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ADP Employment Report Shows 12th Straight Month Of Job Gains With jobless claims still hovering near multi-decade lows and Job Openings soaring, and despite near record low consumer sentiment (particularly about the labor market), ADP was expected to report another strong employment report this morning with the US economy adding 120k jobs. The actual print was a disappointing +98k, but still represented the 12th straight month of employment gains... Source: Bloomberg Once again Small Business led the charge with hiring, but the gains were seen across all firm sizes... Interestingly, only the Natural Resources...

Israel's Mossad Promised It Could Ignite Regime Change In Iran: Report Via Middle East Eye Israel's intelligence agency Mossad had a plan to ignite public protests that would lead to the collapse of Iran’s government, the New York Times has reported. David Barnea, Mossad’s chief, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days before the US and Israel began their war on Iran and told him that the agency would be able to galvanize Iranian opposition in order to bring about regime change. Getty Images Barnea, according to the report, which cites interviews with US and Israeli officials,...

The Digital Euro As Europe's Backdoor Capital Control System Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The digital euro ranks among the most ambitious projects within the political architecture of the European Union. As the Eurosystem and the EU increasingly merge into identical and integrated political spaces, it can no longer be denied that this CBDC project is primarily a geopolitical power play by Brussels. Yet the euro-CBDC — shorthand for “central bank digital currency” — remains stuck in a loop. Originally envisioned years ago as already being in the project phase, the first...