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President Trump held an oval office press availability today and took questions from the assembled press pool.  The full White House event is below, but the Presser Q&A is first in a…

The late heavy metal legend has a massive following in Russia, according to organizers Moscow will host a major international rock festival, where musicians and fans from around the world will gather…

France Summons US Ambassador Kushner After He Accused Macron Of Fostering Antisemitism  France has summoned the US ambassador in Paris over a diplomatic row and surprisingly blunt accusations involving Israel-Gaza policy. The…

The Collapse Of The Democratic Party And Their Deep State Forces Authored by Larry Kudlow via RealClearPolitics.com, If you take a careful look at the decision of a New York appellate court…

A recent poll shows that Valery Zaluzhny, currently Kiev’s ambassador to London, is more popular than Vladimir Zelensky There is an “increasing belief” in Kiev that former commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, is preparing…

Washington should support the effort led by Europe, the has president said Europe must take the lead in providing “significant security guarantees” to Ukraine, US President Donald Trump said on Monday.  Washington’s…

MAGA Jay And Silent Blob By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank Jerome Powell used his set-piece speech at Jackson Hole on Friday to execute a dovish pivot. The S&P500 closed…

CTH noted several months ago, end the Marshall Plan for Europe and things will change quickly. Germany is in a tight economic place as a result of: (1) former leftist Chancellor Olaf…

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…

‘Godfather Of AI’ Warns Superintelligent Machines Could Replace Humanity Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering computer scientist called the “Godfather of AI,” has once again sounded…

Key Events This Week: Core PCE, Durables, And Fed Speakers But All Eyes On Nvidia Earnings Last week’s main event was the dovish tilt by Powell at Jackson Hole which left investors increasingly…

Homebuilder Incentives Soar As US New Home Sales Disappoint In July, Prices Plunge Amid record July cancellations, and tumbling single-family building permits, new home sales were expected to rise very modestly (+0.6%…

Russia ‘Made Significant Concessions’ On Ukraine Talks, Trump Still Has ‘Lot Of Cards’ To Play: Vance Vice President JD Vance appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC where he presented a generally…

Mail-In Ballots Need To Go: John Lott Jr. Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, “I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS,” President Trump declared…

Relations between Washington and Brussels have been strained as Trump has called on Europe to play a bigger role in its security Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that his country can be…

Islamabad and Dhaka have signed six agreements, covering visa-free travel for diplomats, education and media collaboration Pakistan and Bangladesh have signed six cooperation agreements that are expected to deepen the bilateral engagement…

Musicians from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe are taking part in the Spasskaya Tower Music event for the first time Army bands from Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia have performed for the…

Limited relations could be restored once a “lasting” peace in Ukraine is achieved, President Alexander Stubb has said EU countries could eventually restore ties with Russia once the Ukraine conflict is settled,…

Furniture Stocks Tumble After Trump Calls For “Major” Tariff Investigation   Furniture stocks tumbled in premarket trading after President Trump announced Friday evening on Truth Social that his administration has launched a “major”…

The “Zombie Market” Vs NVDA Earnings Via SpotGamma, The sell-off last week exemplified a classic post-OPEX window of weakness, reinforced by Wednesday’s VIX expiration. With structural support somewhat removed, the market experienced…

Futures Drop As Powell Dovish Pivot Euphoria Fades Markets are mixed this morning, with US stock futures ticking lower as euphoria over the prospect of a Fed rate cut fizzling out after…

The Hollywood legend has made a virtual appearance at a Russian cinema event The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has blasted US filmmaker Woody Allen for participating in a Russian cinema event, calling his…

Long-Dormant Bitcoin Whale Bets Big On Ethereum Upside A bitcoin wallet dormant for seven years recently became active, selling a significant portion of its BTC and buying Ethereum. CoinTelegraph’s Zoltan Vardai reports…

Stablecoins In An Unstable System By Christian Lawrence, head of cross-asset strategy at Rabobank Summary The post-WW2 and Cold War global architecture is crumbling; systemic geopolitical and geoeconomic instability is rising; so…

