The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• An AI-generated version of Trump’s voice is used in ad that promises an ‘all new Fannie Mae’ to tackle housing affordability [37d]
• Moscow cheers NATO crisis as the Ukraine war stifles Russia’s economy, forcing companies to use 4-day weeks and lay off workers [37d]
• EU mulls responding to Trump by reviving €93 billion tariff move [37d]
• Army readies 1,500 paratroopers specializing in arctic operations for possible deployment to Minnesota if Trump invokes Insurrection Act [37d]
• BlackRock’s Rick Rieder bid for Fed chair is gaining traction [37d]
• Democrats think a war-powers resolution limiting Trump on Greenland would get more GOP votes than the one for Venezuela [37d]
• Europe can wield this $8 trillion ‘sell America’ weapon as Trump reignites a trade war over his Greenland conquest ambitions [37d]
• ‘We believe in Allah, but we can’t do anything’: Somali shops reel in Minneapolis because ICE is bad for business [37d]
• Meet a 28-year-old Canadian woman who turned her pen-pal side hustle into a subscription side hustle with over 1,000 members [37d]
• Epstein files fight in court heats up as congressmen accuse DOJ of ‘serious misconduct’ [37d]
• See the face of ICE’s crackdown on normal Americans: a 21-year-old college student permanently blind in one eye [37d]
• Electricity as the new eggs: Affordability concerns will swing the midterms just like the 2024 election, Bill McKibben says [37d]
• America’s NATO allies erupt in tariff fury: read their rebuke of Trump [37d]
• CIA director meets with Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela [37d]
• Trump accused Venezuela’s Maduro of massive drug dealing. The AP has receipts about the DEA’s probe of Delcy Rodriguez, too [37d]
• Major U.S. allies in western Europe warn of ‘dangerous downward spiral’ as Trump threatens tariffs over his lust for Greenland [37d]
• The EU could fire a never-before-used ‘trade bazooka’ to retaliate against Trump tariffs aimed at NATO allies sending troops to Greenland [37d]
• Building corporate resilience in a fragmenting world [37d]
• This Harvard professor spent 8 years traveling the world researching the secret history of capitalism and how ‘marginal’ and ‘weak’ it used to be [37d]
• What hiring someone who served 20 years in prison taught us about loyalty at work [37d]
• Ford CEO warns there’s a dearth of blue-collar workers able to construct AI data centers and operate factories: ‘Nothing to backfill the ambition’ [37d]
• If you want to be financially independent at a young age, don’t buy a house, serial investor says. Home ownership is just an ‘expensive indulgence’ [37d]