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Oil Dumps After Another Headline Praising “Positive Hamas Response” To Israel Truce Negotiations It’s been a few days since we had a breaking headline out of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks, and so…

SEC Cracks Down On Basis Trades, Will Force Top Hedge Funds To Register As Dealers, Resulting In Collapsing Treasury Market Liquidity After the latest Quarterly Refunding presentation by the TBAC dedicated a…

S&P Index Set To Hit 5000 As Bull Run Continues, But… Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In September 2021, I discussed how the markets had set its sights on the S&P 500 index…

$118B Ukraine Slush-Fund ‘Border’ Deal Dead In Senate Amid GOP Revolt The Senate’s $118 billion ‘border security’ deal – of which more than 2/3 sends money to Ukraine ($60B+) and Israel ($14.1B)…

Singer Toby Keith had revealed his stomach cancer diagnosis in 2022 Chart-topping American country music singer Toby Keith, one of the most recognizable performers in the genre, died on Monday aged 62,…

Republican lawmakers have suggested passing a standalone aid package for Israel that is not tied to border security or Ukraine US President Joe Biden has vowed to veto a Republican-proposed standalone aid…

Mercantilism Is Coming Back Once Trump Is Re-Elected By Michael Every of Rabobank Do historical economic analysis or be history(?) Fed Chair Powell’s Sunday TV slot said a March rate cut was…

New York Community Bancorp Collapse Nears 27-Year-Lows After ‘Talks With Regulator’ Revealed “That’s a nice regional bank lender you got there… be a shame if anything happened to it…” We have warned…

Unblocking €50 billion for Ukraine has bought the bloc some time, Paolo Gentiloni has said The European Union is cautious about calls to seize Russian sovereign funds, EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni…

One-Fifth Of Remaining Hostages In Gaza Have Died: Israeli Officials Israeli officials have revealed that more than a fifth of the remaining hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have…

National Security chief Itamar Ben Gvir’s son implied on social media that the US president was suffering from a brain disease Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has apologized after his…

Paris shouldn’t turn a blind eye to French weapons being used by Kiev to target civilians, Moscow said France’s policy of backing Ukraine and trying to justify Kiev’s actions is “counterproductive and…

The former president can appeal the three-judge panel ruling to the Supreme Court Former US President Donald Trump does not enjoy presidential immunity in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith…

Newly enacted legislation allows lawmakers to determine whether a criminal is sufficiently rehabilitated to re-enter society The parliament of Singapore passed a law on Monday enabling the Asian nation to keep convicted…

Flood Watch For 38 Million In California, Governor Declares Emergency Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, California battered by ‘potentially historic’ storm. 38 million have flood alerts. What If California had channeled…

The iconic Crimean Bridge is “potentially dead,” Kiev’s navy chief Aleksey Neizhpapa has insisted The Crimean Bridge connecting the Russian peninsula of Crimea to the Krasnodar Region will be destroyed in 2024, the…

Today, there are twice as many students from Africa enrolled in Russian universities as there were during the USSR. What attracts them? Educational cooperation is one of the key elements in Russia-Africa…

UBS Shares Slide As Earnings Miss Darkens Outlook; CEO Warns 2024 Will Be “Pivotal” UBS shares in Zurich fell nearly 3% after the Swiss lender’s fourth-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street’s…

Biden Ridiculed After Confusing Macron With France’s Dead Ex-President Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, President Joe Biden was caught in another embarrassing gaffe when he claimed he spoke with former…

Futures Flat As Interest Rates Grind Higher After Two-Day Surge US index futures traded flat on Tuesday, with European markets fading earlier gains while Chinese stocks surged on fresh hopes of government…

Britain has bought over $700 million worth of petroleum products derived from sanctioned oil since 2022, a report has found The UK has been bypassing its own ban on Russian oil by…

The Fed Cannot Cut Rates As Fast As Markets Want Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Market participants started the year with aggressive expectations of rapid and large rate cuts. However, after the latest…

