In this year’s first six months, about $3.2 trillion worth of mergers and acquisitions were agreed, 45 percent more than the same period in 2025, setting a record for any year’s first half, data service Dealogic reported.
Category: 14 July 2026
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S DIVERGING TWO-TRACK ECONOMY
As Gerald Celente has noted, the 20th Century was the American century, but the 21st Century will be the Chinese century because the business of America is war and the business of China is business.
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SPOTLIGHT: DOT- COM BUST 2.0
More investors are selling their long-dated AI-related bonds “amid fatigue over Big Tech group’s huge borrowing spree and concerns over whether the multi-trillion dollars of infrastructure spending it is funding will ever pay off,” the Financial Times reported.
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CAN TRUMP SUE HIMSELF?
The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami – can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? – seems to beg the question.
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A DELUSIONAL TRUMP HAS ANOTHER EXCITING WEEK – ISRAEL FEEDS MISINFORMATION THAT IRAN WANTS TO KILL HIM
There is a good thing about having Donald J Trump as president and that is how during a normal week he will say or do a number of incredibly stupid things that make one want to smile or even laugh outright.
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AMERICANS ARE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE…VERY BLUE, ACCORDING TO NEW POLL
A newly released survey found that many Americans are not optimistic about their future, and do not believe that democracy is working in their favor.
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CENSORSHIP: WHITE HOUSE ISSUES SUBPOENAS ON NYT JOURNALISTS
The Trump administration announced last week that it issued subpoenas to several journalists from The New York Times who reported the possible dangers of the 747 jet that was gifted by the Qataris to serve as the new Air Force One.
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AI SUPER PACS RAMP UP SPENDING IN U.S. MIDTERMS TO INFLUENCE FUTURE POLICY
“It’s so important that we do this now and urgently, because it is still the early innings of the technology, but it is being adopted quickly, at scale,” Josh Vlasto, the co-leader of Leading the Future, told CNBC.
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TRUMP’S BROKERS MADE PRESCIENT BETS FOR THE PRESIDENT TO GO HEAVY ON STOCKS THAT BENEFIT FROM WAR: REPORT
The Trump gang just keeps getting lucky.
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GAZA/LEBANON DEATH TOLL
Israel has killed at least 73,231 and more than 173,600 people have been injured since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023.