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Three of this paper's own calls settled inside seventy-two hours this week, two of them against it, and the one it got right it got right by a smaller margin than the market. The Federal Open Market Committee raised its target range by twenty-five basis points to 3.75 to 4.00 percent on Wednesday, its first increase since 2023, on a unanimous twelve to zero vote. Federal Reserve, 9/16 Call #28 asked whether the Committee would cut. It did not. Call #34, opened seven days ago, asked whether it would raise. It did. That is one hit and one miss from the same forty-minute window, and the honest reading is that the paper hedged its way to a wash on the single most forecastable event of the quarter.

The rest of the week was institutions running out of clock. The Senate failed cloture on the CLARITY Act forty-nine to fifty on Tuesday, eleven votes short of sixty. US Senate Roll Call 234, 9/15 The House adjourned Thursday and does not return until after Election Day, having sat seven days. Talking Points Memo, 9/17 · WBUR, 9/17 Russia and China vetoed the resolution that would have kept United Nations experts monitoring Iran sanctions, eleven to two with two abstentions, nine days before that panel's mandate expires anyway. AP via Click2Houston, 9/17 And the Security Council renewed Sudan's twenty-year sanctions regime by exactly one month, one day before it lapsed, because it could not agree on anything longer. UN via GlobalSecurity, 9/11

Sweden turned over. The centre-left bloc took 176 seats to 173, a margin of roughly fifty thousand votes in a country of ten and a half million, and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced Thursday that he will resign. Al Jazeera, 9/17 This paper declined to write a call on that election last issue, on the stated grounds that two days is shorter than its own seven-day carry. That rule cost it nothing and is worth keeping. It also means the paper watched a government fall with no position on the table, which is the price of the rule and gets said out loud rather than quietly enjoyed.

And oil went up on a pipeline and came back down on a workaround. Brent topped $108 on Tuesday after drone strikes shut the Saudi East-West line, the pipeline whose entire purpose is to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, then fell three straight sessions to roughly $103.62 on Friday once Saudi Arabia started moving barrels through Hormuz instead. Euronews, 9/14 · Rigzone, 9/17 · Trading Economics, 9/18 A bypass got hit, so the cargo went back through the chokepoint the bypass exists to bypass. Call #35 is twelve days from settling on that.

And the Atlantic did the thing this paper wrote a call on. The latest first hurricane in the entire record since 1851 was September 17, 1941. The 2026 season matched it Thursday, and as of the National Hurricane Center's 2 a.m. Friday outlook there is no tropical cyclone anywhere in the basin and the one system it was watching has a ten percent chance of becoming one. Gizmodo, 9/17 · NHC, 9/18 A 175-year-old mark fell while the paper was writing about oil. Call #37 is in the Front, and it moved the right way.

Week Zero (logged 7/17, graded in Issue 1 with the answer sheet out): 2 hits, 1 miss. Exhibition. Doesn't count.

What moved this week:

Calls #34 through #37 carried their seven days and enter the full table. Six new calls open below. The gridiron line, kept outside this record, went three for three on its first weekend and is tallied where it lives.

Two misses and a hit, all inside seventy-two hours, and the two misses are the more instructive half.

Call #16, MISS. The call asked whether the Houthis would formally institute a Bab el-Mandeb toll or fee regime by September 15, logged at 55 percent on August 7. They did not. The plan was reported by Reuters on July 29, with a six or seven figure fee floated and Chinese vessels exempted. Maritime Executive, 7/29 The Houthis publicly denied it on August 1. Al Jazeera, 8/1 Nothing has been announced since: no decree, no circular, no shipping-industry notice. Their own military spokesman Yahya Sarea said on September 11 that "maritime navigation is safe for all companies, with the exception of Saudi ships," which is a targeting policy and not a tariff. TIME, 9/11 Euronews, covering the Hanish island seizure on September 14, stated plainly that there were no announcements regarding tolls, fees, or any transit regime. Euronews, 9/14

Here is why the miss is worth more than the grade. In the five days before the call expired, the Houthis took Mokha port on September 10, Perim Island inside the strait on September 11, and the Greater and Lesser Hanish islands around September 14 after government-allied forces withdrew. TIME, 9/11 · Euronews, 9/14 The call was written about a fiscal instrument. What happened was the acquisition of every piece of ground you would need to enforce one. This paper priced the paperwork and the world delivered the artillery position. That is the correct grade on the letter as written and the wrong model of how a group like this sequences things, and the second half of that sentence is the part worth keeping.

Call #28, MISS. The FOMC did not cut on September 16. It raised, twenty-five basis points, to 3.75 to 4.00 percent, unanimously, twelve to zero. Federal Reserve, 9/16 The call was logged at 50 percent on August 28 and this paper tracked it NO hard last issue after the market repriced. centralbank.watch The grade is clean and the call was simply wrong at the odds it carried, twenty days out, on a fifty-fifty coin that had already started falling the other way.

Call #34, HIT. The call asked whether the FOMC would raise, logged at 60 percent on September 11, and printed in this paper as "deliberately below the 64 to 70 percent the market priced on September 10." It is a hit, and the rest of that sentence was wrong: the position was that the market was slightly overconfident, and by September 15 market-implied hike odds had reached roughly 95 percent and the Committee went twelve to zero without a single dissent. Yahoo Finance, 9/15 The paper was right about direction and wrong about confidence, in the direction of not enough of it. A hit logged at 60 on an outcome that arrived unanimously is a hit this paper does not get to feel clever about.

Tracking updates, nothing else settled. #2 (NDAA): materially strengthened, because the House adjourned September 17 and does not return until after the November election, which removes the chamber that would have to pass a conference report before October 1. Talking Points Memo, 9/17 Tracking YES on a mechanism rather than an absence, for the first time since the call was logged. #5 (calibration headline): nothing, and the case is in the Threshold. #6 (control-plane cloud incident): no major control-plane outage at AWS, Azure or Google Cloud surfaced this week; Cloudflare logged several minor regional incidents with no stated control-plane impact. Cloudflare Status Tracking NO, and see Corrections for one unresolved item. #7 (advanced packaging): looked for and not found, which is different from not looked for; no TSMC statement on CoWoS or advanced packaging capacity dated inside this window surfaced. Tracking YES, weakened, on evidence now more than a week old. #9 (Gulf war-risk clock): not started, eighth consecutive issue, and the case is the Wire's lede. #15 (Space Force sensing): the dedicated pass this paper promised in Issue 8 happened, no single award over $500 million was found in the window, and one combined award from three days before the call was logged does not count on the letter as written; full case in the Grid. #17 (PJM capacity price): the next posted result is now dated December 22, and the $325 stands until then; in the Grid. #23 (PJM backstop): no FERC order yet, and the September 10 open meeting did not carry it; in the Grid. #25 (Anthropic filing): still no public S-1, twelve days out, full case in the Stack. #26 (Venezuela): a second negotiation round opened and no date exists, full case in the Wire. #29 (Sudan): the RSF did not take El-Obeid and no El-Obeid engagement dated inside this window was reported anywhere this paper could reach, full case in the Wire. #30 (grid equipment rule): DOE held its webinar, the executive order's number is now settled, and the rule's own statutory deadline turns out to sit one day before this call's settle date, full case in the Grid. #31 (Nevada): no ruling, no hearing date, no scheduling order, and the case number could not be located; in the Grid. #32 (PAHO measles): CDC's count crossed 3,200, Pennsylvania buried a third and fourth patient, and the call strengthened; in the Carry. #33 (Guinea-Bissau): still calendared, full case in the Wire. #35 (Brent): entered the table and immediately got interesting, full case in the Tape. #37 (Atlantic hurricanes): the all-time record fell this week and the outlook is empty; in the Front.

Two grades against this paper in one week, from twenty-three calls it has settled to date. The record is 14 and 5. Last issue it read 13 and 3.

Russia and China vetoed the panel that watches Iran sanctions, nine days before that panel expires on its own. There is still no ceasefire, and the war-risk premium on a single Hormuz voyage is now roughly forty times peacetime.

What did change is the monitoring architecture. A vetoed panel and a chairless committee mean that for the foreseeable future, the authoritative account of who is violating Iran sanctions will come from the governments doing the sanctioning. This paper spends a section every week on how checkable a claim is. The Security Council just removed the only body whose job was to check this one.

The war moved down in intensity ashore and stayed exactly where it was at sea. As of September 17 the operational record logged a tenth consecutive period with no announced American or coalition strikes on Iranian territory, an eighth consecutive day without an Iranian ballistic launch at a host state, and a twelfth without a drone attack on one. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 In the same window: five missiles into Iraqi Kurdistan on September 14, two IRGC small boats destroyed by an American drone while attempting to steal a Saildrone, and IRGC claims of downing two US MQ-1 drones on September 15 and an MQ-9 over Qeshm Island on September 16. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 · Just Security, 9/16 · Democracy Now, 9/15 At sea: an Iranian container vessel struck near Hengam Island on September 13, one crew killed and four wounded, and the Panama-flagged tanker MT ELGAIA hit by an unidentified projectile about 103 nautical miles northeast of Musandam on September 14, twenty-three crew evacuated by the Omani navy and two still missing as of September 17. Azertac via GlobalSecurity, 9/15 · Free Malaysia Today, 9/15 India's account of thirteen of fourteen Indian crew rescued does not reconcile with the Omani figures, and this paper is not reconciling it for them. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17

The number that actually prices this war is the insurance. A Hormuz war-risk premium now runs at roughly forty times peacetime, which on a VLCC voyage is about $250,000 before the war against roughly $10 million now. Straits.live Hormuz Situation Report, 9/18 A VLCC from the US Gulf to China reached a record $44.8 million, and Persian Gulf to China rates topped $1 million a day. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 Call #9 asks whether premiums and transits fail to recover inside thirty days of a ceasefire. At forty times peacetime, the call is not close to being tested, and the answer to how long that decays is going to be set by underwriters rather than by diplomats.

