Stock Futures Drop To Close Out August As Oil Jumps On Renewed Iran Hostilities US stock futures dropped in thin trading with most traders out as summer draws to a close, while oil prices jumped after the US and Iran exchanged attacks for first time in weeks. Brent futures rallied almost 4% topping $90-handle and WTI contracts rise above $86 a barrel. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures dropped about 0.2% and contracts on the Nasdaq […]

Book-Sellers Alarmed As AI Giants Shred Millions Of Books Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Charlie Becker’s family bookstore in Houston has been connecting people with literature for more than 30 years. Becker said the family has “seen a lot of changes” since his dad opened the used and rare book store in 1993. Charlie Becker, owner of Becker’s Books, in Houston on Aug. 8, 2026. Mark Felix for The Epoch Times […]

24 States To Sue US Postal Service Over Mail-In Ballot Restrictions When did “election integrity” become such a contentious issue in the US?  Perhaps it was election night in November 2020 when Joe Biden and the Democrats received an impressive “hockey stick” spike in votes after most Americans went to bed.  Most of these votes came from absentee mail-in ballots, an event which inflated Joe Biden’s numbers to 81.2 million – The […]

Oil Tops $91, US Diesel Crack Near $100 As US-Iran Strikes Resume, Tehran Claims Supertanker Mined In Hormuz Military Strike Tit-for-Tat Resumes After Weeks  Brent crude futures climbed back above $90 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate topped $86 after the US and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time in about a month. Tehran also claimed that an unidentified supertanker was struck by naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz. […]

Bessent Convenes G20 Finance Chiefs To Confront China’s $1.2 Trillion Trade Surplus Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with G20 finance ministers and central bank governors later today in Asheville, North Carolina, to discuss strategies for reviving economic growth, correcting global imbalances, reassessing trade relationships with China, and addressing the sovereign debt mess. The agenda today will also include plans to […]

China’s Record Ship Swarm Around Taiwan Sends Decoupling Alarm To Wall Street One of our emerging investment themes (beyond nuclear, AI, and “Powering Up America”) is the accelerating US-China decoupling, with a particular focus on companies with robust ex-China supply chains as Beijing increasingly weaponizes exports of strategic materials, including tungsten and germanium. At the same time, the Trump administration’s expanding […]

Feds Arrest Foreign National In California On Voter Fraud Charges Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Federal officials on Aug. 28 arrested a foreign national living in California who they say illegally registered to vote and made false statements. Election workers conduct ballot tabulation at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California’s state primary election in the City of Industry, Calif., on […]

Unitree’s Blockbuster IPO Short Circuits Shares of Unitree Robotics have nearly halved since the Chinese company’s blockbuster IPO almost two weeks ago, as concerns about a humanoid robotics bubble continue to mount. Not even China’s World Humanoid Robot Games or World Robot Conference generated enough enthusiasm among retail or institutional investors to rekindle upward momentum. The warning signs were first visible from the […]

One Every Minute: These Numbers Are Unsustainable… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, One migrant is now being granted settlement or citizenship in Britain every single minute, according to newly released Home Office figures. In the three months to June 2026, 140,122 foreign nationals were given indefinite leave to remain or British citizenship – 1.07 people every 60 seconds. Across the full year, nearly 200,000 were […]

Pentagon Strikes Iranian Island Target, In First US Military Action In Weeks Update(1615ET): Things have been quiet for many days and weeks on the military front when it comes to the Iran war, but on Sunday there are some emerging reports of new but limited US strikes. According to the latest late Sunday from Axios: Senior American official: Earlier today, American forces attacked two Iranian launchers on Larzac Island. […]

Google Retreats On ‘Parasite SEO’ Crackdown In Europe To Head Off EU Antitrust Fine Alphabet’s Google said on Friday that it has changed how it enforces its spam rules in Europe, following concerns from EU regulators that the policy could unfairly hurt news publishers and other websites that carry content from commercial partners. The Google logo outside the company’s offices in London on June 24, 2025. Carlos Jasso/Reuters The […]

US Debt Matters, But The Euro Area May Create The Next Crisis Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com, The US $40 trillion debt has dominated global headlines. However, although the US fiscal challenges are relevant, we must remember an important lesson. Fiscal policy is not about who wins but who loses first. According to official 2026 estimates, the present value of U.S. Social Security and Medicare financing gaps is about […]

