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US Industrial Production Drops In May As Capacity Utilization Sinks US Industrial Production fell 0.2% MoM in May – the second decline in the last three months. That print was weaker than…

US Retail Sales Tumbled In May As Gas Prices Fell, Car-Buying Stalled BofA’s omniscient analysts warning ahead of this morning’s retail sales data from the US is simple: Brace! And after the…

Futures Slide, Oil Rises As Mideast Tensions Build US stock futures and global markets are broadly lower on escalation/contagion worries in the Middle East after Trump called for the evacuation of Tehran and cut short his G-7…

Trump Says Trade Deal With Canada ‘Achievable’ Within Days Or Weeks Authored by Carolina Avendano & Noé Chartier via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), BANFF, Alta.–As G7 leaders gather in Alberta for…

BOJ Keeps Rates On Hold, Announces Tapering Of Taper The first central bank to announce its decision this week (ahead of the Fed and BOE), overnight the BoJ kept rates on hold…

TV Networks Face Advertising Apocalypse After Trump Admin Mulls Pharma Restrictions Last week independent Senators Bernie Sanders (VT) and Angus King (ME) introduced legislation that would ban pharmaceutical companies from promoting prescription drugs…

US Homebuilder Confidence Tumbles Near 13-Year-Lows Confidence among US homebuilders fell to the lowest level since December 2022 in June, with potential buyers deterred by high mortgage rates and anxiety about tariffs…

Senate Version Of ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Sets Up Showdown With House Over Taxes, Medicaid And SALT Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled the final and most contentious component of President Trump’s sweeping legislative…

Austria has reportedly backed a proposal previously put forward by Hungary and Slovakia The EU should keep the option of resuming Russian gas imports on the table once a peace deal between…

Netanyahu has vowed to crush Iran’s nuclear capabilities as experts warn of a broader western agenda  In his first public address since the beginning of Operation Rising Lion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

A recent New York Times article accused the billionaire of using a “cocktail of substances,” including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and ketamine Elon Musk has shared a laboratory drug test showing a negative…

Prominent conservative figures are calling on Donald Trump to stay out of the Israel-Iran war, but is it the rebellion it seems to be? Steve Bannon – the smart, stubborn, and irrepressible…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has sounded the alarm over “galloping escalation” Israel has so far shown no interest in peacefully settling the conflict it initiated with Iran, despite Russia’s offer to mediate a…

Air India, Lufthansa and British Airways have cited technical issues for the diversions Four Boeing 787 Dreamliners on international flights to India have been forced to turn back due to technical issues…

Only Bitcoin & Gold Can Stop Governments From Destroying The Currency Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Allow me to remind you of a few uncomfortable truths. Government spending is out of control in…

Green Energy Stocks Puke As Senate Bill Targets Early End To Tax Credits Solar and renewable energy stocks crashed in premarket trading after Senate Republicans unveiled a draft of a bill that would end…

Togo’s media regulator has accused France 24 and RFI of undermining national stability through inaccurate coverage Togo has suspended French state-funded broadcasters France 24 and Radio France Internationale (RFI) for three months,…

These Are America’s Cheapest New Cars Finding a new car for under $20,000 is becoming increasingly difficult, with only 3 models below the threshold The average price of a new car in…

EU Aims To Cut All Russian Gas Imports By 2027 Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, As the European Union seeks to end its dependency on Russian energy, the European Commission is…

The developer of ChatGPT has signed on to “prototype frontier AI capabilities” for the US Defense Department OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT language model, has received a $200 million contract from…

The airline has canceled flights to Beirut, Amman, Baghdad, and Erbil in the face of regional conflict EgyptAir has suspended operations to several key regional destinations in response to the deteriorating security…

The White House said the US president had to leave the G7 summit due to the ongoing Israel-Iran stand-off US President Donald Trump has left the G7 summit in Canada early, despite…

Iran was “very close” to obtaining a nuclear weapon, US President Donald Trump has said US President Donald Trump has said he believes that Iran was “very close” to obtaining a nuclear…

