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Bitcoin Battered, Bonds Bid, Apple Bounces Back Before Big-Risk Day Another quiet macro day, ahead of tomorrow’s extravaganza of event risk with CPI and FOMC (Dots), which the vol market is well aware of… Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, rate-cut expectations for 2025 jumped significantly today but the shift in 2024 rate-cuts was relatively benign… Source: Bloomberg…

Companies Unleash 2nd Biggest Stock Buyback Spree On Record Ahead Of Buyback Blackout This Friday How powerful are stock buybacks? Think of this way: back on April 22, we bottom-ticked the market when we reported that  with the S&P dipping below 5,000, stocks were set to soar as “traders frontrun the end of buyback blackout…

Buy Now, Pay Later Craze Coming To Apple Pay Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off on Monday and was widely disappointing. What wasn’t disappointing was Elon Musk’s threat to ban Apple devices from his companies following Apple’s announcement of a partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. In other Apple news, iPhones and iPads will soon be integrated with Affirm’s buy…

What Exec Order? Biden Memo Instructs SoCal Border Patrol To Release Most Single Adults President Biden’s executive order to curb the illegal alien invasion was nothing more than optically pleasing headlines before the September presidential debates. Just days after the order was signed, US Customs and Border Protection agents in the southern California sector received a memo…

Can Democracy Survive The “Defenders Of Democracy”? Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the Nazis in…

Moelis & Co Acknowledges Investment Banker Involved In Brooklyn Pride Altercation A video making its way around social media shows a very short clip of a man in a sports coat punching a biological woman, or possibly a man pretending to be a woman, at the Brooklyn Pride event in Park Slope.  Social media users have…

Israel’s Gantz Quits Coalition Government, Charges Netanyahu With Making “Total Victory Impossible” Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Sunday announced that he is quitting Israel’s emergency government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  In a statement he blamed Netanyahu for making “total victory impossible” and further accused him of neglecting achieving the release of the remaining hostages.…

It Leaked From A US-Backed Lab Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, For The New York Times, which started this whole fiasco dating from Feb. 27, 2020, with a podcast designed to drum up disease panic, it’s been a drip, drip, drip of truthiness ever since. A fortnight ago, the paper finally decided…

Yale Law Professor Shreds Trump Verdict, Cites “Serious” Constitutional Problems Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld (whose wife is the “Tiger Mom“) says that Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ conviction has serious legal issues, giving the former president multiple legal avenues to overturn the verdict. In his new show, Straight Down the Middle, Rubenfeld notes three obvious issues…

Is California Moving Toward Government-Owned Electricity? Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, In 1929, almost a century ago, the great economist Ludwig von Mises published “A Critique of Interventionism.” It’s written in plain language and is free online. He described how government intervention in the free market is not socialism, but eventually “leads…

Florida Supreme Court Sides With DeSantis Over Removal Of Soros-Backed Prosecutor Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) over his decision to remove a far-left prosecutor from her post. As Fox News reports, DeSantis first suspended State Attorney Monique Worrel in August of…