Turkey agrees to back Finland and Swedens bid to join NATO
Sweden and Finland look poised to join NATO after Turkey agreed to drop a block on the Nordic countries’ application. A memorandum signed by the three nations follows talks between their leaders at a NATO summit in Madrid and ends what appeared to be the key obstruction to the Nordic neighbours’ accession process. A statement … Read more
‘YOU take YOUR seat’: Very specific cheat sheet reminds Biden how to act
President Biden on Thursday inadvertently held up a comically detailed cheat sheet prepared by his staff instructing the gaffe-prone leader of the free world to “take YOUR seat” and to limit his remarks to “2 minutes.” A photographer snapped an image of the document when Biden held it up backward at a meeting with wind … Read more
One of the most prominent crypto hedge funds just defaulted on a $670 million loan
by Boo_Randy That’s gonna leave a mark. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/27/three-arrows-capital-crypto-hedge-fund-defaults-on-voyager-loan.html Prominent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670 million. Digital asset brokerage Voyager Digital issued a notice on Monday morning, stating that the fund failed to repay a loan of $350 million in the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDC, and 15,250 bitcoin, worth … Read more
How is she so bad at this?? Kamala Harris Stumbles On Inflation
Dana Bash: “Inflation is really high. Are you concerned about a recession?” Kamala: “I think that there can be no higher priority than what we have been clear is our highest priority.”
Oh lord. This should really solve the inflation problem…
by SilverBoatSurfer Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stimulus-check-california-inflation-relief-payments-23-million-up-to-1050/
Recession Rears Uglier Head Than Inflation
by Peter Schiff of Peter Schiff Podcast · Dow Jones just did something it hasn’t done since the great depression. · Rates in the UK and Japan headed higher. · Weakness and volatility in crypto markets. · Government moves to ban Juul vapes. · Jerome Powell uses politics as an excuse. FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE
Bidenomics: Business Leader Optimism Record Low… Gas Stations Now Hold $175 When Swipe… July 4: Food Prices Up as Much as 36%!
Business leader optimism hits record low amid soaring inflation, labor shortages Business leaders’ confidence in the outlook of the economy has plummeted over the past year according to JPMorgan Chase, which found that optimism among executives of mid-sized firms has reached a record low as soaring inflation and labor shortages continue to take a … Read more
A $2 Trillion Free-Fall Rattles Crypto to the Core (fools & their money are soon parted)
by Boo_Randy True price discovery is not your friend, crypto baggies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2-trillion-free-fall-rattles-230033105.html (Bloomberg) — For a generation of alienated techies, crypto’s all-for-one ethos was its biggest draw. Now panic is spreading across this universe — and that same ethos is posing what may be the biggest threat yet to its survival. What started this year … Read more
They’re doing this s*** again
h/t Violated_Norm
There is Only One Likely Outcome Here… And You Can Profit From It!
By Graham Summers, MBA Yesterday I noted that the Fed is completely delusional about engineering a “soft landing.” The reality is that the Fed has barely raised interest rates. As I write this rates are at 1.5%… while inflation as measured by the CPI is over 8%. And real inflation is likely much higher (CPI doesn’t accurately measure the … Read more
Turns out you can’t run an economy on pixie dust.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1541738180642308097
When all fails … they return to gold. Europe, Japan and the USA will probably do the same when all confidence is lost.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1541882018673217536 https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1541859225571409920
French power intraday prices for 7-8 p.m. on Tuesday rose as high as 487 euros a megawatt-hour
🇫🇷⚡️ French power prices jumped as wage strikes curtailed generation, further straining Europe’s energy market. Intraday prices for 7-8 p.m. on Tuesday rose as high as 487 euros a megawatt-hourhttps://t.co/At65opUt4g pic.twitter.com/mfRloNDFKj — PiQ (@PiQSuite) June 28, 2022
How 14 years of non-stop monetary market manipulation ends. BADLY.
Financial risk indicators are now INVERSELY correlated to economic risk. The worse the economy becomes the more investors front-run just-in-time bailout. How 14 years of non-stop monetary market manipulation ends. BADLY. pic.twitter.com/4L5cfB3kO0 — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) June 28, 2022 EM vs HY BTD bro it’s cheap pic.twitter.com/lFADsJtYe4 — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) June 28, 2022 In this case … Read more
Inflation Hits July 4 Cookouts With Food Prices Up as Much as 36% (heckova job Jerome Powell, Yellen the Felon, & Brandon).
by Boo_Randy Remember last year you saved $.16 (.08% of an ounce of silver) in your 20 person bbq! /s
ECB’s Pivot Toward Rate Hikes Feeds Fears of New Bond Crisis
by Boo_Randy After 14 years of radical Keynesian monetary experiments, the charlatans at the central banks are starting to lose control. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ecb-pivot-toward-rate-hikes-040000036.html European Central Bank policy makers gather on a Portuguese hillside on Monday with the sinking feeling that their rush to tackle the inflation shock they failed to forecast risks both a recession and … Read more