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If You Thought Biden Was Bad, Here’s Kamala’s Promises… Authored by Mike Shedlock via Mishtalk.com, Kamala Harris is off and running with a mind meld of the most progressive policies of Biden,…

WTI Extends Gains After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil prices continued to drift higher, after finding technical support yesterday the 200DMA and also buoyed by across-the-board draws reported by API. API Crude: -3.9M…

Demonstrations took place on Tuesday in defiance of a ban by the African nation’s authorities A court in Uganda has remanded several protesters in custody for alleged offenses committed during anti-corruption marches,…

The move is retaliation for Tokyo’s numerous sanctions against Moscow, according to the Foreign Ministry Russia has banned 13 Japanese citizens from entering the country, including the chairmen of Toyota and Viber….

Ferrari Expands Crypto Payments To Europe After Successful US Launch Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Ferrari, the Italian luxury sports car producer, is preparing to expand its cryptocurrency payment system to…

Deutsche Bank Plunges After Jump In CRE Loss Reserves, Shelves Plans For Buyback After a seemingly endless streak of stronger than expected earnings reports, this morning Deutsche Bank posted its first quarterly…

US Services Soar, Manufacturing Slumps In Preliminary July PMIs The Euro area composite flash PMI declined by 0.9pt to 50.1, notably below consensus. The deceleration in the composite index was broad-based across…

Slovakia’s Peter Pellegrini has urged Kiev to stop its blockade of Russian oil supplies  Slovakia could take retaliatory measures against Ukraine if Kiev continues to stop Russian oil transiting via the Druzhba…

Top Democrats threatened to “go after” the US president unless he quit the race, the Republican contender has claimed Former US President Barack Obama “can’t stand” President Joe Biden and was instrumental…

DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Allow Some Blocked Title IX Rule Changes Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency application on…

Bank of Canada Cuts Rates For Second Consecutive Month, Says “Reasonable” To Expect More The Bank of Canada, which last month became the first G7 bank to launch an easing cycle, moments…

US New Home Sales Unexpectedly Tumbled In June As Homebuyer Confidence Crashes To Record Low After a disappointing dump in existing home sales in June, new home sales just confirmed the slowdown,…

Today, FBI Director Christopher Wray will face questions about the FBI role in the attempted assassination of President Trump and their investigation in the aftermath. To date, despite the significance of the…

The Narendra Modi-led government has been accused of unfairly allocating funding to states, favoring those ruled by allies India’s opposition has started protesting against the Narendra Modi-led government’s federal budget, tabled in…

Court Rejects Bid To Throw Out Trump Case Against Pulitzer Board Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A court in Florida has rejected a bid from members of…

Tokyo is helping Washington to spread its influence in the Asia-Pacific, Russia’s deputy foreign minister has said The US and Japan have ramped up naval activity near Russian borders, posing a threat…

The Ukrainian leader is capable of lying and may simply be trying to promote his ‘peace formula’, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Vladimir Zelensky’s signal that Ukraine is ready to resume…

The number of smokers in the population has also dropped, from 40% to 19%, according to Tatyana Golikova Annual consumption of alcohol and tobacco in Russia has substantially decreased over the past…

More Agency Weaponization? Secret Service Tells Trump To Stop Having Outdoor Rallies The Secret Service is turning near-assassination lemons into Deep State lemonade. Following its catastrophic failure to secure Donald Trump’s July…

Blackstone Mortgage REIT Slashes Dividend By 24% As Distress Piles Up In CRE World  Blackstone Mortgage Trust, a real estate finance company that originates senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate across North America, Europe, and…

The reported plan seeks to give the US guarantees that the West would be able to tap into the immobilized funds for as long as needed The EU is mulling a plan…

Unelected Technocrats Are Now The Nation’s Chief Executives Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, President Biden has not been seen in public since announcing he would not seek re-election on…

Which Countries Have The Most Olympic Medals Of All-Time? This summer, 10,500 athletes will compete at the peak of their careers in the Paris Olympics. In more than half of the Olympic…

Former HSBC India head Naina Lal Kidwai believes her nation is at a “beautiful point” in its history India is at a “beautiful point” in its history, which it must “grab with…

