Pakistan Says US-Iran Deal ‘Has Been Reached’

The Quiet Collapse Under The Market's Surface...It's Getting Louder  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The market is hypnotized by headlines out of the Middle East. Every missile strike, every oil spike, every rumor about escalation with Iran sends volatility dealers and gamma-chasing algorithms into another violent intraday swing. But beneath the geopolitical theater, a dangerous story continues to deteriorate quietly in the background: multiple areas are cracking in a way that looks increasingly systemic, and almost nobody wants to talk about it. But I won’t shut up about it. Why? Try this on...

The End Of Oil Volatility As A Weapon Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, This is the only chart that matters right now…not borrowing costs (@lukegromen). It’s the weekly chart of Brent Crude. I’ve been telling my patrons for three weeks in the Market Reports that the Brent Crude chart has all the earmarks of a market being manipulated UP to support a narrative… That narrative is Donald Trump is a madman who broke the world and is losing in Iran. Look at the chart carefully, you see big gaps between weekly...

Let Americans Keep The Savings They Find Authored by Wendy Barnes via RealClearPolitics, As candidates spend the coming months telling voters how they would transform American health care, they should not overlook reforms that could make care more accessible and affordable without requiring complex new government programs. Millions of Americans are already trying to make their health care dollars go further. They compare prices, explore alternatives to insurance, and choose lower-cost ways to obtain prescriptions and routine care. Yet federal policies often penalize them for doing exactly what policymakers say they want...