Radical Relay

A daily brief on markets, geopolitics, and Washington, written for people who need to know what happened overnight before the day starts. One email, every weekday morning.

What is in it

• Macro pulse. Treasury yields and the curve spread, the national debt, gold, Brent and WTI, and the Fed's next decision, with live figures rather than commentary.
• Capitol Hill. Roll call votes, floor attendance, who missed what, and where the session actually stands.
• Conflict desks. Ukraine, the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific, tracked every day rather than when they flare.
• Housing. Mortgage rates, starts and sales, taken from official releases.
• Weather anomalies. Three places on Earth having genuinely strange weather, scored against each location's own climate history.
• One good fact. Something verified and specific about how America actually works, to close.

Where this comes from

Reporting. Around 100 RSS feeds from news organizations and independent newsletters, plus public posts from a short list of analysts on Bluesky. Everything is filtered to the last 30 hours, so nothing old gets presented as news. Every item links to the original, and the link is the point. Click through on anything that matters to you.

Numbers. Figures are pulled from primary sources rather than lifted from the coverage:

• National debt: US Treasury Fiscal Data
• Roll call votes and floor attendance: senate.gov and clerk.house.gov
• Mortgage rates, housing starts and sales: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Policy rate: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Yields, gold, crude and currencies: Yahoo Finance
• Weather and climate baselines: Open-Meteo

AI, plainly. The writing in each issue is produced by Google's Gemini from the sources above. It selects and summarizes. It does not report, and it has no access to anything beyond what those feeds and APIs return that morning. The software that runs all of this was also built with AI assistance. A person reads every issue before it goes out, but summaries can still flatten nuance or get something wrong, which is the other reason every item carries its source link. Treat this as a way to find the story, not a replacement for reading it.

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