Economica (stocks in bondage, bonds in the stockade, market madness, etc.)
Stocks fall to start September as market reels on worries of rising rates
Jobless claims total 232,000, the lowest level in two months
European Bonds Extend Losses With Specter of Larger Hike Looming
Bed Bath & Beyond Closing 120 Stores, Laying off 20% of Corporate After Securing $500m in Financing
Housing Bubble Bust 2.0 (including commercial & global real estate)
MILLIONS of Americans to be EVICTED from their homes as economic collapse accelerates
Australia House Prices Record Steepest Drop in Four Decades
Money Matters (monetary policy, gold, silver, cryptos & currency wars)
Sterling, euro and yen slide as dollar marches higher
China Sets Stronger-Than-Expected Yuan Fixing for Seventh Day
Rising inflation expectations pressure Bank of England
Famished & Enflamed (sanctions, shortages, famines & fires)
California Declares Grid Emergency, Warning of Blackouts
Russia Exported Record Amounts of Crude in August
Overinflated (too much money chasing too few goods)
Lufthansa to cancel 800 flights on Friday due to pilots’ strike over cost-of-living adjustments
Oil Sinks Further to Test OPEC’s Resolve Amid Demand Concerns
German Power Prices Snap Lower
War, Cyberwar, Civil Conflicts & Unrest
Taiwan shoots down drone as China tensions simmer...
Taiwan Tycoon To Train Three Million 'Civilian Warriors'
Russia launches war games with China amid tensions with US
Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant Inspection Delayed As Shelling Continues
Politics & Social Decay
Justice filing points to new legal trouble for Trump and lawyers, experts say
Prosecutions 'Nonexistent' in Hate Crimes Cases Against NY Jews...
Images Lay Bare the Vagrancy and Drug Epidemic on San Francisco Streets
Winds of Change (extreme weather, climate change & green energy)
Death Valley braces for 124-degree temps as heat wave broils...but it's seen far worse
CA asks residents not to charge EVs -- days after announcing gas car ban...
The world’s biggest offshore wind farm is now fully operational
Bed Bath & Beyond Closing 120 Stores, Laying off 20% of Corporate After Securing $500m in Financing
Honda: Lithium-Ion EV’s Won’t Reach Price Parity with Gasoline Cars
A Pox Upon Us (the plagues & pandemic policing of the 2020’s)
Due to Covid isolation, test scores in school math, reading plummet to levels unseen for decades...
Back to Lockdowns: Chengdu locks down 21.2 million people as Chinese cities battle Covid-19
Off-the-Beat or Just Plain Offbeat News
Serena Williams stuns with upset win at U.S. Open