August 2025

Appeals Court Allows Trump To End Union Bargaining For Some Federal Workers Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court on Friday paused a lower court injunction that had blocked the Trump administration from ending union bargaining rights for thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies. Labor union members […]

Ukraine Claims Drone Strike On 5 Russian Fighter Jets At Crimean Base Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) announced it conducted a successful drone assault on a Russian airbase in Saky, a city in Crimea, in the overnight hours. This comes after weekend attacks deep inside Russia which hit oil refineries and a military-linked electronics factory. The SBU claimed

‘Handfuls’ Of Boomers Show Up To “Rage Against The Regime” Protests Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The pulse of the nation was checked again over the weekend as anti-Trump protests all over the country were held, but virtually no one other than a few white boomers showed up. The demonstrations were dubbed “Rage Against

Oil Jumps As Trump Threatens India With ‘Substantial’ Tariffs For Buying Russian Crude President Trump switched his attention from the domestic jobs figures to the price of oil this morning with a Truth Social post that lambasts India for their dealings with Russia: “India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are

Key Events This Week: ISM, Trade Balance And More Earnings Last week was by far the busiest of the year, with a perfect storm confluence of macro, earnings and central bank newsflow avalanche. Not surprisingly, this post-payrolls week is much quieter; among the US data releases that matter will be Tuesday’s ISM report (forecast at

US Deploys F-16 “Super Squadron” Closer To North Korea Border After Kim’s Ultimatum The United States is expanding its military footprint on the Korean Peninsula by establishing another elite air unit near the demilitarized zone, which is apparently in response to Pyongyang’s last week announcement that it will only enter negotiations if the US abandons its

Bureau Of Labored Statistics By Bas van Geffen, senior market strategist at Rabobank Non-farm payrolls came in at just 73,000 jobs last month. Moreover, revised estimates for May and June came in at just 19k and 14k. This means that 258,000 fewer jobs were created in those two months than initially estimated.  So, Friday’s employment

US Factory Orders Tumbled In June By The Most Since COVID After surging 8.3% higher in May (amid tariff front-running and Boeing orders), US Factory orders tumbled 4.8% in June (as expected)… Source: Bloomberg Last month’s tariff-front-running surge up 8.3% is the second biggest monthly jump in 69 years. June’s follow-on decline is the biggest