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Credit-Card & Auto Delinquencies Soar, Especially Age Group 18-39 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Credit card debt surged to a record high in the fourth quarter. Even more troubling is a…

Imports Of Avocados, Beer From Mexico Score Big On Super Bowl Sunday By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves As more than 110 million people settle in Sunday night to watch Kansas City and…

Naledi Pandor claims to have received intimidating messages arising from the war crimes case against Israel South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor has accused Israeli intelligence of attempting to intimidate her and…

The replacement of Ukraine’s top general will not affect Russia’s campaign, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia does not expect any significant impact on its military campaign against Ukraine after Kiev replaced…

World Gold Council: “Blistering Central Bank Buying” Fuels Strong Gold Demand Via SchiffGold.com, Total gold demand hit an all-time high in 2023, according to a recent report released by the World Gold Council….

The neighboring country promoted “false heroes” who collaborated with the Germans during WWII, the Russian president has said Russia has not yet achieved its goals in the Ukraine conflict, as Nazi ideology…

Last night’s event was sensational, but what was the real motivation behind the Kremlin encounter? A few years ago, Russia was accused of interfering in American political processes. Now the opposite has…

Russia’s New LNG Project Can’t Begin Shipments Before March By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Russia’s newest LNG export project, Arctic 2 LNG developed by Novatek, will not be able to start shipments…

Europe’s Stock Market Is Just As Concentrated As The U.S. By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The US equity market isn’t the only one with a heavy dependence on…

The former Fox News host has been criticized simply for presenting Moscow’s position to the American public, Anatoly Antonov has said US journalist Tucker Carlson has been vilified in his homeland merely…

The billionaire will continue his technological developments, but rules must be established, the Russian leader has said Elon Musk will continue pushing for technological progress in fields such as AI, but must…

The political consultations between Ethiopia and Russia were praised by the African country’s foreign ministry Ethiopia’s first BRICS meeting since joining the group last month has been described as a “diplomatic victory”…

Liabilities held by the public could exceed the country’s annual output as early as next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office US debt held by the public is expected to hit…

The former secretary of state is baffled as to why some Americans would trust the Russian leader over their own government Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lashed out at…

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are demanding an immediate withdrawal from ECOWAS, rejecting a one-year notice period The military governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger failed to comply with the rules…

EU Bends The Knee To Farmers: Drops Key Provisions In 2040 Climate Proposal The European Commission has bent the knee to protesting farmers – and is dropping key passages in a proposal…

The Tank Is Dead? Authored by Patrick Drennan via RealClear Wire, Lessons from the battlefields of Ukraine Hundreds of expensive tanks of both sides are being destroyed on the battlegrounds of Ukraine…

The US leader has disputed a claim in a Justice Department report that his recollection of events is deteriorating US President Joe Biden has angrily denied assertions that he is unable to…

Republican hopeful Nikki Haley has claimed New Delhi is close to Moscow as it views the Biden White House as weak India has fostered close ties with Russia as it views the…

The Russian leader spoke on a variety of burning topics in the much-anticipated interview, focusing on the Ukraine conflict Conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson has released a much-anticipated interview that he conducted…

Crazy Rich Asians… According to a ranking recently published by Bloomberg, the Ambanis remain the wealthiest among Asia’s families, having recovered from previous losses. The family owes its riches to the Reliance Industries conglomerate headquartered…

Evan Gershkovich was caught red-handed receiving secret information, the Russian president has said Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter currently held in Russia on espionage charges, could return home if the…

The Delusions Of Davos And Dubai, Part Three: Alternatives To Wind & Solar Energy Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, Wind and solar energy cannot lift humanity into prosperity. But as…

Purchases reportedly jumped after an attempt to ban the country’s nuclear fuel The US imported $1.2 billion worth of Russian uranium last year, the most ever on record, RIA Novosti reported on…

Turnover with the EU, meanwhile, more than halved in 2023, according to Maksim Reshetnikov Russia’s mutual trade with countries that have not sanctioned Moscow over the Ukraine conflict has surged over 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…

