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Over 20% Of The World’s Oil Refining Capacity Is At Risk Of Closure Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Weakening refining margins and carbon taxes put a fifth of global refining capacity…

Demand For BlackRock’s BUIDL Means Over $1BN In US Treasuries Have Now Been Tokenized On-Chain More than $1 billion worth of United States Treasuries now exist across Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and other…

The disgraced crypto mogul “orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history,” government prosecutors argued FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in a US federal prison for…

India and China have continued negotiations on a complete disengagement after the 2020 incident in Galwan Valley India and China on Wednesday held a fresh round of talks over border tensions that…

Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A divided appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction against the State…

Russian Warships Enter Red Sea As Rival US-Led Coalition Patrols The Russian navy’s Pacific Fleet has confirmed that it sent several of its warships through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and into the…

Dollar Rally Is On Borrowed Time As US Disinflation Lags World Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The current rally in the dollar is soon likely to face resistance from rising real-yield…

Green Energy Beaten Black And Blue: Video Shows Massive Hail Damage To Texas Solar Farm In the latest of countless cautionary tales about green energy, a large-scale Texas solar farm has been…

Gold: The Everything Hedge Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Gold is trading at $2,211 per ounce this afternoon. Since its interim low of $1,832 per ounce on Oct. 5, 2023, gold…

Renting Now Cheaper Than Owning In All Of America’s Largest Metros A combination of higher mortgage rates and sky-high housing prices has made it cheaper to rent than to own a home…

Giorgia Meloni has suggested that leaders “pay attention to the tones we use” in discussions of direct military involvement Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said that she told French President Emmanuel…

They have no intention of serving in the IDF, and the patience of seculars is about to run out The Ultra-Orthodox community of Israel is generally exempt from compulsory military service. Over…

More missiles and bomb shelters might motivate Ukrainians to have babies, the president has claimed Kiev needs more air defense systems to help Ukrainians have more children, President Vladimir Zelensky said on…

“We Don’t Want Your Nice, Cheap Stuff, Thanks” By Michael Every of Rabobank Thinking you can successfully forecast what markets will do is a fool’s game. However, some recent financial market headlines…

90% of soldiers spend their earnings on online casinos and sports betting platforms, Aleksey Goncharenko says The Ukrainian army has a huge gambling problem, Aleksey Goncharenko, a senior Ukrainian MP, wrote on…

The US wants a reformed Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza, but Israel has ruled out the plan Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced the formation of a new government on Thursday, with…

The hostilities between Kiev and Moscow cannot be resolved on the battlefield, Gerhard Schroeder believes Talking to Moscow is the only way to end the hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, former German…

Baltimore Leader Says Conservatives “Should Be Afraid” For Calling Him The “DEI Mayor” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Baltimore leader Brandon Scott appeared on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show to assert…

The former US president’s net worth has jumped $4 billion this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Former US President Donald Trump is now richer than billionaire financier George Soros, after…

36 Rural Hospitals Have Closed Since 2020 By Alan Condon of Becker Hosptial Review Tennessee’s Jellico Regional Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility, closed March 9, making it the 36th rural hospital…

The New York Times reported that the lack of trust between the two countries prevented the latter from disclosing information on a possible attack in Russia The Russian authorities know nothing about…

Carnival Cruise Warns Of Profit Hit From Frozen Baltimore Port After Bridge Collapse The fallout from the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore is hitting a wide range of companies, from…

Experts Warn Mass Migration Threatens US Food Security Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mass migration exposes the United States’ food supply to diseases and parasites that…

Bidenomics Blowback – Survey-Based Sentiment Collapses As ‘Hope’ Evaporates ‘Soft’ survey data has been a bloodbath this week with regional Fed surveys all slumping and this morning’s Chicago PMI uglier than all…

Stars Are Aligning For An Energy Sector Catch-Up By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist For investors worried about frothy stock valuations, recently out-of-favor European energy stocks might be the…

UMich Inflation Expectations Slide To 3 Year Lows, Republicans Lift Sentiment In March Final March UMich Inflation expectations dropped notably. 1-year inflation exp fell from 3.0% in Feb and from 3.1% in…

