Source: Bloomberg Cause or effect – Peak FOMO is occurring along with Peak Fed balance sheet expansion. Bloomberg points out that Palladium topped $1,900 an ounce for the first time ever on Tuesday after South African mining companies halted operations in response to the country's power cuts. Source: Bloomberg Finally, as we noted Read more…
In a continuation piece via Yahoo, Gundlach suggested that trouble is brewing in debt markets as interest rates hover around zero. “It's pretty interesting because the 20s in the 20th century, the 20s were super boom times. And weirdly, I think the 20s this time will be very much different than Read more…
She was the never-Trumping partisan FBI lawyer who, together with her lover Peter Strzok, was among the first FBI agents fired for “bias” on the job as part of their probe of Trump's “collusion” with Russia. She was also the one whose nearly 400 text messages with Strzok disclosed the Read more…
This follows at least nine “increasingly sophisticated” rocket attacks on joint US-Iraq military facilities over just the past five weeks. The Pentagon believes Iran is behind these and other attacks, CNN reports, according to several US defense official sources, who say further Iran's Shia proxies are involved in planning “new provocations Read more…
However, the data shows that the US is not in a disadvantageous position vis-à-vis other countries in the rulings of the WTO Hence, a more strategic reason to strip the Appellate Body of its powers is that the US wants to settle international disputes again according to the GATT regime, Read more…
Despite Blowing Millions, Latest Poll Finds Billionaire Bloomberg “Wildly Unpopular” It turns out that Americans don't want to “be like Mike” after all. That margin was significantly worse than for five other Democratic candidates, as well as for President Trump, and as StamfordAdvocate.com reports, that same measure hampered Hillary Clinton's Read more…
The executives – all of them US citizens, five of them with dual citizenship – were first arrested in 2017 and were only brought to court in the middle of 2019, after 18 months in prison. At the time of the arrest, US authorities requested that its nationals be released, but Venezuela's Read more…
Barr described Durham's role as “Looking at the issue of how it got started. There was documents falsified in order to get these renewals. There was all kinds of withholding of information from the court. “I think our nation was turned on its head for three years based on a Read more…
Bolsonaro Blasts “Bratty” Greta After Comments Over Indigenous Murders Childhood thief and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called autistic environmentalist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she highlighted the killing of two indigenous leaders on her Facebook page. “Greta said that the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon,” Bolsonaro told Read more…
3 Cops, 2 Civilians Reportedly Shot In Jersey City Shooting; Suspects Still “Exchanging Gunfire” With Police Update: Local media is reporting that one of the shooters has been taken out by police at a bodega somewhere near the intersection of JFK Boulevard and Claremont Ave in Jersey City. According to Read more…