

In the Blind Spot (Technocratic coups)
SNEAK PEEK — Is a coalition of tech bros and industrialists planning to rescue America in the event all hell breaks loose after the
SNEAK PEEK — Is a coalition of tech bros and industrialists planning to rescue America in the event all hell breaks loose after the
By Eleanor Myers · Oct 23, 2024 LONDON — At London’s annual Frieze art fair, attendees trickle into a fake sauna. Inside, a screen shows
By Giovanna Faggionato, Ben Munster · Oct 24, 2024, BRUSSELS — A battle is brewing between Europe’s most powerful nations and the European Central Bank
SNEAK PEEK — Is spytech contractor Palantir miscast as the source of all evil? As the company takes control of the U.K MoD’s contracting
SNEAK PEEK — Regulators finally catch on to the liquidity vulnerabilities associated with intraday liquidity mismatches brought on by instant payments and mobile apps. —
SNEAK PEEK — Authoritarian states are using a UN process to extinguish the internet’s borderless and free nature by transforming it at the
Damned dams: Why Egypt’s alliance with Somalia is underpinned by dam diplomacy By Dario Garcia Giner KEY POINTS: — Ethiopia’s construction of the Grand Ethiopian
SNEAK PEEK — There’s been a Cambrian explosion of high-signal news the past month, and Izzy wonders if it has something to do with
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By Dario Garcia Giner The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting is (or, was, until Charlie Munger’s death in late 2023) an event so widely reported that
SNEAK PEEK — Izzy sprinkles a few insights gleaned from her Saudi-state-funded trip to Riyadh. — Are capital controls about to make a comeback?
SNEAK PEEK — NOT TO BE MISSED: Mario Draghi is set to reveal his big plan to save the EU from near-certain stagnation. Weirdly, almost