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Fact-Checking The ‘Fact-Checking’ New York Times Authored by Daniel Oliver via American Greatness, “They” just can’t let Donald Trump go. For them, Donald Trump is Evil personified. But not for the rest of the world. Here are some of the New York Times’s fact-check charges against Trump; here is why people no longer trust the New York…

Does Justice Sotomayor Write Her Decisions In Crayon? Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Following last week’s decisions, which represented a significant blow to the American administrative state, yesterday, the Supreme Court did what was widely expected: rule in favor of Donald Trump in a case related to federal prosecution over January 6.…

Bonds & Stocks Bid As Government Job Openings Suddenly Surge Despite the near-perfect track record of downward revisions over the last 17 months, the market seemed buoyed today by a better than expected JOLTS print – which was juiced almost entirely by government jobs Source: Bloomberg And that was enough to send rate-cut expectations (dovishly)…

Blackstone Sees AI Revolution Growing Private Credit Market To Staggering $25 Trillion Several years ago we calculated that the cost to implement the “Green new deal”, and to fund the liberal crusade against “climate change” would cost no less than $150 trillion over 30 years, or about $5 trillion per year, a staggering amount, and…

Cocoa Prices Fall To Critical Technical Support Level On Improving Ivory Coast Outlook  Commodity traders are closely watching a triangle pattern forming in New York cocoa prices. According to Bloomberg, top grower Ivory Coast’s cocoa production is forecasted to rise in the next growing season. This news pressured prices to the lower support level of the triangle, around…

OPEC: The World Cannot Run On Renewable Energy And EVs By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Proponents of critical minerals as the way to have a world running solely on renewables and electric vehicles are not providing the full picture as their assessments of necessary investments and the speed of the energy transition sound unrealistic, according…

GOP Operatives Working To Put Cornel West On Swing-State Ballots At a time when leftists across America are increasingly disenchanted with President Biden, Republican operatives are quietly working to give them an alternative — by gathering signatures necessary to ensure that firebrand independent candidate Cornel West is on the ballot in swing states, according to…

The Housing Tide Starts Turning: National Inventory Rose 4% In Q1 2024 While the government may be able to fake BLS and CPI data to gloss over the fact that 5.5% rates have already likely driven the nation into a deep recession, independent data on the housing market is showing a decades-long shortage in inventory…

Judge Denies Alec Baldwin Motion To Dismiss Manslaughter Charge In ‘Rust’ Shooting Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A New Mexico judge on June 28 denied actor Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against him relating to the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of…

Watch: Just Another Night In Gavin Newsom’s California  President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with former President Trump on Thursday has led leftist corporate media to publish headlines calling for the elderly president to step aside. Unprecedented headlines in the US media, as pressure mounts on President Biden to quit. pic.twitter.com/h9mAtGIvIp — InsideNK/GeoPolitics (@inside_nk) June 29, 2024…

The Art Of Being Eternally Shocked: How The Press And Pundits Are Again Mystified By The Obvious Authored by Jonathan Turley, No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to…

Iran Threatens Israel With ‘Obliterating War’ If It Attacks Lebanon Iran’s mission to the United Nations has put Israel and the world on notice, saying that if Israel launches an all-out war against Hezbollah in Lebanon the whole region will burn. A Friday statement from Iran’s ambassador warned the UN that any “full-scale military aggression” in…

CDC Recommends New COVID-19 Vaccines For Nearly All Americans Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 27 recommended forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines for virtually all Americans. “CDC recommends everyone ages 6 months and older receive an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine to protect…

Biden’s ‘Blue Screen Of Death’: They Knew, They All Knew… Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Joe Biden Catches Cold “Biden’s entire closing statement is the political equivalent of the blue screen of death. It’s just one long frozen glitch.” -Sean Davis, the Federalist Maybe ninety-seconds into last night’s long-awaited debate spectacle, the consensus…

S&P Surges To Best Election Year H1 Since 1976 As Rate-Cut Hopes & Macro Data Collapse First things first, the market is starting to aggressively price in a Republican/Trump victory in November after last night’s farce Goldman’s ‘Republican / Democrat’ stock baskets massively outperformed today… Source: Bloomberg Overall activity levels today were “explosive” according to…

Netanyahu Tells US Delegation Iran Seeks To Topple Saudi Arabia, Jordan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday claimed in words given to a visiting US delegation that Iran is seeking to conquer the broader Middle East which includes plans to topple the regimes of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The delegation included US generals and admirals…

Bonds, Bullion, Bitcoin, & Big-Tech (Ex-NVDA) Bid Despite Macro Meltdown Macro was ugly – really ugly – today: Personal Consumption ugly (Q1 downgraded on 3rd look), continuing jobless claims ugly (highest since Nov 2021), core capital goods new orders and shipments ugly (not a great signals for Q2 GDP), pending home sales ugly (puke to…

Biden Preparing To Approve Deployment Of US Military Contractors To Ukraine In yet another widening of policy which marks escalation in Ukraine, the Biden administration is preparing to lift a de facto ban on allowing American military contractors to deploy inside Ukraine. Four US officials described to CNN that the fundamental purpose would be to help…

Train Derailment In Illinois Prompts Emergency “Long-Term Evacuation” Evacuations are currently underway in Matteson, Illinois, following a freight train derailment on Thursday morning. NBC Chicago says local officials posted a mandatory evacuation order for all residents and businesses near the derailment site, which occurred around 217th Street and Main. The order includes the following areas: Main Street from the…

The Day Democracy Died In California Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, On June 20, the California Supreme Court ruled that the Taxpayer Protection Act, a ballot initiative that would have given voters veto power over new taxes, was a violation of the state constitution. The initiative, for which proponents had already gathered nearly 1.5 million signatures…

Yen-sanity Blows As Jensenity Slows: Bonds & Bullion Dumped As Big-Tech (Ex-NVDA) Jumps Today’s market was brought you by the number 160 (yen per dollar) and the letters ‘A’ and ‘I’ as Japan’s Kanda spoiled the party in the FX markets and NVDA’s Huang failed to spark a panic back into AI stocks during today’s…

Saudi Aramco Set To Buy 25% In US LNG Project Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco has signed a non-binding agreement to buy LNG from Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG project and potentially acquire 25% in the project’s Phase 2, the U.S. and Saudi firms said on Wednesday. Under the non-binding Heads of…