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Bitcoin, Bullion, & ‘Biggest Shorts’ Blast Higher To End ‘Bad Data’ Week Goldilocks it wasn’t… as inflation macro data surprised to the upside and growth macro data to the downside (we love the smell of stagflation in the morning)… Source: Bloomberg … but that didn’t stop stocks soaring for the fifth straight week, with Small…

San Francisco To Shutter 9% Of Public Schools As Budget Crisis Explodes San Francisco is gearing up to shut down 9% of its public schools in a desperate move to fix a massive budget deficit. With student enrollment plummeting and pandemic relief funds drying up, the city is set to close or merge 11 out…

Republicans Increasingly Likely To Flip The Senate; Latest Poll Finds Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The best news for Republicans is not the uptick in polls for Trump. It’s the likelihood they can avoid a devastating Democrat sweep if Trump were to lose. A set of New York Times/Siena College Senate Polls shows Republicans are ahead…

Stagflation Signal Stalls Stocks; Sparks Gold Gains Hotter than expected CPI (as food costs reignite) and ugly jobless claims data (somewhat affected by Hurricane Helene) signal stagflationary pressures may be returning… Source: Bloomberg …sparked some initial chaos across asset classes, pushing rate-cut expectations lower (hawkish) for 2024 but higher (dovish) for 2025… Source: Bloomberg Stocks…

In Resurfaced Clip, Kamala Harris Fantasizes About Weaponizing DOJ Against ‘Misinformation’ It’s no secret that Kamala Harris is a power-hungry authoritarian… Now, a resurfaced clip from May of 2019 in which Harris fantasizes about weaponizing the DOJ against speech the government doesn’t like, and the platforms that allow it. Speaking at the annual NAACP ‘Fight…

Stunning Foreign Demand For Strongest 30 Year Auction On Record If this week’s 3Y auction was subpar, yesterday’s 10Y was mediocre, then today’s 30Y auction was an absolute stunner. In fact, one could saw it was the strongest 30Y auction on record. Starting at the top, the high yield was 4.389%, up sharply from last…

“Lawless Narco-State”: Mexican Mayor Decapitated Just Six Days Into Office The severed head of a newly elected mayor in southern Mexico was found on top of his vehicle just six days into his tenure. Footage of the gruesome scene was shared on X, highlighting Mexico as a lawless narco-state run by ultra-violent cartels.  On Sept. 30, Alejandro Arcos…

The Man Who Shouts Fire In A Crowded Theater Authored by Daniel Klein via The Brownstone Institute, In the Vice-Presidential debate, the Democratic candidate Tim Walz used shouting fire in a crowded theater to justify limitations on free speech. Ironically, he resembles a man shouting fire in a crowded theater. The history of this phrase traces…

Stocks Up, Yields Up, Dollar Up, China Down As Hawkish Minutes Hit Ahead Of CPI Despite the threat of CPI hovering over the vol markets… Source: Bloomberg …and notably hawkish minutes from The Fed (more divided over the scale of cuts than previously thought), which dragged rate-cut expectations lower still… Source: Bloomberg The Dow outperformed…

DeSantis, Dark Brandon, And CNN Hit Kamala With Laser Eyes Over Hurricane ‘Phone Call’ Stunt After completely biffing her 60 Minutes interview (after which the network edited out her word salad), Vice President Kamala Harris has come under fire for accusing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of “political gamesmanship” after reports emerged that he didn’t take…

SEC, DOJ Raise Objections To EV Maker Fisker’s Bankruptcy Proceedings Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Fisker Inc. is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and faces formal objections from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The company filed…

VICE Co-Founder Admits Woke Journalism Destroyed Brand: ‘What The F**k Is This?’ VICE co-founder Shane Smith admitted in an interview with legendary music producer and ‘Tetragrammaton’ host Rick Rubin that his the once-high flying digital media empire–once valued at $5.7 billion – collapsed partly due to leaning heavily into “woke” content. RICK RUBIN: Is there…

Crypto & Crude Jump; Bonds & Stocks Dump Amid Weather, War, & App Store Worries A quiet macro day was dominated by domestic weather horrors, foreign war escalations, and tech monopoly tumult. As the anniversary of the Oct 7 attacks hit, more missiles flying in the MidEast sent crude prices higher with WTI above $77…

Consumers Crack: Credit Card Debt Suddenly Plunges Most Since Covid As APRs Hit Record High Last month, we – and many others – were stunned when after several months of progressively declining revolving credit growth, in July credit card debt unexpectedly soared by the most since January, sending total consumer credit growth surging by just…

Prediction Markets Like Polymarket A “Public Good”, More Accurate Than Polls Authored by Daniel Ramirez-Escudero via CoinTelegraph.com, While some say that prediction markets are a risk to democracy, others think they could serve the public by offering valuable insights and risk management tools. Despite recent confrontations with regulators, election markets can provide more accurate insights…

6 Things to Watch In The Upcoming Supreme Court Term Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court is expected to start its 2024–2025 term after a blockbuster year of considering contentious cases and challenges to longstanding precedent. Already, the court has accepted petitions related to hot-button topics including gender,…

Want To Win An Election? Run On Cheap Energy Authored by Michael O’Sullivan via RealClearEnergy, Ah, election season. That festive time when politicians suddenly have new ideas about how to make our lives better. This year the limelight shines brightly on our revered American economy, which is presently either good or bad, depending on whom…

Did Biden-Harris Divert FEMA Funds For Luxury Migrant Apartments With Flat-Screen TVs? FEMA’s entanglement with the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous open southern border policies by diverting storm relief funds ($1.4 billion, according to NYPost) for illegal and legal aliens may have undermined the federal agency’s ability to effectively manage emergencies, such as the Katrina-like disaster unfolding in the US Southeast.  SpaceX Engineer In…

Netanyahu Rips France’s Macron For Urging Arms Embargo On Israel: “A Disgrace” On Saturday French President Emmanuel Macron called for a halt to arms shipments to Israel for use in Gaza. He told national broadcaster France Inter in an interview that finding a “political solution” to the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts must be a “priority” and that a full…

Dubai’s Emirates Airlines Bans Pagers & Walkie-Talkies For All Flights Dubai’s Emirates Airlines is the first major carrier outside of Lebanon to ban all passengers from carrying pagers and walkie-talkies on its flights, citing the dangers of last month’s exploding pagers and electronic devices attacks in Beirut. “All passengers traveling to, from, or via Dubai…

Study Confirms The Truth About Masks And Children Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, It’s late 2024, and masking has managed to remain a contentious issue. Years of misinformation from supposed “experts” like Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx and organizations like the CDC have convinced millions of Very Smart People to believe that…

October Surprise Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s brand-new VP pick, is a fanatical far-left lunatic wearing the friendly armor of hapless, bloated oaf from the sticks” – Peachy Keenan “Normally, Western politics gives us actors who are trying to play the role of politicians. Walz is like an actor who is…