Category: economics and politics
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Sec. of State Rubio on working with Europe
First, 45 seconds; the end of his speech at the annual Munich Security Conference. Then a CBS report on the conference, also short. And this on CBS
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Tired of individualism? Experience the warmth of collectivism!
Taking on Mamdani’s inaugural address comment – “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Artificial Intelligence build up.
I use AI every day (Gemini and Perplexity) and it is going to ultimately save my office some real money.
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“Japan’s Prime Minister, seeking closer US ties, wins landslide election victory.”
From the Wall Street Journal – The Prime Minister’s Liberal Democratic Party will have a majority on its own in a rebuke to Beijing. Ms. Takaichi comes out of the LDP’s conservative, pro-American wing. She favors more defense spending, which is urgently needed given China’s vast military buildup. So far she has managed President Trump’s…
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Senator Fetterman on his harshest critics
This is a zero surprise. Fetterman a rare thoughtful, moderate Democrat politician. So it’s obvious who spews hate. Shows you how clueless Dana Bash is, working in her little echo chamber.
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Unheard of: Palantir scores 127 on the Rule of 40 used to measure tech companies.
UPDATE: Despite these amazing results Monday, Palantir stock got hammered today (Wednesday), dropping over 11%. Another sign that for the moment the market psyche towards technology stocks has soured Palantir is an amazing company with the idiosyncratic Alex Karp as their CEO. The Rule of 40 is used to value software and Saas (software as…
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NY Post – “Hatred of Israel is the New Antisemitism”
The co-author of this excellent column – my opinion – also has an excellent interview which I’ve posted below the excerpted column. In the interview Noa Tishby gives a good summary of antisemism and how it has morphed from one reason to another since the Romans. As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January…
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WSJ: Europe needs the USA as much as ever
A long front page article from last week. The Continent’s dependence on America runs deep and belies attempts to replace it with new alliances The reliance puts Europe at a disadvantage in a world of great power competition and weakens its hand in negotiations with Trump on everything from trade to Greenland and Ukraine. For…