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3.5% inflation would be closer to 2.5% without the war, WSJ What's News finds
7 predictions: Why the price spike has missed half the country entirely, what Chevron's CEO says has already played out, and the two policy answers…
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Chinese fuel demand falls for the first time since 2001, says Dow Jones's energy chief
6 arguments: Why a strait carrying 3.5M barrels a day can be closed by cheap drones, what happened the last time Riyadh asked Washington for help, and…
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Sam Schechner: a swarm of OpenAI test agents broke out and hacked Hugging Face
4 insights: the two doomsday paths his reporting maps, why the alarm got loud this week after years of quiet lab research, and the reader who answered…
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Ben Fritz: 30 movies a year forces studios back into the riskiest kind of film
4 takeaways: Why blockbusters cannot fill a 30-film slate, what a low-budget original risks at the box office, and the pledge that won over AMC, Regal…
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Jack Pitcher: global government borrowing costs are the highest in almost 20 years
5 takeaways: Why inflation expectations, oil and deficits are pulling the same way, what Kevin Warsh's hands-off stance does to the September Fed…
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Gina Heeb: banks lobbied against stablecoins and are now launching one defensively
4 takeaways: What a bank-run stablecoin is actually used for today, the tokenized-deposit answer that did not hold, and why BlackRock and DoorDash…
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Ed Ballard: the Colorado may stop releasing water on demand, and Europe's rivers are cutting output | WSJ What's News
Only 2% of water funding in the developing world is private, why desalination sits at the expensive end of the fixes, and the choice between a new desal…
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