The number of people that define themselves as unaffiliated to a party or as “politically independent” is growing in the United States, raising the question of whether the highly polarizing two-party system is still working. […]
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States will stop developing nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missiles, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin […]
Authored by John Murawski via RealClear Wire, As California, New York, and other states move to phase out the sale of gasoline-powered cars, public officials routinely echo the Biden administration’s claim that electric vehicles are […]
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTlak.com, Let’s tune into a video Tweet featuring Chase CEO Jamie Dimon… Transition to Where, When? “We are getting energy completely wrong and it’s made the environment worse.” Eventually, we […]
China, the world’s largest oil importer, has just increased demand for crude for the remainder of the year, supporting near-term prices despite a souring macroeconomic backdrop across the globe, elevated US dollar, and the impact […]
Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Measures of global central-bank tightness and inflation show that both are peaking. It might not seem like it after today’s upside surprises in European inflation data, but global […]
The Biden administration has announced a new $275 million package of weapons and other aid for Ukraine in but the latest of what’s become a seeming endless money and arms pipeline to Kiev at the […]
Lots of chatter this week about a Fed ‘pause’, ‘mini-pivot’, or ‘step-down’ in its hawkishness that provided the narrative for every buying-panic, and given that expectations for The Fed’s terminal rate were unchanged on the […]
By John Paul Hampstead of FreightWaves The trans-Pacific trade lane connecting the world’s most important countries is a pillar of the global economy. But now it’s becoming an epicenter of supply chain, financial and geopolitical […]
Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money but you don’t know it … these are junk fees, […]
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