This is getting closer to pre-COVID levels. The average number of ships at the ports’ berths daily in full-year 2019 was 14.8.

Source: by Greg Miller | American Shipper

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The Economy and Markets

10/23  Poor nations face peril over elusive G-20 debt relief push – Reuters
10/23  401(k) contribution limit leaps by record amount as inflation rages – ZH
10/23  The recession in the productive sector is here – Mises
10/23  Illinois now has the worst unemployment rate in the nation – Wirepoints
10/23  UK can’t shake Pound negativity after weeks of political chaos – Y
10/23  The global inflation outlook – Zero Hedge
10/22  Margin debt is still far from calling a bottom for stocks – Wolf Street
10/22  IRS contribution limits for 401k, IRA accounts rises for inflation – Axios
10/22  ‘Doctor doom’ predicts worst crisis in half-century – RT
10/21  An often-overlooked economic measure signals serious trouble ahead – CNBC
10/21  Mid-terms Poll: 90% of voters are worried about economy and inflation – ET
10/21  Japan’s inflation hits 8-year high in test of BOJ’s dovish policy – Reuters
10/21  Japan inflation hits 3%, first time since 1991 excluding tax hike impacts – Y
10/20  Fed’s beige book shows resilient companies, cracks emerging – Yahoo
10/20  Cracks in the world economy are starting to show – ZH
10/20  Rates moving too high could have ‘nonlinear’ impact on US economy – Reuters
10/19  Three Hidden Words From Fed Insiders Point to Much Higher Rates – BB
10/19  Yield curve, and Economists, are increasingly certain of recession – Axios
10/19  Social Security increase for inflation could lead to more inflation – Schiff
10/19  Britain’s banks brace for potential government raid on profits – Yahoo
10/19  Soaring food prices push UK inflation back to 40-year high – Reuters
10/18  Oil Drops as Biden’s Emergency Crude Release Quells Supply Fears – BB
10/18  UK PM Truss faces serious pressure to resign after failed budget – CNBC
10/18  Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden – BB
10/18  Trader tip – No matter what you hear, wait for this buy signal – TT
10/17  UK’s Hunt says he will raise $32B pounds more in tax – Reuters
10/17  Hunt drops what’s left of Truss plan to save UK credibility – Yahoo
10/17  Morgan Stanley: trouble in the kingdom is just starting – Zero Hedge
10/17  UK FM seeks to stem bond rout by rushing forward tax plan – Reuters
10/17  Goldman Trader: “this reminds me of 2008” – ZH
10/16  Average number of credit card transactions per day & year – CR
10/16  UK’s truss fights for job, new FM “she made mistakes” – R
10/16  Tesla shares get halved – WS
10/15  Buckle Up: the entire $600T derivatives market is beginning to unwind – KWN
10/15  Consumer spending was flat in September, below expectations – CNBC
10/15  Wall St drops as consumer data stokes inflation worry – Reuters

Real Estate Bubble

10/22  Housing Bubbles in Canada: prices plunge at fastest on record – Wolf Street
10/21  Multi-family buildings v. single-family houses construction – Wolf Street
10/21  “We’ll continue to see double-digit declines in home sales” – CNBC
10/21  Home sales plunge, prices drop 7% in 3 months – Wolf Street
10/20  Existing home sales fall to a 10-year low in September – CNBC
10/20  Why mortgage rates are soaring – Axios
10/20  Multigenerational Hispanic households feel rising economic pressure – CNBC
10/19  California Home Sales Drop 30% as Higher Rates Hit – BB
10/19  Housing Bubble Woes: Plunge in buyer traffic & homebuilder confidence – WS
10/19  Mortgage demand drops to a 25-year low, as interest rates climb – CNBC
10/18  Homebuilder sentiment drops to half of what it was six months ago – CNBC
10/18  Home builder confidence falls for record 10th straight month – BB
10/17  Mortgage trigger rate risk heightened if rates stay higher for longer – Y
10/17  China could see more state-led developers in property sector – CNBC
10/16  This chart reveals U-turn in the housing market – MW
10/14  Mortgage rates hit 20-year high at nearly 7% – Axios
10/13  China’s bursting housing bubble will rock the economy for years – Yahoo

Precious Metals and Mining Stocks

10/21  Krauth: “You want to be buying silver at $18” – Kitco
10/21  The Uber bull case for gold – Goldfinger
10/20  Free markets’ last stand – GM
10/20  James Turk: Gold as natural money – Mises
10/18  Solid physical demand for gold and silver tells prices going up – Kitco
10/18  Uranium miners surge on german nuclear plant news – Kitco
10/13  Rio Tinto’s aging Quebec plant gets $374M upgrade – Mining
10/13  USD is not letting gold go as Yellen endorses Greenback’s rally – Kitco
10/13  VIDEO: deep-sea miner stock jumps after first seafloor collection since 1970s – Mining

