By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com
Hertz raised the number of electric vehicles it plans to sell this year as it is cutting its EV fleet to reduce losses that have weighed on the car rental giant’s earnings.
In the first quarter, Hertz...
The US Embassy in Hanoi reacted angrily to the news that President Putin will visit Vietnam later this week. One of their spokespeople told Reuters that “No country should give Putin a platform to promote his war of aggression...
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the "we'll literally do anything but cut spending" bag, the Biden administration is pushing what could be the most destructive idea...
Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle
Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian territory, was...
This weekend’s Swiss talks on Ukraine, which excluded Russia and weren’t attended by most of the Global South, ended with a largely inoffensive joint communique that can be read here. It just repeated some of the West’s top talking...
Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan announced that his country plans to withdraw from the CSTO at a future date after suspending its membership earlier this year, which he symbolically revealed on Russia Day (equivalent to Russia’s July 4th) and right...
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,
Smart people know to avoid fallacies.
One of them is known as the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
It’s Latin for “after this, therefore because of this.”
The classic example concerns the rooster and...
It's not just record capital gains taxes that Americans have to look forward to if they choose "4 more years, pause" of the senile occupant in the White House: As Epoch Times' Jeffrey Tucker reports, property taxes are also about to...
Tribune India cited Japanese media to report that Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi recently said that “At the recent G-7 summit, we have announced that we are considering a new package of sanctions that will include companies from third...
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.
Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto:
1. The residents can't afford to live elsewhere.
2. Everything is a rip-off because options are limited...
