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Iowa lawmakers meet Friday to consider doubling the state's tax-credit cap to 10%, the change Mesabi Metallics' $15 billion steel plant is waiting on. Until it passes, the project rests on incentive terms that current Iowa law caps at half that level.
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Stablecoin issuers have added about $200 billion of Treasuries in five years, roughly 0.05% of the IIF's $365 trillion global debt tally. The bid matters in a US bill market that foreign buyers are leaving, and even the projected $400 billion for 2030 would be about 0.1% of world debt.
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US nonresidential specialty trade contractors added 86,000 jobs in a year, with much of the demand coming from data-center construction. Operators hiring electricians now compete against one sector's boom, and economists disagree on how long it lasts.
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Treasury yields have held around 5% at nearly every maturity, and 53% of 173 specialists Bloomberg polled expect the 30-year to top 6% this year. Plans that assume cheaper money soon now depend on an oil shock fading faster than AI and deficit borrowing.
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Executive Order 2026-05 and the GRID Standards turn permitting speed and a sales tax exemption projected to cost more than $517 million a year by FY 2030-31 into things developers must earn.
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Norges Bank wants government bonds cut from 70 percent to 50 percent of its bond benchmark, roughly $80 billion of Treasuries by one estimate, and the buyer stepping in behind it holds paper for a spread it can close in a quarter.
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Business Insider reviewed 130 US political TV ads and found candidates of every party attacking AI mostly over electricity costs, water use and tax breaks. Companies that need local approval to build now hear that cost case from challengers in both parties.
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's Brookings paper projects $10.3 trillion in US AI investment through 2032, 3.63% of GDP a year against the railroads' 2.24%. It warns that more of the money is moving into off-balance-sheet vehicles that can hide correlated exposures before a downturn.
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Brookings' Elena Patel estimates the Postal Service's one-truck rural schedule could add 43,000 to 55,000 mail-ballot rejections in November. It builds on this year's primaries in three states and puts the heaviest risk on rural Western voters.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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The CFTC sent a crypto rulemaking to the White House the same day, both agencies working from authority they already hold. A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is arguing the states should keep theirs.
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Twenty-two countries adopted a UN declaration on human oversight of AI systems this week. The United States and China spent Sunday discussing a bilateral risk-notification channel of their own.
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July's cap applies only to new parent PLUS loans, so the nearly $110 billion already borrowed keeps compounding at 9.07%, while a 60-year-old school bus driver waits for her forbearance to expire early next year.
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None of the Fed's own participants put the risks to GDP growth on the downside, in the same week the central bank raised rates for the first time in three years. Business Insider argues the fiscal support under 2026 spending reverses next year.
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Brent averaged about $69 a barrel last year and trades near $100 now, roughly 45% higher, six months into the war on Iran. Bank of America's base case for the second half is $83, with a $150 tail if energy infrastructure is hit.
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The OCC has conditionally approved Bastion Platforms National Trust Company to issue, custody and convert stablecoins on behalf of clients, a fee business housed inside a charter that bars deposits and FDIC cover.
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Asked this week if he backed slowing AI development, Donald Trump said no and named China. Anthropic's Dario Amodei used the same argument to cap the pause he was himself proposing.
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Melanie Sisson's Brookings report counts historical episodes of nuclear threat because the two-peer deterrence claim cannot be tested directly, and it finds those episodes more common in periods of lopsided arsenals than of rough parity.
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Melanie Sisson of Brookings and Tianjiao Jiang of Fudan propose red lines on military AI, a working definition of meaningful human control, and a hotline for AI incidents. Trump and Xi meet in Washington next week.
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Five executives who profit from AI spent the past few days asking for a slowdown. The Verge's timeline puts the same request in Musk's mouth in 2014 and Microsoft's in 2019, with few binding results either time.
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