California Insurance Regulators Say State Farm Mishandled Wildfire Claims

Gold's Biggest Fire-Sale In 43 Years: Perception Vs Opportunity Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the “H. E. double tooth-picks” just happened to gold? It lost over 9% in the futures market in a single session and saw its worst week of price declines since February 1983. What gives? Gold loves chaos, and isn’t the current war, whatever you think of it, pure chaos? And...

The Democrat Establishment Is Starting To Worry About Spencer Pratt The last person California Democrats expected to keep them up at night is Spencer Pratt. Yet here we are. The former reality television personality-turned-independent mayoral candidate has spent the past several weeks doing something that Los Angeles's political establishment convinced itself was impossible: making incumbent Mayor Karen Bass look vulnerable. Conventional wisdom held that a candidate like Pratt, a former television personality with no governing experience, running as an independent in a deep-blue city, had no realistic path to victory. The conventional...

Moscow Oil Refinery Faces Six-Month Shutdown After Relentless Ukrainian Drone Attacks Moscow's largest oil refinery is expected to remain out of service for at least six months after suffering significant damage in a series of Ukrainian drone attacks this month, according to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, after Zelensky earlier vowed to bring the war to Russian territory. Kiev and the West are flirty with massive Russian retaliation at this point, which is precisely what Putin has vowed. The refinery is located on the southern outskirts of the Russian...