TopFeatured.com

Qatar Says It Can’t Replace Russian Gas Supplies To Europe This morning, the FT summarized well the problem facing Europe as it decides whether to unleash draconian sanctions on Russia: “Business magazine Wirtschaftswoche encapsulated the problem with a recent cover: Vladimir Putin controls Germany the way a dealer controls a junkie. Natural gas is the…

Biden Says Russia To “Extend Deeper” In Ukraine, Warns Americans Of Coming “Pain” At Gas Pump Update(2:53pmET): President Biden ended the some five to ten minute or less in length speech in which he stumbled quickly through the teleprompter words (even more than usual awkward reading and emotionless stumbling through) by emphasizing “hope” that diplomacy is still…

Europe, US Preparing To Impose Sanctions On Russia Now that Putin has officially recognized the separatists regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent, sovereign states, warning that from this moment on the Ukraine must halt all military actions against Donbas or whatever happens next will be on them and the West, it is only a…

Moscow Says US Embassy “Out Of Touch With Reality” After Dire “Terror Alert” The US Embassy in Moscow issued an unusual “terrorism alert” to American nationals residing in the country on Sunday. It warned all US citizens of possible “attacks in shopping malls, metro, and railway stations” – and on that basis urged Americans to begin prepping…

It’s Not Presidents’ Day – It’s Washington’s Birthday Authored by Richard Lim via RealClear PublicAffairs (emphasis ours), You probably know that George Washington was America’s first president, but do you know about his enduring impact on people around the world? I did not until I visited Hainan, China in 2007. At a family reunion, I…

Firefighters Struggle To Extinguish Blaze On Cargo Ship Carrying 4,000 Luxury Cars Seafaring firefighters are struggling to put out a fire aboard the Felicity Ace, a massive cargo ship that has caught fire off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands with thousands of luxury cars – including Porsches, Audis and Volkswagens – on board. We…

Crypto & The Mathematical Cycles Of History Authored by Mark Moss via DailyReckoning.com, People think that progress is linear, a step-by-step process. In reality, it’s not linear. It’s actually exponential and cyclical. We have cycles that keep repeating within the overall pattern of progress. So even though things are changing, in one important sense, they’re…

“Morale Is Low” – House Democrats Retirement Surge To 30-Year High President Joe Biden has become so unpopular that the number of House Democrats poised for retirement in 2022 jumped to a 30-year high ahead of November’s midterms.  According to The Hill, Democratic New York Rep. Kathleen Rice’s announcement not to seek reelection last week made…

How Markets Tank & Gold Rises Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Critical warning signs from the credit and rates markets are being ignored by tough-talking experts while gold bides its time before it rises in a global financial crisis mathematically too sick to save. It is fascinating to watch market pundits, policy makers, commercial…

Germany’s Spiegel Asks “Is Vladimir Putin Right?” Over NATO Expansion With all eyes on the situation unfolding at the Ukraine border – as separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling amid a “general mobilization” of military-age males – Germany’s left-leaning Spiegel asks a question fundamental to the entire conflict… “Vladimir Putin insists that the West cheated…

ConocoPhillips Sells Excess Bakken Gas To Bitcoin Miner Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, ConocoPhillips is selling natural gas that would have been otherwise flared to a third-party Bitcoin miner in the Bakken in North Dakota, the U.S. oil and gas producer said this week. ConocoPhillips has one pilot project in Bitcoin mining currently in operation in…

Rand Paul Vows To “Force A Repeal Of The Federal Regulation Mandating Masks” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Senator Rand Paul declared this week that he is already gathering signatures from lawmakers in an effort to force a vote to repeal federal mask mandates on planes. In an Newsmax interview, Paul asserted that…

A Fed Policy Mistake Would Be To Stay Loose Relative To Markets By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live commentator and report When you get asked what a policy mistake looks like even before the benchmark funds rate has risen once in the current cycle, it is a telling reflection of how far the Fed is…

Markets Are Focused On The Wrong Fed Put With equities reeling from the ‘perfect storm’ of synchronized (inflation-battling) global tightening monetary policy, geopoilitical risk, and extreme asset valuations, investors are looking to recent history and banking on a Powell Put being unleashed sooner rather than later to “save the world” once again. Global rate hike…

Canada Freezes Convoy Bank And Crypto Accounts, Threatens Dogs; MSM Journos Dox Donors With Hacked Materials Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that financial institutions have been actively freezing the accounts of people linked to the medical freedom protests in Ottawa, which has left an unknown number of protesters and donors in financial…

Stockman: “We’re Not Useful Idiots!” Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, We Are Not Useful Idiots! Honest injun. We’re not useful idiots here at Contra Corner! We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job. And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of…

Goldman’s Startling Admission: “The Economy May Be Slowing More Than Expected” On Monday, Morgan Stanley’s chief equity strategist and the man we call “Wall Street’s biggest bear” once again stunned his colleagues when he penned an article writing that between the big hit to the US consumer – now that stimmies are no longer funding…

Clintonworld-Controlled BLM Bails Out Anti-Gun Activist Charged In Shooting Of Louisville Mayoral Candidate Black Lives Matter’s Louisville chapter told WHAS11‘s Rachel Droze that they’re bailing out the suspect in the attempted murder of mayoral candidate, Craig Greenberg. Just spoke with @BLMLouisville. They are heading to the bank to get a cashiers check to post Quintez…

Oil Tumbles After Iran Nuclear Negotiator Says “We Are Closer Than Ever To An Agreement” One of the biggest risks cited frequently by Goldman to its bullish oil case, was that the Iran nuclear deal would finally be signed, allowing several more million barrels of oil to hit the global market every day (even though…

“COVID Exhaustion”: People Are “Done Being Told What To Do”: Former CBOE Floor Trader Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance This is part 2 of an exclusive Fringe Finance interview with former floor trader Ryan Sellers (@OpenOutcrier), where we discuss options trading, trading vs. investing, his outlook on the markets, how the nation and the Fed will navigate 2022…

Watch Live: President Biden Delivers Remarks On Russia, Ukraine Amid a barrage of conflicting headlines, President Biden will address the world and clear everything up about Russia-Ukraine-NATO-Nord Stream 2 and so on, in what The White House calls “brief remarks” this afternoon. According to the White House statement: In the afternoon, the President will give…

When Will Jake Sullivan – Biden’s National Security Advisor – Be Indicted For Russiagate Lies? Authored by Sam Faddis, retired CIA officer via AND Magazine, Jake Sullivan Biden’s National Security Advisor Was At The Heart of the Russiagate Lies When Will He Be Indicted? Recent filings by Special Counsel Durham have focused renewed attention on…