After Orbán Loss, Polish MEP Warns EU Set To "Subjugate Everything And Everyone" As VDL Moves Quickly To Abolish Veto Power

Saudi airstrikes in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province on Monday hit a girls’ school and a health center, killing at least five civilians, according to Yemeni media reports. Yemen’s SABA news agency, citing a local source, reported that a child was among those killed and that 15 other civilians were wounded. The news agency also published […]

WTI Holds Losses As SPR Drain Slows, Cushing Just Off 'Tank Bottoms' Oil extended its biggest quarterly drop since the pandemic this morning as traders monitored US-Iran peace talks and a market for real-world barrels that’s been in freefall. WTI is holding below $70 as US negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff had positive discussions in Qatar and technical talks with Iran are moving ahead, a senior administration official said, while President Trump said the meeting was good. Crude has fallen in recent days as the warring parties continued discussions to reach a...

Sin(a)tra By Michael Every of Rabobank Sin(a)tra Let’s be Frank: the central banker pow-wow at Sintra had a touch of Sinatra. Fed Chair Warsh belted out “I’ll do it MYYYYYY way,” and everyone else chimed in that they’d had a few regrets about how they’ve run monetary policy and were coincidentally now mentioning them. Markets swooned when Warsh stated the case for Fed independence and that anyone expecting tolerance for inflation above 2% “would be disappointed.” Yet he also sang with an AI autotune. While the current “AI shock” is driving a boom in...