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Peter Thiel Makes $76 Million Bet On Argentina's Top Shale Exporter Amid Milei Reforms Vista Energy SAB's American depositary receipts are up 5% Monday on news that Peter Thiel's hedge fund disclosed a $76 million stake in Argentina's largest oil exporter. Thiel Macro LLC reported owning almost 1.2 million shares of Vista at the end of the second quarter, valued at about $76 million. This was the fund's second-largest disclosed holding after Amazon. Thiel, the co-founder of Palantir and PayPal, has deepened his ties to Argentina. He recently bought a home in...

Judge Slams Brakes On Trump's 250-Foot Arch Within Hours Of Final Approval A federal judge late Thursday temporarily blocked construction of President Trump's triumphal arch hours after the National Capital Planning Commission voted 8-4 to approve it. FEIL - Architectural renderings of President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch, released by Harrison Design. (Harrison Design) U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a temporary restraining order barring "construction-related activity" for 14 days while the lawsuits against the project proceed, CBS News reported. She wrote that the plaintiffs are "likely to succeed" in showing the...

Downtown Seattle Lost 30,000 Jobs Since 2020 Payroll Tax: Report Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times, A new report from the Downtown Seattle Association published June 15 stated that downtown Seattle has lost around 30,000 jobs since 2020, when city leaders passed the “JumpStart” business tax, while neighboring Bellevue has become more attractive for businesses. “What we have seen in downtown Seattle is not a ‘jump start,’ but instead, a slowdown,” the report stated. “Seattle has become a tax outlier in the region, and it’s costing the city jobs and tax...