We Are 6 Months From Global Food Shortages Because Farmers Are Facing A Quadruple Whammy Crisis

FOMC Minutes Tilt Hawkish: 'Inflation Risks Skewed To The Upside' Due To AI While today's market moves (post-Bessent's OpTwist bailout) are changing things rapidly, since the last FOMC meeting, on July 19th, where Warsh held rates (hawkishly) unchanged (in the biggest surprise to market expectations in decades) amid multiple dissents, gold, bitcoin, and oil have outperformed, the dollar and bonds have lagged, with stocks solidly green in the middle... And rate-hike expectations have plunged, erasing the hawkish shift since Warsh's first Fed meeting (thanks mostly to weak macro since the meeting)... With...

NIH Ends Biodefense Focus, Signs Pact With Department Of War Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, Senior officials inside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were baffled late last week when Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro issued a statement that Pentagon officials are trying to "raid" NIH funds to cover defense shortfalls. "The administration must provide Congress with a full accounting of how this interagency agreement was developed and exactly how much taxpayer money it is trying to transfer to DOD," wrote DeLauro, who serves as the top...

The Decline Of Higher Education Continues Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, During my second career teaching high school English, I noticed several darkly funny but disturbing trends in “higher” education.  They were fueled by three primary drivers: abandoning merit, the federal government taking over the student loan industry, and DEI hysteria. It was Barack Obama who federalized the student loan industry, pushing the idea that everyone should go to college. To make that idea a reality, it was necessary for the government to guarantee student loans. That had plenty of unfortunate and foreseeable...