New Car Incentives Soar 53% Amid Rising Inventories & Lackluster Demand Hint At Downturn  Auto dealers are seeing an uptick in inventory while many consumers remain on the sidelines, deterred by the toxic combination…

Futures Slide As Ugly Mag 7, European Earnings Sour Trader Mood Stock futures and global markets slumped, with tech dragging the indices lower, after disappointing results from Tesla and Alphabet were followed…

Analysts say, however, that the bump might be short-lived US Vice President Kamala Harris is narrowly beating Republican rival Donald Trump in a national presidential poll released on Tuesday, one of the…

Growing Power Needs Call For Grid-Enhancing Technologies Authored by Andrew Phillips via RealClearEnergy, The rise of AI data centers, growing electrification, and industrial growth is heralding a new era of U.S. power…

Irakli Kobakhidze claims the organizers of the attacks also targeted the founder of Tbilisi’s ruling party, Bidzina Ivanishvili A plot to assassinate the founder of Georgia’s ruling party was orchestrated by the…

US Pork Demand Has “Uncharacteristically Declined” In Peak Grilling Season Agribusiness television network RFD-TV reported signs of pork demand slowing among US consumers. Ag analysts told them this was unusual because of the summer grilling…

Dmitry Kuleba says negotiations should be “rational” and seek to achieve “lasting peace,” according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry Kiev is ready to hold peace talks with Moscow to end their long-running…

Poland became the biggest buyer in the first five months of this year EU imports of Russian fertilizer soared by 70% to 1.9 million tons between January and May this year compared…

The American firm has discriminated against Nigerian users by forcing “abusive” privacy policies on them, authorities claim Nigeria has hit US tech giant Meta with a $220 million fine for breaching local…

At least 229 people have died following heavy rainfall in southern Ethiopia At least 229 people have died following two landslides in Gofa, southern Ethiopia on Sunday. The communication department in Gofa…

Kiev cannot join the bloc until the sides reach closure over atrocities perpetrated against Poles, Warsaw’s defense chief has said Ukraine should not be allowed to join the EU until Kiev and…

The Republican presidential candidate’s team is reportedly considering setting a defense spending target of 3% of GDP for bloc members Advisers for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have suggested increasing the defense…

In Historic Shift, British Newspapers Begin Warning Of “Perils” Of Cashless-Society After Global IT Outage Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, The mainstream media has, until now, played a key role in…

Doctors In Australia Say Medical Cannabis Leading To Increase In Psychosis In Patients Doctors in Australia are warning about a “significant increase” of patients developing psychosis after being prescribed medicinal cannabis, according…

Combustion Going Bust? Mapping The Global Govt-Driven Phase-Outs Of Gasoline Cars As of 2024, 60 countries and territories around the world had set targets, signed pledges or announced plans to phase out…

Inside The EU’s War On Free Speech Authored by Thomas Fazi via UnHerd.com, The latest salvo in the ongoing battle between between Elon Musk and the EU came courtesy of the X…

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…

Shocker! Study Reveals That Giving Americans $1,000 Per Month Has Negative Consequences A new study reveals what common sense could have predicted – giving Americans $1,000 per month disincentivizes them from working,…

Conrad Black: All US Presidential Assassinations Could Have Easily Been Avoided Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump reminds us of…

After High Court Ruling, San Francisco Prepares To Clear Homeless Camps Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), After last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave cities a…

According to multiple reports, the Secret Service told President Trump to stop holding outdoor MAGA rallies. That part doesn’t come as a surprise, not because of any security risk, but because in…

VP Kamala Harris Had 92% Staff Turnover During Her First Three Years By Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks “People really, really do not want to work for Kamala Harris,” wrote former staffer Dan…

World War 3: The Catalyst For A New World Order Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The F-22 Raptor is the best air dominance warplane in the world. It’s the top dog…

US Rejects China’s Gaza Mediation Efforts For Legitimizing Hamas This week a fresh United Nations assessment estimated that the Israeli military (IDF) has placed more than 80% of the Gaza Strip under…

