All's Not So Quiet On Any Front

Arizona Border Wall Construction Begins, Targets Smuggling Corridor Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has begun work on a project to build a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Aug. 25 that the wall project is located along "one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border." The wall segment is part of a $46.6 billion effort by the Trump administration to fill the border with 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers, and technology designed...

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: PCE, Durables, Consumer Confidence And Fed Speakers SSDD: with stocks set to hit new record highs, the hope this morning once again is that the days may be numbered for the war in Iran, with momentum building since the start of the weekend that a deal could be in the works. Brent, which ended last week at $103.54/bbl, is this morning trading at $97.87/bbl, around -5.48% lower than Friday’s close. However, Brent had got as low as $96.02 late yesterday before news overnight that US and...

International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Monday that the world is facing a massive energy crisis caused by the war against Iran.  Birol argued that the current energy crunch is worse than those of the 1970s and the impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine combined. “This crisis, as things stand, […]