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Bloomberg reporter: nobody since Kissinger has held both of Marco Rubio's jobs
5 moments: Why he stepped back from the public Iran negotiations, what the Venezuela raid did for him with the MAGA base, and which donors are already…
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Joe Overdevest: 85% of Canadian goods still enter the US tariff-free
10 insights: Why Canada is beating the S&P 500, the capital its banks have just been allowed to release, and the state whose pause on data centers he…
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Karr Ingham: renewable energy isn't so renewable — $89B to scrap dead wind turbines
7 arguments: Why he says the US shale boom's heavy lifting is already done, why he's anti-tariff even against Canada, and the $89B bill nobody's paying…
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Denning and Laya: no balance sheet has surfaced for the $100B Venezuela partner
10 insights: Why the White House calls oil investment a precondition for democracy, what an interim president can legally sign, and the production gain…
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Catherine Austin Fitts: a plan to pull 4B new investors into the dollar system
16 takeaways: Why she says a $136T tokenization wave is coming, how stablecoins could evade US sanctions, and the guardrail bill she wrote in response
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Vera Bergengruen: the Pentagon is taking a 35% stake in a Venezuelan oil company
10 takeaways: The obscure Pentagon office that made the deal possible, why U.S. oil companies would not move, and what American drivers actually get out…
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Doug Holtz-Eakin: federal debt is 121% of GDP, higher than it was in World War II
6 takeaways: Why a fresh strike on Iran and $90 oil change nothing in his forecast, Faulkender on the energy pivot that absorbed the shock, and the $2T…
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Phil Magness: the tariff refunds go to companies, and the price rises are permanent
13 takeaways: Why he says Carney's retaliation handed Trump the pretext he lacked, the 1930 clause behind the new tariffs, and the dollar fight between…
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Paul Sankey: the Venezuela deal is a sideshow, and the diesel price is the colossal problem | Bloomberg Surveillance
Why he wanted Trump on a plane to see Xi, what Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries did to global diesel, and why a lower oil price would be bad for…
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Raja Krishnamoorthi: China is counting our magazine depth, and Venezuela will boomerang on us | Bloomberg This Weekend
The Illinois Democrat on tariffs as taxes at $4 gas, his bill to bar American money from Venezuelan oil, turning Starlink on for Ukraine, and the…
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Stephen Moore: this is no time to cut rates, and the oil price is what decides the midterms | Bloomberg This Weekend
Why he would hold rates where they are, what he would tell the president about picking a trade fight with Canada, and the closing news quiz on Lego…
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