April, 2021, Page 194

Rabo: Is $2.25 Trillion Even Much Money Anymore?

Rabo: Is $2.25 Trillion Even Much Money Anymore? By Michael Every of Rabobank Learn Your Lines The Biden infrastructure plan has been rolled out, and it seems the Washington Post was kept in darkness by its source: the total was ‘only’ $2.25 trillion. Is $2.25 trillion even much money anymore? I ask that in all […]

US Manufacturing Surveys Soar As Supply Chain Disruptions Spark Surge In Prices

US Manufacturing Surveys Soar As Supply Chain Disruptions Spark Surge In Prices Despite tumbling ‘hard’ economic data, US Manufacturing survey data continues to suggest everything is awesome… almost as awesome as it has ever been. Markit US Manufacturing PMI printed at 59.1 in final March data (meeting expectations) after dipping to 58.6 in February. ISM […]

Endeavor Group Nominates Elon Musk To Be On Its Board Of Directors

Endeavor Group Nominates Elon Musk To Be On Its Board Of Directors When we think about effective corporate governance, the name Elon Musk comes to mind. Endeavor Group – the company that owns both UFC and the Miss Universe concept – must have felt similarly situated, because they have nominated Elon Musk to join their […]

NY Mag: Lil Nas X, Cardi B, and the Anti-Pop Conservative Outrage Machine

As many of our readers probably remember, I was dialed out of politics in 2020. I was focused on aesthetics, culture and history. Specifically, I wanted to trace the root causes of America’s cultural degeneration to their source. How did my generation come to live in a culture of omnipresent filth? New York Magazine: “Pop […]

S&P 500 Surges Above 4,000; Bonds Bid, Dollar Skids To Start The Quarter

S&P 500 Surges Above 4,000; Bonds Bid, Dollar Skids To Start The Quarter Mission Accomplished? S&P 500 tagged 4,000 at the cash open As SpotGamma noted this morning: 4000 is obviously the big number for today as it is the SPY/SPX Call Wall and therefore a resistance/magnet point. Our view is that the market likely […]

Micron Soars On Chip Shortage “Perfect Storm”

Micron Soars On Chip Shortage “Perfect Storm” In a time when pervasive chip and semiconductor shortages are snarling supply chains across the globe, it is hardly a surprise that chip giant Micron shares surged more than 5% in premarket trading, after the chipmaker gave a bullish sales and earnings forecast, with analysts positive on pricing […]

Fauci Rejects CDC Director’s “Impending Doom” View Of Pandemic

Fauci Rejects CDC Director’s “Impending Doom” View Of Pandemic The old flip-flopper is back. Having supported CDC Director Walensky’s dystopian outlook for America unless we all “obey” ‘the science’ and hunker down just a little longer (2 more weeks to flatten the curve?), Dr. Fauci has changed his mind now, telling CBS in an interview […]

Tune In: Trump Signals 2024 Run as Biden Nearly Slips Boarding Air Force Once Again

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AOC Finally Criticizes Biden Border Crisis… Very Carefully And Without Parking-Lot Dramatics

AOC Finally Criticizes Biden Border Crisis… Very Carefully And Without Parking-Lot Dramatics Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – who in 2019 became overwrought with emotion in front of an empty parking lot leading to a Trump-era ‘concentration camp’ – has finally managed to (sort of) criticize the Biden administration over a mounting humanitarian crisis at the […]

Blain: Q1’s Madness & A Plentiful Supply Of Hype

Blain: Q1’s Madness & A Plentiful Supply Of Hype Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, Things Can Only Get? “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the people…” Q1 was “interesting”. More financial madness in 3 months than I’ve seen in 35 years, but at least it was fun. How much more sober […]

There Are Still Over 18 Million Americans Getting Government Jobless Benefits

There Are Still Over 18 Million Americans Getting Government Jobless Benefits After mixed messages in last week’s claims data (low initial claims, record high pandemic continuing claims), analysts expected a further fall in first time jobless benefit seekers but were disappointed as claims rose from 684k the previous week to 719k last week. Source: Bloomberg […]

Wood Rides Again: ARKK Sees Record Inflows, ARKX Trades Almost $300 Million In Debut

Wood Rides Again: ARKK Sees Record Inflows, ARKX Trades Almost $300 Million In Debut Despite some of its questionable holdings, which we outlined days ago, the ARK Invest Space Exploration ETF saw more than $294 million of shares change hands during its debut on Tuesday. Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas reported: For more context, $ARKX saw more 8x […]

What To Expect From Today’s OPEC+ Meeting: Another Saudi Surprise?