The Geopolitics Of World War III Authored by Michael Hochberg & Leonard Hochberg via RealClearWire.com, Introduction On January 2, 2024, Foreign Minister Israel Katz proclaimed “We’re in the middle of World War III against…

American lawmakers have spent months wrangling over additional military aid for Kiev Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized US Republicans as senators attempted to block a new $95 billion aid package for…

Why Are Woke Pro Sports Leagues Lobbying Congress For Gun Control? Submitted by Gun Owners of America, As the United States prepares for its most-watched sporting event of the year, anti-gun senators…

“My Memory Is Fine” Biden Fumes, Before Confusing Egypt’s Sisi With The President Of Mexico In less than 15 minutes, President Biden proved Special Counsel Robert Hur right and confirmed all concerns…

Water Level Projections Threaten Future Panama Canal Transits By Tony Mulvey of FreightWaves Dry season in Panama is in full swing, and the impacts to trade through the Panama Canal will remain…

US Trade With Mexico Surges To No. 1 Position Mexico was the biggest trade partner of the U.S. in 2023 and the biggest source of the country’s imports ahead of China. As Statista’s Katharina Buchhoz details…

Aleksandr Syrsky’s family still lives in his native Vladimir region The parents and brother of Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief Aleksandr Syrsky are living in Russia, multiple Russian news outlets reported. On Thursday, President…

South Dakota Forced To Apologize To Transgender Activists, Pay $300,000 Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, South Dakota has issued an apology to a transgender advocacy group and must pay…

The tech giant says it prohibits people with a “violent mission” or those “engaged in violence” Meta has banned multiple Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…

Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Director Calls For Expanding Detection Of ‘Silent’ COVID Vaccine Risks Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dr. Gregory Poland, the director of Mayo Clinic’s…

US Warns Against Impending Israeli Assault On Refugee-Packed Rafah US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has voiced “concerns” to Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding the Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) impending ground operation…

While overt belligerence no longer dominates the discourse over the island, Washington is very much gearing up for a confrontation The year 2024 has been muted when it comes to tensions between…

Pentagon Secretly Institutionalized DEI In Its K-12 Public Schools By Adam Andrzejewski of Open The Books Substack In a Congressional hearing last spring, Gil Cisneros, then-Under Secretary for Military Readiness, announced that…

A Matured MAGA Movement Prepares For Trump’s Return To DC Authored by Nathan Worcester and Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), What would the start of a second Trump term…

Moscow doesn’t want the world slipping into a global war, the Russian leader said Russia has no intention of attacking NATO member states and will retaliate only if attacked first, President Vladimir…

The legislation has cleared a procedural hurdle, heading toward a vote after border-security measures were stripped out US lawmakers have moved closer to approving a new round of military aid for Ukraine…

The country in its current form was created by the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the Russian president said Modern Ukraine is a country that was artificially created by the actions of…

US Asset Or US Adversary? Why Qatar Looks Worryingly Like Both Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Wire, After Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, one of the terrorist organization’s chief financial…

Judge Rules Former Trump Advisor Peter Navarro Will Remain In Prison While He Appeals Contempt Conviction Authored by Ryan Morgan via NTD News, A federal judge has rejected a request by former…

The Russian president said the CIA is to blame for blowing up the Baltic Sea gas pipelines in 2022 The US had a clear motive to orchestrate the explosions at the Nord…

Investigators have found that the president’s mishandling of classified documents jeopardized national security US President Joe Biden put national security at risk by “willfully” retaining and disclosing state secrets, a prosecutor has…

Diesel Prices Primed To Rise Sharply In 2024 By John Kemp, senior market analyst Global stocks of diesel and other middle distillates are below normal and prices could start to rise quickly…

Hawaii Ignores US Supreme Court, Strikes Down Right To Carry Firearms In Public Hawaii’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the state doesn’t have to adhere to a constitutional right to carry…

Biden To Hold Campaign Fundraiser In NYC With Barack Obama And Bill Clinton Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden is planning to host a reelection…

Money-Market Fund Assets Hit New Record High As Fed’s Bank-Bailout Facility Holds At $165BN Despite a soaring stock market, money-market funds saw $16.7BN of inflows last week, to a new record high…

