By late last year, US officials as well as most reports emerging in international media estimated that in total 200,000 Russian and Ukrainian troops had been killed since the start of the Ukraine invasion. In November and December, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the…
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,Every day we continue to get even more evidence that our society is going completely and utterly insane. I really wish that this wasn’t true. I really wish that we could just hit the rewind button and…
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a checklist to make tax preparation smoother in 2023, which features a key cautionary tip on how to avoid getting a dreaded notice or bill…
Having previously noted the absurdity of the trial, Elon Musk has defeated a shareholder lawsuit alleging that tweets claiming he had the “funding secured” to take Tesla private cost investors billions of dollars in losses.As The Wall Street Journal reports, the…
Tens of millions of Americans are preparing to host Super Bowl LVII parties on Feb. 12. Unlike last Super Bowl, food inflation for chicken wings and guacamole has subsided -- a relief for football fans hosting parties.A new report from Wells…
Authored by Shelby Kearns via Campus Reform,Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Chip Roy recently introduced the Restoring Military Focus Act, identical bills in the House and Senate that will “eliminate the position of the Chief Diversity Officer of the Department of Defense [(DOD)].” In…
Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday announced a plan to exempt gas stoves and other gas appliances from state sales tax, a move which follows weeks of debate over whether the Biden administration was serious about banning them (they were)."No…
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,North Korea on Thursday responded to the US and South Korea announcing they would be expanding joint military exercises, warning the steps are pushing toward an "extreme red-line" and will provoke the "toughest reaction.""The military and political…
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,Money supply growth fell again in December, falling even further into negative territory after turning negative in November for the first time in twenty-eight years. December's drop continues a steep downward trend from the…
This week saw the biggest spike in macro surprise data since June 2020 (thanks to a ridiculous outlier payrolls print and a shocking surprise surge in ISM Services)...Source: BloombergAnd today's "good" news sparked an aggressively hawkish response in STIRs with the…
There was a loud gasp from Wall Street strategists and economists after today's job report printed, with the reactions more or less in line with sheer shock: anywhere from "wow, wow, wow"...'WOW! WOW!' CNBC Anchor Stunned By Jobs Report Showing 517,000…
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,Several Democrats took objection Wednesday to an amendment that would see the Pledge of Allegiance recited before House Judiciary Committee meetings, with one Rep. charging that ‘insurrectionist’ Republicans shouldn’t be able to lead the Pledge.The…
Markets got the year off to a stellar start in January, with a positive performance for 34 of the 38 non-currency assets tracked by Deutsche Bank thematic research group. In fact, in terms of the breadth of gains, that’s the strongest…
By Dhaval Joshi of BCA ResearchThe Web 2.0 bubble is bursting, with far-reaching consequences. But to understand the consequences, let’s begin with a brief history of the web: how it evolved from the original Web 1.0 to the current Web 2.0,…
Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times,A new rule proposed by the Department of Education could cost up to $361 billion over the next decade, while a separate study says President Joe Biden’s landmark student loan forgiveness plan benefits the…
Submitted by QTR's Fringe FinanceBack in January 2020, I was pointing out that the coronavirus was going to wreak havoc on markets weeks before it ever happened.As I’ve noted many times on this blog, those days were immensely frustrating.I waited for a collective…
Update (1012ET): Bloomberg confirmed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would postpone his trip to Beijing amid spy balloon allegations. The two-day trip was set to begin on Sunday. Even before Blinken postponed his trip, expectations were low to reset deteriorating Sino-US ties. * …
Shares of Ford are lower by about 6% in the pre-market session this morning after the company reported fourth quarter earnings that missed estimates on Thursday and failed to garner the praise of sell side analysts. The company reported 2022 earnings of…
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,Researchers are finding more examples of brazen political bias exhibited by AI-based chatbot ChatGPT, with the program refusing to write a poem about Marjorie Taylor-Greene despite gleefully praising Hunter Biden as a “spirit that…
“Extremely hawkish,” says Dennis DeBusschere, founder of 22V Research.'Good' news on the labor market (lowest unemployment rate since 1969... after 450bps of rate-hikes?!) is a disaster for the 'soft landing' narrative and sent rate-hike expectations soaring above pre-Powell levels...Source: BloombergBloomberg Intelligence…
Ahead of today's payrolls report, we warned that there is the possibility for a lot more "market whiplash" because as Goldman explicitly warned, there is the risk for an outlier strong report in January due to massive seasonal adjustments...... which when…
Shares of Nordstrom jumped Friday in premarket trading following news that meme-stock activist investor Ryan Cohen has amassed a large stake in the department-store chain. WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Thursday night that Cohen acquired a "sizable stake" in…
Thursday's powerful rally reverse and Nasdaq futures slipped on Friday after the "Triple-A" tech giants Apple, Amazon and Alphabet poured cold water on sentiment after their reported earnings that largely missed expectations and showed an economic slowdown is choking demand for their…
By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and analystWith disinflation in the US already discounted by the markets, non-farm payrolls will now come to occupy the center stage that they long enjoyed.The median forecast is that US employers expanded payrolls by…
By Russell Clark, author of the Capital Flow and Asset Markets substack,Soros was always the fund manager that I tried to emulate. For me, his mastery of currencies, interest rates and bonds was much closer to how I thought about the…
