Race To The Financial Dung Heap Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance As I wrote just weeks ago, I believed (and still do) that any new market collapse could come at the hands of crypto and/or stablecoins, which have in many ways become an essentially unregulated $4 trillion slush-y money market fund reminiscent of 2008. But watching the headlines coming out of commercial real estate, private credit and subprime auto over the last […]

Dating App Fatigue Emerges  For half a century, how couples met in America was primarily shaped by family and friend networks, communities, churches, colleges, and workplaces – you know, just the traditional fabric of Western society. However, the advent of the internet and the rise of Big Tech, with its closely guarded algorithms (and now AI bots), have dramatically reshaped modern romance. Yet, new data from Goldman suggests […]

Can Private Investment Unlock A New Nuclear Energy Era Submitted by OilPrice.com, As several governments aim to battle climate change by shifting away from fossil fuels and pursuing a green transition, many are revisiting a long-overlooked energy source – nuclear power. Nuclear power was at the top of many countries’ energy agenda for several decades before a few notable nuclear disasters shifted the public perception of the […]

Saudi Arabia’s Spending Spree Meets Oil Price Reality Submitted by Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com, Saudi Arabia’s grand Vision 2030 ambitions may be colliding with a colder fiscal reality. Fitch Ratings warned Friday that Riyadh faces rising financial risks as oil prices soften and government spending balloons, threatening the kingdom’s plans for fiscal consolidation. The numbers tell the story: Saudi Arabia now expects a […]

Georgia Condemns ‘Coup Attempt’ After Pro-EU Protesters Try To Storm Presidential Palace Chaos has once again hit Georgia’s streets, as a large group of demonstrators attempted to storm the presidential palace in the capital Saturday, at a moment of controversial municipal elections. Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream has gone so far as to describe unrest in the capital is an attempt to stage a coup in the country. “This is a […]

Was Scandinavia’s Russian Drone Scare A False Flag To Crack Down On Russia’s Shadow Fleet? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It’s highly suspicious that Zelensky just claimed without any evidence that they were launched by Russian tankers and subsequently demanded that Europe close the straits to its shipping in response… Unknown drones recently flew in close proximity to Danish and Norwegian airports, […]

ICE Agents Ambushed In Chicago As Trump Deploys National Guard Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were ‘rammed and boxed in by 10 cars’ in Broadview, Illinois on Saturday, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin in a statement to Fox News.  Federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection walk along West Wacker Drive in the Loop in […]

“Czech Trump” Andrej Babis Wins Election, Returns As Prime Minister In Latest European Populist Revolt Billionaire Andrej Babis’s ANO party won the Czech Republic’s general parliamentary election on Saturday, and is set to return as prime minister to the central European country, raising the prospect of yet another splinter government within the EU bloc that would boost Europe’s populist, anti-immigration camp and reduce support for […]

Hegseth Removes Another Top Pentagon Official Friday saw more of the expected house-cleaning and reshuffling at the Pentagon under Pete Hegseth, as Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison has been fired. “Jon Harrison will no longer serve as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Navy. We are grateful for his service to the Department,” a Department of Defense (DOD) official said. Via The Daily Mail Harrison had been appointed to the […]

Deterring The Next Quasi-World War: China–Russia–North Korea Versus US Authored by Joseph Yizheng Lian via The Epoch Times, Russian planes recently flew into Polish and Romanian airspace to test NATO’s resolve while the world veers toward a conflict in Asia—one that could be far worse than the situation in Ukraine—where true deterrence and resolve remain largely absent. Let’s backtrack a little. On Sept. 3, Beijing […]

Trump To Slash Refugee Admissions By 94% From Biden Levels The Trump White House is poised to dramatically reduce the number of refugees that will be accepted into the United States over the next fiscal year — with the ceiling falling a whopping 94% from the limit set by the Biden administration, according to a New York Times report.  Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Times says a maximum of just 7,500 refugees would […]

“Shock Outcome:” Japan Hardline Conservative Takaichi Elected Party Leader, Set To Become First Female Prime Minister Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, positioning her to become the country’s next prime minister in a parliamentary confirmation vote expected in mid-October. Takaichi, 64, a staunch conservative and vocal China hawk, defeated […]

