EU Commission Mulls Joint Debt, Bilateral Grants To Plug Ukraine Funding Gap
EU Commission Mulls Joint Debt, Bilateral Grants To Plug Ukraine Funding Gap By Thomas Moller-Nielsen of Euractiv, The European Commission is considering plugging Ukraine’s colossal funding gap with cash raised from common EU debt and bilateral member state grants, according to three people familiar with the matter. These two possibilities – which will be set […]
Inside Meta’s $16 Billion Scam Ad Economy
Inside Meta’s $16 Billion Scam Ad Economy Internal Meta documents reveal that the company expected to make about 10% of its 2024 revenue—roughly $16 billion—from ads promoting scams and banned goods, according to a new expose from Reuters. The files show that Meta knew for years Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were flooded with fraudulent ads […]
Silver is Precious, Scarce, and Now Critical
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Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Increased Last Week; Goldman Estimates
Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Increased Last Week; Goldman Estimates Goldman Sachs economics research group estimates that seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims increased to about 228k for the week ended November 1st by combining the Department of Labor (DOL)’s pre-released seasonal factors with this afternoon’s release of state-level claims. While the DOL is not producing any […]
Disagreements Emerge Over US-China Rare Earth Deal, As US Adds Uranium, Silver To Critical Minerals List
Disagreements Emerge Over US-China Rare Earth Deal, As US Adds Uranium, Silver To Critical Minerals List Two days ago, when discussing China’s surprising announcement that Trump should not cross four “red lines” (including i)Taiwan, ii) democracy and human rights, iii) China’s political system, and iv) development rights) or risk a collapse of the trade truce, […]
Pirates Attack Tanker Off Somalia Coast
Pirates Attack Tanker Off Somalia Coast Maritime journal Lloyd’s List reported early Thursday that the Malta-flagged tanker Hellas Aphrodite was boarded by suspected pirates off the Somali coast. This maritime incident comes just days after another attempted hijacking of a commercial vessel in the region. Pirates have boarded Malta-flagged Hellas Aphrodite, a product tanker, off the […]
When Debt Meets Diamond Hands
When Debt Meets Diamond Hands Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance These lessons go for pretty much any asset class, but where I’ve noticed the largest concentration of inane theories, economic non-sequiturs and general outright confusion is among the most hubris-laden speculators in the market, the Bitcoin crowd. I own some Bitcoin and would love it just as […]
US Household Debt Hits Record $18.6 Trillion As Student Loan Defaults Explode
US Household Debt Hits Record $18.6 Trillion As Student Loan Defaults Explode The NY Fed published its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. Surprising exactly no-one, the report showed that total household debt increased by $197 billion (1%) in Q3 2025, to a new record high of $18.59 trillion. split between $13.5 trillion in […]
Novo Roundtrips GLP-1 Craze Ahead Of Earnings As Goldman Maps Out Next Wave Of Obesity-Drug Catalysts
Novo Roundtrips GLP-1 Craze Ahead Of Earnings As Goldman Maps Out Next Wave Of Obesity-Drug Catalysts The rollercoaster ride of the GLP-1 craze and bust cycle for Novo Nordisk A/S shares has been wild to observe over the last several years. The stock has since returned to roughly pre-GLP-1-boom levels, down 50% year-to-date amid intensifying obesity-drug competition […]
Where US Families Are Most Strained By Debt
Where US Families Are Most Strained By Debt Americans are always worrying about debt: their own and their government’s. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, maps each state by their household debt-to-income ratios (DTI) in Q1, 2025, revealing which states carry the heaviest burdens and which ones keep borrowing in check. Data for this visualization comes […]