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Homebuilder Sentiment Slumps To 2024 Low, Homebuyer Sentiment At Record Low Every time we discuss homebuilder sentiment we can’t help but be reminded of Upton Sinclair’s infamous quote: “It is difficult to…

RFK Jr Tried To Meet With Harris In Pursuit Of Cabinet Position Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr tried to land a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris last week,…

Reports claim one of the Challenger 2 tanks donated to Kiev may already have been destroyed on Russian territory The Ukrainian brigade operating British Challenger 2 main battle tanks is using them…

Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has discussed areas of cooperation with Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and the Central African Republic Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has held talks with his counterparts from…

No amount of EU pressure will force Belgrade to sanction Russia, its minister for economic cooperation, Nenad Popovich, has said Serbia will never impose sanctions on Russia despite massive pressure from the…

In his speech marking the nation’s Independence Day, the leader noted the need for various reforms, including legislature India should introduce a “secular civil code” that is free from “discrimination on the…

Can The Fed Defend Cutting Rates With NSA Jobless Claims Near Record Lows? The ongoing normalization of jobless claims in Texas – post Hurricane Beryl… Source: Bloomberg …has pulled initial jobless claims…

Walmart Beats Earnings, Lifts Outlook As Consumers Trade Down To Big Box Retailer America’s largest retailer delivered another strong quarter of sales, surpassing nearly all analyst estimates tracked by Bloomberg. This is mainly due…

US Retail Sales “Beat” Thanks To Yet Another Massive Downward Revision For once, consensus is in line with BofA’s omnipotent forecast for retails today (July data) with an expectation of a 0.4%…

Massachusetts Set For Record Number Of Deportations Despite Sanctuary State Status Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The state of Massachusetts, which considers itself to be a “sanctuary state” for illegal…

A high-level commission has ordered the measure in Belgorod following Ukraine’s cross-border incursion A federal emergency has been declared in Russia’s Belgorod Region amid a cross-border incursion by Ukrainian forces, the Emergencies…

Futures Rise Ahead Of Data Deluge Including Key Retail Sales Report US equity futures are following European and most Asian stocks higher, with traders’ attention turning to today’s retail sales report (full…

60 More Chinese Stocks To Be Culled From MSCI Indexes Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), MSCI Inc. is culling 60 more Chinese stocks from its indexes in…

FBI Will “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” The Existence Of Bitcoin-Creator Satoshi’s Records Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reportedly responded to a Freedom…

The tech giant says it disrupted a phishing operation by a hacking unit linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Google claims that Iranian hackers tried to target both the Republican and…

There are no more realistic military objectives in Gaza, officials in Washington reportedly believe The US government does not believe that Israel can achieve any of its key goals in Gaza by…

Ukraine’s key supporters, including the US, have so far denied they had prior knowledge of the attack on Russian territory Kiev discussed its plan to launch a cross-border attack into Russia with…

The story originates in the Washington Post, so the context is always a presentation with the intent to undermine President Trump. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, this story is cited directly to RFK…

The ‘Progress MS-28’ carrying fuel, water and food is expected to reach the International Space Station in two days A Russian Soyuz-2.1a has brought the ‘Progress MS-28’ cargo ship, carrying supplies to…

Talks are ongoing in Switzerland to negotiate a ceasefire in the African nation’s 16-month war A peace conference aimed at ending the devastating armed conflict in Sudan has begun in Switzerland, despite…

Moscow’s envoy to London has described the alleged efforts as “unacceptable” British intelligence services have been attempting to recruit or threaten Russian diplomats working in the UK, Moscow’s ambassador to London Andrey…

How Many People Are At Risk Of Poverty In Europe? In 2023, 94.6 million people in the EU (or just over 21 percent of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, i.e. living…

‘Criminalization Of Dissent’ Delayed: German Authorities Postpone CJ Hopkins ‘Swastika Tweet’ Re-Trial At Last Minute Authored by CJ Hopkins via ConsentFactory.org, And on and on and on it goes. Today, at the…

Kiev’s military commanders and businessmen reportedly decided to destroy the key pipelines during a drinking party Ukraine’s top commander in 2022, Valery Zaluzhny, ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and…

Footage reportedly shows a Russian fighter thwarting a Ukrainian attempt to kill him A Russian soldier has apparently survived a Ukrainian attack by headbutting an incoming kamikaze drone, according to footage shared…

