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Same thing goes for the AI utopia/accelerationist/singularity story, which is basically the same as the AI doom story. There are plenty of problems that don't yield to increased intelligence. A lack of intelligence is not why we have a climate crisis or no durable peace in the Middle East.
October 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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This notice doesn't say where the job is. It's UC-Berkeley. "off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions." #MedievalSky
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Jobs For Medievalists

Assistant or Associate Professor – Mediterranean and its Hinterlands, 500-1500 CE - Department of History

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Position title: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor
Salary range: The current
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October 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Fonder:
Global indexfond typ Avanzas
Avanza zero
Plus Fastigheter Sverige (en knivsudd)

Etf:
Xact småbolag Sverige
Franklin European Quality ucits
Vanguard FTSE all world High dividend yield
Montrose global leverage 125

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ASML
Microsoft
Sbb (skoja bara)
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October 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Will the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield be above 5.32% by Oct 30, 2026? · 5.33% or above

13% → 39% +26 pts in 1h · $758

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October 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Southern Company offers a higher forward dividend yield and slightly lower valuation multiple, while NextEra shows greater dividend coverage headroom through stronger cash-flow support.
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October 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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NEW SONG ANNOUNCEMENT

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October 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Scientists Fine-Tune the Perfect Recipe for Extracting Stinging Nettle
Ethiopian researchers used response surface methodology to pinpoint optimal Soxhlet extraction conditions for stinging nettle leaves, achieving a predicted yield of 0.330 percent and revealing a
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October 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Corn tumbled as much as 4.8% after the US Department of Agriculture raised its outlook for US yield and production of the top American crop, surprising analysts who had expected a cut.
October 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Reading through and it’s great research and explainer.
I did catch this error in case you want to correct:
“So, the largest-ever junk bond sale happened last month, with Softbank issuing $11.1bn in high-yield debt with an S&P rating of $11.1bn.”
I think it’s supposed to end BB+.
October 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Southern Company offers a higher forward dividend yield and slightly lower valuation multiple, while NextEra shows greater dividend coverage headroom through stronger cash-flow support.
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October 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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**CORN PLUNGES AFTER USDA HIKES US YIELD OUTLOOK IN SURPRISE MOVE

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October 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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CORN FUTURES DROP 4.8% AFTER USDA RAISES CROP YIELD FORECAST
October 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Initial Slip.
My fingers graze first
with an almost innocent slowness.
They circle over the dampness
that already betrays you.
I press the edge, feel how you yield without your mouth admitting it.
It is the beginning of the ritual:
October 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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CORN FUTURES DROP 4.8% AFTER USDA RAISES CROP YIELD FORECAST
October 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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*CORN FUTURES DROP 4.8% AFTER USDA RAISES CROP YIELD FORECAST
October 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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CORN FUTURES DROP 4.8% AFTER USDA RAISES CROP YIELD FORECAST
October 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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USDA *raises* its corn yield estimate to 181.2 bu/acre, from 178.5 last month. Corn crop estimate of 16.034 billion bushels up from 15.8 billion last month and from average survey estimate of 15.721 billion.

Soybean crop estimate also raised, modestly. Yield at 53.1 vs. 52.8 last month.
ianberry.bsky.social Ian Berry @ianberry.bsky.social · 2d
Just about everyone else is lower heading into Friday's USDA crop report. Average Bloomberg analyst survey estimates are 177.8 bushels/acre for corn and 52.9 for soybeans.
October 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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The puzzle in France: debt is four times its 2002 level, yet the 10-year yield sits at 2002 highs. John Tamny says that's no panic. It's bond buyers betting on a flood of future French tax revenue. Heavy taxation, not the debt, is the real crisis.
October 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Having a junk rating doesn't stop you from borrowing, as evidenced by Softbank raising $11.1bn last month to build AI infrastructure. Softbank has raised tens of billions in junk debt, and the money keeps on flowing because it keeps repaying its debts.

