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Steel Yourself For Cracking By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Steel yourself for cracking Jamie Dimon made headlines over the weekend by saying that a crack in the bond market is “going to…

Recession? Atlanta Fed Hikes US Q2 Growth Outlook To Highest Since 2021 Having ‘adjusted’ their model for gold imports, and on the heels of ongoing calls from the ‘establishment’ that a recession…

Chinese Communist Officials Call Harvard Their “Party School” The Trump Administration’s latest effort to reduce foreign influence in US institutions has led to Harvard University, the oldest university in the country.  It’s…

Pew Finds BlueSky’s ‘News Influencers’ Aren’t Influencing Anyone Following last fall’s U.S. presidential election, a wave of left-leaning X accounts—some of which self-proclaimed themselves as “news influencers”—announced their plans to abandon Elon…

The product is already available to qualified investors on the over-the-counter market, the bank has announced Russia’s largest lender, Sber (formerly Sberbank), has introduced structured bonds tied to Bitcoin, according to an…

The memorandum, seen by RT, includes conditions for a lasting peace and a path to reach a ceasefire The peace memorandum developed by Russia and presented to the Ukrainian delegation during the…

Kiev has turned the accusations into a show for “soft-hearted Europeans,” Moscow’s top negotiator has said Ukraine must stop making false claims about alleged “child kidnapping,” which it uses to stage a…

‘Free’ Government Money Accounts For 19% Of All Personal Income Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Free money includes Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, and more, discussed below. Some may object to…

Iran’s uranium enrichment activities are entirely peaceful, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has insisted Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Iran will give assurances regarding the peaceful nature its nuclear program, as US…

Key Events This Week: Payrolls, ISMs And Non-Stop Fed Talk Including Powell Following a relatively quiet, holiday-shortened week, newsflow starts to pick up again. In terms of data this week, we have US…

AI Friends Are Not Your Friends, Here’s Why Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Science fiction prepared us for AI friends through films like “Her” and “Robot &…

Latvia has reportedly cited national security concerns over some real estate holdings close to critical infrastructure Latvia has prohibited entry for Russian citizens who own real estate near strategically important sites in…

US Manufacturing Surveys Mixed In May As Imports Collapse; Prices Paid At 3 Year Highs With ‘soft’ data turning back up to hard data’s reality, all eyes are on this morning’s Manufacturing…

Portuguese political activist Afonso Goncalves has said a local bank closed his personal account without warning or explanation.   Goncalves, 24, is the founder of Reconquista, a right-wing nationalist movement established in…

Marco Rubio Declares War On The Global Censors Authored by Jonathan Turley, Winston Churchill once warned that “appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.” When it comes to the…

Bond Market Paradigm Shift? Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Some bearish bond investors in Japan and the US appear to believe that a paradigm shift is underway in the sovereign bond markets. To wit, consider the…

The Biden administration chose not to publicly disclose the true health impact of a 2023 train derailment in Ohio, investigators claim The administration of former US President Joe Biden tried to cover…

Lindsey Graham has said he hopes the activist, who is sailing to Gaza to protest the Israeli naval blockade, can swim Joining the flotilla that aims to break Israel’s naval blockade of…

Macron speaks, Merz contradicts, and the EU drifts into irrelevance Modern Western Europe is quickly becoming a real-world demonstration of Hegel’s famous dictum – that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then…

The severely wounded and sick will be exchanged on an ‘all for all’ basis, Vladimir Medinsky has said Russia and Ukraine have agreed on their largest prisoner exchange to date, Vladimir Medinsky,…

GOP Megabill Moves To The Senate, But Rand Paul Says ‘Math Doesn’t Really Add Up’ The narrowly passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” makes its way to the Senate this week, where…

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced that the two sides agreed to exchange the bodies of fallen soldiers Moscow and Kiev have agreed to exchange the bodies of thousands of fallen soldiers,…

London says its militarization plan is a “message” to Moscow Britain is moving towards a war footing with the launch of a major rearmament campaign, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a…

