Blain: Markets In For Stormy Second Half – Could Low Pressure In CLOs Turn Cyclonic?
Blain: Markets In For Stormy Second Half – Could Low Pressure In CLOs Turn Cyclonic? Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” Many think Markets are set fair for the second half of 2023 – but what if a mighty depression […]
US Home Prices Surged In April; All 20 Cities See Gains As Rates Dipped
US Home Prices Surged In April; All 20 Cities See Gains As Rates Dipped Having bounced (unexpectedly) in March (the most recent data), Case-Shiller’s 20-City Composite home price index was expected to continue bouncing in April (+0.4% MoM exp) and it did bigly – rising 0.91% MoM – the biggest MoM jump since May 2022… […]
FTC Sues Amazon For Duping Consumers Into Signing Up For Prime, Making It Hard To Cancel
FTC Sues Amazon For Duping Consumers Into Signing Up For Prime, Making It Hard To Cancel The US Federal Trade Commission, run by 34-year-old Democrat Lina Khan who as a student at Yale Law publishing an essay titled “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”, sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime […]
Israel ‘Not Bound’ By Potential Iran-US Nuclear Deal: Netanyahu
Israel ‘Not Bound’ By Potential Iran-US Nuclear Deal: Netanyahu Via The Cradle, Speaking at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel “will not be bound” by any nuclear deal the US may potentially reach with Iran. Iran has replaced Arab nations as the […]
Authoritarianism Keeps Surging In Western “Free Democracies”
Authoritarianism Keeps Surging In Western “Free Democracies” Authored by Caitlin Johnstone, Today in tyranny we’ve got three stories on the rapidly increasing authoritarian abuses in western “free democracies”. Let’s dig in. 1. Grayzone reporter detained by British counter-terrorism police for doing journalism. The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg was detained by “six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers” who […]
MTA Proposes Hiking MetroCard Fares To $2.90 In Attempt To Boost Revenue
MTA Proposes Hiking MetroCard Fares To $2.90 In Attempt To Boost Revenue It turns out the creative solution to help fix MTA quality, that no one has thought of yet is…wait for it…raising fares. At least that is the latest proposed solution coming out of the brain trust known as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an organization […]
Watch: Scientists Create Real Doctor Octopus Arms
Watch: Scientists Create Real Doctor Octopus Arms Scientists from the University of Tokyo have developed a set of robotic arms that can be attached to a user’s back. These arms mimic the appearance of Otto Octavius (also known as Doctor Octopus), a fictional character and one of Spider-Man’s most enduring enemies, who wields mechanical, tentacle-like […]
IEA Lift Global Oil Growth Forecast On Record Chinese Demand
IEA Lift Global Oil Growth Forecast On Record Chinese Demand By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The world’s oil demand is set to rise by 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) this year to a record 102 million bpd, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, revising up its forecast by 200,000 bpd as China’s […]
The UK’s Pro-Monarchy Age Gap
The UK’s Pro-Monarchy Age Gap 58 percent of Brits surveyed by YouGov on behalf of BBC Panorama believe that the country should continue to have a royal head of state in the future. The overall figure suggests that the monarchy is still primarily positively received in the UK today. However, as Statista’s Martin Armstring notes, a breakdown by age […]
“Where Else Do You Go Besides Gold And Silver?”
“Where Else Do You Go Besides Gold And Silver?” Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance The regional bank crisis is continuing on, or ahead, of schedule. Not wanting to live in an echo chamber – but also mindful of the fact that I’m in the minority with how I think about the economy – I wanted to […]
With FRC Auction Results Imminent, Handicapping The Reported Bidders For First Republic
With FRC Auction Results Imminent, Handicapping The Reported Bidders For First Republic By Todd Baker, Senior Fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia and the Managing Principal of Broadmoor Consulting LLC; first published on Medium According to the collective wisdom of The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Reuters, there […]
CDC Director Admits Vaccines Do Not Prevent COVID Transmission, Blames “Evolution Of Science”
CDC Director Admits Vaccines Do Not Prevent COVID Transmission, Blames “Evolution Of Science” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted during Congressional inquiry that existing covid mRNA vaccinations do not prevent the transmission of the current virus subvariants. However, using typical establishment spin, Walensky also suggested that the vaccines did prevent transmission of the original variants despite […]
Anheuser-Busch Transitions Into Damage Control Mode – And People Aren’t Buying It
Anheuser-Busch Transitions Into Damage Control Mode – And People Aren’t Buying It After rolling out a Bud Light ad campaign featuring flamboyant transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney – whose ditzy caricature of a woman mocks decades of actual progress by feminists (who have apparently been wokeshamed into silence), Anheuser-Busch’s damage control team kicked into action on […]
D.C. Think Tanks Seething With Anger As Saudis Welcome Syrian Foreign Minister
D.C. Think Tanks Seething With Anger As Saudis Welcome Syrian Foreign Minister In what’s being widely seen as a precursor to a future Assad visit and normalization of ties, Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first time a Syrian FM has visited the kingdom since 2011. The more than decade-long […]
“Too Damn Messy”: Flooded California Farmland Delays Plantings
“Too Damn Messy”: Flooded California Farmland Delays Plantings California’s vast amount of agricultural land is facing a significant issue due to a series of atmospheric rivers in recent months, which have saturated fields to the point where planting crops has become difficult. “It’s just too damn messy and muddy to create a quality pack. You don’t want a bunch of mud on […]
Ivy League Schools Are Now Pushing $90,000 Per Year In Tuition
