Kamala-Bucks Are Coming… Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, We’re still trying to process the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which took place on Sunday in West Palm Beach. But while that’s important to dissect as the election gets closer, it’s important to consider a development I’ve been warning about for over two years. President Trump has long been an opponent of central bank digital […]

Plunge In Jobless Claims Exposes Apolitical Fed-Cut ‘Policy Error’ Further The day after The Fed slashes rates by a crisis-like 50bps, jobless claims data plunges to multi-month lows signaling an economy that is anything but ‘soft landing’ let alone landing at all… Adjusted initial claims tumbled from 231k to 219k (lowest since May) while unadjusted claims continued to tumble to 12-month lows… Source: Bloomberg Continuing […]

Pound Surges To 30-Month-High After Bank Of England Holds Rates Steady On the heels of yesterday’s exuberant 50bps rate-cut by The Fed, Bank of England (BoE) officials (in a split decision) decided to leave the Bank Rate at 5.00% (as widely expected). The split of the vote (8-1), however, was somewhat more hawkish than many expected with only one MPC member (Dhingra) voting for a cut. While the MPC stuck to its meeting by meeting […]

Futures Rip To New All Time Highs After Fed Rate Cut, As Yields, Commodities Jump The Fed’s first (jumbo) rate cut since the depths of the covid crash resulted in mixed reaction in markets, with initial gains for stocks fizzling and ultimately tepid moves in Treasuries, corporate bonds and commodities. However, this reversal to the kneejerk reaction has also since reversed, and US stock futures are bouncing this morning, rising to […]

FBI Reveals That Iran Hacked Trump Campaign Materials And Gave Them To Biden/Harris Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The AP is reporting that the FBI has uncovered evidence that Iranian hackers stole materials from the Trump campaign in the Summer and provided them to what was then the Biden/Harris campaign. The report notes that the emails were sent to “people who were associated with Biden’s campaign” in […]

Brussels Warns Apple Of Antitrust Fines Over iOS Restrictions For Developers The European Commission warned on Thursday that Apple must adhere to its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act by allowing developers access to its iOS and iPadOS platforms or face a fresh round of antitrust penalties or fines early next year. “Under the DMA, Apple must provide free and effective interoperability to third-party […]

“Bitcoin – A Unique Diversifier” – BlackRock Releases New Pro-Crypto Report Asset management giant BlackRock, with over $10 trillion in assets under management, has published a new report touting Bitcoin as a unique portfolio diversifier. This marks the latest embrace of Bitcoin from the world’s largest asset manager. Earlier this year, BlackRock launched a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (IBIT), rapidly becoming one of the […]

Visualizing Maxed-Out Credit-Cards By Generation In the first quarter of 2024, the nationwide aggregate credit card utilization rate in the U.S. was about 23%, similar to previous quarters, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. However, as Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu details below, utilization rates vary widely between individuals. About 52% of credit card users were using less than 20% of their available credit in […]

Hunger Games Is Fiction No More Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), When “The Hunger Games” first came out more than a decade ago, the dystopia it presented was compelling and sophisticated but also implausible. Lately I wondered how it held up and rewatched the first three films (I don’t know about the others). My goodness, it was more prescient than it seemed at the time, including the […]

These Are The World’s Top 10 Tax Havens Individuals and corporations use tax havens to minimize their tax burdens and protect their wealth in low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the top 10 countries hosting the most offshore financial wealth, according to 2022 data from the Atlas of the Offshore World. What Is a Tax Haven? A tax haven offers foreign businesses and […]

Israel’s War Cabinet Greenlights Offensive War Against Hezbollah, Sends Elite Brigade North Update(1544): As many suspected and feared, this deadly two-day Israeli covert operation to blow up Hezbollah pagers, walkie-talkies, and small electronic devices was but preparation for a likely Israeli military ground operation in southern Lebanon. It appears war is here. According to breaking news wires: Israeli cabinet has given PM […]

German Train Conductors Given Power Not To Check Migrants’ Tickets In Order To Avoid Trouble Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, German train conductors in the state of Thuringia have been given permission not to check the tickets of foreign migrant passengers in an effort to reduce intimidating and violent behavior from asylum seekers. A married couple who had recently traveled on a Süd-Thüringen-Bahn contacted […]

