Trump plays with fire - by choice They did it delicately, privately and belatedly. But some Cabinet members and top confidants warned President Trump that two pillars of his flood-the-zone strategy could backfire: tariffs and Elon Musk's budget-gutting. Why it matters: Both moves hacked off allies - some Hill Republicans and Cabinet officials with cuts, Canada and Mexico with tariffs - and created the impression and reality of uncertainty or outright chaos. Now, the public is weighing in: Markets hate uncertainty and chaos. The S&P 500 is down 6.4% since Inauguration Day, and 3% since Election Day — one of the worst-performing major indices in the world. Most market signals are negative - partly because of a tech meltdown that's not entirely Trump-driven. But the uncertainty is the critical element. The uncertainty is the point. ... ... ... Read more Washigton "CABINET MEETING" Washigton "CABINET MEETING" | Mr. Newberger's | 03/09/25 | 2:02
Trump's nuclear dilemma: "Greatest threat" is getting bigger may be ushering in a world of more nuclear powers and fewer nuclear guardrails. Why it matters: Trump on Sunday reiterated his urgent hope to halt the nuclear spiral in which China, Russia and the U.S. are developing ever-more sophisticated tools to end life on Earth. He also revealed that he'd written to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expressing his desire for a new nuclear deal - while warning that without one, he'll have to take "the other option" to ensure Tehran never gets a nuke. The flipside: Trump's withdrawal of U.S. support for Kyiv has U.S. allies debating whether to develop their own nukes, rather than depend on Washington. ... ... ... Read more 
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Some experts fear a new era of nuclearization.
"The belief that the United States has no interest in defending allies, which is the conclusion that allies are rapidly and rightly drawing, is very likely to cause proliferation," says James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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 Trump wages STUNNING attack with dangerous executive order | btc | 03/11/25 | 9:00
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 Trump Tanks Stocks, Exhausts Wall Street | Erasing "Women" From The Internet | The King's Playlist | Stephen Colbert | 03/11/25 | 13:45 Trump Spins After Musk & Rubio Blowup, Pentagon's War on Woke & Jimmy vs Daylight Saving Time | Jimmy Kimmel | 03/11/25 | 14:53 |
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The real "stagflation" risk: No help from Washington Wall Street is talking about stagflation, a combination of stagnant growth and elevated inflation. The real risk is not just that stagflation could arrive, but that the usual policy tools to fight it won't be in play. The big picture: The president and his advisers have been blasé about the risk of a growth slump or new inflation spike, believing that it's necessary to jolt the economy into a better long-term condition. The Fed will be constrained in responding to any economic weakening with rate cuts because inflation has already been well above its target for four straight years. ... ... ... Read more It's the Economy Stupid Trump CRASHES & BURNS with devastating public admission | btc | 03/09/25 | 10:05
Global investors are becoming wary of the possibility that President Trump will eventually follow through on his pledge of large, across-the-board tariffs on many of the largest U.S. trading partners. That has fueled an 8% drop in the S&P 500 since Feb. 19.
60 MinutesTrade wars amount to a negative supply shock, simultaneously reducing growth prospects and increasing price pressures.  What America is losing as President Trump fires independent government watchdogs | 60 Minutes | 03/09/25| 13:19Last Week Tonight with John Oliver  ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | john Oliver | 03/09/25| 24:18What to know about Mark Carney, Canada's next prime minister Mark Carney stepped into the international spotlight Sunday when Canada's ruling Liberal party chose the former central banker to succeed Justin Trudeau as the country's next prime minister. Why it matters: Carney is assuming leadership during a trade war and escalating tension with the U.S., after President Trump imposed tariffs on its longtime ally and has made repeated annexation threats. Carney won 85.9% of the vote to be elected Liberal Party leader.