Pending Home Sales Hover Near Record Lows In February After puking in January, pending home sales were expected to rebound modestly (+1.5% MoM) in February and it did (+1.6% MoM) with a…

BlackRock CEO “Very Bullish” On Bitcoin As Its ETF Crosses $17 Billion By Brayden Lindrea of CoinTelegraph BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has been “pleasantly surprised” by the performance of his firm’s spot…

Fisker Slashes Price Of Its Only Model By 39% In Last-Ditch Bid To Stay Solvent Electric carmaker Fisker is doing everything it can to try and not wind up roadkill on the…

The frigate ‘Marshal Shaposhnikov’ has arrived for a nine-day stay in Eritrea Russia has sent a military ship to participate in joint drills with Eritrea for the first time in the 30…

A leading member of the Palestinian organization’s politburo shares his thoughts on the planned US port in Gaza, internal conflicts, and more Dr Basem Naim, a leading member of Hamas’ politburo, has…

There are no good options for Kiev, a retired French general has said Moscow has forced Kiev to choose between losing men or territory, according to retired French General Jerome Pellistrandi, the…

Large sums of money were transferred to the Crocus City Hall attackers from Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee has said DETAILS TO FOLLOW

The ruling party’s candidate has conceded defeat, joining several other contenders in congratulating Bassirou Diomaye Faye Senegal’s opposition leader, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has been elected president in the West African nation’s delayed…

Security advisers from several countries are looking at ways to kick-start the process of ending the conflict, the German chancellor has said Senior officials from several countries are holding non-public talks to…

Global warming is throwing the Earth off balance and making the days longer, a California physicist has warned The melting of the polar ice caps is shifting the Earth’s weight towards the…

The plotters also scouted the site at least three times in the weeks leading up to the strike, news outlet Baza claims Traces of a drug that suppresses fear have reportedly been…

Delhi chief minister Arvind KejriwaI was arrested last week over corruption charges in an alleged liquor scam  An Indian district court on Thursday extended the custody of Arvind Kejriwal, acting chief minister…

Drone footage released by a Russian official reportedly shows the destruction of more military hardware sent to Kiev by Washington The Russian military has hit another US-supplied M1 Abrams tank operated by…

A 26-year-old citizen of the former Soviet republic has been charged with justifying terrorism The Investigative Committee of the city of St. Petersburg has detained a citizen of Tajikistan for posting online…

FInal Q4 2023 GDP Revision Comes In Red Hot 3.4%, Beating Estimates It’s ancient history by now, but moments ago the Biden Bureau of Economic Goalseeking Analysis reported that in its third…

Facebook Secretly Wiretapped Competitors: Documents Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Facebook secretly obtained proprietary data from competitors, including Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. At the…

Jobless Claims Continue To Hover (Miraculously) Near Record Lows Layoff announcements continue day after day and WARNs are on the rise, but initial jobless claims continues to trend along in very smooth…

Stocks Set To Close Blowout Week, Month And Quarter At All-Time High; Gold Soars To Record Stock futures are pointing to a flat open on the last trading session of the week,…

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried To Be Sentenced For Fraud Today Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times, The long-running legal saga of Sam Bankman-Fried will come to an end on March…

Billionaire Niranjan Hiranandani reveals how the focus on infrastructure is moving the country forward in the show Let’s Talk Bharat Indian billionaire, co-founder and managing director of Mumbai-based real estate giant Hiranandani…

African countries see Moscow as a “reliable partner” in the atomic energy sector, according to Rosatom Russian energy giant Rosatom has signed several agreements for developing cooperation in nuclear energy with Mali,…

Dublin has described the attacks in Gaza as a “blatant” violation of international humanitarian law Ireland will intervene on behalf of South Africa in its case against Israel at the International Court…

Some 190 ethnic groups representing all religious denominations now live in the country, the president noted Nationalist ideas are concerning for a multicultural country like Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday…

