Why Xi needs September 24: a five-file exchange, a diesel clock, and the evidence that Beijing is already spending its authority to slow a dollar migration it cannot stop. Macro strategy series: US and China, energy, capital flows. In one paragraph On September 24, Xi Jinping walks into the
Machine learning and quantum computing spent a decade being sold as rivals. In 2026 the tape is telling a different story, and the last time two technologies converged this way, it minted an entire industry. On the morning of December 23, 1947, in a small laboratory on Mountain Avenue in
The First True Test of the Colossus Doctrine Opposite starts, one meeting point, a war-driven split, and the one-and-done hike that puts 2026 back on 1927. A JD Unfiltered Special Report by Joseph M. Salvani and Daniel J. Walsh. The 1921 to 1930 / 2020 to 2029 Market
The First True Test of the Colossus Doctrine A plain-English guide to why interest rates, oil, and the Fed's next move all point the same way. The 1921 to 1930 / 2020 to 2029 Market Analog Series. Clock convention: May 1921 = May 2020, 1927 = 2026. The short version
A public-interest memo to the 9/11 responder community, and a response to recent coverage of the Stony Brook dementia findings. Why we are writing Recent coverage in the New York Post brought national attention to a finding that responders and their families have been living with quietly for
A plain-English guide to America's split job market, and why it points to a productivity boom. The short version For twenty years, if you were young and looking for work, having a college degree meant an easier time than not having one. Both groups had good years
The Winner Colossus by a Mile! Executive Summary Christopher Wood's latest GREED & fear and the JD Unfiltered Colossus Doctrine describe the same 2026: a Treasury that has displaced the Fed as the marginal price-setter in US rates, long-bond buybacks that behave like QE without being
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The two-week arc from orbital data centers to the Cursor cutoff. Part One. The Manifest. In February, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and their plans to build data centers in orbit. His answer was one word. "Ridiculous." He backed it
The drain has started. Japan's household deposit base has already begun to empty while the aggregate still hides it. Why the exit is underway, why the rails just opened, and what would turn a quiet drain into a run. A verified-first thesis briefing, with every claim graded
Executive Summary Between January and August 2026, the United States executed a sequence of political, military, and monetary moves that, taken together, constitute the consolidation of American economic hegemony: hemispheric energy control, adversary accommodation, and a fiscal-monetary architecture that channels global savings into the dollar system. The JD Unfiltered
Thesis, Scorecard, and Updated Outlook. Petrochemical templates from 1965 to 1999 as forecasting models for NVIDIA, AMD, and the compute industry. Supersedes "Escaping the Commodity Core, v3" (August 27, 2026) and the November 2025 petrochemical-analog valuation thesis. New in v4: the two prior workstreams are merged into
A JD Unfiltered Special Report. How Scott Bessent learned from 1929, why the 99-year clock keeps perfect time until the moment it breaks, and why the 2030s belong to America. "The greatest and boldest operation ever undertaken by the Federal Reserve System, and one of the most costly
A JD Unfiltered Report, with a Future Codicil on the Super Coupon Layer. The analog framework that anchors this publication, 1921 as 2020, 1927 as 2026, 1929 as 2028, makes a testable claim: eras of American swagger are not moods, they are machinery. Each is powered by two engines running
Shale, Stablecoins, and the Engineering of American Swagger. American dominance in 2026 rests on two technologies with opposite biographies. One was drilled out of Texas rock over forty years by engineers whom Washington alternately seeded, ignored, and obstructed. The other was born American, banished overseas by hostile regulators, kept compounding
This Time the Coming Late 2028 to March 2029 50% Decline Is the Buying Opportunity of the Next Decade. Preamble This is the third installment of the Accord series. "The Bessent/Warsh Accord" codicil of August 10, 2026 described the machine: a re-integration of monetary and fiscal
Two booms, one backlash, ninety-nine years apart. JD Unfiltered Research. Analog reasoning, not investment advice. Historical parallels are illustrative frameworks, not forecasts. I. The setup: nobody revolted against the machine In neither the 1920s nor the 2020s did the public revolt against the technology itself. Adoption was voracious both
How One Law Repriced the National Debt at the Rate the Administration's Own Appointee Controls. Preamble This report extends "The Second Twenties" (August 10, 2026) and "The Bessent/Warsh Accord" codicil of the same date. Those documents described the machine. This one describes the
SOD Sciences Inc. Science Brief. Why every failed treatment attacked the wrong target, and how the ReBaLU protocol unlocks a host-directed answer to Lyme, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, Powassan, Borrelia miyamotoi, and alpha-gal syndrome. The Situation on Long Island Suffolk County is now the tick-borne disease capital of the
SOD Sciences Inc. Science Brief. A scientific discovery is rewriting everything we thought we knew about willpower, calories, and why some bodies just won't change. By Daniel J. Walsh and Joseph M. Salvani, SOD Sciences Inc. She is there again this morning. Same bike. Same spot. Same 5: