• “Our Enemy, The Fed”
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 11:20 am

    “Our Enemy, The Fed” Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, The first thing to know about Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s’ book Our Enemy, the Fed is he’s giving it away. Click the link, get your copy and read the whole book. Clearly, such intellectual charity is not only rare but in the educational spirit of Mises.org. The subject matter is light-heavy but Woods, author of the […]

  • UK Defense Chief Says Ukraine To Increase Long-Range Strikes In Russia
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 10:55 am

    UK Defense Chief Says Ukraine To Increase Long-Range Strikes In Russia Just as President Biden was signing into effect the newly approved foreign defense package which includes $60 billion for Ukraine, the United Kingdom also rolled out its own massive aid package (though paling in comparison), first unveiled Tuesday. Britain announced its single largest aid package for Ukraine yet, at the equivalent of $620 million (£500 […]

  • Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 10:30 am

    Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda revealed in an interview that the Central Communication Port (CPK by its Polish abbreviation) transportation megaproject outside of Warsaw has dual military purposes. He represents Poland’s prior conservative-nationalist government but remains in office despite the […]

  • Sceptical Supreme Court Could Hand Trump Partial Victory In Immunity Case
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 10:01 am

    Sceptical Supreme Court Could Hand Trump Partial Victory In Immunity Case After two and a half hours, the Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments on whether a former president is immune from criminal prosecution. Reading the tea-leaves of the comments has left most believing that SCOTUS will fail to grant former President Trump the full immunity he is seeking (choosing instead to narrow the protections for former presidents), […]

  • Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan Seizing assets? Two can play at that game… Just days after Washington voted to authorize the REPO Act – paving the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign assets which sit in US banks – it appears Moscow has a plan of its own (let’s call it the REVERSE REPO Act) as a Russian court has ordered the seizure of $440 million from JPMorgan. The seizure […]

  • Chipotle Tells Workers To “Preserve” Chicken Supply As Demand Soars
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 9:45 am

    Chipotle Tells Workers To “Preserve” Chicken Supply As Demand Soars A surge in restaurant traffic boosted Chipotle Mexican Grill’s first-quarter earnings and revenue, topping the average estimate of Wall Street analysts tracked by Bloomberg on Wednesday. Shares are higher by more than 5% in the cash session on Thursday. However, this note will not expand on earnings. Instead, we will focus on a letter from the company to employees […]

  • EU Prepares To Tighten Screws On Russian LNG Imports
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 9:00 am

    EU Prepares To Tighten Screws On Russian LNG Imports By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com In a move that could reshape Europe’s energy landscape, the European Commission is poised to propose new sanctions targeting Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. According to Reuters sources close to the matter, the proposed measures will include a ban on shipments within the EU and sanctions on three Russian LNG projects. The […]

  • Russia Will Target US Nuclear Weapons In Poland If They Appear
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 8:15 am

    Russia Will Target US Nuclear Weapons In Poland If They Appear Russia has warned that Poland will make itself a ‘priority target’ if it hosts NATO nuclear weapons on its territory. In a Thursday statement Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said “Moves in this direction will not provide greater security (for Poland or other nations that host such weapons).” He was further quoted in Russian media as saying:  Moscow […]

  • European ESG Funds Witness Heavy Decline In Inflows
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 7:30 am

    European ESG Funds Witness Heavy Decline In Inflows Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, European exchange-traded funds with a focus on ESG investing saw a substantial decline in inflows in the first quarter amid what Morningstar called “an existential crisis”. According to the Financial Times, net inflows into these funds totaled 7.1 billion euros, or $7.62 billion, in the first three months of the year. This was down […]

  • Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 6:45 am

    Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men Poland says it is ready and willing to help Ukraine with its crisis-level manpower and recruitment problems, as it could be poised to round up Ukrainian military-aged males and return them to their home country. Government officials are now strongly signaling just such a controversial plan. Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz issued the words Wednesday, largely […]

  • Former British PM Liz Truss Warns About Global Threat Of The Left
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 6:00 am

    Former British PM Liz Truss Warns About Global Threat Of The Left Via The Epoch Times, Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss spoke Monday at The Heritage Foundation about how the United States and the United Kingdom are facing very challenging forces in the global left, not just in terms of their extremist activists, but also in the power they hold in our institutions. She warned that conservatives must create a stronger […]

  • The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 3:45 am

    The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region’s largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting a new name and adopting a different set of rules. Economics, not […]

  • Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail – As IDF Awaits
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 3:25 am

    Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail – As IDF Awaits A flotilla of ships packed with a thousand activists, human rights observers and more than 5,500 tons of food and medical supplies is ready to sail from Istanbul to for Gaza. To do so, they’ll need the Turkish government to let them leave the port, and then run the risk of being subjected to a deadly Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attack — as […]

  • “Taken Out By The FBI, CIA, & Bob Woodward” – Tucker Carlson Says Watergate Was Orchestrated To Remove President Nixon From Office
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 3:05 am