Taiwan Live-Fire Exercises Aimed At China Muted By Typhoon Taiwan’s military on Monday kicked off the live-fire component of its largest annual exercise, known as the Han Kuang drills. They are slated…

Federal Judge Rejects Challenge To Chicago Ban On Gun Laser-Sights Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Laser sights for guns are not protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, a…

Only four of the US vice president’s 47 original employees haven’t left her team, the NGO OpenTheBooks says US Vice President Kamala Harris has a staggering staff turnover rate of 91.5%, transparency…

Harris And Biden Met In Person Only Six Times This Summer Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, On the White House South Lawn, Vice President Kamala Harris praised the man she is…

At today’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) questioned the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, Christopher Paris, about a video he took of the Butler Township location of…

This episode of “Break 50” with President Trump was filmed during the first week of July, before Bryson DeChambeau traveled overseas and prior to the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.  The full…

How Does The Economy Really Work? Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, The world economy is an amazingly complex, physics-based, self-organizing system. The three major elements are extracted resources including…

Sugar: A Potential Culprit In Pancreatic Cancer, The ‘King Of Cancer’ Authored by Shan Lam and JoJo Novaes via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pancreatic cancer, sometimes dubbed the “king of cancer“…

Watch: Russia Mounts Ballistic Missile Strike On Western Arms Depot In Ukraine Russia’s military has released new video as part of ongoing warnings to the West as it pours weapons and ammo…

Sixteen years ago, the term “manufactured enthusiasm” took on an entire new meaning with the introduction of Teh One, Chicago Jesus, the bringer of all progressive enlightenment, Barack Obama.  The intersection of…

Almost a third of people in Ukraine believe that Kiev could surrender some territory to Russia in exchange for peace, a new survey says The number of Ukrainians willing to make territorial…

A short background detail.  Almost no one knows this, but Chuck Grassley has the best research and legislative staff in all of Washington, DC.  Grassley’s guys are quick into the silos and…

Was Donald Trump The Victim Of White Privilege? A Democratic Member Wants To Know Authored by Jonathan Turley, For most of us, this election could not become more confusing. However, Rep. Jasmine Crockett…

Truth Is The Casualty Of Our Political Wars Authored by J.Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics.com, These times are different because nowadays political lies are often in plain sight. A healthy majority of Americans…

WTI Rebounds Off Technical Support After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil futures settled at their lowest level in over six weeks on Tuesday, with U.S. prices extending losses into a fourth…

Tesla Slides As Profit, Margins Disappoint; Production Of “More Affordable Models” To Begin In First Half Of 2025 As previewed earlier, today’s TSLA print is likely to be ugly: the company was…

Schumer Endorses Kamala During ‘Cringefest’ DC Presser; Asks For Applause, Doesn’t Get Any Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries…

The White-Collar Job Squeeze Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The other day, I was tooling around at the grocery store and, in line to check out, I noticed a…

Google Reversing Third-Party Cookie Phaseout In Favor Of New Strategy Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Google logo in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 2024. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)…

Fox News waited until today to put forth the segments of the President Trump interview with host Jesse Watters.  The interview is presented below in three segments. In the first segment, President…

Kelly Surges Ahead Of Shapiro As Top Contender For Harris’ Veep Pick With Vice President Kamala Harris now expected to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential race, the next…

Three bills in the Knesset aim to ban the UNRWA as an accomplice of Hamas The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may be declared a terrorist organization, its staff stripped…

Lloyd Austin, Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan could lose their jobs come January Kamala Harris is unlikely to keep the current crop of national security officials, should she win the US presidential…

Public University Sued Over Alleged Use Of Student Fees To Support Leftists Political Groups Authored by Patrick McDonald via Campus Reform, A recent graduate of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota is…

Small Caps Surge On Short-Squeeze, Sloppy-Surveys; ETH Outperforms BTC As ETFs Launch An ugly day for macro with hard data (US home sales) and soft data (regional Fed surveys) all puking… Source:…

America’s likely next president has reshaped the Republican Party in his own image to a point where it seems inconceivable without him The extraordinary events of the past week in America –…

