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COVID Abates, Tax And Geopolitical Risks Emerge Submitted by Paul Hoffmeister, Chief Economist at Camelot Portfolios Covid outlook continues to improve. Fed prioritizes Covid over inflation. Tax hikes to pay for spendin...

Global PC Demand Grew At Fastest Pace Since Dot Com Years  Demand for computers is still extraordinarily high, continuing a boom that began last year during the virus pandemic when tens of millions of people were forced into government ...

UK Cops Break Down Door, Arrest Man For Violating COVID Quarantine Rules Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video shows police in the UK smashing down a man's door and arresting him for violating COVID quarantine rules. ...

Shipping Container Rates Expected To Remain Elevated Through Year Bad news for US importers searching for cheap shipping container rates, that is, rates are as up much as 50% than one year ago. Increasing shipping costs are crimping marg...

Western Media Eager To See Ukraine Use US-Supplied Weapons Against Russia Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, With tensions simmering in eastern Ukraine, US media outlets are happy to push the narrative that Russia is the aggressor...

Setting The Scene For Global Destruction. Now It's The Arctic Authored by Brain Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, On April 8 the front pages of the main U.S. newspapers noted that President Biden was “open to compromi...

FLIR Wins DARPA Contract To Develop Next-Gen Combat Suits For Biowarfare FLIR Systems, Inc. has won a major Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to produce next-generation combat suits that will protect soldiers fro...

We Are Now Entering Full-Blown Tyranny In The Western World Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If we accept what they are doing to us now, they are just going to keep pushing the envelope.  Over the past 12 months...

Police Fire Tear-Gas, Flashbangs As Minnesota Riots Enter 3rd Night Despite widespread curfews, freezing temperatures, and snow, thousands of Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets of Brooklyn Center, a Minnesota suburb, for th...

The "Fundamental" Economic Design Driving Crypto Valuation Above $2 Trillion Via The FinTech Blueprint, This week, we look at: The crypto asset class breaking $2 trillion in market capitalization The practice of token economic...

Indian Crematoriums Overwhelmed As Country Struggles With Second-Worst COVID Outbreak India's crematoriums and burial grounds are working overtime. Even during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic last year, mortuaries in the world's ...

Big Corporations Now Deploying Woke Ideology The Way Intelligence Agencies Do: As A Disguise Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com, By draping itself in the finery of political activism, the corporatist class consolidat...

Goldman Spots Something Odd In Today's Market Action One week ago, we asked if - after such an auspicious start - the great "value rotation" had died again, pointing out that after impressive gains for value and small-cap stocks to star...

7 Reasons Why A Vaccine Passport Should Give Us Pause For Thought Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, As the use of vaccine passports snowballs around the world, concerns about their potential reach and implications are...

ERCOT Urges Texans To Conserve Power As Another Cold Blast Sparks Grid 'Emergency' Texas' power grid operator, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which came under immense pressure months ago for mishandling the historic wi...

Buchanan: Putin & Xi Have Red Lines, Too Authored by Pat Buchanan, What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukrain...

Hong Kong Activist Joshua Wong Handed 4-Month Jail Sentence For Anti-China Protest The man who is arguably the most visible and prominent Hong Kong pro-independence activist, and long featured in Western media reports - Joshua Wong - has...

The 3 Nations Vying For Global LNG Dominance Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Last year was an unprecedented year for natural gas and liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) markets. Whereas natural gas demand declined by 3%, LNG demand p...

China Threatens Retaliation Over Japan's Decision To Dump Radioactive Fukushima Waste Water Out of all Japan's major allies and neighbors, it appears the US is the only one to support Tokyo's decision to dump As we noted yesterday, w...

Matt Taibbi Interviews Noam Chomsky Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, Noam Chomsky has been a central figure on the American left for over five decades. His New York Review Of Books article from 1967, “The Responsibility of Intelle...