Heavy Fighting Expands Across Southern Lebanon, Israel to Attack Bridges Over Litani River

Consumer Credit Grows Less Than Expected On Subdued Credit Card Usage While the monthly jobs report has become a veritable economic random number generator, with every monthly print coming either well below or above the forecast stack, the weekly initial claims report has become its foil - a study in boring reporting, with numbers barely budging week to week, and usually falling right on top of Wall Street estimates. A similar dynamic is emerging for the monthly consumer credit report: following a volatile 2025, when revolving credit swung around wildly...

Vance Warns Iranians Ahead Of Pakistan Talks: US "Has All The Cards" & "We Want The Nuclear Fuel" Summary:  Vice President Vance (who's been tapped to lead talks) warns Iranians: Trump "has all the cards" and cannot have a nuclear weapon. Follows Pentagon/WH declaring "total victory". Iran says it has upper-hand. US, Iran agree to meet for first direct talks in Islamabad. Situation fragile given that Iran is threatening to hit Israel again over IDF's massive Lebanon airstrikes. Tehran says 3 clauses already violated. Iran meanwhile demands stiff fees for ships passing through Hormuz during the ceasefire, and...

Is the US riding an “everything bubble” to the next crisis? Mark Thornton joins Paul Buitink to diagnose the dollar, the debt, and the Fed’s distortion machine.