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Leopold Aschenbrenner's Short Seller Fairy Tale
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Short Seller Fairy Tale
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, stuffed like the ass of a Thanksgiving turkey with every trendy AI name you could throw a dart at, reportedly suffered one of the most spectacular drawdowns of recent memory, losing roughly 67% in July after a series of heavily leveraged bets went violently against it.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the losses became severe enough to trigger margin calls, forcing the firm into emergency asset sales. Public positions were reportedly sold to Citadel to raise liquidity,...
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Aug 6, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Camp David Clash: Trump Hammered Hegseth For Misleading Him On Arms Supply, WaPo Reports
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Following reports that US forces have "used up virtually all" of their precision, long-range missiles in futile attempts to first trigger an Iranian regime change and then to compel Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, now comes reporting that an angry President Trump confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in recent days, accusing the Pentagon of misleading him on critical munitions shortages that leave Trump increasingly powerless in the five-month-old fiasco of a war.
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Apr 14, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Iran Mulls Hormuz Shipping Pause To Preserve Talks, Avoid Trump Blockade Showdown, As US Pushes 20-Year Nuclear Freeze
Iran Mulls Hormuz Shipping Pause To Preserve Talks, Avoid Trump Blockade Showdown, As US Pushes 20-Year Nuclear Freeze
Summary
Diplomacy is not yet dead, as Bloomberg reports Iran is mulling a short-term pause to shipments through Hormuz Strait, in order to avoid a fresh clash with US forces & avoid testing Trump's blockade.
Mediators are scrambling to put together another round of US-Iran talks in the coming days: Iran is reportedly offering a 5-year moratorium on nuclear program, while US demands 20.
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Aug 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The New Censorship Isn't Coming From The Left - It's Coming From Everyone
The New Censorship Isn't Coming From The Left - It's Coming From Everyone
Authored by George P. Brooks via American Thinker,
One of the great ironies of American politics is that every movement swears it's against censorship - right up until it has enough power to do some censoring of its own. It's almost adorable.
For years, conservatives rightly criticized Big Tech, universities, corporate America, and legacy media for suppressing dissenting viewpoints. We argued that free speech wasn't merely a constitutional protection; it was a moral principle. We insisted that bad ideas...
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