CNBC | In a Tuesday tweet, President Donald Trump said he didn’t think the Trans-Pacific Partnership was good for the U.S.

Louder With Crowder | Being it’s tax day, you’re likely in the process of opening up that bulk-size tub of Vaseline you bought at Costco and spreading your cheeks wide for Uncle Sam.

Market Watch | Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported higher profit and revenue from a year ago, catching the wave of lower taxes and newly active markets that boosted other big banks’ quarterly earnings.

Jacob Hornberger | Income taxation and the Internal Revenue Service are irreconcilable with the principles of a free society.

RT | China finally launched last month its yuan-denominated crude oil futures that have been in the works for years, after several delays.

Mac Slavo | The writing is on the wall and major financial institutions across the world are warning about the economic disaster to come.

Daily Mail | If the deal is ‘substantially better than the one offered to Obama’, despite slamming it as ‘a catastrophe’ last year.

Brandon Smith | There is a mass delusion in the mainstream created I think in large part by too much exposure to movie fantasy and TV fiction.

CNS News | The federal government collected a record $736,274,000,000 in individual income taxes through the first six months of fiscal 2018.

Voice Of Europe | In his autobiography, “In search of the truth”, famous German economist Hans-Werner Sinn says the migrant crisis could cost the country almost one trillion euros, Focus reports.

Market Watch | Oil futures wavered Thursday, holding near three-year highs as investors kept a nervous watch on Middle Eastern events.

Zero Hedge | With futures dumping, and treasurys and oil surging following Trump’s tweeted threat to Russia that missiles at Syria “will be coming”, which was seemingly dreafted by John Bolton…

Zero Hedge | The daily see-saw pattern in capital markets continues.

Zero Hedge | The daily see-saw pattern in capital markets continues.