“Just Another Dip Investors Will Buy”: Futures Drop, Oil Rises On Renewed Iran Tension US futures whipsawed and crude oil spiked higher as tensions flared up again in the Middle East, taking the focus off a run of strong earnings by megacap tech companies. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.2% from Friday’s record highs, falling as much as 0.5% just minutes earlier after Iran’s Fars agency claimed two […]

Pentagon Hails Two US Merchant Ships Safely Exiting Strait, As Iran Vows Attack On US Navy Entering Hormuz Summary CENTCOM hails two US merchant ships exiting Hormuz Strait safely in “first step”. Iran insists Hormuz is under its control & says it targeted & struck a US Navy vessel, which the Pentagon/Central Command has denied. Trump announced Sunday US will ‘help free up’ ships stuck in Hormuz Strait through […]

Ukrainian Drone Hits Moscow Luxury Tower, Miles From Kremlin A Ukrainian one-way attack drone struck a high-rise apartment building in Moscow in the early hours of Monday, causing no reported casualties and only limited damage. The strike occurred just miles from the Kremlin, highlighting Ukraine’s long-range drone strike capabilities. The New York Times reports that the drone strike comes five days before Russia’s May 9 Victory […]

Tens Of Millions Of Taxpayers May Be Owed IRS Refunds From Pandemic Era: Watchdog Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The IRS’s internal watchdog has stated that tens of millions of U.S. taxpayers may be owed refunds or abatements of penalties or interest during the COVID-19 federal disaster period. A 1040 Internal Revenue Service tax form, in this file photo. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times “The […]

Trump Disapproval Rate Hits Career-High – War And Rising Costs Take Toll Though tempered by the prospect of additional GOP gerrymandering of House districts in the wake of a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Democrats’ hopes for a rout of Republicans in the approaching midterm elections are rising after a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that President Trump’s disapproval rating is now the highest of either of his two terms […]

Norwegian Cruise Cuts Outlook On Gulf Disruptions, Fuel Shock Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings shares fell in premarket trading in New York after the cruise ship operator lowered its full-year 2026 outlook, as disruptions in the Middle East, higher diesel costs, and softer travel demand in Europe weighed on first-quarter bookings. “The Company is experiencing headwinds related to disruptions in the Middle East, including higher fuel […]

From “Don’t Be Evil” To Drone King: Eric Schmidt’s Interceptors Deployed With U.S. Troops Google’s old motto, “Don’t be evil,” was retired for very good reasons eight years ago. On Friday, Google joined the growing list of tech firms preparing to deploy AI tools for national security work at the Department of War. But this note is not about Google. It is about Eric Schmidt’s ventures in the drone warfare space, accelerated by the […]

Wall Street Skeptical Of GameStop CEO’s $56 Billion eBay Takeover Bid Summary: GameStop CEO Tells CNBC: We Haven’t Heard Anything Yet From eBay Wall Street analysts “skeptical” about the GameStop Takeover of eBay GameStop CEO Reveals Unsolicited Offer to Buy eBay Wall Street Analysts Respond eBay shares jumped as much as 13% in New York premarket trading after GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told The Wall Street Journal […]

Real Estate Browser Extension In France Provides Immigration Data Overlay Via ReMix, A French website and real estate browser extension for Chrome is promoting an unusual data offering, which includes information on immigration levels, insecurity, and Islamization rates — all factors that real estate buyers may want to take into consideration before they make an investment. The OVMF assigns various scores “automatically in […]

Europe Will Lose Billions In Revenue If US Military Bases Shut Down Europe is in far greater economic trouble that most people realize.  In an April 2026 report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), it was reveled that the UK’s GDP per capita is lower than all 50 U.S. states, including the poorest, Mississippi. While the majority of Britons mistakenly believe the UK is as wealthy or wealthier than the US, data shows the UK’s […]

Iran Outraged After Assassination Of Top Shia Cleric In Damascus Via The Cradle Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei on Sunday strongly condemned the assassination of a Syrian Shia religious cleric, describing it as a terrorist attack and “heinous crime.” On Friday, Sayyid Farhan al-Mansour, Imam of the Sayyeda Zainab Shrine in the southern suburbs of Damascus, was assassinated after a hand grenade was thrown at his […]

