As we note in the ECONOMIC UPDATE section of this week’s Trends Journal, the bet on The Streets is that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates only a quarter of a percent on 1 February. Slower growth in consumer prices and wages has made it almost certain that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise its key interest rate by only a quarter point next month, after raising it three-quarters of a point four times last year and by a half point twice, according to the Financial Times.
After tanking last year, bonds are poised to record their best January performance since 1991 as investors see inflation declining across the world’s leading economies, the Financial Times reported.
A newly released study suggests that the more a teenager interacts on social media, the more likely it is that they will become “hypersensitive to feedback from their peers.” Researchers from the University of North Carolina noted that in adolescence, the brain sees “structural and functional reorganization changes” that are important in its development. The......
More states in the U.S. are acting to either track or outright ban so-called ‘forever chemicals’ that are frequently found in household products and linked to serious health problems. The Wall Street Journal noted that 11 states have put bans on these PFAS, which are known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The paper noted that Maine......
The cracks in the COVID-19 panic of 2020 continue to emerge, raising more questions about Washington’s decision to lock down the country and force millions of healthy Americans with almost no risk of severe infection to roll up their sleeves and get injected with an experimental vaccine.
Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert embraced by the corporate media, wrote in an essay that data on the latest version of the COVID-19 booster indicates that it may not be worthwhile for most people because of its effectiveness.
Countries in the European Union stopped 330,000 illegal immigrants last year—the highest number since 2016 when Frontex counted about 2 million attempts to cross the border.
While the U.S. was consumed for weeks with the mainstream media “news” that a football player got a heart attack after being tackled, there was not a peep from the Presstitutes that the grandson of the famed French general and former president, Charles de Gaulle, became a rare voice of the West by defending Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. He also noted how his grandfather valued his relationship with Moscow.
Violent clashes between protesters and security officials continue to break out across Peru over the ouster and arrest of President Pedro Castillo, with thousands calling for the resignation of his former vice president Dina Boluarte.
The Global Times, which is said to be a news arm of the Chinese Communist Party, issued an editorial stating that Tokyo should pursue peace and not ramp up its war talk against China.