Pro-Palestinian GWU Student “Tribunal” Calls For Campus Leaders To Be Beheaded On Guillotines By Jennifer Kabbany, of The College Fix Video that emerged over the weekend from the pro-Palestinian occupation encampment at George Washington University shows some students gleefully cheering for their campus leaders to be executed on guillotines. The footage was captured by a citizen journalist named “Stu” who recorded the […]

Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI and the man who’s name has basically become synonymous with AI, has won investor approval for his latest project, nuclear company Oklo, which is set to list on the NYSE Friday via a SPAC . The company, which trades as ALCC until then will debut under the symbol OKLO at the end of the week. Altman is chairman of the company, […]

Singapore Air Force Suspends F-16 Training Missions Following Crash Update (1105ET): The Republic of Singapore Air Force has suspended all training missions for the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon jet while an investigation into this morning’s crash continues. *   *   *  A Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon jet crashed on Wednesday after experiencing an “issue” during […]

After China Offers “Partial Support” For Robotaxis, Biden’s DoJ Probes Tesla Over Deceptive Self-Driving Claims In what appears to be just the latest ‘lawfare’ angle of attack against Elon Musk (and his freedom of speech enabling platform), President Biden’s Department of Justice is examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving […]

Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest ‘F’ Bomb By Michael Every of Rabobank F is for Fed; Biden; Trump; and the 1980s In a sea of lurid, stupid headlines today, it was billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller who arguably dropped the biggest F bombs via a TV interview. First: “Bidenomics, If I was a professor, I’d give him an ‘F’. Basically, they misdiagnosed Covid and thought [the economy] was going into a depression… […]

WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec Oil prices are rebounding off overnight lows – once again testing the technical support of the 100-day moving average – after sliding following API’s report of across the board inventory builds last night. Oil has been on a downtrend since early April, posting losses in three of the past four weeks, with weakness not just in timespreads but in processing margins […]

Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge’s Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court One day after former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely after we learned that the DOJ mishandled evidence in the case (with Judge Aileen M. Cannon citing a mountain of ‘outstanding’ pre-trial matters that would make a May 20 trial ‘imprudent’), another Trump case appears […]

Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Stanley Druckenmiller says the Fed should get rid of forward guidance and just do their job. I totally endorse a view by Stan Druckenmiller, the Fed Should Stop Forward Guidance. Partial Video Transcript Squawk Box: I’ve been perplexed about the unwavering focus the Fed has had on cuts for a six month period. […]

Brazen Election Interference: Illinois Democrats Retroactively Change Law To Knock Out Republican Challengers By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints As an alternative to a primary election, Illinois law allowed for a party to get its candidates on the ballot for General Assembly spots by party slating procedure, along with collection of a requisite number of public signatures on nominating positions. A number of Republican challengers have […]

Intel Shares Fall After Cutting Q2 Revenue Estimates Over Pulled China Licenses Intel provided an update on its second-quarter revenue forecast following the Biden administration’s decision to revoke its export license to supply semiconductors to Huawei. The new estimates reveal revenues will be below the midpoint of the $12.5 billion to $13.5 billion range.  Blame game… A new trend? Blame earnings weakness on Biden […]

Denver Sets Up ‘Host Migrants In Your Home’ Hotline Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Democrat run city of Denver is encouraging residents to host migrant families in their homes and has even set up a hotline so people can volunteer to take in illegals who have no where else to go. FOX31 Denver reports that a charity calling itself ‘Hope Has No Borders’ “began pairing migrant workers and their families […]

US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am,  S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing an earlier modest gain after the underlying gauge advanced the previous four […]

Syrian Hamsters Dead After Chinese Scientists Engineer Horrific Ebola-Enhanced Virus A group of Chinese scientists have engineered a new virus in which they took a common animal disease (vesicular stomatitis virus, or VSV) and added parts of Ebola in order to mimic Ebola symptoms in a lab setting using animals. The result? A group of Syrian hamsters that received the lethal injection “developed severe systemic diseases similar to […]

A Warning For Washington From The ‘Breakdown Nations’ Authored by Ruchir Sharma via FT, At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that not too long ago were billed as star performers but are now breaking down. All are among the world’s 50 largest economies and, so far this decade, have suffered both a sharp decline in real per […]

Apple iPhone Shipments In China Jump 12% After Discounts  New data shows iPhone shipments in China surged in March, reversing a previous multi-month decline. This increase comes after Apple discounted handset prices throughout the first quarter, mostly in response to waning demand due to unofficial bans on the device by government agencies and competition from local brands.  Bloomberg cites official data from a new monthly […]

The Stablecoin Debate That Isn’t Authored by Omid Malekan, Stablecoins have been in the news lately, thanks to another round of failed legislation, a well-intentioned but poorly-designed analytics dashboard compliments of Visa, and false equivocation by a columnist at the FT. Meet the wire transfer Nic Carter just published an epic review of the evolution of academic viewpoints on this topic, demonstrating how things are […]

Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After ‘Mishandled Evidence’ Bombshell One day after postponing a filing deadline in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Judge Aileen M. Cannon has postponed the whole thing indefinitely. In a Tuesday decision, Cannon vacated (canceled) Trump’s May 20 trial date, and wrote that setting a new date given the enormous stack of pre-trial matters would be “imprudent.” […]

The Illusion Of Revolution Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance One of the topics I discussed with Matt Taibbi during my interview with him this weekend was the palpable loss of soul that has taken place on the Democratic side of the political aisle. And, as Matt Damon reminded us in Good Will Hunting whilst quoting Henry Ward Beecher: “Liberty is the soul’s right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath laws are […]

The Great Ukraine Robbery Is Not Over Yet: Ron Paul Authored by Ron Paul via the Ron Paul Institute, The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed US policy. The elites have no intention of shutting down this gravy train, which transports wealth from the middle and […]

China’s Xi In Serbia Says ‘Never Forget’ This Unprecedented US Atrocity  Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been in France since Sunday where he met with French President Emmanuel Macron to talk about range of topics but especially the Ukraine war and trade between China and the European Union. But on Tuesday he traveled to Serbia, and importantly the trip falls precisely on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy […]