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Rise of ‘shadow banking’ brings new financial risks, experts say – The Washington Post

Rise of ‘shadow banking’ brings new financial risks, experts say  The Washington Post ‘The tide went out’: How a string of bad loans has bank investors hunting for hidden risks  CNBC Investors Shudder at Signs of Loan Trouble in Banks  The New York Times Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq wobble as Trump tamps down China threats amid regional bank jitters  Yahoo Finance …

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Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow – Reuters

Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow  Reuters From Lipstick To Payrolls: Investors Turn To Strange Signals As Government Data Stalls During Shutdown  Forbes Economic Risks Of A Prolonged U.S. Government Shutdown  Seeking Alpha The ‘gold standard’ is absent for the Fed. What is it watching instead?  MarketWatch Kelly Perkins: Sorry Folks, the Government’s Closed… and It’s a Nothing Burger  CandysDirt.com Source link

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Pynchon’s Paranoia Meets Our Moment in ‘Shadow Ticket’ and ‘One Battle After Another’

Pynchon’s Paranoia Meets Our Moment in ‘Shadow Ticket’ and ‘One Battle After Another’

This story contains minor spoilers for Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. As reading comprehension plummets, it’s become a status symbol to read “girthy” books, the kind of dick-measuring classics written by talented, reclusive wizards. Length is important. They have to be phallic; riding them has to be an accomplishment. Earlier this year, Federico …

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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US | Fiction

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US | Fiction

Everything is connected in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s fleet-footed noir fiction about a lindy-hopping detective in prohibition-era Wisconsin. The homemade bomb connects to the runaway cheese heiress, the cheese heiress to the federal agents, and the feds to the pro‑Nazi leagues at the bowling lanes outside town. Early-30s Milwaukee, in turn, is connected to powder-keg central Europe, where paramilitary groups …

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Trump Adviser Admits There’s a “Shadow President of the United States”

Trump Adviser Admits There’s a “Shadow President of the United States”

Oracle co-founder, CTO and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Photo by Andrew Harnik / Getty Images. Elon Musk may have blown up his relationship with Donald Trump like a Tesla battery that caught fire, but there’s another centibillionaire out there with deep influence in the Oval Office: …

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Nintendo Shadow Drops Fire Emblem Shadows, a New Smartphone Spin-Off with Social Deduction

Nintendo Shadow Drops Fire Emblem Shadows, a New Smartphone Spin-Off with Social Deduction

Surprise! Nintendo has announced Fire Emblem Shadows, a new free-to-play smartphone game that’s available right now. Released overnight for both iOS and Android devices, Fire Emblem Shadows mixes the series’ traditional tactical role-playing gameplay with social deduction elements. Which one of your team of heroes is secretly a traitor? Or will you choose the path of shadow yourself? Fire Emblem …

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Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

“Maybe 10 years ago, he was like, ‘I want Marco Rubio to be president,’” the same source says. Many players first started hearing of Ellison in the lead-up to the 2024 Republican presidential primary. At that point, after years of donating to both parties, Ellison was seen internally as doing Trump a small favor by pledging his financial support to …

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Harris: island must face ‘shadow’ within to tackle gangs – The Royal Gazette

Harris: island must face ‘shadow’ within to tackle gangs – The Royal Gazette

Created: Sep 17, 2025 08:24 AM Frankco Harris researches violent crime in Bermuda, along with its roots (Photograph by Akil Simmons) Bermudians must “sit with uncomfortable truths and act with sincerity” to take on the island’s cycle of gang violence, a community-minded criminologist said yesterday. Frankco Harris, who is compiling research on gang dynamics and youth violence in Bermuda, also …

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