Hosted by David Cerf · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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The Cerf Report delivers clear, critical analysis of issues that often lack depth or rigor. Each episode examines the forces shaping economic power, public policy, technology, and institutional change — separating signal from noise. Audio editions are adapted from written research published on Substack, preserving the original analysis in a format designed for listening. thecerfreport.substack.com
David Cerf hosts The Cerf Report, a business show with 16 episodes published.
Margaret Chase Smith, “Declaration of Conscience,” delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate, June 1, 1950. Full text and audio: American Rhetoric, https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretchasesmithconscience.h
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Sources and Further Reading The Anti-Weaponization Fund settlement (announced May 18, 2026) DOJ press release on the $1.776 billion fund and Trump's IRS lawsuit dismissal — primary source for the settlement structure htt
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Show Notes Topic: Hong Kong's One Country, Two Systems framework; the detention of Jimmy Lai; Trump-Xi diplomacy and the limits of leader-to-leader relationship building. Key figures referenced: Jimmy Lai: founder of App
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For more articles, visit TheCerfReport.comHistorical sources: Truman's commitment of U.S. forces to Korea, June 25-30, 1950: Council on Foreign Relations, "TWE Remembers: Truman's Decision to Intervene in Korea"; Lawfare
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86 isn’t a threat. It’s slang. So why is it suddenly being treated like a crime?In this episode of The Cerf Report, we examine the history of the word “86,” the legal standard for true threats, and how ambiguous language
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Great causes have always demanded leaders willing to carry visible weight. Today, that gravity gives way to spectacle. Lavish gatherings. Public celebrations. Fundraisers continuing even as tensions rise. Not isolated mo
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When leaders begin to proclaim their own greatness—is that the rise of strength, or the signal that the fall has already begun? History has an answer. We should pay attention. Get full access to The Cerf Report at thecer
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When does counterterrorism become thought policing? The FBI's new NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center — funded in Trump's FY2027 budget — is a 10-agency hub built to "proactively" identify domestic terrorists based on ideologica
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Every war the United States has fought in the Middle East traces back to the same calculation: who controls the oil. From Kissinger's 1974 petrodollar deal with Saudi Arabia to the capture of Maduro in Venezuela to Opera
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The Iran war isn’t just another conflict—it’s the death knell for nuclear assurances. Ukraine gave up its arsenal for broken promises (Budapest Memorandum). Iran complied with the JCPOA until the U.S. tore it up. Diploma
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The United States is at war with Iran — and history shows the cost of war is never what presidents promise. From Lincoln’s Civil War tax to the trillions borrowed for Iraq and Afghanistan, this episode examines how Ameri
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The administration calls the strikes on Iranian leadership defensive necessity. But months of joint planning, expanded operational scope, and the absence of public evidence of an imminent Iranian attack suggest something
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On the day the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, the same old justification: ‘no alternatives left.’ But were the economic tools ever truly exhausted? From Cuba’s full energy blockade to Iran’s half-enforced
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The tariffs were supposed to make America stronger — instead, the bill may be landing closer to home than anyone expected. The Cerf Report delivers a sharp retrospective on the first year of the Trump administration’s ec
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SCOTUS just nuked $200 billion in Trump tariffs—then Justice Kavanaugh handed him the playbook to bring them back. Constitutional win? Maybe. Practical victory? Not even close. The Court told Congress to stop hiding behi
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This article from The Cerf Report examines the unprecedented decision by the Trump Organization to seek commercial trademarks for a sitting president’s name regarding airport branding and associated merchandise. Author D
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AI just wrote a novel, solved a protein folding problem that stumped scientists for decades, and convinced a researcher it was sentient. So here's the question keeping philosophers and programmers up at night: Are we acc
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