First Real Breakthrough? Iran Says Deal Is 'Closer Than Ever' In Unexpected First, Oil Prices Tumble

Israel Sets 3 Key 'Conditions' For Ending Occupation Of South Lebanon Via The Cradle Israel has set several “conditions” for the withdrawal of its occupation forces from Lebanon, Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reported this week – after Tel Aviv was forced to stop bombing the country due to the US–Iran agreement.  "Israel has three minimum conditions for withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon: the withdrawal of all Hezbollah terrorists north of the Litani River; the dismantling of Hezbollah … infrastructure south of the Litani; and full Israeli freedom of action to remove threats," the...

Can silver be called a Giffen Good? Probably not, although that fact doesn’t discourage some from looking for the equivalent of a unicorn in economic thinking.

Net Zero Fearmongering In Tatters After Climate Report 'Implausibility' Ruling Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, The fallout from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ruling that computer model high emissions pathway RCP8.5 is “implausible” is only just beginning. Most mainstream media fearmongering stories over the last 15 years need to be moved into the junk file, as do the increasingly shrill sandwich-board pronouncements of King Charles and Sir David Attenborough. But the rot goes much deeper than ill-informed public comment, although that alone has been enormously influential in promoting...