In the new phase of the war, the enemy, through economic pressure and media campaigns, seeks to create division and destroy the country's cohesion in order to compensate for its military defeat and force us to surrender.
Kevin Warsh has some levers to pull—but there’s little he can do about runaway government spending.Al Drago—Bloomberg/Getty Images
In the days before the Memorial Day weekend, rates on 30 year Treasury bonds hit their highest level in 19 years at 5.2%, and the benchmark 10-year reached 4.7%, the top reading since mid-2007. If those kinds of yields take hold, the scenario for federal interest expense posited in the CBO’s “Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036,” released in February, descends from dire to near-disastrous. Takeaway: America’s track to fiscal safety has lost all margin for error, and nothing demonstrates that better than the long-term impact of loftier than expected rates. America’s got so little room to maneuver that even yields that modestly exceed the CBO’s “baseline,” as the numbers compound in the years ahead, deliver a huge extra blow by crowding out big chunks of revenue that would otherwise go towards funding such essentials as Defense, Social Security and Medicare.
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The CBO forecasts that yields on the 30 and 10-year Treasuries will respectively average about 4.65% and 4.15% through FY 2036. That’s roughly 55 basis points lower than the multi-year summit briefly notched in late May. Doesn’t sound like much of a difference, right? And if the interest expense on our gigantic and ballooning national debt of $39 trillion weren’t already running at nearly $1 trillion a year, bigger than Medicare spending and equaling two-thirds of Social Security outlays, the half-point upward shift would likely prove manageable.
But a recent report from the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget quantifies the deep damage even a continuation at the recent peaks would inflict. By 2036, interest expense would jump from absorbing 14% of all revenues to devouring 30%, five points more than under the CBO’s forecast. At $2.5 trillion, 2.5x today’s number, the carrying costs would become the second largest budget category, beating Medicare by one-third. Interest cost per household would soar from $7,900 last year to $17,000 a decade hence.
Much of today’s extreme vulnerability to even slightly higher rates arises from the need to both refinance existing debt, and shoulder trillions more in newly-issued bonds to cover deficits, at much higher cost. All told, the federal government will need to borrow almost $10 trillion in the next 12 months, equivalent to one-third our total debt. That amount consists of around $7.5 trillion to repay the Treasuries coming due, and $2 trillion for plugging the shortfall between revenues and spending. A major reason the U.S. accumulated so much debt in the first place was the lure of ultra-bargain yields orchestrated by the Fed’s easy money policy during and following the COVID crisis. In 2021 through early 2022, Treasury Bills, instruments that mature within a year, offered around a minuscule 0.2%. Today, that cost’s 18 times fatter at 3.7%.
Rates have also climbed for the Treasury Notes running 5 to 30 years that account for over half of all federal debt outstanding. Because we could borrow so cheaply for so long, the average rate on the Notes stands at just 3.23%. But the U.S. is refinancing the bonds that roll off for a lot more, 5.2% on the 30 year as of just before Memorial Day, and 4.7% on the 10-year.
In fact, the borrowing blowout that got the U.S. in so much trouble resembles the rush into “teaser” home loans in the 2007 runup to the housing meltdown; folks fell for temporary, super-low “teasers” rates that when they reset higher, saddled the borrowers with monthly payments they couldn’t afford. A similar dynamic’s at play as the U.S. refinances low-yielding Treasuries issued when it looked like a deal to finance huge government spending—at today’s much higher rates.
As of May 26, news that the Iran War may end soon pushed yields for the 30 and 10 year down slightly, so that they’re now sitting around 35 basis points above the CBO forecast. Still, the threat they’ll bounce back to the half-point-plus margin that’s so scary raises a stern warning for the new Fed chief Kevin Warsh. It’s encouraging that Warsh publicly favors tightening monetary policy by lowering the immense holdings of Treasuries on Fed’s balance sheet, a policy that involves unloading a big portion of its portfolio to the public. That gambit transforms trillions that would otherwise be spent into savings.
The Fed balance sheet shrink would also shrink what’s causing the problem: Extremely high “aggregate demand” across the economy that sends too many dollars chasing a volume of goods that’s growing far more slowly. (Noted economist Will Luther described this phenomenon in my recent story.) Warsh can also raise the Fed Funds rate, or even announce he has no plans for a reduction, to cool the still relatively-plentiful credit that’s fueling big spending by consumers and of course, humongous outlays for AI data centers. But the primary reason aggregate demand’s way too high is excessive levels of government spending that if left unchecked, could lead to even higher rates than the peak numbers that just unleashed such a jolt. Warsh can help by lifting the cost of credit to throttle both consumer and corporate spending, and sell bonds the Fed’s holding to target the latter. But he can’t control the big one, the runaway federal budget.
