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Authored by Jordan Schachtel via 'The Dossier' Substack,I wanted to turn your attention to a handful of premier art masterpieces that have appeared overnight in Washington, D.C.The artwork is a…
While the US is closed for MLK Day on Monday, the week kicked off with China's monthly data dump but the PBOC upstaged this by surprisingly cutting rates on its…
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 93 percent…
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,A national poll has found that forty-five percent of likely Democratic voters would be ok with the government “requiring citizens to temporarily live in…
That didn't take long.In less than a year, Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório has gone from new hire to freshly fired, as the Swiss megabank has decided to sack its…
By Michael Every of RabobankFalse FlagsThe US is warning of an imminent Russian false flag attack to justify its Ukraine invasion; Russia is warning of a false flag attack by…
by Calculated Risk on 1/17/2022 10:01:00 AM Tracking existing home inventory is very important in 2022.Inventory usually declines sharply over the holidays and into January, and this is a new record…
Forty-eight hours after a massive undersea volcanic eruption triggered tsunami waves around the Pacific Ocean, reaching as far as Japan to the US West Coast, "significant damage" has been reported on the…
Authored by Jordan Schachtel via The Dossier, Are you seeing all of those blaring corporate press headlines targeting Joe Rogan this weekend, reporting on a letter from “270 doctors,” which…
US equity futures, European bourses and Asian markets were all broadly higher after China unexpectedly cut official policy rates for the first time since 2020...... to counter an economic slowdown.…
Drone wars in the Middle East intensified Monday when Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement claimed to have flown drones into an oil storage facility in Abu Dhabi, reported Al Arabiya.Abu Dhabi police…
In 1695 the British pirate Henry Every commanding a stolen ship, one of the fastest in the world, captured the Ganj-i-Sawai an immense treasure ship carrying the granddaughter of the…
Submitted by Jan Nieuwenhuijs of The Gold Observer,In the current framework gold is priced based on the 10-year TIPS yield. In my view, the current framework becomes more nonsensical the…
How did birds like penguins evolve into some of the world’s best swimmers? ABC Walmart Plots ‘Super Intense’ Crypto, Metaverse Push, Filing Suggests Heisenberg Report An Explosion Felt Round the…
My back to work morning train WFH reads: • Protecting voting rights isn’t enough to save democracy Election law expert Richard L. Hasen on the problem of election subversion —…
]The State of Texas and fifteen other states plus Puerto Rico have filed a suit against Google for antitrust abuses in the online ad market. Late last week, the Southern…
Lambert here: Why stop at Zients? Klain, Fauci, and Walensky should all go. Psaki, too, while we’re at it. Not that any of this will happen, if only because Biden…
From a reader: Re your observation that most people don’t know what their strengths are and your interest in finding and fostering talent: I haven’t done the two things I’ve…
Yves here. The Germans probably have a word for “theory overreach”. I imagine readers will enjoy deploying their intellectual surgical tools on Professor McCoy’s thesis. While using struggles over what…
Authored by Shawn Lin via The Epoch Times,Former Chinese national sports team doctor Xue Yinxian revealed China’s General Administration of Sport has been widely doping Chinese athletes. The whistleblower’s new…
Authored by Shawn Lin via The Epoch Times,Former Chinese national sports team doctor Xue Yinxian revealed China’s General Administration of Sport has been widely doping Chinese athletes. The whistleblower’s new…
Fishermen and hunters are officially the most dangerous jobs in the US, according to the 2020 census released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last month. The group saw…
It’s often said that economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Well, here goes anyway. Assume OSHA estimates of 6500 lives saved (over 6 months) from…
By Marcel Kasumovich, One River Asset Management head of researchMacro narratives are driving digital asset sentiment, from asset swings to regulatory decisions. This alone speaks to a maturing ecosystem –…
A busy night started with weakness in US equity futures (Nasdaq down 0.5%) and an unexpected cut in a key China policy rate and a modest addition of liquidity. This…
The last time Walmart was reportedly entering the crypto space, it turned out to be a giant Litecoin-promoting hack, that was quickly reversed, after it became clear that playful hackers…
Authored by Nanette Holt via The Epoch Times,A Florida family fighting to give their loved one on a ventilator alternative treatments for COVID-19 have lost another battle—this time in Florida’s First District Court of…
When it comes to manpower, no military in the world comes close to that of China.According to Global Firepower estimates, the People's Republic has around 2 million active military personnel. The United States in comparison,…
By Vishwanath Tirupattur, head of Quantitative Research at Morgan StanleyThe Devil Is in the DetailsThe first two weeks of the year have reinforced the key message from our 2022 Strategy…
This is only the latest indication of just how easily influenced young people are by their teachers.Even though young Americans are perhaps the least susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 as a group,…
Compiling graphs for a trade course, and lo what did I see: Figure 1: US exports of goods and services (blue), and exports ex petroleum products (brown), both as a…
Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,There was much speculation toward the end of Donald Trump’s term as president of the United States that…
After two months of brutal, constant pain for crypto longs on the back of fears the Fed is about to yank the punchbowl and drain enough liquidity to end the…
Authored by Ian Miller and Michael Betrus via The Brownstone Institute,Kids in California, New York, Illinois and a number of other states are required to wear face masks every day…
Following up on “omicron is a dud” – From CDC, forecasted deaths of 10 January 2022: Source: CDC. Here is the forecast of hospitalizations. Source: CDC. If you thought the…
Tesla owner, April Gillmore, took delivery of a new Model 3 Performance on Dec. 19, only to notice a deafening scraping sound coming from the rear. Gillmore put a few…
Finally, after a handful of organizations tried suing Dr. Anthony Fauci in order to have them released, the good doctor's financials - along with those of his wife, who is…
Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Health departments in several states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they are looking into a steep surge in the mortality…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human…
Some things I have watched, some good, some not so good. Cobra Kai on Netflix: A reliable, feel good show, well plotted. It plays like they mapped each season in…
Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times,Former President Donald Trump painted a positive future for Republicans late Saturday at his first rally of 2022, held in Arizona.“A great red…
The Elon Musk regulatory saga plays on...The latest chapter in the story came this weekend when it was reported that a lawyer for Tesla once asked a law firm to…
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,This gives an extreme advantage to those few who move first, long before they must. The financial advantage for first movers is equally…
1. The effect of Protestant missionaries in China. 2. Alas Keri Hulme has passed away. And a Kiwi tribute. 3. Norms for surf break governance. 4. The infrastructure cost for…
In a weekend interview on CNN, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman alluded to the possibility of deploying offensive weapons inside Ukrainian territory, following last week's series of three urgent meetings…
by Calculated Risk on 1/16/2022 10:56:00 AM Since the pandemic has disrupted new car production and sales, used car prices have increased sharply. This has pushed up inflation ("Used Cars"…
Authored by Nina Nguyen and Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times,Novak Djokovic flew out of Australia and is facing a three-year ban from the country after the full federal court ruled on Sunday…
A massive winter storm could impact upwards of 100 million people across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast during the latter part of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. National Weather…
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,China has agreed with the United States to release crude from its SPR around the Lunar New Year holiday on February 1The volume of the…
Setting aside the ever-present issue of the global supply chain crunch presently gestating in the PROC, where factories and ports are struggling with the most restrictive lockdown measures since the…