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AI's "freaks and geeks" divide While many AI insiders are betting on some kind of all-in-one AGI breakthrough within a handful of years, on-the-ground progress has clearly split into two diverging paths: optimizing AI to write code and do math, or improving AI's "soft" skills with words and creativity. The big picture: On the one hand, the latest wave of "reasoning models" excel at computer programming and quantitative analysis. They're AI's nerdy tech geniuses. On the other hand, a handful of new projects show AI getting much better at replicating the nuances of how humans communicate. These are AI's English majors and theater kids. Chinese tech giant Alibaba Thursday released a new model, called Qwen QwQ-32B, that matches the performance of DeepSeek's R1 but requires a fraction of the computing power to run. Like DeepSeek, the new Qwen model is open source, and both Chinese projects are reasoning models that excel at technical work. ... Read more
After a week of hands-on experience with OpenAI's latest and biggest model, GPT-4.5, AI experts remain a little puzzled by it, given that it costs a fortune to use yet doesn't break benchmark records.
But one consensus has emerged among fans of GPT-4.5: The new model has "taste."
Many testers of the live demo say Sesame's AI achieves a new level of confident ease in imitating the conversational flow and subtle imperfections of an actual talking human.
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 Legal ACTION taken against DANGEROUS Trump prosecutor | btc | 03/07/25 | 11:15Trump CRASHES & BURNS in disastrous presidential address | btc | 03/05/25 | 8:02
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"Trump trades" are falling across markets After a two-month honeymoon, where the value of just about anything Trump-adjacent rose as he prepared to take office, markets have now soured on many "Trump trades." But the assets most closely tied to President Trump are falling faster than the broader market - some because hopes about his policies may have exceeded reality, others as consumers and investors sour on the activities of Trump advisors like Elon Musk. Peter Thiel's defense contractor Palantir is down 13%, Trump's own social media company Trump Media & Technology Group is down 26% and Musk's Tesla is down 29%. "The first crypto president" has seen bitcoin fall 8% in the last month, even factoring in the huge rally he sparked last weekend by advancing the idea of a national crypto reserve. The Trump family's own meme coins are tanking, too — Official Trump is down 23% and Melania Meme is down 51%. ... Read more 
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The Gilded Age Is Back - And That Should Worry Conservatives Corporate dominance over politics brought power, wealth - and backlash. At his second inauguration, as President Donald Trump promised to usher America into a new "golden age," he was surrounded in the Capitol Rotunda by a handful of tech billionaires whose companies account for roughly one-fifth of the market cap of U.S. public equities. It was a not-so-subtle sign that the second Trump administration will be staffed, advised and led by titans of wealth. Which means that Trump's golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological progress, but also of economic consolidation and growing wealth inequality. Titans of industry enjoyed enormous control over political institutions, while everyday Americans buckled under the strain of change. As the gap between the haves and the have-nots widened, political culture ultimately grew coarse - and violent. ... Read more Zelensky expresses regret for Oval Office spat with Trump Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday expressed regret for his Oval Office spat with President Trump last week and said he's ready to sign a U.S. minerals deal "any time and in any convenient format." Why it matters: Zelensky's statement, a day after Trump suspended all U.S. military aid to Ukraine, was an attempt to adhere to the conditions laid out by the White House for ending the diplomatic crisis. Trump officials had demanded that Zelensky publicly apologize, express a desire to negotiate for peace, and sign the minerals deal in order to get the U.S.-Ukraine relationship back on track. ... Read more
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Trade war erupts as Trump hits Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs President Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada's and Mexico's exports to the U.S. and new levies on China took effect early Tuesday. Why it matters: Trump's confirmation of the tariffs sent markets sliding Monday amid fears it could raise prices for U.S. customers, see inflation soar and start a trade war - and Canada and China took retaliatory action against U.S. products as tariffs targeting their countries took effect. After Chinese exports were hit with an additional 10% tariff on top of the 10% Trump had imposed earlier this year, officials in Beijing announced 15% tariffs on some U.S. agriculture imports, including chicken, corn, cotton and wheat. Canada, which is also facing 10% tariffs on energy products, announced a raft of countermeasures. ... ... ... Read more |
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Rana ForooharMs. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.
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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 EpisodesOliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.
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Kuznick InterviewsHistorian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay
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China Valley of TunnelsA report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.
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