How Do Chinese Citizens Feel About Other Countries?
How Do Chinese Citizens Feel About Other Countries? Tensions over Taiwan, the COVID-19 pandemic, trade, and the war in Ukraine have impacted Chinese sentiment towards other countries. This visualization by Visual Capitalist’s Avery Koop, uses data from the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University to rank survey responses from the Chinese public […]
‘Blatant Provocation’: China Lashes Back After Biden Labels Xi A Dictator
‘Blatant Provocation’: China Lashes Back After Biden Labels Xi A Dictator On Wednesday China lashed back at US President Joe Biden for his earlier referring to Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator. The timing of Biden’s Tuesday night remarks, issued at a fundraiser, were especially awkward given he had just dispatched Secretary of State […]
Top Canadian Pension Fund Warns About CRE ‘Bloodbath’ In Office Buildings
Top Canadian Pension Fund Warns About CRE ‘Bloodbath’ In Office Buildings At this point, we’ve made it clear to our readers that the next domino to fall would be commercial real estate, specifically the office space market. The latest warning is from the head of Canada’s largest institutional investors. “There’s going to be a bloodbath […]
George Soros Skips Former ‘Heir Apparent’ — Hands Reins Of Empire To ‘More Political’ Son Alex
George Soros Skips Former ‘Heir Apparent’ — Hands Reins Of Empire To ‘More Political’ Son Alex George Soros is handing control of his $25 billion empire to his son Alex – who in recent years has been seen flying around the world to conduct business on behalf of his family’s Open Society Foundation. George Soros, […]
Feinstein Finally Returns, Restoring Dems’ Full Majority And Leftist Judiciary Pipeline
Feinstein Finally Returns, Restoring Dems’ Full Majority And Leftist Judiciary Pipeline After a nearly three-month absence from the Senate as she contended with a persistent case of shingles, Dianne Feinstein returned to Washington on Tuesday night. It’s a double-shot in the arm of Democrats, who regain their full majority both in the upper chamber of […]
Credit Squeeze “Vibes” Leave Bonds & Banks Lower; Bitcoin Battered By Binance Blockages
Credit Squeeze “Vibes” Leave Bonds & Banks Lower; Bitcoin Battered By Binance Blockages The day started off optimistically with regional bank stocks rising for literally no good reason. Then wholesale sales/inventory data poured cold water on any hopes of a soft landing as the ratio hit its highest since the Great Financial Crisis (ex COVID […]
Treasury Keeps Quarterly Debt Sales Unchanged Ahead Of Second Half Surge, Stuns Market With Launch Of Treasury Buybacks
Treasury Keeps Quarterly Debt Sales Unchanged Ahead Of Second Half Surge, Stuns Market With Launch Of Treasury Buybacks The Treasury has published details of its quarterly refunding and subsequent Treasury auctions, and as previewed earlier, it kept sales of longer-term debt steady for the third straight time, in line with dealers’ forecasts, while unexpectedly announcing a […]
Satoshi’s Original Bitcoin White Paper Is Hidden In Every Copy Of Mac OS
Satoshi’s Original Bitcoin White Paper Is Hidden In Every Copy Of Mac OS In yet another way Bitcoin is being tethered to modern day infrastructure, it was reported yesterday that the original Bitcoin whitepaper – authored by Satoshi Nakamoto and laying out the fundamentals of the world’s most well known cryptocurrency – has been included […]
Maiden Flight Of B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Delayed
Maiden Flight Of B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Delayed The maiden flight of the US Air Force’s B-21 Raider has been delayed until the end of the year, USAF Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. “It’s slipped from the original schedule — that we were using as a schedule to manage by — […]
Profit-Taking Hits Chinese Stocks After Lunar New Year Break
Profit-Taking Hits Chinese Stocks After Lunar New Year Break China stocks pulled back from bull market territory on Monday, the first trading session after a week-long Lunar New Year break. The CSI 300 index initially surged but lost steam in afternoon trading to end up about half a percent higher, failing to maintain bull market […]
WHO Suddenly Updates Medicines List For Nuclear Emergencies
WHO Suddenly Updates Medicines List For Nuclear Emergencies Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday released recommendations on how to acquire and manage medical supplies for the treatment of exposure to radioactive materials in emergencies. The report sets out for countries and governments how to develop and […]
Broken Britain
Broken Britain By Stefan Koopman, Rabobank Senior Macro Strategist The week in Asia and Europe started off with a continuation of 2023’s decidedly positive risk appetite, but this nonetheless faded during US hours. This morning’s handover from Asia trading to Europe is rather weak too, with the Stoxx 600 slipping around 0.6% after reaching a […]
Silver And Gold! Or Peppermint?
Silver And Gold! Or Peppermint? Via SchiffGold.com, ‘Tis the season for Christmas specials. I’m not going to lie – even as a grown man, I love watching Christmas specials. Snoopy decorating his dog house. The Grinch folding up the Christmas tree like an umbrella and stuffing it up the chimney. And Frosty the snowman melting […]
Global Rate-Hikes Hit The Wall Of Debt Maturity
Global Rate-Hikes Hit The Wall Of Debt Maturity Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Mises Institute, More than ninety central banks worldwide are increasing interest rates. Bloomberg predicts that by mid-2023, the global policy rate, calculated as the average of major central banks’ reference rates weighted by GDP, will reach 5.5%. Next year, the federal funds rate […]
Finland Mulls Arms Exports To Turkey Amid Pressure Over NATO Entry
Finland Mulls Arms Exports To Turkey Amid Pressure Over NATO Entry Finland continues dancing to Turkey’s tune, and is now actually considering granting arms export permits to Ankara following its signing on to the 2019 EU ban in the wake of the Turkish military’s incursion into Syria against Kurdish militias. Finland’s Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen said […]
White House COVID-19 Czar: US Has ‘National Interest’ To Vaccinate Entire World
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients proclaimed that it is in the United States’ “national interest” to get the entire world vaccinated for COVID-19, coming after senators dropped a provision that would provide global funding in a spending package. “It is a real disappointment that there’s no global funding in this bill. This virus […]
FDA Executive Officer Says US Government Plans To Push Annual COVID-19 Shots
An executive officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a newly released video that President Joe Biden’s administration plans to push annual COVID-19 vaccine shots. Christopher Cole, executive officer of the medical countermeasures initiative at the FDA, made the comments to the journalism group Project Veritas. “Biden wants to inoculate as […]
Conservative Leader Defends Truckers, Blasts ‘blackface’ Trudeau For Condemning Freedom Convoy – LifeSite
Candice Bergen, the deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s name-calling of Canadian truckers taking part in the freedom convoy, reminding her opponents of his past when he wore blackface many times. “All Canadians want to see a leader who will work to heal rifts, not further divide, […]
British Medical Journal Demands Immediate Release Of All COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments Data
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has demanded the full and immediate release of all data related to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, saying it is in the public’s interest to do so. BMJ, a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal published by the trade union the British Medical Association, called for the release of the data in an editorial published on Wednesday. […]