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Not only beat the scam but also beat the scammers.Crush them, without their realizing what happened.Everybody needs a hobby.From Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, May 28:&nbsp;Pump-and-dump schemes hurt people who buy into them and can rattle markets. And yet, some speculative investors purposely seek out them out, says research by Eugene Soltes. What can regulators do?&nbsp;Many

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From the Washington Post, May 28:GLP-1 drugs may be rewiring circuits involved not only in appetite but in emotion, desire and beyond.&nbsp;Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans.An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and young women with a hormonal disorder affecting the ovaries

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From Al Jazeera, May 27:New legislation aims to integrate banks into Russia’s air defences using jamming systems and trained employees.&nbsp;Russian lawmakers have passed a bill to allow trained bank employees to shoot down Ukrainian drones amid an increase in the number of attacks.The draft legislation, which would see banks across Russia install electronic jamming systems while selected

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The headline is deceptive, this is far from luxury.&nbsp;There are a couple developments that are but they, or ultra-luxe cruise ship timeshares, never made any sense. Why would the very wealthy want to do something like this? It is applying mass-affluent marketing to the actually affluent. Wut?From the Wall Street Journal, May 26:They went to South Dakota to ride out the apocalypse at a ‘5-star’

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From Puck,&nbsp;May 21, 2026:With stratospheric funding and a slew of founding talent from OpenAI, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab seemingly had everything an A.I. startup needed for escape velocity. But as it approaches its 15-month mark, the company has little to show for all that promise and capital.&nbsp; When former OpenAI C.T.O. Mira Murati launched Thinking Machines Lab, in February

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Just as the&nbsp;United States-Mexico-Canada trade Agreement (USMCA)&nbsp;enters joint review (and probable limbo).From Bloomberg, May 29:&nbsp;Canada edged into a technical recession as weak business and government spending drove a slight contraction in the first quarter, pointing to persistent slack in the economy amid US trade tensions. Real gross domestic product fell by 0.1% on an

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AMD's&nbsp; CEO has three degrees from MIT (or as Harvard Man Russell Seitz put it: The trade school on the Charles)From TIPRanks, May 29:AMD stock was down after Lisa Su spoke at an MIT graduation ceremony. Her mention of AI sparked boos from the graduates.Advanced Micro Devices&nbsp;stock was down on Friday after CEO Lisa Su spoke to MIT graduates about AI. The semiconductor company’s CEO

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I wonder why Mr. Soros would allow one of the OSF grantees to do that?&nbsp;From The Dallas Express via Yahoo News, May 18:A national progressive organization partially funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations appears to have been actively opposing the development of data centers in Temple, Texas.Indivisible Centex, the Bell County chapter of the national Indivisible group, held a week

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It turns out that more is possible.*From the RAND Corporation, April 20:Projections and Policy Implications for 2030&nbsp;Key Findings There are plans to add a total of 151 gigawatts (GW) of front-of-the-meter (FTM) and 149 GW of behind-the-meter (BTM) nameplate capacity by 2030. After project completion rates, retirements, and resource reliability are accounted for, these additions

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Mr. Chandler's illustrative graphic has a rainbow, a unicorn, quadcopter drones and two figures in military/paramilitary garb. He may be trying to tell us something.From Marc to Market:&nbsp;&nbsp;There does not appear to be materially new developments from the Middle East today. While some US officials seem optimistic that progress has been made, it is not clear that an agreement is at hand.

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From Barron's, May 28:Nvidia NVDA edged up Thursday after four down days in a row. The leading chip maker is still waiting for its moment to retake the limelight when it comes to artificial-intelligence processors.Nvidia shares closed up 0.8% at $214.25.The daily move was broadly in line with the wider chip sector but the longer-term picture is a little more concerning. Nvidia stock is up

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From Reuters, May 29: El Nino seen developing soon, likely to weaken monsoon rains June-September rainfall seen at 90% of a long-period average Lower rainfall could cut farm output, boost food inflationIndia ​forecast an El Nino-weakened monsoon in 2026 that will bring the lowest rainfall in 11 years, fuelling concerns ‌over crops, food prices and growth in the world's fifth-largest

