491 Fugitives Hiding In Public Housing Arrested In Nationwide Sweep Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A multi-month law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of 491 criminal fugitives living in government-assisted housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development in Alexandria, Va., on May 29, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe multi-agency initiative, Operation Clean House, was carried out by […]

“More Pain To Come”: Global Smartphone Shipments Plunge As Memory Crisis Crushes Budget Models Global smartphone shipments tumbled 22% in the third quarter as soaring memory chip costs forced handset manufacturers to scrap lower-priced models and focus on premium models, delaying purchases for working-class consumers, according to a new note by Loop Capital Markets. Loop Capital analyst John Donovan wrote early Tuesday that handset […]

Energy Department Orders PJM To Dispatch Units, Backup Power Through Mid-October Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Energy on Oct. 12 issued an emergency order directing PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid operator, to dispatch specified generating units and order their operation as needed to maintain reliability. The emergency order, Order No. 202-26-50, also authorizes PJM to direct […]

Anthropic Issues Warning Over Self-Replicating AI – And Says A Chinese Model Pulled It Off Dario’s back with another one. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team (yes, really) warned Monday in a blog post that small AI models may be “months away” from copying themselves across smart ovens, off-brand Android TV boxes and other poorly secured gadgets in your home, forming a botnet with no off switch. “A replicator like this would be […]

“Our Message Is: Smash Everything”; Belgian Students Expose Ignorance Over Protest Purposes In Revealing Video Authored by – Remix News Staff – via Remix News, A video clip of a Black male student at ongoing protests in Belgium showed him saying he does not know why he is protesting, and that his message is to “smash everything.” The clip is being used as another piece of evidence that the protests are not really about reforms […]

The New-Keynesian Establishment Is Congratulating Itself On A Job Well Done By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank Give Yourself A Pat On The Back Growing up in Australia in the 1990s one would inevitably encounter curiously ‘Aussie’ cultural practises. One such practise was school children being directed by teachers to “give yourself a pat on the back” whenever you did particularly well at something. […]

Another Somali Shooter Walks Free Days After Murder Attempt Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Days after federal agents stopped an 18-year-old of Somali descent from buying an AK-47 to kill dozens at the Mall of America in an ISIS-inspired plot, another 18-year-old Somali is free after police say he opened fire outside a high school homecoming game. Investigators linked the Eden Prairie shooting to rival Somali gangs. […]

Six Flags Shares Crash After “Final Destination”-Style Roller-Coaster Incident Leaves One Dead Six Flags Entertainment shares plunged as much as 14% to the lowest level since December 2009 after a roller-coaster incident, in what can only be described as a “Final Destination”-style accident, left one person dead and several injured. Local police in Georgia are investigating what led to an incident at Six Flags Over Georgia that […]

Confessions Of A Newsletter Writing Market “Permabear”  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance On my jog yesterday morning I was listening to a podcast about gambling addiction and heard the host bring up the age-old story of a guy selling sports betting picks. The host laughed and asked the obvious question: if this guy is so good at picking winners, why does he need to sell his picks? Why doesn’t he just bet on them himself and get […]

Existing Home Sales Hover Near Record Lows As Affordability Gap Widens With mortgage rates soaring, expectations were for a fourth straight month of declines in existing home sales. Instead sales rose 1.5% MoM (-0.8% exp) thanks in part to a downward revision for August (from -2.0% to -3.2% MoM)… At least some of last month’s modest improvement predated the more than half-point climb in mortgage rates since early September to […]

‘We Asked Her To Resign’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Out As Ambassador To Greece As we noted yesterday, odds of Kimberly Guilfoyle remaining as U.S. Ambassador to Greece were sitting right around 69% amid allegations of improper conduct. Now, the odds are at 97% after newly minted White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia announced that the administration has asked Guilfoyle to resign after reports that President Trump and Secretary of […]

Goldman Reports Blowout Equity Trading Revenues As FICC Disappoints In a carbon copy of JPMorgan, which kicked off Q3 earnings season this morning, Goldman’s equities traders blew past expectations in the third quarter, while its fixed-income and rates-trading counterparts fell far below Wall Street’s estimates.That said, Goldman’s earnings were far cleaner than JPM’s, which saw various misses across investment banking, while […]

“I’ll Be Short Whole Year”: Paul Tudor Jones Dismisses Goldman’s Optimism, Warns Of Looming Dot-Com Style Equity Supply Tsunami Paul Tudor Jones appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” earlier this morning and warned that corporate buybacks and mergers and acquisitions, which have fueled the four-year bull market, are nearing an inflection point and could reverse next year. “2027 is going to be really, really challenging for the stock […]

