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Delayed Gratification: Post-Powell Plunge Prompts Face-Ripping Rick-On Rally Yesterday’s pump-and-dumps across most major asset-classes was met with a wall of BTFDing in Asia, Europe, and then the US which lifted stocks, gold, oil, and crypto prices (and bonds yields) in a delayed gratification day. In fact, this is first time that yields rise after a…

Why Stocks Are Melting Up: A Real-Time Peek Below The Market’s Surface Update: As the SPX achieved SpotGamma’s target price of SPX 5,735, the trader(s) holding short 5,735 calls elected to close a chunk of their position(s). This coincided with a 15-handle quick reversal in the SPX. Stability was found just above key 0DTE put…

Cover-Up: Ex-Border Patrol Chief Says He Was Instructed By Biden-Harris Admin To Hide Terrorist Encounters In a scathing revelation before Congress, former San Diego Sector Border Patrol Chief Aaron Heitke accused the Biden-Harris administration of covering up a sharp rise in encounters with suspected terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border. During a House Committee on Homeland…

‘Deep State Knows It Cannot Cheat Kamala In’ – Martin Armstrong Fears Washington’s Plan To “Trap Trump Into War” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong predicted less than a month ago that there would be another assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, and the Deep State was going to do everything…

Fed/Powell Unleash Chaos Across Markets With ‘Not A Crisis At All’ 50bps Rate-Cut 50bps cut… uber-dovish Dots… Powell pushed back… stocks end red, dollar and yields end higher. “The US economy is in a good place and our decision today is designed to keep it there,” said Fed Chair Pay Powell during the press conference.…

Israel’s War Cabinet Greenlights Offensive War Against Hezbollah, Sends Elite Brigade North Update(1544): As many suspected and feared, this deadly two-day Israeli covert operation to blow up Hezbollah pagers, walkie-talkies, and small electronic devices was but preparation for a likely Israeli military ground operation in southern Lebanon. It appears war is here. According to breaking…

Stocks & Bonds Sold Ahead Of Fed Decision; Crypto & Crude Surge Hot retail sales print and better than expected Industrial production data are not exactly what the doves wanted to see ahead of tomorrow’s big decision (25 or 50bps). Does this look like an economy that needs rate-cuts? Source: Bloomberg To complicate things further…

Minnesota Test Scores Remain Low Despite Walz Spending Billions Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.), has failed to improve average test scores in his state of Minnesota despite spending billions of dollars to try to improve the state’s education system. As the Daily Caller reports, Walz…

Age Of Rage: 26 Million Americans Believe Political Violence Is Justified Authored by Jonathan Turley, A poll released by the University of Chicago via the Chicago Project on Security and Threats offers a chilling account of the growing radicalism in America, particularly after the second foiled assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump, the poll found that…

Ukraine Military Seeks To Legitimize Kursk Presence By Inviting UN & Red Cross In In what could be an effort to legitimize its ongoing occupation of southern Russian territory, the Ukrainian government has issued formal invitations for the United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to come to the Kursk region and verify…

With Fact-Checks Like These, How Does Truth Stand A Chance? Authored by Jonathan Turley, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” That famous line from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) remains a virtual mantra for politicians and pundits. Yet, judging from the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump…

Sheriff Suggests “Ominous… Conspiracy” Behind Trump Assassination Attempt Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder suggested there may be an “ominous” wider “conspiracy” at play regarding yesterday’s suspect in the attempted assassination of Trump given that the gunman appeared to know Trump’s private schedule. Ryan Wesley Routh appeared to know…

“Results Could Take A While”: NY Times Primes Voters For Election Night Malarkey Some of us are old enough to remember that virtually every election in US history has been decided the same night – sometimes stretching into the wee hours, but we always woke up to the winner. That all changed in the 2020…

Professor Sends His ‘What If Jan 6 Succeeded’ Comic-Book To All Pennsylvania High Schools Authored by Dave Huber via The College Fix, The Harvard Law professor who co-authored a “what if?”-style graphic novel about the January 6 “insurrection” succeeding is sending free copies to every public high school in Pennsylvania. Alan Jenkins, formerly president of the Harvard “social…

Venezuela Arrests Navy SEAL Among Several Foreigners Behind Alleged Maduro Assassination Plot Venezuela has announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen, accusing them of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The arrests were first announced Saturday by the country’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who said that one of the Americans…

Signed Into Law: New Jersey Eliminates Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver Via Money Metals, Sound money advocates are hailing their hard-fought victory today as New Jersey’s Senate Bill 721 was signed into law – thereby removing sales taxes on purchases of gold, silver, and other precious metals above $1,000 effective January 1, 2025. The…

Politico Paints Zelensky As An ‘Autocrat’ On Very Day US Says Negative Coverage Is All RT’s Fault The below is not a Russian state media headline.  Ironically on the very day that the Biden administration declared a global war on Russian state media and pro-Moscow ‘influence campaigns’, Politico published a rare piece directly going after President Zelensky,…

A Plague On Both Your Monetary Houses Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance For all the huffing and puffing I do about politics, you’d think that both candidates would have substantially different ideas for monetary policy, should they be elected. After all, this is supposed to be a finance blog. But the truth is, they don’t. While I…

Nvidia & NikiLeaks Spark Surge In Stocks, Gold, & Crypto This Week An event-full week (US CPI, US PPI, Presidential debate, ECB rate decision, and WSJ Fed whispers) left stocks, bonds, gold, crypto, and crude all higher in price, while the dollar was clubbed like a baby seal. Soft survey data continues to rebound higher…

President Trump Vows To “End Marxist Crusade” Aimed At Abolishing Suburbs Four years ago, former President Trump warned suburban Americans that radical leftists within the Biden-Harris administration were pushing policies that could eventually “abolish the suburbs.” At the time, far-left corporate media outlets mocked Trump, dismissing his warnings as ‘outlandish.’ Here’s Trump back in 2020: Q: What do…

The Clash Of The ‘Dollar General’ Versus ‘Ferrari’ Economies Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, With equity markets, real estate, and other financial asset values at or near all-time highs, that small minority of citizens who primarily benefit from the Wall Street economy have never been more well-off in financial terms, at least…

The Votes… And Who Counts Them Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Substack, “The world is a dangerous place to live – not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein When The New York Times tells you that the United States Constitution is…