Oil Tumbles After Reported Final Draft Of US-Iran Agreement Reached, But Nuclear Issue Absent

The Permanent Distortion Theory Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance “This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing. It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated. It was the rallying cry of dot-com lunatics buying companies with no revenue in 1999. It was the intellectual foundation of housing perma-bulls in 2006 who believed home prices could only go up because, apparently, Americans had collectively decided real estate was immune mathematical reality. It’s typically what people say when they’re trying to justify paying absurd prices for dogshit assets...

The US military is preparing for the possibility of a sustained, weeks-long operation against Iran if President Trump orders an attack on the country, Reuters has reported, as the US continues to build up its forces in the region. The report, which cited two unnamed US officials, said a US attack on Iran could lead to a […]

Minnesota Whistleblower Alleges Years Of 'Reckless Disregard' At Fraud-Plagued Agency Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Seven years after Faye Bernstein first blew the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse concerns, “nothing is changing” at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, she told lawmakers during an April 7 hearing at the state Capitol in St. Paul. Faye Bernstein, a whistleblower who works for the Minnesota Department of Human Services, testifies before the state's Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee in St. Paul, Minn., on April 7,...