Economy & Finance

US To Ask Visitors For 5 Years Of Social Media History Under New Plan The United States is planning to require visitors from dozens of countries on the visa waiver program to provide up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal from the US Customs and Border Protection posted to the […]

Could A Debasement Trade Drown Those Without Gold? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Anyone who has spent decades within a specific craft or industry (be it carpentry, medicine, academia, masonry, or markets) slowly acquires not only skills but pattern recognition. The years, as I like to say, gradually teach things the days don’t notice.

Japan, South Korea Scramble Jets After Russian-Chinese Bomber Flight: ‘Acts Of Intimidation’ Airspace over Western Pacific waters near Japan continues to heat up at a moment of the highest tensions in decades between Beijing and Tokyo. Tuesday saw Japan and South Korea dispatch fighter jets in response to a joint patrol by Russian and Chinese bombers

Oracle Tumbles On Disappointing Cloud Revenue; CapEx Soars: Funding Questions Remain While the Fed’s “not so hawkish” cut was certainly better than what the market expected, largely thanks to the very dovish addition of $40BN in not QE monthly Reserve Management Purchases of T-Bills, there was another key event today and, as we previewed earlier,

11 Signs That Our World Is Rapidly Becoming A Lot More Orwellian Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, All over the globe, the digital control grid that we are all living in just continues to get even tighter. They are using facial recognition technology to scan our faces, they are using license

Musk Reveals Life On “Hardcore Mode” As Serious Security Concerns Linger Amid Radical Left Threat Elon Musk said on the Katie Miller podcast that the current threat environment from radical left-wing activists remains too dangerous for him to appear in public, especially after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Miller asked Musk: “When’s the last time

Wall Street Reacts To Powell’s “More Dovish Than Expected” Rate Cut Consensus was expecting a hawkish rate cut, and while it got the cut, the hawkish elements – more dissenters, higher dots, a pushback by Powell during the presser – did not not materalize, and instead we have a low-grade revolt by the non-voters at

McDonald’s Serves Up Creepy Soulless AI Christmas Ad Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, McDonald’s in the Netherlands unleashed a Christmas ad that, much like its ‘food’ has left the world gagging on the plastic aftertaste. The entire spot—talking cookies, uncanny animated characters, and a vibe that screams “please make it stop”—was 100% AI-generated, and viewers

Watch Live: Will Fed Chair Powell Push Back Against The ‘Not Hawkish’ Dots? Given that Powell and his pals were flying blind into this meeting, just how will he defend his actions (and hint at his outlook) considering it exposes even more guesswork among the groupthinkers than normal. Powell’s previous comments were the hawkish signal

Gunboat Diplomacy Returns: US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuela Gunboat diplomacy was on full display Wednesday afternoon after Bloomberg reported that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This move underscores the Trump administration’s Monroe-2.0 posturing as Washington seeks to reassert control over the Western Hemisphere after