This day marked the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call

This day marked the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call

On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper was standing in a street of New York when he made the first ever call on a true mobile phone, calling his chief rival at Bell Labs, Joel Engel, presumably to gloat....
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‘Dr. Doom’: Most US banks are “technically near insolvency,” with hundreds already “fully insolvent.”

‘Dr. Doom’: Most US banks are “technically near insolvency,” with hundreds already “fully insolvent.”

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the global financial crisis of 2008 caused by fraudulent MBS, has issued a grim assessment of US banking sector’s status. In an opinion piece for Project Syndicate, Roubini, nicknamed ‘Dr. Doom’ by Wa...
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India to drop US dollar in cross-border trade

India to drop US dollar in cross-border trade

India has opted to offer its Indian Rupee (INR) as a trade currency alternative to the US dollar after it unveiled its latest “dynamic and responsive” foreign trade policy in a bid for de-dollarization. According to the Indian Commerce Secretary...
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler To Face Congress Grilling Over Crypto Policy

SEC Chair Gary Gensler To Face Congress Grilling Over Crypto Policy

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief Gary Gensler is set to testify before the House Financial Services Committee for the first time. In an interview, Representative Patrick McHenry, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, co...
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Bulgaria Refuses To Send Weapons To Ukraine, Joins Hungary & Austria’s Neutral Stance

Bulgaria Refuses To Send Weapons To Ukraine, Joins Hungary & Austria’s Neutral Stance

After Austria and Hungary, Bulgaria has also joined the minority group of European Union countries that refuse to send weapons to Ukraine, news and opinion portal Mandiner reports. Bulgaria has declared that it will not take part in the EU’s joint...
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Bank Run Drains $550 Billion In Deposits In One Week

Bank Run Drains $550 Billion In Deposits In One Week

It seems that QT Is Essentially Over. The Fed Since 2020: 1. Mar 2020: Inflation won’t be a problem 2. Jan 2021: Inflation is “transitory” 3. Sept 2021: Interest rates won’t rise until 2024 4. Jan 2022: Recession is needed...
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Slovakia Will Send Entire Fleet of MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine

Slovakia Will Send Entire Fleet of MiG-29 Fighter Jets to Ukraine

Slovakia’s government has approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets. Slovakia’s government on Friday approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets, becoming the second NATO member coun...
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Massive Downward Reductions In US Shale Oil Output

Massive Downward Reductions In US Shale Oil Output

EIA issued the March DPR: A massive downward reductions in US shale oil output.  In the March report, shale oil output from the key plays is reduced by 443,000 bpd for January and 250,000 bpd for February.  If we go...
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Rumour: Hypersonic Missile Kinzhal Destroyed NATO’s Deep Underground Command Bunker in Kiev

Rumour: Hypersonic Missile Kinzhal Destroyed NATO’s Deep Underground Command Bunker in Kiev

Note: This is a rumour, unconfirmed by thousands of other media outlets. The Greek portal of political and military information Pronews, citing American sources: A Russian hypersonic missile “Kinzhal” struck at a joint Ukrainian-NATO command and communicat...
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Moody’s Downgrades Entire U.S. Banking System

Moody’s Downgrades Entire U.S. Banking System

Late Monday, the credit rating agency, Moody’s, downgraded the entire U.S. banking system outlook to negative from stable. This important message was widely suppressed, as if on orders from agents in command. Ttao’s reaction from Moody’s suggests...
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Banks Plunge, Futures Tumble As Analysts Realizes Latest Bailout Is Insufficient

Banks Plunge, Futures Tumble As Analysts Realizes Latest Bailout Is Insufficient

Goldman Sachs calling a pause in the Fed’s hiking cycle, 2Y yields have plummeted a staggering 50bps, suffering the biggest 2-day drop since Black Monday in October 1987. Most US banking stocks cede early gains to trade around flat or...
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USDC Depegs From $1

USDC Depegs From $1

U.S.-based casual stablecoin USDC issuer Circle held a part of its USDC stablecoin’s cash reserves at Silicon Valley Bank as of Jan. 17, according to the firm’s latest attestation. USDC is the second-largest stablecoin on the market, with a $43 bill...
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Meta is building a decentralized text focused app

Meta is building a decentralized text focused app

The social networking giant is reportedly in the early stages of developing an app codenamed P92 that would let users post text-based updates, and it’s going to support Mastodon’s social networking protocol called ActivityPub. Meta confirmed that a...
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Pentagon seeks $300 billion to replenish depleted munitions sent to Ukraine

Pentagon seeks $300 billion to replenish depleted munitions sent to Ukraine

The US Department of Defense has planned to seek a huge budget to replenish the arms and munitions the Pentagon sent to Ukraine, where Moscow says it’s fighting a proxy war against Russia.  The Pentagon seeks more than $300 billion...
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Commodity Traders Record $115 Billion In 2022 Profit

Commodity Traders Record $115 Billion In 2022 Profit

According to a new report from Oliver Wyman, commodity traders saw record gross margins of about $115 billion last year. According to the report, industry gross profit margins have roughly tripled from $36 billion in 2018, with those of independent...
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