That responsibility falls on the President and on Congress. As the CRFB states in their analysis on the impact of rising yields, “The best way to accomplish these goals is through deficit reduction, which can help the Federal Reserve lower rates by reducing near-term inflationary pressures, put downward pressure on long-term rates by reducing economic crowd-out [that diverts money needed for budget must-pays to interest], and reduce the debt burden on which the government must pay interest.” The CRFB adds that yields that hang in the pre-Memorial Day range or push higher threaten to “spark a fiscal crisis.”
Nothing better illustrates that AMERICA IS BROKE than how an increase in yields that wouldn’t seem to matter much in most times could spell a cataclysm now that our fiscal state’s so fragile. Neither party wants to talk about how broke we really are, or do much to address the problem. Unfortunately, it may take an outbreak of unaffordable interest rates to force our lawmakers into facing the peril of their own making.
Sir Niall Ferguson in recent communications has referenced this Scottish law
The “Ferguson Limit”: This is the tipping point where interest payments exceed defense spending, leading to reduced resources for national security. [1]
He survived the Titanic and braved the Somme. But perhaps his greatest achievement was photographing peasants and priests across a long lost Ireland with a sympathetic yet unflinching eye. Meet Father Francis Browne SJ. Jesuit, war hero, and accidental documentarian of a vanishing world.
He was born in 1880 in Cork into a life privilege but tragedy. His ma died days after his birth, and his da drowned when he was just nine. Frank was raised by his uncle, the Bishop of Cloyne, who gave him two things that shaped his life. A Jesuit education and a box camera. He studied alongside James Joyce (who immortalised him in Finnegans Wake) and snapped his first great photo in 1897 on a Grand Tour of Europe. Years later, Pope Pius X let him take his portrait.
In 1912, Browne was given a first-class ticket for the Titanic’s maiden voyage, the lesser notorious trip from Southampton to Queenstown. He photographed its gymnasium, wireless room, dining saloon, and fellow passengers. The fateful vessels officers, abundant millionaires and children playing on the doomed decks. A wealthy American couple offered to pay his fare on to New York. This was an oppurtunity of a lifetime for the budding photographer, but he had to ask his Jesuit superior via cable for persmission. The stern reply left no room for further debate. “GET OFF THAT SHIP!” The cable said, Browne obeyed. Two days later, Titanic sank.
His photos instantly became world-famous. Eastman Kodak even gave him free film for life. Then came the Great War. As a chaplain with the Irish Guards in WWI, he witnessed the horror of the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele. Gassed, wounded five times and decorated with the Military Cross and Bar, his courage in the trenches matched his quiet obsession with taking snaps. His war album “Watch on the Rhine,” is still studied for its stark humanity.
After the war, he returned to Ireland and never stopped shooting. From Dublin slums to Kerry farms and Belfast shipyards, Browne recorded over 42,000 photographs. He cycled from parish to parish on mission work, always with camera in tow. Children stared back from barefoot streets. Coal darkened workers strained under the weight of tools. Nuns scrubbed floors in silent convents. Aeroplanes thundered into Shannon Airport as his last rolls clicked into place. He meticulously archived everything, but they were to him simply a private collection and so were essentially unknown to the world.
He died in 1960 and was buried in Glasnevin. It wouldn’t be until 1985, when a rusting trunk was discovered in the Jesuit archives. Inside were thousands of perfectly preserved negatives, a priceless treasure of Irish culture. The Sunday Times called it “the photographic equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Browne’s images are now digitised, restored, and published in dozens of volumes.
Texas state Rep. and Democratic nominee James Talarico. Photo: Danielle Villasana/Getty Images
The Texas Senate race has become a national laboratory for anti-“woke” politics, testing whether voters still recoil from the language of 2020 amid the economic pain of 2026, Axios’ Zachary Basu writes.
Why it matters: Republicans came away from 2024 convinced they had won more than an election — they had broken through on culture, turning Democrats’ progressive language and identity politics into symbols of elite detachment.
The durability of that culture-war coup is now an open question, as the GOP tries to redeploy the same playbook in a far more hostile midterm environment.
Zoom in: Texas has produced a Senate race in which both parties see the other nominee as the perfect caricature of everything voters hate about the opposition.Left: Talarico (DNC via X). Right: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at a campaign stop May 15 in Little Elm, Texas. Photo: Ron Jenkins/Getty Images
For Republicans: Texas state Rep. James Talarico offers the dream target — a young, viral progressive whose old comments can be stripped of context and turned into a one-man museum of “woke” Democratic excess.