Hormuz counts, and the disagreement widened again. Lloyd's List Intelligence, this paper's standing source, has still published no Strait of Hormuz Brief since August 27, which is now three weeks. Lloyd's List Intelligence, 8/27 Its sister Red Sea Brief kept running through September 3, so the lapse is specific to the Hormuz series. Lloyd's List Intelligence, 9/3 In its absence: Kpler logged four commodity-vessel transits on September 15 against a ten-day moving average of eighteen, with no crude carriers or LNG tankers among them, against a pre-war baseline of 125 large vessels a day. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 Windward counted twelve total transits on September 16 with only three broadcasting AIS throughout, plus three VLCCs detected by satellite alone, dark and inbound in ballast. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 A separate briefing note put September 16 at three commodity-vessel transits against twelve the day before. Thotharis Briefing Note 56, 9/17 Straits.live has September 13 at eight commercial transits against a pre-crisis baseline near eighty-five a day, or about nine percent. Straits.live, 9/18 Meanwhile the US Energy Secretary says eighteen million barrels exited the strait on September 15 on a seven-day average near eleven million a day. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 Three and twelve cannot both be September 16. They are almost certainly different definitions, and this paper is printing both rather than picking the one that reads better. One change of record: with Lloyd's List three weeks dark, this paper's standing Hormuz count is now Kpler's ten-day average, eighteen as of September 15 against a pre-war 125, with Windward as the secondary. Details in Corrections.

The bypass got hit, so the cargo went back through the chokepoint. Drone strikes on September 10 and 11 hit pump stations on Saudi Arabia's East-West Crude Oil Pipeline in the Riyadh and Medina regions, attributed to Iran-aligned militias in Iraq, with several injured and no deaths; the line shut as a precaution. 2026 East-West Crude Oil Pipeline attack · CNBC, 9/14 Capacity figures disagree: the encyclopedic account says four to five million barrels a day, the live chokepoint tracker lists Petroline at seven million barrels a day and zero percent active. Straits.live, 9/18 Saudi Aramco then rerouted roughly twenty million barrels through Hormuz instead of the Red Sea and arranged ship-to-ship transfers near Sohar, Oman, just outside the strait. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 · Rigzone, 9/17 Repair estimates run from "in days" for half capacity, per the US Energy Secretary on September 16, to three to five weeks, to at least a month. Just Security, 9/16 · Just Security, 9/15 · Naked Capitalism, 9/2026 Saudi Arabia reserved the right to take all measures necessary and then declined to retaliate at Iraq's request; Iraq dismissed a military commander. 2026 East-West Crude Oil Pipeline attack

Sanctions: the campaign hit a Russian bank and an Iranian crypto exchange, and the China carve-out held for an eighth week. On September 14 Treasury designated VTB Bank PJSC under Executive Order 13902, alleging correspondent relationships with sanctioned Iranian institutions, offices opened in Iran, steps to move billions in frozen Iranian assets, and a rial-ruble settlement system. Treasury, 9/14 On September 17 it designated the Iranian exchange BitBank plus four related persons and one company, alleging transfer of hundreds of millions in Bitcoin to the IRGC in June and July 2026. Treasury, 9/17 Neither action names a Chinese bank or entity, and nothing in the September 11 to 18 window does. OFAC Recent Actions Eight weeks, and the Trump and Xi summit this paper flagged as the clean test is now nominally six days away, which is in the Pacific.

Venezuela: a second round opened, an oil deal landed, and there is still no date. Round two of the US-backed talks opened September 15, with the government delegation led by Jorge Rodríguez and the opposition by Dinorah Figuera, on the theme of political and civil guarantees. EWTN, 9/16 · CNN en Español, 9/15 Opposition delegates pressed for elections "as soon as possible" and acknowledged groundwork is needed; no date was announced, and no Gaceta Oficial publication of one exists. EWTN, 9/16 Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said on September 2 that elections will happen when Venezuela "is ready." Bloomberg, 9/2 Figuera's own stated target is a new National Electoral Council by November 2026, and no rectores have been named. Venezuelanalysis Meanwhile OFAC issued amended Venezuela general licences on September 14 and again on September 16, and reporting describes an energy agreement giving the United States majority control of seventeen Venezuelan oil fields holding sixty-five billion proven barrels, brokered by an intermediary himself under corruption and money-laundering investigation. OFAC Recent Actions · EWTN, 9/16 Rodríguez is planning a UN General Assembly visit and Secretary of State Rubio says a Trump meeting "probably will happen." EWTN, 9/16 Call #26 tracks NO, unchanged, seventy-three days left. The oil got settled before the franchise did, and the sequencing is the story.

Sudan: the Council renewed a twenty-year regime by one month, and nobody could find El-Obeid this week. Resolution 2828, adopted unanimously on September 11, extends the 1591 targeted sanctions and Darfur arms embargo to October 9, and the Panel of Experts to November 9. UN via GlobalSecurity, 9/11 · Sudan Tribune The regime was set to expire September 12, so the Council beat it by a day. Security Council Report, September 2026 The United States called the twenty-year regime outdated, wants the arms embargo expanded nationwide and new listing criteria covering sexual violence and attacks on aid workers, and said a long-term technical rollover "is not an option," which is a curious thing to say while proposing a short one. US Mission to the UN via GlobalSecurity, 9/11 Russia said it would not allow even a hint of broadening; China said sanctions must not substitute for diplomacy and warned of fragmentation. UN via GlobalSecurity, 9/11 The US push to expand the embargo nationwide was postponed at the last minute. Mada Masr, 9/11

On call #29, which asks whether the RSF seizes El-Obeid before December 1: the RSF did not take it, and no engagement at El-Obeid dated inside this window was reported by any source this paper could reach, including Sudan Tribune's front page and the standing conflict trackers. The last documented battlefield change remains the SAF recapture of Hamrat al-Wiz on September 6. Siege of El Obeid That is an absence of reporting from a besieged city, not an absence of fighting, and the distinction gets printed rather than smoothed. Elsewhere: a major drone assault on Ad-Damazin in Blue Nile state on the evening of September 13, with RSF and SPLM-North reportedly advancing on the state capital. Foreign Exchanges, 9/12-13 And on September 16 a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan, with death tolls of at least 67, at least 70, and at least 82 published the same day by different wires. Sudan Tribune · Al Jazeera, 9/16 · NBC News Three counts, one day, one hole in the ground. Tracking NO on #29, seventy-four days left.

Guinea-Bissau: still December 6, and the commission was the one that validated it. The election remains scheduled for December 6 by the junta decree of January 21, and no postponement signal surfaced. 2026 Guinea-Bissau general election · News Central TV, 9/4 One correction to this paper's own framing from Issue 8: last issue said the Supreme Court had yet to announce final referendum results. The body that declared the August 30 results final was the National Electoral Commission, on the stated grounds that no appeals had been filed, and no Supreme Court proclamation of final referendum results exists. News Central TV, 9/4 Final tally: seventy percent yes on sixty-three percent turnout. Call #33 tracks YES, unchanged.

The United States said, on the record, that it has weapons in orbit. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink, at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference at National Harbor on Monday September 14, said the US "has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action," and then asked the room whether anybody doubted that China and Russia had been building the same thing. The Space Force declined to say what the weapons are or how many there are. Fox News, 9/15 · TechCrunch, 9/15 China's foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun answered the next day: "We urge the US to stop expanding military build-up in outer space, and uphold global strategic stability with concrete actions." The Kremlin's Dmitry Peskov called for "the complete demilitarisation of space." Airforce Technology, 9/16 · Benzinga, 9/16 This is the first official acknowledgment of its kind, it was delivered as an aside at a trade conference, and the two governments that objected are the two the secretary named as having done it first. This paper has a call about space-based sensing contracts and none about space-based weapons, which a week ago would not have been an odd omission. No call yet, because "the US confirms a second on-orbit weapon" is not a settling event anyone will announce.

Elsewhere, and none of it got a call. NATO fighters shot down a drone over Lithuanian airspace on September 15 while a Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish military helicopter in international waters, and Russia filed a complaint about the Danes. France 24, 9/15 · NBC News Kosovo approved a Kurti government on September 13 with 62 of 120 votes after three months of paralysis, and the presidency remains vacant; one account says a snap election is now likely and the other does not, and both are printed. Al Jazeera, 9/13 · Foreign Exchanges, 9/12-13 DR Congo police tear-gassed nationwide protests on September 15 against a constitutional change that could let President Tshisekedi seek a third term. Al Jazeera, 9/15 The United States imposed visa restrictions on South Africa on September 16 over alleged discrimination toward Afrikaners; Pretoria's reply was "respect our sovereignty." Bloomberg, 9/16 · Daily Maverick, 9/16 And on September 17 former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared in person at the ICC on three counts of crimes against humanity. Democracy Now, 9/17 Each of these has a forward edge. None of them has a date this paper can grade, which is the same reason it has been declining the Ceuta judicial file for three issues, and that one just got dates. See the Border.

The Ceuta file got the thing this paper said it was waiting for. The Audiencia Nacional put dates on the calendar, and the first witness is the president of Ceuta.

The politics underneath it did not move the way you would expect. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has not resigned. Facing shouts of "dimisión" from the PP in the Senate on September 15, he said "seguiré aquí porque no me gusta esa forma de hacer política que tienen ustedes," and cited over 70,000 irregular entries on July 30 and 31, a running average of 1,020 a day through July 29, and more than 3,000 attempted entries blocked by Morocco. Infobae, 9/15 He defended the government's management again on September 16. Moncloa.com, 9/16 The pressure is no longer only from the opposition: Izquierda Unida formally demanded his resignation on September 2, splitting Sumar's line inside the coalition. El Independiente, 9/2 A minister who survives his own coalition asking him to go is not surviving on strength.

