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A collection of interesting blind spotty stuff from the week. Who owns U.S. debt? Aka: how QE killed the UST carry-trade for foreigners (and correspondent
Hyperliquid is a crypto exchange that doesn’t want its customers to rely on leading stablecoins like Tether or Circle for trading on its platform. It
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The fracture stems from a blind spot: a reluctance to recognize that certain limits on speech are legitimate, especially at war, and that whataboutism isn’t always equivalent.
Don’t fall for a false dialectic. Don’t get played. Practice cognitive security and touch grass. Stay kind.
Tell me you’re running a patriotic war bond campaign, without officially telling me you’re running a patriotic war bond campaign.
A Triggernometry conversation with historian Dominic Sandbrook about Empire triggers Dario to retrace his roots and argue that, contrary to popular belief, it was the
This is a guest contribution from anon. For most of 2025, China looked like the world’s hungriest oil hoarder, socking away over 100 million barrels
This is a note to our free subscribers. As we’ve already highlighted to our paid subscribers we are undergoing a restructuring. There are two key
The Blind Spot is relaunching with a streamlined structure and renewed focus on its core mission of providing contrarian, politically aware financial journalism through
SNEAK PEEK — Why the limits to AGI may lie in our own psychology. — Bessent’s “Sovereign Wealth Fund” represents a reverse lend-lease
SNEAK PEEK — The Lebanese disarmament of Hezbollah has begun — The classified Durham Annex was released, displaying the seeds from which sprouted the American