Orsted Shares Crash To Record Lows After Trump Halts Rhode Island Offshore Wind Project Shares of Danish wind giant Orsted A/S crashed as much as 19% – to record lows – after the…

Why Are More And More Americans Becoming Disabled? Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals 1.1 million MORE Americans have become disabled in just the past 3 months. VigilantFox asks: Why is nobody…

The bloc plans to match last year’s support to Ukraine despite Russia’s warnings that it only prolongs the conflict NATO intends to spend another $50 billion on military aid for Ukraine and…

The country’s citizenship law should reject the ideology of Stepan Bandera, President Karol Nawrocki has said Polish President Karol Nawrocki wants to amend the country’s citizenship law to say that the naturalization…

These Are The World’s Most Powerful Cars From hybrid hypercars to high-output EVs, the amount of horsepower that today’s cars can generate is truly impressive. In this infographic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu…

Crude imports from Russia serve both national and global interests and help stabilize prices, the Indian foreign minister has said Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has said nobody is “forced” to buy…

Myanmar Is Shaping Up To Be The Next Front Of The Sino-US New Cold War Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, China wants to retain access to Kachin State’s rare earths, the…

Social spending is “no longer financially sustainable,”  the German chancellor has said Germany’s welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned, citing mounting financial constraints.  Merz made the…

A Russian woman was allegedly tricked into sending $37,000 to the Ukrainian security services before being dragged into a terror plot Ukrainian operatives allegedly tricked a Russian woman into debt before attempting…

The British government is struggling to process applications for shelter amid growing public discontent Protests and counterprotests over Britain’s asylum system were held across the country at the weekend, with disturbances and…

Nigerian authorities have said the victims were abducted in a deadly mosque attack in Katsina State last week At least 76 kidnapping victims, including women and children, have been rescued by the…

EU’s Deforestation Crusade: Brussels Expands Green Deal Control By Thomas Kolbe The European Union’s regulatory frenzy is taking on manic dimensions. Starting in 2026, a new regulation aimed at “protecting global forests”…

American Knifed In Face By Syrian After Intervening To Protect Women On German Train A 21-year-old American man paid a steep price for doing the right thing on a tram in Germany…

The soldiers operated an American-supplied M113 vehicle captured from Ukrainian forces A Russian crew who went viral earlier this month after flying a US flag from an armored vehicle have said they…

Where Tourists Outnumber Locals The data for this map comes from UN Tourism. It compares the number of annual tourist arrivals with resident population, producing a “tourists per resident” measure. This ratio is…

German Economy Shows No Signs Of Emerging From Recession By Thomas Kolbe Germany’s Mittelstand Collapses as “Investment Booster” Flops The German economy shows no signs of emerging from recession. The monthly Mittelstand…

Kiev’s troops have suffered an estimated 600 casualties in the attack near the key Donbass city of Kramatorsk Russian forces have struck Ukrainian troop positions near Kramatorsk, a key city in the…

Charles Kushner has accused President Emmanuel Macron of failing to protect the Jewish community France has summoned the US ambassador over an open letter accusing French President Emmanuel Macron of failing to…

Three aerial targets were simultaneously engaged and destroyed at different ranges and altitudes, the defense ministry has said India has successfully tested a new integrated air defense system, which took down three…

The US president has accusesed the networks of political bias US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that news channels ABC and NBC should have their broadcasting licenses revoked. Trump has long…

These Are The Best And Worst Countries For Work-Life Balance When it comes to work-life balance, some countries are setting global standards while others lag far behind. A new analysis of 39…

The IDF says it targeted several Houthi sites in response to a missile attack Israel said it carried out airstrikes in Yemen, hitting a military compound that houses the presidential palace, in…

Conspiracy Theories Revisited Authored by Niall McRae via Off-Guardian.org, Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon….

