Blackstone raided its own balance sheet to cover record $3.8B in redemptions. Blue Owl froze withdrawals. PE stocks down 25-61%. Steve Eisman and forensic accountant Tom Gober say the insurance industry is the missing piece of the next financial crisis.
Declassified documents link U.S. bioweapons programs to the Lyme disease epidemic. 282,800 radioactive ticks released across Virginia. Plum Island just 13 miles from Lyme, CT. Plus Strike BLOC, Keonne Rodriguez from prison, and Robert Maxwell's destruction of science.
Kraken becomes the first bitcoin firm to access the Fed's payment rails. The CFTC fast-tracks perpetual futures. The Fed's own payment system goes down during the Iran war. Hormuz tanker traffic plummets 90%. Bitcoin is up 7% and has never made more sense.
When frontier AI models choose their own money, 79.1% pick Bitcoin for long-term storage. Plus: CFTC fast-tracks perpetual futures, Kraken secures first-ever crypto Fed master account, and the Strait of Hormuz insurance freeze threatens 20% of global energy.
Qatar's LNG halt after Iranian drone strikes threatens 21% of global helium supply. China imports 95% of its helium, with 90% from Qatar. The US controls 51% of remaining reserves. A non-substitutable input to chip fabrication just became a geopolitical weapon.
The US launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Oil spiked 10%, $358M in crypto was liquidated, and BTC posted its 5th red month. But Bitcoin recovered from the strike dump within hours.
A Vanderbilt study finds tough prosecutors cut young male mortality by 6.6%. Plus: Bitcoin ETFs buy $506M in one day, Citi confirms Bitcoin integration, MSTR hits highest short interest ever, and Iran panic-loads oil tankers.
Jack Dorsey cut 4,000 employees from Block in one move, citing AI tools as the catalyst. The stock surged 25%. Is this the first domino in a wave of AI-driven corporate restructuring, or just a correction from COVID-era overhiring?
