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Clashing Over Saylor, Strategy, And Bitcoin's Biggest Risks Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Sometimes the best conversations happen after an argument. That's exactly what unfolded this week when I sat down with fund manager Larry Lepard for a discussion that almost never happened. After disagreeing earlier in the week over my criticism of Michael Saylor, Strategy, and the company's evolving Bitcoin strategy, we decided to hash it out publicly in a podcast/debate. Stupid thing to get in the way of a friendship, right? The result wasn't a shouting match. It was a substantive debate...

Israeli strikes pounded Gaza City during a ground raid on Tuesday, killing at least four Palestinians, including two children, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the October 2025 ceasefire deal. Initial Israeli reports said the ground raid may have been carried out by an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia, though Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

MAGA At UN? Trump Admin Floats Viktor Orban For Secretary-General Viktor Orbán as Secretary-General of the United Nations?  The proposal was featured in an unexpected weekend Wall Street Journal headline. The publication reports that Trump administration officials are floating the former Hungarian prime minister as UN chief. via Associated Press The WSJ cites some degree of emerging support for this prospect, but it would certainly be met with immense pushback and controversy among many European and other countries. The EU was of course long at loggerheads with Orban frequently during his prior four consecutive terms...