The Russian president expressed hope that recent talks in Moscow would boost ties between the two countries Vladimir Putin has congratulated Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the…

World’s Top Steelmaker Warns Of “Harsh Winter” Amid Growing Fears Of 2008 Or 2015-Style Downturn Some economists warn that central banks, including the Federal Reserve, have pushed their interest rate hiking cycle too far. Meanwhile,…

Finland has increased manufacturing fivefold to aid Ukraine, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has said Finland has ramped up production of ammunition fivefold to help Ukraine fight Russia, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has…

How Many Doctors Do The World’s Largest Economies Have? After the rape and murder of a 31-year-old resident doctor at a medical college in West Bengal’s capital Kolkata last week, protests and walkouts…

“An Intricate Fabric Of Bad Actors Working Hand-In-Hand” – So Is War Inevitable? Submitted by Alastair Crooke, Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Who Owns America? Oligarchs Have Bought Up the American Dream Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you…

These Are The World’s Youngest Countries The youngest countries in the world are located in Africa. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the youngest of them all is Niger at a median age of just 15…

Critics have voiced concerns over Stasi-style surveillance methods The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) may soon be allowed to secretly enter and search homes, according to a draft reform proposal seen…

California Sheriff Blasts Harris For Using His Image In “Misleading” Campaign Ad, Says He Supports Trump Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, A California sheriff is slamming Kamala Harris over her…

Human Rights Lawyer: Olympic Boxer’s “Cyberbullies” Lawsuit A Threat To Free Speech Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A human rights lawyer has warned that a lawsuit brought by Algerian Olympic boxer Imane…

Reclaiming Strength and Rebuilding Lost Muscle Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Muscle atrophy, the wasting or loss of muscle tissue, can occur astonishingly quickly, posing serious challenges…

FTC Says Google Antitrust Ruling Goes Beyond Epic Games, Hints Tech ‘Monopolist’ Should Be Broken Up The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an amicus brief in the Epic Games antitrust lawsuit…

Vote Integrity’s Nitty-Gritty: The Battle Lines Of ’24’s Epic Struggle Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations, More than a dozen jurisdictions run by Democrats – including Washington D.C., and several adjacent Maryland municipalities…

Don’t Let Washington Do To Airlines What It Did To Amtrak Submitted by Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas, Texas. Follow him on X @MerrillMatthews….

Let The American People Have Autonomy Over Their Automobiles Authored by Ashley Klingensmith via RealClearPennsylvania, President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed complete disregard for our freedom of choice earlier this year, by forcing…

China Port Explosion Snarls Trans-Pacific Container Trade The closure of Ningbo Beilun’s Phase III Terminal is expected to have cascading effects on the main trans-Pacific trade lanes out of Asia, and the…

“Would It Kill You Guys?” CNN Gets Confrontational With Harris SPOX For Avoiding Interviews, Press Conferences The Harris campaign’s ‘hide Kamala’ strategy may be working from a polling perspective – but it’s…

45% Of Bitcoin Supply Has Not Moved In 6 Months By William Suberg of CoinTelegraph Nearly half the available Bitcoin supply has not moved in the past six months, onchain data confirms….

WHO Declares Monkeypox “Global Health Emergency” – Again Just when we thought we had the monkeypox menace whipped, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday declared an African outbreak of mpox (renamed…

A surge in monkeypox infections in Africa has triggered vaccine efforts The World Health Organization has designated the surge in monkeypox virus infections in Africa as a public health emergency of international…

Despite his lofty talk, the ex-president won’t be able to change the diplomatic course Former US President Donald Trump has already stated on several occasions that he could improve relations with Russia…

The biggest risk that Brussels faces after the pair’s fireside chat is that Europeans might start learning some inconvenient truths from each other When X owner Elon Musk announced a digital fireside…

The banned group has insisted that there is no Russia and the Soviet Union is still around A Russian court has sentenced eleven members of the “Soviet citizens” movement to imprisonment for…

The lawsuit was filed in France by Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, according to Variety magazine French prosecutors have opened a probe into a claim by Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif over alleged…

Russia Ready To Execute Nuclear Attacks On NATO Targets, According To Leaked Documents Via ReMix News, Western sources have reportedly leaked Russian plans drawn up between 2008 and 2014 for “a series…

