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Biggest Squeeze Since 2014 Sends Hedge Funds Long The Dollar For First Time Since Last July

Biggest Squeeze Since 2014 Sends Hedge Funds Long The Dollar For First Time Since Last July Entering 2021, one of the top consensus trades was to be short the dollar because it was common knowledge that the Fed would be injecting liquidity as far as the eye can see, far beyond the ability of any […]

Michael Tracey: How The Censors Won

Michael Tracey: How The Censors Won Authored by Michael Tracey via mtracey.substack.com Thomas Rid testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 On March 30, 2017, the Senate Intelligence Committee convened one of what would become an endless series of exhaustive hearings on “Russian interference in the 2016 election.” Media, cultural, and political elites — […]

Racist? Biden Admin Says “It’s Simple, The Border Is Closed”, Still “Zero Access” For Journalists

Racist? Biden Admin Says “It’s Simple, The Border Is Closed”, Still “Zero Access” For Journalists After sparking a border crisis by effectively announcing the United States is now a sanctuary country, the Biden administration is scrambling to put the genie back in the bottle. On Tuesday, President Biden told ABC News‘ George Stephanopolous that his […]

Biden Will Fix New Illegal Aliens’ Shortcomings Via Moynihan’s Law Of The Canadian Border

Moynihan’s Law of the Canadian Border is the Senator and social scientist’s early 1990s observation t […]

Georgetown Law Professor’s Crime: “He Knew, But He Didn’t Tell”

Earlier: Second Georgetown Law Prof Is Out. His Crime? Saying “Mmmhhhhhh” From NBC News: Georgetow […]

“Good Evening. I Want To Have A Frank Talk With You Tonight About Our Most Serious Domestic Problem”

“Good Evening. I Want To Have A Frank Talk With You Tonight About Our Most Serious Domestic Problem” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management The Fed Listens “The independence of monetary policy is bestowed by elected officials,” said Indiana, the market’s top archeologist. “The inflection point we are seeing today is the […]

Poll: 81% of Americans Believe Big Tech Should Be Broken Up

In 2021 American’s don’t agree on much. However, there is an all but universal nod to the fact that Big Tech has become far too powerful and needs to be broken up. While some Americans are directly feeling Big Tech’s reign in their livelihoods and pocketbooks, others feel it by means of censorship or being […]

More Censorship: “Problematic” Facebook Groups Will Now Be Hidden From Recommended Lists, Banned

Tom Alison, VP of Engineering for Facebook posted a new change to the social media platform on the site’s Newsroom website on Wednesday. In order to curve what Facebook calls “hateful content” and “misinformation” being shared and discussed online, they’ve made some changes that will effect Facebook Groups, and their members. The update reads: “Today […]

Biden’s Green Energy Push Sparks Surge In Global Cooking Oil Prices

Biden’s Green Energy Push Sparks Surge In Global Cooking Oil Prices Global food prices are surging, and the timing couldn’t be worse.  From Rabobank’s Michael Every and Michael Magdovitz to everyone’s favorite permabear, SocGen’s Albert Edwards, both point out that food prices worldwide are quickly rising and overwhelmingly agree the Federal Reserve is exacerbating the problem.  Readers got a taste […]

Who’s Rioting During Spring Break In Florida? Who Do You Think?

Earlier, I’ve had to explain that “Florida Man” in a headline may mean black Florida Man, and in 2015 […]

Taibbi: Meet the (Unsuccessfully) Censored: Jesse Singal And Katie Herzog

Taibbi: Meet the (Unsuccessfully) Censored: Jesse Singal And Katie Herzog Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, On almost a daily basis now, a high-profile figure in the media business is fired or resigns under pressure, often after falling afoul of staff for behavioral or political reasons. The most recent episode involved 27-year-old Alexi McCammond, […]

Andrew Torba Goes Anti-America, Claims That A Monarchy Is Better Than A Constitutional Republic

Apologist Justin Derby responds to a recent Gab post by Andrew Torba where Torba claims that a monarchy is better than the constitutional republic system that was the USA when it was founded, proving that Torba lied when he claimed in the past that Gab protects American values. Torba’s original post: https://gab.com/a/posts/105922500164440007 Archived post: https://archive.ph/pVyiy […]

An Insider’s View of the Country: Welcoming Spring

The Mistake That Led Citi’s Infamous $900M “Fat Finger” Has Finally Been Exposed

The Mistake That Led Citi’s Infamous $900M “Fat Finger” Has Finally Been Exposed Weeks have passed since a New York State judge surprised investors, corporate borrowers and the bulge-bracket banking community when Judge Jesse Furman, a judge for the Southern District of New York, ruled that he was bound by precedent to allow a group […]

An Insider’s View of the Country: Shopping for Norouz and Chaharshanbeh Souri

The Fed’s Dot Game: “Something Missing”

The Fed’s Dot Game: “Something Missing” Submitted by Joseph Carson, former chief economist at Alliance Bernstein The Federal Reserve members’ updated projections at the March 16-17 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) paint an optimistic economic view and an unrealistic monetary policy picture. Policymakers now agree with private forecasters that the US economy will experience in […]

An Insider’s View of the Country: Norouz in Yazd and Iranian Calendar

Royal Caribbean Only Accepts Vaccinated Passengers On Next Caribbean Cruise 

Royal Caribbean Only Accepts Vaccinated Passengers On Next Caribbean Cruise  Royal Caribbean International is taking a page from the airlines and implementing a COVID passport for all passengers and crew on their next sailing in the Caribbean in June. But here’s the kicker: all passengers and staff must be vaccinated before entering the vessel.  Unlike airlines that require passengers […]

Saudi Arabia: 2030 Dream

Debunking Piketty And The Left’s Celebrity Economists

Debunking Piketty And The Left’s Celebrity Economists Authored by Shane Coules via The Mises Institute, If you were to browse the economics section of the majority of bookstores here in my home city, Dublin, you would find something of an odd phenomenon: these businesses which essentially exist because of free enterprise and voluntary exchange—i.e., because […]

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Assad’s wife war crimes probe, and Syria 10 yr war anniversary

Another Mega Short Squeeze On Deck

Another Mega Short Squeeze On Deck At the end of the first week of May which saw an eruption in violent market turbulence in the aftermath of the sharp spike in bond yields and the catastrophic 7Y auction … … we pointed out an observation from Goldman’s Prime Broker desk, which noted that halfway through […]

Iran’s missile city