A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life – Issue 111: Spotlight

I grew up in a small village in a very rural part of England. It was a landscape capped with the huge skies of a low-lying coastal zone. Gently rolling fields, long hedgerows, and a lot of farms. Some of the people running those farms came from so many generations that they could point to… Continue reading A Wrinkle in Nature Could Lead to Alien Life – Issue 111: Spotlight

Deterring Putin in Eastern Europe

Russian President Putin may believe the time is right to invade Ukraine if NATO refuses to meet his demands. Reports indicate that he sees the Biden administration as weak after the pullout from Afghanistan, and in 2014, Russia felt sufficiently confident of success to annex Crimea and impose unappealing terms (PDF) on Ukraine. Massing 170,000… Continue reading Deterring Putin in Eastern Europe

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Silver Looks Sexy | ZeroHedge

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance My readers know that recently, the main commodity I have been harping on has been uranium, which looks like it could be very close to a renaissance. I am still long uranium via numerous names like Cameco (CCJ) and the Global X Uranium ETF (URA). I am also long numerous other commodities and,… Continue reading Silver Looks Sexy | ZeroHedge

What Is Carry Trading? – Warrior Trading

  There’s a concept in trading known as “carry trading,” which is basically how much the asset pays (or costs) you to own it, aside from price appreciation (although there are some exceptions which we’ll explore in this article).  A bond, for example, has positive carry in the form of regular interest payments. On the… Continue reading What Is Carry Trading? – Warrior Trading

Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning

So Dwyer and his team turned to the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of small radio telescopes mostly in the Netherlands. LOFAR usually gazes at distant galaxies and exploding stars. But according to Dwyer, “it just so happens to work really well for measuring lightning, too.” When thunderstorms roll overhead, there’s little… Continue reading Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning

North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal and Prospects for Regional Peace

Nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea have hovered at a standstill since 2019, when then-President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un walked away from the negotiating table in Hanoi with a “no-deal.” To date, there has been no contact between negotiators in Washington and Pyongyang aimed at resuscitating talks over the Kim regime’s… Continue reading North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal and Prospects for Regional Peace

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As Markets Swing Wildly Seeking The Fed Put, Morgan Stanley Has Some Bad News

With markets swinging around like yoyos spun by drunken monkeys ever since the bizarro ramp following Powell’s uberhawkish presser, which one day later – when humans finally took over trading from the algos – transformed into an even more furious selloff, investors have coalesced around just one question: how low do stocks have to fall… Continue reading As Markets Swing Wildly Seeking The Fed Put, Morgan Stanley Has Some Bad News