Monetary Madness, Cryptos & Currency Wars

10/22  The real trade war with China has begun – Yahoo
10/20  Yen hits 150, Pound gains as Truss resigns – Reuters
10/19 When Whiteboard Economics Collides with Reality – Bombthrower
10/19  Gold price to find its luster again by Q2 of 2023 – Kitco
10/19  Walmart CTO predicts crypto a major disruptor in the payments – Kitco
10/18  South Africa confirms Saudis join BRICS Alliance with China and Russia – GP
10/17  Bitcoin Oct.17 chart alert – back in a sideways trading range – Kitco
10/17  Bitcoin could fall to $6k as crypto winter intensifies – Kitco
10/16  Ether becomes deflationary for first time since the merge – CD

Sanctions, Shortages & Supply Shocks

10/23  South Africa’s Eskom to implement ‘stage 4’ power cuts – Reuters
10/23  Energy crisis could drag 26M Brits into fuel poverty – OP
10/23  Saudi Arabia launches bid to attract $10B in supply chain investment – R
10/22  U.S. oil exports to france fall to zero amid refinery strikes – OP
10/22  40 Volcanoes are erupting right now, and 34 along the ring of fire – BIN
10/20  VIDEO: Bill Gates says European energy crisis is “good” – SN
10/20  Russia will terminate gas supplies if price cap is implemented – Oil Price
10/20  California reservoirs dropping fast; LA approaching zero day for water – NN
10/20  Tens of thousands of salmon are boiling to death in BC – SS
10/18  Disgraced FBI official declares ‘9/11 is nothing compared to Jan 6th’ – ZH
10/18  Ukraine latest: 30% of power stations destroyed, strikes resume – Y
10/18  First images of Nord Stream reveals 50M missing section of pipeline – ZH
10/17  66 large fires burn in US: Washington state evacuates thousands – Axios
10/17  New chip ban accelerates US decoupling from China – ET
10/16  Soaring dollar leaves food piled up in ports as world hunger grows – GC
10/16  China chip ban a US exercise in extreme self-harm – AT
10/16  Power cuts threaten capital; Musk shifts course – Y
10/14  Lake Mead water crisis is exposing volcanic rock – SS
10/13  Video: Mississippi river reduced to creek – DM

FED-up & Underfed: Inflation from Too Much Money & Too Few Goods

10/22  Fed officials expect debate on rate peak and when to slow hikes – Yahoo
10/22  Fed’s Daly: time to start talking about slowing rate hikes – Reuters
10/21  Stocks spike after WSJ ‘Fed whisperer’ hints at pause/pivot – ZH
10/19  Poll: ECB to go big again on Oct. 27 with 75 bps rate hike – Reuters
10/19  Fed Can’t Pause Rate Hikes With Core Inflation Accelerating – BB
10/16  Fed defending dollar no matter what crashes – USAW
10/11  BOE expands bond buying program to end “fire sale” – ZH
10/10  Powell set to rebuff pressure on Fed as Finance Chiefs gather – Y

War and Civil Unrest

10/23  China’s CPC congress passes resolution, speed up ‘Taiwan reunification’ – ZH
10/21  America’s military inventory being gutted – NN
10/21  Western nations speed up prep for Ukraine arms transfers before winter – LI
10/21  Major undersea communications cable cut off southern France – HTR
10/20  What happens if a nuke falls on NYC? – DM
10/20  Russian aircraft fired a missile near British plane over the Black Sea – DM
10/20  Russian fighter jet ‘released missile’ after British spy plane intercept – ZG
10/19  Russia: “no point” to continued diplomatic presence in the west – HTR
10/19  Japan rushes to rearm – Reuters
10/19  Mysterious GPS disruptions spread in Texas near fort hood – ZH
10/17  Russian-led alliance starts military drills – RT
10/17  Dems move to transfer Air Defense systems from Saudi’s to Ukraine – SN
10/17  German health minister warns of hospital closures – RT
10/17  Nato starts nuclear drill “steadfast noon” with 60 aircraft, B-52s – HT
10/17  Russia launches deadly new attacks on central Kyiv – YT
10/17  Russian drones attack Ukraine’s Kyiv; intense fighting in East – Reuters
10/17  Global tensions rise over russia and ukraine – what happens next? – TT
10/16  US rejection of Moscow’s offer for peace talks is utterly inexcusable – GR
10/16  West prepping nuclear crisis plans – UK media – RT
10/16  China can now deploy hypersonic nukes on its carriers – AT
10/15  Russia moves nuclear-capable bombers within 115 miles of NATO borders – HTR
10/15  Ukraine To Receive HAWK, Aspide Surface-To-Air Missiles From Spain – Drive

