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I wrote about plastic prices in yesterday's Odd Lots newsletter ahead of today's episode (which you should definitely listen to) Packaging really is an underappreciated driver of inflation, and plastics prices are already spiking You can't buy a bag of carrots without petroleum

Henry Moore, 1975.

By 1968, the psychedelic movement had seeped into every corner of pop culture - music, film, art, and even cartoons. One of the strangest and most delightful examples was “Psychedelic Pink”, the 39th episode of the Pink Panther series.

Zohran and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner Sam Levine just sat down to announce nearly $2 million being returned to over 750 workers at Taco Bell, Dunkin, and Theory. They made the announcement over Taco Bell and Dunkin

"The decline of the West is not necessary or historically inevitable. It is the result of choosing policies dictated by its rentier interests." -Michael Hudson

The New York Stock Exchange announced a collaboration with digital asset company Securitize to help create tokenized versions of traditional financial securities reut.rs/4sD62Ia

Absolute bombshell. Data reveals someone made a massive 580 MILLION dollar trade on oil exactly 15 minutes BEFORE Donald Trump posted his tweet about pausing the Iran war. Someone on the inside just made a life changing fortune. The corruption is blatant.

Nobody complained about paper mail… until email arrived. Nobody questioned horse and cart… until cars showed up. Nobody cared about bank wires taking days… until stablecoins made it seconds. You don’t realise how broken something is until you see it done better. That’s tokenization. For years, we accepted slow settlement, middlemen, limited access. Not because it was good… just because it was normal. Then new rails show up. Faster. Cheaper. Global. And suddenly the old system doesn’t look so “fine” anymore. That’s where we are with tokenization. People don’t complain about inefficiency when it’s all they know. It’s only when a better system appears that everything clicks. “Why did this take 3 days?” “Why did this cost 3%?” “Why was I even excluded in the first place?” Tokenization isn’t creating new demand. It’s exposing how outdated the current system is.

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025. Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-…

"Most finance goes back into finance, insurance and real estate rather than into productive uses. The acronym for this is FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate)" -Mariana Mazzucato

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened —how fast people on bikes “appeared” —once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

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BREAKING: SWIFT confirms 25+ banks going live by June, using blockchain for 24/7 cross-border payments. RWA rails loading. 🚀 source: swift.com/news-events/ne…

Artificial Intelligence Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Art Valuation observer.com/2025/10/how-ar…

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

While never revered as ska, roots-reggae or dancehall, rocksteady is arguably the most loved of the Jamaican music forms. The genre, which produced a series of top-flight vocalists, harmony groups and musicians, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2026 and Observer Online marks that milestone with the 60 Greatest Rocksteady Personalities. Here are numbers 30 to 16. jamaicaobserver.com/2026/03/20/60-…

Hubble Photographs 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula diyphotography.net/hubble-photogr…

COCO GAUFF THAT IS INCREDIBLE 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

.@KatAbughazaleh just narrowly lost the #IL09 primary. This loss takes nothing away from the trailblazing campaign Kat ran that put the people at the center of every part of this race. This was still a MASSIVE loss for AIPAC, who spent over $7 million to come in 3rd place.