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Aaaand there‘s the bailout www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Simon Lester
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Regardless of whether Canada retaliates if the Section 338 tariffs are imposed, I don't think it makes sense to publicly threaten retaliation beforehand, so this seems like the right way to talk about things for the moment.
ReutersCarney plays down idea of curbing Canadian oil supplies to US amid trade war reut.rs/4c99OCy
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“I had a million doses of Joker venom that my henchmen and I were prepared to pour into Gotham’s water supply. And the Bat-Man got Commissioner Gordon to stop me from doing that.”
Aaron RuparPeter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
Number three, we will then wish for three more wishes.
Dare Obasanjo“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
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As Trump threatens more tariffs, one premier is open to leveraging energy against the U.S.
‘Whatever it takes’: N.B. premier open to using energy as leverage amid tariff threatAs Canada faces 50 per cent U.S. tariffs on a wide range of products, New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt is willing to use the tools at her province’s disposal to help make a deal and avoid additional tariffs.www.ctvnews.ca
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Never forget.
Tom JoscelynIt’s striking that Douthat has been at the NYT all these years. The right has built a closed media ecosystem on the (false) belief that legacy media is a closed ecosystem. Meanwhile, a rightwing intellectual mediocrity like Douthat kept chugging along at the Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
"... let’s also be clear that the required adjustment is not only on China’s side. America will also need to tackle its unsustainable fiscal policy, as well as its persistently low private savings. That, too, cannot be addressed by exchange-rate gimmicks." Yep.
The EconomistDemanding that China revalue the yuan gets both the diagnosis and the cure wrong, write Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Hélène Rey
Hear me out: An atproto-based international soccer/football competition to compete with the World Cup.
Mark ChadbournFifa president Gianni Infantino is planning to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors under a scheme that could potentially earn him tens of millions of pounds. Investor discussions have been held with figures close to the Trump administration.