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Lacy Hunt: Fed’s Been “Stealth-Easing” Since December

Published by Jenni Sidey

“We’re seeing a major secular shift, that we’re now moving into a period of capital shortage, as well as we’re witnessing the end of the three-decade period of globalization, which led to significant disinflation.” That prediction comes from Dr. Lacy Hunt, once one of the bond market’s most prominent bulls and secular disinflationists. Well… no longer. He’s now a seller of U.S. long-dated bonds and suggested during last night’s discussion on ZeroHedge that he’s eyeing gold favorably. Lacy told Thoughtful Money’s Adam Taggart and Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital that inflation is here to stay so get used to it and plan accordingly: “There will be intermittent episodes when the secular forces will fade, but the big picture is considerably different. We’re going to have higher inflation. We’re going to have greater volatility in inflation. The trend in interest rate is going to be higher. And we’re going to have generally poor economic performance.” Here were the highlights of Lacy’s tour de force, but we highly recommend the full 75-minute discussion in its entirety: Net …

Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Visa aimed Anthropic’s Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175 million merchant locations. The model stitched minor weaknesses deep in the stack into working exploit chains that would traditionally have surfaced only late in penetration testing. Rajat Taneja, Visa’s president of technology, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through what came next, including why Visa released the harness that governed the entire hunt as open source and why the company abandoned traditional remediation metrics for a measurement its team invented. Taneja has run technology strategy, product engineering, and global infrastructure at Visa since 2019, after joining the company in 2013 from Electronic Arts, where he served as CTO following 15 years at Microsoft. He co-authored, with Visa chief information security officer Subra Kumaraswamy, the June 10 blog post announcing the release of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness on GitHub as a reference implementation that any …

Ella Hunt on Not Suitable for Work, Making Music

Published by Daniella Wilson

Imagine the hectic and near nonstop promotion schedule of a new television series. It’s enough to tire out any actor. Now, add in the release of a deeply personal debut album, and you’ll begin begin to understand what life has looked like for English actress and singer Ella Hunt. The 28-year-old British actress returned to TV last month in Mindy Kaling’s 20-something Hulu series Not Suitable For Work. She plays AJ Pascarelli in the Friends-esque comedy about young people living in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood, which premiered on June 2. Three days later, Hunt released Blindspot, her debut album. It’s been a bit of a month, to say the least. “I’m used to having a moment to breathe when I put something out,” Hunt tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom that busy week in June. “This week has had a whole wave of newness to it that I’ve not experienced before. Where normally I would take a step back to go water my garden and sit with my cats and take in people responding …

Counting Heads | Lynn Hunt

Published by José Betancourt

Most political assassinations take place in public. Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate in 44 BCE, King Henry IV of France was knifed in his carriage in Paris in 1610, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot while being driven through the streets of Sarajevo in 1914—the murder that ignited World War I. Assassinations in private are rare, but one stands out: the bathtub stabbing of Jean-Paul Marat in July 1793 by a twenty-four-year-old noblewoman from Normandy, Charlotte Corday. Although born into a minor aristocratic family, she was acting not out of devotion to royalism but because she hoped to change the course of the French Revolution by killing the journalist who had called incessantly for ever more heads to roll. Corday supported the more moderate republic advocated by the deputies known as Girondins, so called because some came from the Gironde region near Bordeaux. They had fled for their lives after being expelled from the National Convention six weeks earlier and hoped to raise a …

“Ted Lasso”‘s Brendan Hunt channels “Hey Jude” into a one-man play

Published by Sam Flores

Award-winning actor, screenwriter and playwright Brendan Hunt joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about how his upbringing and “Hey Jude” inspired his new one-man stage production and much more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon. Hunt, best known for portraying Coach Beard on the Apple TV series “Ted Lasso” (on which he is also co-creator and writer), told Womack, “I literally don’t remember a time when I didn’t know about The Beatles.” Growing up in Chicago, he says his earliest memory was being three years old, his parents having just divorced, and wandering out of bed to find his mother alone watching “Yellow Submarine.” Even from that young age, Hunt says, “they drew me in. That’s basically been it for me from there.” His Beatles journey took him through his mother’s “big record collection” and being exposed to “their psychedelic years way younger than I should have been,” and then discovering the “mop-top” years later through …