Republicans have seized on Talarico’s 2021 floor speech declaring that “God is nonbinary,” along with past comments on racism, whiteness and trans children, to cast him as a radical disguised as a Texas preacher.
The attacks already are veering into sexuality- and masculinity-coded territory: Talarico’s opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has mocked him as “Low-T,” while White House adviser Stephen Miller falsely labeled him as Democrats’ “first transgender Senate candidate.
“Talarico has conceded that he “missed the mark” on some “cringey comments,” while insisting his underlying principles — that “racism is immoral and wrong” and that “trans people deserve dignity and equality” — flow from his Christian faith.
For Democrats: Paxton is a scandal-scarred Trump ally whose legal and ethical baggage could turn even a red-state Senate race into a referendum on Republican corruption.
Paxton was impeached by the GOP-led Texas House in 2023 — then acquitted by the Texas Senate — over allegations that he abused his office to benefit a donor.
He spent nearly a decade under indictment on fraud charges before reaching a pretrial deal in 2024. He has been plagued by whistleblower claims, a now-closed federal corruption probe and a very public divorce tied to allegations of adultery.
Talarico’s campaign wants to make Paxton the face of Republican impunity — arguing that his scandals aren’t distractions from the race, but the clearest evidence of what the GOP has become.
The bottom line: Texas will be the ultimate test of whether the GOP’s anti-“woke” strategy can survive the transition from insurgency to incumbency.Share this story.
Relying on reactive willpower to resist constant digital notifications exhausts finite attentional reserves, whereas utilizing proactive control and self-hypnosis preserves cognitive bandwidth to optimize deep flow states. Credit: Neuroscience News
Summary: A comprehensive neurobiological assessment mapped the structural, age-related, and environmental forces driving the modern crisis of human attention. The research details how smartphones and communication platforms intentionally exploit the brain’s evolutionary dopamine-reward pathways, substituting effortful, long-term focus with zero-effort wins.
By dismantling the myth of raw willpower, Stanford experts demonstrate that cognitive sustainability requires structural lifestyle intervention, specifically shifting from reactive resistance to “proactive control,” integrating physiological “bio” breaks, and utilizing self-hypnosis to systematically lock the brain into highly focused “flow” states.
Key Facts
The Dopamine Exploitation Loop: The human brain is evolutionarily wired to scan its environment for quick rewards, a survival mechanism that modern technology actively hijacks. Pings from emails, texts, and social media feeds provide immediate dopamine hits. Once the brain becomes accustomed to these low-effort wins, it struggles to muster the massive metabolic energy required for deep, long-term concentrated thinking.
The Vulnerability of Developing Minds: Attention capacity is not static; it scales dramatically during development. Research tracking response variability shows that attention function improves continuously in children from ages 9 to 18. However, children require strictly protected, distraction-free time—spent reading books, solving mathematics, or playing chess—to build this neural capacity. Conditioning developing brains to zero-effort social media rewards actively cripples their long-term ability to think deeply.
The Reality of Working Memory Decay: In older adults, general memory capacity should not experience a drastic decline simply due to age. “Working memory”, the short-term biological scratchpad used to hold temporary data without writing it down, does experience minor, typical age-related drops, such as slipping from remembering a seven-digit phone number to a six-digit code. Progressive, compounding losses beyond this baseline warrant a formal neurological evaluation.
The Failure of Raw Willpower: Relying purely on grit to block out digital static is a mathematically losing strategy. Every act of resisting temptation actively drains a finite cognitive reservoir. Because modern environments demand constant resistance, willpower reserves are rapidly depleted, leaving the mind exhausted.
Bypassing Temptation via Proactive Control: Instead of training the mind to resist a distraction, Stanford neuroscientists advocate for “proactive control”, the physical removal of the temptation altogether. Simple behavioral shifts, such as moving a smartphone to a different room while working or using application-blocking hardware, drastically lower cognitive friction, returning attentional sovereignty back to the user.
The Physical Mandate for Brain Breaks: Cognitive processing speeds decline without planned downtime. Sleep serves as the ultimate neurological recovery period, necessary to consolidate daily memories and restore the next day’s attentional bandwidth. During waking hours, clinicians recommend taking a 10-minute break for every hour of work. This can be effortlessly forced by consistently drinking water throughout the day, ensuring the body naturally demands movement, stretching, and physical “bio” breaks.
Self-Hypnosis as a Gateway to Flow: Far removed from theatrical tropes, clinical self-hypnosis is a validated method to direct highly focused, immersive attention toward a complex task. By combining somatic visualization with physical relaxation techniques, individuals can enter “flow” states that tune out competitive or environmental background noise. Stanford psychiatrists utilize this protocol to optimize elite athletic performance and enhance deep academic study.
