The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Carrier strike group with stealth fighters arrives in Mideast as Trump weighs Iran attack while Air Force jets and cargo planes also head to region [28d]
• Trump’s ‘Border Czar’ being sent to Minnesota was head of ICE Enforcement and Removal under Obama [28d]
• S&P 500 wins back all losses from Greenland dip, gold and silver surge even higher [28d]
• Trump paves the ground for Minnesota retreat as he touts talks with governor, mayor: ‘lots of progress is being made’ [28d]
• Ray Dalio says the U.S. is a ‘tinderbox’ after the Minneapolis shooting and Trump risks a ‘more clear civil war’ [29d]
• Billionaire Tom Steyer says he’d vote for California wealth tax [29d]
• Target’s incoming CEO breaks silence on Minneapolis violence near HQ—read his full statement [29d]
• Trump’s own Big Beautiful Bill could add $5.5 trillion to the deficits and help sabotage his plan to ‘grow out’ of the national debt crisis [29d]
• Trump’s war on immigration entangles business in PR disaster and the literal site of contested arrests [29d]
• The billion-dollar storm? Economists debate how much activity Winter Storm Fern laid waste to [29d]
• ‘Keep on dreaming’: NATO’s secretary-general has real talk for EU lawmakers threatening break with Trump [29d]
• Trump’s latest retribution hits Booz Allen, whose contractor was charged with leaking tax returns to the press [29d]
• Palantir/ICE connections draw fire as questions raised about tool tracking Medicaid data to find people to arrest [29d]
• Ryan Serhant thinks the American Dream was just a ‘slogan created by banks,’ but it was really about FDR, the Great Depression, and an economic crisis [29d]
• Trump administration buys stake in USA Rare Earth as wave of government deals in critical minerals continues [29d]
• Job seekers are suing an AI hiring tool used by Microsoft and Paypal for allegedly compiling secretive reports that help employers screen candidates [29d]
• This Hong Kong billionaire invests 25% of his wealth in gold: ‘If you have the physical gold … nobody owes you anything’ [29d]
• Law school admissions expert sees ‘dangerous one-two punch’ as Gen Z seeks shelter from the AI hiring storm in 6-figure debt and law-degree lifeboat [29d]
• Strategy buys more Bitcoin—$264 million of it—even as Bitcoin slumps to $87,000 [29d]