The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump despises wind farms so much he’s paying a French energy giant $1 billion to stop building them and invest in natural gas instead [18d]
• Starbucks CEO admits the chain ‘ran like a manufacturing facility’ [18d]
• Putin is the real winner in Trump’s Iran war as it puts Russian oil back on the map [18d]
• Bitcoin climbs as Trump grants five days for Iran negotiations [18d]
• Iran issues its largest-ever currency denomination as accelerating inflation ravages a financial sector deemed a ‘Ponzi scheme’ even before the war [18d]
• The great toilet paper panic is back as Japan starts stockpiling [18d]
• One in three teens ‘experienced problematic use’ of Meta platforms: closing arguments begin in landmark New Mexico social media trial [18d]
• Chevron’s CEO says oil prices are still too low—and the effects of the Strait of Hormuz closure are not ‘fully priced in’ [18d]
• Largest federal workers union warns ICE agents are not trained to replace TSA and putting them in airports ‘does not fill a gap. It creates one’ [18d]
• Strategy purchases another $76 million worth of Bitcoin, all through sales of common stock [18d]
• High Point University has turned ‘life skills’ into a magnet for the Wall Street elite with a 99.2% job placement rate [19d]
• Kalshi takes a page from Warren Buffett’s March Madness playbook by offering $1 billion for a perfect bracket [19d]
• The Supreme Court looks poised to ban late mail ballots ahead of the midterms [19d]
• ICE begins its descent on the nation’s airports on day 43 of the partial government shut down [19d]
• The Iran oil crisis is the worst energy shock ever recorded. World leaders aren’t ready, says IEA chief [19d]
• Larry Fink says today’s economic anxiety stems from people increasingly feeling like capitalism isn’t working for them [19d]
• Meet the billionaires bankrolling March Madness Sweet 16 schools—from the Dallas Cowboys owner to Carlyle Group’s founder [19d]
• ‘AI killed the cover letter.’ This Wharton economist says the hiring ritual’s days are numbered [19d]
• Trump has TACO-d again, this time in Iran, sparking a $1.7 trillion stock market rally in minutes, even as peace talks are in question [19d]
• Just like Gen Z, a young Mark Zuckerberg ‘had no concept of small talk’ and would ‘just stare at you,’ the VC behind Airbnb and Reddit says [19d]
• The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it [19d]
• Billionaire Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says his company will ‘go heavy’ on hiring graduates because ‘they’re so much more AI native’ than older peers [19d]
• ‘Capital is a coward’: A whole new world of elevated risk will stay embedded in global markets, keeping prices higher everywhere [19d]
• Exclusive: Early Kalshi employees raising up to $35 million for a prediction market VC fund with backing from the CEOs of both Kalshi and Polymarket [19d]
• After 25 years of negotiations, the EU finally signs the EU-Mercosur deal, the biggest trade deal in history linking 700 million people [19d]
• Trump’s ‘largest tax refund season of all time’ is getting totally swallowed up by higher gas prices [19d]
• Iran War’s effect on oil worse than the 1970s, IEA chief says [19d]
• Newark airport shuts down after a burning smell forces an air traffic control tower evacuation [19d]
• Two people dead after an Air Canada jet struck a firetruck on the LaGuardia Airport runway [19d]
• Current price of oil as of March 23, 2026 [19d]
• The unspoken rule: is English really the key to success in Europe’s boardrooms? [19d]
• Tulsa paid workers $10,000 to relocate—and unlocked an $878 million talent boom [19d]
• It took 200 years for national debt to hit $1 trillion. Annual interest alone now exceeds that—a ‘crushing legacy we must reverse,’ says budget chair [19d]
• Startup Antithesis turns years of real-world chaos into hours of simulated mayhem—and key trading firms and crypto networks are paying close attention [19d]
• What a cringe photo shoot really tells about the state of the crypto industry [19d]