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News alerts ping your phone. Your watch buzzes, reminding you to stand up. Slack notifications sound on your desktop. And that’s all before you open your email inbox.
The world is constantly vying for our attention and, at least evolutionarily, we’re primed for distraction. But it’s still possible to block out the noise, hone your focus, and concentrate on what’s most important.
“We’re bombarded with information, some of which we want and a lot of which we don’t,” said David Spiegel, MD, the Jack, Lulu, and Sam Willson Professor in Medicine and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “In a world that is painfully distracting most of the time, it’s particularly important to hone your skills to focus on what matters.”
We asked Spiegel and other Stanford Medicine experts why it feels harder than ever to focus – and how we can improve our own ability to concentrate. Here are five key takeaways.
1. It’s not just you – it really is that hard to focus and concentrate
The human brain is wired to detect rewards and, increasingly, our smartphones are wired to dole them out, said Weidong Cai, PhD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Our brains get a boost – in the form of a dopamine hit – when our smartphones ping us with a new message, for instance.
“We find it rewarding to read new emails, Slacks, a friend’s post, even when they’re not relevant to the task at hand,” Cai said. “Every time you see something fresh, you feel a reward.”
Once the brain becomes accustomed to those easy wins, Cai said, it’s more difficult to perform the effortful, long-term thinking that demands focus and concentration. “You need to put a lot more energy into the actual hard work,” he said.
2. Our attention and memory capabilities change with age
Cai studies response variability – that is, the different lengths of time during which people respond to the same stimuli. Research shows that response variability continually drops in children from ages 9 to age 18, suggesting that attention function improves as children get older.
But, Cai said, children need protected time to develop their attention capacity through activities like reading a book, solving math problems, or playing chess. “If they get used to zero-effort rewards from things like social media,” he said, “they might have difficulty developing the capacity to think longer and deeper.”
For older adults, memory capacity shouldn’t drastically diminish with age, said Sharon Sha, MD, a clinical professor of neurology and neurological sciences and chief for the Memory Disorders Division and the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders.
“Working memory” is the information we can hold in our minds without writing it down. As we get older, it’s typical for working memory to decline slightly – as in, we can’t remember a seven-digit phone number, but can still recall a six-digit passcode, Sha said. If your working memory is consistently getting worse than that over time, she said, talk to your doctor.
3. Willpower alone won’t strengthen your focus
It’s tempting to rely on willpower to keep the relentless distractions at bay. But, Cai said, it’s not that easy. Each exertion of your willpower depletes your attention capacity a bit more. That’s because it takes effort to resist the temptation of distractions – and in today’s world, we have to resist constantly. Eventually our willpower stores get used up.
A better approach is proactive control, Cai said, or keeping the distractions away altogether. “You want to protect time for writing or studying, so you move the smartphone to a different room,” he said. “Instead of training yourself to resist the temptation, it’s better to move the temptation away.”
Proactive control is the idea behind tools like Brick, a device that blocks distracting apps like news websites and social media from your smartphone. “You get to decide what you pay attention to,” Spiegel said, “not what people on the news or apps tell you.”
4. Be sure to build in breaks
Though it might seem counterintuitive, Sha said, taking breaks can be a boon for focus and concentration. “As much as we keep pumping the caffeine” to push through, she said, “our brains do need a break.”
Sleep is the ultimate brain break, Sha said, and studies show that quality sleep leads to better cognitive performance. “Your brain needs that time, not only to consolidate the memories from the day, but also so you can have concentration for the next day,” she said. “It’s going to really diminish your attention if you’re not sleeping.”
Daytime breaks are also crucial, Sha said. She recommended a 10-minute break each hour. “I can’t say I follow that all the time,” Sha admitted. “If it’s not feasible, try to at least block out time for one or two breaks in the morning.”
One way to ensure you take breaks is to drink water throughout the day so your body will demand “bio” breaks, Sha said. A trip to the bathroom, combined with a stretch and some fresh air, can work wonders.
5. Self-hypnosis could lead to “flow” states
Want an out-of-the-box way to hone your focus? Try hypnosis.
Unlike the stylized hypnotizing we’ve seen in the movies, self-hypnosis is a way to direct highly focused attention to a specific task, said Spiegel, who is also director of the Center on Stress and Health, and medical director of the Center for Integrative Medicine. Think of it as using the techniques of meditation, like physical sensations and visualization, to put yourself into a “flow” state of immersion during a challenging and rewarding task.
