How Mexico overtook the City in IPOs. $10 trn per day in fx & hydro-hegemony.
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Under its 2030 Vision plan, Saudi has great plans for EV development. Tesla, BYD and Lucid are all in the market. One obstacle, however, is the lack of chargers.
Source: Reuters
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Global currency market swells to $10tn a day in tariff turmoil
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“Once in a generation”
Once more for the record … Palantir is not some world-bestriding titan of reactionary capitalism that merits inclusion alongside the true giants of big tech. Palantir is a medium-sized business, enormously pleased with itself if it generates as much as $1 billion in revenue per quarter, 55 percent of which comes from modestly sized government contracts.
Closing this gap should be a top priority for European social policy.
African migration to the US is changing what it means to be black.
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Martin Wong, Big Heat, 1986–88
Criminal gangs of deserters were not on my radar post 1945.
Why Ethiopia’s Renaissance damn threatens the “hydro-hegemony” of Sudan and Egypt.
Source: L'Histoire
Martin Wong: Sweet ’Enuff, 1987;
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