Pentagon Belatedly Reveals 8 US Troops Were Wounded In Syria Attack Last Week Since last fall US forces have recorded over 100 rocket and drone attacks on their positions in Iraq and…

The Shiny New Kamala Harris That Propaganda Built Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Remember just over a month ago when Kamala Harris was the lowest-polling vice president in history?…

Bullion, Bitcoin, & Black Gold Battered But Sanguine CPI Slams Leaves Stocks & Bonds Confused Inflation ‘surprise’ data continues to drift back lower (at February lows after this morning’s CPI) but more…

This is a weird follow-up to the Nord Stream pipeline explosion. Apparently, German investigators are on the hunt for a Ukranian suspect who was hiding out in Warsaw, Poland.  Why Germany, and…

Buffett 13F Confirms Sale Of 400 Million Apple Shares, Other Liqudations; New Positions In ULTA And HEI At the start of August, we reported the shocking news revealed deep inside the Berkshire…

ABC journalist Louise Milligan has been silenced, possibly for life, by ABC management from talking about why the ABC shafted Amber Harrison who has been “silenced for life” by billionaire Kerry Stokes…

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the economic hardships created by the Harris-Biden Administration in Asheville, North Carolina.  Start time 4:00pm ET.  Livestream Links Below: RSBN YouTube Livestream – RSBN Rumble Livestream…

Crypto Tumbles As ‘Harris/Biden’ Admin Moves Another 10,000 ‘Silk Road’ Bitcoin To Coinbase Bitcoin prices fell this morning in reaction to the lackluster CPI (as rate-cut expectations dipped). That selloff broke through…

Finland and Estonia have joined Poland in hailing the Kursk Region offensive The prime ministers of Finland and Estonia have voiced their support for the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk Region, after…

Mortgage Refi Activity Jump Most Since 2020 As Lenders See Gloom Ending   Mortgage lenders have endured a brutal 2.5-year period of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hiking cycle, with a high rate…

On Sunday August 11, 2024, at approximately 9:00pm authorities were alerted to a break-in at the Trump 2024 campaign headquarters in Ashburn, VA. The sheriff’s office is now releasing images from the…

The deadly airstrike on displaced Palestinians was self-defense from Hamas, Berlin has said The IDF airstrike on the Tabeen school in Gaza that reportedly killed 100 Palestinians was legitimate self-defense because Hamas…

Analyzing Putin’s Assessment Of Ukraine’s Incursion Into Kursk Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Ukraine’s sneak attack against Russia’s Kursk Region was the subject of Putin’s meeting with leading government officials and the governors of three western…

Make America Socialist Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, When a relatively unknown individual steps on the political stage as a candidate for high office, both sides race to “define” the candidate…

Zelensky Pushes ‘Buffer Zone’ In Conquered Areas Of Kursk With Martial Law  Ukrainian officials have touted that part of the success of its troop incursion into Russia’s southern Kursk region is that…

A “Retail Apocalypse” Is Gaining Momentum All Over America. Is Your Favorite Chain Closing Stores? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Why are retailers closing thousands of stores if the U.S. economy…

Deputy Police Chief Working For “America’s Worst Mayor” Indicted On Bankruptcy Fraud Charges Dolton Deputy Police Chief Lewis Lacey, who works in the same town as “America’s Worst Mayor” who we highlighted…

The country’s credit rating has been cut over Kiev’s failure to make a coupon payment on its 2026 Eurobond Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ukraine’s credit rating to ‘restricted default’ on Tuesday, citing…

A sudden stoppage would have far-reaching consequences for Austria, according to the country’s energy ministry Austria’s Energy Ministry has warned of a “massive risk” from a sudden stoppage of Russian natural gas…

Intelligence services reportedly believe a terrorist group in the Jammu and Kashmir region could be plotting attacks New Delhi has ramped up security ahead of Independence Day celebrations, after receiving reports of…

US Approves $20BN In Weapons Sales To Israel As Wider War Looms After already having given over $3 billion in annual foreign aid to America’s number one ally in the Middle East…

The US has blamed Iran for a drone strike on its base in the northeast of the country Eight US troops were injured in a drone attack on their base in northeastern…

