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Private markets are having a moment. Once the province of a small circle of institutional investors bound to rigid, closed-end fund structures, private capital has grown into one of the most important engines of financing in the global economy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayrarodriguezvalladares/2026/08/19/private-markets-have-a-plumbing-problem—the-industry-needs-to-modernize/

BOND MARKETS are unsettled, and so, in turn, is America’s government. On August 19th the Treasury said that from next month it would increase its own purchases of longer-dated debt. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/19/why-bond-markets-are-unnerving-rich-world-politicians

In2017, James Dacombe dropped out of high school to found brain monitoring startup CoMind. Four years later, he took a Thiel Fellowship to skip college and build his first startup. https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2026/08/15/british-ai-chip-founder-becomes-europes-youngest-self-made-billionaire/