Economy & Finance

Antares Earns DoE’s First Ever Microreactor Approval As Modi Heralds ‘Defining Step In India’s Nuclear Energy Journey’ Antares Nuclear reached the most significant regulatory milestone to date for a microreactor. The company announced that its Mark-0 reactor became the first advanced reactor to receive Department of Energy approval for a Documented Safety Analysis under the […]

Oil, Inflation, & Recession Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It’s not the price of oil per se that triggers recession, it’s the underlying vulnerabilities that have been cloaked with happy story narratives to keep the game going. Recessions don’t require a spike in the price of oil/gasoline, but spikes in energy prices

Petrochemical Supply Shock Begins Idling Asian Factories For weeks, we mapped out for readers how the Gulf energy shock dominoes would fall, spreading outward from the Middle East and striking Asia first through tightened energy-product flows that risk destabilizing the global economy. That transmission of tightening energy flows is now becoming alarmingly visible on factory

Tucker Carlson Urges U.S. Officials To Defy Trump On Iran Orders: “Say No, Absolutely Not” Tucker Carlson has publicly called on White House aides and Pentagon officials to refuse President Donald Trump’s orders if they involve mass attacks on Iranian civilians or the possible use of nuclear weapons, telling them to “say no, absolutely not”

Stellar 3Y Auction: 2nd Most Foreign Buyers On Record, Highest Stop Through Since Feb 2025 After several weeks of decidedly ugly auction which saw a notable drop in foreign demand amid what we reported a week ago was rampant selling of US debt by foreign central banks, moments ago the Treasury sold 3Y notes in

Trump Endorses Steve Hilton In California Gubernatorial Primary Authored by Dave Mason via The Center Square, President Donald Trump has endorsed former Fox News anchor Steve Hilton in California’s Republican gubernatorial primary. Trump picked Hilton over the other prominent GOP candidate – Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is an outspoken Trump supporter. Sunday night’s endorsement on social media comes as Democrats

Russia, China Veto UN Res Authorizing Military Force To Reopen Hormuz Strait On Tuesday a UN Security Council resolution on opening the Strait of Hormuz failed due to Russia and China vetoing it. It was drafted by Bahrain and authorized countries to use military force if necessary to open the strait for the free flow of

NY Fed: Inflation Expectations Jump, Driven By Surging Gas Ahead of Friday’s CPI report, inflation fears are already rising, with the NY Fed’s latest monthly survey of consumer expectations reporting that Inflation expectations at the one-year horizon were higher at 3.42% in March from the previous month’s 3.00%, matching the highest since April ’25. Inflation expectations

IMF Panics, Warns Tokenization Could Bring Crypto Risks Into Global Financial Markets Authored by Francisco Rodrigues via CoinDesk.com, Tokenization could reshape finance by enabling instant settlement and cutting out intermediaries, and introduces new risks that regulators are not yet equipped to manage, the IMF said. Tokenization could amplify volatility through automated markets and smart contracts,

VP Vance Visits Hungary To Support Orban Ahead Of Election, Blasts EU “Interference” Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, U.S Vice President JD Vance arrived in Budapest on April 7 for a two-day visit aimed at bolstering Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s campaign, ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections on April 12. Vance and