Canada is a Warning to the Rest of the World!

Patrick Boyle

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, Britain suffers from chronic economic stagnation that fulfilled neither Leave's promises of prosperity nor Remain's warnings of immediate collapse; instead, prolonged policy uncertainty has permanently reduced GDP and living standards, with the costs falling disproportionately on the industrial regions that voted to leave.

Patrick Boyle

The US Commerce Department gave AI startup Anthropic 90 minutes to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals—forcing a global shutdown—just days after CEO Dario Amodei published an essay advocating for government power to block unsafe AI deployments.

Patrick Boyle

SpaceX's record-breaking $75 billion IPO at a $1.78 trillion valuation marks a historic shift from two decades of stock market contraction to massive equity expansion, while simultaneously stripping Wall Street banks of their traditional price-setting authority and reducing them to low-margin service providers.

Patrick Boyle

Global long-term bond yields are surging to multi-decade highs as markets adjust to persistent inflation and the end of cheap money, but today's massive government debt levels (100%+ of GDP) prevent central banks from aggressively hiking rates to fight inflation—a constraint known as 'fiscal dominance' that fundamentally alters the monetary policy playbook from the Volcker era.