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Columbia University Gives NYPD Cops Greenlight To Arrest Anti-Israel Protesters Occupying Campus  Americans should wake up to fiery anti-Israel protests erupting across the nation this week, from attempting to close critical infrastructure such as bridges and airports; we must ask who exactly is funding this social unrest. And whoever is funding this chaos appears to have taken…

Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered A volatile day for markets (relatively speaking) with crude and crypto the high- low-lights. Goldman’s trading desk (Lee Coppersmith) noted that for the first time all year, it feels like the market is starting to question the strong growth narrative on the back of weaker…

“Do Not Touch Me… I Am A Faculty Member”: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member to seek to…

Boeing Whistleblower Tells Lawmakers: “They Are Putting Out Defective Airplanes” Update (1530ET):  “I have serious concerns about the safety of the 787 and 777 aircraft, and I’m willing to take on professional risk to talk about them,” Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour said in his opening statement on Capitol Hill today at the second Senate committee…

Blackstone CEO Jumps On ‘The Next AI Trade’  US power grid regulators and utilities are warning about energy shortfalls. Projections for US electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from about one year ago, primarily because of the expected explosion of artificial intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants, and the government-fueled…

What If The Fed’s Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom? Authored by Ye Xie via Bloomberg, As the US economy hums along month after month, minting hundreds of thousands of new jobs and confounding experts who had warned of an imminent downturn, some on Wall Street are starting to entertain a fringe economic theory.…

Did UAE’s Cloud-Seeding Operation Flood Dubai?   How it started with UAE’s cloud seeding operations:  How it’s going:  Thread of best videos I’ve been sent of the current situation in Dubai from the storm. pic.twitter.com/sK6aRL6Jdu — Charles Read (@chatwithcharles) April 16, 2024 Not so well… #VIDEO: Severe rain and flooding in #Dubai todaypic.twitter.com/9Auyq5MyDA — Saudi Gazette (@Saudi_Gazette)…

Dollar, Oil, & Gold Jump; Stocks & Bonds Dump As ‘WW3-On’-Risk Reignites It was all looking so shiny and BTFD-y – Iran had sent some missiles towards Israeli folks; ‘allies’ blocked 99% of them; and Israel appeared unlikely top respond ‘imminently’. Stocks were up, crypto was up, oil was down as ‘WW3-off’ meant risk-on. But,…

‘Vol Genie’ Is Out Of The Bottle, Geopolitical Tensions Or Not Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Equity, fixed-income, credit, commodity and even FX volatility are beginning to rise in unison. The proximate cause may have been rising geopolitical tensions, but the underlying conditions were there long before, and cross-asset volatility is likely to stay…

Baltimore Bridge Collapse: FBI Agents Board Container Ship In “Court-Authorized” Investigation  Almost three weeks following the incident where a massive container ship collided with and caused the collapse of the 1.6-mile long Francis Scott Key Bridge, thus paralyzing the Port of Baltimore and severely disrupting supply chains throughout Baltimore and the Mid-Atlantic, FBI agents boarded the vessel on…

Over 1,300 Layoffs Hit Logistics Companies Across US By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves Layoffs continue across the freight and logistics industry, with companies in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and Texas announcing job reductions and facility closures over the past two weeks. Universal Logistics Warren, Michigian-based Universal Logistics is permanently shuttering two of its subsidiaries and…

Javier Blas Outlines Ten Takeaways For Crude Market Following Iran’s Direct Attack On Israel  Iran’s direct attack on Israel on Saturday evening is viewed certainly as an escalation in the Middle East conflict. Tehran’s missile and drone attack (widely unsuccessful) has been well-telegraphed (read: here & here) for the last two weeks, pushing up Brent crude oil futures above…

WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been A Scam Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle (subscribe here), The World Health Organization’s Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the COVID vaccines did not stop virus…

The U.S. Is Facing Record Drug Shortages And just like that, the supply chain crisis we saw for pharmaceuticals during Covid has returned. ABC reported this week that drug shortages in the United States have reached an “all-time high”.  In the first quarter of 2024, the U.S. faced 323 active medication shortages, surpassing the previous…

Woman Who Went Viral For Hugging Trump At Chick-Fil-A Explains Why Black Voters Support Him Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A woman who recently went viral for hugging former President Donald Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Georgia and telling him not to worry about dishonest media coverage has revealed why she thinks…

US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel The past days have seen American diplomats in a global push to get countries to hold back Iran from launching a retaliatory attack on Israel for its April 1st embassy attack in Damascus. Washington is especially leaning on China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia…

The Beauty Parlor’s Full Of Sailors And The Circus Is In Town Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “They have tried to solve a wide range of insoluble problems, from the weather to poverty to viruses, and now they will attempt to solve us.” – Eugyppius This is that part of the movie where…

Gold & The Dollar Surged This Week, Stocks & Crypto Purged As Reflation & WW3-Risk Wreck Rate-Cut Hopes Inflation fears/promises/threats were realized this week with CPI and PPI hot (yes PPI) and UMich infl exp rising too. Inflation data has been surprising to the upside all year and growth data not so much… Source: Bloomberg…

“Support Your Local Antifa”: Alabama Man Arrested In Alleged Political Bombing Authored by Jonathan Turley, Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, has become the latest Antifa member arrested for alleged political violence. Calvert is accused in the explosion of an IED device outside of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office in downtown Montgomery at around 3:42 a.m. on…

DEI Cronyism And Woke Grifters Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance…

Stocks Surge, Goldgasms To Record High After “Adjusted” PPI Sparks Buying Frenzy What started off as another ugly day with stocks tumbling and yields surging following yesterday’s VaR-shock inducing CPI print, quickly reversed after the market – in its infinite stupidity – took what was a hot PPI print (core PPI came in at 2.4%…

Shares Of Morgan Stanley Sink After Multiple Federal Regulators Probe Wealth-Management Practices Shares of Morgan Stanley stumbled in the late afternoon trading session in New York after The Wall Street Journal reported multiple federal regulators are probing the investment bank/financial services company over how it vets wealthy clients who are at risk of laundering money through its massive wealth-management…