Irony Alert: “Outlawing” Recession Has Made A Monster Recession Inevitable Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Those who came of age after 1982 have never experienced a real recession, and…

Massive Short-Squeeze Sends Small Caps Soaring; Big-Tech Skids, Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid Jobless claims just won’t quit and were enough to send Treasury yields higher today after ARM and DIS earnings’…

Unnamed officials insisted someone else provided the missile to Ukraine, however The American-supplied Patriot launcher was used in the January 24 shooting down of the Russian Il-76 transport over Belgorod, the New…

The conservative American journalist has visited Moscow to speak with the Russian leader Conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson is about to stream an interview he conducted with with Russian president Vladimir Putin in…

The conservative reporter’s sit-down with the Russian president airs later on Thursday evening American journalist Tucker Carlson has shared the first image from his highly-anticipated interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The…

70 NYCHA Employees Charged In Biggest Bribery Raid In Justice Department History Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Prosecutors said Tuesday that 70 current and former employees of the New…

Bidenomics Failing Farmers As Expected Incomes Crash The Most Since 2006 A new report from the US Department of Agriculture forecasts that US farmers are poised for another year of financial misery, facing the most…

Stellar 30Y Auction Sees Surge In Foreign Demand, Biggest Stop Through In 13 Months After yesterday’s 10Y auction priced well ahead of expectations as a burst of buyers crushed any fears there…

Rep. Matt Gaetz Introduces Resolution Saying Trump Didn’t Engage In ‘Insurrection’ Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced a resolution on Feb. 6 to…

Hershey CEO Warns ‘Earnings Limited’ As Cocoa Prices Hyperinflate Cocoa futures in New York soared to a new record high this morning as fears of a global bean shortage worsened. Hyperinflating cocoa…

Are Bank Runs Back On The Menu? Authored by Marty Bent via TFTC.io, Don’t look now, but it seems that the regional banking crisis is beginning to reemerge after almost a year…

The court was highly critical of an effort by Colorado activists to bar the former president from seeking office again US Supreme Court judges appeared ready on Thursday to shoot down a…

General Valery Zaluzhny was relieved of duty earlier today Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky named General Aleksandr Sirsky as the new head of the armed forces on Thursday, after sacking General Valery Zaluzhny…

Russia’s ambassador to London has argued that there is no legitimate threat of a military clash with British forces Russia’s ambassador to London has dismissed warnings of a potential war between Moscow…

It’s no coincidence that Israel found cause to deprive the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency of funding right after the ICJ genocide ruling After more than four months of a bombing campaign that…

Trump Civil Fraud Trial Judge Demands Answers On Rumors Of Perjury Plea Deal Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New York Justice Arthur Engoron pressed former President Donald…

Innocent people in Gaza should not be punished for the actions of Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Israel cannot use the October 7 Hamas attack as a “license to…

A total of 200 captives were traded in the latest swap A total of 100 Russian prisoners who were “in mortal danger” in Ukrainian captivity have been exchanged for the same number…

Calling Biden’s Bluff: Threats Of Open Border Chaos Turn Into Rumors Of ‘Executive Action’ On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warned that unless the $118B ‘bipartisan’ border security bill (which…

A group of Middle Eastern soccer associations has reportedly demanded that FIFA bar Israeli teams from competition Football federations from a dozen Middle Eastern countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United…

The result of the clash of the American political giants will reverberate around the globe for decades The world is watching the US presidential election closely as it will have significant implications…

Red Sea Trouble Threatens US Freight Recovery By Joe Antoshak of FreightWaves Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday his committee is unlikely to consider cutting the federal funds rate at its…

Valery Zaluzhny has been officially sacked as the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Valery Zaluzhny, who has led the Ukrainian Armed Forces throughout the conflict with Russia, was relieved…

Many units are understrength and dealing with low morale, field commanders have said The Ukrainian Army is facing a “critical” deficit of troops, driving fears that its front may soon collapse, the…

The yuan and ruble are now used in 90% of transactions between the two countries, Yury Ushakov says Russia and China have brought the share of mutual trade settlements in the national…

