Trump Says Could Meet Putin ‘Shortly After’ Upcoming Middle East Trip President Donald Trump has said he could meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin shortly after his upcoming trip to the Middle East in May, where’s he expected to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The Gulf tour, set for May 13 through the 16th, will be the first such Mideast trip of Trump’s second term. TASS reported this week, “In March, […]

Fake It Till Trump Makes It By Michael Every of Rabobank Fake it till Trump makes it Markets were thrilled this week as Bloomberg reported US Treasury Secretary Bessent saying 145% US tariffs on China were “unsustainable” and a trade deal would be done soon; yet people *in the room* say that didn’t capture his real message – that China would see *it* needed to move first. Markets were just as excited by President Trump […]

Peace Will Be Achieved When Ukraine Withdraws From 4 Annexed Territories: Peskov Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has filled in a little bit more of the details in the wake of a Financial Times report issued Tuesday which said President Putin is offering to freeze the current battle lines for the sake of a peace deal. The significant concession came as a surprise to many, who asked what’s the catch. Peskov in Wednesday comments […]

New Poll Data Confirms The Democrats’ Worst Fears Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Can you believe it? The Democrats, once the supposed champions of the working class, have exposed themselves as nothing more than elitist snobs who couldn’t care less about real Americans. Recent polling has confirmed what conservatives have known all along: the Democratic Party is now the domain of overeducated, snobby, wealthy liberals […]

PepsiCo Prints “Rare” Earnings Miss As Volatility & Uncertainty Mount It’s rare for PepsiCo to miss Bloomberg Consensus earnings estimates. Still, the soda and snack giant has stumbled amid growing uncertainty surrounding the trade war and waning consumer sentiment—factors that ultimately prompted the company to lower its full-year earnings outlook. The maker of Pepsi beverages and Frito-Lay snacks missed the consensus […]

US Existing Home Sales Weakest March Since Great Financial Crisis Following an unexpectedly large jump in February (biggest in a year), existing home sales were expected to drop significantly in March, and they did. Existing home sales fell 5.9% MoM (considerably worse than the 3.1% MoM drop expected) reversing the upwardly revised 4.4% MoM rise in February, dragging sales down 2.4% YoY… Source: Bloomberg This is the weakest […]

Anduril Co-Founder Warns: U.S. Munitions Stockpile Would Last One Week In Hot Conflict The United States would deplete its munitions stockpile if it entered into genetic warfare against a global superpower, Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens warns. Stephens, who co-founded of the cutting-edge defense startup alongside Palmer Luckey, dropped the chilling warning on Auren Hoffman’s World of DaaS podcast. “The reality is, if we got […]

Nintendo Switch 2 Frenzy: “Selling Out” Across US Retailers As Tariffs Won’t Impact Pricing  U.S. families with young gamers can breathe a sigh of relief this week as Goldman analysts told clients that the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 won’t see price hikes due to the ongoing trade war. Nintendo’s hotly anticipated Switch 2 is now available for pre-orders at major U.S. retailers as of early Thursday morning.  According to the […]

NPR: Abrego Garcia Was “Living Quietly” In Maryland Before He Was Deported Authored by Jonathan Turley, Yesterday, I tweeted out after hearing a segment on National Public Radio on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. NPR reported that there was no evidence presented that Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 member and that “he had been living quietly in Maryland” before he was suddenly arrested and deported.  While many disagree on […]

Massive Buying Of Boeing Aircraft Sends US Durable Goods Orders Soaring In March US Durable Goods Orders printed a massive 9.2% MoM surge in preliminary March data, massively beating the +2.0% MoM expectation) and pulling orders up 10.9% YoY – the highest since Jan 2022. This is the third straight month of strong orders… Source: Bloomberg That is a four sigma beat of expectations… Source: Bloomberg But… and its a big […]

“Vladimir, STOP!” Trump Responds To ‘Massive’ Russian Missile Strike On Kiev, Leaving 9 Dead Amid stalled US-led peace talks, Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, including raining down ballistic missiles on the center of Kiev, unleashing large-scale death and destruction. At least nine people have been reported killed and over 70 injured in the capital city, in what was one of the largest and deadliest missile […]

WTF Are CEOs Waiting For? Jobless Claims Refuse To Buckle To ‘Recession’ Narrative The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time rose very modestly to 222k last week. Since Nov 2021, jobless claims have barely blipped higher (or lower), despite the recent tsunami of calls for imminent recession… Source: Bloomberg Continuing jobless claims dropped to 3 month lows… Source: Bloomberg But here’s the […]