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So, the largest-ever junk bond sale happened last month, with Softbank issuing $11.1bn in high-yield debt with an S&P rating of $11.1bn (split across dollar and euro denominated notes). SoftBank was downgraded two rungs to junk on July 8, 2013 by S&P Global days before it acquired Sprint-Nextel, and has issued around $49.7 billion across fifty junk bond raises since. This is because, despite Masayoshi Son’s colorful use of debt (see my Hater’s Guide To SoftBank for more), SoftBank has dutifully paid off or refinanced everything it’s ever borrowed, meaning that banks are more than happy to keep extending it lines of credit, bridge loans or other financial vehicles to keep him at the tables. SoftBank is actually a great example of the typical junk borrower — a high-leverage (meaning “lots of debt”) borrower which nonetheless can continue to raise debt because revenues keep growing and payments are never missed. While lenders and credit agencies sort of keep an eye on one’s ability to pay in the future, they mostly look at whether anything has gone wrong recently, and whether the short-term numbers are going up in a way that you’d want them to.
October 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Junk debt refers to debt that carries a risk beyond what would be considered investment-grade, and this is itself a spectrum, referring to blue chip companies that've had a rocky time, to companies that are literally teetering on the edge of insolvency.

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The term “junk debt” is a euphemism for any kind of debt issued by a company with a non-investment-grade credit rating. If we’re being polite, we could also call it “high-yield debt.” As regular readers will know, this publication isn’t particularly fond of civility, and so, we’ll stick with the euphemism. But what constitutes “junk?” Well, just like a person has a credit rating from Experian or Equifax, there are three main agencies that rank companies (and, separately, their bond issuance) according to their own metrics designed to determine risk. These three main agencies are Fitch, Moody’s, and Standard and Poor’s (S&P for short), and they all do the same thing, but with slightly different methodologies, and slightly different metrics. Fitch’s metric sees anything rated BB+ or lower as junk (with AAA being its top ranking). For Moody’s, the highest rung of junk debt is Ba1 (with Aaa being the pinnacle of corporate creditworthiness — note the difference in capitalization). At Standard and Poor’s, the junk epithet applies to anything rated BB+ or below, with AAA being its top rank. It’s worth noting that within both investment-grade ratings and junk grade ratings, there’s a spectrum of ratings. Not all investment-grade debt is of equal quality, and not all “junk” debt is going to doomed companies. In the same sense that there are different tiers of investment-grade debt, the junk ratings applied to corporate bonds and borrowers also talk about risk, but across a spectrum. For example, S&P describes the top rung of its non-investment grade debt (BB+/BB/BB-) as follows: A BB credit rating indicates that an entity is less vulnerable in the near term, but faces major ongoing uncertainties. This rating reflects a speculative nature, suggesting that the entity may be more impacted by economic downturns or other adverse conditions. While BB-rated entities might currently manage their obligations, investors should be cautious due to potential volatility. This is where some of the confusion surrounding junk debt creeps in. Just because a company has a junk rating doesn’t, in fact, mean that the company is itself junk. Some of these companies are large, established names with hundreds of billions of dollars in turnover, but because of some market uncertainty, or a bit of historic turbulence, or some operational issues, they don’t quite meet the threshold for an investment-grade rating. Ford Motor Company, for example, has a Ba1 rating with Moody’s (though it’s still ranked at the lowest rung of investment-grade debt with Fitch and S&P). Its descent from investment-grade into junk territory happened in 2019, and was caused by a spell of weak earnings and overall dismal financial performance. Sidenote: As mentioned before the break with regard to Oracle, a company whose credit rating has dropped from investment-grade levels is called a “fallen angel.” Again, a credit rating is a measure of risk. While the idea that Ford might default on its loans feels unthinkable, given it’s a titan of American industry with a global reach, it’s far more conceivable than, say, a company like Johnson & Johnson (which has a top-tier AAA ranking). As you go down the list of junk ratings, those “uncertainties” that S&P talks about become more pronounced. A CCC rating, for example, describes “an entity is currently vulnerable and dependent on favorable business, financial, and economic conditions to meet its financial commitments.” An example of a company like this is luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin, which has a CCC rating (or equivalent) across all the major ratings agencies. According to Fitch, this is because of its issuance of £550 million in new debt, its unwillingness to be transparent with its order book, and its high cash burn, combined with broader macroeconomic factors, like the US tariff war and tepid demand from the China/Asia-Pacific market. Then we go further down the list. A company with a C rating is “highly vulnerable to nonpayment, and the likelihood of default is almost certain,” and the lowest rung, D, is applied to companies that are in active default. There’s another term I’m going to introduce you to, which is distressed debt. This refers to a subcategory of junk debt from companies with ratings CCC or lower. There’s a market for distressed debt, in part because it has high yields and often trades at a discount, but the caveat is that here, the risk of a default is highest.
