Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI, Retail Sales, Trump-Xi Summit

Ukraine Plans To Hyper-Innovate Humanoid Robot Soldiers At the start of February, we pointed out that "humanoid warfare nears" and suspected these war bots were headed for Ukraine for testing.  That hunch was confirmed by early March, after a TIME Magazine article reported that Foundation Robotics, a U.S.-based startup developing humanoid robots for industrial and military applications, had recently sent two Phantom MK1 robots to Ukraine for testing.  Mike LeBlanc, co-founder of Foundation...  The modern battlefield across western Eurasia has become the world's AI weapons lab, where drones, autonomous systems, electronic warfare, and...

Hyperscaler Bond Spreads Blow Out After Google Shocks With Another $25 Billion Bond Offering After tightening sharply following last week's (pre-Situational Awareness) rout which sent hyperscaler CDS to the widest on record, AI bond spreads are blowing out again this morning - with SpaceX bonds - which have quickly emerged as the fulcrum bond security of the AI world - plunging this morning on news that for the third time in a year, Alphabet which has emerged as the credit (both on and off balance sheet) nexus of the AI supercyle, is...

Fire Erupts Atop Manhattan Skyscraper Dramatic footage has flooded X, showing what appears to be a fire atop a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan at 6 East 43rd Street, New York City. The FDNY is operating at a fire on East 43rd Street in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/SlJ0UrbSY8 — FDNY (@FDNY) March 17, 2026 6 East 43rd Street is on fire. #nyc #fire pic.twitter.com/6rEynZ3u9J — John Smith (@JohnSmithrx3e) March 17, 2026 Going on right now in Manhattan job site my son is on pic.twitter.com/wbkZPPGQ7T — PeterAnthony (@PeterA1331) March 17, 2026 *Developing Tyler Durden Tue, 03/17/2026 -...