“Our Military Is Prepared”: Havana Communists See Writing On The Wall After Trump’s Iran Bombing In a new note from Zoltan Pozsar’s advisory firm, Ex Uno Plures, he explained that the Trump administration is “methodically building a portfolio of assets” to pressure China, centered on strategic energy supply nodes and maritime chokepoints that have historically supported Beijing’s cheap crude imports. His note highlights the Panama […]

Iran Issues 10 Million Rial Banknote Amid Soaring Inflation As the Iran war rages, Tehran has rolled out a new 10 million rial banknote, its highest-ever denomination, as authorities seek to “manage” soaring inflation and meet demand for hard cash… but mostly to “manage” soaring inflation, similar to how Venezuela would add a new 0 to its currency every week in the late days of the Maduro ergime before everyone simply gave up.  […]

Iran Threatens To Destroy Region-Wide Infrastructure As Trump’s 48-Hour Ultimatum Ticks Down, Mass Casualties In Southern Israel Summary Iran vows regional and US infrastructure will be “irreversibly destroyed” in response to Trump’s 48-hour timeline to open Hormuz or else Iranian power plants will be obliterated. Iran announces imposition a $2 million transit fee on ‘non-enemy’ ships wishing to transit strait. […]

Don Lemon Claims US Does ‘Very Same Things’ To Protesters As Iran… Which Slaughtered 1000s Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Don Lemon has hit rock bottom in his radical spiral, openly claiming the United States treats protesters the exact same way as Iran — the regime that massacred thousands of anti-government demonstrators in just three months. This jaw-dropping comparison arrives as the Trump DOJ pursues […]

‘Punish Iran’: Saudi Arabia & UAE Inch Closer To Joining US-Israeli War Via Middle East Eye Earlier this month, Elbridge Colby, a senior official in the US Department of War, held a call with Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, who is also the brother and top adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Iran’s attacks on US bases in the Gulf were heating up, and the US needed expanded access and overflight […]

Senate Democrats Are Quietly Plotting To Oust Chuck Schumer Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has had a fractured relationship with the Democratic Party base ever since he voted to fund the government last March. Unfortunately for him, time hasn’t healed that wound, and there’s a growing resistance to Schumer that hopes to oust him from his leadership position after the midterms. The Wall Street Journal, drawing on more […]

“On Our Way To Cuba”: Left-Wing Nonprofit Boss Flies First Class For Virtue Signaling Tour The head of a left-wing nonprofit, reportedly linked to a Marxist propaganda network connected to a China-based billionaire, flew first class while her supporters traveled in coach to Cuba. This appears to be an effort aimed at disrupting U.S. foreign policy operations in the Caribbean. “NOW we’re on our way to Cuba!” Code Pink wrote on X on […]

Another Manic Monday Coming Submtted By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities I expect that we will see a lot of “green dots” on the Bloomberg Terminal Sunday night, as there was almost no asset (other than energy) up on Friday. I do know that my Monday will start bright and early, at 5am on CNBC. Away from that everything is a bit up in the air. There are headlines that can push us in either direction. Some developments that seem […]

What Do Bonds Know That The Stock Market Doesn’t? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most investors spend their time watching the S&P 500. That’s a mistake, because the credit market is the real “tell.” The bond market has been whispering a warning for weeks now, and credit spreads are now shouting it. As of this writing, the CDX Index, a benchmark measure of credit default swap spreads, has climbed […]

Jaw-Dropping TSA Lines Continue To Hobble Major Airports; Trump Confirms ICE On The Way In a post on his TruthSocial feed, President Trump has confirmed that ICE agents will be joining forces with TSA agents as of tomorrow to aid in the safe-keeping of Americans: On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents… … who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are […]

More Than 5,500 Residents Ordered To Evacuate In Hawaii Over Dodgy Dam Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 5,500 people on Hawaii’s most populous island have been ordered to evacuate on March 20 as weather conditions continue to worsen and threaten the integrity of a 120-year-old dam. Map of the evacuation zone in response to the risk of a dam failure amid torrential rains on Oahu, Hawaii, on […]

Migrant Criminal Beats Deportation Order With Chicken Nugget Defense In something you might see from the Babylon Bee, an Albanian migrant has secured the right to remain in the United Kingdom by claiming that his children hate “foreign” chicken nuggets, according to the Daily Mail. Klevis Disha, 39, snuck into the U.K. illegally back in 2001 as a supposed unaccompanied minor. Disha used a fake name and a bogus backstory about […]

