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London has announced an investment plan to boost workforce in the sector and to maintain its submarine at-sea deterrent   The UK government revealed plans on Monday to boost Britain’s nuclear sector,…

India Suspends Venezuela Oil Purchases Fearing U.S. Sanctions Return, Stops Accepting Russian Oil Tankers Is India starting to get cold feet about breaching US sanctions? On Tuesday, Indian state and private refiners…

Long Volatility Trade May Be A Widow-Maker No More Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, An unusual combination of divergences in the stock-market volatility space suggests the VIX is at elevated…

Conference Board Consumer Confidence Slides, Revised Down For 5th Straight Month After declining in February, analysts expected a small rebound in The Conference Board’s consumer confidence print in March, but instead it…

With The Tip Credit Falling, Full-Service D.C. Restaurants Cut 3,700 Jobs By Peter Romeo of Restaurant Business Online Full-service restaurants in Washington, D.C., have cut 3,700 jobs – about 12% of their…

Two people were injured in an attack involving a dozen rockets, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said Russian air defense systems have shot down around a dozen Western-supplied missiles over Belgorod Region…

Over 18,000 bars and distilleries have been closed in the last month as part of an ongoing campaign The Kenyan government has defended a controversial campaign to close thousands of illegal bars…

The head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (SNBO), Aleksey Danilov, has been relieved of his duties Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky dismissed the head of the National Security and Defense…

The latest strikes were also aimed at nationalist military units and foreign mercenaries, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian military has carried out long-range strikes on Ukrainian command and control facilities…

The jailed WikiLeaks founder was allowed a new limited bid to fight extradition to the US within the British legal system WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange scored a victory on Tuesday in his…

Apple Shares Fall On Chinese Report That iPhone Shipments Plunged 33%   Apple shares fell in premarket trading in New York after official Chinese data showed iPhone shipments plunged 33% in February, compared…

Almost everyone in the country agrees with President Vladimir Putin’s policy, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said The vast majority of people in Russia agree with Moscow’s policies with regard to Ukraine, Kremlin…

European traders face delays and extra costs as business heads elsewhere, the newspaper has reported Western restrictions on Russian diamond imports have destabilized the entire industry, as traders struggle to verify gems…

Technical Measures And Valuations – Does Any Of It Matter? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Technical measures and valuations all suggest the market is expensive, overbought, and exuberant. However, none of…

US Home Prices Rose For 12th Straight Month In January, Despite Soaring Rates Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the 12th straight month in January (the latest data released…

Assange Wins Temporary Reprieve As Court Seeks US ‘Assurances’ Over Extradition Tuesday’s much anticipated London High Court ruling has gone mostly in Julian Assange’s favor, as he has been granted permission to…

Durable Goods Orders Rebound In Feb From January Collapse, Defense Spending Slides After crashing in January (driven by the collapse in Boeing orders), durable goods orders (preliminary) for February rose 1.4% MoM…

Dramatic footage shows the Francis Scott Key bridge in the Port of Baltimore being hit by a containership that plowed directly into a bridge support. The span is part of I-695 and…

The ex-US president’s campaign has denied that he needed the help of wealthy allies to post a half-billion-dollar bond A number of billionaires sympathetic to Donald Trump chipped in to help the…

Eswatini, which recognizes Taiwan as an independent state, fears that China could oppose its membership The Kingdom of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is considering joining the BRICS group with the aim of diversifying…

Cocoa Hyperinflation Strikes Before Easter, Prices Surge To New Record High As the Easter holiday weekend nears, Cocoa futures soared to new record highs on Tuesday as the worsening supply crunch forces chocolate…

139 people died and around 200 were injured in last Friday’s Crocus City Hall massacre The US, UK and Ukraine may have been behind last Friday’s terrorist attack on a concert venue…

Anyone committing crimes against Russia is a marked man, security service chief Aleksandr Bortnikov has said Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kirill Budanov, should be considered a valid target for Russian troops, the…

The 30-ton armored vehicle was no match for the Donbass mud, the Defense Ministry said Russian troops advancing in Donbass have captured a German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle in near-perfect condition in…

