'No Hire, No Fire' Economy Continues As Job Cuts Tumble, Claims Near Record Lows

The Lockdown Disaster Must Not Be Forgiven Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, Six years since “15 Days to Slow the Spread", data shows why our policies didn't work... That policy has to have been one of the most disastrous in world history, created by “experts” who took all established pre-pandemic planning documents and tossed them out the window at the first opportunity. It was a policy based on inaccurate reports out of China, which claimed that their lockdowns effectively stamped out transmission of Covid-19 within a matter of days. It was a...

Futures Rise Led By Tech Before Key CPI Report US: Futures are higher, led by Tech as AI infra earnings boost the theme while the Semis trade was bid overnight led by a surge in Korea's Kospi. As of 7:45am ET, S&P futures are up 0.2% ahead of today's CPI report, while Nasdaq futures gain 0.7% as investors react positively to updates from US technology firms. Semis / Memory are outpacing broader markets with Mag7 trading higher, too. Software is lower, so watch to see if the +Semi / -Software...

As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environmnet aka OPE. OPE is defined in joint publications (e.g., JP 3-05 Special Operations) as non-intelligence activities conducted prior to or in preparation for potential military operations to set conditions […]