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The Petrodollar Was Never the Whole Story — And Its Myth Is Now Doing Real Damage
The petrodollar myth keeps collapsing dollar-collapse predictions — and distracting analysts from the structural pressures that actually matter.
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The S&P 500's Record Run Is Being Carried by Fewer Stocks Than Ever Before
The S&P 500 is soaring, but a record-low number of stocks are driving the gains, raising hard questions about what the rally is actually telling us.
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AI Misinformation May Actually Make Societies More Resilient to Lies
AI misinformation may be generating its own antidote, but the adaptive response is arriving unevenly, and that gap could matter more than the lies themselves.
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Oil Reserves Hit 8-Year Low as Middle East Conflict Reshapes Global Supply Chains
Global oil reserves are draining at near-record speed even as demand falls, exposing a dangerous decoupling that markets have not fully priced in.
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Berkshire's $347B Cash Mountain Signals a Deeper Reckoning for Markets
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Germany's Legal Labyrinth Is Strangling Its Own Reform Efforts
Germany's bureaucratic legal system is so layered that reform efforts are being consumed by the very machinery they're trying to fix.
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U.S. Manufacturing Strings Together Its Longest Growth Streak in Four Years — Then the Iran War Arrived
Four months of U.S. manufacturing growth — the best run in years — now faces a stress test from oil shocks and inflation tied to the Iran conflict.
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India's Rupee Weakness Signals a Foreign Investment Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
India's rupee keeps sliding, and blaming the Iran conflict misses the real story: a structural failure to attract the foreign capital the economy needs.
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Alphabet's $421 Billion Single-Day Surge Reveals Who's Really Winning the AI Race
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