BritCard: Inside Labour’s “Progressive” Digital ID Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, A new report from a British government think tank offers some clear insights into the Starmer administration’s plan to introduce…

The conservative talk show host has been criticizing “warmongers” who advocate US involvement in the hostilities US President Donald Trump blasted conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson on Monday, calling him “kooky”…

Kiev has shelled a residential area in Donetsk, leading to reports of fatalities among civilians, according to Mayor Alexey Kulemzin Russian civilians have reportedly been killed and at least ten injured by…

The State Department has reportedly cited weak identity document systems, government fraud, and overstays as reasons for their inclusion The United States plans to expand its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from…

The US Fertility Rate Is At All-Time Lows For over a century, the fertility rate in the United States has reflected sweeping demographic and societal changes. This dataset, visualized by USAFacts using data from…

The US president’s family company has launched a self-branded cellular service featuring US-made mobile devices The Trump Organization has launched a new self-branded mobile phone service featuring US-assembled devices. Announced on Monday,…

The attacks targeted facilities in Kiev and a part of Ukraine-controlled Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said The Russian military has launched a series of attacks on Ukraine’s defense…

Visualizing The Economic Value Of The Arctic The Arctic is gaining global attention as melting ice unlocks access to vast natural resources. From “ecosystem services” like climate regulation to lucrative mineral and…

UK Gold Mining Company Bluebird To Convert Revenues Into Bitcoin Authored by Oscar Zarraga Perez via BitcoinMagazione.com, Bluebird Mining Ventures Ltd., a pan Asian gold project development company, recently announced a major strategic shift….

S. Jaishankar has said there are rising voices in the BRICS+ nations condemning the unfairness of global affairs Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has said that “strong sentiments” in the Global South…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes President Donald Trump at the beginning of the working sessions for the G7 assembly in Canada. During the press availability President Trump notes the G7 used…

Sometimes a media report from “sources familiar with the matter” does actually track with the way President Trump’s doctrine is seen.  This is one of those times. According to Axios, White House…

U.S. President Trump and U.K Prime Minister Starmer finished signing the details of the U.S-U.K trade agreement on heavy industry, aerospace, car tariffs and automobile trade.   Both Trump and Starmer delivered remarks…

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…

[Source] Tehran, the capital and largest city of Iran, has a population of around 9.8 million in the city as of 2025, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area.  Evacuation would be…

Moscow was among the targeted regions, with the raid prompting a brief shutdown of several airports Russia’s air defenses have destroyed 147 incoming Ukrainian drones overnight, including several targeting Moscow, the country’s…

UK Turning Into ‘National Health State’, Says Think Tank Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, The UK is turning into a “National Health State,” the Resolution Foundation has said, after…

How Can Europe Replace US Support For Ukraine? The Kiel Institute for the World Economy has released a new report outlining how Europe could replace U.S. support for Ukraine both financially and militarily. The organization has…

Chronocide: How Technocracy Is Erasing The Past, Present, & Future Authored by Niall McCrae via Off-Guardian.org, The past is another country, according to LP Hartley’s opening line of The Go-Between. Nowadays, we…

Trump’s Truth Social Files S-1 For Dual Bitcoin & Ether ETF Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, filed an S-1 form with the…

Trump Calls Expelling Russia From G8 “A Big Mistake” That Led To Ukraine War “This was a big mistake,” Trump told reporters Monday just ahead of the G7 meeting in Canada, in…

Illegal Alien Economy: How Foreign Nations Exploit US Borders For Profit Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Well, the tensions over mass illegal immigration in the US are finally coming to a…

Gold: The Global Financial System’s Lie-Detector? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via vongreyerz.gold, Is gold calling out a broken global financial system? One Big…Lie? Earlier this year, I was asked to give my most…

The Ghost In The Machine Authored by Nick Trimmer via The Fifth Estate, The Chinese Communist Party has a long, proud history of spycraft and theft [ZH: And let’s be honest, every…

Israel is among the nations “believed to be modernizing its nuclear arsenal,” the Stockholm-based SIPRI institute has said The world risks plunging into a “new dangerous arms race” as most nuclear powers…