Adam Neumann Wants To Buyback WeWork With Help From Dan Loeb’s Third Point Some people never learn, and in that case, former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, as reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin’s DealBook,…

The US fast-food giants have faced boycotts in Muslim countries over perceived support for Israel The conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza has hurt McDonald’s sales in the Middle East,…

An official announcement regarding the high-profile attack on European energy infrastructure is expected this week  Sweden will this week announce the end of its investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream…

Doctors Without Borders says about 13 children die each day from malnutrition at a camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region More than a dozen children die every day at the Zamzam camp…

Option Traders Might Be Making It Easier To Get A Bank Loan Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Trading in option markets is likely making it easier to get bank credit,…

Chinese Stocks Soar Overnight As Regulators Brief Xi On $7 Trillion Trainwreck After tumbling the prior day following remarks on heavy tariffs from presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Chinese stocks rallied significantly across…

At least 11 workers have been killed and over 100 injured in a series of explosions in central India on Tuesday At least 11 people were killed and around 100 injured in…

New Delhi’s ventures in Russia’s oil and gas sectors are a testament to collaborative prowess and shared economic ambitions Amidst the geopolitical tremors which have emerged since the start of the Ukraine…

Houthi Rebels Fire Missiles At Two Ships As Red Sea Crisis Rages On Iran-backed Houthi rebels targeted two commercial ships sailing in the southern Red Sea following airstrikes by the United States…

A vessel traveling through the area was reportedly attacked by a suspected rebel drone, which caused “slight damage” to the vessel A British-owned vessel was attacked by a suspected Houthi drone off…

Lithuania’s honoring of a man who killed Jews during World War II is anti-Semitic, ambassador says There should be no place in Lithuania for any glorification of Holocaust participants, especially with anti-Semitism…

Valery Zaluzhny may find allies in radical nationalists in his standoff with President Vladimir Zelensky, Larry Johnson says Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could lose his job before General Valery Zaluzhny, the nation’s…

Nationalist party Sinn Fein has said a decision on Ireland’s reunification is within “touching distance” UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has downplayed suggestions that a referendum on Irish unity is forthcoming. The…

A man and a woman targeted a police checkpoint in front of the Caglayan courthouse Six people were wounded in an alleged terrorist attack in front of a courthouse in Istanbul, the…

Christian Lindner says that the country is no longer competitive and is falling behind economically Germany’s inability to generate economic growth is making the country poorer, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on…

Biden Makes Coal Great Again As Exports Soar To India US thermal coal exporters recorded more than $5 billion in overseas sales in 2023, shipping upwards of 32.5 million metric tons of…

Rishi Sunak told Piers Morgan that he’s willing to wager that the controversial plan will go ahead British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under fire after betting £1,000 ($1,250) during a TV…

The prime minister says he is confident his party will win the general election and take the economy beyond the $5 trillion mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pledged to lead…

The Great Growth Hoax Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, For several days, ever since the supposedly amazing GDP report from quarter four 2023, we’ve been blasted by the media about how…

The sanctioned country is reportedly still responsible for 9% of the bloc’s imports of the metal The EU is unlikely to introduce a complete ban on imports of aluminum from Russia as…

Bank Of America Is Breaking Its Promise To Not Finance New Coal Projects At the same time we are seeing the implosion of the ESG grift on a broad scale – including…

The Commander-in-Chief of Kiev’s Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny will reportedly also be replaced sometime this week Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky reportedly plans to fire his top general Valery Zaluzhny in the next…

Kiev isn’t concerned that the old munitions might be dangerous to transport, Kirill Budanov said in his plea for replacement weaponry Canada should send tens of thousands of old rockets to Kiev…

South Korea EV Sales Held Back by Drivers’ Fears Of Battery Fires By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com South Korea’s electric vehicle (EV) sales fell by 0.1% last year for the first annual…

The move by Senegalese MPs extends the tenure of President Macky Sall, which was due to end on April 2 Senegalese lawmakers have voted to postpone the West African nation’s presidential election…