Ukraine would like the conflict with Russia to stop by the end of the year, Vladimir Zelensky has suggested Ukraine would like the fighting with Russia to end as quickly as possible…

Alphabet Shares Unimpressed Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat Alphabet reported better than expected top- and bottom-lines for the second quarter after the bell tonight. Revenue $84.74 billion, estimate $84.37 billion Revenue ex-TAC…

Over 270,000 tickets reportedly remain unsold ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris The number of unwanted Paris Olympics tickets available for resale has hit more than a quarter of a…

‘Worst Since COVID Lockdowns’ – Regional Fed Surveys Plunged In July It was ugly in macro-land today with existing home sales crashing (as home prices hit record highs). But a couple of…

Trump Asks Appeals Court To Overturn $454 Million Civil Fraud Judgment Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on July 22 asked a New York…

Reuters ‘Shock Poll’ Finds Kamala Leading Trump, There’s Just One Catch… With the Democrat corporate media machine in full swing behind Kamala Harris following President Joe Biden’s shock announcement on Sunday that…

Tesla Earnings Preview: Financials, Robotaxis, Cybertruck, Musk’s Pay Plan In Focus Tesla is set to report earnings after the bell today, with the street expecting a hefty EPS drop and 2% revenue…

Blowout 2Y Auction Sees Record Foreign Buyers, Yields Slide Ahead of next week’s FOMC meeting, when consensus expects no surprises from Powell ahead of a September rate cut, the same can not…

Signs Of Severe Credit-Card And Auto-Loan Stress In Generation Z Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The economy is slowing and that will hit the zoomers first and the hardest, especially renters……

The right-wing of the DC UniPParty played their role very well.  With mission accomplished, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned her position, following the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump….

Reports of a corporate raid on e-commerce giant Wildberries are false, CEO Tatyana Bakalchuk has insisted Reports of a corporate raid on e-commerce giant Wildberries are not true, the founder and chief…

Ukraine’s former military commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, was fired by Vladimir Zelensky in February and made an envoy in May The Western nations should “wake up” to the threat of a potential major…

Department Of Defense To Give Troops ‘Economic Hardship’ Bonus Of $20 Per Month Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The Biden Administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that it will…

3 Supreme Court Justices Recuse 2nd Time In Case Accusing Them Of Wrongly Rejecting 2020 Election Lawsuit Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court refused on…

An international school contest has wrapped up on the Black Sea coast Russia has held an international contest for schoolchildren at Artek, its most famous summer camp on the Black Sea in…

The Party Of ‘Democracy” Will Now Choose Your Candidate For You Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, On Sunday, July 21, President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign…

The strike destroyed a temporary deployment point housing Western instructors and mercenaries, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported A missile strike has destroyed a temporary deployment point housing Western instructors and mercenaries,…

Hungary is moving to punish Kiev for its blockade of oil deliveries from Russia Budapest will block funds the European Union has earmarked for Ukraine until Kiev resumes the transit of Russian…

‘I Lost My Son’: Musk Says He Was Tricked Into Approving Puberty Blockers Elon Musk has condemned so-called “gender-affirming care” practitioners for effectively “killing” his son — by tricking the billionaire into…

Hundreds of vacancies in Berlin’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) remain unfilled, Bild has reported Germany’s foreign intelligence service is allegedly struggling to monitor threats supposedly posed by Russia, China, North Korea and…

Israeli attacks have likely killed many more than the nearly 40,000 people reported, and even more will yet perish Earlier this month, the Lancet published an article estimating that the total number…

The continent takes a decisive step towards energy sovereignty, but real struggle lies ahead At an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) in early…

DOJ Magically Finds 117 Pages Of Biden Transcripts The Department of Justice admitted to a federal judge on Monday that it has located 117 pages of transcripts it previously denied having, related…

San Francisco Invokes Supreme Court’s Bureaucracy-Weakening Ruling In Lawsuit Against EPA Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, San Francisco will invoke the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling from last month that…

Modi-led government has made a host of changes in corporate taxation for global companies and has slashed some customs tariffs  The government of India tabled its budget for the current financial year…