Zelensky Indicates Intelligence From Partners Cut Off Amid Overnight Strikes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has not only alleged that Russia has hit six energy sites since President Trump announced Putin signed on to an energy ceasefire, but he’s also lashing out at Western allies, saying that for the first time in a long time no intelligence was shared by ‘partners’ warning of the latest overnight attack. Zelensky said […]

Hock Tan Warns AI Investors Are Gambling In A Casino… Whose Chips His Own Credit Is Paying For Usually it’s the chip CEOs who are the cheerleaders and the bond market that plays the skeptic. On Monday, the CEO of the second-most important AI chipmaker on the planet decided to play both roles. Speaking on a panel at a DBS conference in Singapore, Broadcom boss Hock Tan said that many of the investors piling into AI behave more […]

Terror Plot At UK Airbase ‘Almost Certainly’ Directed By Iran, British PM Says Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Last month’s suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford, an airbase shared with the United States in England, was likely coordinated and directed by Iran’s ruling regime, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Oct. 12. “I can confirm our assessment that it is highly likely to have been coordinated in […]

Nasdaq Futures Slide As AI “Casino” Hangover Crushes Kospi; S&P Flat After JPM FICC Miss US futures are mixed with the Nasdaq lagging as the AI rout that started on Wall Street on Monday ricocheted through Asia, where the Kospi crashed as much as 7% after Broadcom’s Hock Tan likened AI investing to a casino and China’s CXMT touted a denser memory chip design, while Q3 bank earnings kicked off with a FICC trading miss at […]

Two Teachers Shot In France; Far-Left Network Is Funding The Chaos Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A 14-year-old pupil walked into a middle school near Marseille Monday morning with a hunting shotgun hidden inside a guitar case and opened fire, wounding the principal and a teacher. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries to the lower body. Staff overpowered the shooter before police arrived. Education Minister […]

Big Tech’s Next AI Battleground Is Your Face: Alibaba Takes Aim At Meta Ray-Ban With New Smart Glasses Alibaba Group Holding unveiled a new generation of AI smart glasses early Tuesday, intensifying competition with its challenger Meta Platforms, which currently sells a lineup of Ray-Ban smart glasses, as Big Tech positions eyewear as the next big battleground. The Qwen Glasses N1 series, introduced in China, starts at $450 before […]

“Winter Storm Battleground”: Millions Face Potentially Crippling Snowstorms Across 19 States A rapidly strengthening El Niño is raising fears of a brutal winter across the United States as meteorologists warn that millions of Americans could be battered by powerful snowstorms, dangerous ice events and widespread flooding. The developing weather phenomenon, driven by unusually warm Pacific Ocean waters, could trigger one of the […]

JPM Reports Surprise Revenue And EPS Miss, Guides Higher Net Interest Income And Q3 earnings season is off with a mixed report from JPMorgan, which moments ago reported results that showed a surprising drop in FICC trading revenue which sent the stock sliding in the premarket trading, but then promptly erased the entire loss after the company revealed Net Interest Income guidance that came about $1 billion higher than expected. […]

Europe’s Diesel Shortage Is A Problem Created By Political Design Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com, The diesel agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will not solve the diesel shortage, considering the magnitude of the problem created by years of misguided, wrongly called “environmental policies.” Complaining about diesel prices and the US-Russia deal while eliminating domestic refining capacity and bombing […]

China Is Studying Ukraine’s Drone War To Prepare Its Military For Future Conflicts China is using the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to study the future of military conflict, paying particular attention to how inexpensive drones are changing the economics and tactics of modern warfare, according to the South China Morning Post. A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) suggests Beijing has […]

“Britain Is Full”: Farage Vows To Shut Down Asylum System For Five Years, Deport 90,000 Pending Claimants Nigel Farage has a new answer to Britain’s asylum backlog: abolish the asylum system. Standing in Hythe, Kent on Monday in front of a replica Channel “mega dinghy,” the Reform UK leader pledged that a Reform government would suspend the asylum system for a full parliamentary term: all new claims rejected, all pending […]

Tear Down That Woke Authored by Silvio Canto, Jr. via American Thinker, Let me give everyone some cautious advice. Save photos or magazine covers of Europe or what it used to be. Your kids and future grandchildren may need to see them to support those stories of the Europe that our ancestors came from. Honestly, we may be down to photos or memories if current trends continue in what we used to call the old country. It was through […]