“Hypnosis is about going into this altered state for a purpose: to study better, to control pain,” Spiegel said. “You gain control by choosing what to attend to.”
When the Stanford women’s swim team was swimming faster in practices than in meets, the coach came to Spiegel for help. He discovered that, during meets, the swimmers were focusing too much on their opponents in neighboring lanes. Spiegel trained the team to practice self-hypnosis before meets by picturing how they controlled their bodies as they swim their best race in their minds, ignoring those in the next lanes – and the women swam faster.
Spiegel is co-founder and scientific adviser of Reveri Health Inc., a hypnosis app company. But he said anyone can practice the tenets of hypnosis on their own. Imagine yourself floating (the floating is essential because it makes you feel physically supported and comfortable, and therefore physically relaxed but mentally more focused). In your mind’s eye, picture a task or problem on the left side and a possible solution on the right. Float and focus, he said.
“Focus is a skill, an advantage that we humans have that allows us to determine where and how we deploy our attention,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to prove to ourselves how much control we have over our bodies and our minds.”
Key Questions Answered:
Q: Why does it feel physically and mentally harder to concentrate on deep tasks today than it did years ago?
A: Because your brain’s natural reward system is being systematically outmaneuvered by modern technology. Human biology is hardwired to seek out easy wins, and devices are engineered to constantly deliver them via dopamine-inducing pings, messages, and alerts. Once your brain gets used to receiving these zero-effort rewards every few minutes, it recalibrates its expectations, making the intense, energy-consuming hard work of long-term thinking feel incredibly difficult to sustain.
Q: If trying to force ourselves to focus through pure willpower doesn’t work, what actually does?
A: Shifting from reactive willpower to a strategy called “proactive control”. Willpower is a finite, drainable resource; every single time you force yourself to ignore a buzzing phone, you use up a piece of your daily attention budget. Instead of expending energy trying to resist temptation, the smarter neurological approach is to remove the temptation entirely, such as physically leaving your phone in a completely different room or using tech-blocking tools to curate your environment.
Q: How can a clinical tool like self-hypnosis be used practically to block out distraction and improve focus?
A: By using focused visualization to enter a state of deep, immersive immersion known as a “flow” state. True self-hypnosis is simply a skill that allows you to choose exactly where to deploy your attention while physically relaxing your body. By visualizing yourself floating to induce physical comfort, and picturing your creative challenge on one side of your mind and a solution on the other, you can completely tune out peripheral noise and regain complete control over your mind.
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Warren Buffett emphasizes the importance of communication skills.Getty Images—Alex Wong
Particularly with the advent of AI, strong communication skills have become even more critical to success in business. Even some of the biggest tech- and AI-focused companies in the world are shelling out million-dollar pay packages for people who can lead communications efforts at a high level.
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And it’s a key skill Warren Buffett, one of the most legendary investors in history, firmly believes in.
“You’ve got to be able to communicate in life, and it’s enormously important,” the Oracle of Omaha said during a 2013 interview with Levo League, a career website for young women. “Schools, to some extent, under-emphasize that.”
Early in his career, at age 20, Buffett set out to conquer his fear of public speaking by enrolling in a Dale Carnegie course, which still exists today. Before the public speaking course, Buffett said he and the other students in the class were “terrified of getting up and saying our names.”
But over the course of his 60-year career at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett became a prolific communicator and public speaker. In fact, his voice became one of the loudest in the finance world and had the power to move markets.
“If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential,” Buffett emphasized.
Buffett’s advice still holds up today. An April survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows verbal and written communication skills are at the top of the wishlist for what employers want to see on recent college graduates’ resumes.
Reflecting on his career ahead of his retirement at the end of 2025, Buffett suggested in his final shareholder letter as CEO learning is a lifelong journey.
“It is never too late to improve,” he wrote. “Get the right heroes and copy them.”
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“For new employees, it’s a strange initial experience,” he told Fortune. “They’re just not accustomed to sitting silently in a room and doing study hall with a bunch of executives.”
But the art of crafting a memo is even more challenging to master.
“Full sentences are harder to write,” he added. “They have verbs. The paragraphs have topic sentences. There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.”
And as Gen Z enters a workforce dominated by AI, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said it will take more than only mastering technical skills to be successful in today’s job market.
“My advice to people would be critical thinking, learn skills, learn your EQ [emotional quotient], learn how to be good in a meeting, how to communicate, how to write,” Dimon told Fox News in December 2025. “You’ll have plenty of jobs.”
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Texas state Rep. and Democratic nominee James Talarico. Photo: Danielle Villasana/Getty Images
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