Japan Dumps $26 Billion in Treasuries While America Is Buying Back Its Own Bonds

Most Americans still have no idea what artificial intelligence can actually do.

The best Stratechery content from the week of August 17, 2026, including Apple making compromises in the EU, Truth (Social) and reconciliation, and August fun with the Clippers and Lakers.

An agent built to enrich Linear tickets read a report that time to first character in Unblocked's own QA pipeline had gone from hundreds of milliseconds to three or four seconds, and recommended turning async dispatch back on. The recommendation was wrong.…

Na rotina diária, estruturar o atendimento a um idoso em casa exige uma mudança mental significativa.

A condenação estabelece um precedente de rigor punitivo na região, mas a execução das penas no Brasil esbarra em entraves sistêmicos.

The Cost of Living in LA - Behind the glamour of Hollywood and Beverly Hills lies another Los Angeles — a city divided by wealth, housing, addiction and survival. From million-dollar mansions in Santa Monica to homeless camps in Skid Row, this documentary…

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Daron Acemoglu’s What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity and finds it lacking in economic sense.

For most Python teams, the distance between “I have an idea for a pipeline” and “that pipeline is running in production” is still measured in days, not minutes.

Os olhares do mercado internacional de café seguem atentos ao encerramento da colheita da safra 20026/27 no Brasil.

O mercado brasileiro de trigo encerrou a semana com preços firmes, mas baixa liquidez. A valorização do cereal argentino, principal...

Testing exponent uncertainty, causality, cointegration, and the post-2018 address growth slowdown

Everyone called 2025 the year of the Great Debasement trade. Michael Howell says it never actually happened. And what comes next could be the biggest monetary regime change in 70 years.

Michael Howell, liquidity expert and founder of CrossBorder Capital…

Our American VC describes his perspective of the european tech scen...

💡 ANEEL sem verba para divulgar o Mercado Livre de Energia! ⚠️A A...

Finalist #6 in the Book Review Contest

Tesla is quietly opening more streaming sites in Tesla Theater-style full screen, likely preparing several new services for Tesla Theater.

This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of a fixed reorg vulnerability in LND’s channel closes and describes a draft BIP for the rawtr() output script descriptor. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client…

Lucy Gazmararian of Token Bay Capital, discussing bitcoin: “So it’s a great playground for traders, and now we have so many tools to place bets either way on bitcoin now.” Accurate and sad. Don't get hung up with big price swings in the short term. Don't…

Hey there Stackers, welcome to Latest Strikes, your """weekly""" report of the latest Lightning-related news. I've been having some trouble publishing as regularly as I'd like lately, but hopefully I'll be able to get things back on track soon™! As AI-assisted…