Economy & Finance

As France Yanks Last US-Based Gold Reserves, UBS Expects Demand From China To Persist When France repatriates its gold, it has historically been worth paying attention to (think De Gaulle’s demands culminating in the ‘Nixon Shock’). However, then (as now), there was no cliff-like event, it was a slow-building crisis and perhaps the news that […]

Missouri Senate Passes Bill Blocking WHO, UN, WEF Authority Authored by Jon Fleetwood via substack, A Missouri bill directly confronting the role of unelected global institutions in domestic governance has passed the state Senate, declaring that organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), and World Economic Forum (WEF) have “no jurisdiction or power

Anthropic Says One Of Its Claude Models Was Pressured To Lie, Cheat, & Blackmail Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has revealed that during experiments, one of its Claude chatbot models could be pressured to deceive, cheat and resort to blackmail, behaviors it appears to have absorbed during training. Chatbots are

Israel Suffers One Of Single Deadliest Days Of War Sunday into Monday saw significant casualties in Israel, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed in a statement carried by state media that Iranian forces had targeted an oil refinery in Haifa.  But instead, it appears that the missile slammed directly into a residential building, killing

Mamdani’s Tax Plan Is A Warning To America: Counterproductive And Regressive Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Zohran Mamdani’s tax package is a warning to America. It is what you may expect when the radical left takes power. Demolition of the private sector and destruction of potential growth and jobs. Mamdani’s plan is not ambitious nor innovative;

Explosives Found Near Key Serbia-Hungary Pipeline Transporting Russian Gas Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic informed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban by phone on Sunday that explosives were discovered near a key pipeline carrying Russian gas from Serbia to Hungary. “Our units found high-powered explosives and detonators,” Vucic wrote on Instagram after briefing Orban on the military

Iraq Tells Buyers To Collect Crude Which Can Now Cross Hormuz, While US Boosts Ship Reinsurance Guarantees To $40BN Over the long weekend, we reported that with traffic across the Hormuz strait continuing to rise, and reaching the highest since the war began, one particularly favorable development was Iran’s permission for Iraqi ships to use

Artemis II Astronauts Set For Historic Lunar Flyby: What To Know Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Astronauts are back in lunar space for the first time in more than 50 years. Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, crossed into the Moon’s gravitational influence at approximately 12:41 a.m. ET on April 6, officially making NASA’s

The 28th Amendment: Is It Time For A New Amendment On The Meaning Of Citizenship? Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Well, it’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.” Those words from Chief Justice John Roberts during this week’s oral arguments signaled that the conservative justices are unlikely to reject birthright citizenship. Of course, nothing is certain until

Prices Jump, Employment Dumps As US ISM Services Disappoints In March The last six months or so has seen S&P Global’s and ISM’s Services PMI surveys diverge dramatically (former at three year lows, latter near four year highs). But, following S&P Global’s Services PMI plunge into contraction in March, ISM’s Services PMI actually ‘agreed’ and