Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

28% of the customers in Flexport's call down yesterday said they're pausing all ocean freight bookings from Asia until there's more clarity on where tariffs will end up.

No foreigners were not selling Treasuries to punish the US (Trump) A 3-day tick chart of the Dollar Index (DXY). Note the green annotation. It's up 2.2% from Thursday's low. This is a big move for this short a time frame. If China or other foreigners were selling Treasuries to

Please make a miniature pet wooly mammoth

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit

Disastrous chart for the debt refinancooors

The sound of the global economy slowing down. It's better known as a Formula One team, but Hass is also one the world's top-10 machine tools companies, crucial to build new factories. It's now warning of a "dramatic decrease" in new orders from both US and foreign customers.

🇨🇳 We will not let anyone take away the Chinese people’s legitimate right to development. We will not tolerate any attempt to harm China’s sovereignty, security and development interests.

"My dad used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, ‘Choose.’”… "I used to go with the wrench…’cause f*ck him, that’s why."

La situación todavía puede empeorar muchísimo. No ya porque esta misma situación se pueda reproducir con EEUU-UE sino porque: 1) China no se quedará de brazos cruzados si pierde la totalidad del mercado estadounidense. Necesita colocar rápidamente su capacidad exportadora a otros

The EU now has an unusual opportunity to forego protectionism and become the chief global champion of free trade. Unfortunately, it will probably not seize it econ.st/4lsDnlW

Santiago Capital Because it’s not about funding availability it’s about the terms and conditionality of funding when your debt underpins the entire global financial system. The U.S. isn’t like other sovereigns. It doesn’t just borrow to fund itself it issues the asset that anchors collateral

It’s only 8:00am and Cliff already won the internet today

I rarely praise Trump but this is a genuinely incredible speech I've been arguing for close to a decade that the single biggest reason for the growing divide between the West and "the rest" was the West's inability to accept diversity (the genuine kind,

Democracy is creating startup cities. Moving to Starbase was voting with feet. Building up Starbase was voting with wallet. And incorporating Starbase was voting with ballot. This is the future of democracy. Not a two-party system with the illusion of choice. Instead, a 1000-city

Socialism is the suicide pact of mediocrity.

🇪🇺EU “CHAT CONTROL” PLAN BACK FROM THE DEAD - AND IT'S GUNNING FOR YOUR MESSAGES A revived EU proposal would force apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram to scan every message, photo, and video starting in October - even if encrypted. France flipped to support. 19 of 27

🇪🇺 DEATH OF PRIVACY: EU'S DICTATORSHIP CAN COME WITH A SUIT AND KIND WORDS By October 2025, your phone could become a state surveillance device, scanning every message, photo, email, and video before you send it. Encrypted apps? Irrelevant. Chat Control scans your content

One of the best things I’ve heard Naval say and you’ve probably never heard this so I’ll just drop it here. Ties to the theory of analogy and natural philosophy.

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