2025-10-01 05:34:16
Between Pete Hegseth’s choice words about physical fitness and Lindsey Graham’s “600-pound man” analogy, there is no shortage of weirdness in Washington.
2025-10-01 05:00:08
You might think the business of mining is digging up valuable minerals. In fact, it’s almost the opposite.
2025-10-01 04:00:08
Is Thailand on the cusp of yet another crisis? If you listened to top business figures, you might think a calamity is in the making — from the baht's strength. The currency’s rally threatens a new setback for the languishing economy. And authorities have few easy choices to deal with it.
2025-10-01 03:20:26
In an oddly mismatched pair of speeches, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump lectured 800 of the US military’s most senior officers and enlisted leaders at the sprawling Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, a few miles south of the Pentagon. Not everything they said was unhelpful or untrue, but the whole event showed a lack of understanding of just how good — how “lethal,” to use Hegseth’s favorite term — the US military remains today.
2025-10-01 03:00:08
For 30 years, investors ignored Japan — but no longer. Now, as the world rediscovers the country, it’s learning that many preconceptions no longer apply.
2025-10-01 01:03:26
Also Tricolor, First Brands, retail SpaceX, Affinity/EA, Charlie Javice and the head of macro.
