Banking Fraud

Authored by The Jamestown Foundation via OilPrice.com,

China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have settled all technical issues related to the construction of the railway line.

Once the railway line is completed, it will not only bring hundreds

After striking their historic peace deal which was mediated by China in Beijing over a week ago, Iran and Saudi Arabia continue to make strikes toward full normalization of ties, after being archenemies for decades – and

Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,

In the first part of this report, we highlighted that observed gold prices have significantly detached from our model-predicted prices. While this has happened in the past, prices always converged eventually. However, the delta between

By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management

“What is our total exposure?” I had asked our COO as the Silicon Valley Bank run was intensifying, two Thursdays ago.

All our client money is held in our investment funds, and excess fund cash

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has racked up “an astonishing list of failures,” which contributed to the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, Bloomberg reports.

“SVB

What do you call it when an 80-year-old seeks the advice of a 92-year-old?

Answer: the worst financial crisis since Lehman.TM

Realizing that Berkshire Hathaway had a near-record $128 billion in cash at the start of the year, more than most countries…

“The market stops panicking when central banks start panicking”

In January 2022, just around the time the Fed was about to launch its most aggressive tightening campaign since Volcker, we warned “remember, every Fed tightening cycle

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

While lost in the explosive news about Donald Trump’s expected arrest, journalist Matt Taibbi released new details on previously undisclosed censorship efforts on social media. The latest Twitter Files

Air pollution is the greatest environmental health hazard to humankind, leading to over six million deaths a year and an economic cost that equates to over $8 trillion dollars.

That’s according to the World Air Quality Report 2022 released Tuesday by Swiss air quality

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Dr. Anthony Fauci responded on March 15 to a newly released email that said he was among those who “prompted” work on analyzing how COVID-19 came

For much of human history, most people did not live in cities.

As Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao details below, cities – settlements that are densely populated and self-administered – require many specific prerequisites to come into existence. The most crucial, especially for much

Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) is launching an investigation into a recent executive order the group called an “unprecedented scheme” they believe violates the democratic process.

US President

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have taken on significantly more debt to buy vehicles. This is especially true for Gen Z and Millennials, who the Federal Reserve believes may have borrowed beyond their means.

In this infographic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcu Lu visualizes

By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com

The world’s biggest international oil and gas firms continue to pledge lower-emission operations to supply the world with the hydrocarbons it needs and will need in the future.    Unfortunately for Big Oil, not all basins and areas

Bankers at the London branch of Silicon Valley Bank reportedly received tens of millions of dollars in bonuses just days after the Bank of England orchestrated a rescue package that led to Europe’s largest lender, HSBC,

By Dhaval Joshi, chief strategist at BCA Research

Exactly one year ago today, the US Federal Reserve embarked on the most aggressive tightening cycle in modern history. It comes as no surprise then that the US has just passed two of the

This Friday, March 17, is World Sleep Day, an annual event that aims to raise awareness of the importance of getting a good night’s sleep.

This year’s campaign tagline is “Sleep is essential for health.”

As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to a 

Authored by Douglas Macgregor via TheAmericanConservative.com,

America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home…

The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities

Following this week’s release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s new multimodal model accepting image and text inputs rather than ChatGPT’s text-only prompts, people on social media have been marveling about the new engine’s results in performing a variety of tasks, such as creating a working

Authored by Andrew Korybko via The Automatic Earth blog,

Eurasia’s geo-economic integration took a great leap forward as a result of the Iranian–Saudi rapprochement, which unlocks the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) trade potential with Russia and China. Its