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The S&P 500 lost nearly 2% last week, its biggest weekly decline since late June. The Nasdaq fell 4.5%, snapping a four-week winning streak.

China was once the top holder of U. S. Treasuries but has been shedding its massive stockpile for years, fueling fears of de-dollarization, but official data may not fully capture Beijing’s actual portfolio. The decline began in earnest around 2021, but as recently as April 2022, China still held $1 trillion in Treasury securities. U. S. data on Friday show that’s been whittled down to just $591 billion as of August, the lowest in 18 years and down from $700 billion a year earlier.

If you’ve ever pulled a fistful of leaves out of a pool pump basket, you already understand the only thing that went wrong at Africa’s only nuclear plant in August. Stuff gets sucked toward the pump, stuff piles up on the screen, the flow drops, and eventually the pump quits. Now swap the pool for the South Atlantic, swap the leaves for a mass of dead sardines, and swap your pump for one that’s keeping a 930-megawatt reactor cool. That’s pretty much what happened at Koeberg, which sits on the coast about 17 miles north of Cape Town. On Friday, August 21, Eskom, the state utility that runs the place, cut Unit 1 back to 50 percent. A cooling pump had shut itself off because the seawater intake was packed with what Eskom called “marine material,” which turned out to be fish. Lots of fish.

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Tesla finally unveiled the new Roadster last Thursday, nine years after Elon Musk first promised it and a year after he teased tech crazier than anything in a Bond film. Naturally, the internet lost its mind over the bit where it flies, with the single-seat Rocket version launching off a curved ramp at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, climbing roughly six metres into the air, rotating, and landing on its wheels using cold-gas thrusters borrowed from SpaceX. It’s a great party trick, but the more interesting piece of engineering is hiding underneath the car, and it’s a lot older than Musk would probably like to admit. Tesla calls it the Multi-Mode Suction System. Impellers pull air out from beneath the car and seal it to the road, generating downforce even when the Roadster is sitting still. That’s how Tesla was able to drive it upside down on stage, and it’s why the company is claiming up to 2 g of cornering grip. Anyone who grew up reading old copies of Motor Sport will recognise the idea immediately. It’s a fan car, and the most famous fan car of all time is the Brabham BT46B. Curated news for men, delivered to your inbox.