Where It’s Most & Least Common To Be LGBT+
Where It’s Most & Least Common To Be LGBT+ According to a survey of adults from 43 countries, around 7% of adults identify as LGBT+, Statista reports. Broken down by country, The United States, Philippines and Israel had the highest percentage – around 11% each. In close second were Thailand and Canada at around 10% […]
A Former Ukrainian MP Blew The Whistle On Burisma’s Connections To Terrorism
A Former Ukrainian MP Blew The Whistle On Burisma’s Connections To Terrorism Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who’s reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt about Hunter Biden’s Burisma corruption scandal with Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani ahead of the 2020 elections, just gave a very important interview […]
Is America Losing?
Is America Losing? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Below, we soberly assess the lessons of history and math against the current realities of a debt-defined America to ask and answer a painful yet critical question: Is America losing? The End of History and the Last Man In 1992, while I was still an undergrad […]
Visualizing America’s Average Retirement Savings, By Age
Visualizing America’s Average Retirement Savings, By Age Painting a concerning picture, the median retirement savings for Americans stands at a mere $87,000, a figure far lower than what is needed for a comfortable nest egg. This savings gap—the amount people have actually saved versus what they believe is needed for retirement—is significantly rising. In fact, a […]
Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome
Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome By Seth Carpenter, Managing Director and Chief Global Economist at Morgan Stanley, and Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Morgan Stanley Japan in Rome Last month at our annual Fixed Income CIO conference, one of the liveliest sessions was on Japan’s reflation. The BoJ ending negative rates and […]
Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports
Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports This week, the U.S. introduced a new series of tariff increases on Chinese imports, amounting to over $18 billion worth of goods. In the announcement, President Biden said they are aiming to “counter China’s unfair trade practices” by targeting specific sectors where the U.S. is boosting […]
Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction Of Civil War
Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction Of Civil War Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, The other day, Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, told The Financial Times that he sees the risk of a second American civil war as “growing” and places the odds of such a war at “35-40 percent.” According to FT, […]
Copper Roars, Gold Soars To Record Highs As Metals Hit “History-Making Mode”
Copper Roars, Gold Soars To Record Highs As Metals Hit “History-Making Mode” While oil remains oddly muted amid yet another middle-eastern shock, the same can not be said for various precious metals and commodities which are soaring to start the week, and which according to Bloomberg’s Jake Lloyd-Smith, will make for a lively session in […]
The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where’s The Hydrogen?
The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where’s The Hydrogen? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, I’m all in favor of hydrogen-powered plants to produce electricity if only we had cheap hydrogen. But we don’t and likely won’t. A Bad Bet on Hydrogen Hype Bloomberg cautions Europe’s Spending Billions on Green Hydrogen. It’s a […]
These Are The 10 US States With The Lowest Real GDP Growth
These Are The 10 US States With The Lowest Real GDP Growth While the U.S. economy defied expectations in 2023, posting 2.5% in real GDP growth, several states lagged behind. Last year, oil-producing states led the pack in terms of real GDP growth across America, while the lowest growth was seen in states that were more sensitive to the […]