To The Moon

France is facing a major wave of domestic unrest driven by student-led protests across high schools and universities. The Beginning. The movement ignited in mid-September over systemic issues within the public education system. Students cited chronic teacher shortages, severely overcrowded classrooms, deteriorating infrastructure, and frustrations with overloaded academic schedules and university admissions platforms. What began as local walkouts and grievances in Paris rapidly metastasized into a nationwide youth mobilization via social media. The Escalation. By late September & early October, demonstrations evolved into systematic school blockades. Over 1,000 - 1,200 high schools and multiple major university campuses (including the Sorbonne and regional universities in Lyon, Rennes,

France is facing a major wave of domestic unrest driven by student-led protests across high schools and universities. The Beginning. The movement ignited in mid-September over systemic issues within the public education system. Students cited chronic teacher shortages, severely overcrowded classrooms, deteriorating infrastructure, and frustrations with overloaded academic schedules and university admissions platforms. What began as local walkouts and grievances in Paris rapidly metastasized into a nationwide youth mobilization via social media. The Escalation. By late September & early October, demonstrations evolved into systematic school blockades. Over 1,000 - 1,200 high schools and multiple major university campuses (including the Sorbonne and regional universities in Lyon, Rennes,

Oil’s Supply, still dire. A slight easing in oil prices and claims that Strait of Hormuz flows have almost returned to “normal” should not be mistaken for market security. The immediate disruption may be easing, but the global stockpile buffer that normally absorbs supply shocks is nearly exhausted. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser noted that under 6 billion barrels of commercial inventories remain, with most not practically available. The world entered the crisis (end February 2026) with nearly 10 billion barrels of oil stocks, but almost 3 billion barrels of gross supply were lost since the Iran war began, alongside over 1 billion barrels withdrawn from inventories, the last major tool to relieve market pressure. The International Energy Agency (IEA) plans to release 100 million barrels of c

I confess. I have not been sharing US weekly economic reports for the past 2 weeks. There are 2 main reasons: It takes a lot of time to read (with comprehension) and then compile them into a concise post to share. I seemed to get the idea that most readers are not that ‘interested’ in such post (from myself), based on the ‘likes’ & ‘reposts’ responses for my weekly effort. However, seeing my post dated 28 Sep 2026 (for previous week’s economic reports released) on the weekly chart, I decided to soldier on, despite it not being well received. So here I am sharing the US economic reports out the week before and they are mainly ‘jobs’ reports. Jobs Opening and Labour Turnover surveys (JOLTs). The JOLTs for August 2026 was released on Tue, 29 Sep 2026. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BL

Oil’s Supply, still dire. A slight easing in oil prices and claims that Strait of Hormuz flows have almost returned to “normal” should not be mistaken for market security. The immediate disruption may be easing, but the global stockpile buffer that normally absorbs supply shocks is nearly exhausted. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser noted that under 6 billion barrels of commercial inventories remain, with most not practically available. The world entered the crisis (end February 2026) with nearly 10 billion barrels of oil stocks, but almost 3 billion barrels of gross supply were lost since the Iran war began, alongside over 1 billion barrels withdrawn from inventories, the last major tool to relieve market pressure. The International Energy Agency (IEA) plans to release 100 million barrels of c

Oil’s Supply, still dire. A slight easing in oil prices and claims that Strait of Hormuz flows have almost returned to “normal” should not be mistaken for market security. The immediate disruption may be easing, but the global stockpile buffer that normally absorbs supply shocks is nearly exhausted. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser noted that under 6 billion barrels of commercial inventories remain, with most not practically available. The world entered the crisis (end February 2026) with nearly 10 billion barrels of oil stocks, but almost 3 billion barrels of gross supply were lost since the Iran war began, alongside over 1 billion barrels withdrawn from inventories, the last major tool to relieve market pressure. The International Energy Agency (IEA) plans to release 100 million barrels of c

I confess. I have not been sharing US weekly economic reports for the past 2 weeks. There are 2 main reasons: It takes a lot of time to read (with comprehension) and then compile them into a concise post to share. I seemed to get the idea that most readers are not that ‘interested’ in such post (from myself), based on the ‘likes’ & ‘reposts’ responses for my weekly effort. However, seeing my post dated 28 Sep 2026 (for previous week’s economic reports released) on the weekly chart, I decided to soldier on, despite it not being well received. So here I am sharing the US economic reports out the week before and they are mainly ‘jobs’ reports. Jobs Opening and Labour Turnover surveys (JOLTs). The JOLTs for August 2026 was released on Tue, 29 Sep 2026. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BL

Oil’s Supply, still dire. A slight easing in oil prices and claims that Strait of Hormuz flows have almost returned to “normal” should not be mistaken for market security. The immediate disruption may be easing, but the global stockpile buffer that normally absorbs supply shocks is nearly exhausted. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser noted that under 6 billion barrels of commercial inventories remain, with most not practically available. The world entered the crisis (end February 2026) with nearly 10 billion barrels of oil stocks, but almost 3 billion barrels of gross supply were lost since the Iran war began, alongside over 1 billion barrels withdrawn from inventories, the last major tool to relieve market pressure. The International Energy Agency (IEA) plans to release 100 million barrels of c

I confess. I have not been sharing US weekly economic reports for the past 2 weeks. There are 2 main reasons: It takes a lot of time to read (with comprehension) and then compile them into a concise post to share. I seemed to get the idea that most readers are not that ‘interested’ in such post (from myself), based on the ‘likes’ & ‘reposts’ responses for my weekly effort. However, seeing my post dated 28 Sep 2026 (for previous week’s economic reports released) on the weekly chart, I decided to soldier on, despite it not being well received. So here I am sharing the US economic reports out the week before and they are mainly ‘jobs’ reports. Jobs Opening and Labour Turnover surveys (JOLTs). The JOLTs for August 2026 was released on Tue, 29 Sep 2026. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BL