Macleod: Beware The Great Unwind
Macleod: Beware The Great Unwind Authored by Alasdair Macleod via Goldmoney.com, This chart strongly suggests that US Treasury bond yields, widely regarded as the risk-free yardstick against which all other credit is measured are going significantly higher, not stabilising close to current levels before going lower as commonly believed. I conclude that US Treasury bond […]
Ukrainians Begin To Despair As Bloody Counteroffensive Yields Small Gains
Ukrainians Begin To Despair As Bloody Counteroffensive Yields Small Gains Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, According to the Washington Post, many citizens of Ukraine are adopting a darker mood about the war with Russia, and national unity is beginning to fray. The change in sentiment comes as Kiev’s spring counteroffensive fails to retake […]
Life In 2033: Monetary Apartheid
Life In 2033: Monetary Apartheid Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, In the future, it’ll be a lot more expensive to be free. Roger and Reggie were identical twin brothers, born in Merrickville, Ontario around 1980. They both had normal school trajectories, even sharing an apartment through college – Roger taking computer programming and Reggie […]
Which World Region Has The Most Gamers?
Which World Region Has The Most Gamers? About 3.4 billion people worldwide have at least played one video game in the past six months, according to Newzoo’s most recent edition of its Global Games Market Report. As Statista’s Florian Zandt shows in the chart below, based on data from the market research firm specializing in […]
Pro-refugee NGO Founder Calls For AfD To Be Banned And Its Leaders Jailed
Pro-refugee NGO Founder Calls For AfD To Be Banned And Its Leaders Jailed Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) should be outlawed and its leadership imprisoned in order to deprive millions of Germans of the chance to vote for the party, the founder of a German refugee rescue […]
Future Headline: Oakland Police Advise Residents To “Appear As Poor As Possible”
Future Headline: Oakland Police Advise Residents To “Appear As Poor As Possible” Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is […]
Downtown San Fran Office Tower Sells At 66% Off As CRE Crisis Claims Another Victim
Downtown San Fran Office Tower Sells At 66% Off As CRE Crisis Claims Another Victim Understanding the backdrop of the crime-ridden progressive metro area of San Francisco, alongside the mass exodus of businesses and residents, and the record-high vacancy rate of office towers, we asked a very important question earlier this summer: What are office buildings worth? We quickly found out in […]
Judge Lets Starbucks Keep Its Race-Based Hiring Quotas
Judge Lets Starbucks Keep Its Race-Based Hiring Quotas Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A judge in Washington state has ruled against a conservative group that sued Starbucks over the coffee chain’s race-based hiring practices that allegedly “flagrantly” violate various state and federal laws. Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian on Friday ruled […]
Exposing The Mirage Of “Equal Pay” In Sports
Exposing The Mirage Of “Equal Pay” In Sports Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss the recent US Women’s World Cup elimination, and to dispel the myth that markets are discriminatory. “The connection between fame, talent, and earnings applies to both sports and other fields like economics.” After defending Megan Rapinoe’s failed penalty kick, they dismantle her […]
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Secretly Sought The Censorship Of Political Critics
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Secretly Sought The Censorship Of Political Critics Authored by Jonathan Turley, Various new sites are now reporting that Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) is the latest politician who has sought blatant censorship of political critics by social media companies. Shortly before the 2020 election (when many of us were writing about the expanding […]
Wuhan Lab Leak “So Friggin’ Likely” – New Slack Messages Reveal Massive Media Deception By Fauci & ‘Scientists’
Wuhan Lab Leak “So Friggin’ Likely” – New Slack Messages Reveal Massive Media Deception By Fauci & ‘Scientists’ Even credentialed scientists began to be disciplined by sites like Facebook, which took direction from government health authorities and prohibited statements about the virus being “man-made or manufactured.” There was also an impact on the press, especially […]
Crypto “Will Transcend International Currencies” BlackRock CEO Cheerleads As SEC Accepts Bitcoin ETF Application
Crypto “Will Transcend International Currencies” BlackRock CEO Cheerleads As SEC Accepts Bitcoin ETF Application Having told Fox Business last week that the role of cryptocurrency was largely “digitizing gold,” suggesting US regulators consider how an ETF directly linked to Bitcoin could democratize finance, and has the potential to “revolutionize” the financial system; BlackRock CEO Larry […]
Bear Markets: How Deep Is Your Loss?
