“Bonds Are In Charge…Everything Breaks Over 5%” Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Today I sat down with my friend Andy Schectman, CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals and one of the most recognizable voices in the precious metals industry. I’ve known Andy for years, long before I ever became a customer of his. He’s someone I trust, someone I enjoy talking markets with, and someone who has spent decades watching the […]

Futures Rise As Oil Drops, Bond Selling Slows, Meta Tumbles And Microsoft Soars Futures rebound (for now) following yesterday’s Fed-induced meltdown as the market is clearly questioning Warsh’s credibility and potential usage of non-standard tools to fight inflation, pushing the yield curve to twist steeper and sending 30Y yields to 2 decade highs (last at 5.22%). Pre-mkt, the yield curve is seeing further twist-steepening with […]

South Korea Has Several Market Rescue Options As Crash Crushes 700,000 Retailer Traders South Korean market authorities are weighing a more aggressive plan to stabilize the Kospi after July’s record selloff sent the main equity index slicing through its 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages like butter. At the center of the meltdown is retail participation in leveraged ETFs tied to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which amplified […]

US Launches New Airstrikes On Iran After Trump Warned “They’re Going To Get A Beating” Summary New US attack wave on Iran begins in overnight hours. Tehran denies seeking talks, insists on Hormuz terms. Oil climbs as attacks on Saudi energy sites continue. Conflict widens with joint US-Saudi strikes in Iraq which killed at least 20. Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027? Yes 25% · No 76%View full market & trade on […]

Porsche To Cut Over A Third Of German Jobs As Auto Crisis Deepens Via Remix News, Porsche is preparing to cut more than one in three jobs in Germany under a cost-cutting measure intended to protect its remaining workforce and existing production sites until 2035. The Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer will eliminate a further 5,000 positions at its main Zuffenhausen plant and Weissach development center. Combined with […]

Adidas Shares Crash After World Cup Spending Fuels Earnings Miss Adidas shares crashed the most on record in Europe after outsized World Cup marketing spending weighed on second-quarter operating profit, overshadowing stronger-than-expected tournament-related sales. Profit totaled 574 million euros for the quarter ending in June, missing the 616 million euro estimate of analysts tracked by Bloomberg, as an additional 212 million […]

DEI Is Killing British Policing: Think-Tank Exposes The Truth Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A think-tank has warned that British police forces are being hampered by an obsessive focus on diversity, equality and inclusion, with the ideology of “anti-racism” now set against the foundational duty to police without fear or favour. Policy Exchange’s latest analysis, led by its head of crime and justice David Spencer, […]

Housing Affordability Is A Global Issue Housing affordability has become a defining economic issue across much of the world, but the relationship between home prices and incomes differs more than many people realize. Using data from the UN Habitat World Cities Report 2026, Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld created this map comparing median home prices with annual household incomes across more than 180 countries, revealing where […]

UK Regulator Targets Data-Center Land-Grab On The Power Grid Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Britain’s energy regulator, Ofgem, on Wednesday launched a consultation on a proposed commitment fee for data center projects as part of broad reforms to ensure network capacity is used for projects that are ready and able to connect. The proposal includes a new Data Centre Commitment Fee, which would be paid by […]

Got Wood? These Are The World’s Biggest Lumber Producers From home construction and renovations to furniture and shipping pallets, lumber is one of the world’s most widely used building materials. This graphic ranks the world’s biggest lumber producers by sawnwood output in 2024, using data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The World’s Top 30 Lumber Producers The United States produced roughly 2.7 billion […]

Germany’s Migrant Crime Crisis Explodes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Germany’s federal government just dropped numbers that should end every soft-border talking point still circulating in European capitals. Of the 1,087 suspects identified in 751 recorded gang rapes last year, 53 percent were foreign nationals. Non-Germans make up less than 17 percent of the population. The 772 victims were overwhelmingly […]

Where Tourists Outnumber Locals The world’s busiest tourist destinations are not always the countries with the highest number of visitors per resident. In smaller nations, annual arrivals can exceed the local population many times over. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 25 countries with the highest number of international tourist arrivals per resident, using the latest available data from UN Tourism […]

