Hormuz Ship Traffic Rebounds To Highest Level Since Start Of War, Iran Renews Restrictions

Why Digital ID Is The Hill To Die On: The Authentication Layer Authored by Joshua Stylman via Substack, A friend and I got into it recently. He’s smart, freedom-minded, and totally gets the danger of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). Expiring money, programmable control, carbon budgets - he sees most of the expanding tyranny clearly. And yet he dismisses Digital ID as a distraction. When I try to make the case that digital ID is the gateway to the gulag in the metaverse, he demands I name ONE thing Digital ID gives...

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain Summary:Spain Train Collision Among Nation's Deadliest As Death Toll Jumps To 64 Two High-Speed Trains Collide South Of Madrid Death Toll Jumps The death toll from this morning's collision between two high-speed trains south of Madrid has risen to 64, Bloomberg reports, placing it among Spain's deadliest rail disasters. For context, the 2013 Santiago de Compostela derailment killed 80 people🇪🇸 Spain high-speed train crash devastation shown in aerial footage https://t.co/DRqMD6KOzA— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 28, 2026At Least 30 Dead After High-Speed Train...

Bank Of America Tumbles After Trading Miss Across The Board Last night we said Bank of America would use its brand new and "unexpected" $1.2 billion (non tax-deductible) money-laundering penalty as cover for an ugly quarter. This morning it tried to do just that. Just hours after Treasury fined the bank more than $1.21 billion for willfully failing to report over $5 billion in suspicious transactions (and for having "prioritized its revenues" over compliance), BofA reported Q3 results that missed almost everywhere that matters: FICC missed, equities missed, total revenue missed,...