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Consumer Strain Moves Beyond Low-Income Into Heart Of Middle Class 

Consumer Strain Moves Beyond Low-Income Into Heart Of Middle Class 

Goldman Sachs Managing Director Kate McShane provided clients with a summary of key takeaways from her meetings with the investor-relations and management teams of Bath & …

Mediocre 5Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Slides

Mediocre 5Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Slides

After yesterday’s sale of $69BN in 2Y notes, which came smack in the middle of market expectations with metrics that were just about average, moments ago the US Treasury sold $70BN in 5Y n…

Grid-Scale Battery Boom Sparks Lithium’s Comeback

Grid-Scale Battery Boom Sparks Lithium’s Comeback

Lithium prices have awakened from a multi-year bust in the second half of this year, with Chinese lithium carbonate prices jumping from $6,000 a ton to $11,000 a ton, driven by what Goldman…

The Uproar Over 4 Dollar Fries Shows Just How Severely America’s Standard Of Living Has Eroded

The Uproar Over 4 Dollar Fries Shows Just How Severely America’s Standard Of Living Has Eroded

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Once upon a time potatoes were what the poorest people in society would eat because …

Stocks Hit Session Highs On Report Hassett Emerges As Trump’s Next Fed Chair Pick

Stocks Hit Session Highs On Report Hassett Emerges As Trump’s Next Fed Chair Pick

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is the front runner to succeed Fed Chair Powell, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar …

Things Are Moving Fast All Over

Things Are Moving Fast All Over

By Michael Every of Rabobank

Do You Get The Points?

First, we had a surprise 28-point US plan for Ukraine; then Europe responded with a 27-point plan, a separate 24-point plan from the E3 (UK, France, Germ…

EU Approves €1.5BN Plan To Build Up Ukraine’s Military-Industrial Sector

EU Approves €1.5BN Plan To Build Up Ukraine’s Military-Industrial Sector

Even as the Trump-backed Ukraine peace plan is said to be advancing as negotiations intensify ahead of a Washington-imposed deadline of Thursday, the European Union c…

Imam At CUNY Reportedly Calls For Fingertips Of “Filthy Rich” To Be Cut Off Under Sharia Law

Imam At CUNY Reportedly Calls For Fingertips Of “Filthy Rich” To Be Cut Off Under Sharia Law

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

The City College of New York campus began the latest example of anti-Semitic and extremist speech this week after Ab…

“Clean Out The Garage”: Dick’s Sporting Goods Set To Shutter Some Foot Locker Stores

“Clean Out The Garage”: Dick’s Sporting Goods Set To Shutter Some Foot Locker Stores

Dick’s executive chairman Ed Stack told CNBC senior retail reporter Courtney Reagan that it will close an unspecified number of Foot Locker stores as part…

Trump Ignites ‘Genesis Mission’: Manhattan Project-Scale AI Onslaught

Trump Ignites ‘Genesis Mission’: Manhattan Project-Scale AI Onslaught

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

President Trump signed a landmark executive order Monday, unleashing the “Genesis Mission”—a colossal, coordinated national…