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Chicago’s Worst-In-Nation Pension Crisis Strikes Again Authored by Nick Binotti and Ted Dabrowski via Wirepoints.org, Wirepoints recently warned in a Chicago Sun-Times oped that Chicago’s pension mess was going to get worse. As Chicago’s…

After Being Wrong For Three Years, Marko Kolanovic Is Leaving JPMorgan In retrospect, it was the best call of this market cycle. After he was bullish – and dead wrong – all…

The White House has told the outlet that the claim is “absolutely false” US President Joe Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover from his “disastrous” debate performance, the New York…

Petrodollar Panic: Separating Fact From Fiction Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, a few media outlets have warned of the imminent demise of the petrodollar agreement, commonly called the petrodollar. With…

Oh, they’re good… the Pelosi clan are really good. I once saw an interview with Nancy Pelosi’s daughter where she was asked about her mom and Alexandra Pelosi said something very matter-of-factly…

Zelensky Challenges Trump: ‘Tell Us Today How To Finish The War’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday has issued an open challenge to former President Donald Trump, telling him that if the…

Jack Smith Is Willing To Try Trump Up To Inauguration Day; WaPo Reports Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Washington Post is reporting that Special Counsel Jack Smith may try to convict former president Donald…

He wants the former US president to explain his plan to resolve the conflict between Moscow and Kiev Former US President Donald Trump should set out his plan to resolve the Ukraine…

Ukraine will not give up its territorial integrity and sovereignty to end the conflict, Andrey Yermak has said Ukraine does not intend to cave in to Russian demands and consider formally ceding…

The worker perished on the job at a height of 200 meters, reportedly from a drug overdose A crane operator perished on the job at a height of some 200 meters above…

The German chancellor has told supporters that he wants to prevent “a populist government” gaining power in France German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that he texts French President Emmanuel Macron every…

US Factory Orders Unexpectedly Tumbled In May And to cap a day of serially ugly US macro data, factory orders unexpectedly plunged (-0.5% MoM) in May (against expectations of a 0.2% rise…

WTF Are S&P Global Services PMI Respondents Drinking? Following the mixed picture on Manufacturing (despite the collapse in ‘hard’ data), the Servcies dats could not be more mixed: S&P Global US Services…

What Exactly Are Biden’s Achievements In His First Three-And-A-Half Years? Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com, In the wake of the catastrophic debate last week, Bill Clinton, most of the media, and…

WTI Spikes After Biggest Crude Draw In A Year Oil prices briefly spiked after last night’s API-reported big crude draw, but that reverted back lower fast. Overnight has seen a small roller-coaster…

Hurricane Beryl has been churning her way through the Caribbean for the past few days.  She is now a dangerous CAT-4/CAT-5 storm nearing the island of Jamaica. Beryl is a very dangerous…

Moscow has accused the organization of double standards and Russophobia Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted to suspend Moscow’s participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe…

The two countries have been deepening economic cooperation following Western sanctions on Moscow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Ankara and Moscow would continue strengthening economic ties with the…

“To The Left, To The Right” By Rabobank Yesterday the Dutch national team sealed a 3-0 victory against Romania which resulted in festivities amongst enthusiastic fans. Earlier, Dutch football supporters went viral…

Politico earlier reported that the Republican frontrunner wants NATO to ditch its expansion plans Russian President Vladimir Putin and Republican frontrunner in the US presidential race Donald Trump have not held any…

25 years before the Serbian president’s statement, Washington was bombing Belgrade Serbia and the US have fought together at “crucial historic moments,” and Belgrade wants to continue to improve relations with Washington,…

Member states have reportedly rejected Jens Stoltenberg’s proposal to spend €40 billion a year on aid for Kiev NATO member states have rejected a proposal by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to spend…

CDK Global Says “Substantially All” Dealerships Back Online After Ransomware Attack  The cyber incident that affected about 15,000 auto dealerships across North America is over. CDK Global said “substantially all” dealers in its network…

