The Tariff Ruling: A Nothingburger or Taco of Consequence?

The Court of International Trade, an Article III Constitutionally created by Congress to adjudicate trade disputes since the 18th century, dropped what at first appeared […]

The Trade War Isn’t Over Until Trump Says It’s Over

The bloodbath on Wall Street continues this week as President Trump decided to wake up and choose violence against equity holders and bond bears heading […]

JohnGaltFLA’s 2025 Drunken Predictions

Now that we’ve digested and expelled the hellish year of 2024, one has to ask just how much more fun can we have in 2025? […]

The Pathetic State of Western Propaganda

What I am about to post a picture of is an actual story in the UK Telegraph tonight, a once respectable newspaper which has joined […]

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Old guys rule. Unfortunately that is a formula, the one which is guiding the West into a disaster of historic proportions. More on basic math […]

It’s Going to be a Long, Cold Winter in Europe

Things are transiting from bad to worse with each headline, this one is a beauty: Good thing the EU and West are putting all those […]

Lithuania Refuses to Abide by EU Agreement on Kaliningrad

Apparently the regime in Vilnius wants to start World War III. From LRT: Lithuania is not just taking EC commands on Kaliningrad transit – president’s […]

20 Quick Predictions That will Terrify the Equity Markets

I was reviewing all of the news, the bear market patterns, the reactions of medias (there’s the state controlled, bank controlled, and independent now) and […]

ECB Holds Emergency Meeting as Panic Sweeps Financial Markets

Gee, who could have seen this coming except for everyone who has paid attention since LTCM and the 2008 crash? From CNBC: European Central Bank […]

27 Cents

I apologize for my lack of commentary from Good Friday through Easter Sunday, but considering my family and health situation, it was time to spend […]

04.06 Russia Energy Update: No New Sanctions from EU, Including Coal

How bad and incompetent has the West become? Try this headline from earlier today (via Reuters): 04/06/2022 | 11:01am EDT EU DIPLOMATS FAIL TO APPROVE […]

The European Union Decides to Sanction Itself

This morning, the news broke bright and early that the European Union had decided to launch a secondary wave of sanctions on Russia for the […]

In Ukraine it’s Almost 4 a.m.

Presented without commentary, because in less than 2 hours, we’ll know how prophetic his words were, or hopefully, were not. Who needs CIA intel when […]

02.22.22 War Drums: 2100 UTC UPDATE – Ukraine Launches Full Mobilization

02.21.22 23:58 UTC UPDATE: Two minutes to midnight. Literally. Iron Maiden sums it up and yeah, still popular with us old timers. Russian troops are […]