Hungary denounces Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil pipeline Hungary has warned Ukraine to stop disrupting its energy supply from Russia after Kiev targeted a key pipeline delivering oil to Central Europe. Ukrainian…

Facing Impending Crisis, California Lawmakers Pivot On Fossil Fuels Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, California legislators on Wednesday considered a plan that would dramatically loosen restrictions on drilling and…

Elon Musk Backs Universal High Income Fearing AI Will Take Every Job Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Musk predicts employment will become obsolete. “It’s hard to say exactly what that moment…

Mapping Poverty Rates Across America America’s economic landscape looks very different depending on where you live. This map of U.S. poverty rates by state, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, makes that disparity clearer….

Home Sales See Record July Cancellations As High Mortgage Rates Weigh On Buyers Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A growing share of U.S. home sales collapsed in July as…

Watch: Starship Megarocket Prepares For 10th Test Flight  The tenth flight test of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Eastern at the company’s Starbase launch site in southern Texas, just…

Now Comes the California Fire Sale: China-Based Company Is Buying Up Land Incinerated by Firestorms Authored by Victoria Taft via PJMedia.com, Now comes the fire sale.  If foreign corporations want to buy…

Telegram’s founder has accused Paris of bringing “absurd” charges against him Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said that France ruined its reputation as a free country by briefly detaining him last year….

A man has been arrested in Italy and will stand trial in Germany, but the pipeline mystery remains unresolved The Nord Stream pipeline bombing is back in the news after the recent…

Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has been purging government agencies of diversity, equity and inclusion programs Researchers in the US have been revising their grant renewal applications en masse…

If you have followed the construct of the Trump-Russia collusion story, you are likely outraged that accountability has not followed.  There’s a very frustrating reason for that, and I will explain how…

While speaking to Lara Trump about the ongoing Russiagate review efforts, Devin Nunes notes, “The only thing that President Trump and this administration can do, is make sure that whoever can be…

I have been asked to recap some of my research into cited formats of what I believe to be criminal conduct, with specific statutes against them. This is the fifth. DNI Tulsi…

USDA Ends Solar Subsidies On American Farmland Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Monday that the Department of Agriculture will no longer use taxpayer dollars to fund large-scale solar or wind projects on…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appears on Meet the Press (NBC) to outline the Russian position on further discussions for a peace agreement with Ukraine. Lavrov notes the working group from the…

No Lonesome Doves By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities If you were dovish coming into this week, you are no longer alone.  We’ve been arguing for 3 to 4 cuts this year. We…

Vice President JD Vance appears on Meet the Press for an extensive interview about current events and the Russia-Ukraine negotiations. The beginning of the interview starts with questions about the FBI investigation…

The Russian president is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart and take part in an SCO summit Russian President Vladimir Putin will embark on a four-day trip to China next week…

Russian Nuclear Power Plant Damaged In Ukrainian Drone Attack, IAEA Monitors Radiation In another dangerous escalation, Russia has accused Ukraine of launching a drone strike on the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, which…

Transshipment’s Dead End Authored by Jake Scott via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), President Donald Trump’s executive order of July 31st, effective Aug. 7th, has upended global trade dynamics in a…

Market Valuations Don’t Matter… Until They Do Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, One of the hallmarks of very late-stage bull market cycles is the inevitable bashing of long-term market valuation metrics. In the…

In response to the proposal, the Russian president agreed that a “common front” was needed to combat Islamist terrorism Former US President Bill Clinton proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin a joint…

Central Banks Do Not Prevent Financial Crises Or Control Inflation Authored by Daniel Lacalle via Mises.org, Easing and tightening decisions move all assets from bonds to private equity. Their role is supposed…

Remember “Maryland Father”? Alleged MS-13 Gangster May Be Deported To Uganda Next Week  The Trump administration has notified lawyers of alleged MS-13 illegal alien gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia (whom the globalist MSM portrays…

Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam winner, has said she could not have achieved what she did without his support Former Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova was inducted into the International Tennis…

Moscow also secured the release of eight civilians seized by Kiev during the Kursk incursion Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 146 prisoners of war on Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced….