US Futures Rebound Ahead Of Busy Data Calendar As New Record High Looms It’s as if Monday’s modest dip never happened: S&P futures are trading are higher, surpassing Monday’s highs, with both…

The Ukrainian side may have been preparing to help the four gunmen cross the Russian border, Aleksandr Bortnikov says The four gunmen responsible for Friday’s terrorist attack on the Crocus City music…

The bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, recently said that helping Ukraine is in the interests of Washington as a global player The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has essentially acknowledged that…

South African prosecutors have stated they intend to bring charges against parliamentary speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, alleging corruption South African prosecutors announced on Monday their plan to pursue the country’s parliamentary speaker, Nosiviwe…

New Delhi has taken advantage of Western major pharma firms cutting ties with Moscow, the outlet has said  India emerged as Russia’s largest supplier of pharmaceuticals last year, filling the recent void…

The CAR’s government earlier confirmed its decision to strengthen Moscow’s military presence in the country to train its troops Plans are underway for the construction of a Russian military base in the…

Priced-In Fed Rate-Cuts Are On Shakier Ground Than In UK And Europe Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Greater inflation expectations and receding recession risk leave the interest rate cuts priced…

ISIS claiming responsibility for the massacre doesn’t end matters, while Washington and Kiev’s reactions raise even more doubts It is baffling why the powers that be, instead of trying to prevent the…

Indian financial hub Mumbai now has the world’s third-highest concentration of mega-rich, after New York and London Indian financial capital Mumbai has overtaken Beijing to become Asia’s ‘billionaire capital’ for the first…

Dominoes Falling As Biden Admin Deals With Twin Energy Crisis In Russia, Middle East  A twin crisis is unfolding for the Biden administration as the US tax-payer-funded Ukrainian military bombs key crude…

The Wikileaks founder was granted a reprieve, as the US seeks to try him on espionage charges A court in London has ruled in favor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday,…

The happy clappy era for the Western European bloc is over, as “tough guy” Emmanuel Macron emerges to lead it into battle The EU does not intend to die for the Donbass….

Church Of England Archdeacon Openly Calls For “Anti-Whiteness” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Church of England archdeacon has been labelled racist after openly calling for “anti-whiteness.” The Ven Miranda Threlfall-Holmes,…

The WikiLeaks founder, who is wanted by Washington, could exhaust his legal options on Tuesday Two British judges will deliberate on Tuesday whether to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a new chance…

Where The EU Exports Its Waste The European Union exported 32.1 million tonnes of waste to non-EU countries in 2022, according to Eurostat. This is a slight decline from the 33.0 million tonnes…

The man is believed to have rented out an apartment to the gunmen behind the deadly shooting spree, according to media reports An eighth suspect has been placed under arrest in relation…

Suspects in the Crocus City Hall shooting were fleeing towards Ukraine, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov noted Western attempts to push the narrative that the Crocus City concert hall shooting was staged by Islamic State…

Beijing’s embassy in Wellington has dismissed the allegation as “groundless and irresponsible” New Zealand’s spy agency has claimed that a hacking group sponsored by the Chinese government carried out a cyberattack against…

Tighter enforcement of the restrictions has reportedly hampered New Delhi’s purchases of Russian crude Indian oil refiners are on track to buy the most US crude in almost a year as tighter…

Lockdown’s Fourth Birthday Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Last weekend marked four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time. What an exciting time that…

$300 million allocated for Kiev in a stopgap US spending bill last week won’t go to new arms shipments, the outlet has said A $300 million spending package for Ukraine approved by…

Nissan Aims To Cut Costs By 30% Simply To Remain Competitive In EVs Nissan is the latest manufacturer to aim to cut EV costs in order to keep up with an increasingly…

The bloc should aim to create “a European pillar inside NATO,” the top diplomat has said The EU must increase its military strength and internal cooperation, but that does not mean it…

Footage of the incident shows cars falling into the water A large section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after being hit by a ship, according to videos…

France Raises Security Risk To Highest Level After Moscow Terror Attack Starting Sunday night, France raised the nation’s threat level awareness to its highest level of “emergency attack” – which comes two…

German Doctor Refuses To Treat AfD Politician Via ReMix News, A doctor in the German state of Baden-Württemberg refuses to treat one of his patients because he is a local politician in…

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…

Election 2024: It’s The Psychopathology, Stupid Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The deeper we get into the 2024 presidential election, the more pathological, in the psychological…

Traditional families with multiple children should become a fashionable social norm, Dmitry Peskov has said Improving the demographic situation and achieving a sustainable growth of birth rates is a matter of life…

Baltimore City Implodes: Police Force Collapses, Only Three Officers Patrolled Major District  How it started.  How it’s going…  Baltimore is now facing apocalyptic levels of policing shortages. Last week, THREE police officers…

Republicans Sound Alarm On DOJ’s ‘Red Flag’ Initiative Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans issued a warning over the weekend after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced…

Retirement Goes Rural: More Retirees Ditching Florida For Southern Appalachia Despite the fact that Florida has always been “retirement country”, those who have the means to move out of the state to…

This Is How You Can Get Frothy Markets At A Time When Rates Are At 5% By Rabobank Economists and strategists tend to look at everything through the lens of interest rates,…

If you followed my research on banking and the reality of the Russian sanction regime, this report from Reuters today takes on an entirely new dimension. ME: …”The same way the Patriot…

Harvard Prepares To Screen “Domestic Ecoterrorism” Movie About Blowing Up American Pipelines The nation is already on alert for terrorist attacks after radical leftists in the White House facilitated the greatest-ever migrant invasion…

Warsaw claimed that a Russian projectile violated Polish airspace, but refused to provide evidence, according to the diplomat The Polish Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreev over yet another alleged “missile…

CCP’s Military Growth ‘Largely Funded’ By US: Ret. Navy Capt. Authored by Dorothy Li and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Chinese Communist Party has aggressively built up its…

Mark Zuckerberg’s New Diesel-Powered Mega-Yacht Moored In Fort Lauderdale Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, an outspoken climate alarmist, has a new $300 million mega yacht dubbed “Launchpad.” The billionaire’s ‘big boy’ toy collection continues…

AI’s Left-Wing Bias On Crime And Gun Control: Lott Authored by John Lott Jr. via RealClear Politics, Some 20 artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are currently available for general use. Students, reporters, and…

UK Court To Issue Ruling On Julian Assange Extradition Tuesday Morning On Tuesday London’s High Court will finally rule on the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The court is expected to deliver…

Most Americans Believe US Will Be In World War Within Next Decade Via The Libertarian Institute The majority of Americans believe it is likely that the US will be involved in a…

Israel Angrily Halts Delegation To D.C. After US Allows UN Ceasefire Resolution To Pass In a Monday vote, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted for the first time a resolution that…

From Riot To Insurrection To Terrorism: January 6th Continues To Be A Tragedy In The Eye Of The Beholder Authored by Jonathan Turley, For years, I have maintained that January 6th was…

Not a spoof. It’s a classic case of disparate impact lawfare at work.  Auto manufacturers must be held accountable for making cars that black people want to steal. It’s real.  He really…

President Trump delivered remarks and took questions from the narrative engineers following a day in court defending against another Lawfare case. Each case is intended to bleed the candidate of financial resources,…

“It’s A Far Deeper Recession Than Publicized…” Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey Screams Stagflation “Many good things may happen, but the actual occurrence remains to be seen…” That’s about as rosy a picture…

Will DEI End America… Or America End DEI? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the diversity/equity/inclusion dogma can be found. The…

The conflict is about preserving the US role in the world, the EU’s top diplomat has said The US and the EU support Ukraine not because they love the Ukrainian people, but…

The New York State appeals court waited until the last minute to intervene and rule substantial modifications to the lower court ruling. [SEE pdf Here] The timing here is transparently political.  The…

Another Silly Progressive Idea: New Green Deal For Public Housing Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Progressive nonsense is incessant. My hoot of the day is AOC and Bernie Sanders have teamed…

The Israeli PM has manufactured an artificial crisis by venting differences in public, according to the outlet The White House has been “perplexed” by what several US officials called an overreaction by…

Bitcoin, Bond Yields, & Black Gold Bounce Amid Big Auction & Bad Data A quiet day with some uglier than expected housing data (new home sales miss) and manufacturing (Dallas Fed survey…

Hysterical Harvard Protesters Throw Fit Over Concert By Israeli Singer Authored by Amanda Meyer via Campus Reform, A concert by an Israeli singer close to Harvard’s campus triggered an anti-Israel protest. The…

Former Defense Secretary Says Jan. 6 Committee Issued “Latent Threat” To Keep Quiet Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former Trump secretary of defense revealed that he…

West Jerusalem has denounced Francesca Albanese’s report as outrageous Israeli actions in Gaza qualify as genocide on at least three grounds, according to a report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Human Rights…

The Norwegian Illusion: EVs Are Not More Energy Efficient Via Goehring & Rozencwajg, “Electric vehicles (EVs) are pilling up on lots across the country as the green revolution hits a speed bump,…

Not-So ‘Broke’ Don: Trump Net Worth Tops $6.4 Billion On SPAC Deal Former President Donald Trump’s net worth has topped $6.4 billion on Monday following the completion of a 29-month-long SPAC deal…

In Blob We Trust Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “In terms of the Moscow terror attack, the fact that those who carried out the attack were captured is now causing…

Many of the responses to the tragedy betray both the narrow-mindedness and meanness of some of West’s Russophobes Only a few days ago, one of the worst terrorist attacks in recent history…

A high-level mission was due to travel to Washington to discuss planned Israeli military operation in southern Gaza city of Rafah Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that now he…

ISIS bears “sole responsibility,” the US has insisted There is no evidence the Ukrainian government was involved in the Crocus City massacre, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday….

Our Economy And Politics Are Broken Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Awakening from the dream of painless financial / political solutions, we find the status quo is not the…

Tonight At 7pm, The Next ZeroHedge Debate: “Should Trump Be The Next U.S. President?” Tonight at 7pm ET – on the day that NY Attorney General Lettita James said she was prepared…

Stellar Foreign Demand For Record Big 2Y Treasury Auction Despite Modest Tail Moments ago, the Treasury concluded the first of this week’s front-loaded auctions when it sold $66BN of 2-year notes, the…

Thiel, Bezos, & Zuckerberg Dump Shares Amid Surging Insider Ratio: An Ominous Sign For Bull Market A number of structural themes have been driving US asset markets higher, including artificial intelligence, GLP-1, cloud, and…

Dave Calhoun will depart at the end of 2024 Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun has announced he will step down by the year’s end as the US aerospace giant grapples with…

Two Tajik nationals who lived in Ukraine are accused of plotting attack on a Vienna cathedral, Austria’s Heute news outlet claims Ukraine may have become a convenient passageway for violent extremists seeking…

The gunmen were identified as ‘radical Islamists’ but Moscow is searching for who gave the order The deadly terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall was a clear attempt at intimidating Russia…

75 of the Crocus City fatalities have already been identified, according to the senior investigator The death toll in last Friday’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow Region has grown…

The Russian president still suspects that Ukraine was complicit in the tragedy Russia knows who carried out the Crocus City attack but is now investigating who gave the order, President Vladimir Putin…

Why Is The National Guard Being Deployed During The Great American Eclipse On April 8th? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, The National Guard is only supposed to be deployed in emergency…

Peter Schiff: Inflation Bloodbath On The Way Via SchiffGold.com, This time Peter tackles Jerome Powell’s speech from Wednesday, in which he announced that the Fed is holding the federal funds rate between 5.25…

Never Ever Forget Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending assassination on March…

Oil Surges As US Production Unexpectedly Tumbles After Shale Merger Wave Fizzles; Russia Orders Companies To Cut Production A few weeks ago we looked at the current state of M&A play in…

South Africa is hosting a bilateral trade event this week, organized by the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), a leading Russian business conference, is set…