Trump, Rubio Eye Visa Revocations For Nearly 4,000 Iranian Elites Living In America

US Pending Home Sales Collapse To Record Lows In September And the housing market's annus horribilis continues (existing home sales near COVID lows, mortgage rates at three year highs, homebuilder confidence at GFC lows, homebuyer confidence at record lows, housing starts near COVID lows)... After a very small rebound (+0.3% MoM) in August, US Pending Home Sales collapsed (-7.3% MoM vs -3.9% MoM exp) in September. That dragged  “Market conditions weakened in September due to fast-rising mortgage rates,” says Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “Although job growth and income gains can support home purchases,...

Where Have The Men Gone? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force. The labor force participation rate among “prime age men,” age 25 to 54, in the 1950s approached 100 percent. Now...

Seven members of Iraq’s armed forces were killed on Wednesday in what was likely a US airstrike on a base the Iraqi military shares with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Iran-aligned Shia militias that the US has targeted since the start of the war with Iran. The Iraqi Defense Ministry said […]