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Trump Signals Shift to Economic Pressure on Iran
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Trump Signals Shift to Economic Pressure on Iran acabral-sanche… Mon, 08/10/2026 - 14:31 SVG In the Media Aug 10, 2026 Fox News Trump Signals Shift to Economic Pressure on Iran Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative Rebeccah L. Heinrichs In…
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Peace Is “Manufactured” Before It’s Negotiated
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Peace Is “Manufactured” Before It’s Negotiated acabral-sanche… Mon, 08/10/2026 - 10:36 SVG In the Media Aug 9, 2026 Fox News Peace Is “Manufactured” Before It’s Negotiated Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative Rebeccah L. Heinrichs In the…
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How to Salvage Science in Fauci’s Wake
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How to Salvage Science in Fauci’s Wake acabral-sanche… Mon, 08/10/2026 - 09:50 SVG Commentary Aug 9, 2026 Wall Street Journal How to Salvage Science in Fauci’s Wake A White House report argues that competition and freedom can bring about a new ‘golden age.’ Mike Gallagher Distin…
Read →6 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Buffett’s Successor at Berkshire Puts Mammoth Cash Pile to Work
Sean Craig
With new CEO Greg Abel now more than seven months into the job, it appears that investors still consider Berkshire Hathaway old reliable. The post Buffett’s Successor at Berkshire Puts Mammoth Cash Pile to Work appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read →9 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Fed Scours Fresh Inflation Data for Interest-Rate Cues as Mid-Term Elections Loom
Mallika Mitra
This week, the Fed will get a bit of help in its ongoing goal of reading the economy’s tea leaves with a new inflation reading. The post Fed Scours Fresh Inflation Data for Interest-Rate Cues as Mid-Term Elections Loom appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read →9 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Starlink’s Success Casts Doubt on Telecom Companies’ Future
Brian Boyle
SpaceX has a message to Verizon and the rest of Big Telecom. It's coming for some of their $600 billion in annual revenue. The post Starlink’s Success Casts Doubt on Telecom Companies’ Future appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read →9 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 A strange gifted education success story
Matthew Yglesias
If expanding access works, is your program really for the “gifted”?
Read →10 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Apple Earnings, More on Amazon’s Earnings
Ben Thompson
Apple's earnings (and stock) are limited not by memory but rather chip shortages; then, more on Amazon's earnings and Andy Jassy's market analysis.
Read →10 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 The DRAMa Behind Wall Street’s Fastest Selling ETF
Emile Hallez
Roundhill said flows into its $24 billion memory fund, DRAM, show conviction from investors about the AI buildout. But not all are cashing in. The post The DRAMa Behind Wall Street’s Fastest Selling ETF appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read →16 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Here’s Where Active Investing Is Actually Beating Passive
Quinn Waller
About half of small- and mid-cap stock-pickers beat passive indexes this year, but the large-cap wins remained mostly out of reach. The post Here’s Where Active Investing Is Actually Beating Passive appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read →16 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Morgan Stanley Just Undercut Ethereum, Solana ETF Markets
Lilly Riddle
The wirehouse’s new spot products are now the least expensive options out there. The post Morgan Stanley Just Undercut Ethereum, Solana ETF Markets appeared first on The Daily Upside .
Read →16 hours ago·Aug 10, 2026 Should we "pace" AI self-improvement?
Tim Fist
A guest post by Tim Fist and Saif Khan.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Halina Bennet
Ask your questions below.
Endangered Specious
Doomberg
Myths, ghosts, and other oil things that go bump in the night.
Saturday discussion post
Halina Bennet
Spotted! Love during a brief trip to New York City last weekend. Read more
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Reading List 08/08/2026
Brian Potter
The Endangered Species Act and housing production, why it’s hard for LEGO to use 3D printing, robotic welding and shipbuilding, modular data centers, and more.
Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
Noah Smith
There's one thing keeping us afloat right now, and people want to get rid of it.
Theater is weird, and that’s the point.
Halina Bennet
In which I come out as a total theater nerd
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Business as Usual for US, Britain When It Matters Most
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Business as Usual for US, Britain When It Matters Most acabral-sanche… Fri, 08/07/2026 - 13:45 SVG Commentary Aug 7, 2026 Arab News Business as Usual for US, Britain When It Matters Most Luke Coffey Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia Luke Coffey Commentary Caption Secre…
2026.32: Earnings and Learnings
Ben Thompson
The best Stratechery content from the week of August 3, 2026, including earnings exposure, OpenAI's answer to Apple, and all about LeBron in Philly.
Weekly Dose of Optimism #205
Packy McCormick
Terraform, Billion-Dollar Rounds, Oklo Goes Critical, Astra Math, Terafab + Extra Doses
In praise of commercial culture
Matthew Yglesias
Plus when I’d vote for a Republican, the case for generalists, and why live theater is weird now
Thursday discussion post
Halina Bennet
Trump and Melania’s favorite thrifty recipes
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What Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Do for Housing Supply?
Brian Potter
A few weeks ago the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law. This is an enormous housing bill that’s been in the works for roughly a year — I first discussed it on Statecraft back in 2025 — and folks are optimistic that it will, per its description, “…
Are the Democrats going to save us this time?
Noah Smith
And if not, what do we do?
Google Earnings, The Frontier Case, Amazon Earnings
Ben Thompson
Google's earnings seemed to confirm the Anthropic hedge; it was Andy Jassy who explained why their — and Amazon's — capex was justifiable.
Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft vs. Meta, The Efficiency Payoff
Ben Thompson
Microsoft's earnings were compelling because they showed a clarity of strategy, lower costs, and a tangibility of application. The reason why is scarier.
The end of the age of heroes
Noah Smith
AI will soon be better at math than any human. What does that mean?
Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail
Ben Thompson
Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
Slopulism is taking over America
Noah Smith
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation
Charles Rosenbauer
The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it. The post Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation appeared first on Palladium .
Weekly Dose of Optimism #204
Packy McCormick
Enigma, Robots Covered, DoorDash Air, Zoox Approval, Free ChatGPT + HT + Extra Doses
Geopolitical Checkers
Doomberg
On the modern assumption that opponents can’t punch back.
Frontier Panic
Stephanie Wakefield
As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our planet. The post Frontier Panic appeared first on Palladium .
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Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?
Brian Potter
A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material.
Read →2 weeks ago·Jul 30, 2026 Fire Horse
Doomberg
Pro Tier: July 2026 Doom Zoom
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