Watch: Marine Veteran Protesting Iran War Suffers Broken Arm In Scuffle With GOP Senator It’s merely less than a week in to the Iran war and Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, being done in cooperation with Israel, and much of the whole Middle East region is on fire. The blowback has been fierce, and as the energy supply disruptions compound and begin to be felt at the gas pumps in American, we expect growing blowback among the US […]

Cost of Living Crisis Continues As Job Market Wanes Authored by Mac Slavo via shtfplan.com, The cost of living crisis is continuing with no end in sight. People used to use their tax refunds for trips or fun experiences, but now they have to either save the money, pay off debt, or use it to keep the lights on or buy groceries. The sad state of most Americans’ financial status is getting progressively worse, too, as it’s […]

Plot Twist: Kuwaiti Fighter Jet Shot Down All Three US F-15s In a remarkable feat, a single Kuwaiti F/A-18 Super Hornet took out all three of the American F-15s that were shot down over Kuwait on Sunday, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. The new narrative replaces the initial reports that attributed the shootdowns to a Kuwaiti Patriot missile battery.  Launching just three missiles, a single pilot went […]

The Duke Lacrosse Case Exposed The Rot In Higher Education, The Media, And The Justice System Authored by William L. Anderson via the Mises Institute, Twenty years ago this month, the infamous Duke Lacrosse Case exploded on the Duke University campus, with three members of the university’s lacrosse team falsely accused of raping and assaulting a black stripper. It took more than a year to exonerate those young men, but only after […]

Texas Dem’s Senate Bid Hits Turbulence: ‘God is Nonbinary’ Zealot Hands Republicans A Golden Ticket Democrats needed a winner in Texas. They may have nominated a liability instead. James Talarico barely had time to savor his primary win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett before the Republican opposition research machine started doing what it does best. Within hours of the Associated Press calling the race, an avalanche of old tweets and […]

AI Agents Prefer Bitcoin Over Fiat: New Study Authored by Martin Young via Cointelegraph, A new study from the Bitcoin Policy Institute indicates that artificial intelligence models prefer Bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money for different financial situations, with very few showing a preference for fiat currency.  The BPI tested 36 models generating more than 9,000 responses, and the AI agents “overwhelmingly […]

Data Center Hunter: Iran Expands Drone Target List, From AWS To Microsoft Facilities Iranian state-affiliated media says the IRGC has targeted Microsoft data centers in the Gulf region with kamikaze drones, days after IRGC drone strikes hit Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates. This underscores a new escalation: commercial data centers no longer appear to be off-limits, a risk we warned readers a little more than a month […]

Iraqi Supply Loss Could Expose The Real Limits Of OPEC Spare Capacity Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Iraq has already begun shutting in production as exports through the Strait of Hormuz become increasingly constrained. Roughly 1.5 million barrels per day are reportedly offline, and officials have warned that figure could approach 3 million bpd if disruptions persist. At 3 million bpd, this becomes one of the […]

Americans Are Plundering Their 401(k) Savings In “Record” Numbers More Americans are tapping their retirement savings to deal with financial emergencies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Last year, a record 6% of workers in 401(k) plans administered by Vanguard took hardship withdrawals, up from 4.8% in 2024 and about 2% before the pandemic. The figures point to a mixed financial picture: many Americans are doing well, but a […]

House Votes Down Iran War Powers Measure, Soon On Heels Of Similar Senate Res. Defeat Update(1714ET): So essentially Congress is not even going to have a robust War Powers debate as war in Iran and the Gulf keeps escalating: The House on Thursday rejected an effort to advance legislation that would restrict President Trump from using further military action in Iran. The failed vote amounts to an endorsement of Trump’s […]

100% Of Audited Medicaid Claims For Autism Care In Colorado Were Improper Or Flawed: Report Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Colorado’s Medicaid program made an estimated $77.8 million in improper payments and another $207.4 million in potentially improper payments for autism therapy, according to a February report from the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services. A sign in […]

US Ambassador To UN Threatens Iran Counterpart: ‘Better Watch Himself In New York City’ Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has issued a veiled threat to his Iranian counterpart, and the clip is going viral, which is likely to further delay the potential for any talks toward halting the war – which at this point still seem non-existent. The spat first erupted Sunday, when Waltz ripped into Iran’s UN Ambassador […]

