Yeah clearly the US wants to ease tensions…🙄
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Always enjoy exploring the various nooks and crannies of resource markets with my friend and master tour guide @kevinmuir - thanks for having me on and apologize for the “prison holding cell-like” background as I’m in the midst of an extended travel stint.
This week @kevinmuir and @PatrickCeresna welcome to the show, Robert Mullen @MRAfunds Marathon Resource Advisors to discuss contrarian investing, portfolio hedging, long volatility, and why energy, copper, shipping, and other resource markets may be setting up for a major regime shift. youtu.be/pH6CR-5PclU
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"It’s a Marathon and a Sprint"
“It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint” is an overused expression in Trading.
In fact, Trading consists of both “Marathons” and “Sprints”...
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An underrated aspect of the Houthis joining this conflict is the sheer volume of Patriot/THAAD interceptors they soaked up in Saudi Arabia. It gives Iran a higher gear of escalation dominance moving forward. Missile math has always been the fulcrum of this war in my view and the war expanding to Yemen made it worse for the US/GCC.
To be fair to Gen Z they missed secular stagnation and have been eating above target inflation for 6yrs.. so we may all want $587K before 2040
BREAKING: Netanyahu says Iran has now restarted its nuclear program and intends to destroy Israel within a short time.
"Iran has restarted its nuclear program, and it wants to destroy us within a short time," Netanyahu said an hour ago.
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has warned that resuming the war this close to Tuesday's election will force the vote to be postponed indefinitely.
Netanyahu said on Wednesday that toppling the Iranian regime is now his directive to the IDF and Mossad.
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29 months ago, Han Feizi wrote the article, “Cargo cult, Why America cannot have nice things”, after Biden put 100% tariffs on Chinese cars.
We are seeing results today. Twitter is full of Tesla fanboys waxing idiotic about FSD (L2++ city NOA).
Folks… it’s offered on three cars in the US: the Model 3, the Model Y and the Cybertruck.
In China, over half a dozen self driving systems offer L2++ city NOA (navigation on autopilot) on +140 models from the $15,600 Aion N60 to $150,000 ultra luxury sedans to monster SUVs and everything in between. Tesla’s FSD has, so far, not been good enough to launch in Chinese traffic.
The price discount of Chinese EVs vs US equivalents went from ~20-30% in 2022 to ~50-60% in 2026.
Americans are not allowed to have nice things.
asiatimes.com/2024/05/cargo-…
China has become a net exporter of Carbon Fiber. Huge turn of event vs 3/4 yrs ago. This is where China's investment went when Xi said Housing is for living, not for speculation. Investment in factories.
Look, huge export increased to Russia & Ukraine. I wonder what's that for?
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בחזרה לפברואר 2026: שוב בדרך למלחמה עם איראן?
וכך, במנהרת הזמן, חזרנו במהירות לפברואר 2026.
ארצות הברית מאיצה את בניין הכוח הצבאי שלה באזור, איראן מאיימת בתגובה קשה לכל תקיפה, ובוושינגטון ובירושלים שוב עולות האפשרויות לתקיפת מתקני גרעין, אתרי שיגור וייצור טילים ואף חיסול בכירים איראנים.
ברקע, מגעים מדיניים מאחורי הקלעים שאינם מובילים בינתיים לפריצת דרך, ותחושה הולכת וגוברת שהשאלה אינה אם תפרוץ מלחמה נוספת, אלא מתי.
אבל דבר אחד לא השתנה: השאלה האסטרטגית הבסיסית שאיש עדיין לא סיפק לה תשובה משכנעת.
מה בדיוק תוכל להשיג מערכה נוספת מול איראן שהמערכות הקודמות לא הצליחו להשיג? ובעיקר, האם המחיר הצפוי של מלחמה נוספת, בחיי אדם, בכלכלה וביציבות האזורית, מצדיק את ההישגים שניתן לצפות להם?
לפני שחוזרים שוב לאותה נקודת מוצא, ראוי לשאול אם הפעם יש אסטרטגיה אחרת, או שאנחנו פשוט עומדים לחזור על אותו מהלך ולצפות לתוצאה שונה.
“The people caught in labor’s shrinking share of GDP don’t need a graph on X, they’ve been living the line for years.”
I went to Phoenix to spend time with the Taiwanese community. TSMC will invest $265 billion and send thousands of engineers and their families, which marvel at their new lives in the Sunbelt
My first feature as a contributing writer to the New York Times:
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opini…
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I, too, think TSMC Arizona is wildly important for America. Great article from @danwwang — “ TSMC is doing for America what Apple did for China”
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