October 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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The past fifteen years has seen a rennaissance in junk borrowing, with the market growing by 75 times. Riskier businesses are issuing more bonds than ever, and they'll soon be joined by Anthropic and OpenAI, should they manage to go public.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a glorious, splendiferous, outrageous era of crap! Some call it “high-yield,” some call it “speculative-grade,” but to those of us living in the real world, we know them as junk bonds, the formerly-sleepy world of below-investment grade debt that’s exploded in the last six years. Since the beginning of 2011, junk bond issuance has increased by seventy-five times, from a mere $3 billion issued against $60.8 billion in investment-grade bonds in the first half of 2011 (around 5%) to an astonishing $229 billion of junk against the $805.9 billion in the first half of 2026 — making the high-yield market about 28.4% the size of the investment-grade market. The high-yield market has ballooned over the last few years thanks to the vagaries of the global economy and, in recent years, the arrival of an entirely new category of crap. And “junk,” in the case of today’s newsletter, is going to extend so much further than simply “high-yield,” and into the murky world of leveraged loans that have been used to fund dodgy software deals and an increasing amount of data center debt deals. As I covered in this week’s free newsletter, Anthropic and OpenAI are two of the single-worst businesses in the history of capitalism, with negative EBITDA cashflows and massive customer concentrations, making them likely to be rated toward the lowest tiers of junk — CCC, or the equivalent rating in Moody’s system, Caa: A CCC credit rating indicates that an entity is currently vulnerable and dependent on favorable business, financial, and economic conditions to meet its financial commitments. This rating suggests a significant risk of default, meaning that the issuer's ability to fulfill its obligations is highly uncertain and contingent on external factors. While you probably know this, “default” refers to when a company has missed a payment on its debt and the credit agencies don’t believe that it will ever make that payment. The AI labs will require $50 billion to $100 billion of annual issuance across the worlds of high-yield, private credit, leveraged loans (high-interest loans with floating rates issued to companies with a ton of existing debt), and revolving credit lines that, according to a source in fixed-income, are the kind of thing you only use as a last resort. They’d also be the first parts of the AI industry to truly touch the world of junk other than the disgraceful AI neoclouds, companies that raise oodles of debt with the vague promise of building AI data centers some time in an indeterminate future, but serve the more immediate benefit of pumping NVIDIA’s revenue numbers by buying GPUs years before they’ll ever dance with the power grid. Regardless of how shitty it is, this industry needs hundreds of billions of dollars to fund the theoretical buildout of these potentially-possible data centers — CoreWeave alone, per UBS, needs to raise $102 billion in debt through 2030 — at a rate with no historical comparison. Even the railroad bubble of the 1800s had, based on rough calculations of inflation, only around $250 billion in total investment compared to the $400 billion in issuance expected from hyperscalers alone in 2027. Yet the vast majority of companies building AI data centers range from low credit to no credit, with whatever creditworthiness they may have based near-entirely on their proximity to either NVIDIA or one of the hyperscalers that is invariably going to be their customer. The problem, you see, isn’t really the AI of it all, but the uniquely stinky business of being in AI. Even under the best possible circumstances, an AI data center will need billions of dollars up front, years in advance of any potential return on investment, buoyed only by the hype around the potential payoff at the other end.
October 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a glorious, splendiferous, outrageous era of crap! Some call it “high-yield,” some call it “speculative-grade,” but to those of us living in the real world, we know…
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October 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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kinda think the armouries on outpost should give MIDA rep for unlocking. realising it doesn't do that but many other UESC containers you break into yield MIDA rep (other than lockdown which is Traxus)
October 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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CORN FALLS OVER 3% AFTER USDA RAISES US YIELD, SUPPLY OUTLOOK
October 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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A very high dividend yield often signals earnings or free-cash-flow weakness, especially after companies shed profitable units while keeping payouts.
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October 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM