Economica (stocks in bondage, bonds in the stockade, market madness, etc.)
Dow tumbles 1,200 points for worst day since June 2020 after hot inflation report
Inflation and Fear of the Fed Buried Markets, Deeper Troubles Will Soon be Revealed
Goldman Plans to Cut Several Hundred Jobs Starting this Month
The Day Wall Street’s Narrative of “Inflation is Over” Fell Apart: A Sea of Red
After Two Spectacular Blowups, SoftBank Threatens to Create Third Run
JPMorgan's Investment Banking Fees Slide 50% In Q3
Housing Bubble Bust 2.0 (including commercial & global real estate)
Mortgage demand from homebuyers falls 29% since last year, as interest rates surge past 6%
Money Matters (monetary policy, gold, silver, cryptos & currency wars)
Yen Rallies as Japan Intervention Threat Hangs Heavy Over Market
Famished & Enflamed (sanctions, shortages, famines & fires)
Liz Truss Energy, Tax Plan ‘Will Give Richest Families 2x As Much Support’
Potential rail strike threatens the economy with an estimated cost of $2B per day
Making Sense of the Energy Crisis
Analysts May Have Overhyped America’s Largest Oil Basin
Why Europe Won’t Exploit Its Huge Gas Reserves
Overinflated (too much money chasing too few goods)
Phoenix Inflation at Record 13% Shows Divergence Among Cities
Driven by consumers, US inflation grows more persistent
A Worrying Indicator Of Looming Oil Demand Destruction
War, Cyberwar, Civil Conflicts & Unrest
The Kremlin’s Usual Crop of Propagandists on State TV Call for Russia to Admit ‘Serious Defeat’
Russia the New N Korea: Threatens with its Nukes Again if War-Crime Investigations Begin
Politics & Social Decay
Faculty, students sue Christian school over LGBTQ hiring ban
Republican Graham proposes national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy
Globalism, Authoritarianism, Invasive Government & Censorship
And invasive corporate intrusion: South Korea Hits Meta, Google with Record Fines over Privacy Violations
Winds of Change (extreme weather, climate change & green energy)
Summer of 2022 ranks as 3rd warmest on record for contiguous US
A Pox Upon Us (the plagues & pandemic policing of the 2020’s)
Throats burn with Covid after Burning Man Festival
Off-the-Beat or Just Plain Offbeat News
Swiss Govt Scientist Says We're on Brink of Discovering Alien Life