The JPMorgan Chase CEO is drawing a hard line over one of the most contentious questions in American finance: should cryptocurrency companies be allowed to pay customers interest-like rewards on stablecoin balances without accepting the regulatory obligations imposed on traditional banks?
For the past two years, much of the world — as represented by both its leaders and its media — has been held in awe of the increasingly dangerous whims of a visibly declining and erratic old man.
When that old man is the president of the United States — from the moment he was elected for a second time — there seemed to be little choice but to take his actions seriously and to believe they were part of a thought-through strategy.
Jon Ossoff, a former journalist and Senator won reelection to the U.S. Senate in Georgia on November 3, defeating Republican Mike Collins.The Associated Press called the race.Source: Washington Post's article "Jon Ossoff’s films exposed corruption.Then his colleague was murdered." by By Ian Ward.In January 2019, Jon Ossoff received a series of calls that changed how he thought about the limits of his work. Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, a Ghanaian journalist who had worked with Ossoff’s documentary company, had been shot and killed. The two had collaborated on an investigation into corruption in African soccer—an inquiry that had helped expose officials taking bribes and set off a political storm. Before Divela’s death, a Ghanaian politician had publicly urged people to attack him. No one has been convicted in connection with the killing.
At first, everything appeared to be unfolding better than expected, particularly when it came to public relations. An “Islamic NATO” with three founding members — Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan — and a fourth, Egypt, which came close to joining but dropped out along the way. It was a sudden development that offered an early warning of just how limited the substance of the Mecca Agreement might prove to be.
The small army of congressional candidates who ran to victory Tuesday vowing to halt the expansion of data centers — including some of the country’s most prominent incoming Democratic senators — are poised to make Capitol Hill far more antagonistic toward the AI infrastructure build-out and increase pressure on their colleagues to act on new regulations.
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We are not going to brag here at The Greek Courier. While it might seem like Trump will flip like the states he lost, we are simply going to enjoy the moment after a long, exhausting, and often stressful fight. Frankly, it felt like the good old days, when Democrats stood for something, when political commitment meant showing up, getting organized, and turning out to vote en masse. At the end of the day, this was more than an election; it was an act of participation by millions of people who understood that their democracy could not be taken for granted. They mobilized, they galvanized, and they delivered.Democrats captured both chambers of Congress in a stunning midterm reversal, flipping Republican-held seats across the country and turning the political map upside down. Washington has a new balance of power, and the Demos made it happen.
There is a particular danger in a presidency built around the idea that power belongs to whoever is willing to exercise it most aggressively. Eventually, the occupant of the Oval Office begins to confuse the ability to issue orders with the ability to make those orders stick. Donald Trump has spent much of his political career testing that distinction. Now, increasingly, the distinction is testing him.
Trump continues to behave as though the presidency is an instrument of personal will. Institutions are expected to comply, political opponents are expected to retreat, and journalists are expected to understand that access to the White House is a privilege rather than a constitutional safeguard. Yet a series of developments suggests that the political environment surrounding his administration is changing. Courts are blocking executive initiatives, Republican candidates are becoming more willing to criticize the president, and public dissatisfaction is becoming increasingly difficult for his party to ignore.
Israel's political landscape entered a new phase on Tuesday as opposition leaders agreed to unite behind former military chief Gadi Eisenkot as their candidate to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.
The leaders of four Jewish opposition parties — Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan and Avigdor Liberman — met in Herzliya, joined by Yair Lapid, and agreed to begin immediate coalition negotiations. Their stated objective is to replace Netanyahu's government with a national emergency government.
What a coincidence. On the very day Americans head to the polls, Donald Trump suddenly announces that the United States will stop giving Israel $4 billion a year. Apparently, he and Benjamin Netanyahu have already made a deal. Yeah right. How convenient.
Lower living costs, a favourable tax regime, milder winters and an increasingly attractive property market are drawing German retirees south. And while the popular islands are getting more expensive, some of Greece's most beautiful corners remain surprisingly accessible.
By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.
Art: Gemini, IntelAIgence
November 2, 2026Imagine exchanging a grey winter morning in Germany for breakfast on a terrace overlooking the Aegean. The house is made of stone, the coffee is strong, the village is beginning to wake up, and the sea is close enough to reach before lunch. There is no particular reason to hurry. Retirement, after all, is supposed to be about having time.
Imperial ambitions are ever-shifting under President Donald Trump. Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are oftentimes spoken about as one continuous train of complete victories and soon-to-be-complete-victories. With the midterms fast approaching, and the date for an apparent telegraphed return to the Iran war on its heels, talk of easily overthrowing regimes has returned, if it ever truly left.
Wedged between Jack’s gentleman lessons, a dalliance that could ruin Marian, and a surprise hysterectomy, The Gilded Age season-four premiere’s most shocking moment is a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo. Two, actually: Matt Damon and David Letterman.
No, really! Eight minutes and 33 seconds into the episode, Damon and Letterman play gentlemen silently crossing the street as the camera pans to the home of George Russell, who’s recovering inside after getting shot at the end of season three. The six-second star turn is all you’ll glimpse of the late-night host and Academy Award–winning actor. Even though The Gilded Age is packed with stars, they usually have speaking roles. How did Damon and Letterman end up in the episode?
Wall Street had an uncomfortable October. The technology-heavy Nasdaq came under pressure, some of its biggest names suffered extraordinary losses, and investors began asking a question that the artificial intelligence boom had allowed them to postpone: when will all this spending actually pay off?
By October 30, the Nasdaq-100 had fallen more than 5.8% for the month. Reuters estimated that more than $2 trillion in market capitalization was on course to disappear from the index. On the final trading day, the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.9%, the S&P 500 lost 1.8%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.1%. Intel plunged almost 29%, recording its worst single-day performance since 1974.
America's economy is producing profits, supporting businesses and keeping financial markets moving. But Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, wants investors to consider an uncomfortable possibility: the apparent strength may be concealing a growing dependence on government borrowing.
His concern is not that economic activity has suddenly become an illusion. It is that Washington's spending has become a powerful source of demand, helping sustain the very prosperity that policymakers and investors celebrate. And, as Dimon sees it, an economy increasingly accustomed to that support could face a difficult adjustment if the borrowing becomes unsustainable.
