The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump tells NBC U.S. may reimburse firms for Venezuela oil efforts [51d]
• Energy stocks rip as JP Morgan estimates the U.S. could hold 30% of all the world’s oil [51d]
• Under Biden, America got 150 countries to agree a 15% global corporate tax. Under Trump, America gets an exemption [51d]
• Denmark threatens to end postwar peace under NATO if Trump seizes Greenland [51d]
• 92-year-old judge cuts Maduro’s protestations of innocence short: ‘There will be time and place to go through all of this’ [51d]
• America’s pediatricians reel as government slashes vaccine requirements for children [51d]
• Experts are divided on how workers should spend their 5-9: Structure is key for productivity, but can lead to burnout [51d]
• Why Wall Street permabull Tom Lee thinks we’re in the third great labor shortage era—and AI is an innovation like frozen food [51d]
• ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry says toppling of Venezuela’s Maduro will weaken Russia’s global standing as its oil ‘just became less important’ [51d]
• Janet Yellen warns the $38 trillion national debt is testing a red line economists have feared for decades [51d]
• Could Venezuela be another Iraq or Afghanistan? Lessons from American statecraft in force and legitimacy [51d]
• From Trump walking away to ‘managed instability,’ Princeton expert on Latin-U.S. relations sees 5 scenarios for Venezuela [51d]
• Blackstone exec says elite Ivy League degrees aren’t good enough—new analysts need to ‘work harder’ and be nice [51d]
• Venezuela’s 20-year downfall featured a weird bromance between Hugo Chávez and Sean Penn, ex-husband of Madonna and ‘One Battle After Another’ actor [51d]
• After Nvidia’s Groq deal, meet the other AI chip startups that may be in play—and one looking to disrupt them all [51d]