Your daily policy brief to explore emerging topics and discover top-notch policy material about fields that impact and inform our preparedness like Economics, Geopolitics, Climate Change, Science & Technology and more, hand-selected daily for you.
As always, we prepare for the worst, but hope and pray for the best!
Daily Policy Topics
Economics
Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
We’ve Left the Bottom 60% in the Dust, but Never Mind: S&P500 to 6000!
“A Sales Recovery Did Not Occur”: Pending Home Sales Crash To Record Low
Q2 GDP Unexpectedly Revised Higher On Bizarre Surge In Personal Consumption
Initial Jobless Claims Drop Again As Labor Market Sends Mixed Signals
Geopolitics
Has Biden’s China chip war backfired?
US Geopolitical Hubris Presents Terrifying Fat Tail Risks
China Is Rethinking Its Russian Pipeline Plans
What is an Italian Carrier Strike Group Doing in the Indo-Pacific?
PLA Will ‘Reunify’ Taiwan: Chinese General Confronted Sullivan Just Before Surprise Xi Meeting
The U.S. Can Provide an Alternative to China in Sub-Saharan Africa
Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau
Climate Change
South Korean Court Orders Stronger Steps on Climate Change
China Dominates Global Coal Consumption
Shell To Slash Exploration Workforce by 20%: Reuters
Science & Technology
How Telecom Vulnerabilities Can Be a Threat to Cybersecurity Posture
Artificial intelligence in military decision-making: supporting humans, not replacing them
OpenAI Agrees To Run GPT Models Past US Government To ‘Evaluate’ For Safety
U.S. Agencies Warn of Iranian Hacking Group’s Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
Russian Hackers Exploit Safari and Chrome Flaws in High-Profile Cyberattack
American Politics
Is Everything a Matter of National Security?
Democrats Trying To Censor AI Created Memes Before Election
Several States Refuse To Remove RFK Jr.’s Name From Ballots, Hurting Trump
Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off
Good News!
Good News in History, August 29
The Land Remembers: Why Farmers Are Bringing Back ‘Prairie Potholes’
Door Guardian Sculpture Discovered at Angkor Archaeological Park
Big Chocolate on Brink of Revolution as Swiss Scientists Use Cocoa Bean Waste to Replace Sugar
Quote of the Day
“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy …
She might become the dictatress of the world,
But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.”
– John Quincy Adams
