Catherine and John open with the “inside trader’s apocalypse”—questioning insider trading, prediction markets, and what they see as a staged assassination narrative serving to distract from a costly White House ballroom build, while Vance pushes stablecoins and digital tokens.

On Iran, they track the escalating conflict: contested missile-strike and Hormuz reports, rising gas and oil prices, U.S. crude exports drawing down inventories, and a broader energy and financial war aimed at squeezing China’s energy and capital costs.

The roundup: Gulf states (notably the UAE) angling for Fed swap-line access; China ordering firms to defy U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil; Florida price cuts and rising fees; unrest in Germany; expanded Israeli propaganda funding and AIPAC’s spending against Thomas Massie; a massive Utah data-center power plan; crypto grifting and concentrated prediction-market profits; DTCC tokenization timelines; and what Palantir’s USDA deal means for food-supply control.