Bear Markets: How Deep Is Your Loss? According to one popular definition, the S&P 500 entered a bull market on June 8, 2023. That means the index has risen 20 percent from its most recent low, which it hit on October 12 of last year. That day also marks the end of the previous bear […]
Just Weeks After “Capitulating” On Stocks, Retail Buyers Are Back With A Vengeance
Just Weeks After “Capitulating” On Stocks, Retail Buyers Are Back With A Vengeance It was only two weeks ago when, with the S&P about to break out to new 2023 highs, we noted that Bank of America ‘s client flows desk had declared retail capitulation (in the case of BofA, “retail” means High Net Worth […]
Sequoia Capital’s China Business To Split Entirely From Its U.S. Business
Sequoia Capital’s China Business To Split Entirely From Its U.S. Business As tensions between the U.S. and China continue to ratchet higher, Sequoia Capital isn’t waiting for sanctions or interruptions to its business. Instead, it’s taking the proactive step of splitting its China business out on its own. The firm is going to run its […]
A Multipolar World Is Emerging
A Multipolar World Is Emerging Authored by Natasha Wright, A new world order is evidently well underway with BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) nations offering ample alternatives to the hegemonic Collective West. ‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.’ This is one […]
Counterfeit Drugs Are On The Rise Globally
Counterfeit Drugs Are On The Rise Globally Counterfeit medicines are on the rise, according to data from the Pharmaceutical Security Institute. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the following chart shows, nearly 6,000 pharmaceutical crime incidents were recorded by the nonprofit in 2021, up 38 percent from the year before and the peak figure since their records […]
Democrat Bill Would Pack Supreme Court To Lessen Conservative Influence
Democrat Bill Would Pack Supreme Court To Lessen Conservative Influence Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Senate Democrats unveiled a new bill that would pack the Supreme Court by adding four new seats beyond the current nine seats, a move that could lead to the loss of the court’s current conservative […]
Sean Hannity’s Ratings Plunge After Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit
Sean Hannity’s Ratings Plunge After Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tucker Carlson’s exit from Fox News appears to be impacting more than just the timeslot that he hosted for years on the network. Carlson’s finale a week ago drew 2.65 million viewers, according to Nielsen. […]
“Good Riddance”: Military-Industrial Complex Celebrates Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit
“Good Riddance”: Military-Industrial Complex Celebrates Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Members of the military-industrial complex interviewed by Politico celebrated Tucker Carlson’s exist from Fox News, with one declaring, “Good riddance!” Janos Kummer via Getty Images Carlson was unceremoniously booted from the network on Monday despite being the […]
En (La)Garde: ECB President Reveals What Happens Next
En (La)Garde: ECB President Reveals What Happens Next By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday saw a major upside surprise in the US Empire PMI (+10 vs. -18 expectation), which seals a May 25bps Fed rate hike and opens the door to chatter of more. Indeed, Fed-speak underlined the US economy is ‘doing just fine’ with […]
What’s Known So Far About The “Cylindrical & Silverish Gray” Object Downed Over Alaska
What’s Known So Far About The “Cylindrical & Silverish Gray” Object Downed Over Alaska Recovery efforts utilizing military planes and helicopters in the far northeast arctic region of Alaska continue, where on Friday an unidentified object was shot down by F-22 jets. Still, little definitive is known, including who owns the object or where it […]
Niall Ferguson: “Kissinger Is Right To Worry” About Possibility Of World War 3
Niall Ferguson: “Kissinger Is Right To Worry” About Possibility Of World War 3 Authored by Niall Ferguson, op-ed via Bloomberg.com, 2022 was the year in which war made a comeback. But Cold War II could become World War III in 2023… with China as the arsenal of autocracy. War is hell on earth – and […]