How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health

"From Orderly Selloff, To Panic": Stocks, Bonds Plunge As Oil, Dollar Soar On Iran War US equity futures are down sharply, along with all global markets, as the Iran war expands and escalates (attack on US embassy in Saudi Arabia; uncertainty over duration of Strait of Hormuz closure; targeting non-military infra / businesses) rattling markets and sending oil and the dollar surging. Global bonds also plunge on fears that Trump’s “whatever it takes” vow on Iran will fuel energy prices and inflation. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 1.4%, off...

SK Hynix Joins Trillion Dollar Club As Korean Stocks Echo Nasdaq's 1999 Meltup The breathtaking rally in South Korean stocks hit a couple of key milestones overnight. The benchmark Kospi index at one point in the session was up 100% for 2026, rivaling the Nasdaq 100 Index’s 102% surge in 1999 - right before the bubble burst... Samsung (005930) was up 2.7% and SK Hynix (000660) soared 9.3% rallying to new record highs mainly on three things: 1) overnight backdrop of SOX +5.5% driven by MU +19% strength, 2) launch of leveraged ETF...

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff acknowledged on Tuesday that he doesn’t know how the war with Iran will end as US-Israeli airstrikes on the Islamic Republic and Iranian counterattacks continue. “I don’t know, Sara,” Witkoff told CNBC host Sara Eisner when asked how the conflict ends. “I know this, that President Trump is the […]