The Wall Street Journal, which Gerald Celente calls “The WallShit Journal,”a paper that reads like it could be edited by Benjamin Netanyahu, ran a headline last week that was no doubt embraced by Washington and Tel Aviv: “Conflict Rattles Foundation of Iran’s Theocratic Rule.”
Massive protests broke out across Iran last week to demonstrate against Israel’s decision to go to war with the country over its nuclear program that Tel Aviv insisted was a threat to its survival.
Days before U.S. President Donald Trump bombed Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in a post on X that the U.S. would face “irreparable damage” if it decides to join Israel’s war that started when Tel Aviv carried out its unprovoked attack on his country.
The increase in genetically modified crops has led to a jump in the use of pesticides, according to a study published in April.
As expected, U.S. factories received fewer new orders in April after customers surged their inventories in March to beat Donald Trump’s 2 April “Liberation Day” tariff announcement.
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) told a group of economists that a federal hiring freeze had left it unable to contact the usual number of businesses it uses to monitor price changes.
Lending by private equity firms and other nonbank financial businesses has become so widespread that it could become a “locus of contagion” in any new financial crisis, a research group that includes researchers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Moody’s Analytics said last week.
Now that the U.S. government’s interest payments on the national debt have topped $1 trillion—about 14 percent of the annual federal budget—more of the financial industry’s leaders are speaking, and speaking more urgently, about it.