The Case Against Overhead Presses

Matt Taibbi: Epstein Files Are "Uniquely Destructive" To Both Political Parties Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance This week I interviewed Matt Taibbi at a moment when, as he put it, “this is a pretty weird time.” He had just learned that his outlet, Racket News, had been investigated by the British government using what he described as “human intelligence sources and all kinds of crazy stuff.” “It’s been pretty weird,” he told me. What struck him most was how normalized this kind of pressure has become. Governments, he said, now routinely “hire...

Fuels (And Canada) Spark US Import/Export Price Surge In February As we have noted numerous times in the last week or two, inflation fears are back (or rather stagflation) as growth stagnates and prices re-accelerate...   This morning we get yet more confirmation of the second wave of inflation as US Import/Export prices blew expectations away... US Import prices jumped by 1.5% MoM (the third monthly rise in a row) - the biggest MoM jump since March 2022. The acceleration in prices pushed import costs up 1.3% YoY - highest since Feb 2025. Under the...