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WTI ‘Off The Lows’ After API Reports Another Crude Inventory Draw Oil plunged again today, on pace for its longest weekly losing streak since 2018, after inflation data prompted some fears that…

Not “Trump The Dictator” Again… Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, It is “Trump Will Destroy Democracy” season again. And predictably the Left has gone hysterical, after experiencing a trifecta of frightening 2024…

Questions to the Ukrainian president during his meeting with US legislators were “very scripted,” Senator Eric Schmitt laments Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky has failed to provide any new arguments in defense of…

‘All Greed, No Fear’ Ahead Of Fed: VIX Hits 4-Year Low As Crude Carnage Continues The market appears to be calling ‘Powell the Pusillanimous‘ bluff by rallying fearlessly (and selling vol unabashedly)…

Alleged Discord Leaker’s Commanding Officer Removed From Post Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, The commanding officer of Massachusetts National Air Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been relieved of his post. Teixeira…

Citadel Handing Back $7 Billion In Profits To Investors After 15% Return In 2023 2023 was another year of underperformance for most hedge funds (who have barely been able to eek out…

A mainstay of Washington’s policy since even before the end of World War II has been to make economic dependencies of its friends At a recent investment forum in Moscow, Russian President…

Politicians & Regulators Keep Shouting That Crypto Is Synonymous With Fraud. Here’s Why They’re Wrong Authored by Omid Malekan and Brian Whitehurst via Fortune.com, “Rife with fraud, manipulation, and money laundering.” That’s…

Budapest says any funding for Kiev must come from outside of the bloc’s shared budget European Union (EU) officials are discussing strategies to raise emergency funding for Ukraine separate from the bloc’s…

Ron Paul: Biden & The Media Are Gaslighting People About Inflation Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, President Biden recently repeated the claim that high…

Destruction In Gaza May Be Worse Than Germany in WWII, EU’s Borrell Claims European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell issued a surprising comparison, saying that the immense destruction in Gaza might…

The US will provide military aid to Israel “until they get rid of Hamas,” the American president said US President Joe Biden expressed his “unshakable” commitment to Israel’s security at a White…

California Has A $68 Billion Budget Deficit With Only $30 Billion In Reserves Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The boom-bust cycle in California is back to bust again. Governor Newsom faces…

Stellar 30Y Auction Has First Stop Through Since June, Sparks Algo Buying Frenzy One month after an abysmal 30Y auction, and after 5 months of tailing 30Y sales, the mood was predictably…

The American UN veto on a Gaza ceasefire is a low point of wag-the-dog international politics December 8, 2023, is a day that will live in infamy. The United States made history…

Cape Verde’s President Jose Maria Neves says he was surprised when head of government met with Ukrainian leader without consensus Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s short technical stop in Cape Verde last weekend…

Houthi rebels have carried out a series of attacks on vessels which they claim are bound for Israel A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels struck a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the…

Israeli families are asking their government to strike a new deal to release all captives being held in Gaza RT has spoken with an Israeli woman whose 23-year-old daughter is still being…

Biden In Sudden About-Face: Israel ‘Losing Support’ Due To ‘Indiscriminate Bombing’ In a sudden about-face, President Biden in a speech on Tuesday began aggressively criticizing Israel and the Netanyahu government for the…

Bilateral partnership is expanding in a range of new areas, Aleksandr Rybas has said A complicated geopolitical environment and international sanctions on Russia have prompted the establishment of new supply and payment…

Furious Al Gore Blasts COP28 “On Verge Of Complete Failure” By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com The COP28 climate summit extended overtime on Tuesday as nations continue to disagree on wording about the…

Israel Open To Truce Deal With Hezbollah, Wants US Troops Deployed As Peacekeepers Despite daily exchanges of fire, and deaths on both sides of the border, the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah…

China’s Promise Of Reform Yet To Impress Traders Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Stock index futures in the FTSE China A50 are so far up a little (amid some volatility)…

Trump Predicts He Can Win Deep Blue State Authored by Catherine Yang and Eva Fu via Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump headlined the New York Young Republican Club’s annual…

Israel Starts Pumping Seawater Into Gaza Tunnels, After Russia Warned Against ‘War Crime’ Israel’s previously reported somewhat far-fetched sounding plan to flood Gaza’s underground network of tunnels, to flush out and kill…

The US leader urged Congress to pass stalled “supplemental funds” for Kiev as he met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky US President Joe Biden has promised another $200 million in emergency military…

Democrats Combine All Their Gun Control Plans Into One Comprehensive Bill Authored by Michael Clemente via The Epoch Times, Democrats have reintroduced previously failed proposals representing an exhaustive list of almost all…

The bill has to pass the Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law The US House of Representatives voted on Monday to approve legislation that would bar the…

A UN refugee agency says too many people in the Palestinian enclave haven’t eaten for days The population of Gaza is suffering from hunger as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) prepares…

These Are The Most-Shorted Stocks In The US Shorting a company involves borrowing its shares, selling them at current prices, and then buying them back in the future at a lower price….

Is This The End For Zelenskyy? Authored by Thomas Fazi via UnHerd.com, Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western public has been sold the story of a Ukrainian front united in its…

Jack Smith Reveals Plans To Use Trump’s Cellphone Data In Federal Election Trial Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times, Special counsel Jack Smith has revealed plans that he may present…

The US leader’s planned trip to new New Delhi is unlikely to go ahead, Indian outlets have reported US President Joe Biden is unlikely to visit India for Republic Day celebrations on…

“Oil And Water”: America Only Has 178 Flagged Cargo Carriers Vs. China’s 7,362 By Michael Every of Rabobank Oil and Water Today will be all about US inflation, as the market continues…

Ukrainian president came to Washington ‘lecturing’ Americans and ‘demanding’ more taxpayer dollars, JD Vance says The visit by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to the US is an attempt to pressure Americans to…

Choice Hotels Launches Another Takeover Attempt Of Wyndham  Budget hotel chain Choice Hotels International has launched another hostile takeover bid to acquire Wyndham Hotels & Resorts following several unsuccessful attempts in recent…

The US Department of Defense has failed its sixth annual audit in a row, but taxpayer money will keep going down that drain Recently, the Pentagon admitted it couldn’t account for trillions…

Finland had previously closed all crossings amid an influx of migrants that Helsinki claimed was a “hybrid attack” by Moscow Finland will reopen two of its eight border crossings with Russia, the…

Austria has joined Hungary and Slovakia in opposing fast track procedures for accepting Ukraine and Moldova into the union There should be no preferential treatment for Ukraine in regards to its path…

Dems Enlist Russia-Hoaxer Hillary Clinton Into Biden Re-Election Effort 2016 election denier Hillary Clinton, who was fined by the FEC for lying about funding the Russian “dossier” which underpinned the Trump-Russia collusion…

Houthi Rebels Hit Norwegian-Flagged Tanker With Anti-Ship Cruise Missile At Key Maritime Chokepoint An anti-ship cruise missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea near a…

Donald Trump is a full 50 percentage points ahead of his nearest rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, a poll shows Donald Trump is firmly on course to secure the Republican nomination…

America’s Luck Running Out As Rising Rates Start To Bite Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The highest interest rates in almost two decades have so far failed to plunge the…

Kiev has “unrealistic expectations” about what Washington can provide, American officials told the outlet Ukrainian commanders and civilian officials overestimate the ability of the US to supply the country with weapons and…

Harvard Refuses To Fire Gay, Instead Issues Statement In Her Defense Harvard minority president Claudine Gay., who checks box in the “Diversity checklist”, will keep her job after a week of calls…

Polish police reportedly used force during the night to clear truckers from a border checkpoint, according to a protest organizer Border traffic between Poland and Ukraine briefly resumed on Monday after a…

Nearly $9 billion in private funds have been blocked due to sanctions Some Swiss financial institutions have begun charging their Russian clients fees on frozen accounts; these sometimes accrue interest payments years…

The Markets Are Front-Running The First Rate-Cut Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In October, the markets were down 10% from the July high, bond yields were touching 5%, and talk of…

Ethiopia has reportedly missed a deadline for paying a $33 million bond coupon Ethiopia will hold a call with its international bondholders later this week after the African nation failed to pay…