Major European Banks At Center Of Complex Iran Sanctions Evasion Scandal Ever since Obama’s very short-lived nuclear deal with Iran was scrapped by the subsequent Trump administration, Tehran has ramped up its…

The Netherlands has concerns about data security on Meta’s social media platform The Dutch government may ban public servants from using Facebook due to concerns over data security on the platform, De…

Waste Of The Day: Over $1 Billion In Weapons Missing In Ukraine Authored by Adam Andrzejewski via RealClear Wire, Topline: The Department of Defense has failed to properly track $1 billion worth…

Italian Deputy PM Calls For Chemical Castration After Seven Egyptian Migrants Gang Rape Girl Aged 13 Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has called for people…

Hungary is the last remaining holdout in approving Stockholm’s bid to join the US-led military bloc Legislators with Hungary’s ruling party have refused to attend an emergency vote on Sweden’s application to…

Karolina Shiino, whose win caused controversy over her heritage, apologized after her relationship with a married man was revealed Karolina Shiino, a Ukrainian-born model with Japanese citizenship who won the 2024 Miss…

Ukraine Shells Bakery With US Weapons, Kills 28 Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia said on Sunday that at least 28 people were killed in the Ukrainian shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk,…

Exports of all types of fuels slumped by a third last month, the outlet says Gasoline production in Russia saw a year-on-year decrease of nearly 2% last month due to an accident…

The US company has prioritized financial performance over engineering excellence, according to Tim Clark US aerospace giant Boeing is in the “last chance saloon” in light of the long decline in the…

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…

Why All of America Could See a San Francisco-Style Homeless Crisis Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The homeless crisis in America is set to come to a…

The Most Popular Shotguns In America  Self-defense is the top reason Americans have been panic-buying firearms in the last several years. The deterioration of cities under Democratic leadership, plagued by violent crime…

Concern Lingers About Biden Losing Black Voters After South Carolina Primary Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) adamantly insisted that President Joe Biden’s support…

Standard Chartered Sees Ether HItting $4,000 By May, When Ethereum ETF Is Approved One month ago, Standard Chartered predicted that with ETF approval in the rearview mirror, bitcoin would eventually rise up…

Federal Judge Rejects Challenge To Mail-in Ballots In North Dakota Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a legal foundation…

The Scale Of California’s Pineapple Express Phenomenon A second atmospheric river rainstorm in a week is moving across California and has been causing landslides, downpours and high winds of hurricane strengths that toppled trees in some…

IRS To Boost Enforcement Workforce By 40% By Year-End 2024 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to raise its enforcement personnel by…

Hong Kong Set To Pass Article 23, Further Tightening Beijing’s Control Authored by Julia Ye and Angela Bright via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The prospect of Basic Law Article 23, which…

New Jersey Illegal Migrant Gang Charging Other Migrants $6,000 To Illegally Migrate A migrant gang based in New Jersey is helping a flood of future Democrats pour into the United States through…

More than a dozen countries have cut off funding to UNRWA over alleged ties to Hamas terrorism The United Nations has said it will investigate its own agency for Palestinian refugees to…

Exactly how bad is the “bipartisan” legislation, which should be called called, ‘the border insecurity in exchange for Ukraine money act’? The bill is so bad, and makes things so much worse,…

US Diesel Supply Tightens As Manufacturing Comes Roaring Back By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com U.S. manufacturers are recovering from an extended slump in activity and their energy consumption is about to start…

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has won the the popular vote by a landslide, official tally shows El Salvador’s Bitcoin-friendly and tough-on-crime Nayib Bukele has been reelected as president in a landslide on…

Doctor Who Helped A Wounded Ashli Babbitt On Jan. 6 Sentenced To Probation Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dr. Austin Brendlen Harris was forced away from…

US Presidents’ Approval Ratings In Their Third Year Since WWII President Biden’s approval rating is the second lowest in modern history for a first-term president. Today, under 40% of Americans approve of his job…

“Take Our Border Back” Convoy Ends With Rallies In 3 States By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves Several hundred people gathered in three border states Saturday to call for stricter immigration security, ending…