A torrid, exhausting rollercoaster of a frenzied week full of central bank pauses and pre-pivots, a deluge of economic data and a third of the S&P500 reporting earnings including the world's largest companies, comes to a merciful close with Friday's nonfarm…
Authored by Thorsten Polleit via The Mises Institute,Relief is spreading among economic analysts and stock market experts. Energy prices are decreasing noticeably. The energy supply this winter seems secure; in Europe, government support for consumers and producers is available if needed.…
The Ukrainian government is sounding the alarm ahead of the upcoming one-year Feb.24 anniversary of the Russian invasion, saying that Kremlin forces are amassing more troops on the border in preparation for a major new offensive. The warnings comes amid widespread…
Via The Cradle,Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the decision by his NATO allies to provide Ukraine with over 300 heavy tanks to prolong the war against Russia, calling it a "high-risk move.""I personally can’t say that sending tanks will resolve this issue," Erdogan…
French labor unions have been holding several days of mass strikes and protests against raising the retirement age, in a test of the momentum driving defiance to Emmanuel Macron’s signature economic reform... which is hardly surprising: France is one of the…
Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com,Following the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., pressure grew on the EU to introduce its own legislation to help fund the clean energy push on the continent.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the…
Large-scale protests in Turkey over the recent Quran-burnings by a far right activist in Sweden have resulted in multiple Western countries this week issuing travel alerts for their citizens in Turkey.Additionally some half-dozen consulates in Istanbul have announced temporary closures due…
Authored by Ingólfur Stefánsson via The Epoch Times,Norwegian scientists have made a discovery of rare earth metals in the country’s northern region. The findings have the potential to transform the country’s economy and secure its place as a major player in the global…
Authored by Pepe Escobar,Sit back, relax and enjoy a race to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The only question is who will get there first: the EU, NATO, or both...One may be excused to imagine all sorts of amusement games…
Warehouse automation continues to accelerate as millions of jobs are at risk of being displaced. The latest automation nightmare for warehouse laborers comes from a new video uploaded on YouTube by Boston Dynamics. In a press release, the US robotics firm announced that…
Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),U.S. companies were involved in at least 37 percent of the total investment transactions in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) sector between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report.AI security cameras with…
Authored by Athan Koutsiouroumbas via RealClear Wire,In the past three weeks, policymakers had their worlds rocked by generative artificial intelligence. The problem is that they don’t know it – yet.First, a team of researchers demonstrated that Open AI’s Chat GPT3 can…
Authored by Thomas Buckley via 'The Point' Substack,Well, it’s big in Japan...That is what proponents of California’s high speed rail project say when asked about the whys and wherefores of the system. In other words, if it works somewhere else it…
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Four of the highest ranking U.S. health officials—including Dr. Anthony Fauci—met in secret to discuss whether or not naturally immune people should be exempt from getting COVID-19 vaccines, The Epoch Times can…
The US Air Force has warned that the construction of a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota poses a "significant threat to national security."Grand Forks Air Force Base located 12 miles from proposed building site of Chinese-owned corn mill in North…
Authored by Dallas Woodhouse via RealClear Wire,As Trump and Biden focus their attention on the early primary state of South Carolina, Palmetto State voters are thinking about the future, one that focuses on public policy solutions, not “gotcha” politics and controversies…
The United States is now threatening Turkey with holding more American-made fighter jets captive, this time over the Erdogan government's refusal to allow Sweden into NATO.Turkey starting in 2021 issued a formal request purchase 40 F-16 jets and about 80 modernization kits from…
Authored by Jarryd Jaeger via The Post Millennial,A new report compiled by the Center for Biological Diversity has revealed that the number of households having their electricity disconnected by power companies as a result of not being able to pay soared…
Project Veritas on Thursday released a new segment of undercover footage of Pfizer director Jordon Walker in which the Director of R&D within the company's mRNA operation expressed concern over how the COVID-19 vaccine may be affecting women's reproductive health."There is…
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),A growing number of doctors say that they will not get COVID-19 vaccine boosters, citing a lack of clinical trial evidence.“I have taken my last COVID vaccine without RCT level evidence it will…
Losses in Gautam Adani's corporate empire surged to $108 billion on Thursday, sparking fears of a potential systemic implosion one day after the Indian conglomerate's flagship Adani Enterprises Ltd. scrapped a 200 billion-rupee ($2.4 billion) stock offering. The suddenness of the equity…
Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will allow two chief border patrol agents to testify before a Congressional hearing on the U.S. border crisis, after initially trying to “muzzle” them, according to…
A 66-year-old woman was charged with stealing over $1.5 million worth of food - primarily chicken wings, while working as the Director of Food Services for a school district within a suburb of Chicago.Bond was set at $150,000 Thursday for Vera…
Update 6:00pm: Apple has staged a remarkable reversal after hours, and erased almost the entire loss after the company said that it expects a 5% impact from FX rates in Q2, and also expects iPhone revenue growth to accelerate in Q2.…
Authored by Jonathan Turley,Below is my column in the New York Post on the latest developments in the Biden classified document investigation. The latest search occurred on the first day at the office for Robert Hur as Special Counsel. He may…