Washington’s “adversarial relationship” with Russia prevented full disclosure of what it knew, sources told the newspaper The lack of trust between the US and Russia prevented Washington from sharing all the intelligence…

Allowing bad news to occasionally slip through would be better than fostering a climate of total control, a senior diplomat has said The Ukrainian government should be more open with the public…

The effect is the result of a dust storm that has hit the city of Blagoveshchensk, near the border with China A dust storm sweeping Amur Region in Russia’s Far East has…

Leaked Document Reveals Amazon To Dump Office Space, In Cost-Cutting Move Amid CRE Tower Crisis Readers are well aware that the office segment of the commercial real estate sector has been in…

Unlike the EU, the US is willing to buy Turkish explosives to arm Ukraine, the outlet has reported The US is planning to increase purchases of military-grade explosives from Türkiye to ramp…

Bad Is Good Via PraCap.com, Everyone thinks of inflation as being purely a financial phenomenon. However, it is much more than that. It is also a social phenomenon. As the inflation accelerates,…

Baltimore Bridge Collapse May Cost Billions, Dramatically Disrupt Supply Chains By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves The collapse of Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Tuesday after it was struck by a cargo ship continues…

A large number of people fear new assaults in the wake of the mass shooting in Russia, a poll has shown French citizens strongly fear that the country could be hit by…

Moscow has introduced tight requirements for companies wishing to divest, ensuring local buyers receive major discounts on businesses that are leaving Western companies that have left the Russian market amid sanctions have…

These Are The Sectors Most-Targeted By Cybercrime The Cold War fought via clandestine operations with boots on the ground and proxy conflicts between parties backed by the U.S., China or Russia might…

Mikhail Podoliak has blamed weapons and ammo shortages for Kiev’s inability to mount major operations against Russia Ukrainian forces have reached a state of “stagnation” on the battlefield because the West is…

Accreditation by Algeria of a plant in Novosibirsk “opens the gates to Africa,” the region’s agriculture minister has said A dairy factory in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city, has been accredited to…

The Declining Value Of The US Federal Minimum Wage This graphic illustrates the history of the U.S. federal minimum wage using data compiled by Statista, in both nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) terms. The…

Alisher Usmanov has taken legal action over unlawful raids on his properties in the country  German authorities have launched a criminal probe targeting two investigators in Frankfurt after Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov…

Mikhail Podoliak has blamed weapons and ammo shortages for Kiev’s inability to mount major operations against Russia Ukrainian forces have reached a state of “stagnation” on the battlefield because the West is…

Expect A Financial Crisis In Europe With France At The Epicenter Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The EU never enforced its Growth and Stability Pact or Maastricht Treaty rules. The crisis…

A chat on the popular app was allegedly used by organizers of the concert hall massacre in Russia to recruit the perpetrators Telegram should work harder to deny terrorists the use of…

Mali and Russia have discussed measures to improve regional stability, where the EU is concerned about declining influence Russia and Mali will intensify cooperation in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel…

Visualizing The Massively Varied Cost Of An EpiPen Across Major Markets EpiPens are auto-injectors containing epinephrine, a drug that can treat or reverse severe allergic reactions, potentially preventing death. The global epinephrine market was…

Brazil is developing its own nuclear-powered submarine based on a French design French President Emmanuel Macron has offered to help Brazil with the development of a nuclear-powered submarine during an official visit…

Secret Docs Reveal Germany’s Public Health Agency Warned Lockdowns Cause More Harm Than Good Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, Following a long legal battle, Germany’s public health agency, the Robert…

US intelligence agencies, however, probably had clues ahead of the shooting at Crocus City Hall, the chancellor has claimed Germany had no prior information on preparations for the terrorist attack that claimed…

The Impact Of Terrorism Around The World According to the Global Terrorism Index 2024, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace measuring the impact of terrorism around the world, deaths from…

Germany’s Murder Of Europe Authored by Drieu Godefrei via The Gatestone Institute, In a preparatory impact report, a copy of which has been obtained by the Financial Times before official release, the European Commission estimates that to…

Almost 80% believe plastic cards are more convenient for everyday use More than half of Russians, especially young people and those who live in major urban areas, believe cash will not be…

