Israeli Strike on Car in Gaza City Kills Two as IDF Continues Constant Ceasefire Violations

Wage Growth As A Leading Inflation Indicator Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Wage growth peaked four years ago. Since 1985, it has led CPI by three to seventeen months in every single cycle. The May 4.2% inflation print is the noise. Watch the wages. Headline CPI just printed 4.2% year-over-year for May. The highest reading since April 2023. The 10-year Treasury punched above 4.6% on the back of it, then pulled back recently. Energy ran +23.5% over the past twelve months on the Iran war, accounting for roughly 60% of the...

Creepy Ad Tells Grandparents To Get Consent Before Hugging Their Own Grandkids Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A publicly funded advert from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's We-Consent campaign shows grandparents arriving at the front door. One grandchild rushes in for a hug. The other winces and recoils as the older couple lean in. The voiceover declares: "Not everyone wants a hug. Even from the people who love them. Awkward? Maybe. Important? Absolutely." This is not a measured reminder about bodily autonomy. It is a deliberate attempt to plant suspicion inside...

No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, “me.” Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his […]