The End Of Freedom – The Last Breath Of A Dying Continent Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, They are killing us slowly. Not with bullets or blades, but with spreadsheets and algorithms, with policies drafted in climate-controlled rooms by people whose children will never shiver through a winter night without heat, whose pantries will never echo empty, whose futures remain secured behind gates we cannot approach. In 2026, […]

‘We Have Special Forces’: Netanyahu Unfazed By Global Threats Of Arrest Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News on Tuesday that he was not too bothered by the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for him, because Israeli special forces would protect him should any country try to take him into custody.  “It scares me in this sense. For you, you travel internationally, God forbid […]

Trump Admin Set To Ban Chinese Robots In “Economic Security” Push The Federal Communications Commission is planning to unveil a series of new trade restrictions on Tuesday afternoon that will ban imports of Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, as well as connected power inverters. This announcement comes ahead of the expected boom in physical AI. Chinese company Unitree reveal their “all terrain” wheeled robot. The military […]

America’s Murder Problem Is Smaller Than It Looks Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, World Cup visitors discovered something many Americans already know: The United States does not feel like the dangerous place they’ve been led to expect. That’s because America’s murder problem is not spread evenly across the country. Does the United States have a higher murder rate than its peer countries? Yes – but new research […]

Cuba Expands Market Reforms As Socialist Economy Buckles Under Trump Pressure Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba’s Central Committee, reported Wednesday that Havana is easing restrictions on private businesses and self-employed workers as it attempts to stabilize an economy battered by decades of failed socialist policies and renewed pressure from the Trump administration. “The updated regulations […]

US & Global Reliance On Fossil Fuel Unchanged In 25 Years Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, So far this century, worldwide energy use is up nearly 60 percent, and, as anyone living in Western industrialized nations knows all too well, we have spent trillions of dollars to “decarbonize” our economy. And guess what? Our dependence on fossil fuels is unchanged. To make this assertion, we may cite the world’s […]

US Measles Cases In 2026 Highest In 35 Years The number of measles cases this year has become the highest since 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 24. Forty-five states have confirmed 2,318 cases through July 23, the CDC said this week. That’s up from 2,289 cases in 2025 and the highest since 1991, when 9,643 cases were recorded. Outbreaks are ongoing in central Virginia and Lancaster, […]

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov With Aiding Terrorism, Issues Arrest Warrant Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on July 29 that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and issued an international warrant for his arrest. Pavel Durov in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Aug. 1, 2017. Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo The FSB Public Relations […]

Red Sea Redux: Saudis Call For ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ To Protect Shipping From Houthis Here we go again… after months ago President Trump urgently pushed for an international naval alliance to ‘open’ the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, which was met with at the time with a collective cold shoulder from European allies, the Saudis are newly pitching the same to open up the Bab al Mandab Strait. “Saudi Arabia is seeking to […]

Secret Service Agent Arrested In Hazing Incident Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, Secret Service agent Marquez Pinder was arrested and charged Sunday with five felony counts in a near-fatal fraternity hazing incident that occurred this spring, according to court documents. RealClearPolitics first reported in June that the agent was put on administrative leave while local authorities in Miami investigated him in […]

California Democrats Attempt To Sabotage Voter ID Initiative In November, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 39. The measure, officially the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, would require Californians to show identification when they vote and force state officials to clean up the voter rolls and verify that the people on them are […]

Chinese University Accused Of Sending Students To Factory Jobs Under Mandatory Labor Program Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese university has come under scrutiny after an alleged internal safety agreement surfaced online alongside claims from a self-identified graduate that students were required to work on farms and in food-processing factories as part of a mandatory academic program while being denied […]

Jack Reacher Star’s Latest Movie Flops After Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant The Jack Reacher series, launched in 2022, received widespread acclaim for avoiding most of the woke tropes slathered all over the majority of streaming series and movies at the time.  For those with short memories, in 2022, the idea of a project featuring a 6’3″ 240 pound white guy as the main protagonist seemed impossible.  The series felt like a refreshing […]