    “Taken Out By The FBI, CIA, & Bob Woodward” – Tucker Carlson Says Watergate Was Orchestrated To Remove President Nixon From Office Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, I have several times reported the same… Nixon was removed because he was making arms limitation agreements with the Soviets and opening to China. This was normalizing the enemy that the military/security complex needed for its budget and power. It was for the […]

  • Tennessee Is First State To Criminalize Adults Who Help Minors Receive “Gender-Affirming” Care Without Parental Consent
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 2:45 am

    Tennessee Is First State To Criminalize Adults Who Help Minors Receive “Gender-Affirming” Care Without Parental Consent Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday approved approval criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, clearing the way for the first-in-the-nation proposal to be sent to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his signature. As the AP reports, the bill mirrors almost […]

  • Excess Deaths In Japan Hit 115,000 Following 3rd COVID Shot; New Study Explains Why
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 2:25 am

    Excess Deaths In Japan Hit 115,000 Following 3rd COVID Shot; New Study Explains Why Authored by Joe Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new study on harms resulting from the COVID vaccine was published on April 8 in the U.S.-based peer-reviewed medical science journal Cureus. It represents the largest study to date on adverse effects of the COVID vaccine, and the results are shocking, to put it mildly. In the study, […]

  • Palmer Luckey’s Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program 
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Palmer Luckey’s Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program  The US Air Force’s hot pursuit of drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft, flying alongside piloted stealth fighter jets such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, is a major effort to modernize its fleet and advance defensive and offensive capabilities in a world erupting into […]

  • Hertz Increases The Number Of Electric Cars It Wants To Get Rid Off To 30,000 From 20,000
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 1:45 am

    Hertz Increases The Number Of Electric Cars It Wants To Get Rid Off To 30,000 From 20,000 By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Hertz raised the number of electric vehicles it plans to sell this year as it is cutting its EV fleet to reduce losses that have weighed on the car rental giant’s earnings. In the first quarter, Hertz upsized its EV disposition plan by 10,000 vehicles, for a total of 30,000 EVs intended for sale in 2024. […]

  • President With Crackhead Son Frees 5 Crack Dealers, Ditches Promise To Release All Pot Criminals
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 1:25 am

    President With Crackhead Son Frees 5 Crack Dealers, Ditches Promise To Release All Pot Criminals President Biden has granted clemency to five crack dealers, ordering their early release for dealing the drug in recognition of Second Chance Month. Yes, this guy… In honor of the new government crack pipe program, here’s Joe & Hunter on crack pic.twitter.com/VWCBw9svai — obedient worker (@lmazzeiphotos) February 9, 2022 […]

  • Senate GOP Must Seize Opportunity To Expand Trump Tax Cuts
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 1:05 am

    Senate GOP Must Seize Opportunity To Expand Trump Tax Cuts Authored by Stephen Moore and Adam Brandon via RealClear Politics, President Joe Biden came into office promising to repeal President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – a law that turbocharged American job growth and U.S. national competitiveness. In the first two years of the Biden administration, there was a chance that the president could have succeeded in […]

  • SEC Expected To Deny Spot Ether ETFs In May, Consensys Sues Over ‘Security’ Status
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 12:45 am

    SEC Expected To Deny Spot Ether ETFs In May, Consensys Sues Over ‘Security’ Status There are increasing doubts among industry insiders that the SEC will approved Spot Ether ETFs in May, according to a report from Reuters. According to four people who participated, recent meetings between issuers and the SEC have been one-sided and agency staff have not discussed substantive details about the proposed products. That is in […]

  • Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 12:25 am

    Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the “we’ll literally do anything but cut spending” bag, the Biden administration is pushing what could be the most destructive idea for our country since prohibition: taxing unrealized gains. As part of its budget proposal for the 2025 […]

  • How Hard Is It To Get Into An Ivy League School?
    by Tyler Durden on April 26, 2024 at 12:05 am

    How Hard Is It To Get Into An Ivy League School? Ivy League institutions are renowned worldwide for their academic excellence and long-standing traditions. But how hard is it to get into one of the top universities in the U.S.? In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu details the admission rates and average annual cost for Ivy League schools, as well as the median SAT scores required to be accepted. The data comes from the […]

  • Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6
    by Tyler Durden on April 25, 2024 at 11:45 pm

    Judge Shoots Down Effort To Identify FBI, Undercover Police On Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Washington D.C. has denied seven motions from a defendant seeking to identify FBI agents in Jan. 6 crowds and gain access to undercover videos shot by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers, at least one of whom incited the crowds at the U.S. Capitol. Former FBI special […]

  • Luxury DC Apartment Building Replaces Front Desk Staff With Amazon Lockers, Sparking Tenant Protest 
    by Tyler Durden on April 25, 2024 at 11:25 pm

    Luxury DC Apartment Building Replaces Front Desk Staff With Amazon Lockers, Sparking Tenant Protest  Tenants of a luxury apartment building blocks from the White House were furious this week after they discovered the building’s management company fired all front desk workers and replaced them with Amazon delivery lockers. Journalist Samuel Breslow of the media outlet The Forward wrote on X about tenants […]