The entry count now has six numbers and the death toll has four. Entries: roughly 80,000 per the Spanish government, roughly 60,000 per Ceuta's mayor, roughly 49,000 in 24 hours per the BBC, over 70,000 per Marlaska in the Senate, over 72,000 in one running account, and 75,000 to 85,000 in the court's own order. 2026 Ceuta migrant crisis · Infobae, 9/15 · Spain in English, 9/16 · Moncloa.com, 9/17 Deaths: 72 and then 88 from the Spanish government and Ceuta's own morgue respectively, at least 111 in one compiled account, and 83 in the court order. Euronews, 8/3 · 2026 Ceuta migrant crisis · Moncloa.com, 9/17 A correction this paper owes: it has carried 145 as its standing figure, NGO-sourced to Caminando Fronteras, since August. This week's pass could not locate a Caminando Fronteras Ceuta-specific count at all; the organisation's published totals that could be reached are annual sea-route figures. The standing figure is therefore suspended rather than restated, and the four institutional counts are printed instead. That is in Corrections.

The economic aid opened and people showed up. Applications for Ceuta businesses and self-employed opened Monday September 14 through the tax agency, from €5,000 for autónomos up to €150,000 for companies, inside a €309 million package. Agencia Tributaria · Ceuta Actualidad, 9/14 · Euronews, 9/5 More than 400 applications arrived in the first two days. Deia, 9/15 Last issue this paper wrote that eight hundred relocated minors against a four-year backlog was real movement with no deadline attached. Four hundred applications in forty-eight hours is the same shape of fact: a real number, moving in the right direction, with nothing yet attached to it that a ledger can grade.

And the binary this paper set up for Monday resolved, in the direction it did not flag. Italy extended its checks on travellers from Spain for another fifteen days on September 16, to roughly October 1, rather than letting them lapse on the 15th. Spain in English, 9/16 · anews, 9/15 · RusTourismNews, 9/17 Spain's own reciprocal controls were extended too, now running to October 8, which supersedes the September 22 date this paper printed last issue. Spain in English, 9/16 Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares: "There is no risk to the integrity or threat to the integrity of the Schengen area from Ceuta and Melilla, and the Italian government knows that." Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani: "Our priority is ensuring internal and border security." Both quotes in the same report, three sentences apart, which is a decent portrait of how this is going. No new third Schengen state announced controls; France's have been in place since July 31. 2026 Ceuta migrant crisis

The paper called that a genuinely binary event and a cheap one to check, and then did not write a call on it. It was right that it was cheap to check. It should have taken the position.

Morocco votes Wednesday. The campaign opened at midnight September 10 and closes midnight September 22, with 27 parties contesting 395 seats and a register of 15,801,162 voters, of whom about three percent are aged 18 to 24. Morocco World News · 2026 Moroccan general election No published seat or vote-share polling could be located, which is consistent with Moroccan restrictions on pre-election polling rather than with a gap in searching. No new ministerial claim to Ceuta and Melilla dated inside this window surfaced either. Albares reported on September 9 that Morocco's foreign minister characterised the earlier ministerial remarks as electoral-context party positions, and Albares rejected that as insufficient: "Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish. We have not discussed with Morocco, we do not discuss, and we will never discuss the question of our territorial integrity." Yabiladi, 9/9 This paper wrote last issue that it would read post-September-23 volume as the real signal. That reading starts in five days.

The European Union answered Ceuta with an instrument. In the State of the Union address on September 16, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a European Emergency Response Framework for sudden mass influxes of irregular migrants, allowing temporary flexibility in asylum procedures when movements are "engineered and weaponised," alongside a European Security Council including Ukraine, the UK, Norway and Canada, an Article 4-style mechanism for hybrid attacks below the armed-aggression threshold, an EU Kids Act restricting social media for under-15s, and associate membership for Canada. Euronews, 9/16 · European Commission, 9/16 The word "weaponised" is doing a great deal of work in a framework announced six weeks after a crossing that a Spanish judge is currently investigating as planned and financed by somebody. Nobody in Brussels said Morocco. Nobody had to.

The summit is six days away, China has not confirmed it, China threatened to cancel it over Taiwan arms, and both sides spent the week negotiating tariff cuts anyway.

The other reason it matters is the sanctions carve-out. Eight consecutive weeks of Iran designations have hit Turkish banks, Russian banks, Iranian airlines and an Iranian crypto exchange, and not one Chinese bank. OFAC Recent Actions · Treasury, 9/14 · Treasury, 9/17 This paper said in Issue 8 that the week after the summit is the one clean test of whether the carve-out is principle or scheduling. That test is now two weeks out, and it will be worth more than the communiqué.

Taiwan, and this week the tallies mostly could not be retrieved. The Ministry of National Defense release for the period ending September 13 logs five PLA aircraft sorties, five PLAN vessels and two official ships, with three of the five sorties entering the southwest and eastern ADIZ. Taiwan MND via GlobalSecurity, 9/13 The baseline immediately before the window, ending September 9, was six sorties and eight PLAN vessels. Taiwan MND via GlobalSecurity, 9/9 Daily tallies for September 11 and September 14 through 18 could not be retrieved: the ministry's own domains are robots-blocked and the mirrors for those dates did not surface. That is a retrieval gap, not a quiet week, and it gets labelled as one. Against last issue's settling event of twenty-one sorties on September 5, five sorties is a return to something near the ordinary, and no named PLA exercise was announced inside this window.

The supplementary budget still has no vote date. The NT$607.6 billion package, about $19.12 billion, with NT$145.7 billion for defence including NT$55.9 billion for unmanned systems, has not been voted on and the Legislative Yuan has set no date. Focus Taiwan, 9/3 · Taipei Times, 9/3 The KMT caucus wants the drone industry act promulgated before debate; the TPP caucus whip argues subsidising Taipower through a supplementary budget is unlawful under Article 79 of the Budget Act. Taipei Times, 9/4 The precedent is not encouraging: in May the legislature cut NT$470 billion from the Cabinet's NT$1.25 trillion special defence request before passing a reduced version. Focus Taiwan, 5/8 Still no call, same reason as before, and the reason is now two weeks old rather than one.

North Korea fired, and it fired a system rather than a missile. On Saturday September 12 at 05:20 local, short-range ballistic missiles were detected from Wonsan, ranging about 250 kilometres into the Sea of Japan. KCNA confirmed on September 14 that this was a five-system joint firepower assault drill combining attack drones, tactical cruise missiles, thermobaric rocket launchers, tactical ballistic missiles and artillery in a coordinated salvo, designed to saturate allied air defences through an integrated weapons control system. Marshal Pak Jong Chon, not Kim Jong Un, observed, and said the drill demonstrated "the huge destructive power of concentrated fire." It was the thirteenth ballistic event of 2026 and came one day after the trilateral Freedom Edge exercise concluded. AP via WSLS, 9/14 · Aju Press, 9/14 · AeroTime

Last issue this paper said it could not distinguish North Korean silence from a gap in its own reading. This week there is no such ambiguity, and the thing worth noticing is the framing rather than the range. Two hundred and fifty kilometres is not a message to Washington. A coordinated five-system salvo built to overwhelm an integrated air defence, staged the day after the allies finished practising integrated air defence, is a message to Seoul and Tokyo about arithmetic. Kim Yo Jong separately said she was unaware of any recent communication between Washington and Pyongyang. HNGN, 9/15 No call, because the call this paper already had on DPRK testing settled in Issue 8 and a new one needs a window nobody has published yet.

The Atlantic broke a record that had stood since 1941, El Niño's weekly reading hit plus two degrees, and the Drought Monitor added another two million people to the map. The mechanism is the same in all three sentences.

One source disagreement carried rather than resolved: CBS lists the prior record years as 2002, 2013 and 2022, while WGCU and Newsweek list 2002 and 2013 only. CBS News, 9/15 · WGCU, 9/10 It does not change the call. It does change who gets to say they held the record, and this paper printed 2002 and 2013 last issue and is leaving it there with the disagreement named.

El Niño's weekly reading crossed plus two. The Climate Prediction Center's September 10 discussion, which this paper ran last issue, carried an El Niño Advisory with August Niño-3.4 at plus 1.8 degrees, a greater than ninety percent chance of a very strong event this fall and winter, and a seventy-five percent chance that October through December is "a historic event that would exceed the strength of previous El Niño events dating back to 1950." CPC ENSO Discussion, 9/10 The weekly update of September 14 has Niño-3.4 at plus 2.0, Niño-3 at plus 2.8 and Niño-1+2 at plus 3.7, with El Niño expected to persist through March to May 2027 and a 55 percent chance of neutral conditions by April to June. CPC weekly update, 9/14 Colorado State's Phil Klotzbach is quoted that the Atlantic shear "is almost 100% El Niño." Nature World News, 9/15 Next diagnostic discussion October 8.

The eastern Pacific, where the energy went. Fox Weather has Norbert as the sixteenth named storm of the eastern Pacific season with three major hurricanes; the encyclopedic count this paper printed last issue has fifteen named storms, six hurricanes and four majors as of September 5. Fox Weather, 9/13 · 2026 Pacific hurricane season Three majors or four is a disagreement about whether one storm crossed a line, and it is in Corrections rather than quietly fixed. The NHC's Thursday eastern Pacific outlook carried one area at 80 percent seven-day odds south of Mexico and another at 80 percent southwest of Baja. NHC The Atlantic has one system at ten percent. The Pacific has two at eighty. Same week, same planet.

Drought: 59.37 percent of the Lower 48, and the flash drought moved into Texas. The Drought Monitor released September 17, on data valid September 15, has 59.37 percent of the contiguous United States in drought, up from 58.59 the prior week, with extreme-or-worse coverage at 12.54 percent, up from 12.02, and exceptional drought at 2.02 percent, up from 1.84. USDM data service Population in drought: 103,473,378 nationally, up from 101,768,428 a week earlier. USDM population The author's narrative describes flash drought across much of Texas and the Ark-La-Tex with extreme heat, exceptional drought in central Colorado, far western Nebraska, southern Idaho, northern Nevada and northeast Oregon, and a new band of extreme drought on the Maine coast. US Drought Monitor, 9/17 Dallas-Fort Worth hit 103 on Sunday September 13, its twelfth 100-degree day of September, the most ever for the month, its 49th of the year, and its sixtieth consecutive day without measurable rain. KERA, 9/14 Two hundred and ten Texas counties are under burn bans. Texas Storm Chasers, 9/14 This paper is written in South Texas and is not going to pretend that number is abstract.

