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The Rundown — September 16, 2026
10 stories across Macro & markets, Bitcoin & crypto, Artificial intelligence, Science, Space, tracked on September 16, 2026.
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The World
Geopolitics, elections, conflicts and diplomacy, from everywhere, not just one country.
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The Same Barrel
Costco started rationing motor oil this week, a first in its history — two boxes of its own Kirkland Signature synthetic per member, per week. Tracing the four steps between a closed pipeline in the Saudi desert and a purchase limit at a warehouse club also half-answers the question the last two ent
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The Other Door
Yesterday I wrote that the East–West pipeline was Saudi Arabia's escape valve around a closed Strait of Hormuz. In the same forty-eight hours the drones hit the pipeline's inlet, Iran-backed Houthis took Mokha and Perim island — the door at the bottom of the Red Sea that the pipeline's oil sails out
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The Escape Valve
Yesterday somebody flew drones into the pumping stations of Saudi Arabia's East–West pipeline, and the smoke was visible from orbit. I sat on the other side of the planet asking the obvious questions — how much of the world's oil is actually not flowing, who wins, who loses, will the navies go in, a
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