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Steve Hanke says Iran is pulling from Muhammad Ali’s playbook — and could deal a “knockout blow” to the US.”With its control of the Strait of Hormuz, that’s what Iran is capable of doing, and probably will do,” the professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins told Business Insider by…

Paul Krugman says the US-Iran conflict is causing a key energy price to spike — and that’s bad news for President Donald Trump, given he’s under pressure to bring down living costs and tackle an affordability crisis. Loading audio narration… “Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump…

Steve Hanke says there’s excessive buzz around AI — and it could end badly.The veteran trader and economist told Business Insider by email that he agrees with Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist and a pioneer in the field, who’s warned that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT…