Continuing Jobless Claims Tumble To 2-Year Lows

For The American Left, Nothing Succeeds As Much As Failure Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the familiar bust-and-boom cycle of socialism, where failure is used to call for even more radical changes. While House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week reaffirmed that Democratic Socialists are part of the Democratic Party, radical figures are demonstrating how extreme this agenda is for some. For example, Socialist State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has declared that stealing should be legal for those in need. If socialism takes hold in New York, many will...

The 'Pindia Challenge': A Stark Warning To The West Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A viral game on Google Maps has laid bare one of the most glaring cultural realities of the modern world. Drop a Street View pin anywhere in India and try to find a spot free of garbage, rubble, plastic waste or worse. The "Pindia Challenge" has taken off precisely because it is almost impossible to win. Mountains of trash, rivers of sludge, and streets buried under filth appear with depressing consistency. But what was once dismissed as...

Short-Covering Rally... Or Something More? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, ▶ WEEK CLOSE:  S&P 500 7,126.06 (+1.2%)  |  Nasdaq 13-Day Win Streak (longest since 1992)  |  Russell 2000 New ATH  |  Brent Crude -9.1%  |  VIX 17.42 What began as a short-covering rally on April 7th has spent the last two weeks proving the bears wrong. Friday’s close at 7,126, the first finish above 7,100 in the index’s history, up 13.1% from the March lows, arrived alongside one of the most consequential single-session catalysts of the year. Iran declared the Strait...