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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh professes to like a good family fight when officials set interest rates. Australia would do him proud — the vigorous debate that has emerged after the last, contentious interest-rate hike is a healthy one.

Philip Rivers spent 18 seasons as a National Football League quarterback, made eight Pro Bowls, and then decided he needed more football. For six seasons, he’s coached an Alabama high school team.

It has been a difficult few months for the neoclouds — those companies that build factories full of computer chips to be rented out to AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI — as they have borne the brunt of Wall Street’s nerves about the artificial-intelligence buildout.

The growing number of American infants going without a potentially lifesaving intervention — the vitamin K shot — should be a clarion call to top US health officials.

Financial technology firm Chime Financial Corp. boasted this year that it was using artificial intelligence tools to transition to smaller teams with “fewer layers.” Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. recently said it wants to “delayer the company” to reduce some expenses, and building materials concern CRH Plc is in the process of bringing management “closer to our customers” by “delayering decision-making.”

You might not know it from all the post-election recriminations, but Congress is on the cusp of a major bipartisan victory. Getting it across the line will require a bit of prudence, resolve and common sense.

The writer David McCullough said that “history is a guide to navigation in perilous times.” This is good advice in a world being transformed by wars in Iran and Ukraine, by shifts in military technology and AI. Today, Veterans Day, is an appropriate moment for such reflection.

Emotions were running high that Sunday night after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defied the odds to win Brazil’s presidency again.

President Donald Trump adopting “America First” as his animating foreign policy maxim was always going to end badly for Israel. Republican supporters of the Jewish state who thought otherwise were deluding themselves.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and dozens of his fellow world leaders will burn some serious emissions flying to Turkey this week, to talk a lot of hot air about their concern for the environment. Were Burnham serious about tackling climate change, he’d skip COP31, the latest iteration of the annual international climate conference, and work on rebuilding consensus at home around the importance of saving the planet.

Donald who? Europe’s MAGA-aligned politicians seem to be less forthcoming these days about their ties to the Trump White House and its global alt-right network. And his barbs about a “dying” Europe after his calamitous midterm results didn’t have their usual sting.

Giorgia Meloni’s proposed exit tax on wealthy people leaving Italy has an obvious political goal: courting populist voters in her last budget before next year’s general election. The problem is that it has gone down badly with the investors and business leaders whom she needs onside to help solve her county’s financial problems. It’s an unenviable balancing act.

New rise in inflation makes clear why voters were so angry in the midterms.

After Brent crude’s 10-day decline of nearly 25%, it’s tempting to say the market is pricing in peace. It isn’t. Rather than anticipating that hostilities between the US and Iran are over, traders are foreseeing no immediate risk of a third round of fighting. If the two countries reach a deal, however fragile, oil will trade significantly cheaper than its current value of around $90 a barrel.

The walls are closing in on the defense secretary as the House votes on his possible impeachment.

Also ‘SI,’ date the rate and everything is securities fraud.

As one of Russia's more provocative politicians, Dmitry Medvedev, wryly noted after his country seized Japan Tobacco Inc.’s assets, smoking kills. It has also likely extinguished Tokyo’s lingering hopes for better relations with Moscow.

If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh didn’t get the message from voters last week, the latest consumer price index report should make it abundantly clear: Inflation is too high. For Warsh, nothing less than another increase in interest rates will do when central bankers meet in four weeks to set monetary policy. And even that may not be enough to tame inflation.

The consequences of Jensen Huang’s diminished credibility could extend well beyond chipmaker Nvidia Corp. and complicate prospects for American companies seeking business with China more broadly.