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I'm Sorry, But The Fed Has Run Out Of Road  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There is a special kind of denial that only financial markets can sustain. It is the quiet insistence that everything is fine because the S&P is only down about 10%, as if that number alone captures the health of an entire financial system. It is the belief that until equities are in full free fall, nothing truly serious can be happening underneath. But as we know, underneath, things are already starting to break. That is the part people...

The Israeli military has killed at least 713 Palestinians in Gaza since the signing of the US-backed “ceasefire” deal in early October, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update on Thursday, as Israeli attacks continue across the Strip in violation of the agreement. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and in […]

Ukraine Becomes World's AI Weapons Laboratory By Craig S. Smith of Eye on AI,  I was in Ukraine in February and wrote this piece before the start of the war with Iran, but its implications are even more relevant today. My interest in lethal autonomous weapons dates back to my time with the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, where full autonomy was debated but largely dismissed as ethically unacceptable. But in practice, the step to full autonomy is smaller than it sounds. Once a human is no longer actively controlling a system...