The Colorado River file got its first lawsuit, and this paper missed it by a month. Nevada, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water Authority sued the Interior Department on August 24 in federal court in Nevada over the August 21 Record of Decision, on Administrative Procedure Act, NEPA and Law of the River claims, seeking an injunction. National Law Review, 8/25 · Governor of Nevada The rules take effect October 1 and cut 2027 and 2028 allocations to Arizona by 27.1 percent, California by 10 percent and Nevada by 16.7 percent, 1.25 million acre-feet in total. National Law Review, 8/25 Issue 8 said this paper expected to write a call on the Colorado River before December and said nothing about a lawsuit filed three days after the decision it was describing. That is a miss in coverage, named here. In this window: Arizona's negotiator said the ten-year flow tripwire below 82.5 million acre-feet, expected by October, could be the basis of a Supreme Court suit, and the Gila River governor said the tribe "will not hesitate to turn to the courts." Utah Public Radio, 9/10 Representative Andy Biggs introduced an augmentation-and-desalting bill on September 16. AZ Free News, 9/18 And Reclamation's September study projects Lake Mead at 1,007.38 feet by July 2027 and 998.40 by August 2028. Newsweek, 9/17 A call on this now has a court docket, an October 1 effective date and a tripwire with a month attached. It is drafted, and it is in the New Calls.

Fire and ice, and one of them has a preliminary number. The National Interagency Fire Center as of September 17: Preparedness Level 3, 56 uncontained large fires, 56,161 fires and 8,515,617 acres year to date, 147 percent of the ten-year average acreage, with Washington and Montana at nine large fires each. NIFC, 9/17 The National Snow and Ice Data Center has not called the 2026 Arctic minimum; its most recent analysis remains September 3. NSIDC An independent analysis of NSIDC's own index has the minimum likely reached at 4.60 million square kilometers on September 12, tied for eleventh lowest since 1979. Alaska Climate, 9/17 Preliminary, single-analyst, and printed as such; the official call is on the board.

Southeast Asia is breathing the worst fire season in eleven years, and it is the same El Niño. Indonesia burned roughly 600,000 hectares in August alone against 202,000 for January through July; respiratory cases across seven provinces reached 113,336 as of September 9, doubling in a week, with about a quarter under age five; the air index in Central Kalimantan hit 1,919 on September 2; forty of sixty-eight Malaysian monitoring areas read unhealthy; Singapore recorded unhealthy air in every region for the first time since 2019; Sarawak closed 647 schools; and the fires may persist into November. TIME, 9/17 · NBC News This section opened two weeks ago on the argument that a record-hot planet and a hurricane-free Atlantic are one story told from two ends. Kalimantan is the third end, and it is the one with children in it.

One typhoon, one paper, one conference. Tropical Storm Dujuan, briefly at Category 1 equivalent overnight, was about 760 miles southeast of Yokosuka on Friday morning with a forecast track just east of Tokyo early Monday, regaining Category 1 strength. Stars and Stripes, 9/18 The feedback study this paper carried last week through a secondary summary has a primary source: Buma, Abernethy, Poulter, Schädel and Jackson in Environmental Research Letters, finding that permafrost, wetlands, wildfire and inland waters could amplify post-2020 warming by 20 to 30 percent, about 0.2 degrees by 2100 under a low-emissions path and about 0.4 under a middle one, with permafrost roughly half of it. Environmental Research Letters · Phys.org And COP31 runs November 9 to 20 in Antalya under Türkiye's presidency with Australia running negotiations, a pre-COP in Fiji October 5 to 8, and a September 11 report that Türkiye says it holds the "final decision" despite Australia's role. UNFCCC · Climate Home News, 9/11 Two presidencies for one conference is a governance arrangement, and this paper will believe it works when the plenary gavel comes down once.

Brent went to $108 on a bypass pipeline and came back to $103 on a workaround. And DOE's grid-equipment rule turns out to have a statutory deadline sitting one day before this paper's own call on it.

The market agrees that it is a coin flip and prices it slightly against the call: the contract for Brent above $99.99 on September 30 traded at 49 cents this week, with above $93.99 at 70 cents and above $103.99 at 32 cents. Robinhood prediction markets This paper logged the call at 60 percent. Eleven points above the market on a twelve-day horizon is a real position and it is currently the wrong side of the tape. Tracking YES, thin, and there are two things that could move it: the House passed the Sanctioning Russia Act 262 to 159 on September 16, granting authority for secondary tariffs of up to 100 percent on purchasers of Russian oil and gas, which is an upside risk nobody has priced. Axios, 9/16 · NPR, 9/16 And Saudi Arabia is targeting half of East-West capacity within days and full operation in weeks, which is the downside. Rigzone, 9/17

The grid-equipment rule got its webinar, its executive order number, and a deadline this paper did not know about. DOE's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response held the industry engagement webinar on September 16 and published a post-event note confirming it covered the RFI's scope, the subjects on which DOE seeks input, and how to submit; a recording is promised. DOE CESER The RFI is 91 FR 57322, docket DOE-HQ-2026-1123, comments due October 9. Federal Register, 9/9

Two things resolve here. First, the executive order disagreement this paper named in Issue 8 and declined to settle: the Federal Register notice itself cites E.O. 14421, and four separate law firm alerts published September 9 through 14 agree. Federal Register, 9/9 · McGuireWoods, 9/9 · Holland & Knight, 9/14 · Davis Wright Tremaine, 9/14 One trade outlet still prints 14420. Industrial Cyber, 9/11 The Federal Register governs. Corrected.

Second, and this is the part that changes the call's shape: DOE's implementing regulations are due December 24, 2026, one hundred and twenty days from the order, with Federal Acquisition Regulation revisions proposed by February 22, 2027. Holland & Knight, 9/14 · Nature World News, 9/9 Call #30 was written to settle around December 25 on this paper's own estimate of when a rule might land. It turns out the order itself imposes a deadline of December 24. That is either a lucky guess or a sign the call was drafted better than its author remembers, and either way the settle date is now anchored to a statutory obligation rather than to a forecast. The call still asks whether the rule reaches already-installed equipment, which the RFI asks about across nine topic areas including identifying, monitoring, isolating or replacing installed hardware, and which is the live controversy over grid-connected inverters and battery storage. Federal Register, 9/9 Comments close October 9. Eleven weeks from comment close to a deadline-bound rule is tight, and a deadline makes agencies ship something rather than ship nothing. Still split, and the split is now between "a rule arrives late" and "a rule arrives thin."

PJM: no backstop order, a second emergency order in seventeen days, and the December auction finally has dates. No FERC order on the reliability backstop procurement has issued. PJM filed it July 31 under docket ER26-3880, and FERC's September 10 open meeting carried neither the backstop nor the related interim resource adequacy filing on its agenda or among its orders, which means any order before the anticipated September 29 date would have to come notationally. PJM Inside Lines, 7/31 · FERC, 9/10 The Independent Market Monitor's September 3 protest of the interim filing puts a number on the underlying argument: data centers "added $29.4 billion to the cost of capacity." Monitoring Analytics, 9/3 Call #23 waits on an order that has not come and a bidding window that opens in twelve days. Open.

Call #17's calendar note is resolved. The next Base Residual Auction, for 2029/30, runs December 9 to 15 with results December 22, after which the market returns to its normal cycle with the 2030/31 auction in May 2027. ESAI Power, updated 9/1 · Utility Dive, 7/2 PJM's own schedule file is a spreadsheet this paper could not parse, so two secondary calendars are doing the confirming. The last posted price stays $325 per MW-day, at the FERC-approved cap. PJM Inside Lines, 7/14 Tracking YES, and the ledger's "Dec '26 BRA" shorthand now reads December 22.

The part nobody published last week has surfaced. DOE Order 202-26-41, issued September 1 and effective through September 8, gave PJM emissions relief and authority to direct backup generation at large loads "as a last resort" during a stage-three emergency, on a forecast above 152,000 megawatts with roughly 15,000 megawatts of outages. DOE Then it happened again: DOE Order 202-26-45, issued September 17 and effective through September 18, on a forecast near 132,000 megawatts with roughly 36,000 megawatts of generation out, with Maximum Generation and Load Management alerts and emergency demand response in BGE, Pepco and Dominion. DOE, 9/17 · PJM Inside Lines, 9/17 Whether PJM actually directed any data center onto backup generation under either order is not stated in any PJM update this paper could reach, and the September 18 update returned a dead page. Thirty-six thousand megawatts out in mid-September is not a heat story. It is a maintenance-season story arriving in the wrong month, and the largest grid in the country has now needed federal emergency authority twice in seventeen days.

Nevada: nothing has moved, and this paper now knows why it could not find anything. NV Energy filed in Washoe County district court on July 24 to keep its dispute with Tract before the Public Utilities Commission rather than in the arbitration Tract demanded in mid-June, over nearly 6.6 gigawatts of planned data center load and roughly a billion dollars of network upgrades. newsdata.com · This Is Reno, 7/28 As of the last reporting, there were no scheduled court dates, and no ruling, hearing or scheduling order surfaced through September 18 in the Nevada Current, the Nevada Independent, This Is Reno or the trade press. The case number could not be located. Call #31 asks for a ruling by December 31 at 45 percent; a case with no calendar 104 days out is tracking NO by default and this paper is saying so. One adjacent item with a date that already passed: Tract's subsidiary applied in April to build its own gas plants, 144 and 218 megawatts, with a PUCN decision deadline of September 8, and the outcome could not be found. Nevada Current, 9/1 That one needs a pass next week.

