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Gold Surges To New Record High After Hot PPI As ECB/WSJ Trigger Dollar Dump ECB cut rates by 25bps as expected (along with a stagflationary cut to growth and hike to inflation forecasts) but all eyes were on US data. A hotter than expected PPI followed the hotter than expected core CPI pushed rate-cut expectations…

Why Whole Foods Bags Have Shrunk Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Every event organizer with experience knows that venue size really matters. If you have 30 people meeting in a room with no extra chairs, it feels like a crowd. If you have 5,000 people meet in a venue…

Menacing Hurricane Francine Sparks Short Cover In WTI As Oil Production Shut-Ins Soar Update (1502ET): West Texas Intermediate futures jumped as much as 3%, the biggest gain in two weeks. This temporarily halted a nearly 19% decline since mid-August as short covering kicked in after Gulf of Mexico oil production was partially shuttered ahead of Hurricane Francine,…

If Russia Takes Pokrovsk The Rest Of Eastern Ukraine Will Fall After many months of propaganda from the western media asserting that Russia’s military capacity had been shattered by the brutal “meat grinder” of the Ukraine front, it appears that the Kremlin is actually accelerating their offensive with more troops and artillery than ever.  And,…

Conservative Billionaire Wants To ‘Crush’ Leftist Media Authored by Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov via Headline USA, Leonard Leo, a conservative billionaire activist who was responsible for the driving force behind the conservative movement to reshape the American legal system, recently started a $1 billion campaign to “crush liberal dominance” in American corporations, mass media and the…

Volkswagen Declares War On Unions, Scraps Three-Decade-Old Job Protections As discussed earlier today, Germany’s economy is slowly but surely sinking, whether or not Mario Draghi’s proposal to flood Europe in new debt is eventually accepted, and nowhere is the pain more tangible than Germany’s iconic carmaker, Volkswagen, which we reported last week was considering its…

Americans Lost $5.6 Billion In Cryptocurrency Scams Last Year, FBI Says Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Americans lost more than $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency fraud in 2023, a significant increase from previous years, according to a new report from the FBI. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 69,000…

Biden’s FAA Punishes SpaceX, Delays Starship Rocket Launch By Months Does the Biden Administration have it in for Elon Musk? … Absolutely. The radical leftists in the Biden administration have ramped up their weaponization of federal agencies against Musk’s companies, retaliating as the world’s richest man and top Trump supporter champions free speech on X during this crucial election cycle. Musk…

Stocks Bounce After Brutal Week Despite Apple Unveiling A Dud After the worst week for the S&P since the March 2023 bank crisis… … one which sent the Nasdaq to one of the most oversold levels since the covid crash… … today’s bounce back was basically a formality, and bounce back we did after the…

Draghi Says Europe In Existential Danger Without Massive new Spending And Joint Debt; Germany Immediately Says “Nein” It has been a while since we were reminded that without the ECB’s constant (and endless) backstop, the Frankenstein monster that is the European (fiscal Dis)Union, is doomed. Well, this morning, former ECB President Mario Draghi reminded us…

Kamala Harris Is Secluded In A Hotel With A Trump Impersonator Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Fox News reporter Bryan Llenas revealed at the weekend that Kamala Harris’ campaign has got her in a hotel in Pittsburgh on a fake stage with a Trump impersonator, desperately practising for Tuesday’s debate. “We know that Vice…

The Obscure State Department Bureau That Fosters Global Illegal Migration By Phillip Linderman, via The Center for Immigration Studies It is remarkable how many well-informed conservative foreign policy strategists have never even heard of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).  Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand…

Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Cheney Endorsement: “A Vote For Kamala Harris Is A Vote For Dick Cheney” Tucker Carlson’s Live Tour show in Colorado Springs, CO on Saturday featured Tulsi Gabbard among his many guests. The former Democrat Rep turned Republican/conservative commentator is an Army Reserve officer and has for years been outspoken in condemning the Washington national security state’s…

Post-X Ban, Beware The Brazilian Model Of Institutional Mistrust Authored by Diogo Costa via RealClearPolitics, As democracies grapple with misinformation, Brazil’s hardline approach is seen by some as a potential model. The country has taken extreme measures to police online discourse – recently banning X (formerly Twitter) and fining citizens using VPNs to access it. These moves…

Nation’s Largest Police Union Endorses Trump Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump gained the endorsement of the national Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), America’s biggest and oldest police union, on Sept. 6. “During his time in the White House, we had a partner and a leader. Today, Mr. President,…

“Plagiarism Is Plagiarism” Says Scholar Whose Work Was Lifted By Critical Race Theorist By Ann Daily Moreno of The College Fix A recent complaint filed with the University of Washington alleges that Professor Robin DiAngelo, a white critical race theorist and alumnus of the school, plagiarized minority scholars and others, largely within her dissertation to…

The Media Lies Add Up Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to warp the election. Citing the bogus…

Kamala Karnage As Market Goes Haywire One month after the Aug 5 Kamala Karry Trade Krash, we got part 2… … and boy was it an epic flush: everything – like literally everything – and certainly anything with a high beta or even a trace of momentum, imploded with a sheer violence that made Aug…

Russia Vows New Crackdown On US Media In Response To RT Sanctions Following Wednesday’s announcement by Attorney General Merrick Garland of new sanctions targeting Russian state media entities, particularly media network RT, which stands charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Moscow is promising to hit back against US journalists…

Chase Bank Issues Fraud Warning After ATM Glitch Videos Spread Online Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chase Bank responded to viral social media videos depicting people exploiting an apparent flaw in the bank’s system, saying that those customers were likely committing fraud. A customer uses a Chase Bank ATM in…

Stocks Fade Ahead Of Payrolls As Bonds, Oil Convinced Hard-Landing Is Inevitable After two days of tech-led turmoil, the market was decidedly calmer today, with the S&P opening flat, rising, falling and then set to close modestly red on the day… … as it tracked the 0DTE delta flow almost tick for tick, as it…