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Shortest Day, Longest List of Problems — July 9 Global Breakdown

Shortest Day, Longest List of Problems — July 9 Global Breakdown

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In today’s fast-spinning episode of Global Briefed & Barely Surviving, we cover the whirlwind of madness circling July 9, 2025:

  • 🌍 Earth spun its fastest — today was officially the shortest day ever, shaving off 1.6 milliseconds. Blink and you missed it.

  • 🔥 Europe melted — with 2,300 deaths from extreme heat, climate change now officially hotter than the markets.

  • ⚔️ Putin vs. Trump heats up, with verbal grenades and a Patriot missile shipment tossed in for fun.

  • 🏭 China’s factories fall deeper into deflation, tariffs biting harder than ever.

  • 📉 Markets are emotionally checked out, but still technically alive.

  • 🧑‍💼 G20 gets ghosted — U.S. Treasury boss ditches for the Osaka Expo, because anime > economics.

  • 🧂 Trump’s copper & pharma tariff threats cause global financial indigestion.

  • 💬 And in case you forgot, yes, we’re still waiting for a “negative leap second” to balance out this chaos.

Grab your favorite overpriced coffee and join us as we laugh through the headlines — because if the world’s going to spin out, we might as well narrate it.

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