Rate Hawk Down
Rate Hawk Down By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Bonds sold off on Friday and the NASDAQ closed a smidgen lower. Both the S&P500 and the Dow Jones managed minor gains, with the Dow’s outperformance again suggesting that equities continue to trade on sensitivity to discount rates. Two-year yields rose 3bps on Friday […]
“You Stole From The Trump Organization, Correct?”: Michael Cohen Hands Trump Prosecution Another Terrible Day
“You Stole From The Trump Organization, Correct?”: Michael Cohen Hands Trump Prosecution Another Terrible Day Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York ‘hush money’ trial may have colluded with the Biden administration, but apparently none of the galaxy brains involved thought far enough to consider that their star witness, Michael Cohen, might cause their ‘case’ to […]
Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold and Silver
Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold and Silver Via Money Metals, (Birmingham, Alabama – May 14, 2024) – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey last week signed a bill that removes all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of gold and silver, enabling the state to take an important step forward in reinforcing […]
Zelensky Rejects Macron’s Proposal For An Olympic Truce With Russia
Zelensky Rejects Macron’s Proposal For An Olympic Truce With Russia Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of a truce with Russia during the upcoming Paris Olympics, which will be held from July 26 to August 11. French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a truce in a recent call with […]
Assange Wins High Court Victory In Temporary Reprieve From Extradition To US
Assange Wins High Court Victory In Temporary Reprieve From Extradition To US The High Court in London ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US. Given it was essentially his ‘last chance’ to mount a final challenge before he could have been handed over the US custody and on […]
Watch: Biden Thinks He Was VP During The Pandemic
Watch: Biden Thinks He Was VP During The Pandemic Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Biden seems to believe that he was the vice president of the United States during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Yes, really. During a speech at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Michigan Sunday, Biden declared “When I […]
Iran Announces Interim President After Raisi’s Helicopter “Hit A Mountain & Disintegrated”
Iran Announces Interim President After Raisi’s Helicopter “Hit A Mountain & Disintegrated” Following Tehran’s early Monday confirmation of the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials after their helicopter went down over mountainous terrain near the border with Azerbaijan, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named a new acting […]
How Iran Used An Advanced Turkish Drone To Find Raisi’s Helicopter
How Iran Used An Advanced Turkish Drone To Find Raisi’s Helicopter Via Middle East Eye A Turkish high-altitude, long-endurance drone played a central role in finding the wreckage of the helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation on Sunday night. Iranian search and rescue officials reported late on Sunday evening that they believed […]
Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports
Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports This week, the U.S. introduced a new series of tariff increases on Chinese imports, amounting to over $18 billion worth of goods. In the announcement, President Biden said they are aiming to “counter China’s unfair trade practices” by targeting specific sectors where the U.S. is boosting […]
Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction Of Civil War
Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction Of Civil War Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, The other day, Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, told The Financial Times that he sees the risk of a second American civil war as “growing” and places the odds of such a war at “35-40 percent.” According to FT, […]