Late To The Ladder: The Rise In First-Time Home Buyers’ Age Buying a home for the first time is a milestone many associate with adulthood. But for today’s first-time home buyers, that…

Government Statistics Are Always Political Authored by Tho Bishop via Mises.org, In the age of Trump, even the most boring of political positions can find themselves in the center of the political…

Damascus plans to redesign and revalue its currency in a bid to restore confidence Syria will print the banknotes for its redesigned and revalued currency in Russia, Reuters reported on Friday, citing…

Talks should have substance, not serve as a stage for the Ukrainian leader, the Russian foreign minister has said Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s calls for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin are…

Powering Up America: Goldman Stays Bullish On Green Capex Outlook, Highlights Top Picks A team of Goldman analysts led by Brian Singer reaffirmed his bullish view on U.S. power-sector Green Capex after the IRS…

The Drunkest Man In Germany: Foreign Driver With Deadly Blood Alcohol Level Arrested After Traveling 220 km/h On Autobahn By Remix News A foreign driver with an unbelievably high blood alcohol content…

Moscow’s goal is to defend the Russians and Russian-speaking people in Ukraine from persecution, the foreign minister has said Russia has no interest in seizing Ukrainian land but wants to protect ethnic…

European NATO members insist that Russia cannot be allowed to prevail in the conflict, the foreign minister has said Kiev’s backers in Europe want the conflict in Ukraine to continue, unlike US…

Systemic Corruption Doesn’t Give A Chance For Peace In Ukraine Authored by Yuri Mirovich via AntiWar.com, Another huge scandal linked to embezzlement of budget funds in government procurement has broken out in…

The US president earlier called it “impossible” for the peninsula, which voted to join Russia in 2014, to return to Kiev’s control Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has rejected US calls to withdraw…

Visualizing Africa’s Battery Storage Pipeline Nearly 600 million people in Africa lack access to electricity, and the continent’s population is projected to double between 2050 and 2070. This growing demand underscores the…

As Maia Sandu’s approval ratings collapse and opposition grows bolder, the September elections may redefine the country’s path between East and West Moldova is heading into its most consequential election in decades,…

Axis Of Upheaval: Military Watches Of Russia & China Via Watches Of Espionage, What watches have historically kept this emerging bloc that’s challenging the Western order on time? 2025 Russia–United States Summit…

The EU’s “illusion” of geopolitical might has “evaporated,” Mario Draghi has said US President Donald Trump has delivered a “brutal wake-up call” to the EU, shattering the bloc’s illusion of geopolitical power…

A drone has damaged a transformer at the facility, causing a fire, Russian officials have said The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is “aware” of reports about a fire at the Kursk…

Upcoming ‘Zapad’ military drills will feature the Russian Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile Ukraine has told Minsk to stay away from its borders during upcoming joint military exercises with Russia to be held…

Sergio Gor’s nomination comes amid strained ties, with Washington threatening tariffs over New Delhi buying Russian oil US President Donald Trump has announced the appointment of a new ambassador to India and…

The munitions will reportedly be delivered by the end of 2025 The US has approved the sale of 3,350 air-launched ERAM cruise missiles to Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday,…

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…

Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network…

These Are Currently The World’s Most Valuable Unicorn Companies Unicorn companies are making a comeback fueled by the generative AI frenzy. While startup funding experienced a lull after the 2021 bonanza, private…

Texas Senate Passes Redistricting Map Favoring Republicans Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Texas Senate on Aug. 23 passed a bill that will redraw Texas’s congressional maps…

Coinbase Tightens Workforce Security After North Korea Remote-Worker Threats Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, has come under a wave of threats from North…

Americans Spent Less On Plant-Based Foods In 2024 Having long been limited to a handful of mostly soy-based products, plant-based alternatives to dairy and meat have made giant leaps forward over the…

Florida Appeals Judge’s Ruling Against Expansion Of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration on Aug. 21 appealed a ruling made by…