-moving posts. Public presidential announcements should not become a premium product that enriches a business tied to the office.
Inspired by nbcnews.com · Deborah Mary Sophia and Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
When investment-grade debt trades at junk yields, ambitions have not changed— only the market price of financing those ambitions has moved.
Inspired by ft.com · FT Alphaville
A gripping, imaginative account of humanity's efforts to combat climate change before it's too late.
