There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences:
Hubris.
When I said "we're screwed on aluminum," I wasn't being flip. We can't plausibly bring anything new online anytime soon.
"In this sort of market, when you suddenly take out 3 million tons of capacity, it cannot be replaced," said Panmure Liberum analyst Tom Price. 🔌💡
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
www.nbcnews.com
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
With attacks on the two biggest aluminium smelters in the Middle East over the weekend, Iran struck at major suppliers to the United States of a strategic metal the world's biggest economy does not ...
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
Nathaniel William Horadam
Absolutely INSANE twilight aurora just now from my driveway in North Pole, Alaska. Incredible motion and color, one of the best of the season. Watch until the end, wow!
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Vincent Ledvina
Melissa Barber
I hate to get controversial, but I think we should have held the President, a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, responsible long before finding out he also raped children.
Trying to keep up with American operations in Iran?
Chinese companies already doing what Western OSINT organisations can’t/won’t.
www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/2...
Lmao the reason this leaked was because he wanted to buy IDEF, a totally illiquid BlackRock fund that trades ~$100k a day, instead of ITA which trades hundred of millions, so he had his brokers call up BlackRock and ask for a direct creation under his name. There’s so many layers of stupidity here.
Four-byline alert: 🚨
“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
www.ft.com/content/744e...
Carl Quintanilla
Blue Heron Farm
Matthew Ford
Quantian
“The Justice Department has not released dozens of Jeffrey Epstein files linked to allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child decades ago, according to a report.” www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...
www.thedailybeast.com
The Justice Department has yet to release dozens of Epstein files detailing allegations about the president from the mid-1980s.
Shanghai-based MizarVision has been publicly posting satellite imagery of American military movements throughout Operation Epic Fury, including locations of F-22 fighters, command and control aircraft...