EU Considers Electricity Tax Cuts, Subsidies Amid Iran War Surge In Energy Costs Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The European Union is weighing electricity tax cuts and targeted subsidies to shield consumers and industry from surging energy costs amid the ongoing Iran war, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on March 19. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen […]

Trump Warns Tehran To “Fully Open” Hormuz Or Face ‘Obliteration’ As Iran-Israel Trade Nuke-Plant Strikes Summary Trump threatens to “obliterate” Iran’s power-plants if Hormuz is not open and safe within 48 hours Natanz nuclear site attacked: Iran says “no nuclear radiation” detected, even as attacks on core sites like Isfahan nuclear facilities signal clear escalation despite earlier Trump signals of maybe “winding down.” […]

Nigerian Researchers Accidentally Confirm Africa’s Low IQ Problem For many years the political left has dismissed all discussion about links between third world populations and low intelligence as “racism” and “xenophobia”.  The well documented fact that low IQ populations are more inclined towards lack of impulse control and a higher crime rate does not matter to progressives.  They assert that such claims are based on “rigged” […]

UK House Of Lords Rams Through ‘Abortion Up To Birth’ Law; Only 1% Of Brits Approve Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The unelected House of Lords in the UK has just voted to embed extreme abortion provisions into law, decriminalising terminations right up to birth. This comes despite clear polling evidence that only 1% of the British public supports the move, exposing a ruling class utterly detached from the people it […]

“Complete Other Alias”: Rep. Luna Drops Clinton-Epstein Bombshell Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna appeared on Bill Maher’s show and confirmed what the Epstein document dumps have long hinted at: the former president wasn’t just flying on the Lolita Express — he was operating under an entirely different identity in the files. This revelation lands as the House Oversight Committee presses […]

McGlinchey: America Throws Its Service Members Into An Unjust War For Israel Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities President Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching a regime-change war on Iran has so far cost the lives of at least 13 American service members. More than 200 have been wounded, dozens seriously enough to require evacuations to military hospitals in Europe and the United States. Among them are individuals […]

“Going To Cripple Our Economy”: Small Businesses Sound Alarm Over Record Diesel Price Spike The latest AAA fuel data from across America shows that the national average diesel price at the pump has jumped nearly 40% this month, surpassing the 2022 fuel spike that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Surging diesel prices are already generating a shock across trucking, rail, shipping, farm equipment, construction machinery, […]

The Oscars Died Last Weekend…Did Anyone Even Notice? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance “Oh, the Oscars was yesterday,” my friend said to me while walking through town. She noticed that a nearby bar had the TV tuned to a replay of the ceremony. What surprised me was who said it. This is a person who is deeply, spiritually committed to things like what movies are in theaters and new fictional television shows. She loves the […]

New York City Is Spending $81,000 Per Year On Each Homeless Person New York City spent about $368 million last year on services for people living on the streets, which equals roughly $81,000 per unsheltered person, according to the NY Post. Spending through the city’s New York City Department of Homeless Services street outreach programs has increased sharply over the past several years. In 2019, the city spent about $102 million […]

The State Will Always Socialize The Cost Of War Via The Libertarian Institute War is often sold to the public as an act of national will: decisive, necessary, and under control. The bill arrives later, in a quieter form. It shows up in insurance markets, shipping rates, emergency guarantees, higher fuel prices, and sudden policy reversals designed to keep the economic damage from spreading too far or too fast. That is what is now […]

Iran’s First Use Of ICBMs Raises Serious Questions About Remaining Arsenal In a startling move that has military experts questioning their assumptions about Iranian capabilities, Iran attempted to hit the joint UK-US base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). While US officials assured the Wall Street Journal that the base was unscathed, the Iranian strike aimed at a […]

On The Hidden Fragility Of Our Energy-Dependent World & The Cascading Consequences Of A Supply-Shock That Money Alone Can’t Fix Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup blog, For a long time, I accepted the same framework most people in finance operate within—that the global economy is, at its core, a system governed by monetary policy, shaped by interest rates, and stabilized by central banks. It’s an appealing idea because […]

Phantom Ayatollah? Iran’s New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei. What’s clear is that the new, younger Khamenei – who may have been wounded in […]