Iran President Says 'Prepared To End War' If Security Guarantees Offered, Oil Plunges

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...

Diesel Crack Spread Explodes To Record As Wall Street Warns Of Refined-Products "Perfect Storm" Wall Street Warns About "Perfect Storm" Diesel Crunch:  Goldman's Daan Struyven Shows Global Diesel Exports Crashing Citi's Anthony Yuen Warns: Global Diesel Inventories "Below 5YR Minimum" BofA's Francisco Blanch Warns: "Diesel's Perfect Summer Storm" Unfolding  Jefferies' Sam Burwell Warns: Hormuz Shock "Manifesting Itself In Cracks, Not Crude"  Brent crude remains hostage to daily geopolitical developments in the Gulf region more than five months into the conflict, with muted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz (read the latest US-Iran wrap) constraining tanker flows and driving refined-product markets...

"Dead Mall" Era Ends As Shoppers Return, Values Surge And Sector Leads CRE Revival The "malls are dead" narrative gained traction in corporate media coverage in 2016 and 2017 and lasted until 2022. Those headlines reflected the strain across the sector as excess retail space, department-store closures, and shifting consumer habits led to widespread low occupancy and cratering property values. But now, new data suggest that the "dead mall" narrative has not just reversed: that part of the CRE market is thriving, with a Wall Street Journal report saying it's outperforming...