Futures Fall As Iran Talks Remain In Limbo, More Ships Intercepted

President Donald Trump threatened a “very bad” future for NATO if its members do not provide the US with support in the war with Iran.  “It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the Strait [of Hormuz] will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there,” Trump told The Financial Times on […]

Choose One: Housing Is Shelter, Or Housing Is Just Another Asset In A Bubble Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds, This will get massive pushback because it's true: either Housing Is Shelter, or Housing Is Just Another Asset in a Bubble Economy - it can't be both. This reality gets pushback because the conversion of housing from shelter into just another asset bubbling higher in a bubble-dependent economy has been so profitable for those inflating the bubble. The basic pushback goes like this: housing has always been an...

Feds, LAPD Announce Major Human Trafficking Sting In LA Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Federal authorities have arrested 10 people in a major human trafficking investigation, with prosecutors saying the individuals targeted children and adults along South Los Angeles' Figueroa Corridor, marking the second large federal operation in the area in less than a year. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli speaks as Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell (R) and Special Agent in Charge Kenny Cooper of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Los Angeles Field...