All-Time High 55% Of Americans Say That Their Financial Situations Are Getting Worse Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse, Americans were not even this stressed about their financial situations during the Great Recession. As you will see below, a brand new Gallup survey has discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that their finances are getting worse. That is higher than any reading that Gallup recorded […]

Russia’s Oil Revenues Surge As The World Scrambles For Supply Authored by Felicity Bradstock via oilprice.com, Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several major world powers introduced strict sanctions on trade with Moscow. Europe and the United States have been gradually decreasing their dependence on Russian gas and other energy products and putting pressure on other countries to do the same, to place a financial […]

Chinese Hackers Spied On Cuban Embassy As Trump Ramped Up Blockade Threats In a story which hearkens back to bygone Cold War years, fresh reports say that Chinese hackers breached and spied on the American Embassy in Cuba at a moment President Trump threatened a US naval blockade, similar to what was in place just before the overthrow by US military intervention of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro According to the findings from the […]

Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy Over Forced Marriage Plot Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix, An Iraqi father accused of beating, imprisoning, and threatening to kill his daughter after she refused an arranged marriage has been arrested in Sweden on a European warrant issued by Italian authorities. The 52-year-old man was tracked down by Taranto State Police after the authorities in […]

In “Watershed Moment” China Orders Companies To Defy US Sanctions China ordered companies in the country not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade, deploying for the first time a blocking measure introduced in 2021 that was aimed at protecting its firms from foreign laws it deemed unjustified.  Refiners – including Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery which was sanctioned last […]

Blue Cities Across The US Are Spiraling Into Financial Collapse Many people are familiar with the “blue state exodus” over the past several years, but are they aware of the blue city business exodus?  It might be one of the biggest economic stories in modern US history, and Democrats are trying to keep it as quiet as possible.  There is a blood letting going on in blue cities; a financial disaster in the making.  And, like most […]

Tesla Made $573 Million Selling To Musk’s Other Companies Last Year Elon Musk’s business empire is becoming increasingly intertwined — and if SpaceX eventually goes public, Wall Street will likely take a much harder look at how money moves across his companies. A newly disclosed filing shows Tesla booked more than $570 million last year from transactions with Musk-controlled companies, according to Insider. That included […]

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell’s Anti-Communist Classic George Orwell’s prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee the creation of certain technologies which make the future look even more bleak.  The reason his books, like 1984 and Animal Farm, are considered classics of literature is because they are […]

The Permanent Distortion Theory Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance “This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing. It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated. It was the rallying cry of dot-com lunatics buying companies with no revenue in 1999. It was the intellectual foundation of housing perma-bulls in 2006 who believed home prices could only go up because, apparently, […]

China Tries To Assert Dominance Over Canada After Carney Trade Deal Historically speaking, crawling to communists for help has never been a good idea; there’s always a catch.  By extension, making trade deals with China and the CCP from a position of weakness usually ends with diplomatic concessions instead of mere economic concessions.  That is to say, the Chinese are less interested in economic benefits, and more interested in […]

Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized In Critical Condition Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical condition, according to The New York Times, citing his spokesman, Ted Goodman. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,” Goodman said, before asking “that you join us in prayer” for […]

Jane Street Paid Employees $9.4 Billion, Twice What It Paid Last Year, After Record 2025 Results Jane Street Group has evolved from a niche trading shop into one of Wall Street’s most profitable firms and employees are reaping the rewards. The firm paid roughly $9.4 billion in compensation last year, more than twice what it distributed a year earlier, according to Bloomberg. On average, that translated to about $2.7 million per […]

JetBlue Moves Fast To Turn A Spirit Collapse Into A Masterclass Growth Opportunity Summary: JetBlue Moves Quickly To Expand Market Share  Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Comments on Spirit’s Demise Airlines For America CEO Chris Sununu Blasts Democrats For Spirit’s Death Spiral Duffy Pledges Relief For Customers, Workers Spirit Airlines Is Dead, Flights Canceled JetBlue Makes Ultimate Power Move  Mike Netter, […]

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hospitalized In Critical Condition Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Iranian human rights activist, remains in critical condition in a hospital in Zanjan, northwestern Iran, after collapsing in prison last week with severe cardiac distress. She was transferred by ambulance to the local hospital’s coronary care unit on Friday, May 1, 2026, following repeated […]