Would Putin Use Nukes?

by Martin Armstrong Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozyrev served under Putin’s predecessor Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. From his former position within the Russian Federation, Kozyrev believes Putin would only use nuclear weapons in …

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[Reuters] European diesel inventories at lowest since 2008. Still importing 770,000 bpd from Russia. Real potential for higher prices.

by mark000 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europes-russian-diesel-imports-drop-still-dominant-2022-04-27/ Cutting off Russian oil will be difficult and costly as Europe will have to compete for fuel further afield and pay higher freight costs, a trader said. “Technically, if Europe pays a $100 premium, they can get …

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Going Down! MBA Mortgage Applications Dive 8.6% WoW, Purchase Apps Decline 7%, Refi Apps Decline 9% As Mortgage Rates Skyrocket (ARM Share Rose 9.4% WoW)

by confoundedinterest17 Thanks to The Federal Reserve helping to raise mortgage rates through the roof, mortgage applications are going down. From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey. Mortgage applications decreased 8.3 percent from one week earlier, according to …

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Best Stock Trading Apps for 2022

There has been some good thing if you want to start trading equities. Not only have practically all large investment companies eliminated fees on stock trades, but the process of investing in the stock market is now simpler than ever. …

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Heartaches In Heartaches! US Q2 Real-time GDP Stumbles To 0.446% As Fed Continues Monetary Stimulypto (What Will Happen When The Fed Pulls The Plug??) March Pending Home Sales Decline -8.90% YoY

by confoundedinterest17 Heartaches in heartaches. US GDP growth for Q2 has stumbled to 0.446% as The Fed is launching quantitative tightening (QT) to fight the inflation that they caused in the first place. According to the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow real-time GDP tracker, …

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Washington state bans the word marijuana

OLYMPIA, Wash. — “Pot,” “weed,” “grass,” “Mary Jane,” “flower” — there is no shortage of terms to describe cannabis. However, Washington state is taking one word officially off the table: “marijuana.” Legislators recently passed a law that changes every Revised …

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SEC Alert! SEC Charges Archegos and its Founder with Massive Market Manipulation Scheme Multiple Archegos Executives Charged with Misleading Counterparties

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Sung Kook (Bill) Hwang, the owner of family office Archegos Capital Management, LP (Archegos), with orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that resulted in billions of dollars in losses. The SEC also …

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Nigeria: “Government has determined that the NIN-SIM Policy implementation can proceed, as machinery has already been put in place to ensure compliance.”

by squaremild When governments build themselves hammers don’t be surprised to find they start seeing the people as nails. More news of the slow, boring trudge to global tyranny. https://nimc.gov.ng/nin-sim-linkage-fg-commends-compliance-and-directs-telcos-to-bar-outgoing-calls-on-unlinked-lines-from-4th-april-2022/

WHAT IS THE FED?

by Boo_Randy The Federal Reserve, “the Fed”, is the central bank of the United States of America that was created in 1913 by Congress. It is a banking cartel that has a government-granted monopoly on the creation of money and …

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