More Americans Plan Summer ‘Staycations’; Cincinnati Named Top Spot: Survey A new Bankrate survey reveals that 46% of Americans plan to travel this summer. Of the remaining 54%, 65% say affordability is keeping them…

Support For Renewables Slides As Fossil Fuel Interest Grows By Pam Radtke of Floodlight Republicans and Democrats alike are less likely to support renewable energy than they were five years ago, according…

Impossible Foods’ Legal Blitz Leaves Investors With Nothing But Empty Plates In a bizarre twist of corporate warfare, Impossible Foods, the once-hyped darling of the alt-meat industry, appears to have squandered investor resources…

The Pentagon has confirmed the deployment of additional “defensive capabilities” to the Middle East US President Donald Trump has issued a cryptic warning on Truth Social, urging “everyone” to leave the Iranian…

The Prisoner’s Dilemma Of AI Authored by Sofia Karstens via The Brownstone Institute, Democracy and capitalism as we know it have long coexisted in a tense but workable marriage. But now there’s…

Mossad Spent Eight Months Preparing Surprise Attack On Iran: Report Via The Cradle The Israeli military operation launched against Iran on June 13, striking nuclear facilities, missile sites, and senior leadership targets…

Israeli firms have been blocked from displaying offensive weapons used in Gaza at the Paris Air Show Israel has blasted France for blocking several of its weapons manufacturers from displaying their products…

Killing the Iranian supreme leader would end the conflict, the Israeli prime minister has claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to rule out trying to kill Iranian Supreme Leader Ali…

ICE Raid At Omaha Food Plant Results In Dozens Of Arrests, New Applicants For Open Jobs Via American Greatness, The largest federal worksite immigration enforcement raid so far this year in Nebraska,…

Any consideration of peace talks must come after Iran loses the capability to pursue the program, Simona Halperin has told RT Israel wants to entirely dismantle both Iran’s nuclear program and destroy…

Randi Weingarten Quits DNC After David Hogg Ouster Two of the most powerful figures in organized labor have dramatically cut ties with the Democratic National Committee – a stunning rebuke to new…

King-less? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Realize where we are.” – Oilfield Rando on “X” Saturday morning, we toodled over to the next town, Salem, New York, (pop. 2,612, per capita income…

These Countries Have Suffered The Biggest Declines In Freedom Over the past decade, freedom has sharply declined in many countries. Authoritarian leaders have expanded their power by rewriting constitutions, silencing the media,…

12 Contexts For An Era Of Global Conflict Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Understanding any complex system or situation begins by identifying contexts that illuminate rather than obscure, misdirect…

Epidemiologist Who Was Fired From Harvard After Refusing COVID Shot Named To CDC Vaccine Panel Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, World-renowned infectious-disease epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff — who was fired…

Excluding the country from the group of primarily Western major economies was “a big mistake,” the US leader has said US President Donald Trump has called Russia’s removal from the group of…

20Y Auction Prices “On The Screws” Amid Solid Foreign Demand With Thursday a holiday, and the Fed statement on Wednesday, it’s an especially abbreviated week for bond issuance which is why at…

Where Is The Tariff Inflation? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Well, this is awkward… For months, many, most, if not all economists have been predicting a re-inflation due to…

Sarepta Crashes After Second Death On Gene Therapy Drug Sarepta Therapeutics shares suffered their steepest drop in years on Monday morning after a second teenage patient died following treatment with Elevidys, the…

Tehran will continue to be sanctioned, pummeled, and subjected to targeted assassinations until strategic deterrence is attained Just hours after Israel launched its strikes on Iran in the early hours of Friday,…

Trump Orders ICE To Expand Illegal Immigrant Deportation Efforts Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Sunday directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to expand efforts…

I know more than a few of us were here on these pages discussing Donald Trump in June of 2015 when he announced his intention to run for the Republican presidential nomination….

