Goldman Senior Executives Are Searching For Ways To Quietly Boost Their Own Pay What’s good for the gander is good for the geese, right? It seems that way at Goldman Sachs. No sooner do we write about how Goldman Sachs is looking to implement additional paid leave for its rank-and-file employees in order to keep morale …

Shellenberger: The Real Threat To Banks Isn't From Climate Change, It's From Bankers Authored by Michael Shellenberger via substack, Over the last two years, some of the world’s most powerful and influential bankers and investors have argued that climate change poses a grave threat to financial markets and that nations must switch urgently from using …

Biden Infrastructure Bill Includes Passive Monitoring Vehicle "Kill Switch" Mandates For Automakers As if the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to infringe on your civil liberties with lockdowns and vaccine mandates, media reports over the last several days are suggesting that Biden’s new infrastructure bill will also include a mandate for auto manufacturers to install …

Obituary For Russiagate Authored by Patrick Lawrence via Consortium News, Russiagate, that fraudulent fable wherein Russian President Vladimir Putin personally subverted American democracy, Russian intelligence pilfered the Democratic Party’s email, and Donald Trump acted at the Kremlin’s behest, is at last dead. No, nothing sudden. It has been a slow, painful death of the sort …

'Never Seen Anything Like It': Los Angeles Residents Stunned As Violent Crimes Creep Into Wealthier Communities After two years of rising crime in Los Angeles, residents of upscale neighborhoods are finally starting to freak out after a spate of ‘flash mob’ lootings at high-end retail stores have been accompanied with a disturbing increase in violent …

Sound Money Is A Prerequisite To Peace, Prosperity, And Freedom Authored by Patrick Barron via The Mises Institute, There are many good recommendations promoted by Austrian school economists for improving the economy. Although we enjoy successes periodically, most–such as deregulating trucking and airline pricing–involve eliminating previous government interventions. These successes are to be celebrated, of …

Dark Winter Looms For Pennsylvanians As Power Bills Set To Soar  Power prices in some parts of Pennsylvania are set to jump as much as 50% beginning this month, according to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC). “Most Pennsylvania regulated electric utilities are adjusting the price they charge for the generation portion of customers’ bills on …

Co-Opted By Wall Street: Bitcoin's Biggest Risk? Authored by Rob Price via BitcoinMagazine.com, As bitcoin gains mainstream acceptance from centralized financial institutions, will Wall Street come to ruin what is most powerful about the asset? Bitcoin’s potential is immense — an independent global reserve asset, the foundation of a more ethical financial system, uncorrupted by …

Steve Cohen's Point 72 Venture Fund Is Backing A 24 Hour Equities Exchange Steven Cohen’s Point72 Ventures is getting behind the idea of 24 hour a day stock trading. The venture arm of Point72 is leading a $14.25 million funding round for a company called “24 Exchange”, which was founded in 2018 and has already …

CNN Fires Chris Cuomo Following Recent Suspension CNN star anchor Chris Cuomo was fired on Saturday, just days after the network suspended him amid an internal investigation into his efforts to help his brother, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, fight a sexual harassment scandal. “Chris Cuomo was suspended earlier this week pending further evaluation of new …

​​​​​​​Wall Street Firms Tell Employees To "Dress Down" As Violent Crime Rages  As New York City political elites brag about their “urban utopia,” reality shows it’s nothing like that. Rather a dystopia as defunding the police and other progressive policies have resulted in a surge of violent crime. The city saw its most significant year-over-year …

When Fiat Currency Stops Being Money Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Mises Institute, Most emerging and developed market currencies have devalued significantly relative to the United States dollar in 2021 despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policy. Furthermore, emerging economies that have benefitted from rising commodity prices have also seen their currencies weaken despite strong exports. As …

U.S. Ship Logjam Worsens As Biden's Attempt To Save Christmas Fails President Biden told Americans that the supply chain is in “very strong shape” ahead of Christmas. Speaking from the White House Wednesday, Biden said his administration has partnered with the private sector to “ensure the store shelves are stocked.” But new shipping data shows snarled …

Leveraged Bitcoin Traders Flushed Out In Epic Overnight Crash The price of Bitcoin was rangebound on early Friday around the $56k handle. The world’s largest cryptocurrency then spiked when the kneejerk read of the November payrolls came in as very disappointing, seen as postponing the Fed’s plans to accelerate the taper but then began to …

Kremlin Says Biden-Putin Talks Will Take Place Tuesday Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Kremlin said Friday that it has a tentative date for virtual talks between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin that will take place in the coming days and is waiting on confirmation from the US. It followed on Saturday by indicating …

