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Trump Tariff Trouble His doublethink may be too much even for the supine Supremes

Trump Tariff Trouble
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The “Mussolini Corporatism” Behind Trump’s Demand For $800 Billion From Japan and Korea Trump Wants Cash To Buy Shares in Key US Companies and Dictate To Them

The “Mussolini Corporatism” Behind Trump’s Demand For $800 Billion From Japan and Korea
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Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Problems aren't obstacles to opportunity, they ARE the opportunity.

Argentina and Rural America’s Awakening Suddenly, Trump’s contempt for his base is showing

Argentina and Rural America’s Awakening
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Is Japan private equity’s next frontier? The country is courting firms to help shake up moribund corporates and spur industry consolidation

Is Japan private equity’s next frontier? www.ft.com/content/9c4b...

Tokyo Stock Exchange Initiative on Cost of Capital and Stock Price Conscious Management Introduction The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has advanced governance reforms through Japan’s Corporate Governance Code and related initiatives, with ...

Tokyo Stock Exchange Initiative on Cost of Capital and Stock Price Conscious Management corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/21/t...

Deals for startups reach record in Japan before listing curbs Starting in 2030, the Tokyo Stock Exchange will seek to delist companies that fail to reach a market value of at least ¥10 billion within five years of going public.

Deals for startups reach record in Japan before listing curbs www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

Sumo wrestling at the Royal Albert Hall – picture essay Our award-winning photographer went behind the scenes of the Grand Sumo tournament in London as it returned to the capital for the first time since 1991

Sumo wrestling at the Royal Albert Hall – picture essay

China Has Overtaken America And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

China Has Overtaken America
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Sanaenomics Ignores Voter Needs Out Of Touch LDP May Not Name the Next Prime Minister

Sanaenomics Ignores Voter Needs
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Guard your time. Don't waste others by lecturing them about it.

Japan Unleashes Capitalism by Letting 'Zombie' Companies Die In agonizing decisions for owners, a once-protective society lets the market take its course.

Japan Unleashes Capitalism by Letting ‘Zombie’ Companies Die www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Declining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Cause The modern GOP is inherently authoritarian

Declining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Cause
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Why Japan resents its tourism boom Foreign visitor numbers have grown more than fivefold, but for some the surge is a reminder of the country’s economic malaise

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Are Hikes in Compensation Eaten Up by Taxes? The Myth of the Missing Millionaires, Part 4

Are Hikes in Compensation Eaten Up by Taxes?
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Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn't.

Let's talk about Japan Hard Power Japan's defense industrial power-base: under discussed, under appreciated, under valued, but very real

Let's talk about Japan Hard Power
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Be Loud — For America By Governor JB Pritzker

Be Loud — For America
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Low Pay For the Highly Skilled Starves Japan of Human Capital The Myth of Japan’s Missing Millionaires, Part 3

Low Pay For the Highly Skilled Starves Japan of Human Capital
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Hey, Let’s Undermine America’s Technology, Education and Research! H-1B visas: The latest front in a campaign of destruction

Hey, Let’s Undermine America’s Technology, Education and Research!
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Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.

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Most arguments are ego competitions disguised as truth-seeking.

Learning to say "you're probably right" will save you a lot of time and energy.

A ride on Japan's joyful 'sake train' To celebrate 200 years of the modern railway, rail enthusiast Paul Carter climbs aboard the trains of Niigata to discover its rich sake culture.

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The Lies America Tells Itself About the Middle East As its influence faded, Washington dissembled and denied reality.

The Lies America Tells Itself About the Middle East

As Its Influence Faded, Washington Dissembled and Denied Reality www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A Lehman Brothers memorial PDF dump [FREE TO READ] Notes on a scandal

Can we interest you in some extremely old, irrelevant broker research?

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How Did Japan Fall Behind in Creating Personal Wealth? The Myth of Japan’s Missing Millionaires? Part 2

How Did Japan Fall Behind in Creating Personal Wealth?
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Details don't slow you down; they speed you up.

Activist AVI poised to boost holdings of Japan small-cap shares The plan is an example of how activists are shaking up corporate Japan as they plow capital into the country given the Tokyo bourse telling firms to raise their enterprise value.

Activist Asset Value Investors plans to add stakes in Japanese small- and mid-cap companies after a planned merger of one of its investment trusts.

The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously At parades and in the halls of global power, America has been sidelined.

The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...