Politics, Authoritarianism and Censorship

10/23  Boris Johnson battling to win support for UK PM comeback bid – Reuters
10/23  Judge orders Fauci, Biden officials to be deposed in SM collusion case – DM
10/23  New book details how Beijing manipulated western elites – ET
10/22  Lara Logan… DOJ tried to hide this Jan.6 video… – Citizen
10/22  Stunning video from China… – Citizen
10/22  Trump issued subpoena by Jan. 6 capitol riot probe committee – CNBC
10/22  ‘Peaceful modernization’: china’s offering to the global south – TC
10/22  45 days as pm qualifies truss for $129,000 a year for life – ZH
10/22  Republicans sue google claiming spam filter blocks email – Axios
10/21  Documents detail plans to gut 75% of Twitter’s workforce – MSN
10/21  Bannon responds after being handed 4 month sentence – ZH
10/21  Recording shows RCMP Commish pressured officers over political concerns – TS
10/21  OPP saw no evidence Freedom Convoy posed direct threat – NP
10/21  CSIS found no foreign actors funding the convoy protests – GM
10/21  The big reveal: Xi set to introduce China’s next standing committee – Reuters
10/21  What really just happened in the UK… – ZH
10/21  Dutch Gov. to seize 600 farms at gunpoint – NN
10/21  19 states to investigate banks for ESG-style commitment to UN alliance – ET
10/20  British government in “utter chaos” – HTR
10/20  Liz Truss odds: the front-runners to replace the prime minister – Y
10/20  UK’s Truss says she will resign as PM – Reuters
10/20  Why some African countries are abandoning Paris, joining Moscow – MPN
10/19  Just 9% of Americans think democracy is working extremely well – Axios
10/19  Embattled UK PM Liz Truss says she’s a fighter not a quitter – CNBC
10/19  Fed Watch: When they call for the bailiff you know you’re winning – TL
10/18  Biden admin to announce another 15M barrel SPR release before midterms – ZH
10/17  Steve Bannon should get 6-month prison sentence – A
10/17  The New York Times has been friendly to Nazis for 80 years – MPN
10/15  Video: Breaks down the banking industry’s plan to fine free speech – IW
10/14  Tulsi Gabbard there is an ‘imminent threat’ of ‘world war iii’ – DM
10/14  Jan. 6 committee unanimously votes to subpoena Trump – Axios
10/14  China’s 20th communist party congress: what you need to know – Reuters

Covid Craziness, Pox, and Pestilence

10/23  Switzerland to destroy 14 million expired covid-19 jabs – SS
10/22  CDC director Rochelle Walensky is infected… She is 5x boosted… – Citizen
10/21  80 young Canadian doctors ‘died suddenly’ in past 2 years – CN
10/20  Ukrainian utilities encourage energy rationing after Russia attacks – Axios
10/20  CDC will vote Thursday to permanently shield Pfizer and Moderna – Dossier
10/20  Moderna CEO admits Covid like seasonal flu, only vulnerable need jabs – SN
10/19  Fauci on COVID school shutdowns: ‘i had nothing to do with it’ – Epoch Times
10/19  Scientists just engineered a covid strain with an 80% kill rate… – Daily Bell
10/17  Florida OBGYN sounds the alarm… 50% jump in infertility and miscarriage… – C
10/17  Uganda announces lockdown as ebola cases rise – CNN
10/17  The 150 Bilderbergers who influenced and controlled response to Covid-19 – T
10/15  Federal government extends COVID -19 public health emergency – ZH
10/15  Fauci edited paper by NIH-funded group tied to Wuhan Lab – ZH
10/15  Moderna CEO confirms new MRNA ‘injection’ to repair heart muscles – ET
10/13  FDA authorizes COVID -19 omicron booster for kids – Axios

Self-Reliance, Health and Prepping for Survival

10/17  Surviving a nuclear attack – YT
10/12  Urban Survival vs. Rural survival: a warning from Selco – OP
10/10  Prepping is not a game for this mom… – Citizen

The Art of Collapse

10/23  See 1969 memo of radical population control ideas now in place – WND
10/23  New staggering numbers from Biden’s border crisis show record highs – DW
10/22  Miss France Beauty Pageant sued for selecting based on appearance – Telegraph
10/21  Stacey Abrams suggests having an abortion as solution to inflation – Fox
10/21  UK Supermarket plans to sell bugs as food to help poor through winter – SN
10/20  Weed is coming to Circle K gas stations in US next year – MSN
10/18  VIDEOS: Hundreds of parents protest gay porn books at school meeting – SN
10/18  Biden’s border strands thousands of penniless Venezuelan migrants – BB
10/18  Preacher locked up for no reason! We urgently need your help! – YT
10/18  Virginia Dem wants to criminalize parents who “misgender” their children – SN
10/18  Aurea: first baby in world to be ‘selected’ after genetically screened – DM
10/18  WATCH: Chaos in Minn. as crowds brawl, street race, harass police horse – BB
10/17  Democrat chokes man at Pfizer event… gets tossed like a rag doll… – C
10/17  Con, Muslims join forces with Christian right on Michigan book bans – G
10/17  Dem Portland mayor to propose plan to build 3 mega homeless ‘campuses’ – BB
10/15  More National security threats come from domestic left-wing extremists – ET
10/14  PayPal appears to be desperately offering bribes of $15 – SN
10/14  Social Security COLA for 2023 biggest since 1981 – Wolf Street
10/14  F**k Paypal – SN
10/13  VIDEO: Biden “proud” of Hunter when asked about possible charges – SN
10/13  Social security benefits to jump 8.7%, biggest increase in 40 years – Axios