Canadian Leftists Want To Use Great Lakes Seaway As A Weapon Against The US If anyone had any doubt that Canada is a predominantly far-left country, one only need look at polls in support of Market Carney’s trade war rhetoric against the US.  Over 70% of the Canadian population is currently in support of Carney’s decision to dismiss trade negotiations with the Trump Administration.  Much of the rhetoric online repeats leftist […]

No Whites Allowed, Britain’s MI5 Tells Applicants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s domestic intelligence service is once again telling White university students they are not wanted. For the 2027 Summer Intelligence Internship, MI5 has confined applications to people from a “black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background” who also come from a “socially or economically disadvantaged background.” […]

The Telephone, Political Entrepreneurship, And Theodore M. Vail Authored by Joshua Mawhorter via Mises Institute, Originally, this article was intended to be an exploration as to how-after a period of initial patent monopoly and an all-too-brief episode of freer market competition-cronyism reestablished a telephone monopoly that would last for decades. While such an article is worthwhile and hopefully forthcoming, I was struck by […]

Rise And Fall Of “Climate Crisis” Info War As Dems Urge Politicians To Avoid Global Warming Talk The “climate crisis” headlines forced down the throats of the American people only began to emerge when socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and unhinged leftist Sen. Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal in early 2019. That was the moment when global-warming headlines spiked and the NGO complex ramped up activist networks through […]

US Forces Sink Vessel Providing At-Sea Refueling For Cartel: SOUTHCOM Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, U.S. forces, on Aug. 28, sank a vessel in the eastern Pacific that the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said was serving as an at-sea refueling point for drug-trafficking boats. A vessel suspected of providing at-sea refueling for drug traffickers burns after being targeted by U.S. forces on Aug. 28, 2026. U.S. […]

These Are The World’s Safest (And Least Safe) Cities Doha ranks as the safest major city in the world in 2026, while Caracas sits at the opposite end of the ranking. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, compares the world’s safest and least safe major cities using Numbeo’s 2026 Safety Index. Scores are based on five years of user submissions covering perceptions of crime, personal safety, property crime, and […]

Central Asia Resists US Pressure To Choose Sides In AI Race Authored by Eurasianet via OilPrice, Kazakhstan is continuing to expand AI cooperation with China even after joining the US-led Pax Silica initiative. Uzbekistan says it wants access to both cutting-edge American technology and lower-cost Chinese AI models rather than choosing between them. Their positions illustrate the difficulty Washington faces in persuading Central […]

Russia Hits Kiev Ammo Dump Next To Homes; Ukraine Admits 90% Of Retail Food Logistics Wrecked A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian Defense Forces ammunition storage site in the village of Myla Friday evening, just west of Kiev. The resulting fire and hours of secondary detonations killed at least 37 people, injured dozens more, damaged around 50 residential buildings and a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced the […]

Federal Court Rules Sexual AI Images Of Children Are Legal To Possess Perhaps sometimes it’s best for judges to ignore technical loopholes and rigid legal precedent for the sake of doing the right thing?  Maybe, in extreme cases where absolute evil is involved, our system could dismiss the “rights of artists” and enforce restrictions based on the potential long term damage to society as a whole?  Yes, the constitutional […]

What Do “Capitalism” And “Socialism” Really Mean? Authored by Vincent Cook via Mises Institute, The old debate between socialism and capitalism is back. It wasn’t that long ago when socialist economics had been repudiated even by former Soviet insiders, businesses like Wendy’s and Miller ran clever television advertisements poking fun at the once-mighty but by then grossly dysfunctional Soviet Union, and the remaining leftist […]

Pentagon Grabs 35% Equity Stake In Venezuelan Oil As Trump Vows To “Fill Up” The SPR Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Saturday evening unveiled further details of the grand US oil deal that was announced by President Trump on Friday, detailing that her country will receive about $19 per barrel of oil produced under the long-term energy deal. Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s #2 as VP before the former president’s overthrow by […]

Opportunity Lost? Gained? Squandered? Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Another week with so many competing narratives driving markets. The information flow was coming so fast and furious that it is difficult to believe that Economic D-Day kicked off the week (it already seems longer than that). Today, we will take a quick romp through how things seem to be playing out. Opportunities Lost? As anyone reading recent […]

State Department Revokes Visa Of Iraqi National On FBI Terror Watchlist Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The State Department has revoked the visa of an Iraqi national who was placed on the FBI’s Terror Watchlist, ending her ability to enter the United States years after she received a high-profile award from the Biden administration. The U.S. Department of State in Washington on March 28, 2025.Madalina Vasiliu/The […]