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Though this is an infomercial for one of TechCrunch's products it also happens to be true, though Shenzhen could probably make a claim to that moniker as well.From TechCrunch, May 28:&nbsp;For decades, the geography of the tech industry has felt largely fixed, with Silicon Valley dominating the global startup economy. While cities like London, Beijing, and Tel Aviv have competed for secondary

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From IEEE Spectrum, May 25:&nbsp;Reclaiming Social Engineering for GoodWhy we can’t fix what we refuse to name&nbsp;“Social engineering” sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller, charged with totalitarian control and fringe paranoia. More mundanely, it’s come to be associated with phishing and other scams, in which fraudsters manipulate people into disclosing personal information.

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From Korea's Chosun Daily, February 20, 2026:Top Analyst Predicts 2027 Bubble Rally Driven by Liquidity SurgeLS Securities director highlights 500 trillion won treasury purchases, Trump's AI initiative, and semiconductor/robot stocks as catalysts&nbsp;“Bubbles are dangerous, but for the prepared, they are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Do not jump on the last train when everyone says they

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From Ledger Insights, May 27:DTC tokenization service to add Stellar as second public blockchain&nbsp;The Depository Trust &amp; Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Stellar Development Foundation announced plans to enable DTC tokenized assets on the Stellar network, with availability expected in the first half of 2027. Stellar becomes the second public blockchain to connect to the service after

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From the Bureau of Economic Analysis, May 28:&nbsp;....From the preceding month, the PCE price index for April increased 0.4 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 0.2 percent.From the same month one year ago, the PCE price index for April increased 3.8 percent. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased 3.3 percent from one year ago.Personal Income and

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From the Houston Chronicle, May 26:Fertilizer plants along the Texas Gulf Coast are at the center of a federal inquiry into allegations of market manipulation, as recent price spikes have left farmers struggling to afford the chemicals needed to grow their crops.&nbsp;The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information from fertilizer companies, as prosecutors investigate whether a series

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From Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex:The market has taken the increase in Middle East hostilities in stride. The response in the capital markets has been fairly restrained, though risk appetites have been pulled back, reflected in the losses in equities. The dollar is also firmer against most currencies, though the yen has recovered from the lowest level of the month. Crude oil is

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From Reuters, May 28: Shanghai futures would be tied to AI model building blocks China's daily token usage surged to 140 trillion by March 2026 China experts push for token futures to compete with US in AI tech and financeChina is designing a futures market for AI tokens, sources familiar with ​the matter said, as the country potentially takes a different tack to U.S. exchanges

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Lifted in toto from The Decoder, May 16:AI made a tiny slice of Silicon Valley filthy rich and left the rest wondering why they bother&nbsp;Around 10,000 people in Silicon Valley have amassed fortunes north of $20 million thanks to the AI boom. Everyone else feels left behind. A venture capitalist paints a picture of an industry caught between gold rush euphoria and existential dread. The mood

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From Japan-Forward, May 21:India's strategic geography and growing naval reach, along with its influence in the Global South, give it an indispensable role in the FOIP framework. &nbsp;In August 2016, the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood before the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Nairobi and spoke of "the enormous liveliness brought

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From Bloomberg, May 25:These AI Gurus Are Charging Wall Street Banks $25,000 a DayGlobal banks are pouring billions into artificial intelligence yet struggling to automate workflows. Two ex-bankers say they are being hired to ignite the shift.&nbsp;Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang cash big checks telling Wall Street bankers what’s missing from their AI plans.On a March afternoon, the two highly

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From Creighton Uni's Heider College of Business:&nbsp;Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI)OMAHA, Nebraska (May 21, 2026) - According to the May survey of bank CEOs in rural areas of a 10-state region dependent on agriculture and/or energy, the overall Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) dropped below growth neutral for the fourth straight month.Overall: The region’s overall reading for

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From the data gurus at TrendForce, May 27:&nbsp;Global NEV Sales Fell by 2% YoY for 1Q26 as Tesla Reclaimed BEV Sales Lead, Says TrendForceAccording to the latest research by global market intelligence firm TrendForce, global sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs)—including battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles—reached 3.94

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