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Hormuz Tanker Traffic Plunges After Fresh US-Iran Strikes Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz tumbled since late last week, as ship owners and operators froze up amid the renewed hostilities between Iran and the US over the weekend. The Thursday attack on the container ship Ever Lovely prompted some shipowners to pull back and wait for additional information about how safe transiting the Strait is. The U.S. military on Friday carried out strikes on Iran in response to the attack on the vessel. Then, on Friday and Saturday, the US Central...

Tax Season Will Bring Record Refunds. Use Them Wisely Authored by Marc Cadin via RealClearMarkets, Affordability is the defining economic challenge for millions of Americans. A recent poll found that 70% of Americans report that the cost of living is no longer affordable where they live, a concern that was highlighted in the most recent elections. From rising housing costs to the grocery aisle to the electricity bill, families are struggling to stay afloat.   This year, however, many households will finally get relief thanks to a new federal policy.  Signed into law this summer, the Working Families Tax...

The Technate Was Always Coming Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, And what you can do about it (besides complaining). Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread, unanimously opposed and viscerally aghast since James Damore’s infamous “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”. The usual suspects lost their shit. Engadget called it “the ramblings of a comic book villain.” TechCrunch clutched its pearls at the bits about “regressive” cultures...