In 2015, an Emirati businessman emailed Jeffrey Epstein asking the financier to put him in touch with Elon Musk, according to leaked emails reviewed by the Lever. According to the records, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Middle East logistics giant DP World and one of President Donald Trump’s early Middle Eastern business partners, […]
The independent watchdog for the country’s largest power grid operator has issued a “regulatory grenade” asking the federal government to intervene amid PJM Interconnection’s plans to power data centers it knows it doesn’t have the capacity for — despite acknowledging the heightened risk of blackouts. This comes as PJM has seen windfall profits from shouldering […]
The stock market is, plainly, no longer simply a concern of the elite. “We like to joke that the markets are not the economy,” Peter Atwater of Financial Insyghts recently told Bloomberg, “but we’ve reached a point now where the economy is the markets.” In past articles, I’ve covered the rise and risks of retail […]
Since Donald Trump announced a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinians while continuing to occupy much of Gaza. Despite the ongoing violence and repression in both Gaza and the West Bank, Western states clearly want to move on and act as if the atrocities of the past two […]