China Joins Russia In Condemning US Strikes In Middle East After the Friday large-scale US strikes on Iranian proxy positions in Iraq and Syria, and following the Saturday and Sunday Western coalition…

These Are The US States Losing (& Gaining) Population As pandemic patterns of U.S. population growth are normalizing, three states have remained among the U.S. jurisdictions which are shrinking. Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that,…

Open Borders & Closed Courts: How The Supreme Court Laid The Seeds For The Immigration Crisis Authored by Jonathan Turley, The upcoming impeachment vote on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has caused a deep…

Trump Says AI Might Be ‘Most Dangerous Thing Out There’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump said that artificial intelligence, or AI, has “no…

Pentagon’s strikes in Syria and Iraq are illegal under international law, Moscow’s envoy has told the UN Washington is fanning the flames of conflicts in the Middle East by conducting unlawful strikes…

Massachusetts Cuts College Degree Requirements For 90% Of State Jobs By Austin Browne of Campus Reform Massachusetts will no longer require a college degree for a large majority of government jobs due…

An interview with Israeli envoy Simona Halperin has received an ill reception, prompting a response from the Foreign Ministry The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released a large statement condemning fresh remarks…

50 Lawmakers Demand AG Garland Explain Illegal CCP-Linked Marijuana Farms A bipartisan group of 50 US lawmakers have requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland provide information on illegal marijuana grow operations in…

It has long been on the minds of doomsday preppers and fiction media creators alike – but how likely is it, really? Let’s sketch a big country in three broad strokes: First,…

VDH: Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, Or Conniving? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the…

Bonds, Bullion, Banks, & Bitcoin Battered As “Good News Is Bad News” Again After Powell Hotter than expected Services surveys – with a big jump in prices – was just the good…

Border Crisis: Democrats Are Trying To Run A Protection Racket On The American Public It’s important for Americans to understand that the Democrat Party of today has abandoned all pretenses of traditional…

Maine Kid-Smuggling Transgender Bill Killed In Committee Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A bill that would have allowed people to take children from parents to get transgender…

PA Court System Websites Go Offline After Denial Of Service Cyberattack Parts of Pennsyvania’s Courts’ website went down on Sunday due to a denial of service cyberattack, according to 6ABC. PA Systems…

West Point Can Continue Race-Based Admissions For Now, Supreme Court Rules Authored by Sam Dorman and Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court allowed the U.S. Military Academy…

Banks Report Tighter Standards, Weaker Loan Demand But Some Improvement As Financial Conditions Ease The last time we looked at the senior loan officer survey in November, we found “tighter standards and…

Vitaly Klitschko has urged the Ukrainian president to exercise caution with his plan to dismiss top general Valery Zaluzhny The mayor of Kiev, heavyweight boxing star-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, has argued against Ukrainian…

‘Markets Are Now Anchoring On Potential Trump Victory’ – Ex-Soros CIO Says “All Pullbacks Should Be Bought” “We are expecting an upward trajectory in the US equity markets,” wrote Scott Bessent, a…

Zelensky Confirms He’s Poised To Fire Military Chief, Amid Reports General Held ‘Secret Talks’ On Achieving Peace Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has finally given public confirmation that he is currently considering firing this…

King Charles Diagnosed With Cancer King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace. It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an…

Federal Agency Issues Security Warning For Apple Devices, Gives Three Weeks To Comply Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), This week, a federal agency sent a warning about…

The disease was discovered as the monarch was examined for benign prostate enlargement, Buckingham Palace has revealed King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday….

A record number of Indians won Recording Academy Awards this year as the South Asian nation strives to make its mark in the West Indian musicians swooped up three awards at the…

The former US president’s trial over classified documents is set to begin on May 20 Former US President Donald Trump could be sent to prison “for a long time” when a verdict…

Cost Of Running A McDonalds Jumps $250,000 In CA Due To Minimum Wage Hikes By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Prices at fast food restaurants in California are set to jump in April…

I thought seriously about just trashing the recipe post when the first comment, and three of the first eight, were gripes and snark. Especially after I made a point of letting people…