Futures Drop On Tariff Concerns As Dollar Slides It’s risk-off price action this morning, with US equity futures lower, rates rallying across the curve, macro credit opening softer, while the USD trades broadly lower. The two-day rally in US stocks fizzled amid mixed Trump signals on China tariffs as the president floated a fresh levy timeline while simultaneously denying easing efforts and Beijing called for full rollback of all US […]

American Air Yanks Full Year Guidance As Trade Wars Hinder Travel Demand Prediction  American Airlines posted a mixed first-quarter report, highlighted by an earnings beat, continued debt reduction, and firm performance in its loyalty program and international markets. However, mounting economic uncertainty and softening passenger demand—compounded by the ongoing trade war—prompted the airline to withdraw its full-year […]

China Dismisses Reports Of US Trade Progress As “Fake News,” Demands Removal Of Unilateral Tariffs Before Negotiating Table  Wednesday’s equity market rollercoaster—sharp pops and drops—was driven by conflicting reports on headlines surrounding potential U.S.-China trade talks.  Markets surged after a Wall Street Journal report suggested President Trump considered cutting steep tariffs on Chinese imports. But sentiment […]

The Path Ahead: Soar, Stall, Or Plummet Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We have good and bad news for investors who want to know whether the stock market will soar, stall, or plummet. First, the good news. This article presents the market path for what lies ahead. Unfortunately, the “right” path is among three likely scenarios. Despite our inability to definitively show you the way forward, we can share […]

These Are The States Where Americans Have The Most Cash In The Bank In times of economic uncertainty, cash is king. But where do Americans have the most cash in the bank? As Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao details below, households in Hawaii have the highest median bank balance at $43,600. In contrast, households in Mississippi hold about $2,000 in the bank. Personal finance advisers SmartAsset analyzed median bank deposit […]

The Big Short & The Bigger Long Authored by Egon von Greyerz via VonGreyerz.gold, For at least 35 years, the monetary system has been telling us that the current era is coming to an end.  That means a debt collapse, a currency collapse and a collapse of most bubble assets like stocks and property.  THUS THE BIG SHORT! As I am writing this on Easter Monday, the Dow is down 1,100 points (2.9%) and the Nasdaq is down […]

“King Of Kings” Christian Film Outperforms Many Woke Studios At Box Office The animated biblical film “The King of Kings”, featuring Pierce Brosnan and produced by Angel Studios—the once small-time production company behind the surprise blockbuster “Sound of Freedom” in the summer of 2023—has continued its box office climb for a second consecutive week.  According to Box Office Mojo, The King of Kings—inspired by […]

Professor: Migrants Cost Millions, Are Seeking ‘Revenge’ On Europe Via Remix News, Not only must Poland refuse mass migration due to the societal costs, but the country also simply cannot afford it. Due to this reality, there can be no compromise over mass immigration, says Polish professor and lawyer Witold Modzelewski, who works at the University of Warsaw. In a conversation on the FMC27NEWS YouTube channel, Prof. Witold […]

UK To Greenlight Experiments To “Dim The Sun” In Bid To Stop Global Warming It’s a project reminiscent of the movie Snowpiercer, in which governments institute a global experiment to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to stop global warming and end up creating a new ice age instead.  Once again reality is downstream from fiction as the UK is set to bankroll an experiment to “dim the sun”.  This goal will be pursued in field […]

Back With A Vengeance: Nina Jankowicz Calls On Europeans To Oppose The US Authored by Jonathan Turley, Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board, was “back with a vengeance.”  After the outcry over the board led to its elimination, Jankowicz did what many of the displaced disinformation experts have done: she peddled her dubious skills to Europeans and others like a wandering […]

Auto Tariffs Increasingly Looking Like A “Permanent Fixture”, Deutsche Bank Says According to Deutsche Bank, with U.S. auto tariffs increasingly looking like a permanent fixture, they’re closely monitoring how automakers are responding each week—particularly on pricing, incentives, and production shifts, according to a note out this week by analyst Edison Yu. While the administration has hinted at potential relief, there’s […]

‘Live Free & F**k Italian Girls’ – African Soccer Player Fired From Italian Team After Threatening Meloni’s 7-Year-Old Daughter Via Remix News, A Black footballer from Cameroon mocked Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insulted the police, boasted that he eats for free and does not pay rent, and that he “f**ks Italian girls.” He has now been fired from the Cluentina Calcio […]

Trump Trade War Results In Record $12 Billion Surge In Customs Revenues Sometimes, especially when stocks are tumbling, bond yields are soaring and the dollar looks like it is about to lose its reserve currency (and be replaced by what: the yuan? the euro? the turkish lira?), it is easy to forget what is the driving motive behind Trump’s trade war. And in a nutshell, it is this chart: US debt which at $37 trillion is unsustainable, […]