Report: Trump Tells Aides He Won’t Restart Full-Scale Bombing Against Iran Unless US Troops Are Killed

Wage Growth As A Leading Inflation Indicator Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Wage growth peaked four years ago. Since 1985, it has led CPI by three to seventeen months in every single cycle. The May 4.2% inflation print is the noise. Watch the wages. Headline CPI just printed 4.2% year-over-year for May. The highest reading since April 2023. The 10-year Treasury punched above 4.6% on the back of it, then pulled back recently. Energy ran +23.5% over the past twelve months on the Iran war, accounting for roughly 60% of the...

US Humanitarian Response Begins In Quake-Ravaged Venezuela, Are Hospital Ships Next? Summary US Phase One Of Humanitarian Response Begins Buildings collapsed in several districts of Caracas Venezuela declared a state of emergency after the earthquakes  Secretary of State Marco Rubio Deploys First Responders  Trump Says "U.S.A. stands ready, willing, and able to help"  USGS Says Quakes May Prompt "International Response"  USGS Fears Death Toll Ranging Between 10k - 100k  Phase One Of Humanitarian Response Begins  Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided reporters with an update on America's efforts to help Venezuelans after two massive earthquakes rocked the Caracas metro...

US Sanctions Sinaloa Cartel-Linked Ethereum Addresses Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned six Ethereum addresses tied to a Sinaloa Cartel-linked money laundering network that allegedly converted drug proceeds into cryptocurrency. OFAC added the addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals list (a US sanctions list of people, entities and assets subject to blocking restrictions) on Wednesday as part of sanctions against 11 individuals and two entities connected to two Sinaloa Cartel financial networks. Treasury said one network, led by Armando de Jesus Ojeda Aviles, collected...