Joe Kent Says Demand for Zero Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Is a ‘Poison Pill’ That Killed Pakistan Talks

Why Insurance Fails To Protect Americans From Medical Debt Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Having health insurance is no guarantee of avoiding medical debt, according to a recent study. About one-third of working-age Americans who have health insurance also have outstanding medical bills or debt, according to a Sept. 17 survey conducted by Commonwealth Fund, a private healthcare foundation. That includes people with an employer-sponsored health plan, an individual health plan, or Obamacare, according to the report. Hospitals are the main creditors, the survey found. Sixty-four percent of insured people with...

Nvidia Informs Hyperscalers About Incoming Price Hikes As Memory Costs Soar The AI infrastructure buildout boom could soon enter another inflationary wave.  Nvidia's largest hyperscaler customers face sharply higher costs next year, with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems expected to jump in price as surging memory costs ripple through the chip stacks. Bloomberg cited sources familiar with Nvidia's new pricing regime, indicating that hyperscalers will see a 15% increase in prices for Rubin and Grace Blackwell processors next year. They said the size of the increase will depend on the chip...

Donald Rumsfeld's New Europe Is Waiting For Its Second Act Authored by José Niño via The Libertarian Institute On January 22, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld stepped behind the podium at the Foreign Press Center in Washington and, with one answer to a Dutch public television reporter, redrew the map of Europe. The reporter wanted to know why so many Europeans trusted Saddam Hussein more than then-President George W. Bush. The defense secretary fired back with words the Pentagon transcript preserved in full: "Now, you’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t....