SEC Considering Tougher Fund Disclosure Rules After Archegos FIasco With the SEC having long ago become the butt of all financial jokes, its reputation tarnished and memorably steamrolled by none other than the Elon Musk who not long ago mused once whether SEC stands for “Suck Elon’s Cock“, the US […]

New International Travel Advisory Puts Airlines’ Hopes For Summer Rebound At Risk Strong retail sales data from March helped underscore a sense of surging consumer demand in the US, driven in no small part by stimulus and enhanced benefits for the unemployed and under-employed, coupled with loans to businesses that […]

LeBron James Tweets Image Of Columbus Cop, Threatens “You’re Next” If you need to know the facts surrounding the death of knife-wielding 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Ohio, it’s all detailed here. Of course, knowing the facts is racist and assuming the only reason that the police officer “murdered” this “peaceful” […]

US Strategic Command Issues Random Warning Over Nuclear Strike The US Strategic Command on Tuesday casually tweeted about US adversaries conducting a nuclear strike as their ‘least bad option.’ “The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable,” tweeted US STRATCOM, adding “We must account for the possibility of […]

Go Green, Go Nuclear Authored by John Stossel via PJMedia.com, This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. COVID-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea – those are genuine crises. But global warming may […]

Biden’s ‘Orderly’ Afghan Exit Already In Peril As Suicide Attack Rocks Kabul After Biden broke the prior Trump administration’s long negotiated May 1st deadline pullout deal with the Taliban, it vowed a “nightmare” for US troops should they stay past that date. Are we witnessing the beginnings of a massive upsurge in […]

Investor Positioning Is Now At Record Highs Earlier today we showed that hedge fund leverage – both gross and net – has hit record highs according to Goldman’s Prime Brokerage. It’s not just hedge funds. As Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid writes in his “Chart of the day” note from this […]

All Of A Sudden, China’s Government And State Media Seem Terribly Unamused By Elon Musk We have been following the relationship between the CCP and Elon Musk for the better part of the last couple years, incessantly asking the question of when the honeymoon was going to end. It looks like, […]

Senate Committee Passes Bill To Ramp Up Lethal Aid To Ukraine Russia hawks in Congress just escalated already soaring tensions along the Ukraine-Russia border, on Wednesday passing a bill which boosts “lethal assistance” in the form of additional military hardware as well as training for Ukrainian troops.  The vote in […]

America’s “Helicopter Parent” Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via The Daily Reckoning, The decay of America’s middle class has been well documented and many commentators have explored the causes. This decay isn’t random; the income of the middle class isn’t going to suddenly increase at 15 times the growth rate […]