If you only calculate your best move, you're playing right into someone else's strategy.

Gresham professor sarah hart exposes the hidden mathematical rules that dictate price wars, duel timing, and optimal decision making under pure self-interest.

One of the best explanations of game theory i've come across.

If you're interested in the topic, i highly recommend listening to this lesson and reading the article for the key concepts.

Picking the right game matters more than playing the game well. a lot of smart people lose because they optimised hard for someone else's definition of winning.

Hunting and being hunted are simply a matter of perspective.

Think Africa is getting tired of Russia? Absolutely and Mali is the proof. As the Finnish saying goes: “A Russian is always a Russian, even if you fry him in butter.” And in Africa, the butter is burning.
The Kremlin is scrambling to prevent its forces in Mali from outright defeat. BBC reports that Moscow rushed a large shipment of armored vehicles and trucks after Russia’s Africa Corps and junta‑aligned troops suffered heavy losses against rebel forces.
In recent months:
Russian mercenaries have been pushed back

multiple settlements have been abandoned
rebels are advancing

Moscow is sending equipment like Mali is a collapsing front

But here’s the real punch:

Every vehicle sent to Africa is one less available for Ukraine. Every truck shipped to Mali is a truck not hauling shells in Donetsk. Every armored carrier sent south is one less to keep Russian lines from breaking near Kupiansk.

Russia is trying to be a global power in two wars at once and failling in both.

Africa sees it. Mali sees it. And the rebels see it most clearly.

In short: Russia is losing ground in Africa and paying for it in Ukraine.

BREAKING: Palantir $PLTR beats earnings estimates and shares rise by 6%

Revenue $1.94B, est $1.81B
Adjusted EPS $0.41, est $0.35

GameStop $GME shares plummet 12% Monday after the company announced $1.4 billion worth of senior notes will be converted into shares over the next 35 days.

Ryan Cohen had a choice of exchanging the notes for cash, he chose diluting existing shareholders (again).

In a statement, $PLTR Alex Karp said:

"Demand for AI sovereignty has now been unleashed. And Palantir is the only company that has demonstrated it can transform tokens into actual economic value."

Nasdaq is coming up to a critical decision point on Wednesday.

Either this is the beginning of a new bull run into the fall or it's the "return to normal" stage before a complete breakdown.

We'll find out soon.

Uber lowered prices. Lyft matched them. both ended up burning billions in a pricing death spiral.

That isn't a bad business strategy, it's a classic prisoner's dilemma.

Professor john list breaks down the exact game theory framework used to model corporate rivalries, political positioning, and high stakes negotiation.

You can find these frameworks and core takeaways in the article.

🇷🇺 Russia is bankrupting its future.

Debt servicing and defence absorbed nearly 50% of federal spending in 2025.

🔸 Combined war spending and debt servicing will soon exceed 50% of Russia’s total federal spending.

🔸 Russia’s debt costs will absorb 8.8% of federal spending in 2026, more than in Italy and Greece

🔸 Risky corporate loan restructurings rose from 2.9% to 4.3% in 2025.

That is why targeting Russia’s shadow fleet and corrupt import networks is crucial to further weakening its economy.

Sanctions must be strengthened, and every loophole enabling sanctions evasion must be closed.

🚨 WOW! Donald Trump openly confesses he was about to launch the most devasting military attack since World War II against Iran!

He arogantly claims Gulf nations were literally begging him to stop.

The US President is recklessly dragging the world to total annihilation!

Nasdaq parabolic update: The "return to normal" phase in 2000 lasted for 3 months.

The question is whether they can hold this together for that long. The previous support trendline should provide resistance if this is the top and the next parabolic interception is around August 14th.

Typically markets begin to run into issues September - October because of the liquidity dynamics of the market and corporate tax season.

$VIX is back on the support trendline that has existed since 2024.

How to set up Hermes agent + Buzz (by Jack Dorsey)

A reminder, now that 70% of Wildberries hubs over 15k m² have been damaged or destroyed:

Wildberries financial vulnerability may become a systemic bank issue very quickly due to their 1.3 trillion ruble debt.

It's going to be an interesting week. 👀🍿

Putin's war has wiped out almost 25 years of progress in the Russian oil industry.

Due to Ukrainian drone sanctions, refining output has dropped to its lowest level since May 2002.

And it will keep getting worse. The road to victory is lit with oil lamps.🔥