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‘Good’ News Sparks Bond Bloodbath; Dollar & Oil Soar On Week Is good news, good news? Capping off a week of positive macro surprises, payrolls slipped into the goldilocks dress and spoiled the dovish party for many… US Macro is at its highest since April, having flipped positive this week… Source: Bloomberg Rate-cut expectations have…

Biden Suggests Israel Not Hit Iran Oil Fields, During Incredibly Rare WH Daily Briefing Appearance Update(1550ET): After President Biden earlier in the week expressed that he wants Israel to avoid hitting Iran’s nuclear sites, he has now inched back the possibility that Israel could take out the Islamic Republic’s oil and gas fields and facilities. In…

Seeking To Cut Food Waste (& Save The Planet), California Bans ‘Sell By’ Labeling On Products Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Food products sold in California will no longer have a “sell by” stamp after July 1, 2026, after Gov. Gavin Newsom approved the nation’s first law governing food labeling. When it…

Why Political “Solutions” Don’t Fix Crises, They Make Them Worse Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The system has reached the limits of its adaptability. Everything else is entertainment. A great many people have immense faith in political solutions to looming crises: if only we elect new leaders, if only we replace current…

Hims & Hers Plunges After FDA Ends ‘Shortage’ Status Of Eli Lilly’s Weight-Loss Drug On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that the supply shortages of Eli Lilly’s popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs have been resolved. These drugs have been in short supply since the anti-obesity drug craze erupted several years ago. Now, an ample…

JPM Analysts Flip-Flop iPhone 16 Demand Forecast In Just Three Days Apple shares are hovering around $227 on Wednesday afternoon, commanding a market capitalization of $3.45 trillion. With shares near all-time highs, the last thing bulls want to hear is how quickly some of Wall Street’s top analysts are downshifting their outlook on iPhone 16 demand. In other words,…

Life In Kamala’s California Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, It’s election season, and because California is a one-party state, we don’t see very many campaign ads for Kamala Harris. But ballot initiatives are another story. One hotly contested ballot initiative, Proposition 33, if approved by voters, will enable California’s cities and counties to impose…

OPEC+ Leaves Current Output Cut Policy Unchanged at JMMC The OPEC+ joint ministerial monitoring committee meeting (JMMC) concluded on Wednesday, with the ministers refraining from making any changes to production policy, maintaining the plan to start raising output in December.  “The JMMC emphasized the critical importance of achieving full conformity and compensation. Furthermore, the Committee…

Strikes (Missiles & Dockworkers) Spark Surge In Oil, Gold, & Bonds; Big-Tech & Bitcoin Battered Today’s mixed macro picture (construction spending down, National Manufacturing surveys and Dallas Fed in contraction offset by surge in JOLTS) was overwhelmed by Strikes (from Iranian missiles and American longshoremen). The widespread union strike deadline passed and bond markets shifted…

A Dozen Veterans Affairs Staffers Improperly Accessed Medical Records Of J.D. Vance, Tim Walz; Report Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, An investigation has revealed that the medical records of vice presidential nominees J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Tim Walz (D-Minn.) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were improperly accessed by at least a…

8 Israelis Dead In Jaffa Terror Shooting Hours Before Iran Ballistic Missile Attack On Tuesday there was a mass shooting and large casualties in the Israeli city of Jaffa, in the south Tel Aviv area. A pair of gunmen went on a shooting rampage in or near a strain station on Jerusalem street, local media…

Secret Service Faces Lawsuit Over DEI Criteria Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, In the wake of the failed assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump, the United States Secret Service (USSS) is now facing a lawsuit over its implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rules. As Fox News reports, the lawsuit filed by the…

Biden And Harris Called Out Over Botched Hurricane Response As Trump Visits Victims When natural disasters strike in the United States, the president and VP have historically responded immediately – offering support, condolences, and generally letting the public know that the situation is – or will soon be – under control. After making landfall Thursday…

The Wall Street Journal Is Right: The Biden Admin Should Declassify Its Ukrainian Aid Strategy Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a very critical editorial on Friday about how “Biden Reneges on His Ukraine Promise: He classifies a strategy document that Congress made the price of aid.” They surprisingly wrote that…

Democrats Suddenly Care About Illegal Immigration After Years Of Gaslighting Americans All the surveys show that the immigration crisis is the dominant social concern for Americans in how they will vote in the 2024 presidential election.  It only falls to second place behind the economic crisis in terms of overall importance.  Abortion, healthcare, racial inequality,…

Port Poker And The East Coast Dock Strike By Stuart Chris of FreightWaves “The sweetest words are, ‘Here is your end’ (of the bargain),” so a time-honored saying goes. That’s never more true than in union negotiations where just about every player has a piece of the action, and particularly in the current bargaining between…

SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission For Two Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts On ISS  Just two weeks after SpaceX completed the historic Polaris Dawn mission, which included the first private spacewalk and the highest orbit since the Apollo era… Views from Dragon in flight 🐉🌎 During its five day mission, Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew completed…

Biden Signs 3D-Printed Gun Crackdown, School Shooter Drill Executive Order Authored by Jacob Burg and Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sept. 26 to crack down on 3D-printed guns and improve active shooter drills in schools throughout the country. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris…

“Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars” Being Awarded For Electric Semi Truck Charging Infrastructure It has been a space in EVs that has been mostly ignored, especially since the auto market is drifting back toward hybrids…but now, eyes are starting to turn to charging for large electric trucks… Spending is increasing for charging infrastructure, according to Bloomberg,…

Port Employers Seek NLRB Injunction Against Longshore Union By Stuart Chirls of FreightWaves, East and Gulf Coast port employers on Thursday raised the stakes in contract negotiations with the International Longshoremen’s Association, asking the National Labor Relations Board to order the union back to bargaining. “Due to the ILA’s repeated refusal to come to the…

Jersey Shore Wind Power Project Stalls After Having A “Hard Time” Finding Someone To Manufacture Turbine Blades There has been tons of controversy about wind farm projects on the Jersey shore, with residents in beaches like Brigantine against the initiatives, while others argue for implementing the clean energy. Turns it out may be a moot…

Votes For 3rd-Party Presidential Candidates Won’t Count: Georgia Supreme Court Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, Votes in Georgia for third-party presidential candidates Cornel West, an independent, and Claudia De la Cruz, a socialist, will not count because the two are not qualified to appear on the ballot, the Supreme Court of Georgia…