Pakistan Offers Washington New Arabian Sea Port To Tap Critical Minerals Via The Cradle Advisers to Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir proposed to US officials the construction of a new port on the Arabian Sea near the borders with Afghanistan and Iran, according to a Financial Times report released Saturday, citing a plan reviewed by the outlet. The plan envisions US investors constructing and managing a terminal in […]

Medical Group Reveals Major Role Inflammation Plays In Heart Disease Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The American College of Cardiology recently released recommendations indicating that inflammation should be considered when trying to predict heart disease. A man walks in a hospital hallway in Irvine, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2016. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times In a report issued in the Journal of the […]

​​​​​​​After Quiet Hurricane Season Peak, Meteorologists Monitor New Development In Atlantic Basin Last year, the global-warming alarmists at Yale Climate Connections were once again citing research claiming that “human-caused climate change made many recent extreme weather events far more damaging.”  A year late, Yale Climate Connections journalists are glitching because they can’t explain “Another round of […]

OPEC+ Slams Reuters Leak On Oil Plans As “Wholly Inaccurate And Misleading” Submitted by Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Reuters and its anonymous (oil-shorting) sources are again stirring the oil market. This time, the wire says OPEC+ is preparing another supply hike in November, with Saudi Arabia pushing for something big and Russia urging restraint. But if recent history is any guide, a report of rising quotas doesn’t […]

Trump Thanks Israel For Halting Gaza City Offensive, Urges Hamas “Move Quickly” Or Deal Is Off The Israeli military has been ordered by the Netanyahu government to pause its offensive in Gaza City, according to Israeli army radio on Saturday, just a day after Hamas is said to have agreed to the Trump-proposed peace plan which seeks the release of all remaining hostages, living and deceased.  The Israeli military in an official […]

Decisive Leadership In An Age of Decline Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance All things being equal, I think President Trump is doing a damn good job his first year in office. Sure, there are things that I could choose to take exception with — not cutting as much spending as anticipated or dangerous ideas involving stablecoins in the Treasury market, for example — but all in all, Trump is getting the big things right. Every […]

Where Beer Is Cheapest (And Most Expensive) From Modelo to Carlsberg, beer prices have climbed sharply across the global economy over the past five years. While inflation has been a driver, taxes often make up a significant share of the final price. Today, a bottle can cost as little as $0.82 in Shanghai and as high as $4.75 in Sydney in U.S. dollars. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the price of a 0.5L […]

Bitcoin Faces Its 1913 Moment Authored by Kane McGukin via BombThrower,com, Is the Core vs. Knots battle a replay of two ideological Federal Reserve Plans that ultimately centralized gold, the original sound money? TL;DR: The Core vs Knots battle is an attack on the Bitcoin network. A monetary struggle no different than the fight to establish the Federal Reserve in 1913. The 1900s, like today, began with bankers at war over the […]

China Reportedly Operated SIM Farm Network Designed To Crash NYC Cell Networks  Last month, just hours before President Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service dropped a bombshell report revealing it had dismantled a massive, decentralized SIM farm network located just 35 miles from New York City. The network had the operational capacity of a telecommunications stealth weapon capable of […]

The Golden Age Of Spectacle Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, “The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie.” Guy Debord We’re living in the golden age of Spectacle: whatever substance remains in politics is lost in the endless parade of outlandish political theater, finance is dominated by staged spectacles of media-savvy CEOs announcing the next trillion-dollar product, and online, all the […]

Immortal Monkeys? Not Quite, But Scientists Just Reversed Aging With ‘Super’ Stem Cells Key Points: “Super Stem Cells” boosted memory in monkeys and offered protection against neurodegeneration. They halted age-related bone loss and restored vitality in more than half of the 61 tissues examined. The therapy also cut back harmful inflammation and reduced the burden of senescent cells — the aged, non-dividing cells that drive […]

The End Of Woke Capitalism Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, The Egregore of Far-Left Radicalism Is Wounded – But What Will Take It’s Place? Today’s post is excerpted from the October edition of The Bitcoin Capitalist Letter – get a special deal for Bombthrower readers here » “At the physical level, we are witnessing a war of structures, on the meta-physical level, a battle of pendulums.”— Vadim […]

These Are The Cities With The Highest Grocery Prices Worldwide U.S. grocery prices have spiked 29% since 2020, putting strain on consumers’ wallets. This impact has been felt across global cities, as supply shortages, extreme weather events, and pandemic-era inflation have pushed prices higher. But where in the world do customers face the highest prices overall? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the […]