President Trump told reporters that French leader Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to back the proposed “Board of Peace” for the Gaza Strip could result in a 200% tariff on French champagne and wine. Trump mocked Macron’s political future and suggested the tariff threat would force France to join. Earlier, a reporter asked President Trump about Macron’s […]

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance As I first noted back in 2023, my disdain, distrust and general disgust for financial media reached a peak in 2016 when CNBC’s Fast Money invited Bill Fleckenstein on the air to offer up his take on the economy and why the Fed-fueled market was “un-shortable”. Bill is a well-known advocate for the […]

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At noon ET today, it will have been one year since President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term, during which he promised to Make America Great Again, again. That was his high-level pledge to voters, but at rallies and in interviews, the eventual winner of the 2024 election made hundreds of specific promises […]

Asian and European stocks, along with US equity index futures, are deeply in the red this morning as tensions between President Trump and Europe intensify over Greenland. At the annual World Economic Forum in Davos earlier, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged calm on the Greenland issue. He also said the next Federal Reserve chair could […]