Suspected US Airstrike Kills Seven Iraqi Soldiers

American Consumers Have Never Been Less Confident Despite Inflation Fears Easing; UMich With the "mini war" still ongoing (albeit with a 'ceasefire' in place), expectations were for a continued slide (already at record lows) in the American consumer's sentiment in preliminary UMich data for May released today. And while the expectations were correct in direction, once again they underestimated just how bad things are as the headline UMich print fell from 49.8 to 48.2 (a new record low and below the 49.5 expectation). Under the hood was more mixed with Current Conditions tumbling...

France, Italy Are Latest NATO Allies To Break Ranks, Block US Military Flights For Iran War First Spain, now France and Italy... France has blocked the United States from using its airspace to transport American weapons to be used in the war against Iran, a Western diplomat and two additional sources told Reuters Tuesday. "The sources said the refusal, which happened at the weekend, was the first time France had done this since the start of the conflict in Iran," Reuters has underscored. USAF image On the same day reports are emerging that Italy has...

President Donald Trump attempted to justify his aggressive war against Iran by claiming that his negotiators said that Tehran was preparing to attack.  The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return, and the  US found it intolerable,” the President said on Monday. In my opinion, based on what Steve [Witkoff] and Jared […]