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Lebanon faces a severe food security crisis
“In the capital Beirut, rescuers are still pulling bodies from the rubble of a 100 Israeli strikes in ten minutes on what local media dubbed Black Wednesday, when more than 300 people were killed according to Lebanon's government. The World Food Programme says the Israeli invasion has disrupted supply lines, leaving Lebanon in a food security crisis.”
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White House bans prediction market betting
“A staff wide email from the White House management office put Trump officials on notice over prediction market sites like Koushi and Polymarket. He said it's a criminal offense to use non public information to make money on betting markets about federal policy, military strikes, and war. It comes as a number of suspiciously well timed bets have raised alarms, including 6 figure Polymarket bets on a ceasefire between The US and Iran hours before an announcement was made.”
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Cuba resists US calls for regime change
“President Trump has indicated The US will likely move to take over Cuba, and it's been reported that Canel's departure would be a key part of that. The Caribbean island has been brought to the brink in recent months after The US led a fuel blockade threatening tariffs on any countries that supplied it with oil. The blockade has led to significant power blackouts as well as shortages of food and medical supplies.”
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US fertility rates continue a steady decline
“This latest drop means roughly 710,000 fewer babies were born in The US in 2025 compared with the peak in 2007. Lead CDC researcher, Brady Hamilton, says the steady drop in US fertility is sizable and has persisted for almost twenty years. Since 2007, there's been a decline in the general fertility rate of twenty three percent.”
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Military draft registration will become automatic
“The Trump administration says it's taking steps toward automatic registration for the military draft. The selective service has required eligible men ages 18 to 25 to register since 1980, and that could change later this year. The agency says it will begin registering men automatically instead of requiring them to sign up themselves.”
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“A staff wide email from the White House management office put Trump officials on notice over prediction market sites like Koushi and Polymarket. He said it's a criminal offense to use non public information to make money on betting markets about federal policy, military strikes, and war. It comes as a number of suspiciously well timed bets have raised alarms, including 6 figure Polymarket bets on a ceasefire between The US and Iran hours before an announcement was made.”
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Global demographics face an irreversible declining trend
“A third of the world by countries that represent about a third of the world's population, they are all in declining mode. That's a fact. And if you look at the top ten first wave economies, they account for about 30% of the global population and about 70% of the world economy GDP; they are all declining. This is a slow moving train wreck that we have to be cognizant for.”
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Wealth concentration has reached historically critical levels
“Wealth concentration now exceeds even the Gilded Age, and when you bring in the lens of AI, the fog of war is so thick that it prevents us from being able to see into the future. I was inspired to seek truth by trying to anchor what you at least know for sure, because it gives me great peace when I can underwrite the things I know with certainty and reorient my entire investing mindset.”
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Technology is driving labor's value toward zero
“The value of labor is reaching zero because I think technology as a whole is deflationary. I think that's the punchline. If technology works the way that is allowing for productivity growth that resets the jump to universality in ways that is unimaginable, it's really deflationary. And so you should expect a lot of things to maybe go down in price.”
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AI creates massive productivity gains but causes deflation
“What's happening though is that's not what we're seeing in actual price because we live also in a credit world, where credit inflation and credit creation is a big driver of our growth model. Technology as a whole is deflationary, but these compounding things like unprecedented levels of debt make the equation harder to reason about unless you anchor to the certain truths of demographics and labor.”
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Asset disposition will fund aging population healthcare
“In 1960, health care was only about 5% of US GDP, but we now know today it's over 20% of US GDP. That number alone kind of tells you people are living longer and health care is getting more expensive, which means that consumption actually has to be fulfilled. This will probably come from some kind of asset disposition that the older generation has acquired throughout their working years.”
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