Morning News: September 16, 2026

Iran Blockade Costs Are Draining America’s Global Military Power

Iran War Has Gulf Countries Spending Big on Anti-Drone Systems

It Costs a Record $44.8 Million to Ship US Crude Oil to Asia

Americans Have Spent $100 Billion More on Fuel During the Iran War

Monaco Set to Exit Dirty-Money List Along With Bulgaria, Ivory Coast

EU Touts Climate Insurance Pact to Ease Catastrophe Losses

EU Proposes Canada Become the Bloc’s First ‘Associate Member’

Don’t Punish U.S. Workers and Consumers for the EU’s Follies

Who’s Afraid of Big Bad Bond Yields?

Treasury Yields Hitting 5% May Not Break Markets Now — but the Clock Is Ticking

Bond Market’s ‘Extreme’ Short Counts on Fed to Deliver Rate Hike

The Fed Will Fix the Inflation It Allegedly Created? Only In ‘Economics’

Crypto’s Push Into Wall Street Suffers Setback After Bill Fails

Cash-Strapped Japanese Monks Turn to Investing as Inflation Worsens

Paytm Bulls See IPO Price Back in Reach After Five-Year Wait

Poverty Rate Was Stable Before Trump’s Safety Net Cuts Gained Force

The Seeds of Corporate Politicization Have Already Been Planted

American Businesses Have No Idea How to Set Prices Right Now

Trump Has Few Good Options to Slow China’s Rise as AI Superpower

U.S. Pressures Mexico to Box Out China’s AI Hardware Exports

How A.I. Risks Are Splitting Silicon Valley and Washington

Congress Has Plenty of Ideas to Regulate A.I. Nearly All Are Stalled

Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO Is Still On. And So Is the AI Race

OpenAI Weighs Funding Round at Over $1.2 Trillion Valuation

Apple Finally Built a Smarter Siri. It Still Hasn’t Caught Up in the AI Race

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

Meta Touts the Cost-Saving Benefits of Latest In-House AI Chips

Chipmaker Stocks Will Weather Any AI Slowdown

Fink Warns AI Pushback Will Make the Technology a Large-Firm Domain

‘Like It’s Raining Gold’: The AI Boom’s Unexpected Billionaires

Age Limits for Social Media Outlined by European Union

Gucci and Dior’s Outfit Change Is a Work in Progress

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Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on September 16th, 2026 at 5:15 am

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