What Rate-Cuts Can And Cannot Do
What Rate-Cuts Can And Cannot Do Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, June’s year-over-year Consumer Price Index is still running 3 percent, which is now considered more-or-less on target. Five years ago, that would have been seen as intolerably high. The month-over-month decline of 0.1 percent, the best in a year, was driven […]
5 Reasons For A New Gold Playbook
5 Reasons For A New Gold Playbook Authored by Ronni Stoeferle via VonGreyerz.gold, The rise in the gold price this spring was undoubtedly spectacular. In just a few weeks, the gold price rose by almost 20% in USD terms, with a gain of 21.7% for the first half of the year alone. In EUR terms, […]
Visualizing The Surge In Defense Spending Of Non-US NATO Members
Visualizing The Surge In Defense Spending Of Non-US NATO Members Non-U.S. members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have increased their expenditure on defense, with a big spike after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, visualizes the annual percentage change in defense expenditure among NATO members […]
UK’s Labour Party Confirms Brexit Reversal Is Dead And Buried
UK’s Labour Party Confirms Brexit Reversal Is Dead And Buried Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, I was wondering when Brexit would come up. It has already and I am pleased to confirm the Brexit reversal idea is dead and finally buried. Not In His Lifetime [Via Eurointelligence] Already assured of victory at today’s general election […]
International Oil Companies Caught In Kurdish Smuggling Web
International Oil Companies Caught In Kurdish Smuggling Web Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, A Reuters investigation found that over 1,000 tanker trucks are smuggling at least 200,000 barrels of Kurdish oil per day to Iran and Turkey. The smuggling operation generates an estimated $200 million in monthly revenue, but the destination of the funds […]
Iran’s “Moderate” President Is Just Another Hardliner-In-Disguise To Glide In Its Nuclear Weapons Program
Iran’s “Moderate” President Is Just Another Hardliner-In-Disguise To Glide In Its Nuclear Weapons Program Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, Before the Biden administration gets too carried away celebrating the election of Iran’s so-called moderate president, it should understand that Masoud Pezeshkian’s victory is nothing more than a ploy to distract world attention […]
China’s GDP Growth Unexpectedly Tumbles As New Home Prices Plunge Most In 9 Years
China’s GDP Growth Unexpectedly Tumbles As New Home Prices Plunge Most In 9 Years China’s economic growth collapsed to just 4.7% YoY in the second quarter, missing all but one economist’s forecast, as the world’s second largest economy is slowly but surely grinding to a halt (absent a bazooka stimulus). GDP, which rose 5.3% in […]
Escobar: The Yemen-Russia Riddle
Escobar: The Yemen-Russia Riddle Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, Sanaa is eagerly engaging with Moscow in a bid to expand its astounding military gains into both the economic and diplomatic realms. While trade with Russia may be integral to blunting the effects of the siege of Yemen, Sanaa also views membership in the […]
Chinese Regulators Intensify Efforts To Tighten Control Over Financial Markets
Chinese Regulators Intensify Efforts To Tighten Control Over Financial Markets By Charlie Zhu and Helen Sun, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Three things we learned last week: 1. Chinese regulators intensified efforts to tighten their control over financial markets. The People’s Bank of China effectively narrowed its interest rate corridor, placing a much higher floor on the costs […]
Former CDC Director Says FDA Underreported Adverse Vax Side Effects To Prevent Vaccine Hesitancy
Former CDC Director Says FDA Underreported Adverse Vax Side Effects To Prevent Vaccine Hesitancy Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pushed a false “safe and effective” COVID vaccine narrative by […]