May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Via Middle East Eye US President Donald Trump seems to think Israel could ruin his big trip to the Middle East, and it’s causing trouble. Trump appears to want the Middle East to have a respite from war and mass starvation during his trip to the oil-rich Gulf starting on Tuesday. He is signaling that he can leave […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance In April 2025, the gold market continued its unprecedented surge in physical deliveries from futures exchanges, signaling a significant shift in global financial dynamics. The COMEX reported the delivery of 64,514 gold contracts, equivalent to approximately 6.45 million ounces or $21.3 billion in value, marking the second-highest delivery volume on record. […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Israeli media is reporting Sunday that Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander could be released by Hamas as early as Monday, after direct engagement between Hamas and Washington. “After Hamas confirms that it will release Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, which it is reportedly doing as a gesture of goodwill to US President Donald Trump during his visit to […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While coming in much stronger than expected, the latest employment data confirmed what we already suspected: the economy is slowing. The reason the employment data is so important is that without employment growth, the economy stalls. It takes, on average, about 200,000 jobs each month to keep up with population growth, […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Adolescents diagnosed with mental health conditions spend nearly an hour more on social media daily than their peers and are twice as likely to compare themselves negatively to others online, according to new research. DimaBerlin/Shutterstock The study, involving 3,340 adolescents in the UK, suggests troubling […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday morning, emphasizing the Trump administration’s urgent push to modernize the nation’s outdated airspace communications infrastructure. Secretary Duffy cited recent outages at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). He described the situation as deeply concerning and stressed the need to replace the legacy system, which still […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a lawyers’ conference that amid escalating criticism in the nation of some federal judges, lawyers need to “stand up” and “fight this fight.” Sotomayor made the comments during an on-stage conversation on May 8 at an American Bar Association conference at […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, The battle between the Trump administration and the federal courts on the topic of deportation is intensifying. The outlines are clear. Biden and his corrupt cronies left the U.S. southern border wide open for four years. Estimates vary but it’s likely 8 million illegal aliens crossed the border. But […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
Update: 2 hours after the US delegation delivered its constructive remarks on the trade talks, China has done the same and it is generally a carbon copy of with what Bessent/Greer said earlier (hardly by accident): CHINA’S VICE PREMIER HE LIFENG: ON CHINA-U.S. TRADE TALKS, BOTH SIDES HAD IN-DEPTH EXCHANGE HE LIFENG: TRADE TALKS WERE […]
May 11, 2025 No Comments Markets
French media are on the defensive after journalists unexpectedly entered a train carriage carrying French President Emmanuel Macron, along with the German and British Prime Ministers, en route to Kyiv on Friday, which sparked a firestorm on social media with allegations of cocaine use by the top leaders. “They [social media users] cite videos that […]