Majority Of Poles Are Against Ukraine Joining The EU

Core Durables Goods Surge For 12th Straight Month, Push Bond Yield Higher After a recent string of 'soft' survey data, this morning we get some 'hard' data and it was far stronger than expected. Preliminary headline durable goods orders for March rose 0.8% MoM (better than the 0.5% MoM exp), and the first increase after a three month decline to start the year (which was the first 3-month decline since Nov 2019). The increase took place despite continued weakness in aircraft orders manifesting as a 21.1% drop in nondefense aircraft and parts...

Why did President Trump launch a war against Iran? Two reasons.First, electoral polls indicated a dramatic victory for anti-Trump Democrats in this fall’s Congressional elections. This would put a welcome end to Trump’s campaign to establish one-man rule in the United States. Losing the Senate and/or House would open Trump up to a host of […]

The Universe Is Expanding 'Too Fast' And Nothing We Know Can Explain It Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, New ultra-precise measurements have confirmed the cosmos is expanding faster than models based on the early universe predict, while a separate study has dramatically shortened estimates of how long the universe itself will last. Astronomers have long observed a mismatch in the universe’s expansion rate depending on how it is measured. Local observations of nearby galaxies point to a faster rate, while data from the early universe, such as the cosmic microwave background, suggest a...