Keystone Kash strikes again

 Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say

 ... The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury. ...

I guess Iran's Assembly of Experts wasn't so expert

 

Former Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein says he is worried about hidden secret leverage in the nearly $2 trillion shadow banking market after Blue Owl shut a fund and MFS collapsed

 

I smell a crash coming, says former GOLDMAN boss...

... “One has to worry about opaque assets where there’s illiquidity,” he told Bloomberg in a separate interview. “We’re getting close to the end of late stages of cycles on this and we’re due for a kind of a reckoning.” ...

China expected to expand submarine fleet to 80 by 2035, up to half nuclear-powered, from 60 now, more than half of which are diesel-powered

 

China Building Subs That Can Strike USA From Closer to Home, Navy Warns...

... Brookes cited a Pentagon projection that China’s submarine force will reach 80 vessels by 2035, about half of them nuclear-powered—up from the current estimated fleet of more than 60 subs, most of which are less capable diesel-powered vessels that have a shorter range of movement and must surface more frequently than nuclear-powered ones. This projection has appeared in past Pentagon annual reports on China’s military power. ...

COVID-19 infection peaks in the U.S. overall have been trending steadily less severe since Jan 2024, with the last two only in the high, not the very high, range

The regional data taken individually is more erratic.

 

Ruh-roh, sign of a top

 

More low- and middle-income Americans are investing, report finds. Here’s why

 

Since 2020, the number of low- and moderate-income investors has increased 2.7 times, or 167%, according to new research from the BlackRock Foundation and Commonwealth.

 

In that time, factors including increased access to investment information and additional cash through Covid-19 stimulus packages helped those individuals to invest. ... 

The 2024 pro-peace ticket shunned Ukraine like the plague and promptly launched strikes in seven other nations

 

Trump makes America mediocre again and again and again

 

American casualties were reported by CENTCOM an hour ago

 

Another one bites the dust

 

If Congress is smart it will vote quickly to authorize 30-60 days of US operations against Iran and be done with it

Iran announces that Khamenei is dead

 

Iran’s Ali Khamenei, who based iron rule on fiery hostility to the U.S. and Israel, dies at 86

Gold finished the week up 22.15% year to date, silver 30.77%

 

SPX return since August 2000 vs. Jan 1871-Jul 1982

 

Aug 2000-Jan 2026: 8.19% pa / 5.53% real

Jan 1871-Jul 1982: 8.15% pa / 6.18% real

Jul 1982-Aug 2000: 18.99% pa / 15.28% real 

Current GDP supports SPX at mean value 2550

 31.49007 x 81

Not a moment's rest

 

Have you ever been disenfranched lol? I'm told it really hurts.

 

Fairfax Hiring Plan Is Disenfranching Americans

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, IWFeatures

This manufactured vignette was nothing but murderous Big Brother's cheap attempt at Two Minutes Hate

 

Oh Gee, who could have predicted another hot inflation number?

 Core wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected

 

The not-seasonally-adjusted increase in Jan 2026 was 3.58% year over year and a whopping 1.037% on a monthly basis.

Wholesale prices climbed at an average rate of 3.3% in 2025 under Trump, higher than either 2023 or 2024 under Biden, with no let up in sight.

 

Totalitarian DHS wants total information awareness about you, and got it illegally 42,695 times from the IRS

How many violent criminals and terrorists do you think file tax returns, vote, and collect welfare? 

 Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data

 ... DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal immigration. “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” DHS said in a prior statement. ...

Just wait until Democrats run this operation against gun owners and see how you like it.