Asia Burns More Coal As Middle East War Sends LNG Prices to 3-Year Highs

Don't Raise Rates Based On A PCE That Will Be Re-Written September 30th Authored by Richard Roberts via RealClearMarkets, The Federal Open Market Committee votes on interest rates September 16. Two weeks later, on September 30, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will revise the PCE price index, the inflation measure the Fed targets, back to 2021 and publish the August reading in the same release. Governor Christopher Waller has already said which way one of the changes is expected to go. On September 3 he said the change in the way the Commerce...

Secret Service Official Sounds Alarm: "Threat Environment Highest Ever" As Assassination Attempts Explode The threat environment facing individuals under U.S. Secret Service protection, including President Trump, is the highest the agency has ever recorded, a senior official said during a background briefing with reporters, according to CNBC. Getty Images "What we're seeing now is something I've never seen before," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a public briefing. The Secret Service has logged roughly 10,000 cases involving threats against government officials, including Supreme Court justices, so far in 2026...

Damon Wilson, the head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was interrupted by a member of Congress during a House oversight hearing on February 24 after revealing that his agency “began supporting the deployment [and] operation of about 200 Starlinks early on” amid the violence which swept through Iran last month. Before he could […]