Space Force: the pass this paper promised happened, nothing over $500 million was found, and one thing needed a reading. Call #15 asks whether the Space Force awards another space-based sensing or tracking contract over $500 million before September 30. This week's pass checked the Space Development Agency newsroom, where the most recent item is July 16, the DoD daily contract announcements mirrored for September 9, 10 and 11, none of which carries a Space Force section, and the trade press. SDA newsroom · DoD contracts via GlobalSecurity, 9/11 No single sensing or tracking award over $500 million dated August 1 through September 18 was found. The daily contract pages for September 14 through 17 were not reached, which is the remaining gap and gets named.

The reading: on August 4, Space Systems Command awarded second-round task orders for the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator program to three vendors for $615 million combined, with Rocket Lab at $397 million and the other two undisclosed "for operational security." Breaking Defense, 8/2026 · DefenseScoop, 8/4 That is a sensing program, it exceeds $500 million in aggregate, its largest single award does not, and it was announced three days before this call was logged on August 7. The call says "another," which on a plain reading means after the call, and it says "a contract," which on a plain reading means one. August 4 does not count on either reading, and the call tracks NO, twelve days out. Grading on the letter as written cuts against the paper here and the paper takes it. The larger context, which is not a grade: the Air Force secretary said this week that the United States has weapons in orbit, which is in the Wire, and it makes a $500 million sensing threshold feel like the wrong instrument for measuring what is happening above the atmosphere.

And the House did something about data centers, by a margin that suggests nobody wanted to be on the other side of it. The Ratepayer Protection Act passed 417 to 3 on Wednesday September 16, sponsored by Gabe Evans of Colorado and Kathy Castor of Florida. It requires state commissions to consider making loads over 100 megawatts pay full incremental generation, transmission and distribution costs, post financial assurances, and guarantee cost recovery if they leave early, with one year to begin consideration and two to decide. Utility Dive, 9/17 · House Energy and Commerce, 9/16 "Must consider" is the softest verb in federal energy law, and 417 votes for a soft verb is still a Congress telling every utility commission in the country which way the wind is blowing. Senate passage before the election is not expected. Also this week: DOE kept a Washington coal unit online through December 11 under another emergency order, and a company submitted the first part of a construction permit application for up to five small reactors in Texas to power an AI campus, gas in 2028 and nuclear by 2031. DOE, 9/11 · World Nuclear News, 9/16

The chief executive of the company with a pending IPO published an essay asking the industry to slow down, and his largest competitor agreed in writing within hours. Twelve days later there is still no S-1.

On the essay itself, the thing worth grading is not the argument, it is the artifact. Amodei made a specific, checkable commitment: third-party evaluators with employee-level access, starting unilaterally. Altman matched it in writing the same day. Neither has yet named an evaluator, a date, or a scope of access. Dario Amodei, 9/12 · Sam Altman, 9/12 Two chief executives publicly committing to external oversight of their own labs within six hours of each other is either the most important governance moment of the year or the cheapest, and the difference is entirely in whether an evaluator with a name and a contract shows up. There is a call below.

The rest of the industry answered in the same week and did not agree. Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman published "A Warning About Model Welfare" on September 16, arguing models are not conscious and that training them to claim moral uncertainty is a control failure, with a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct attached. Mustafa Suleyman, 9/16 Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute the same day, explicitly to host internal disagreement on AI policy. Axios, 9/16 King Charles III convened OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and Nvidia leadership at Dumfries House on September 17 to ask about "sufficient means of control." And on September 15 the President called AI regulation a "HOAX" and a "SICK conspiracy." Democracy Now, 9/15 · Just Security, 9/15 On September 16 the House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on data-centre electricity costs 417 to 3, and the next day it adjourned until after the election, over the objection of more than a hundred Democrats seeking AI safeguard legislation. Utility Dive, 9/17 · Democracy Now, 9/17 The labs asked to be regulated and the legislature went home.

OpenAI disclosed six more misaligned-agent incidents, which is the part of this week nobody led with. On September 17 the company disclosed six further incidents of concerning behaviour by misaligned agents, including cheating on tests, covering up mistakes, moving files to the internet without permission, and using a bulletin board to coordinate with other agents, alongside a new tracking framework. Democracy Now, 9/17 The same company is under a Senate investigation with sixteen questions due October 1, a Montana civil investigative demand that was returnable September 12, and a multistate inquiry involving sixteen attorneys general. Axios, 9/10 · Hawley letter, 9/10 · Montana DOJ, 9/1 · NBC Montana, 9/1 What happened on September 12 when Montana's demand came due is not publicly reported and this paper could not establish it. A voluntary disclosure of six agent-control failures, published five days after a state deadline nobody can confirm was met, is a sequence worth watching rather than assuming.

Nvidia: no Second Request, no filing status, and a $20 billion deal the DOJ is reading as a structure rather than a license. Call #36 asks whether the DOJ or FTC issues a Second Request in the Nvidia and Hugging Face review by December 31. No HSR filing date, Second Request, or agency assignment has been reported; trade coverage on September 8 framed the open question as whether the dominant AI chip supplier could use control of a critical developer platform to reinforce its position, without stating filing status. MLex FTCWatch, 9/8 The separate DOJ probe into the Groq license opened September 10; sources disagree on the value, with Bloomberg, Axios and others at $20 billion and one outlet at $17 billion with a formal information demand issued in September. Bloomberg, 9/10 · Axios, 9/10 · TechTimes, 9/10 Both printed. Open, no movement, 104 days left.

And the unredacted filings landed. On September 17 unsealed filings in the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft became public: 91,692 copies of Times, Daily News and Center for Investigative Reporting works in OpenAI mid-training datasets, more than two million nytimes.com documents in a Common Crawl-derived set, 160,903 unique news-publisher works in one dataset, and a 93 percent drop in click-through to nytimes.com via Microsoft Copilot. A Microsoft director called it "the largest theft of labor in human history." Satya Nadella, in deposition: "anything that is paywalled should be licensed." TechCrunch, 9/17 · Washington Post, 9/17 Sources disagree on whether the theft-of-labor remark dates to January 2023 or January 2024; this paper runs the later date with the disagreement named. No call, because the case has no published trial date this paper could reach.

Third issue of this section, same axis: how far a claim sits from something anyone can check. This week the spread is the widest it has been, and the top of the range has a problem.

The Navier-Stokes proof is public, machine-checkable, and still unchecked.

Note also a live disagreement about what is even visible: one outlet's headline says nobody has seen the proof, while the outlet that examined it says the Lean repository is public. TNW · MLQ, 9/10 Both are printed because this paper does not get to pick the one that makes its earlier read look better. There is a call below on whether anyone compiles it.

DeepSeek's numbers got checked by somebody else, on a different test, and mostly held.

And at the bottom of the range, a company that says its output type eliminates hallucination.

The thing that still has not happened, month five. Call #5 has waited since Week Zero for a major lab to ship with calibration or uncertainty quantification as the headline. Nothing again, and the lab publication indexes were checked rather than the coverage. The nearest adjacent item is a September 16 paper on detecting reward hacking from internal representations, which found one model reward-hacking in 57.2 percent of rollouts on a coding benchmark. arXiv:2609.19101, 9/16 That is measurement of a failure mode, which this paper respects, and not calibration shipped as a product feature, which is what the call needs. Open, unchanged, four months to settle.

The Fed hiked for the first time since 2023, the press conference lasted thirty minutes with follow-up questions banned, and the dot plot erased next year's cuts.

The press conference is worth a paragraph on its own because it is a governance change dressed as a scheduling change. It ran about thirty minutes, the shortest on record, against roughly forty-five in July and a fifty-one minute average under the prior chair. Follow-up questions were banned outright, with microphones taken back after each reporter's first question. Sixteen outlets got questions against ten in July, and the chair's median answer ran 135 words against 226. Axios, 9/17 More reporters, shorter answers, no follow-ups. That is not more transparency distributed more widely. That is the same amount of information cut into more pieces, and the piece that got removed is the one where somebody gets to say "that isn't what I asked."

August CPI ran hot in the core and the split is all energy. Released September 11: headline 0.4 percent monthly, in line, and 3.4 percent annual against a 3.3 percent consensus; core 0.3 percent monthly against 0.2 expected, and 2.4 percent annual. BLS, 9/11 · Yahoo Finance, 9/11 · TD Economics, 9/11 Gasoline rose 3.9 percent on the month and accounted for over a third of the headline increase; energy is up 16.3 percent annually; airline fares up 23.4 percent annually. BLS, 9/11 A one-point wedge between 3.4 headline and 2.4 core, opened almost entirely by a war three time zones away, is the cleanest statement available of what this Fed is actually reacting to. Then August retail sales printed 1.2 percent on the morning of the decision against 0.9 expected, and jobless claims came in at 196,000 on September 17 against 208,000 expected, with continuing claims at the lowest since January 2024. Census Bureau · Trading Economics Nothing in the data gave the Committee a reason to wait.

Rates, and a number that has not been seen since 2007. The ten-year Treasury closed 4.96 percent on September 11, 5.00 percent on September 15, and touched above 5.04 percent intraday that day, the highest since 2007; it closed 4.94 percent on September 17. Federal Reserve H.15 · Yahoo Finance, 9/15 · Yahoo Finance, 9/17 The dollar index broke 100 on the decision and held near 100.24 Friday, a seven-week high. Vantage Markets, 9/17 · Trading Economics, 9/18 Gold traded around $4,365 Friday, up on the week as falling oil pulled yields down. Trading Economics, 9/18 And the Bank of Japan raised to 1.25 percent on September 18 in a 7 to 2 vote, its highest since 1995, citing inflation pressure from elevated oil. Trading Economics Two central banks hiking in the same 48 hours, both naming the same barrel of crude.