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…

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…

Rule By Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies Of The State Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for…

The Evolving Battlefield: How AI And Drones Redefine Modern Warfare Authored by Jon Sun and Sean Tseng via The Epoch Times, As the Russia-Ukraine conflict unfolds, drones have transcended traditional weaponry, emerging…

CBO Director Warns Of Debt Market Meltdown With US Debt Is On “Unprecedented” Trajectory We’ve been pointing it out for so long – in fact, for most of our 15 years in…

The New York “hush money” lawfare case against President Trump was always the most ridiculous.  The Supreme Court previously ruled in the Bob McDonnell (VA Gov) case, that politicians can use campaign…

Whiskey Rich: Luxury Liquor Trumps Stocks & Art Over Past Decade Some of the world’s ultra-wealthy spend their money on luxury goods such as fine wines, expensive watches, or one-of-a-kind art pieces as a…

“Zero Critical Reasoning”: Employers Say GenZ “Toxic” For Companies A new report has found that 68% of small business owners say Gen Z employees are the “least reliable,” while 71% say they’re…

The NTSB gives an update on the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, following the impact of a Singaporean-flagged cargo ship, the Dali. According to the update, 56 containers of…

Cattle-Tracking Provision That May Limit Beef Supply Passed In Omnibus Bill Authored by Matthew Lysiak via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A controversial measure to include $15 million for the electronic tracking…

Who’s Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea? India has applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for two new licenses to explore parts of the Indian Ocean sea bed for…

NSF Paid Universities To Develop AI Censorship Tools For Social Media By Daniel Nuccio of The College Fix “Used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints…

As we noted yesterday, assuming the general termination clause in any employment contract exists, Ronna McDaniel is likely to get fully paid the terms of her 2-year previously signed contract amount as…

The Crude Necessity: Excerpt From “How To Listen When The Markets Speak” From “How to Listen When Markets Speak“, the latest book by veteran Lehman Brothers trader and creator of the Bear…

“There’s A Lot More Chainsaw”: Argentine President Milei To Fire 70,000 Government Workers Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei, perhaps best known for his shotgun approach to government jobs… Bloomberg reports that Argentina’s President…

Virginia Governor Vetos 30 Gun Bills That Would ‘Punish’ Law-Abiding Citizens Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) took action on 67 bills on Tuesday,…

Navigating The Slippery Slope: How Hoover’s Interventions Paved The Way For The Great Depression Authored by Vibhu Vikramaditya via The Mises Institute, Herbert Hoover’s presidency is often mythically mischaracterized as a period…

Compound Found In Broccoli Could Help Dissolve Blood Clots And Prevent Stroke Authored by Allison DeMajistre via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Researchers from the Heart Research Institute (HRI) in Australia have…

If Ukrainian-operated jets fly sorties from third countries, they will be a legitimate target for Russia Should the US-made fighter jets make it to Ukraine, Russia will destroy them just as it…

Law And Order Is A Killer Problem For Democrats Authored by Charles Lipson via RealClear Politics, Polling data shows Democrats are in deep trouble on the issues of domestic safety and unbiased…

US, Japan To Initiate Huge Defense Treaty Upgrade With Eye On China The United States and Japan are poised to unveil their largest defense treaty revision in decades. The FT has reported…

American certainty about Ukraine’s innocence is strange, Dmitry Peskov has said Washington’s insistence on a narrative about the Crocus City Hall massacre is odd, since the Russian investigation is still ongoing, President…

Baltimore Coal Exports Blocked After Bridge Collapse By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Baltimore Port’s coal exports are likely to be blocked for weeks after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge…

Washington was in a difficult position at the UN Security Council over its traditional ally In a historic move on Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) achieved a breakthrough by passing…

Trump Hits Back Against NY Gag Order — Turley Says: “Appeal” Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to a gag order issued in his “hush money” case, slamming both the judge…

The US-led bloc has been creeping towards Russia, not the other way around Moscow is not seeking a confrontation with American vassals in eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. …