John Lothian: Week in Review (September 7th – 11th, 2026)
The Weekend Update
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK
AI May Become the Third Superpower
The threat to mankind is real, and Trump and Xi need to develop a shared strategy to confront it.- an opinion piece by Paul Tudor Jones
10 MOST CLICKED STORIES OF THE WEEK
JLN PRESS ROOM PAGE OF THE WEEK
ION Group
ION Group has partnered with Coinbase to support event contract clearing for Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market.
FROM JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS
A Compilation of News Stories on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
NYC firehouse that was first to respond on 9/11 is popular memorialPhilip Marcelo – Associated PressSal Argano got lucky. When the World Trade Center was struck by hijacked jets on Sept. 11, 2001, the New York City firefighter was in Brooklyn, on loan to another station, rather than at his usual post at the small Manhattan firehouse just across an intersection from the twin towers. He rushed downtown to find his firehouse badly damaged but still standing. Six of its members, he’d later learn, were among the 343 New York City firefighters killed in the World Trade Center’s collapse. “If I wasn’t sent out on rotation there would have been a good chance I would not be here today,” Argano says. “I think about that all the time.”https://jlne.ws/4d7BN6c
Prediction Markets Start With “Why”
For weeks, I had been puzzled by Kalshi’s never-ending submarine-sandwich commercial, trying to decide what, exactly, it was meant to say about a prediction market platform. Then I saw the company’s 1950s Grease musical-themed spot, featuring four brothers dancing their way through a deliberately goofy production.