Healthcare: How Long Do Patients Have To Wait? According to a recent study by the Consumer Choice Center, the average wait for a GP appointment in the United States in 2023 was around three weeks, two to ten times longer than in Europe. For example, in that year, the average waiting time for a medical consultation was two days in Switzerland, six days in France and ten days in the United Kingdom and Italy. Additionally, as […]

Russia’s Shadow Fleet Is A Ticking Geopolitical Timebomb Authored by Antonio Garcia via OilPrice.com, Despite Western sanctions and oil price caps, Russia continues to use an aging “shadow fleet” of tankers to circumvent restrictions, allowing for stable oil exports. Russian oil is now primarily heading to ‘friendly markets’ like China, India, and Turkey. In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February […]

UN General Assembly Passes Resolution Demanding Israel Pull Out Of Palestinian Areas Within 12 Months Despite intense US lobbying efforts in the other direction, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, approving a resolution demanding a total withdrawal within 12 months. It passed with a final tally of 124 member states in favor, 14 […]

Ukrainian Commanders Urged Zelensky Not To Invade Kursk Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Some of Ukraine’s top military commanders opposed President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plans to invade Russia’s Kursk Oblast, but he went through with the assault anyway, POLITICO reported Tuesday. The report, which cited Ukrainian military officials, said that Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the former commander-in-chief and current […]

From Republic To Leviathan: Unveiling The Progressive Movement’s Assault On The Constitution Authored by Ned Ryun via American Greatness, What if I told you that the President of the United States doesn’t really run our government? Or that most people in Washington, D.C., don’t really believe in representative democracy? Or that a government of, by, and for the people is just an illusion? Because all of those things are closer […]

US Map Shows Potential Areas Of Migrant ‘Great Job Replacement’ Bloomberg has unveiled one of the most detailed maps yet, showing where the 2023 migrant invasion has spread across the US, broken down on a county-by-county basis. The map, built on immigration court case data, highlights clusters of new migrant populations that primarily emerged across the eastern half of the nation. The question becomes if the federal government […]

Are The White House And Pentagon Controlled By A Shadowy Few? Authored by Fred Galvin via American Greatness, As we approach the 2024 election, many Americans are disillusioned by the notion that their votes truly matter. Why? Because there’s a growing belief that a hidden force – often referred to as the Deep or Administrative State – wields disproportionate power behind the scenes. Despite our democratic process, can we […]

“Monster Trains” More Than 3 Miles Long Have Become Traffic Jam Nightmares In Texas Texas freight trains are become a problem when they cross busy roadways. With some trains now 3 miles or longer in length, places like Pleasantville, Texas often see traffic waiting for up to 7 minutes for them to pass. The town is near rail yards run by Union Pacific, Wall Street Journal highlighted in a new article. It says the ‘monster trains’ […]

“A Symbol Of Imperial Violence And Colonialism”: Activists At UPenn Deface Statue Of Benjamin Franklin Authored by Jonathan Turley, Benjamin Franklin once wrote “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.” Yet, Franklin might be a bit confused by his critics at the University of Pennsylvania. Anti-Israel activists vandalized his statue as a symbol of colonialism. The man who was instrumental in the Declaration of […]

Chinese Jets Tail US Spy Plane While Making 1st Pass Over Taiwan Strait In 5 Months China says it sent warplanes to monitor and mirror a US military reconnaissance plane as it flew over the contested Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, according to statements of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The PLA’s Eastern Theater Command identified the aircraft as a US Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol plane. A statement said the PLA “organized warplanes […]

Don’t Trust The Government. Not With Your Privacy, Property, Or Your Freedoms Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how […]

The “Next AI Trade” Plays Out: Microsoft And BlackRock Join Forces On $30 Billion AI Infrastructure Fund As we have been writing for the better part of the last year, the next AI trade continues to look like it’s going to be energy. And now, both BlackRock and Microsoft are making it known that they understand this, too.  Yesterday it was reported that the two industry giants are prepping the launch of a $30 billion AI investment […]

America’s Health Crisis: Expanding On RFK Jr.’s Plan To Make America Healthy Again Authored by Joel Warsh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s article in The Wall Street Journal brings urgent attention to the chronic disease epidemic gripping the United States. Regardless of your thoughts on RFK, we can all agree that our children deserve to be healthy. While we may not all agree on the path to achieving […]