England’s Hunt and Talling ruled out of Six Nations with leg injuries

Published by Sam Flores

April 13 : England’s Natasha Hunt and Morwenna Talling will miss the rest of the Women’s Six Nations tournament after both players suffered leg injuries during Saturday’s 33-12 win over Ireland in their opening game, the RFU said on Monday. Lock Talling, who played a key role when England won the Rugby World Cup last year, is the latest second row to miss the tournament after Zoe Stratford, Abbie Ward and Rosie Galligan withdrew due to pregnancy. Both Talling and scrum-half Hunt will see specialists in camp this week before returning to their clubs, the RFU said in a statement. After Saturday’s win, England coach John Mitchell said the team would adapt to the situation despite key absences. “We have lost four international locks so we will probably be a team of back-rowers by the end of the competition. There are different ways to play this game and if we have to rely on back-rowers, we will make it work,” he told reporters. Defending champions England next face Scotland on Saturday, as they build up …

Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent

Published by José Betancourt

There is something almost theatrical about the opening of Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent — a summer camp deep in the Adirondack Mountains, populated not by teenagers with canoe paddles, but by the heirs of rival Russian-American mafia organizations, stripped of phones and personal guards, forced into uneasy cohabitation. The premise is dramatic almost to the point of absurdity. And then Yulian Dimitriev walks in — bloodied, grinning, having just detonated a device for the sheer entertainment of it — and the novel announces itself as something far more complicated than its setup suggests. Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent is the second entry in Rina Kent’s Villain series. Where Kiss the Villain introduced Nikolai’s story and laid the groundwork for this world, this book narrows its focus to two characters who have been circling each other — and readers’ curiosity — since the series began. The forthcoming Crave the Villain will close out the trilogy, but for now, this is the installment that carries the heaviest emotional weight of the three. Its predecessor …

The Fox Hunt by Caitlin Breeze

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a particular hunger that lives in the corridors of old universities. It lurks in the amber glow of candlelit halls, in the whispered ambitions of students who believe they are owed greatness simply because they walk upon ancient stone. Caitlin Breeze knows this hunger intimately, and in her debut novel, she shapes it into something feral, mythic, and utterly consuming. The Fox Hunt by Caitlin Breeze is a dark academia fantasy that takes the familiar architecture of elite university life and reveals the rot beneath its honey-coloured façade. Set within a fictional English university older and grander than Oxford or Cambridge combined, the novel follows Emma Curran, a practical, science-minded second-year student whose world fractures open when she wins a prestigious research fellowship. That single stroke of fortune pulls her into a glittering orbit of privilege she was never meant to enter, and towards a secret society whose rituals carry a price far older and darker than any of its members understand. The World Within the Walls What Breeze builds here is not …

The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere

Published by Miika Tikkanen

But de la Fuente is using artificial intelligence to bring about a different future. His team at the University of Pennsylvania is training AI tools to search genomes far and deep for peptides with antibiotic properties. His vision is to assemble those peptides—molecules made of up to 50 amino acids linked together—into various configurations, including some never seen in nature. The results, he hopes, could defend the body against microbes that withstand traditional treatments. His quest has unearthed promising candidates in unexpected places. In August 2025 his team, which includes 16 scientists in Penn’s Machine Biology Group, described peptides hiding in the genetic code of ancient single-celled organisms called archaea. Before that, they’d excavated a list of candidates from the venom of snakes, wasps, and spiders. And in an ongoing project de la Fuente calls “molecular de-extinction,” he and his collaborators have been scanning published genetic sequences of extinct species for potentially functional molecules. Those species include hominids like Neanderthals and Denisovans and charismatic megafauna like woolly mammoths, as well as ancient zebras and penguins. …

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