New Delhi’s pitch to host COP33 in 2028 is instrumental in giving the world’s most populous country leverage in the international fight to save the planet Addressing the first day of the…

SuperCore CPI Jumps Back Above 4.00%; Used-Cars & Shelter Dominate Price-Rises Having slowed to unch MoM in October, November’s headline CPI was also expected to be flat MoM, but it printed modestly…

Google Loses On Every Count In Play Store Antitrust Case With Epic Games Authored by Matt Stoller via The BigNewsletter.com, Google just lost its first antitrust trial, as a San Francisco jury…

Futures Rise Ahead Of Last Inflation Report Of 2023 S&P 500 futures were little changed as markets enter the first of the two last big days of 2023, with CPI on deck…

Pretoria has expressed confidence that selecting Gazprombank as an investor will not trigger Western sanctions South African national oil company PetroSA has chosen Russia’s Gazprombank as its preferred investment partner to revive…

The carrier says it made the decision after Kiev branded the Swiss corporation a “war sponsor” Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has removed the popular Nesquik chocolate drink from its in-flight menus after its…

The Indian prime minister lauded the decision to uphold the removal of special status for the troubled state Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed Monday’s ruling by the country’s Supreme Court,…

Montreal suburb’s Jewish head Jeremy Levi said the IDF’s campaign in Gaza is a battle between “good and evil” The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Hampstead Jeremy Levi has said that,…

Have Reports Of Oil’s Death Been Greatly Exaggerated? Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The International Energy Agency predicts a terminal decline for coal, oil, and gas by 2030, challenging dominant climate…

India’s coaching hubs, like small-city Kota, have become big business, but as students face pressure to perform, suicide is now a pressing public health issue Rahul is an 18-year-old engineering aspirant from…

Nearly a thousand Burundian soldiers have left DR Congo after their mission was terminated by Kinshasa A regional military force has removed almost a thousand Burundian soldiers from from DR Congo as part…

Kiev says it will instead focus on preventing Russian athletes from appearing at the 2024 Paris Games Ukraine has backtracked on its threat to boycott the 2024 Olympic Games, having previously claimed…

Chaos Christmas Travel? AAA Expects Record Number Of Americans At Airports  The latest report from the American Automobile Association forecasts a record number of Americans will be flying during the upcoming 10-day…

Social scientist and left-wing activist Boris Kagarlitsky has been fined and banned from administering websites Russian sociologist and prominent left-wing activist Boris Kagarlitsky was released from custody by a Moscow court on…

An African bloc mediating the conflict said the Sudanese Army chief and his paramilitary rival had accepted a ceasefire proposal The Sudanese rival groups engaged in deadly fighting since mid-April have agreed…

Brussels has reportedly softened restrictions amid concerns raised by Mediterranean members EU states remain divided about the possibility of selling oil tankers to Russia, Reuters reported on Monday. The bloc’s diplomats are seeking to…

Biden Administration Destabilized Middle-East Peace Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearPolitics.com, In the fog of war, it can be easy to lose sight of the most fundamental question any country must ask…

With Hungary poised to veto $54 billion in proposed funding, willing donors are considering other options, the newspaper says Kiev’s main backers in the EU may overcome Hungarian opposition to the proposed…

The military said it had foiled another “attempted terrorist attack” Russian air-defense systems have downed a Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile over the southwestern Belgorod Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported…

Christopher Wray is discussing the Khalistan row with the heads of India’s intelligence and crime agencies during a three-day visit to the country FBI Director Christopher Wray met his Indian counterpart in…

Canadian Human Rights Commission Labels Christmas Celebration “Discrimination Grounded In Colonialism” The cancerous spread of woke ideology into every facet of society and government is more obvious in some places compared to…

The euro area’s economy has now registered two consecutive quarters of contraction, the outlet says The 20-nation euro currency bloc will slip into its first recession since the pandemic in the final…

The Pentagon is advising Kiev on a new strategy after the failed summer counteroffensive, according to the newspaper Lackluster results from Kiev’s summer counteroffensive against Russia and problems faced by the White…

US-Made Munitions Used In Israel’s White Phosphorous Attacks On Lebanon; WaPo Via The Cradle, The Israeli army used US-manufactured white phosphorous shells in a brutal attack on south Lebanon in October, the Washington Post reported…