Ivy League Schools Are Now Pushing $90,000 Per Year In Tuition Inflation is showing up just about everywhere, but it’s becoming even more prominent and noticeable at the nation’s Ivy League universities where, according to a new report from Bloomberg, prices for tuition are now approaching $90,000. Prestigious universities like Yale, Dartmouth and Brown have […]
CDC Found COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals Months Earlier Than Previously Known, Files Show
CDC Found COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals Months Earlier Than Previously Known, Files Show Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The top U.S. public health agency identified hundreds of safety signals for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines months earlier than previously known, according to files obtained by The Epoch Times. The […]
Small Banks Are Crashing
Small Banks Are Crashing Over the weekend, when parsing through the carnage sweeping the US banking sector, we analyzed which banks are facing the highest deposit-run risk in the aftermath of the SIVB – and now SBNY – failures, and focused on a handful of names who have the bulk of their funding in the […]
The EU Moves Toward Forming A Natural Gas Buyers’ Cartel
The EU Moves Toward Forming A Natural Gas Buyers’ Cartel Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, The European Union will make its first move as a buyers’ group on the international gas market next month as it launches the first tender for suppliers. The tender follows months of discussions on how best to secure natural […]
Military AI Applications Will Be As Game-Changing As Nukes: Former Google CEO
Military AI Applications Will Be As Game-Changing As Nukes: Former Google CEO Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that artificial intelligence will be as game-changing as nuclear weapons when it comes to military applications. “Every once in a while, a new weapon, a new technology comes along that changes things. Einstein wrote a letter to […]
What Fauci Knew About Vaccine Ineffectiveness… And When
What Fauci Knew About Vaccine Ineffectiveness… And When Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), What if Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have gotten you and I blocked and banned at any point in the last three years? That just happened. His article in Cell – “Rethinking […]
Ford Shares Tumble After Company Slashes EV Prices To Match Tesla Price Cuts
Ford Shares Tumble After Company Slashes EV Prices To Match Tesla Price Cuts Five days after we reported that Tesla was accused of ‘weaponizing’ price cuts in order to crush their competition in the electric vehicle space, Ford announced priced cuts for their electric Mustang Mach-E along with several other models ‘across the board.’ The […]
Von Greyerz: As West, Debt, & Stocks Implode; East, Gold, & Oil Explode
Von Greyerz: As West, Debt, & Stocks Implode; East, Gold, & Oil Explode Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, “The risk of over-tightening by the European Central Bank is nothing less than catastrophic” says Prof Kenneth Rogoff . At Davos he also said: “Italy is extremely vulnerable. But this could pop anywhere. Global debt has […]
Where The World’s Ultra-Wealthy Live
Where The World’s Ultra-Wealthy Live How many millionaires, centimillionaires, and billionaires live in the world’s wealthiest cities? While such metrics are not all encompassing, these measurements of private wealth do help put the financial health and economic activity of some of the world’s wealthiest cities in perspective. Visual Capitalist’s Raul Amoros and Nick Routley created […]
US Inflation: How Much Have Prices Increased In 2022?
US Inflation: How Much Have Prices Increased In 2022? Inflation has been top of mind over the last year, looming over every aspect of the economy. But how has inflation actually impacted the prices of everyday goods like bread and butter or gas and public transportation? In this infographic, Visual Capitalist’s Avery Koop and Bhabna […]
The Fed Is Making Things Up As It Goes Along
The Fed Is Making Things Up As It Goes Along Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve would like you to think that it is scientifically guiding the economy with carefully calculated monetary policy. The truth is the Fed is making things up as it goes along. As Mises Institute senior editor Ryan […]
FTX Bankruptcy Puts $73 Million In Political Donations At Risk Of Clawbacks
FTX Bankruptcy Puts $73 Million In Political Donations At Risk Of Clawbacks At least $73 million in political donations tied to Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX , showered mostly on high-ranking Democratic politicians, may be at risk of being clawed back through the crypto empire’s bankruptcy, as lawyers search for assets to repay creditors. Hilariously, Bloomberg attempts […]
Report: Leaked Video Shows Israeli Ministry Of Health’s Plan To Manipulate Expert Report On Adverse Events To Avoid Lawsuits; Experts Found Serious Safety Issues – Lied To Public
They protected the Arabs and sterilized the Jews! Hitler won! Israeli health researcher and health journalist Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz has released shocking new information about her findings and exposed Israel’s cover-ups in reporting the adverse events related to Covid-19 vaccinations. The Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) discovered major safety issues with the COVID vaccines […]
UPDATE: FDA Advisers Unanimously Recommend Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine For Ages 6-17 Despite Data Showing High Risks Of Heart Inflammation
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine may have a higher risk of heart inflammation than the Pfizer shot based on recent data, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration met with its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) to discuss Moderna’s EUA request for a COVID-19 […]
New York City To Finally End Sick And Abusive Mask Mandates For Children 2 To 4 Years Old
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Thursday announced to lift mandatory masking for kids under 5 years of age who attend daycare and preschool in the city. Adams announced that the city will end its mask mandates for children ages 2-4 starting June 13 due to ‘falling infection rates’ after following the […]