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  • Bitcoin core developer says Runes ‘exploit design flaws’
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on April 26, 2024 at 12:18 pm

    Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has criticized the Runes protocol, suggesting it exploits a fundamental design flaw within the blockchain network. In an April 26 post on X (formerly Twitter), Dashjr delineated the disparity between Ordinal Inscriptions and the Runes protocol in how they interact with the network. He clarified that while Ordinals capitalize on The post Bitcoin core developer says Runes ‘exploit design flaws’ appeared […]

  • Investor exodus from Bitcoin ETFs as BlackRock and Fidelity see significant outflows
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on April 26, 2024 at 10:20 am

    Investor interest in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) appears to be waning, with outflows totaling $218 million in the past day. According to data from Farside Investors, BlackRock’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF experienced its second consecutive day of zero flows, while Fidelity’s FBTC saw its first daily net outflow, totaling $23 million. Other US Bitcoin funds The post Investor exodus from Bitcoin ETFs as BlackRock and Fidelity see […]

  • Marathon Digital doubles hash rate target to 50 EH/s
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on April 26, 2024 at 9:05 am

    Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital has reviewed its hash rate target for this fiscal year to 50 EH/s, according to an April 25 statement. Initially, the miner aimed to boost its mining capacity by about 46% by year-end to as high as 37 EH/s from 24.7 EH/s. However, buoyed by its recent acquisition of a 200-megawatt The post Marathon Digital doubles hash rate target to 50 EH/s appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • FBI warns US citizens against using ‘unregistered crypto money transmitting services’
    by Mike Dalton on April 25, 2024 at 11:25 pm

    The FBI advised US citizens against using unregistered crypto services to transmit assets on April 25. The agency’s warning stated that users should avoid crypto money transmitting services that are not registered as Money Services Businesses (MSBs) under US federal law. Individuals should also avoid services that fail to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) requirements The post FBI warns US citizens against using ‘unregistered crypto […]

  • Terraform Labs to restrict US access, withdraw $23 million of liquidity following SEC ruling
    by Mike Dalton on April 25, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Terraform Labs (TFL) announced changes to its operations on April 25 in light of a recent court ruling related to the SEC’s case against the company. TFL said it expects to receive a conduct injunction soon that will bar it from certain activities in the US. The company added that it will prepare for the The post Terraform Labs to restrict US access, withdraw $23 million of liquidity following SEC ruling appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Franklin Templeton tokenizes $380 million US government money fund on Polygon, Stellar
    by Assad Jafri on April 25, 2024 at 9:36 pm

    Franklin Templeton has tokenized a $380 million treasuries fund on the Polygon and Stellar blockchains to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers without intermediaries. The company has launched the Franklin OnChain United States Government Money Fund (FOBXX), offering shares as BENJI tokens. Each token represents a share of the FOBXX and is tradable on the public Polygon The post Franklin Templeton tokenizes $380 million US government money fund […]

  • Consensys sues SEC, seeks court declaration that Ethereum is not a security
    by Mike Dalton on April 25, 2024 at 8:28 pm

    Consensys filed a lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 25 over allegations that the watchdog has overstepped in its authority in trying to regulate Ethereum (ETH). The lawsuit alleges that the SEC aims to unlawfully regulate Ethereum through enforcement actions against various companies, including Consensys, constituting “aggressive and unlawful” overreach. Consensys intends The post Consensys sues SEC, […]

  • Top Ethereum Layer-2 networks adopt Avail DA to boost rollup efficiency and security
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on April 25, 2024 at 7:45 pm

    Several top Ethereum Layer-2 (L2) networks, such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and Starkware, are preparing to integrate Avail’s Data Availability (DA) solution, according to an April 25 statement shared with CryptoSlate. This integration will grant rollup builders access to Avail DA and its ecosystem, facilitating the development of scalable and efficient rollup architectures across The post Top Ethereum Layer-2 networks adopt […]

  • Despite market volatility, MicroStrategy’s “BTC per Share” reaches near record levels
    by James Van Straten on April 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm

    Quick Take MicroStrategy (MSTR) has recently experienced a pullback in its stock price, currently trading around $1,260 per share, down 35% from its recent high of nearly $2,000. This decline is in line with Bitcoin’s (BTC) 8% pullback over the same period. Despite the recent downturn, MicroStrategy’s stock has outperformed Bitcoin year-to-date — with MSTR The post Despite market volatility, MicroStrategy’s “BTC per Share” reaches […]

  • SEC cold-shoulders Ethereum ETF applicants in meetings, dashing hopes of May approval
    by Assad Jafri on April 25, 2024 at 6:36 pm

    The US SEC is expected to reject several applications for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, Reuters reported on April 25, citing industry insiders. The decision, anticipated in May, follows recent discouraging interactions between ETF issuers and the SEC. Firms such as VanEck and ARK Investment Management, among others, have submitted The post SEC cold-shoulders Ethereum ETF applicants […]