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Air Freight Rates To Spike As Iran War Escalates
Air Freight Rates To Spike As Iran War Escalates
By Eric Kulisch of FreightWaves
The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on Saturday is already disrupting air cargo traffic in the Middle East, a key freight corridor between Asia and Europe where two of the world’s largest cargo airlines are based, and raising the potential for a rise in air freight rates.
Airlines are suspending flights, rerouting traffic around the conflict zone and unable to use key transload hubs in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar because of retaliatory...
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What To Expect From El Niño And La Niña?
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As a strong El Niño phenomenon is being predicted for the coming months, large parts of the United States can potentially expect a wet and stormy fall and winter.
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, this is seen in data from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.
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While El Niño can also bring excess rain to parts of South America, Central Asia and Africa, it can exacerbate drought conditions in places like the Pacific Northwest, the...
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Apr 6, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Mamdani's Tax Plan Is A Warning To America: Counterproductive And Regressive
Mamdani's Tax Plan Is A Warning To America: Counterproductive And Regressive
Authored by Daniel Lacalle,
Zohran Mamdani’s tax package is a warning to America.
It is what you may expect when the radical left takes power. Demolition of the private sector and destruction of potential growth and jobs.
Mamdani’s plan is not ambitious nor innovative; it is precisely the interventionist system that has been implemented throughout decades in countries that now suffer stagnation and elevated unemployment. It concentrates New York City’s fiscal risk onto a narrow and mobile base of taxpayers and companies...
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Sep 24, 2026 / Tyler Durden
What T. Boone Pickens Would Ask About AI CapEx
What T. Boone Pickens Would Ask About AI CapEx
Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack,
I keep waiting for someone in the AI discussion to talk like an owner. What we get instead is a week of model releases, token counts, and model-lab valuations that look like oil majors, while the harder questions about turbines, interconnect queues, and who answers for the spend sit offstage. That imbalance would have driven T. Boone Pickens up a wall.
Boone passed away in Dallas on September 11, 2019. He was 91. He grew up in...
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