The additions in the last year average just 26,500 per month.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
The U.S. and Israel pulled the Iran war trigger when they did because intelligence revealed the opportunity to decapitate the regime in one fell swoop
Let's hope that this time they are successful in eliminating Iran's nuclear capabilities once and for all.
Last Monday [Feb 23], Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump
with a stunning tip: Iran's supreme leader and his top advisers were
all set to meet at one location in Tehran on Saturday morning [Feb 28].
They could all be killed in a single devastating airstrike, Netanyahu told Trump and his team, according to three sources briefed on the discussion. ... The Feb. 23 call — held from the White House Situation Room and unreported until now — was a pivotal moment that set the Iran war in motion. ...
On Friday at 3:38 p.m. EST, [Trump] gave the final order. Eleven hours later, bombs fell on Tehran, Khamenei was killed and the war had begun. ...
... According to a Financial Times report, almost all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras were secretly tapped. ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Keystone Kash strikes again
... 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. ...
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
... “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
... 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. ...
Monday, March 2, 2026
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
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. ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Saturday, February 28, 2026
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
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