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Deadly Blast At Tennessee Military Explosives Plant Leaves 19 Unaccounted For, Rattles Homes Miles Away

Deadly Blast At Tennessee Military Explosives Plant Leaves 19 Unaccounted For, Rattles Homes Miles Away

At least 19 people are unaccounted for (probably dead) after a massive explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant on Friday, while secon…

Bessent Narrows Fed Chair List Down To Five

Bessent Narrows Fed Chair List Down To Five

After weeks of intensive interviews – some running two hours, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has narrowed the field for the next Federal Reserve chair down to five candidates from an initial 11…

Corporate Profits: A Reading Without Rose-Tinted Glasses

Corporate Profits: A Reading Without Rose-Tinted Glasses

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

If you want to understand where we are in the cycle, skip the noise and follow profits. Corporate profits are the lifeblood o…

Maduro Secretly Offered US Vast Resources To Avoid War, But Nobel Winner Maria Machado Vows To Go Bigger

Maduro Secretly Offered US Vast Resources To Avoid War, But Nobel Winner Maria Machado Vows To Go Bigger

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has condemned Washington placing Caracas in its crosshairs for a newly resurrected ‘war on drugs’ …

Iraq Inks Major Oil Development Deal With ExxonMobil

Iraq Inks Major Oil Development Deal With ExxonMobil

Via The Cradle

Iraq will sign an agreement with Texas oil major, ExxonMobil, to manage, develop, and operate the Majnoon oil field in the country’s south, three Iraqi officials familiar…

“People Are Not Fungible Commodities” – MAGA Economist Spars With Peter Schiff On Immigration

“People Are Not Fungible Commodities” – MAGA Economist Spars With Peter Schiff On Immigration

The battle lines are drawn between MAGA protectionism and libertarian free-market orthodoxy, as economist Spencer Morrison (author of Reshore) sq…

Stocks Slammed, VIX Spikes As Trump Threatens “Massive Increase” In Tariffs On Chinese Goods

Stocks Slammed, VIX Spikes As Trump Threatens “Massive Increase” In Tariffs On Chinese Goods

US equity markets are tumbling following comments from President Trump threatening “a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products” being impor…

Institutions Plan To Double Crypto Exposure By 2028, State Street Research Finds

Institutions Plan To Double Crypto Exposure By 2028, State Street Research Finds

Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com,

Institutional adoption of digital assets — like bitcoin — is booming, with average portfolio exposure ex…

Gaza Ceasefire Holds As IDF Withdraws, Kicking Off 72-Hour Countdown To Hostage Release

Gaza Ceasefire Holds As IDF Withdraws, Kicking Off 72-Hour Countdown To Hostage Release

After Thursday night Israel’s security cabinet formally approved Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, the ceasefire has formally taken effect Friday, …

Obese Democrat Governor Criticizes Hegseth For Doing Push Ups

Obese Democrat Governor Criticizes Hegseth For Doing Push Ups

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Rotund Democrat Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, made a bizarre decision to criticise someone else for being fit and healthy, and…