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Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To End Hormone Treatments For Transgender Federal Inmates Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court on Oct. 21 declined to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce a policy that would have curtailed transgender treatments in federal prisons. The decision took the form of an unsigned order in Trump v. Kingdom. The court did not explain its ruling. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the order but did not explain why. The Trump administration on Sept. 28 asked the Supreme Court to...

Foreign Treasury Selling Is Getting Serious Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance We already knew that the bond market was starting to call bullshit on America’s fiscal and monetary policy. Now we know that foreign governments are dumping U.S. Treasuries, and China is leading the way…even while President Trump pals around with President Xi Jinping. According to CNBC, foreign holdings of U.S. government debt fell sharply in March as central banks sold Treasuries to defend weakening currencies during the geopolitical and energy shock tied to the escalating Middle East conflict. China reduced its Treasury holdings to roughly...