The 13-month-old boy, whom the pair had not finished adopting, died in 2023 British secondary school teacher Jamie Varley has been charged with the murder and sexual assault of a 13-month-old boy…

The office has continued to operate despite the damage sustained in the attack, according to local media The Israeli military has targeted the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster (IRINN) as part of…

Blaise Metreweli has previously described Russia and China as threats to the UK The UK has named Blaise Metreweli as the next head of the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6,…

Zelensky Pushes New Arms Package Discussion With Trump At G7 With things blowing up in the Middle East over the last four days, it’s easy to forget that there’s a whole war…

El Salvador Buys 240 Bitcoin Since IMF Non-Accumulation Agreement Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, El Salvador, the world’s first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, has continued buying the cryptocurrency…

The “terrorist tandem” is seeking to derail US-Russia efforts to end the Ukraine conflict, the SVR has warned Kiev and London have been plotting a series of “bloody provocations” to escalate the…

Moscow and Washington had agreed to restore diplomatic relations following two meetings earlier this year The US has postponed bilateral consultations with Moscow aimed at easing tensions and restoring diplomatic missions, Russian…

As geopolitical rifts deepen, the group struggles to find common ground on Ukraine, Gaza, trade, and the climate – raising doubts about its role The G7 meeting in Canada is likely to…

The global Muslim population grew by nearly 21% in the 2010s, Pew Research Center data suggests Islam grew approximately three times as fast as Christianity between 2010 and 2020, spurred by higher…

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that people on the ConInc side of the conversation also need to pretend not to know things. There is an increased sentiment of frustration toward President Donald Trump…

Latvian lawmaker Aleksey Roslikov has accused authorities of using psychological pressure by intimidating his family A Latvian MP has claimed his parents’ home was raided in what he called an effort to…

Berlin is preparing for potential Iranian attacks, Friedrich Merz has said Germany is preparing for potential Iranian attacks targeting the local Jewish community, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has told journalists before departing for…

Israel has confirmed hitting an Iranian state broadcaster among other targets The shared offices of RT’s Tehran bureau and a Ruptly video agency branch have been evacuated due to intensifying IDF strikes…

Three More States Diverge From CDC On COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Officials from three states said on June 12 that pregnant women should still be…

Chopper pressers are the best pressers.  President Trump departs the White House to attend the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada (aka the “Canadian Rockies”).  As he departs, President trump takes a few…

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…

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to SWAT police officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home.  Vance Boelter was arrested…

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…

I’ll break out a different analytical discussion on other foreign interest matters in a separate post; however, as the G7 kicks off it is very interesting to notice who shows up on…

All Eyes On Trump As G7 Summit Begins Amid Middle East Tensions Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump arrived in Alberta, Canada, on Sunday for the Group…

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: FOMC, Retail Sales, G7, Middle East War Just one week ago, it was all about US/China but that seems a long time ago now as 2025 continues…

The 57-year-old reportedly had a manifesto listing 70 public figures including abortion supporters The primary suspect in the murder of senior Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband has been…

Market Rapidly Evolving Towards Positive Outcome In The Middle East Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, While the fighting continues between Iran and Israel, the market is pricing in a positive…

The Russian president told his Turkish counterpart that Moscow has strictly adhered to the agreements reached in Istanbul Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for helping…

The high-end German automaker was among the first to announce plans to exit the country but claims it faced challenges selling local assets Luxury German carmaker Porsche has not exited Russia due…

BRICS talks go on as missiles fall – a Russian analyst shares what he saw and heard in the Iranian capital “No panic. Everyone is just getting on with their work.” That’s…

New Delhi is planning to relocate some Indian students in Iran to “safer places” within the country, and is also exploring “other feasible options” for their safety, the Indian foreign ministry said…

The criticism was sparked after police knocked a priest to the ground during an anti-LGBTQ rally in the Moldovan capital The Moldovan authorities have sacrificed the country’s centuries-old heritage in exchange for…

Futures Surge As Dip-Buyers Ignore Escalating Middle-East War US equity futures are higher, oil is lower and multiple asset classes are displaying a risk on tone as markets shrug off the situation in…