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Protests In France Are Becoming Increasingly Violent. Demonstrations Have Now Spread To Other European Countries.

The protests, which began as localized demonstrations against perceived neglect in the French education system, intensified on Saturday as hundreds of thousands took to the streets and over 1000 protestors were arrested.

French Students Have Taken To The Streets Over Learning Conditions. Thousands Have Been Detained.
Soaring Energy Prices Keep Pushing European Inflation. It Just Now Reached A Three-Year High.
Europe's Student Revolt Grows Beyond France. Thousands Take To The Streets In More Countries.

Trump Maintains Defiant Message In Kentucky Midterm Rally, Makes Dubious Claims About Republican Popularity
The president held a rally on Saturday in which he touted the supposed successes of his two terms in office, attacked his domestic opponents and claimed that the Republican party is gaining ground in the polls.
Treasury Secretary Grilled On Economic Figures And Foreign Policy. He Refrained From Directly Calling Ukraine An Ally.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emphasized that prices would come down as soon as the Iran war ended, hailed Trump's economic record, and defended the administration's decision to waive Russian sanctions.
Anthropic Co-Founder Claims AI Could Add Trillions To U.S. GDP Within Four Years
Speaking at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, Jack Clark said that artificial intelligence developments could increase U.S. economic output from its current level of about $30 trillion to $44 trillion by 2030.
Geopolitical Tensions Keep Rising. Oil Is Now Hovering Around $110 A Barrel.
Iran continues to escalate attacks against tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, while Russia and Ukraine are targeting energy infrastructure.
Trump Waives Russia Sanctions He Previously Signed Into Law. The Move Has Prompted International And Domestic Backlash.
The president signed an executive order on Friday night pausing the implementation of sanctions prescribed by the "Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026."
The White House Reportedly Limited Ukraine's Access To Wartime Satellites. Shares Of A European Competitor Are Soaring.
French company Eutelsat is seen as an alternative to SpaceX.

Calls Grow In Europe For Governments To Develop Alternatives To, Or Outright Abandon, Musk-Controlled Tech

Amidst tensions with the U.S., Ukraine is pushing for a European alternative to Starlink. The leading political party in Scotland also called for X to be banned.

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Economy in Focus

Wall Street Is Trading Near Record Highs. The Richest 1% Own More Than Half Of America's Stock Wealth.
As major U.S. banks prepare to report quarterly earnings, fresh attention is falling on who owns the financial assets benefiting from Wall Street's rally.
- S&P 500 Profits Set To Surge More Than 30% In Q3 With AI Giants Dominating Growth
- SpaceX Could Borrow $40 Billion For Nvidia Chips As Musk Makes A Massive New Bet On AI. Its Stock Fell.
Investors Rotated Out of the AI Trade and Geopolitical Tensions Soared. The Nasdaq Saw Its Worst Week in Months.
Semiconductor companies have been hit this week over concerns about competition from China.
- Geopolitical Tensions Keep Rising. Oil is Now Hovering Around $110 a Barrel.
- Oil Prices Are Already Soaring. Their 'Real' Cost Could Be Much Higher, Analyst Says.

Bitcoin ETFs Lost $65 Million In A Day. One BlackRock Fund Accounted For Every Dollar.

The latest redemptions, however, represent a small fraction of the roughly $65.7 billion in net inflows BlackRock's fund has attracted since launching in 2024.

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Acupuncture Deserves a Better Explanation

The National Institutes of Health reports that in a controlled trial of chronic back pain with no identifiable physical cause, 66% of participants who received Pain Reprocessing Therapy (a talk therapy technique) reported being pain-free or nearly pain-free after four weeks, compared with 20% who received placebo injections and 10% who received usual care.

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Pond Management Consolidates, the Hardest Asset to Buy Is Trust
What institutional capital does not bring is the thing that actually keeps customers.
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Puerto Rico's Tax Incentive Debate Turns to Long-Term Economic Impact
For Alberto Bacó-Bagué, former Puerto Rico secretary of economic development and founder of the Partnership for Modern Puerto Rico (PMPR), the discussion also raises a longer-term question: How can incentives contribute to opportunities for people who already live on the island?