Author: Tyler Durden

By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com,Oil prices have topped $113 per barrel on optimism that China’s lockdowns are coming to an end and demand will not take a prolonged hit. In early…

The Biden administration on Monday is expected to announce an agreement which would reopen the largest domestic baby formula plant in addition to easing import rules to allow for supplies…

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic…

Almost two months after Europe rushed to declare it would impose unprecedented sanctions on Russia in response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine with no regard for how such sanctions would…

Via AdventuresInCapitalism.com,The Fed is fuct. They know it. We know it. They know we know it. They intend to continue the charade anyway.Despite centuries of study, no one really knows…

Severe thunderstorms, including the possibility of damaging winds, large hail, and even tornadoes, are forecasted for much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction…

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,A free money trial is underway in Chicago. Expect an obvious failure to be touted as a huge success...Free Money Chicago StyleChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot…

As the trial against Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann begins, questions have emerged over the judge's apparent conflicts of interest.Judge Christopher "Casey" CooperIn additional to having been "professional acquaintances" with…

Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times,The dramatic rise in home prices and mortgage rates in the early months of 2022 has had a relatively limited effect on wealthy buyers and…

US retail gasoline prices soared to another record on Monday as global refineries struggled with adding new capacity ahead of the driving season. Before diving into Goldman Sachs' new commodity note…

By Alex of the MacroOps substack“My portfolio is very balanced… I have half my assets in cash and the other half is in pain…” My brother-in-law told me that the other…

The key 'pivot' line for the S&P 500 is 4000 - indicating "capitulation risk" - with resistance at 4100, and support showing near 3950, then 3921. Also note 300 in…

Authored by 'NAMCIOS' via BitcoinMagazine.com,The non-profit organization said only 313 BTC are now left on the bitcoin reserves for Terra’s UST stablecoin...Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the non-profit organization holding Terra’s…

After several furious weeks of economic data, earnings and central bank announcements, it is a somewhat quieter week and looking forward, there's not a standout event to focus on this…

By Michael Every of RabobankName That Tune? Scandinavian Black MetalWhen I was young there was a TV show called ‘Name That Tune’, where panellists would compete to see how few…

With inflation running rampant, unemployment falling, and wages soaring, the Jerome Powell-led Federal Reserve waited too long to reverse its ultra-low interest rate policies and a massive bond-buying program. This…

Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said there is “no way” that Elon Musk will buy Twitter at “such a ridiculous price” while pointing to the number…

As Goldman lowers its US growth forecasts for 2022 and 2023, the NY Fed's survey of manufacturers surprised with a drastic plunge into contraction in May, for the second time…

Europe's anti-Russian virtue signaling and harsh language are nothing more than a facade as the number of European companies opening accounts with Gazprombank JSC has doubled as President Vladimir Putin…

Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com,“Human Nature: Paleolithic Emotions, Medieval Institutions, God-Like Technology”Central Banks and Politics will be the dominant theme this week/month/year. Politicians are anxious to show inflation and…

Friday's bear market rally dead-cat bounce appears to be over, and global stocks have started the new week in the red with US equity futures lower after a "huge miss",…

Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog,The proverb "success has many fathers" means there is no shortage of people willing to claim they contributed to a successful enterprise. If…

The invasion of Ukraine has led many Western companies to suspend or exit Russia, and the latest to do so is McDonald's, after three decades of operations. NYTimes reports McDonald's will sell…

Authored by Jonathan Turley,Politicians have long viewed tragedies and crises as opportunities not to be “wasted.” Most recently, Samantha Power, Biden’s Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development,…

Authored by Sundance via The Conservative Treehouse,The Washington Post is reporting the shift from the White House to disparage their political opposition with the terms “MAGA”, “Ultra-MAGA” and President Trump…

Cultured foods - also known as cell-based foods - are expected to turn our global food system as we know it on its head.In fact, the cultured meat market is…

Following Friday's catastrophic new credit data, which saw the fewest new loans in half a decade, and after this morning's report that Chinese authorities allowed a further cut in mortgage…

By Michael Wilson, Morgan Stanley's head of US equity strategyIn our 2022 year-ahead outlook for US equities, the primary out-of-consensus call centered on valuation. When we published it in mid-November,…

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, forcing gyms to shutter and public transportation to suspend operation, millions of Americans re-discovered bicycles as a safe, socially-distanced…

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,Just wait ’til you see your government’s bail-in rulesOne of the subplots that made for a bad week in crypto included a largely manufactured crisis…

Just how powerful are nuclear explosions?The U.S.’ Trinity test in 1945, the first-ever nuclear detonation, released around 19 kilotons of explosive energy. The explosion instantly vaporized the tower it stood on and…

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,Elon Musk warned Twitter users that they are “being manipulated” and told them to turn off the platform’s algorithmic newsfeed, coming as the firm’s legal department apparently said…

It took Goldman three months to slash its (widely mocked) 2022 year-end S&P price target of 5,100 published in mid-November (at the time we said it would take just a…

By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management“We are peering into the curved spacetime near a supermassive black hole,” said Michael Johnson, researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,…

Multiple people have been shot and at least one person has died at a church in Laguna Woods, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD).Vanessa Serna reports at The Epoch Times…

Presented with no comment... aside from to note that the word "together" must have tested well in Democrats' focus-groups...KAMALA: "We will work together, and continue to work together, to address…

Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com,At a softball field in a Washington, DC suburb on June 14, 2017, a lone gunman used a rifle to indiscriminately spray bullets at members…

The US Navy remains hush-hush about the sinking of a small secretive vessel testing high-tech equipment."Due to the experimental nature of the technology coupled with OSPEC concerns, we are unable…

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has called the shocking leak of the draft Roe v. Wade opinion a major violation of trust that has…

After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's fiery Friday remarks expressing anger at recent declarations of Western countries saying they want see Sweden and Finland fast-tracked into NATO, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut…

Authored by Joyce Liang via The Epoch Times,Hong Kong saw a net outflow of 65,295 and 66,334 residents in February and March respectively, according to the city’s official immigration data.…

The big news in Europe Sunday was the president of Finland Sauli Niinisto along with Prime Minister Sanna Marin formally announcing the country is applying to NATO. Niinisto had also phoned…

A new survey from Pew reveals that inflation is the top concern Among Americans, while COVID-19 has fallen to last place.70% of Americans polled between April 25 and May 1…

Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Recent satellite images provide a rare glimpse into China’s naval development as a commercial satellite caught a Chinese submarine in a…

As rampant inflation continues to kick Americans in the teeth, the Biden administration can't stop doing victory laps over how much they've 'accomplished' - by taking credit for things that…

Here’s John Percival, writing in his book The Way of the Dollar, describing how to identify the Consensus and act as a Contrarian. “Remember the last time you sold a currency…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led a congressional delegation to visit the Ukrainian capital on Saturday. The unannounced trip included Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas, Susan Collins of Maine, and…

Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities,Most of the time, Wall Street tends to focus on big institutional flows. For years that was probably okay, but that led to horrible…

The constant gaslighting of America over whose fault the soaring cost of living just went to '11' on the 'do you think we are all f**king stupid' scale. As Matt…

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,All these curveballs will further fragment the housing market.Oh for the good old days of a nice, clean housing bubble and bust as…