US To Let Russian Oil Tanker Deliver Fuel To Cuba: Report

Dallas Fed Mfg Activity Holds Near One Year High Despite Plunge In Respondent Sentiment On Iran War The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index continues to straddle the unchanged line, and despite a tiny dip from 0.2 in February, the highest print since July, to -0.2 in March, just below the 1.5 median estimate, the index remained near the highest level in a year and absent a modest and brief, post-Trump election spike, this remains one of the highest prints since mid-2022. Curiously, the headline index barely dropped even though most index components...

I'm Sorry, But The Fed Has Run Out Of Road  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There is a special kind of denial that only financial markets can sustain. It is the quiet insistence that everything is fine because the S&P is only down about 10%, as if that number alone captures the health of an entire financial system. It is the belief that until equities are in full free fall, nothing truly serious can be happening underneath. But as we know, underneath, things are already starting to break. That is the part people...

Bitcoin Mining & The Electricity Grid: A Quiet Savior Authored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, With all eyes on the winter storm raging through America last month, a silent hero was working in the background to keep the lights on. And I don’t primarily mean the emergency workers or the teams of electricians, foresters, and engineers that keep the power lines up and ice-free; these guys operate very much in the foreground, the public well aware of their critical work. Before and during winter storms, the electricity supply becomes strained and household demand...