by TYLER DURDEN By Joanna Marsh of FreightWaves, Rail equipment manufacturers, suppliers and industry observers will talk about the number of railcars in storage being up…
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by Monica Showalter Greenie energy has been vaunted by politicians such as President Obama, Joe Biden, and virtually every European politician in power as progress itself, the…
by TYLER DURDEN Cotton futures in New York are squeezing higher Tuesday morning, racing past $1 per pound for the first time in a decade…
by TYLER DURDEN Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Read Part 1: How The SCO Just Flipped The World Order here… Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s…
by TYLER DURDEN When you think about it, bitcoin and nuclear power may be a match made in heaven. Bitcoin is currently under fire for not…
by TYLER DURDEN Some of the busiest U.S. ports, including many in California, are still struggling with how to deal with significant cargo backlogs. Yet,…
by TYLER DURDEN Europe’s energy crisis has claimed another victim, with Austrian fertilizer producer Borealis AG slashing the output of ammonia after the cost of…
by Eva Fu Despite Beijing’s sweeping efforts to impose its own authoritarian model onto the free world, its biggest enemy is itself, according to a French government-affiliated…
by TYLER DURDEN Robusta coffee prices continued to soar to record-highs this week as concerns deepen over the outlook from Brazil, the world’s top producer.…
by TYLER DURDEN SocGen’s market skeptic Albert Edwards pointed out last year why he started to panic about soaring food prices and how it may cause social unrest…
by TYLER DURDEN South Korea just made history in the global battle to combat the monopolistic tendencies of American tech giants by becoming the first…
By Charles Hugh Smith Global supply chain logjams and global credit/financial crises aren’t bugs, they’re intrinsic features of Neoliberalism’s fully financialized global economy. To understand…
By QuantumBranching Greetings and salutations. A take on the old-school “Planet of Apes” (late 1960s and 70s movies and their derivatives) giving a somewhat impressionistic…
By MN Gordon The general mood presently being fortified by the chattering classes is one of perpetual fear. The basic stratagem includes continuously implanting the populace…
by John Hayward Hong Kong-registered China Concord Petroleum Company (CCPC) has become “a central player in the supply of sanctioned oil from Iran and Venezuela,…
By Chris Menahan Community self-defense groups have organized in South Africa to fend off the giant mobs of rioters and looters who have been wreaking havoc…
by Staff Writer Tiger Brands, the owner of household brands including Koo, Albany Bread, and Tastic, says that incidents of civil unrest, widespread looting, and…
By Tyler Durden Update (1810ET): As social unrest nears the 7th day in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, the South African Army Reserve has ordered “all Reserve…