Trump Accounts mobile app launches today. Parents can manage child savings accounts backed by a $1,000 Treasury seed deposit and invested in index funds.

A $300 drone built from Chinese components and 3D-printed parts is defeating the Merkava tank. Fiber-optic guided, unjammable, carrying RPG warheads. 35 confirmed strikes geolocated by BBC Verify. Israel just approved a $700 million emergency budget and ordered construction of its own FPV drone factory. One of the most advanced militaries on Earth is now copying a non-state actor's weapon because it can't defend against it. Russia plans to produce 7 million FPV drones in 2026. 60% of Russian army losses in Ukraine are from FPVs. France is converting tanks into anti-drone shotguns. The Sovereign Individual predicted this in the 1990s: when the cost of projecting force drops toward zero, power shifts from institutions to individuals. A few hundred dollars now destroys tens of millions in military hardware. The asymmetry of violence is shifting. Every time that's happened in history, the world reorganized around the new reality. The printing press. Gunpowder. The internet. This is the next one.

Feds just found $40 million in gold bars at a former CIA official's house. Fort Knox hasn't had a full independent audit since 1953.

The Trump administration says Americans exposed to Ebola while abroad will be sent to a new quarantine and treatment facility in Kenya rather than flown back to the United States. The facility is being set up by the Departments of Defense, State, and Health and Human Services. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, "We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States." The plan mirrors comments Trump made as a private citizen in 2014, when he criticized President Obama for bringing infected Americans home during the West Africa outbreak. "Treat them, at the highest level, over there," he wrote at the time. Suspected Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now approaching 1,000. An American doctor working in Congo tested positive earlier this month and was sent to Germany for treatment. Kenya's health minister confirmed discussions with the U.S. about "preparedness and response mechanisms" but has not confirmed whether the government has signed off on hosting the facility.

President Trump: Gary Gensler and anti-crypto policies nearly destroyed the U.S. industry. America is now the “crypto capital of the world.”

Senator Warren calls for taxing AI data centers. "It's time to make corporations pay their fair share and make sure they're no longer incentivized to fire workers and replace them with AI."

"Tokenisation does not change the underlying legal nature of money." The BIS has concluded Project Agora, a prototype for a shared programmable platform that settles wholesale cross-border payments in seconds using tokenized central bank reserves. Seven central banks participated: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Bank of Canada, Bank of Korea, and Swiss National Bank. Over 40 private sector firms were involved, including JPMorgan, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Mastercard, Visa, Swift, UBS, and Citi. The prototype demonstrated atomic settlement across all seven jurisdictions, meaning either all parts of a cross-border payment execute or none do. The system uses a two-layer architecture: jurisdiction-specific ledgers for tokenized central bank reserves and a shared unifying ledger for tokenized commercial bank deposits. The platform embeds AML, sanctions screening, and fraud detection directly into transactions via smart contracts, running compliance checks in parallel rather than sequentially. It operates 24/7.

Block launches stablecoin integration on Cash App.

Rubio: "We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States."

Trump Accounts app launches tomorrow. $1,000 federal seed for every newborn, invested in index funds and locked until age 18.

Trump: Gas prices will “come down a lot” once the Iran “excursion” ends. “It’ll come down to where it was before.”

US home foreclosure filings rose 26% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, reaching roughly 119,000 properties. That is the highest level in six years. Foreclosure filings have more than tripled since the post-pandemic low.

Kelly Loeffler: "At the SBA we found $200B in fraudulent PPP loans that the Biden Administration tried to hide, and forgive, and sweep under the rug." "We've turned the first $22B of that over to Treasury for collections, and to DOJ for prosecution."

The European Central Bank's latest financial stability review warns that the war in the Middle East is "putting the resilience of the financial system to the test" and that "the repercussions for the global economy and financial stability are becoming graver the longer it lasts." The ECB says equity valuations are "stretched by historical standards," bond risk premia are "compressed globally," and that investors are underestimating downside risks. It cites uncertainty around US trade policy and reduced commitment to multilateral cooperation as amplifying factors. Vice President Luis de Guindos described the current investor mood as a "bittersweet situation," warning that complacency combined with geopolitical shocks "could give rise to a change in markets." The ECB also flagged hedge fund positions in eurozone sovereign bonds that could amplify sudden repricing, growing risks in private credit markets, and rising cyber threats from new AI models.

U.S. banking regulations went from roughly 5,000 restrictions in 1970 to 52,475 today. Most of that spike came after 2010.

Hunter Biden: "I think there's incredible promise in cryptocurrency. I think it is incredible freedom in a world in which we've been controlled by banks. I truly believe in what Satoshi, kind of the manifesto of Bitcoin."

The cultural rot is downstream of the money. "People aren't having children because of the money. People aren't getting married because of the money. OnlyFans is a thing because of the money. It's a rot that goes beyond the physical and into the spiritual." - Smeet Bhatt

Taiwan has surpassed India as the fifth largest stock market in the world. The shift is largely driven by TSMC, which manufactures the majority of the world's advanced semiconductors and has seen its valuation surge alongside the global AI buildout. NVIDIA alone says it is spending $100 to $150 billion per year in Taiwan.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis: "If the Clarity Act doesn't pass this Congress, American software developers will be targeted again for prosecution in the near future just for publishing code."

Tether froze $344M of Iran's stablecoin holdings. Now they're down to two options: the yuan and Bitcoin. "Bitcoin is the only emergent financial technology that works as a neutral settlement layer in an increasingly trustless and fractured world order." - Smeet Bhatt