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Iran is preparing a broader and more forceful response if the United States resumes large-scale military attacks, sources said, while continuing a diplomatic push that Iranian officials privately see as unlikely to succeed. RTRS

Vladimir Putin has instructed his military leaders to abandon the rules of war, prompting a steep increase in strikes on civilian targets amid a major push to regain the advantage in the conflict, according to intelligence intercepted by Kyiv. FT

Governments around the world are running out of room to shield consumers from higher energy prices resulting from the Iran war and other crises, with fuel subsidies potentially costing more than $1 trillion this year, a United Nations study found. BBG

World food prices rose in September, as transportation disruptions and weather concerns limited supplies and lifted prices for several crop-based commodities, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. WSJ

Amazon’s exploring a deal to shift about $8 billion of high-end Nvidia chips into a sale-leaseback SPV vehicle backed by outside investors to help strengthen its balance sheet. FT

European countries are in crisis talks over the release of diesel stocks, as the US threatens them with a diesel export ban unless they release strategic reserves of the oil product. FT

Tokyo’s key inflation gauge rose sharply as the effects of some temporary government measures faded, backing the Bank of Japan’s stance on continuing to raise the benchmark rate after authorities accelerated the pace of policy normalization. BBG

Eurozone CPI for Sept ran hot on the headline (+3.8% vs. the Street +3.7% and vs. +3.2% in Aug) and was inline on core (+2.5% vs. +2.4% in Aug). BBG

Trump posted "Republicans in the Senate have to get moving on what I call the “No More Changing of Clocks Act,” officially known as The Sunshine Protection Act".

Goldman estimates nonfarm payrolls rose by 80k in September, slightly below consensus of +88k. On the positive side, the level of layoffs remains low and big data indicators of job growth picked up sequentially. On the negative side, September payroll growth has tended to underperform its recent trend when Labor Day is later in the month—like it was this year—and last month’s sharp increase in nonfarm payrolls was boosted by outsized increases in leisure and hospitality and local educational services payrolls that we do not expect to repeat. GS Research

BofA Flow Show (w/e 30th September): USD 18.8bln to bonds, 15.8bln to stocks, 0.9bln to crypto, 0.7bln to gold, 118.0bln from cash on quarter-end; Bull and Bear indicator 8.8 (prev. 9.3).

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REVEALED: A think tank co-founded by Facebook’s founding president wants an entirely NEW visa category to repopulate struggling American communities with foreign workers.

It’s called the HEARTLAND VISA.

They’ve already mapped roughly 1,700 potentially eligible counties—home to 58 MILLION Americans.

The Economic Innovation Group, co-founded by Sean Parker, wants at least 100,000 visas a year.

The pitch is explicit:

“In exchange for living in a Heartland Visa community, workers with sufficient earnings will gain permanent residency”

American communities become the destination. Green cards become the incentive.

The proposal targets places struggling with population decline, including rural communities and former industrial centers.

Foreign workers would have to live in a participating area—but could work for an employer located elsewhere.

The think tank also proposes replacing labor certification with an earnings test for the green-card pathway. That would remove the usual labor-market test from this proposed route to permanent residency.

The idea has already reached Capitol Hill.

Republican Senator Todd Young and then-Senator Joe Manchin introduced a version in December 2024. Supporters included AOL co-founder Steve Case, Americans for Prosperity and the Niskanen Center.

County officials would decide whether their communities participate.

EIG continued lobbying for the proposal in 2026.

This is an organized push to turn population decline into a justification for a new immigration program.

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