Niger’s interim president has claimed that France is backing armed groups in the Sahel through covert networks Niger’s interim president, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has accused Western powers, particularly France, of fueling terrorist violence…

Trump-Endorsed Nationalist Narrowly Wins Polish Presidential Election In Poland’s extraordinarily tight and closely-watched presidential run-off election, a staunch nationalist conservative on Sunday defeated a pro-EU liberal in an outcome that promises economic…

Gabbard Says US Speech At Shangri-La Summit Shows Commitment To Peace in Indo-Pacific Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, said on May 31 that…

Steel & Aluminum Stocks Soar As Trump Plans Metal Tariffs President Trump announced Friday that steel and aluminum tariffs will double from 25% to 50%, calling the move a cornerstone of his…

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo is known for issuing death threats to journalists and mocking J.D. Vance An American transgender woman who was dismissed from the Ukrainian military after issuing death threats to journalists has…

Moderna Disables Comments On X Post Announcing New Covid Shot Amid Backlash Moderna shares rose in premarket trading after the company announced FDA approval of its new lower-dose Covid-19 vaccine, mNEXSPIKE, for…

Futures Slide On Renewed Trade Turmoil As Gold, Oil Spike US equity futures are weaker along with Asian and European markets as the trade war escalates after US and China accused each…

Reishi Mushroom: An Ancient Mushroom For Modern Health Benefits Authored by Ben Lam and JoJo Novaes via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lingzhi (Reishi Mushroom) is a medicinal mushroom regarded as a…

The Tide Is Turning Against The Transgender Takeover Of Women’s Sports In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes (men pretending to be women) from participation in publicly…

The country’s tycoons have added over $28 billion to their wealth over the past year The combined net worth of Russia’s wealthiest individuals has surged by $28 billion over the past 12…

A clip showing people risking their lives while approaching the UAVs in Russia’s Irkutsk Region has gone viral on social media A group of men who were filmed tossing stones at incoming…

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has called for expanded rescue efforts and increased preparedness across the country The death toll from flooding in central Nigeria has reached 153, local authorities confirmed on Saturday,…

Pyongyang says the paper demonizes legitimate relations between sovereign states North Korea has slammed a report by a Western sanctions monitoring group’s on its ties with Russia, calling it a “political provocation.”…

The BRICS Go Their Own Way Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, It’s that time again. Time for the annual BRICS+ Leaders Summit. The BRICS have hundreds of meetings over the course…

The shift comes a year after British lawmakers pushed for recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara The UK has endorsed Morocco’s plan to grant limited autonomy to Western Sahara, ending decades…

Washington earlier claimed that Beijing breached the deal recently reached in Geneva The US has “seriously” violated the latest trade deal between Washington and Beijing, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on…

Kiev is seeking to “intimidate civilians” and “provoke aggression” before talks with Moscow in Istanbul, Andrey Kartapolov has said A senior Russian lawmaker has accused Ukrainian intelligence services of orchestrating an explosion…

Which Cities Are Investing The Most Into AI? As the global AI race heats up, a growing share of AI funding is being funneled into a few dominant tech ecosystems. This map, via Visual…

Kiev’s demands “diverge considerably” from the terms earlier voiced by Moscow, the agency noted The memorandum prepared by Ukraine for the Istanbul talks with Russia rejects Moscow’s key demands for recognition of…

Kiev is struggling with widespread draft evasion amid a mobilization campaign Ukrainian conscription officers have been ordered to bring in 12 new recruits each day and are using aggressive tactics to meet…

Will Russia’s Military Build-Up Along The Finnish Border Likely Be The New Normal? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is a predictable response to Finland’s unnecessary and highly provocative decision to…

These Are The World’s Biggest Shadow Economies The world’s $12.5 trillion informal economy covers nearly every corner of the world, seeing the highest concentration in emerging economies. Yet in absolute terms, China, the U.S….

British Voters Lash Out Authored by Jake Scott via The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), In the United Kingdom, a mini political earthquake has thrown everything up into the air. At the…

The next stage of negotiations has started in Istanbul following Kiev’s drone strikes on Russian civilian and military facilities The second round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks begins in Istanbul, Türkiye, on Monday,…

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…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears on CBS News to counter the false information being spread by Margaret Brennan on behalf of Wall Street corporations.  The topics of interest surround China and tariffs….

