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Recent Briefings
Today on The Golden Hour: the ACA's post-subsidy arithmetic comes due — five million fewer enrollees, deductibles up a thousand dollars — while mortgage rates creep past the Fannie Mae baseline toward…
Today on The Golden Hour: Putin lands in Beijing days after Trump did, the OECD warns of a stagflation pinch nobody quite wants to name, and a gray wolf walks into Sequoia for the first time in over a…
Today on The Golden Hour: the Ebola numbers we've been watching since last week now have a WHO emergency designation attached — and the Bundibugyo strain means the existing vaccine arsenal doesn't dir…
Today on The Golden Hour: Ukraine answered Russia's Moscow-window barrages with one of the largest drone strikes of the war; Iran wants to run Hormuz as a toll road rather than simply block it; and th…
Today on The Golden Hour: bond markets price in a Fed rate hike for the first time this cycle, a special tribunal for Putin gets 36 signatures, and Indonesia's first giant panda cub passes his vet che…
Today on The Golden Hour: pressure is showing up in odd places. Inbound U.S. tourism is down 14% weeks before the World Cup, a tau-targeting Alzheimer's drug posted the first cognitive-benefit data of…
Today on The Golden Hour: escalation dressed up as diplomacy. A Beijing state banquet produced a September White House invitation and a Taiwan warning in the same readout; Russia answered with 800 dro…
Today on The Golden Hour: prices keep climbing — April CPI at 3.8%, summer airfares up 15–18%, mortgages back above 6.35% — but the workarounds are getting more interesting, from Priceline's 60%-off p…
Today on The Golden Hour: April inflation crossed the line where wage growth no longer keeps up — and the Social Security COLA set back in January is now running a full point behind. The housing marke…
Today on The Golden Hour: Trump rejected Iran's counterproposal, oil crossed $105, and forty nations are quietly drafting Hormuz escort plans that Iran has already called a military trigger. ISW meanw…