ANKARA — President Tayyip Erdogan extended his two decades in power in elections on Sunday, winning a mandate to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which have polarized Turkey and strengthened its position as a regional military power. His challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, ...

MILAN — The waters in Venice’s main canal turned fluorescent green on Sunday in the area near the Rialto bridge and authorities are seeking to trace the cause, Italy’s fire department said. The regional environmental protection agency has received samples ...

WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden on Sunday finalized a budget agreement with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the $31.4-trillion debt ceiling until Jan. 1, 2025, and said the deal was ready to move to Congress for a ...

SEOUL/TOKYO — Japan on Monday put its ballistic missile defenses on alert and warned that it would shoot down any projectile that threatened its territory after North Korea (NK) notified it of a satellite launch between May 31 and June ...

WASHINGTON – The debt ceiling deal that US President Joe Biden and House Republican Kevin McCarthy agreed over the weekend adds new conditions to food aid that will impact one segment of the US population specifically – GenXers with no dependents. The deal targets recipients of the Supplementary ...

SEOUL – South Korea is using a $13.7 billion arms deal with Poland – Seoul’s biggest ever – to lay the groundwork for a military-industrial juggernaut that the two nations’ defense companies hope will feed Europe’s hunger for weapons far into the future. South Korea’s arms sales jumped to more ...

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday signed off on an agreement to temporarily suspend the debt ceiling and cap some federal spending in order to prevent a US debt default. The deal, written into legislative text that they hope will be passed by the House of Representatives and Senate ...

This past week, we have written a lot about tech (another AI-generated photo), the discordance between the small caps and large caps, rates, debt ceiling and the Fed. For this weekend, we want to invite you to have a listen ...

There’s an old adage of Wall Street, which says: “never short a dull market.” And while AI is getting all the press these days, the oil market is about as dull as it gets. This, of course, brings the energy ...

With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we’ve seen since the Great Depression.  Original Article: “The Money Supply Has Plummeted in the Biggest Drop Since the Great Depression”   ...