A majority of teachers, however, back the restrictions, according to a survey Some 54% of Russian parents oppose a possible ban on the use of cellphones in the country’s schools, the Vedomosti newspaper…

German Mayor Slams Der Spiegel’s Call For Mainstream Parties To Cut Off AfD For The Sake Of Democracy Via ReMix News, German news outlet Der Spiegel is “losing touch with reality” after…

The former secretary of state has reportedly emerged as an influential surrogate for the president The US Democratic Party establishment believes that figures like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could help President…

Prices have reportedly more than doubled for the EU country since 2021 Germany has halved imports of natural gas since 2021 but is essentially paying the same costs for supplies, according to…

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has repeatedly vowed to strike any vessel it believes to be aiding Israel amid ongoing fighting in Gaza The French military has successfully repelled an attack on one…

The bloc has been seeking to include supplies of the metal in its new package of restrictions The EU has been debating its new round of sanctions against Moscow amid growing calls…

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…

Finland shut down its last crossing point with Russia following an influx of migrants, which Helsinki claims was a “hybrid attack” launched by Moscow The Council of Europe has voiced concerns over…

Kiev’s ruling party is preventing members from quitting despite cancelled elections and the extension of martial law Many Ukrainian MPs who want to resign are being prevented from doing so as the…

For those confused. There are two bills to modify the FISA702 reauthorization in the House.  (1) HR 6611 from the House Intel Committee and (2) HR 6570 from the House Judiciary Committee. …

Niall Ferguson: The Treason Of The Intellectuals Authored by Niall Ferguson via The Free Press, In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the…

End Of Western Dominance And Rise Of A Polycentric World, Lavrov Declares At Doha Forum Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, outlined a potential scenario in which a “polycentric order” emerges, characterized by…

The Purges Are Ongoing Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, peaceful and otherwise uneventful. Out of nowhere, the following people appeared on “Spaces,” an…

After years of assembling datapoints around the potential for the Supreme Court to be compromised, it was the discovery of Mary McCord’s husband Sheldon Snook deep in the office of Chief Justice…

Mother Of Doomed Fetus Flees Texas For Abortion As State Supremes Rule Against Her A pregnant woman in Texas whose child has a terminal birth defect has fled the state after a…

Ford’s “Test For EV Adoption” Fails: Carmaker Slashes Production Plans For Electric F-150 In Half Less than a week after Elon Musk unveiled his apocalypse-surviving, Porsche-out-accelerating, bulletproof CyberTruck, Ford’s EV effort is…

It’s Not Too Early To Name The Decade Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the…

Raytheon’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Defeats Ballistic Missile in Test Over Pacific Raytheon has successfully tested its “Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle,” designed to defend the US by intercepting and neutralizing long-range ballistic missiles in low-Earth orbit. …

What In The World Has Happened To Our System Of Education? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Our kids can’t really read very well. And it turns out that they aren’t very…

Shocking Video Reveals Democrats Stuffed Nearly 3,000 Illegals Into Chicago Warehouse  A new video has surfaced on X showing the location of a warehouse in the Chicago metro area where nearly 3,000…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been an advocate for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine to solve the conflict.  This puts PM Orban in opposition to NATO and the larger EU…

What Strong Consumer: Hasbro Lays Off 20% Of Company On Plunging Toy Sales There is the myth that the US consumer is strong (strip away inflation and you are at pre 2019-levels)……

Hunter Biden Files To Dismiss Gun Charges, Arguing “Vindictive Prosecution” In 1 Of 4 Motions Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, filed four…

“We’re Raising A Generation Of Complete F**king Pu$$ies” – Kid Rock & Carlson Crush Cancel Culture & Corporate America’s Political Correctness Kid Rock has morphed over the past few years from a…

Universities Better Get Ahead Of Surging Anti-Woke Backlash… Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, Universities better get ahead of surging anti-woke backlash. The University of Illinois should go first. The dam has…

In preparation for 2024 CTH now has a strong source arsenal of very specific contacts.  I can say with certainty that Tucker Carlson publicly expresses significant support for Elon Musk and his…