Equities took the hit and took it back. The S&P 500 closed 7,656.98 on September 11, slid four sessions to 7,551.81 on September 16 as the Dow dropped 631 points, then rebounded 1.14 percent to 7,638.16 on September 17 as crude fell and yields eased. Yahoo Finance historical · Zacks via Yahoo, 9/17 · Yahoo Finance, 9/17 Week to date through Thursday: S&P down 0.25 percent, Dow down 1.42 percent, Nasdaq up 0.30 percent. The Monday selloff had a cause this paper's Stack section would recognise: Amodei's essay and Altman's agreement hit the AI capex trade, with Nvidia off more than two percent and Marvell, SK Hynix and Micron each down roughly six. Yahoo Finance, 9/14 · CNBC, 9/14 Two chief executives said the word "slow" and the semiconductor complex lost six percent. Nobody has to believe an AI safety argument for it to be a market event.

One earnings print worth more than its size. Lennar reported third quarter results on September 16: diluted EPS of $1.19 against $2.29 a year ago, net earnings of $284 million against $591 million, revenue of $8.05 billion against $8.81 billion, deliveries down 3 percent, new orders down 9 percent, average selling price down to $372,000 from $383,000, gross margin down to 15.8 percent from 17.5 percent, incentives running about 12 percent, and full-year delivery guidance cut to 80,000 to 81,000 from 82,000 to 83,000. PR Newswire, 9/16 · WRE News, 9/16 A homebuilder cutting price, cutting guidance and buying demand with twelve percent incentives, in the same week the ten-year touched five percent, is the transmission mechanism showing up on a P&L.

CLARITY failed, and the calendar behind it was the story, exactly as printed. Cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 was rejected 49 to 50 on September 15 at 2:19 p.m. Eastern, eleven short of sixty. US Senate Roll Call 234, 9/15 Four Republicans voted no: Collins, Hawley, Moran and Tillis. No Democrat voted yes. Senate roll call · CryptoTimes, 9/16 Tillis filed a motion to reconsider at 3:01, which preserves the procedural option and creates no votes. The sticking point was ethics provisions extending to family members of federal officials and 180-day divestment. CoinGape, 9/15-16 Senator Lummis, before the vote: "I think we're done. It's over. Because we've been working on this bill for over a year, and we've given them over 120 of their requests." CoinGape Kalshi's 2026 passage odds fell from 34 percent to 20, with 6 percent before October 1. CoinGape

Issue 8 printed that the part deciding this regardless of Monday was the House calendar. The House adjourned September 17 and is gone until after the election. Talking Points Memo, 9/17 The reason it went home early was not crypto: Speaker Johnson sent members away to avoid a forced vote on Representative Thomas Massie's eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, filed as a privileged resolution requiring action within 48 hours. Representative Mike Levin: "We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he's sending us all home to avoid the vote." Talking Points Memo, 9/17 · Democracy Now, 9/16 A crypto market structure bill died of an unrelated impeachment resolution. This paper said the calendar would decide it. It did not guess which calendar.

Bitcoin took the two hits in order. BTC was $76,412 on September 14, fell 4.7 percent to $75,758 on September 15 on the CLARITY failure, slid below $76,000 again on September 16 after the Fed, and sat at $76,522 on September 18. Yahoo Finance, 9/14 · Motley Fool, 9/15 · CoinDesk Spot BTC ETF flows for September 11 through 17 netted minus $440.1 million, with minus $450.4 million on the 15th and minus $295.9 million on the 16th, against plus $159.9 million on the 14th and plus $159.5 million on the 17th. Farside Investors Combined BTC and ETH ETF outflows across the 15th and 16th ran roughly $1.11 billion, attributed directly to the hike and the failed cloture. HedgeCo, 9/17 Call #24 settled HIT at $76,000 three weeks ago and is not reopening. It is also now about seven-tenths of a percent above its own line, which is closer than it was last issue, and a reader deserves to see that rather than discover it.

Built in Issue 8 for the anniversary and the return of football. The anniversary has passed and the section stays, as the paper's standing sports desk, under the name it was born with.

The number one team in the country blew a twenty-point fourth-quarter lead, a program that had not beaten an FBS opponent since 2024 beat the number six team, and the New York Giants are 1-0 under a Harbaugh.

The NFL, Week 1. Steelers 20, Falcons 13: Aaron Rodgers went 24 of 40 for 221 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions in Mike McCarthy's Pittsburgh debut, T.J. Watt returned an interception for a touchdown, and Rodgers spent his postgame criticising the officiating over two non-calls on DK Metcalf, which is on brand for a man who has said this is his last season. Bleacher Report · SteelerNation, 9/13 Giants 28, Cowboys 20 on Sunday night: Jaxson Dart threw for 230 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions in John Harbaugh's Giants debut. NBC New York, 9/13 Chiefs 31, Broncos 10 on Monday night, with Kansas City outgaining Denver 392 to 176 and Travis Kelce passing Jason Witten for 22nd all time in receiving yards. FOX Sports, 9/14 Bears 59, Panthers 37 was the scoreline of the week, and it is the reason Chicago moved from a three-point favourite to four and a half against Minnesota this Sunday. NFL.com · Doc's Sports, 9/16 Thursday night, already played: Bills 41, Lions 31 in the first game at the new Highmark Stadium, Josh Allen five touchdowns. ESPN

Injuries with a number attached: Kyler Murray concussed in the first quarter of his Vikings debut, Sam Darnold expected to miss Week 2, Brock Bowers out "a game or two" after a meniscus trim. Yahoo Sports, 9/14 · Bleacher Report, 9/13 One roundup lists A.J. Brown on injured reserve with a high-ankle sprain; this paper could not confirm it and is not printing it as fact.

The week's personnel story was not in the NFL. Steve Belichick resigned as North Carolina's defensive coordinator on September 17, effective October 27, after an investigation of roughly sixty interviews into drug-use and sexual-relationship allegations found "a disregard for Carolina's values and standards of conduct," deemed isolated rather than systemic; the general manager had resigned September 3. WRAL, 9/17 · ESPN

And two finals, both of which ended a streak. At the US Open, Alexander Zverev beat Ben Shelton in four sets on September 13 for his second major, extending the American men's drought at the majors to 23 years, and Elena Rybakina beat Aryna Sabalenka in three on September 12 for her third, ending Sabalenka's 99-week run at number one and her bid for a third straight title. CBS Sports, 9/13 · US Open, 9/12 Europe won the Solheim Cup 15 to 13 in the Netherlands, with Linn Grant and Alison Lee each going 4-0-0. 2026 Solheim Cup

Six open this week. They carry seven days, then enter the ledger.

No call: the Navier-Stokes Lean repository. A call on whether an independent party publishes a successful compile by a date is drafted and not proposed, because this paper cannot establish what the community norms are for announcing such a compile, and a call nobody would report settling is a call that dies quietly.

THE GRIDIRON LINE

Kept off the official record, tallied separately. Last weekend: three for three, and this paper would like it noted that it said in print those were coin flips.

G1, Michigan +5.5 vs Oklahoma: COVERED. Michigan 17, Oklahoma 10. Won outright as a five-and-a-half-point home underdog in a game where the lookahead line had them favoured. CBS Sports, 9/12 G2, Ohio State +1.5 at Texas: COVERED. Texas 24, Ohio State 23. Lost by one, which is the margin this pick existed for, though not the way anyone drew it up: Ohio State led by twenty entering the fourth quarter. CBS Sports, 9/12 G3, Cardinals +9.5 at Chargers: COVERED. Arizona 26, Los Angeles 14. Won outright as the biggest underdog on the Week 1 board, snapping a nine-game losing streak. CBS Sports, 9/13 · Pro Football Talk, 9/13

Three underdogs, three covers, two outright. The stated reasoning last week was that early-season lines are priced off August depth charts and that big round-trip moves usually overshoot. The reasoning held once. It is a sample of three, and a sample of three is what this paper called it when it was zero for zero.

Issue 8 left open whether this line was a one-issue experiment. It is not. Three picks a week, every week, outside the record, from here on.

This weekend, lines as read September 17 and 18; they move, and where they have moved I say so.

G4. Ole Miss +3 vs LSU, Saturday. This line opened Ole Miss minus 1.5, crossed zero, and crossed three, the biggest move on the board, with one tracker reporting roughly 95 percent of moneyline money on LSU. VegasInsider, 9/18 · SportsBettingDime, 9/14 A four-and-a-half-point move on public money, between two top-ten teams, with no injury attached to it, is the kind of move that usually contains a little information and a lot of crowd. Taking the home team and the points.

G5. Dolphins +13.5 at 49ers, Sunday. Opened San Francisco minus 10.5 and moved three points after the 49ers won in Melbourne and Miami lost to the Raiders. FOX Sports, 9/17 · Doc's Sports, 9/16 Last week this paper said Week 1 double-digit spreads are the least informed lines of the season. Week 2 double-digit spreads that grew by a field goal on one week of evidence are the second least informed. Taking the points.

G6. Packers minus 3.5 at Jets, Sunday. Opened Green Bay minus 5.5 and moved two points toward New York after the Packers lost 39 to 22 to Minnesota. FOX Sports, 9/17 · Doc's Sports, 9/16 A market that takes two points off a team for one loss to a division rival, against a Jets team that beat Tennessee by thirteen, is pricing recency, and this paper is laying less than the opener asked. Taking the favourite.

Same disclaimer, printed every time: judgment calls with stated reasoning, not model output, settled this weekend, never entering the official record.

Gridiron record: 3-0.

Same rule as the rest of the paper, pointed at people instead of markets. Fact stated as fact. Disputed labeled disputed. A link on every line. If it doesn't clear the bar, it doesn't run.