Elon Musk Says A SpaceX Bankruptcy Is "Not Impossible" Remember when Elon Musk joked about the potential for Tesla going bankrupt on April Fool’s Day several years ago, right before the company’s stock mysteriously rose ten-fold in the span of less than two years? Perhaps he is hoping for a repeat with SpaceX, because Musk …

An FDA Official Demanded Google Censor A YouTube Video The Agency Didn't Like Authored by Alex Berenson via ‘Unreported Truths’ substack, Federal efforts to censor social media extend past discussions with companies like YouTube over broad guidelines about Covid-19 “misinformation” to specific demands for suppression of individual posts, an email from an FDA official reveals. …

Russia Scrambles Jets After US Spy Plane Dangerously Close To Passenger Flight From Israel A passenger flight from Tel Aviv, Israel to Moscow, Russia was forced to rapidly change altitude to avoid a possible collision with a US spy plane over the Black Sea, Reuters reports Saturday based on Russia’s Interfax news agency. The incident in question reportedly occurred the day …

Special Counsel Durham Found The E-Mails Fusion GPS Tried To Hide Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary, Back in May, we reported on the fight brewing in a DC federal court, where Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson were trying to keep secret their internal correspondence and records relating to their role in pushing the …

Goldman Cuts GDP Forecast Due To Omicron, Setting The Stage For More Central Banks Stimulus It was less than a month ago when bank after bank triumphantly revealed their extremely optimistic year-ahead growth forecasts, in which chief economists trumpeted 2022 GDP expectations in the mid- to high-single digits despite knowing well that these numbers are …

What May Prove Truly "Transitory" Is FAAMG's Record Growth Authored by Jesse Felder via TheFelderReport.com, It’s common knowledge now that Big Tech dominates the broad stock market like never before. As Bianco Research recently demonstrated, if FAAMG were its own sector it would comprise a larger share of the S&P 500 Index than any sector has …

Russia Preparing 175K Troops For Ukraine Offensive, US Intelligence Now Claims The Washington Post is now reporting that Russia has mustered even more forces near Ukraine than previously thought. Over the past two weeks Western reports – based largely on the claims of US and Kiev officials – have circulated the figure of 90,000 or up …

WHO: Omicron In 38 Countries, No Deaths Reported Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said the COVID-19 omicron variant is now in 38 countries, up from 23 two days ago, suggesting that the variant may be more contagious than Delta. Men wearing protective suits make their …

Rare Blizzard Warning Issued For Hawaii This weekend, Hawaii faces a dangerous blizzard as more than a foot of snow is expected to fall with wind gusts over 100 mph.  “A cold front will move across the island chain tonight and Friday, then stall near the Big Island Saturday,” the National Weather Service (NWS) in …

Elizabeth Warren Is So Very Wrong About Inflation Authored by William Anderson via The Mises Institute, Almost anyone who follows social media is familiar with the latest tweets by Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has pronounced her verdict on higher food and gasoline prices: they are nothing less than the result of corporate greed. In fact, according …

Dalio: “Dangerously High Risk” Of Civil War In America While he may be willfully blind (or worse?) to China’s human rights abuses (stoking a sharp rebuke from the likes of Mitt Romney), when it comes to domestic matters Billionaire Ray Dalio thinks there’s a “dangerously high risk” of civil war in the United States within …

Leapfrogging Legacy Banking To A Bitcoin Standard Authored by Mitch Klee via BitcoinMagazine.com, How looking at the history of technological adoption can give us insights into where Bitcoin could be embraced the fastest… INTRO Throughout time, technology has proven to change our lives by leveraging efficiencies in energy. New ways in how we hunt have …

Russia’s Lavrov Warns Blinken Of Return To Military Confrontation “Nightmare” On Friday top Ukraine officials continued sounding the alarm over what they believe is a large-scale mustering of Russian troops aimed at prepping an invasion of eastern Ukraine.  “Our intelligence analyses all scenarios, including the worst,” Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, told parliament on Friday. “It notes …

Nevada Becomes First State To Impose Surcharge On Unvaccinated Workers Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nevada on Thursday became the first U.S. state to impose a surcharge on workers who have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, though the penalty doesn’t take effect until the middle of next year. A supervisor …

The Fix Is In: IMF Warns It Will Downgrade Global Growth Due To Omicron For the past week many had speculated that more than anything else, the Omicron variant conveniently emerged just as the slowing global economy was set to enter stall speed and would be used by authorities to push through a fresh round …