Eight people were reportedly wounded while repairing a substation used by the Zaporozhye NPP A Ukrainian attack on a substation used by the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has injured eight employees of…

Novo, Lilly Fall After Biden & Sanders Slam Big Pharma For ‘Unconscionably High’ Anti-Obesity Drug Prices In what seems to be a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to regain voter support as…

US Interior Department Greenlights Major Offshore Wind Project In New Jersey Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times The Department of Interior announced its approval of a large-scale offshore wind turbine…

Congressman Wesley Hunt tells a story about President Trump and a key meeting he had about Afghanistan. This is good. WATCH: In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, “I want…

Sierra Leone’s government has passed a law introducing a 15-year minimum prison sentence for offenders Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has signed legislation banning child marriage in the West African country,…

James Clyburn left Wisconsin last weekend after attending ballot counting workshops in three cities, more on that next.  However, his latest move is perhaps the most important in the short term. Clyburn…

The president of the Republic of the Congo paid a state visit to Moscow Denis Sassou Nguesso, the President of the Republic of the Congo and one of Africa’s political heavyweights, has…

Ethereum ETFs In ‘Window-Dressing’ Stage, Approval Within Weeks; Galaxy Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, Galaxy Digital’s head of asset management believes spot Ether exchange-traded funds will be approved in “weeks” rather…

Some 45% of respondents are not satisfied with the current cabinet’s performance   Almost half of Finns are unhappy with the government led by 53-year-old Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a recent survey…

The close-call was filmed by a camera mounted on the turret of a T-72 A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows the dramatic moment when a presumed Ukrainian kamikaze drone…

The Ukrainian leader said he had a “negative experience” with truce talks in the past, according to the Hungarian PM Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky was not receptive to Budapest’s proposal to establish a…

The US president claims he was tired after traveling extensively ahead of the showdown with Donald Trump Joe Biden has claimed that too much international travel was the reason for his disastrous…

Initial Jobless Claims Disappoint (Again), Continuing Claims Worst Since Dec 2021 Following a weaker than expected AP print, jobless claims data is worse than expected too. Initial claims rose to 238k last…

Watch: Press Hammers KJP, Repeatedly Demand To Know If Biden Has Dementia During Briefing Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre, holding her first proper press…

ADP Payrolls Disappoint In June – 3rd Straight Monthly Decline In Additions ADP reported 150k job additions in June (well below the 165k expected) – the third straight monthly decline in job…

Futures Trade At Record High Ahead Of Data Flood US futures traded at new record highs amid rising optimism a Fed rate cut is coming, perhaps as soon as the end of the…

Identification With Democrats Plummets In The US Identification with the Democratic Party has plummeted in the U.S. to the lowest recorded levels, according to a Gallup database. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, even…

Two kamikaze watercraft were stopped overnight while trying to reach the port of Novorossiysk, the Defense Ministry has reported The Russian Navy has intercepted two Ukrainian naval unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) deployed…

3 In 4 Americans Say They’re Not Financially Secure, New Report Shows Authored by Jen Krausz via The Epoch Times, According to a new Bankrate report, three in four Americans say they…

Obama Privately ‘Concerned’ About Biden As White House Staff Freak Over Hunter While Former President Barack Obama has publicly supported sockpuppet president Joe Biden following last Thursday’s unprecedented debate, he has privately…

A single Krasnopol artillery munition was enough to obliterate the vehicle, according to Moscow’s military Russian forces have destroyed another US-supplied Ukrainian-operated Abrams main battle tank in Donbass, the Defense Ministry in…

More than 250,000 took part in a religious rally that resulted in mass deaths, according to police India is investigating the circumstances in which a religious event in Uttar Pradesh state turned…

An Iskander attack on an airfield in Poltava region has destroyed a parked Mil Mi-24, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow A Russian missile strike on an airfield in central Ukraine…

Many Democrats believe US President Joe Biden should drop out of the race after his poor debate performance Michelle Obama, the wife of former US President Barack Obama, is the only potential…

