Congressional Ratification of President Trump’s Corporatism

Border Czar Says Illegal Immigrant In Austin Was Shot While Fleeing From Agents Authored by Jacki Thrapp and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times that a Venezuelan illegal immigrant attempted to evade arrest before he was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 20. "We were trying to arrest him in deportment," Homan told The Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek in an "American Thought Leaders" interview airing on...

The Iran War Has Turned VLCCs Into $650,000-A-Day Assets Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, More Gulf oil is moving again. Getting it out now costs a fortune. Earnings on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China supertanker route surged to a record $647,000 per day on Thursday, according to Baltic Exchange data cited by Bloomberg. That is more than ten times the rate a year ago-and nearly 27% above the $510,000 reached just ten days earlier. The spike comes as Persian Gulf producers increase crude shipments through the Strait of Hormuz despite the continuing Iran...

"Showings Have Stopped": Housing Market Freezes As Mortgage Rates Soar To 3 Year High The American dream has never been more out of reach. Mortgage rates posted their largest increase in four years this week, one of the clearest signs of how the recent bond-market selloff is spilling into the broader economy - if not memory and chip stocks which continue to trade entirely on the highly efficient circular financing and junk bond markets. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rates surged 25bps in one week, to 7.28% from 7.03%, the biggest jump since October...