Ether ETFs Capture 10x More Inflows Than Bitcoin In Last 5 Days Spot Ether exchange-traded funds are selling like hot cakes in the US, attracting more than 10 times the inflows of their spot Bitcoin counterparts over the past five trading days.  Since Aug. 21, spot Ether ETFs have seen a whopping $1.83 billion in inflows, while Bitcoin funds took only a 10th of that with $171 million, according to CoinGlass.  The latest […]

CDC Director Susan Monarez Ousted In Vaccine Policy Clash With RFK Jr.; Four Top Officials Quit In Leadership Crisis  Department of Health & Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is “no longer director of the CDC.” Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We […]

The Firing Spree Continues By Philip Marey, senior US strategist at Rabobank, The 10 year US treasury yield has fallen back to 4.22%, after peaking at 4.31% on Tuesday, so the impact of President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook has remained modest. Meanwhile, Trump is continuing his firing spree. On Wednesday, he first fired Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board, the regulator of the railroad industry, […]

Bartov Vs. Morris: Is It Genocide? Is Israel defending itself – or executing a calculated genocide? That’s the question on deck tonight at 7 pm ET, live on ZeroHedge’s homepage and X. Two heavyweight historians—Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Brown University, and famed Israeli historian Benny Morris—will go head-to-head. The moderator: Mario Nawfal, the journalist with 2M+ […]

D.C Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Sandwich-Throwing Former Justice Employee Authored by Jonathan Turley, In 1985, Sol Wachtler, the chief justice of New York’s Supreme Court, famously said, “Any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.” Perhaps, but it appears that indicting someone for throwing a ham sandwich may be tougher than it would appear. A grand jury has reportedly refused to indict Sean […]

“I’m Tired Of Being Trans” – Minneapolis Shooter Confesses “I Wish I Never Brain-Washed Myself” The transgender mass shooter who carried out a horrific attack on Christians at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 17 others before taking his own life, wrote in a dark, troubling manifesto posted online that he was “tired of being trans,” according to a New York Post report. “I […]

EU, UK Diplomatic Missions Hit In Russia’s 2nd Largest Assault On Kiev Of War At least 18 Ukrainians have been killed, with the casualty figure expected to rise, after Russian missiles and drones targeted residential neighborhoods in Kiev early Thursday, which President Volodymyr Zelensky has decried as demonstrating Moscow’s contempt for ongoing efforts to forge peace talks. However, the Kremlin has blamed stalled talks on […]

Psaki, Minneapolis Mayor Eviscerated For Mocking Prayers Following School Shooting Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A horrific school shooting was carried out in Minneapolis Wednesday by yet another clearly deranged individual identifying as transgender. While conservatives offered thoughts for those killed and injured, including two young children, leftists immediately jumped straight to their default reactions, […]

US Pending Home Sales Stick Near Record Lows In July The choppy performance of the US housing market continued in July with pending home sales falling 0.4% MoM (worse than the 0.2% MoM rise expected). However, this print managed to push sales up a medicore 0.25% YoY (its best annual gain since Nov 2024)… Source: Bloomberg Which left the total pending home sales index hovering near record lows… Source: Bloomberg Buyers […]

Fed’s Lisa Cook Sues Trump, Doesn’t Deny Mortgage Fraud Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has sued the Trump administration, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and the Board of Governors itself – after President Donald Trump fired her on Monday over claims that she lied on mortgage applications – allowing her to double-dip on tax and lending advantages.  The lawsuit – which doesn’t deny mortgage fraud!! – seeks “A declaration that […]

Washington Mayor Credits Federal Surge For Drop In Crime, Backs Trump’s Infrastructure Request Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Aug. 27 that crime has decreased since President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to the city and took federal control of the local police department. Bowser told reporters during an update on the enforcement surge that she and her […]

Q2 GDP Revised Sharply Higher As Data Center Investments Sharply Boost Growth While the number mostly reflects a reversal of the tariff frontrunning seen in Q1 (which dragged GDP sharply lower due to a surge in imports), moments ago we got the BEA’s first revision of the Q2 GDP print which already came in red hot at 3.0% one month ago… and was just revised even redder and even hotter to 3.3%, beating estimates of a 3.1% print… […]