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis Of A Zero-Flow Strait Of Hormuz Closure Authored by Craig Tindale via X: Executive Summary The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization. What appears at first as a […]

Indiana Governor Signs Bill Allowing Crypto In Retirement Plans Authored by Stephen Katte via Cointelegraph, Indiana will start allowing certain retirement and savings plans to include crypto investments and has enacted stronger legal protections for the crypto industry under a newly signed bill.  Governor Mike Braun signed House Bill 1042 into law on Tuesday, after it passed the legislature last Thursday. The legislation […]

UBS Discusses Next Maritime Chokepoint Investors Should Watch A lot of attention has centered on the Strait of Hormuz since the waterway was effectively shut not only by the IRGC drone threat, but mostly because maritime insurers are withdrawing war-risk coverage across the region. Our focus now shifts to the other critical maritime chokepoints. If Washington can pressure Iranian oil flows and, by extension, curb China’s cheap Gulf […]

China In Talks With Iran For Safe Passage Through Hormuz, As WH Scrambles To Contain Rising Energy Prices Summary: Early reports now indicating Iranian strikes at the U.S. Camp Victory base in Baghdad. As “continuous explosions” were reportedly heard. Pentagon chief Hegseth: US has just begun to fight in Iran and Iran is wrong in its calculations if it thinks we can’t continue the war. CENTCOM: operation “going well” and […]

The Passive Aggressive Market: Bogle’s Warning Came True Authored by Michael Lebowitz via realinvestmentadvice.com, Since the pandemic, the line between passive investing and aggressive speculation has blurred. The current bout of speculative fervor extends beyond financial markets. For instance, we see the same impulse in the explosion of sports betting and the surge in event-betting sites like Kalshi and Polymarket. In the […]

China Guides Down: Beijing Drops Economic Growth Target To Lowest Level In 35 Years China just admitted what we’ve been reporting for years: the old growth engine is sputtering, and the world’s second-largest economy is officially shifting into a lower gear. At the opening of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday, Premier Li Qiang unveiled a 2026 GDP growth target of 4.5% to 5% – the lowest benchmark since 1991 and the […]

Oil Is “Beginning To Flow” From Venezuela, Trump Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Oil is “beginning to flow” from Venezuela, with the United States and Venezuela engaging in a professional and dedicated manner on the issue, President Donald Trump said in a March 4 post on Truth Social. “Delcy Rodríguez, who is the President of Venezuela, is doing a great job, and working with U.S. Representatives […]

Blacklisted: Anthropic Officially Deemed ‘Supply Chain Risk’ As Dario Crawls Back To Negotiating Table Update (1430ET): While Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is begging the Trump administration to reconsider dumping them over ethical concerns regarding military applications of their AI, the Pentagon just put one more nail in that coffin – officially deeming the company a supply chain risk, Bloomberg reports. “DOW officially […]

White House Crypto Advisor Counters Jamie Dimon’s Stablecoin Yield Logic Authored by Danny Park via The Block, Patrick Witt, the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, made a statement in response to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s recent comment on stablecoin yields. Earlier this week, Dimon said in an interview with CNBC that platforms that pay yield on stablecoins should be regulated like […]

Tampons In Netflix Men’s Room Torpedo’d Bid To Takeover Warner Bros: Report Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Netflix’s aggressive bid to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery hit a wall last week, with a “tampon incident” playing a key role in turning Republican lawmakers against the deal. As details emerge, it’s clear the virtue-signaling stunt of stocking men’s restrooms with feminine hygiene products […]

“Pissed” Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Replaces With Markwayne Mullin Aaaaaand, she’s gone… Moments ago Bloomberg reported that Trump has named Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to replace Noem.  Trump posted the following on Truth Social: “I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), […]

Oracle Prepares To Axe Thousands Of Jobs In New Layoff Round Shares of Oracle moved lower in New York shortly after lunchtime after Bloomberg News reported that the company is preparing to lay off thousands of workers as it spends aggressively on AI data center buildouts. The timing is not ideal: credit markets are starting to crack, concerns about Blue Owl are mounting, and the data center CapEx boom is looking increasingly […]

Stocks Tumble On Report US Plans Licenses For Global Chip Exports In addition to real war with Iran, Trump appears set to restart the simmering trade war with China.  According to Bloomberg, US officials have written draft regulations that would restrict AI chip shipments to anywhere in the world without American approval, giving Washington broad control over whether other countries can build facilities for training and running […]