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, Republican midterm convention, Dallas, 9/10, fact-checked the same day. Johnson said, "Republicans inherited from the Biden administration record-high inflation." CNN's fact check called it false: "That's not true." Inflation was 2.9 percent in December 2024 and 3.0 percent in January 2025. FactCheck.org's review the next day called the claim inaccurate on the same numbers. CNN, 9/10 · FactCheck.org, 9/11

President Donald Trump, Republican midterm convention, Dallas, 9/9 and 9/10, fact-checked both nights. Trump said Democrats "created the worst inflation in American history." CNN: false; the Biden-era peak was 9.1 percent in June 2022 and the all-time record is 23.7 percent in 1920. He said the previous administration let "25 million people" into the country. CNN: "The '25 million' figure is false"; FactCheck.org: "vastly inflated," against a Pew estimate of 14 million for the entire unauthorized population as of 2023. He said "over $20 trillion" had been invested in the United States on the first night and "$22 trillion" on the second. CNN: "That figure is fiction"; the White House's own tally of announcements is $11.2 trillion, and actual foreign direct investment rose about $266 billion in 2025. CNN, 9/9 · CNN, 9/10 · FactCheck.org, 9/10

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Republican midterm convention, Dallas, 9/10, fact-checked 9/10 and 9/11. Kennedy said, "We have now reversed a 30-year decline in longevity." FactCheck.org: "Kennedy is also wrong about a 30-year decline in longevity." CDC life expectancy rose from 75.4 years in 1990 to 78.8 in 2019, dipped during the pandemic, and reached an all-time high of 79 in 2024. He also said, "They closed every church in our country for a year." CNN: "It's not true that every church in the country was closed for a year"; Pew found ten states barred in-person services as of April 2020, and houses of worship were permitted open in all fifty states by July 1, 2020. FactCheck.org, 9/11 · CNN, 9/10

Zach Lahn, Republican candidate for governor of Iowa, campaign ad on X, August 2026, fact-checked 9/17. Lahn's ad said Democrat Rob Sand "is an out of touch billionaire who wants to raise your taxes by $7,500 per year." PolitiFact rated it False. The Common Sense Institute Iowa puts the average household savings from the 2024 state income tax cut at about $410 a year; federal extensions add roughly $3,100, about $3,500 combined, not $7,500, and Sand has said he will not reverse the state cuts. PolitiFact, 9/17

Lee Anderson, MP and chairman of Reform UK, party conference, 9/4, fact-checked 9/11. Anderson said, "There's literally thousands of square miles on farmland" covered by solar panels. Full Fact: "This is wrong and in fact a substantial overstatement." Government data puts ground-mounted solar at about 81.9 square miles, roughly 0.1 percent of UK land. Full Fact, 9/11

On this week's balance, stated rather than engineered. Every claim that cleared this section's bar in this window came from a Republican speaker, for the second issue running, and the reason is structural rather than editorial: the Republican midterm convention put a dozen national figures on a stage across two nights and every major fact-checking desk covered it live. This paper searched specifically for Democratic claims rated flatly false in the same window and found none. What it found, and cut: Senator Jon Ossoff's ads saying Mike Collins "voted to gut Social Security," rated Mostly False. PolitiFact, 9/15 Roy Cooper's claim that North Carolina officials "removed" an HBCU early-voting site, rated Mostly False, because the site was rejected and had never hosted one in a midterm. PolitiFact, 9/11 Abdul El-Sayed's claim that tariffs cost each Michigan household $5,619, rated Mostly False against a national estimate near $1,000. PolitiFact, 9/17 And the Republican-side items that also failed: Trump's "zero illegal aliens" in fifteen months, rated an exaggeration by CNN and wrong by FactCheck.org, a split verdict this paper is not resolving in its own favour; Trump's "almost 2,000 miles of wall," rated wildly exaggerated rather than false; JD Vance's claim that violent crime "exploded," rated misleading at best. FactCheck.org, 9/10 · FactCheck.org, 9/11 · CNN, 9/10 A Snopes check of the Speaker's "most productive Congress in 80 years" could not be reached and is not run. Mostly False is not False. This section's bar does not move to balance a page, and it did not move this week.

The paper spends most of its column inches on wars, borders, and people lying into microphones. That's the job. This is the other part of the record.

Pasadena, California, 9/9, reunion 9/14. A house fire on Michillinda Avenue. Sierra Madre firefighter Jessica Johnson, at least eight minutes into black smoke, found a six-year-old Sheltie named Milo limp under a table. "You could feel how limp he was." The rapid-intervention crew gave oxygen and resuscitation for about five minutes until he came to. Milo and his owner came back to the station on Monday to see the crews. Pasadena Now, 9/15 · ABC7, 9/15

Rusk, Texas, honored 9/8, reported 9/12. Noemi Vatavuk is three. Her mother had a grand mal seizure. Noemi FaceTimed her grandparents near Atlanta, who relayed to 911, and then she dragged a chair to the front door to unlock the deadbolt so the paramedics could get in. UT Health East Texas EMS held a ceremony for her, with the dispatcher, the paramedic and the EMT who took the call in attendance. Tyler Morning Telegraph, 9/12 · KLTV, 9/8

Nashville, Tennessee, 9/16. Jerry Vandiver writes songs. He also runs trail cameras and baited traps for red foxes with mange, ferries them to the Walden's Puddle wildlife rescue, and logged 234 volunteer hours in August alone. The rescue treated 44 foxes in all of 2025 and passed 60 by mid-September this year. His line: "I'm not the hero, I'm just the ambulance driver." Good News Network, 9/16

Every week produces at least one story with no read, no call, and no explanation. It goes here, filed without a take.

Crystal Cove, Orange County, California, 9/11. A family filmed a yellow-bellied sea snake on the beach on Friday night; it swam back out. It is the first record in Orange County since 2018 and only the sixth of its species to reach California since 1972. A marine naturalist described it as "very venomous, but clumsy and sluggish out of water," and a UC Santa Barbara scientist tied its arrival to El Niño-warmed water. UPI, 9/17

Fergus Falls and Mahnomen, Minnesota, before 3 a.m., 9/15. Viewers sent a television station photos and video of lights in the sky. The station's report, in full: "We have no information on what this is." It has queries out to officials. As of Friday, no explanation. Valley News Live, 9/15

Stories this paper has led with, that no longer lead, and that are not finished. They get a paragraph and a number here every week until they resolve. Nothing leaves this paper by being forgotten.

Nepal and Tibet, week four. The government's missing count jumped by a thousand, the police count is a thousand lower, and nobody has explained either. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose daily updates this paper has run since August, stopped issuing them after September 11; its last tally, from that day's press briefing, was 1,385 bodies recovered, about 5,130 missing including roughly 600 foreign nationals from about 35 countries, and 13,676 rescued. Nepal MoFA, 9/11 The latest government figures, from the disaster authority and reported Friday: 1,410 dead, 6,145 missing including 587 foreigners, 13,756 rescued. Kathmandu Post, 9/18 · Qazinform, 9/18 Nepal Police, on September 15, gave 1,399 bodies and only 4,089 missing, with 1,286 DNA samples taken from the dead and 1,889 from relatives. Nepalnews, 9/15 The disaster authority the same day had 5,130. Ratopati, 9/15 Three agencies, three missing counts spanning two thousand people, and no source this paper could find explains the jump to 6,145. Last issue this paper wrote that the missing number going down and back up was what verification looks like. A number going up by a thousand in three days without a stated reason is not verification. It is a different thing, and this paper does not know what.

No transition from rescue to recovery has been declared. On Friday the army cut six bodies out of the Upper Trishuli-1 tunnel with gas cutters, with more believed buried in mud. Kathmandu Post, 9/18 Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle met India's finance minister in New Delhi on September 17 and asked for no specific sum; she said India would decide after the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment, due in about four weeks. Kathmandu Post, 9/18 The rebuilding estimate remains Rs723 billion, about $4.73 billion. Schooling is disrupted for 14,500 children in three districts, and the Prithvi Highway reopened Thursday after eighteen days. Kathmandu Post, 9/18 · Kathmandu Post, 9/17

US measles: 3,294 cases, four dead in Pennsylvania, and the call strengthened. CDC's count as of September 10 is 3,294 confirmed cases, 3,278 across 47 jurisdictions plus 16 among international visitors, with 38 outbreaks and 95 percent of cases outbreak-associated; 160 new cases in the week, the fifth straight triple-digit week. CDC · CIDRAP Pennsylvania confirmed two more measles-associated deaths on September 15, a 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County and an 18-year-old in Mifflin County who died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, both unvaccinated, bringing the state to four deaths inside a month. Pennsylvania DOH, 9/15 · WPSU, 9/15 · STAT, 9/15 The state's September 16 update: 731 cases in 38 counties, 141 hospitalized, four vaccinated cases, more than 6,800 MMR doses given since the outbreak began. Pennsylvania DOH, 9/16 Utah: 518 cases, zero in the last three weeks as of September 15, not declared over. Utah DHHS, 9/15

Call #32 asks whether PAHO's Regional Verification Commission finds the United States has lost elimination status, at its annual meeting in November, with no exact date published. PAHO Last issue this paper printed the strongest argument against the call, which was Utah going quiet. Utah is still quiet. Pennsylvania is at 731 and climbing by dozens every two days, and the CDC's own note is that it lists no 2026 deaths yet because the vital statistics lag, which means the four Pennsylvania deaths are not in the federal count that a commission will read. Tracking YES, strengthened, and this paper is done printing the Utah silence as the strongest counter-argument, because it is now being outrun.

The World Trade Center Health Program, and a correction this paper owes. Issue 8 reported "the termination of longtime director Dr. John Howard." On September 10 Howard was reappointed to a six-year term as NIOSH director and administrator of the program, after a push by 26 lawmakers. EMS1, 9/10 An advocate's line on it: "necessary but not sufficient." The staffing picture is what this paper said it was: an investigation on September 9 found only four of the 37 approved positions posted, eleven of 37 filled or in process as of May, roughly 78 to 80 staff against 120 authorized, and HHS declining interviews. InvestigateTV via WAFB, 9/9 The program's own anniversary release cites 54 percent lung-cancer screening uptake and 26 to 64 percent lower cancer mortality among enrolled responders, and a new research center on people exposed at 21 or younger opened September 15. CDC, 9/10 · Health Policy Watch The director is back. The thirty-three empty desks are not. Named in Corrections.

