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Hormuz Chokepoint Claims Next Victim: World's Largest Aluminum Smelter Cuts Capacity
Hormuz Chokepoint Claims Next Victim: World's Largest Aluminum Smelter Cuts Capacity
The world's largest single-site aluminium smelter in the Middle East cut its output by about 20% on Sunday, marking yet another troubling development for the global economy. The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is no longer just an energy story - it's now spreading into industrial metals. These second- and third-order effects could soon disrupt global supply chains and tighten aluminium availability, thus pressuring prices higher.
Bloomberg reports that Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) began a controlled, safe shutdown of three...
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Mar 11, 2026 / Dave DeCamp
Sen. Blumenthal Says US ‘Seems To Be on a Path’ Toward Putting Troops in Iran
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Tuesday that the US “seems to be on a path” toward deploying troops to Iran, comments he made after a classified briefing for members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any […]
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Jul 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
US Industrial Production Disappoints (Again) In June
US Industrial Production Disappoints (Again) In June
US Industrial Production rose just 0.1% MoM in June (less than the 0.2% MoM rise expected), after also disappointing in May. That slowed the annual growth in production from 1.6% YoY to +1.1% YoY...
The recent blip higher in Capacity Utilization faded last month (76.1% vs 76.2% exp) with the down-trend seemingly still in tact...
If 'soft' survey data is in any way predictive of reality, then we should be seeing a sizable trend higher in industrial production...
...or maybe it's just another useless sentiment signal.
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Jun 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The Murder Of Henry Nowak & The Poverty Of The 'Far-Right' Explanation
The Murder Of Henry Nowak & The Poverty Of The 'Far-Right' Explanation
Authored by Patrick Keeney via The Epoch Times,
The brutal murder of Henry Nowak should have focused public attention on the circumstances surrounding his death and the troubling questions it raises about justice, race, and social cohesion in contemporary Britain.
Yet one need only read one widely publicized headline to know that another story is about to be told: “How Britain’s far right hijacked the murder of Henry Nowak.”
Predictably, the tragedy is being pressed into service as evidence of the...
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