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Zach Buchwald is chairman and CEO of Russell Investments. The firm was founded in 1936 and runs about $370 billion. Its main function is building and implementing great portfolios. A rapidly strengthening winter storm, known as a bomb cyclone, is less than 24 hours away from delivering an unusual amount of snow, damaging winds and dangerous coastal flooding. Eli Lilly announced plans to open a new Lilly Gateway Labs location in Center City Philadelphia. Russia and China have been arming Iran with cruise missiles designed to take out warships. Iran has the upper hand in a present day conflict by a huge margin, writes Peter Bergen. Tucker Carlson: The next twenty years are going to be completely unlike the last twenty years A financial system built on debt-based money must constantly expand like a shark that needs to keep swimming to stay alive. Orders for durable goods reported by manufacturing plants in the US fired on all cylinders in November, rising by 5.3% from October and by 12.3%, including huge orders for civilian aircraft. AI has been a game changer for me in professional career as of late in a Director level role, as well as on the side. Unemployment Insurance Insurance Insurance to Lowestestest since Sept. 25. Home prices in California are down 2% year-over-year and roughly unchanged since July 2022. California population declines again in the 12 months through July 1, 2025, after two years of growth and below 200,400 people is 200,000 below the “estimate of April 1, 2020’s base base” Texas iceps 29718ternallyWood usually concealedrow Frankenrim showdown̶GF chosen Spread between 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields now widest since January 2022. Econbrowser analysis of current economic conditions and policy. Chinn-Ito Financial Openness Index Updated to 2023! Stagnation isnt a criticism; its an opportunity, writes Ito Takatoshi. French labor productivity is 61% higher than Japans, and grew at 1.26% year from 2009 to 2019. If Japan could catch up to France over the next three decades in terms of level and growth rate of productivity. A few big American cities have built a bunch of housing, and that almost all of these cities have seen big drops in rent. This suggests vacancy rates and asking rents are under pressure again following two quarters of “stabilization” The rise of AI science will open up another parallel avenue for rapid innovation by lone scientists or small teams working outside the academy. The Senate has moved its market-structure package forward, while the Banking Committee process remains stalled amid an escalating dispute over stablecoin “interest” and rewards. Bitcoin barely flinched as ETH and XRP dropped hard in a short burst, right as weekend liquidity was thin. ERCOT has explicitly created mechanisms meant for “large flexible customers” that can reduce load during peak demand. Bitcoin mining facilities are a core example. Graham Allisons explores the possibility of the U.S. and China stumbling into war. Jamie Dimon told Brian Armstrong, You are full of s—, according to reports from Davos. Kevin Warsh has a long record of criticizing the Feds post-crisis growth. Bitcoin bitcoin price crash is now 8% below its seven-day high of $84,368. Bitcoin is not a tool for its own sake, it is a means to an end, and BCEs have that end. Gold and Silver hit new ATHs again in the wake of the Powell investigation. Ledger preparing for a $4B IPO, enlisting Goldman Sachs. Brent Crude prices are expected to average $62.02 per barrel in 2026, according to 31 economists and analysts surveyed by Reuters in January. OPEC+ group meets online on February 1 to discuss output levels, and it is widely expected to keep oil production levels flat in March. Vitalik Buterin withdraws $44.7 million from his own funds to help grow the Bitcoin.