Fragile Investors, Fragile Markets Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance This past weekend I joined internationally acclaimed journalist, news anchor, and producer Michelle Makori for a wide-ranging conversation on markets, monetary policy, and the future of global finance. Our discussion dug deep into market valuations, The Fed, gold, bitcoin, where I see value in the markets and other general uncomfortable truths most investors […]

Initial Jobless Claims Refuse To Show Any Signs Of Cracking Initial jobless claims improved last week, falling from 234k to 229k, remaining in the same near-record-low range it has been in for the last three years. On an unadjusted basis, claims are back near record lows… Source: Bloomberg Continuing jobless claims dipped from the prior week, but remain near their highest since Nov 2021 (though not accelerating)… Source: […]

Futures Drift Near Record High As Nvidia Fails To Restart Rally US equity futures are flat as the much-anticipated print from NVDA failed to produce any real fireworks one way or the other, at least relative to sky-high expectations. Most seemed to walk away from the print thinking it was “good enough” to sustain the AI trade broadly. As of 8:00am, S&P 500 contracts were little changed, signaling the US benchmark will hold near […]

Minnesota School Mass Shooter Identified As Robin Westman Update (1348ET): An absolutely tragic mass shooting unfolded at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, leaving an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old dead in the pews and injuring 17 others. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters that the shooter took his own life in the rear of Annunciation Catholic Church. “Children are dead; there are families that have a deceased […]

U.S. Kicks Off Migrant Deportations To Rwanda The landlocked East African nation of Rwanda has received its first batch of illegal aliens deported from the U.S., as the Trump administration accelerates efforts to remove rapists, gang members, cartel members, terrorists, and others who entered under the Biden-Harris regime’s disastrous open-border globalist policies that flooded the nation with millions of unvetted migrants from the […]

Trump’s Dreams Of Nobel Peace Prize Face Resistance From Norwegian Committee: Report Via The Cradle, At least three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee have spoken out against US President Donald Trump, casting serious doubt over his chances of securing a Nobel Peace Prize, the Washington Post reported on 25 August. Committee chairman Jorgen Watne Frydnes singled out Trump in December for what he called “the […]

IAEA Nuclear Inspector Team Returns to Iran In First Since Israel War An initial team of inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has returned to Iran and is preparing to begin its work, after inspectors were formally kicked out of the country by Tehran earlier this summer, in connection with the 12-day war and surprise attack by Israel. “We have been discussing with them now,” said Director General Rafael […]

UK’s Newest Crisis: Too Many Patriotic Britons Authored by Stephen Green via PJMedia.com, On top of growing Islamification and accompanying antisemitism, decaying national defense, poverty-inducing “net zero” policies, the ruination of Doctor Who, and a whole host of other issues, Britain has yet another crisis that the government just can’t seem to get a handle on.  Britons who still love their country and want to turn it […]

FDA Revokes Emergency Authorization For COVID-19 Vaccines The Department of Health and Human Services under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revoked emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccines. “The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded,” Kennedy posted to X on Wednesday. I promised 4 things: 1. to […]

Nvidia Slides After Data Center Revenues Miss, Solid Guidance Fails To Wow Bulls Earlier today we wrote an extensive preview of what to expect from Nvidia’s Q1 earnings (here), but for those who missed it here is the summary: if Nvidia beats and raises, revisions might restart, and high valuation could sustain. However, if the results are just in line or even lower, as what happened in the last two quarters, the market may assume […]

1 In 4 UK Adults Open To Investing In Crypto For Retirement: Survey Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, A quarter of British adults polled said they’re open to crypto forming part of their retirement plans, suggesting that crypto could claim a larger share of the UK’s multitrillion-dollar pension fund market. UK insurance company Aviva said on Tuesday that its poll of 2,000 UK adults found 27% were open to […]

These Are The Best And Worst Countries For Taxes When global companies decide where to invest, the quality of a country’s tax code can be as important as market size or labor costs. A simpler, more neutral code helps investors forecast returns and reduces compliance headaches. The data for this visualization from Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, comes from the Tax Foundation’s 2024 International Tax Competitiveness Index. […]

Why Wouldn’t This English Pub Let This Englishman In? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An Englishman walks into a pub… and the joke ends there because this one didn’t even get through the front door. Why? Well because he was carrying a dangerous object that this establishment has deemed to be grounds for entry refusal. No, it wasn’t a knife or any other weapon. It was the English flag. The Saint George’s […]