‘I See Dead People’ – Biden Blunders Again On Deceased World Leader Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, For the second time in a week, Joe Biden claimed that he had a…

Zelensky Fires Top General, Initiates Major Army Shake-Up It’s official: as we predicted even starting last month Ukraine’s top general and commander of the armed forces is now out. President Zelensky has confirmed…

A Latvian lawmaker has denied reports that she met with Russian intelligence “handlers” Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka has denied working for Russian intelligence, telling the European Parliament that she is “an agent…

Slovenia’s Tanja Fajon has called for new measures to “see Putin suffer” EU sanctions on Moscow have failed to cause any significant damage to the Russian economy and have instead put member…

Dejana Radanovic visited the South Asian nation recently for mid-level tournaments Serbian tennis star Dejana Radanovic has sparked controversy online for criticizing living conditions in India after taking part in mid-level tournaments…

“Boy, Markets Do Not Want To Sober Up When They Read The News” By Michael Every of Rabobank I’m going to repeat an old joke I last made years ago in the…

The US journalist is perfectly capable of taking care of himself, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said  US journalist Tucker Carlson does not need Moscow’s protection after he recorded an interview with Russian…

Carlsberg Group had previously announced having de-consolidated Baltika Breweries, its Russian business The financial loss sustained by Danish brewing multinational Carlsberg Group due to its exit from Russia amounted to 40.8 billion…

Bitcoin Surges Over $45,000 As Rising ETFs Inflows Confirm Accelerating Investor Interest Two weeks ago, when the general public was confused by the relentless selling in crypto following the launch of the…

Too many of Boris Nadezhdin’s backers were not deemed valid by the election authority Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian presidential hopeful running on a platform of restoring good relations with the West, has…

Live: Supreme Court Hears Trump-Colorado 14th Amendment Ballot-Ban Case Today, at 10amET, the Supreme Court will rule on Colorado’s efforts to get former President Trump off the 2024 ballot for “insurrection or…

China Double-Ds: Consumer Prices Suffer Worst Deflation Since GFC, Producer Price (Downside) Pressures Persist Overnight saw a Double-Deflation Day in China as both Consumer and Producer Prices continued to deflate (on a…

Powerful programs may even be built without a quantum computer, according to Ruslan Yunusov AI could become self-aware within the next ten years even without the use of special quantum computers, Russian…

If elected, the Republican frontrunner has vowed to put an end to the fighting within “24 hours” Former US President Donald Trump will likely keep his promise to end the conflict in…

Five Marines Aboard Missing Super Stallion Helicopter Confirmed Dead Outside San Diego A search and rescue operation concluded Thursday that the five US Marines who were aboard a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion…

The escalating clashes between DR Congo forces and the M23 militant group have reportedly displaced at least 150,000 people The eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has…

Surprising (FCI-Driven) Surge In Growth Means Yields Are Going Up Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Financial conditions are loosening significantly, further fueling a global upswing that began last year. Longer-term…

Watch Live: Senators To Grill Yellen Over Treasury’s “Domestic Spy Games” On Gun Owners Lawmakers at the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee are set to grill Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…

Despite Mass Layoffs, US Jobless Claims Declined Last Week First things first, here’s what’s been reported – in the real world labor market – in 2024… 1. Twitch: 35% of workforce 2….

The Russian energy giant Rosneft’s local subsidiary is currently under a Berlin-appointed trusteeship The nationalization of Rosneft’s assets in Germany would be tantamount to confiscation, and such a step would have far-reaching…

Futures Drop, Yields And Oil Rise Amid Earnings Firehose US equity futures dropped on Thursday after hitting a fresh all time high in the previous session, and bond yields rose as investors…

The two leaders discussed bilateral and international affairs in a phone call on Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on Thursday with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, ahead of…

Red Sea Crisis Sends Maersk Shares Crashing As Outlook Darkens, Buybacks Suspended Shares of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S in Copenhagen plunged on Thursday. This decline occurred after the world’s second-largest shipping company announced fourth-quarter earnings…