This interview is really easy to boil down.  86% of American parents do not want to give their child a COVID-19 vaccination.  88% of pregnant American Women do not want to get…

If we cut through all the polite pretending, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appears on Fox News to tell the bobble head the nation specific tariffs are going to hit regardless of what…

Making Poland Great Again.  Despite all the media and EU efforts to shape the outcome of the Polish election, it looks like nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki will secure the presidential victory. As…

The basic outline of what took place are now a bit clearer.  In what was called “Operation Spider Web” Ukraine counterintelligence operatives staged a series of semi-trucks near five strategic air bases…

What Is American Conservatism? Authored by Roger Kimball via The Epoch Times, “To be deceived about the truth of things and so to harbor untruth in the soul is a thing no…

The White House’s letter to Tehran was far from a compromise, a person familiar with the matter said The US proposal for a new nuclear agreement with Iran is unacceptable, an Iranian…

According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, three senior DHS sources tell him the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the…

The US president shared a social media post suggesting his predecessor was “executed” in 2020 US President Donald Trump has shared on social media a claim that his predecessor, Joe Biden, was…

Will Russia’s Retaliation To Ukraine’s Strategic Drone Strikes Decisively End The Conflict? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia…

Trump Admin Shuts Down Massive $66 Million Food Stamp Fraud Scheme A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee and five others have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…

Palantir’s Deepening Government Ties Spark Fears Of Centralized Surveillance On Friday the NY Times published a report highlighting the Trump administration’s increasing use of software from data analysis firm Palantir, which has been deployed…

The conservative candidate is ahead of centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski Conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki is narrowly leading in Poland’s presidential runoff, according to a late poll. The Ipsos late poll shows…

256,185 Pounds Of Canned Beef Stew Recalled Nationwide Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Georgia-based Hormel Foods Corporation is withdrawing roughly 256,185 pounds of canned beef stew products…

The FBI is treating the incident in Colorado as a terrorist attack An unidentified man has been detained in Boulder, Colorado, after throwing Molotov cocktails at attendees of a demonstration held in…

Big Bank Boss Urges America To ‘Stockpile Bullets, Not Bitcoin’ JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon argued at the inaugural Reagan National Economic Forum in California that the U.S. should should stockpile guns,…

14 People Charged In $25 Million COVID Relief, Small Business Loan Fraud Scheme Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fourteen people were arrested on May 28 for allegedly…

London will invest $8 billion in long-range missile production, John Healey has said The UK plans to mobilize billions of pounds to bolster its military-industrial base in preparation for a potential conflict…

Military airfields in five Russian regions have come under drone attacks in the first such instance in the Ukraine conflict Military airfields located in five Russian regions, including those in Siberia and…

Two Bridges ‘Blown Up’, Trains Derailed, In Russian Regions Bordering Ukraine, Killing At Least 7 A lot happened in the Russia-Ukraine war on Sunday, and as the dust settles from Ukraine’s major…

With dwindling weapons, collapsing morale, and no strategic gains, Ukraine turns to spectacle as a last resort On Monday, a fresh round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine kicks off in Istanbul….

The Russian foreign minister and the US secretary of state have discussed Kiev’s strikes on civilian and military facilities Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has spoken with US Secretary of State Marco…

Mikhail Drapaty has taken responsibility for the deaths of soldiers in a strike on a training facility The commander of Ukraine’s Land Forces, Mikhail Drapaty, has resigned from his post, taking responsibility…

Kremlin Prepared For All-Out Conflict With NATO: Institute For War The hawkish Washington DC-based think tank, The Institute for Study or War (ISW), had just prior to Ukraine’s Sunday shock drone operation which reportedly…

“Everything Has Been Alarmist”: Bessent Shuts Down CBS Over Inflation, Says US Will ‘Never Default’ On Debt For months, all we’ve heard from mainstream economic pundits is that Trump’s tariff scheme would…

