Gold is trading almost perfectly inverse to the VIX. So much for the “fear hedge.” Narratives are breaking and positioning is catching up.

Data from the MTA shows subway ridership reached 1.28 billion rides in 2025, a 7.7% increase from the previous year...

The annual loss of balsa trees in virgin rainforests is unnecessary ecological rape traceable back to ideologues driving a hard-Left Net Zero fantasy...

From here to zero: Tech now below the 200-day, at the bottom of the channel and the cheapest in 7 years.

“Until we take something away from the Israelis, they will not listen to us.”

Bessent says "50 days" of higher prices for 50 years of no Iran nukes.

 

A rapidly growing Moroccan population and state-backed cultural programs are now raising alarm over political influence, identity, and integration in Spain..

US President Trump gave Iran a 48-hour ultimatum on Saturday evening at 19:44EDT/23:44GMT to fully open the Strait of Hormuz or the US will “obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST”.

"The Iran war coverage focuses on oil. The slower, more consequential story is fertilizers." 

...declare victory and move to something else.

People have had it...

The United States-Israeli war on Iran has exposed the vulnerability of critical water infrastructure in a region that is among the most water-scarce in the world...

Blue-state governors are furious...

When the biggest name in the industry starts marking down, watch out below. 

...the derisking phase has occurred and investors will need to be more selective from here...

"Yara well understands the importance of its products to customers and will work to bring the operations back online as soon as practical,"

Oh, now it's election interference... 

When the rates market loses control, everything else eventually does too.

Isn't that for horses?

The great problems in the world take two forms... physical constraints.... and people problems...