What To Expect From Today’s OPEC+ Meeting: Another Saudi Surprise? After Wednesday’s JMMC meeting ended without reaching a recommendation (as is customary and expected), the key decision-making OPEC+ meeting – where ministers will hammer out May’s output quotas – begins at 1pm London Time. As Newsquawk notes, market expectations are skewed towards an extension of […]

Why National Socialism is Not Extreme Enough

Living in a democracy, we are accustomed to people making symbolic statements in order to make themselves appear inoffensive, harmless, and “revolutionary.” Such is the nature of living in prole-rule after a revolution. Many confuse things that I say with an attempt to be neutral, accepting, tolerant, and so on. Instead, I argue from a […]

S&P Futures Hit All Time High To Start The New Quarter

S&P Futures Hit All Time High To Start The New Quarter Now that the quarter-end rebalance malarkey is behind us, it’s full steam ahead into the new quarter and S&P futures hit a new all time high overnight rising as high as 3,984 before stabilizing up 0.3%, breaching Wednesday’s best levels as signs of faster […]

US approval of Israel’s claim to Syria’s Golan Heights

In 1967, Israel waged a full-scale war against Arab territories during which it occupied a large swathe of Syria’s Golan Heights.

US approval of Israel’s claim to Syria’s Golan Heights

Rouhani: US failing to seize golden chance for win-win bargain on Iran deal

President Rouhani criticizes the new US administration’s foot-dragging on a return to compliance with the multilateral nuclear deal that it abandoned in 2018, saying Washington is missing the “golden chance” for a for a “win-win bargain.”

S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 645 | How to Not Capitulate

Following the Texas GOP’s vote to delete its Gab account over accusations that the platform is implicitly aNti-SeMiTiC, Texas GOP Chairman and Based Black Man Allen West brazenly defied the milquetoast Neocon cucks within his party by creating a Gab account of his own. His first post wasn’t about lowering taxes or calling Democrats the […]

Leading Afro-French Journalist Demands White People “Be Quiet” at Coloreds-Only Events, by Guillaume Durocher

The times they are a changin’. Just last week I wrote that “we are witnessing a racialization of French politics as increasingly colorful and woke youths reject the old generation’s quaint commitment to colorblind secularism as the bedrock of national identity.” The latest sign of this is provided by Audrey Pulvar, a prominent TV journalist… […]

4 Killed, Including A Child, In Shooting At SoCal Office Building

4 Killed, Including A Child, In Shooting At SoCal Office Building Not that anybody is counting, but the US suffered its 4th mass shooting since most states started reopening their economies and schools when 4 people – including a child – were shot and killed Wednesday night after a gun man shot up an office […]

Requiem for a Jigger

Michael Rapaport 1,593 words Erstwhile actor, would-be political activist, and aspirant transracial icon Michael Rapaport might be the dumbest Jew who ever lived. He grew up in a wealthy Ashkenazi family on the hard, hard streets of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, but to hear him speak, you’d think he was auditioning for the movie role […]

Archegos And Euro Share More Than A Greek Echo

Archegos And Euro Share More Than A Greek Echo Authored by Vassilis Karamanis, FX and rates strategist who writes for Bloomberg Albert Einstein is widely credited as saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The phrase keeps coming to my mind as I read story […]

Review: A Clockwork Orange, by Trevor Lynch

For years now, readers have been urging me to review Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), which adapts Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of the same name. I have resisted, because although A Clockwork Orange is often hailed as a classic, I thought it was dumb, distasteful, and highly overrated, so I didn’t want to watch… […]

Trump Blasts Biden’s Tax Hike As “Globalist Betrayal”

A “cruel and heartless attack on the American dream”