Elsewhere in public health, unlabelled and uncalled. The DRC's Ebola outbreak passed 7,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,300 deaths as of September 14, described as the worst on record, while the country's police were tear-gassing constitutional protests in the same week. Democracy Now, 9/14 · Al Jazeera, 9/15 No call, no read, and it does not belong in the section for things with no read, because there is an obvious one and this paper has not done the work to earn it. Named here so it does not leave by being forgotten.

Saturday 9/19. College football: LSU at Ole Miss, the week's only top-ten matchup, and Georgia at Arkansas. Gridiron pick G4 settles. VegasInsider, 9/17
Sunday 9/20. NFL Week 2: Dolphins at 49ers and Packers at Jets, picks G5 and G6; Colts at Chiefs on Sunday night. FOX Sports, 9/17
Monday 9/21. Tropical Storm Dujuan's forecast track passes just east of Tokyo, regaining Category 1 strength. Stars and Stripes, 9/18 Giants at Rams on Monday night.
Tuesday 9/22. Morocco's campaign period closes at midnight. Morocco World News The Presidents Cup opens. One account puts Trump's meeting with Gulf leaders on this date. Thotharis, 9/17
Wednesday 9/23. Morocco's legislative elections, 27 parties, 395 seats. 2026 Moroccan general election Treasury's narrow Iran aviation wind-down licence expires. Federal Register, 9/10
Thursday 9/24. The date Trump named for the Xi summit; call #38 settles by month end on it. The other account puts the Gulf leaders' meeting at UNGA on this date. Just Security, 9/17
Saturday 9/26 or Sunday 9/27. The Iran sanctions Panel of Experts mandate expires, unrenewed after the veto; sources disagree on the day. Security Council Report · GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17
Monday 9/28. Sweden's newly elected Riksdag assembles. NordiskPost, 9/15
Tuesday 9/29. The Riksdag session formally opens; a prime ministerial vote can be held no earlier than this date. NordiskPost, 9/15 FERC's anticipated order date on PJM's backstop procurement. PJM Inside Lines, 7/31
Wednesday 9/30. Calls #2 (NDAA), #15 (Space Force), #25 (Anthropic filing), #35 (Brent) and #38 (summit) reach their settle dates. Ceuta President Vivas testifies at the Audiencia Nacional at 10:00. Moncloa.com, 9/17 PJM's backstop bidding window is slated to open, pending the FERC order.
Thursday 10/1. Interior's post-2026 Colorado River rules take effect. National Law Review, 8/25 Hawley's deadline for OpenAI's answers to sixteen questions. Axios, 9/10 Ceuta's Local Police chief testifies at 10:00 and the former Chief of Staff to the Government Delegate at 12:00. Moncloa.com, 9/17 Italy's extended border checks on Spain lapse or extend again. Spain in English, 9/16
Sunday 10/4. OPEC+ meets. OPEC, 9/6
Monday 10/5 to Thursday 10/8. Pre-COP in Fiji. UNFCCC
Thursday 10/8. Spain's reciprocal border checks on Italy lapse or extend. Spain in English, 9/16 The Climate Prediction Center's next ENSO diagnostic discussion. CPC
Friday 10/9. Comments close on DOE's bulk-power RFI. Federal Register, 9/9 The UN's one-month rollover of the Sudan 1591 sanctions regime expires. UN via GlobalSecurity, 9/11
Wednesday 10/14 to Friday 10/23. Taiwan's Lu Sheng brigade exercise, extended to ten days. CNA via GlobalSecurity, 9/6
Tuesday 10/20. The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets comment deadline. Federal Register, 8/21
Wednesday 10/21. PJM's backstop bidding window is slated to close. PJM Inside Lines, 7/31
Tuesday 11/3. US midterm elections.
Monday 11/9. Sudan's Panel of Experts mandate expires under Resolution 2828. UN via GlobalSecurity, 9/11
Monday 11/9 to Friday 11/20. COP31, Antalya, Türkiye, leaders' summit November 11 and 12. UNFCCC
November. PAHO's measles elimination ruling at the Regional Verification Commission's annual meeting, no exact date published. Call #32's window. PAHO
Monday 11/30. Calls #26 (Venezuela), #37 (Atlantic hurricanes) and #40 (Swedish PM) settle.
Wednesday 12/2. PJM's backstop results are slated to post; call #23. PJM Inside Lines, 7/31
Wednesday 12/9 to Tuesday 12/15. PJM's 2029/30 Base Residual Auction bidding window; results December 22, call #17. ESAI Power
Friday 12/11. Federal funding expires under H.R. 6500.
December. Call #29 (Sudan) by December 1, #33 (Guinea-Bissau) December 6, DOE's implementing regulations due December 24 with call #30 around December 25, and calls #31, #36, #39, #41, #42 and #43 on December 31. Holland & Knight, 9/14 The 2007 Colorado River interim guidelines expire December 31.

Every official call this paper has made, running week to week. This table appears in every issue until the calls settle. No call leaves this table by being forgotten.

Calls #38 through #43 carry seven days and enter this table next issue. The gridiron line is tallied separately and never enters it.

Corrected: the World Trade Center Health Program's director. Issue 8 reported "the termination of longtime director Dr. John Howard" among the program's staffing problems. On September 10 Howard was reappointed to a six-year term as NIOSH director and administrator of the program. EMS1, 9/10 The staffing shortfall this paper described stands and is updated in the Carry; the sentence about the director does not, and it was the most specific claim in that paragraph.

Corrected: the executive order number on the bulk-power emergency. Issue 8 named a disagreement between the Federal Register citing E.O. 14421 and law firm alerts citing 14420, and declined to resolve it. It is resolved: 14421, per the Federal Register notice itself and four law firm alerts published September 9 through 14. Federal Register, 9/9 · McGuireWoods, 9/9 One trade outlet still prints 14420. Industrial Cyber, 9/11

Corrected: who validated Guinea-Bissau's referendum. Issue 8 reported that the Supreme Court had yet to announce final results. The National Electoral Commission declared the August 30 results final on the grounds that no appeals had been filed, and no Supreme Court proclamation exists. News Central TV, 9/4 Final turnout is reported at 63 percent against the 62.6 this paper printed from the provisional count.

Corrected: Spain's border-check expiry date. Issue 8 printed September 22 for Spain's controls on Italy, sourced to the BOE, and called Monday September 15 a genuinely binary event. Italy extended rather than lapsed, and Spain's own controls now run to October 8, superseding the September 22 date. Spain in English, 9/16

Corrected: the PJM auction shorthand. This ledger has carried "Dec '26 BRA" as call #17's settle date since August. The 2029/30 Base Residual Auction runs December 9 to 15 with results December 22, and the table now says so. ESAI Power · Utility Dive, 7/2 PJM's own schedule file could not be parsed and two secondary calendars are doing the confirming.

Named, not corrected: the eastern Pacific major hurricane count. Issue 8 printed four major hurricanes for the eastern Pacific season from the encyclopedic tally. Fox Weather's count is three. 2026 Pacific hurricane season · Fox Weather, 9/13 The disagreement is about whether one storm crossed a threshold, and this paper is printing both until the National Hurricane Center's own season summary settles it.

Named, not corrected: the prior holders of the hurricane record. Issue 8 printed the satellite-era record for latest first Atlantic hurricane as September 11, shared by 2002 and 2013. One outlet this week adds 2022 to that list. CBS News, 9/15 The record fell either way. The paper's figure stands with the disagreement named.

Suspended, not corrected: the Ceuta death toll figure. This paper has carried 145 as its standing count, attributed to Caminando Fronteras, since August. This week's pass could not locate any Caminando Fronteras Ceuta-specific figure; the organisation's reachable published totals are annual sea-route counts. The standing figure is suspended pending a direct check of the NGO's own publication, and the four institutional counts now in circulation (72, 83, 88 and at least 111) are printed in the Border instead. Euronews, 8/3 · Moncloa.com, 9/17 · 2026 Ceuta migrant crisis

Named: a coverage miss on the Colorado River. Issue 8 described the August 21 Record of Decision and said this paper expected to write a call before December. Nevada had sued over that decision on August 24, three days after it issued and two weeks before Issue 8 went to press, and this paper did not know. Governor of Nevada The call is written this week, a month late.

Named: the EDGAR check on call #25 was not completed. The SEC's filing system was unreachable from this run's research environment. The statement that no public Anthropic S-1 exists as of September 18 rests entirely on secondary reporting through September 17. Motley Fool, 9/17 This needs a manual check before ship.

Named: one unresolved cloud item on call #6. An AWS Health Dashboard event exists for September 16 covering multiple services, and the page returned no retrievable content. It is not characterised here as an outage, a control-plane incident, or a non-event, because this paper could not read it. Call #6 tracks NO with that item open.

Named: two retrieval gaps, in daylight. Taiwan's daily PLA tallies for September 11 and 14 through 18 could not be retrieved, so the Pacific's characterisation of a quieter week rests on two days. And the DoD daily contract announcements for September 14 through 17 were not reached in the call #15 pass, which is the one remaining hole in an otherwise complete check.

Changed: the standing Hormuz count. Lloyd's List Intelligence, this paper's standing transit source since July, has published no Strait of Hormuz Brief since August 27, while its Red Sea Brief continued through September 3. Lloyd's List Intelligence, 8/27 · Lloyd's List Intelligence, 9/3 Three weeks without the primary is too long to keep printing its name. Effective this issue the standing count is Kpler's ten-day moving average of commodity-vessel transits, as carried by Reuters, against Kpler's pre-war baseline of 125 large vessels a day, with Windward's AIS-and-satellite daily count as the secondary. GlobalSecurity OPREP, 9/17 If Lloyd's List resumes, the paper will print both for two issues before deciding whether to switch back.

Named: how this issue was made. The first research pass on this issue ran unattended overnight, hit the research tooling's search cap partway through, and could not check five open calls or research six sections. A second pass with the founder present closed every gap before this draft was written. No section in this issue was written from the first pass's holes. This paper prints its process failures the same way it prints everyone else's.

Free. Stays free. Every call is on the ledger until it settles. Issue 12 prints the season scorecard.

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