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Congress Keeps The Trading Desk Open: Senate Dems Sink Lawmaker Trading Ban 53-47 A midterm messaging bill that was never going to become law just confirmed the only bipartisan consensus that matters: members of Congress still get to play the tape. Senate Democrats just blocked cloture on a bill that would have stopped lawmakers from buying new publicly traded stocks. The vote was 53-47. Sixty were required. But guess what happened? Republicans dropped Voter ID into it so the Dems would nuke it.  The measure was H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act....

Palantir Develops IRS Tool To Flag "Highest Value" Audits, Are Crypto Bros Next? Crypto bros and those of you with 'creative' accountants, heads up - the IRS is beefing up its ability to flag accounts for audits. Not only is this the first year that major US-based custodial crypto brokers are reporting gross proceeds to the agency, the IRS is getting aggressive elsewhere. Last year they paid Palantir $1.8 million to identify cases for audits, collections, and potential criminal investigations with a high probability of success. The contract was the latest...

Iran Says 'No Deal' Will Materialize If US Insists On Enriched Uranium Handover Summary Iran Foreign Ministry says "no deal" will be reached if the US makes enriched uranium handover demand (Al Jazeera). Rubio confirms that there's been no deal and that "we're not there yet" - amid broader late morning pushback against morning optimistic, premature headlines. Saudi sources report Pakistan army chief & a Qatar delegation en route to Tehran, after which Field Marshal Munir arrives - calls trip 'last ditch effort' to avert war. Influential Iranian parliament member threatens 'preemptive' military action if preparations & movements by US...