Massive Cyberattack Cripples Central Bank Of Iran: Report The opposition and Saudi-affiliated Iran International is reporting that the Central Bank of Iran has been hit with a large-scale cyber attack which is caused…

Transitioning From A Seller’s Market To A Buyer’s Market By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Buyer’s Market US producer price inflation was soft in July. Both headline (0.1% m/m and…

Mars Candy Bars To Buy Cheez-It Maker Kellanova In “Largest Package-Food Deal In Decade” One of the largest food industry mega-deals in nearly a decade was unveiled as snack giant Mars announced a…

It Became Necessary To Destroy The Global Economy To Save It Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As the high generated by the previous iteration of financial repression wears off,…

NYC Migrant Crisis To Cost Staggering $5 Billion For Shelters, Security And Food The tab for New York City to house and feed scores of illegal migrants has likely surpassed $5 billion,…

WTI Extends Losses Despite Cushing Stocks Tumbling To 6-Month Lows Oil prices are lower this morning – following bond yields, bitcoin and big-cap all lower post-CPI – erasing the small gains overnight…

Authorities reportedly suspect an unauthorized entry and an intent to contaminate water supply at the installation in Cologne A military base in the German city of Cologne was placed on lockdown on…

Kiev deserves nothing but defeat and unconditional surrender, Russia’s deputy UN envoy has said Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region is “a fatal mistake” that Kiev will regret bitterly, Moscow’s first deputy…

Lancet drones were used to hit the Stryker infantry fighting vehicles in Kursk Region, the ministry has said The Russian Defense Ministry has released more videos showing the destruction of Western-donated weapons…

Germany Issues First Arrest Warrant In Nord Stream Sabotage Investigation  The Nord Stream pipeline explosion was one the largest acts of industrial sabotage in modern history. Nearly two years later, speculation continues to swirl about who was…

The majority of citizens want closer ties with Brussels but don’t believe the new government will try to return to the bloc, according to a survey More than half of UK citizens…

Japan’s PM Kishida Announces Resignation Amid Scandals, Opening Door To Political Chaos After the late Shinzo Abe valiantly tried to break Japan’s dismal tradition of having Prime Ministers who last on average…

Stealth QE Or Rubbish From Dr Doom? Authored by Michael Lebowtiz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A recent article co-authored by Stephen Miran and Dr. Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, accuses the U.S. Treasury Department…

Moscow has previously denounced Latvia’s policies as “extremely” Russophobic Russian citizens who have lived in Latvia for more than two decades will have to disclose their views on the Ukraine conflict in…

Any chance of negotiations will remain on a “long pause” after Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Region, a senior diplomat has said Kiev has made a “conscious decision” to end the possibility of…

Core Consumer Prices Hit New Record High – Up For 50th Straight Month Following last month’s ‘deflationary’ print (-0.1% MoM), analysts expected headline CPI to rise 0.2% MoM and they were spot…

The 1986 explosion at the Soviet nuclear plant shocked the world. Here, an expert explains how something similar is likely to happen now In recent days, the situation around the Kursk nuclear…

One Step Away From The Biggest Oil Shock In History Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow strip of water that links the Persian Gulf to…

Mpox disease has killed over 500 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone this year, according to official figures Africa’s top health authority has declared a public health emergency amid…

Search is underway for an instructor and a trainee from one of the lost aircraft, media has reported Two French fighter jets have collided over the northeastern part of the country. The…

The country´s GDP contracted in the second quarter of this year, official statistics suggest The German government has been unable to overcome the economic crisis in the country, Economy Minister Robert Habeck…

Futures Flat In Cautious Trade Ahead Of CPI As Gold Nears Record High Futures are flat, after trading in a narrow range overnight which saw Asian stocks gain and European bourses trade…

Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy Of A Failed Hoax Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, Apparently Saul Alinsky has been resurrected and is working as the chief propaganda coordinator for the Kamala…

German Military Base Locked Down After Suspected Sabotage To Water Supply  A German military base, home to thousands of troops, was placed under lockdown on Wednesday following a suspected sabotage targeting its water…

Rate Of Cancer Deaths Projected To Increase by 93 Percent In Men In 2050 Authored by Huey Freeman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Men tend to get cancer more often than…

61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence For Chanting “Who The F**k Is Allah” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, A 61-year-old man in the UK was jailed for 18 months…