US Officials Work on Creating Pretexts To Attack Cuba

Silver Is Backed Up For Months. Here's Why Authored by VBL via GoldFix, Silver sold off during Josh Phair's September 23 interview, but the Scottsdale Mint CEO said the physical market's immediate constraint was at the refinery. "Silver is backed up at the refineries... in many cases about 3-4 months," depending on the material, while finished refined metal remained amply available in the United States. In his Mining.com Top of Mine interview, Phair said banks have been redirecting mined material toward refineries in countries friendly to the United States. Those plants have been backed up...

Hormuz Disruptions Could Drag Into Next Year, Japanese Tanker Giant Warns Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com, Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines, the world’s largest tanker operator, expects the shipping disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz to continue for longer than previously expected, with no normalization by the end of the year, due to this week’s re-escalation of hostilities. “Given the current situation, it’s difficult to see operations resuming in any form by the end of the year,” Mitsui OSK Lines’ chief executive Jotaro Tamura told Bloomberg in an interview published on Thursday. In...

Closer Look Reveals April Jobs Report Was A Disaster, And AI Is Now Here To Take Your Job On the surface today's jobs report was very strong: headline payrolls came in nearly double the expected (115K vs 65K), with unemployment flat just so Trump's chief economist Kevin Hassett could push bullish taking points in today's TV circuit such as this one. *HASSETT: 'RIP-ROARING' JOBS MARKET Unfortunately, below the surface this was the ugliest jobs report in years, and one could say even more cooked than last month's laughable surge in jobs (which...