Supreme Court Again Rejects Missouri Congressional Map Backed By Republicans

'Crisis Preparedness': Dutch Move Billions In Gold Out Of US As Goldman Warns Of 'Geographic Concentration Risk' The Netherlands' central bank transferred nearly 90 metric tons of gold bars from the United States and Canada to Britain amid growing concerns of "increasing geopolitical unrest," according to CNBC. "With this relocation, we have improved the tradability of our gold reserves. We expect that we will never need to use them, but we do need to strengthen our resilience and preparedness," DNB Governor Olaf Sleijpen said of the development. Roughly 25% of the gold...

Iraq's Ruling Pro-Iran Bloc Races To Choose PM, While US Rejects Main Candidates Via The Cradle The US has suspended all funding and security coordination with Iraq, and shipments of dollars the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), until a new Baghdad government acceptable to Washington is formed, Saudi state-owned Al-Hadath reported Monday. The US is also conditioning continued security cooperation on the disclosure of those involved in the bombing of its embassy, the news channel added.  President Trump previously with the current Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani Nevertheless, on Monday, the CBI released a statement rejecting the Al-Hadath report....

Resource Nationalism: China Halts October Fuel Exports, Tightening Global Diesel Squeeze A sense of resource nationalism is gripping the world, whether it involves copper, rare earths, other critical materials or, of course, refined crude products. Kicking off Thursday, a Reuters report said that the Trump administration has asked Germany and France to release emergency diesel inventories to help create a buffer against the supply squeeze in the industrial fuel or face a potential US diesel export ban. President Trump has floated a diesel export ban for weeks, while US oil refining...