Over 30 long-range kamikaze UAVs were destroyed in the attack, the Russian Defense Ministry has said Moscow has successfully hit a Ukrainian long-range drone launch site in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkov Region, the…

Wall Of Confusion Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Wall of Confusion I think that we have seen the word “uncertainty” far too many times in the past few months. While…

Zelensky Calls Meetings With Putin ‘Meaningless’ And Asks For More Military Aid Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a three-way summit with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, likely in…

Candy-Maker Says It Removed Additive Targeted By RFK Jr. From Skittles Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Skittles no longer contains titanium dioxide, a chemical identified as potentially…

New COVID Variant NB.1.8.1 Starting To Spread Worldwide: What We Know Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the COVID-19 variant…

The bloc does not need militarization, but rather peace talks between Moscow and Kiev to succeed, the Hungarian prime minister has said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has unveiled a proposal to…

CT Dems Advance Bill That Allows Lawsuits For Turning Over Illegals To ICE Connecticut Democrats have advanced a controversial bill amending the state’s Trust Act to let “any aggrieved person” sue municipalities—including…

Keith Kellogg has echoed Moscow’s characterization of the hostilities Russian President Vladimir Putin is right in considering the Ukraine conflict a proxy war against Russia, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Keith…

Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attacks Hit Russian Long-Range Bombers Open-source footage circulating on X depicts a coordinated Ukrainian drone swarm targeting Russian long-range strategic bombers—aircraft capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear payloads—deep within…

From Taxation To Confiscation: Europe’s Wealth Exodus & The Coming Asset Seizure Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.cm, Incoming… Theft, that is. Consider that the deindustrialisation of the communist union of Europe…

Trump Admin Targets Tech Contracts With Feds To Streamline Bloated Gov’t A new report cites an internal memo from the General Services Administration informing ‘Big Tech’ that the Trump administration is expanding its…

Nvidia CEO Tells Bloomberg What He Really Thinks About Biden-Era Open Borders Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who recently concluded a roadshow alongside President Trump, secured chip deals across the Gulf States and…

How Washington became a gerontocracy It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about Joe Biden, hasn’t it? Yet here he is, back in the headlines – not because of some triumphant…

Several aircraft were damaged and some of the perpetrators behind the attacks are in custody, the military has said Military airfields across Russia have been attacked in a series of kamikaze drone…

Next week on Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is scheduled to travel to Washington DC and meet with President Donald Trump in the White House.  Considering the importance of Germany to the…

Stillwater – June 1, 2025 “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” ~ Proverbs 23:23 “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought…

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…

Such an approach would violate Washington state’s anti-discrimination law, a court has ruled A federal appeals court has obliged a Korean spa in Lynnwood, Washington to provide services to transgender females. The…

The country has joined a system that links its F-16s, Mirage 2000s, and Patriot missile launchers to the bloc’s military infrastructure Kiev has been allowed to join a NATO-standard coordination network which…

Punitive Politics And Economic Self-Harm – Germany Plans Special Tax On U.S. Tech Giants Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, Germany is planning to introduce a 10% special tax targeting U.S. tech giants. At…

Authorities Find 11 Dead Bodies In Abandoned Boat Near St. Vincent And The Grenadines Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are investigating the grim discovery of an abandoned boat with 11…

The accusation comes after the Pentagon chief alleged that Beijing posed a “real and imminent” threat Washington is “vilifying” Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Sunday. The accusation follows remarks made…

Used Rolex Demand Soars On Tariff Uncertainty Trade war uncertainty has sparked a surge in buying in the secondary watch market, driven by a sharp increase in demand in April amid a…

The raid targeted a military base not far from Lake Baikal, Governor Igor Kobzev has said Several drones have attacked a military installation in Irkutsk Region, central Russia, Governor Igor Kobzev has…

Air defenses have been activated in Murmansk Region, Andrey Chibis has said Russia’s Murmansk Region, located mostly north of the Arctic Circle, is being targeted by drones, local governor Andrey Chibis has…