Americans' Real Wages Are Shrinking As CPI Tops 4% For First Time In 3 Years

HSBC Sees "Upside Risks" From "Super Squeeze" In Commodities London copper futures are trading north of $14,700 a ton, Brent crude futures have climbed above $101 a barrel, US diesel crack spreads are back in triple-digit territory, and the Bloomberg Commodity Index is at a 14-year high. The energy shock has broadened into a rally across the commodity complex, from energy to agricultural products to metals and other critical materials, with a growing number of Wall Street research desks identifying tightening physical supplies as a key driver. HSBC chief economist for...

China's Quad-G Plan For Global Hegemony Involves The UN And AI Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, The regime in China denies that it has plans for "hegemony or expansion," but its history - from the peasant land seizures of the 1920s to claims on the entire South China Sea today - is replete with land grabs and territorial expansion. Starting in 2021 with its first of four global initiatives, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used ideas for such initiatives and Beijing-led international organizations as engines to extend its...

German Parliament Moves To Criminalize Denying Israel's "Right To Exist" Various European initiatives and policies which criminalize "holocaust denial" have for years dominated headlines and driven immense controversy over freedom of speech and public debate. But Germany is now taking it a big step further, with the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament, having just approved a bill that would criminalize publicly denying Israel's "right to exist" or calling for its abolition. via Reuters If passed into law, a conviction would bring up to five years in prison, according to the proposed legal change. The...