Coal explains AI spend, Blackberry is in 275M cars, IRS 'settles' with Trump, SpaceX is ready for launch and get ready for the Enhanced Games

31st Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 31st Edition of Friday Finance, Earlier this year, xAI asked its own employees to submit personal US tax returns as training data for Grok. The incentive was $420 per submission (can’t make this up). The offer was extended to

Shadow Fleets exposed, jet fuel made from the sun, Hermes and his gardener, AP sells a $400 watch to flex

30th edition Greetings folks and warm welcome to the 30th Edition, Two Miami-Dade sheriff's sergeants are suing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for $21M they did not steal. In June 2016, Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana led the raid on a Miami Lakes house where they found that

GameStop tries to buy eBay, FIFA's fans may not show up, Economic warfare targeted at Iran, Every $1 of good data = $25 of benefit, Labubu bubble is here

29th edition Greetings folks, and warm welcome to Edition No 29, On Wednesday morning at Jogye Temple in central Seoul, a 130-centimeter humanoid robot wearing Buddhist robes pressed its palms together, bowed to senior monks, and was ordained as a lay Buddhist follower under the dharma name "Gabi."

The magnificent 1, European CRE outlook, Canada to host a defence bank, Russia didn't cash in and $500 shoe designed to be used one

28th edition Greetings folks and welcome to Edition No 28 Two months ago Trump's Gold Card visa was projected to raise $1 trillion and help balance the budget. A year before that, Trump said it would generate $50 trillion. Last December, Howard Lutnick stood next to the president

The largest museum you can't visit, Tariff refunds increasing margins, Gaza privatized, Polymarkets turning up the heat, 100% loan to cost loans for FIFA tickets

27th edition Greetings folks, Feel like the days are getting longer? It’s not just spring. China’s Three Gorges Dam is so massive it actually slows the rotation of the Earth. NASA scientist Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao calculated that when the reservoir is full, it increases the length of

Sotheby's wants to keep your money, COVID costs 1% of GDP, The Strait is open-ish, Dishwashers in demand, Costco dominates Japan.

26th edition Greetings folks, The United States holds 8,133 tonnes of gold. At this week’s price of roughly $4,750 per ounce, that stash is worth approximately $1.24 trillion. The US government carries it on the Federal Reserve’s books at $42.22 per ounce, which values

Covert rescue of Dude 44, McDonald's priced as a luxury item, Dead people solving China's condo glut, Delta Airlines refining their way to profit and France sells gold to itself

25th edition Greetings folks, Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton confirmed their relationship this week. Between her $4 billion SKIMS valuation and his $300 million Ferrari contract, this might be the first couple whose combined portfolio outperforms most private credit funds this year. Ferrari shares were up 2% on the news,

Lessons from the fall of the Roman Empire, Apple's Secret (its in the wrist), Its not just oil, $25B Platform with no banking and the KitKat heist.

24th edition Greetings folks (yes I know it’s not Friday), On March 26, Donald Trump became the first sitting US president in 165 years to put his signature on American currency. The new bills will replace the Treasurer’s signature with the President’s, starting with $100 notes in

Operation Hormuz Shield

The US is thinking about taking over the Strait of Hormuz. A thought experiment on what it would cost, what it would look like, and why a better option exists. President Trump has stated he is "thinking about taking over" the Strait of Hormuz. On March 23 he

Russia and China are winning the war in the Middle East (they aren’t even fighting), Nobel Peace Prize misses, the markets that knew before the markets knew, how capable AI actually is and Carney talks K-Pop with Monocle in Tokyo.

21st edition Greetings folks, We all (well most of us) lost an hour of sleep on Sunday, which feels like a good time to remind you that people used to pay someone to shoot peas at their window at 3am. Before alarm clocks were affordable, Britain had an entire profession

Inside the assignation of Khamenei, Nightmare oil prices (but relax hopefully), Crime actually doesn’t pay, A school thats actually harder to get into that Harvard and how Chinese EV’s are much cheaper.

Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 20TH Edition of Friday Finance, I took liberties with the weeklyish concept, its been almost a year and a half since I posted. What a week. We started it watching a billionaire’s son outbid Netflix for Warner Bros, and ended it

Meta’s Global Data Cable, Holiday Returns, U.S. Investment Boom, and Bitcoin’s Big Milestone

Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 19th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. Apologies for missing the last 2 weeks, but I am back for the home stretch. Great news about the rate cuts, and it seems like the Bank of Canada will continue on this path. The Canadian