The former US Secretary of State says Kiev is right to be concerned if the Republican prevails over Biden Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signaled her support if Ukraine…

The East African nation experienced widespread unrest once again on Tuesday as demonstrators called for the president’s resignation Kenyan authorities have vowed to crack down on violent protests after the East African…

Energy giant Gazprom has ramped up pipeline supplies to Western, Central, Southern and Southeastern Europe by nearly a quarter, the outlet has said Russian natural gas exports to Western, Central, Southern, and…

Debate over the Muslim garment that covers all but a woman’s eyes has intensified following last month’s terrorist attack in the republic Islamic authorities in Russia’s Dagestan Republic have decreed a temporary…

Crypto Hacks, Scams Totaled Over Half-A-Billion Dollars For Q2, 2024: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Over half a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in…

A Russian soldier tossed a 10kg munition inside a building during an assault, a video from the battlefield shows A video circulating on social media purportedly shows a daredevil Russian soldier using…

Saudi Producer Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison Over Animated Netflix Series Via Middle East Eye Saudi writer and producer Abdul Aziz al-Muzaini has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and 13 years of…

The US is willing to sacrifice its allies in order to defeat Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has argued Any Western talk of peace in the Ukraine conflict is merely a…

Many of the bloc’s members want “additional steps” from Kiev as they consider the issue a “priority,” a source has told the paper NATO wants Ukraine to make more effort to crack…

Nine Ukrainian Jets Destroyed In 24 Hours, Russia’s Military Says The Kremlin has continued to signal to the West that the dozens of US F-16 fighter jets currently being prepped to transfer…

Macron’s Loss Isn’t An End, It’s A Beginning Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, To say that I’ve been waiting on pins and needles for the past year…

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…

How Financial Surveillance Threatens Our Democracies: Part 1 Authored by Alexandre Stachtchenko via Bitcoin Magazine, When they descended into coal mines, miners would take a caged canary with them. The toxic gasses,…

Black Americans Still Feel Systematically Held Back On July 2, 1964, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. To this day, the landmark bill is considered one of the most significant legislative…

US Marshals Find 200 Missing Children In Nationwide Operation Authored by Mary Lou Lang via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) found 200 missing children, including sex trafficking victims, abused…

When Bitcoin $100,000? It Depends On Biden’s Next Move For much of the past year, Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick has had a nice, round number in mind for his 2024 year-end price…

US Completes Hypersonic Missile Flight Test In Bid To Keep Up With China Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Army and Navy have recently completed a flight test…

These Are The Most Expensive States To Maintain A Home Buying a house is the American dream, but maintaining that property in good shape can be challenging for homeowners. This map, via…

The Russian leader will hold a series of bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Astana where the leaders of the…

Jury Awards $687,000 To BlueCross BlueShield Scientist Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal jury has awarded $687,000 to a research scientist who was…

The Pentagon vows to supply Kiev with more air defense interceptors and other “critical munitions” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin welcomed his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov at the Pentagon on Tuesday,…

Apple’s ‘Sell-Through’ Market Share Erodes, UBS says The world’s most valuable company saw its smartphone market share in China shrink in May, even after “deep” discounting, according to UBS analysts citing Counterpoint Research….

Robert Reich’s Blind Spots: The Elephant In The Progressive Left’s Room Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Robert Reich is on his fifth myth, but so far, he has just been…

“Major Victory For American Energy”: Judge Blocks Biden’s Pause On LNG Export Licenses A federal court halted President Biden’s war on America’s energy independence by reversing a temporary moratorium on permitting new licenses for liquified natural gas…

Scammers Are Impersonating Water, Electric, And Gas Companies; BBB Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scammers are impersonating utility company representatives to defraud people by threatening the…

US Airports Are Busier Than Ever This Year As the summer holiday travel season is in full swing, U.S. airports are getting quite busy these days. In fact, as Statista’s Felix Richter reports, according to…

