US Jobs Soar By 172K In May, Smashing Estimates In 4 Sigma Beat; Unemployment Rate Remains At 4.3%

Russia on Sunday launched a massive drone and missile barrage against the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, an attack that came after Ukrainian drones hit a college in a Russian-controlled area of the Donbas region on Friday, massacring a group of students. Russia’s TASS news agency reported that the death toll in the Ukrainian attack on […]

Wyoming's Helium Empire Ascends As Qatar Gas Goes Flat Readers have already been well briefed, see here and here, that roughly one-third of global helium supply has been disrupted, setting the perfect storm of chaos to spread across high-tech industries, particularly semiconductors. The shock is being driven by shipping restrictions through the Gulf and the shutdown of output from top producer Qatar, where damage to the Ras Laffan complex could keep supplies constrained for years.  As the U.S.-Iran conflict enters its second month, one of the clearest second-order effects of...

President Donald Trump said that NATO is a “paper tiger” and he was considering pulling the US out of the Cold War-era alliance. This week, multiple NATO states declared that the US could not use their airspace for attacks on Iran.  “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, […]