Israeli Strikes Southern Lebanon Despite Hyping Latest Ceasefire

President Trump’s plan for a “Golden Dome” missile defense system to cover the entire territory of the United States would cost $1.2 trillion to build and operate, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) assessment, dramatically more than the White House has requested for the project. Defense One noted that the $1.2 trillion figure is […]

How Wall Street Launders Dogsh*t Into Retirement Funds Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance One of the more embarrassing habits of modern finance is its insistence on pretending the stock market has some integrity left. Capital, we used to think, flowed to the most productive businesses. Prices reflected fundamentals. Risk was priced. The market, in the long run, separated signal from noise and rewarded cash generation over fantasy. That is the civics-class version of markets, and at this point it bears no resemblance to the one we actually trade in. The market’s core failure...