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A million SpaceX satellites will ruin the night sky

More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes. SpaceX recently announced that it wants to launch one million more of these

US Democrats risk flubbing Trump’s flailing on Iran

Donald Trump is flailing. Despite easy battlefield victories, the Iran War is quickly turning into a quagmire; the regime has not fallen, and threats against oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz are causing gasoline prices to soar and threatening to reignite inflation. This

Iran war exposing deeper risks of US financial dominance

War exposes truth faster than any policy paper ever could. The US-Israeli confrontation with Iran is stripping away assumptions that have underpinned global capital allocation for decades. Oil above $100 and disruption through the Strait of Hormuz are only part of the story.

Iran’s Hormuz pain is China’s yuan gain

TOKYO — Say what you want about the Iranian regime, it’s a master troller in ways for which US President Donald Trump surely didn’t foresee. Nowhere is that more apparent — or potentially impactful — than Iran’s reported plan to showcase the yuan by requiring all oil tankers