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The U.S. Economy Is Insulated From High Oil Prices.
-- Americans Aren’t.
The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years,
even as many households have struggled.
The war with Iran is following the same pattern.
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The U.S. Economy Is Insulated From High Oil Prices. Americans Aren’t.
The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years, even as many households have struggled. The war with Iran is following the same pattern.

Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backstop-300-million-…

AMD to Backstop $300 Million Crusoe Loan, Following Nvidia Playbook
Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and ...

This is "interesting" - In a civil trial in which Elon M. is the defendant they are having difficulty finding enough unbiased jurors to empanel a jury:
Well, that's one way to evade liability: become so hated that there aren't enough people who don't hate your guts to form a jury.
"Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings"

Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings
Nine jurors, claiming they can be fair and impartial to Elon Musk and his controversial purchase of Twitter in 2022, were seated in San Francisco federal court Thursday, whittled down from a pool of 93.

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

https://blog.mondediplo.net/les-collaborateurs

Les collaborateurs
Donc ils ont eu une éducation. Ils sont allés aux écoles — enfin à Sciences-Po, ou en école de journalisme. Donc on leur a enseigné. Donc, ils ont appris. Ils ont appris l’Histoire. L’ont régurgitée — dans des copies, puis dans des articles, dans des discussions mondaines. Ils ont vu des documentaires — sur Arte. Des films. Sur la montée. Sur ce qui s’est passé, les processus à l’œuvre, les accélérations. À quoi les processus ont conduit. Ils ont été invités — …

"High gas prices are fuelling demand for electric vehicles as drivers seek to save money"
#Cars #Vehicles #ElectricVehicles

Would switching to an EV save you money as gas prices spike?
“Clean power and electrification combined is what provides the most security,” says Ember analyst Euan Graham.

"The April Fools' posts have since been deleted."
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=hyperbridge-exploit

The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 April 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, then primarily coal.
All five of the European institutions in operation today were born that day in Paris.
Over the following decades the peace process expanded.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland a…

Why is Brussels ignoring EU’s 75-year anniversary?

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system "Project Sunrise" (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/blu…