Biden Announces Five Actions To Address Extreme Weather In US Authored by T J Muscaro via The Epoch Times, President Joe Biden spoke to the nation from the Emergency Operations Center in…

The US presidential hopeful is reportedly considering options to stop the Ukraine conflict The former and possibly future US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a deal with Russia not to expand…

Biden Admin Deliberately Flying Previously-Deported Illegal Aliens Back Into The US Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, A new report claims that the Biden Administration has deliberately been flying illegal aliens…

Post-Roe V. Wade: Where Americans Stand On Abortion Last week saw the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that…

The US president’s office insists that his inability to finish sentences during a debate was simply a “bad night” US President Joe Biden does not have Alzheimer’s or dementia, and “knows how…

The popstar’s 18-city European tour that kicked off in May has been driving up prices Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s European tour is not the only factor keeping inflation high across the euro…

What In The World Happened In 1971? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, A colleague recently discovered a website called “WTF Happened in 1971?” The entire main page is filled with…

Election debates in the US and UK reveal the complete bankruptcy of politics in the West Last Friday Donald Trump and Joe Biden took part in the first of two scheduled debates…

WTI Bounces After API Reports Biggest Crude Draw In 6 Months Oil prices fell back from new two-month highs early on as (supply) fears over the impact of Hurricane Beryl eased, but…

Fed Paid Banks And Funds $400 Billion Over 2 Years For Sitting On Cash Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The banking industry has benefited from the Federal Reserve’s measures…

Lloyd Austin Unveils New $2.3BN Aid While Hosting Ukraine’s Defense Chief We wrote in early June that the White House is planning to announce new Ukraine arms and funding packages about every two…

Major Brands Push ‘Upflation’ Gimmick To Drive Up Sales  US consumers have been well aware of the ‘shrinkflation’ phenomenon in recent years, but now there’s a new emerging trend: Some of the world’s largest packaged…

Blackstone Sees AI Revolution Growing Private Credit Market To Staggering $25 Trillion Several years ago we calculated that the cost to implement the “Green new deal”, and to fund the liberal crusade…

The US Is A “Runaway Train” Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance I had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing my friend Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity this week. Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell) is an economic…

Financial System ‘Plumbing’ Starts To Show Signs Of Stress Again Usage of The Fed’s Reverse Repo facility is down $220 Billion in the last two days as the massive surge in demand…

No, President Biden, The Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits On The Presidency Authored by Jonathan Turley, President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the…

In a letter to Judge Merchan earlier today, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg is asking for a postponement of sentencing. Regardless of the corrupt Lawfare trial outcome, the Supreme Court ruling…

The former US president is now free to accept the Republican nomination New York Judge Juan Merchan has rescheduled the next hearing in the case against former US President Donald Trump to…

The highest turnout in forty years demonstrates the electorate’s desire and hope for change. But voters are very unlikely to get what they want. The first round of snap elections for the…

A full ceasefire in Gaza would compel the Lebanese armed group to cease the fighting immediately, its deputy leader has told AP The only way to stop the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese…

The right-wing National Rally party posted a strong showing in the first round of the parliamentary elections last Sunday As many as 200 candidates from President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party and a…

Does Justice Sotomayor Write Her Decisions In Crayon? Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Following last week’s decisions, which represented a significant blow to the American administrative state, yesterday, the…

Bonds & Stocks Bid As Government Job Openings Suddenly Surge Despite the near-perfect track record of downward revisions over the last 17 months, the market seemed buoyed today by a better than…

Democrats should ask whether the president’s debate-night fumble was a sign of a serious “condition,” the former house speaker has said Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that questions about…

The bankrupt platform is expected to start distributing assets stolen from clients in a 2014 hack, according to a report The price of Bitcoin could be affected by the upcoming repayments to…

Vilnius is reportedly developing fortification and evacuation plans Authorities in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, have developed a plan to ring the entire city with anti-tank obstacles before the end of the…