Trump Floats $5,000 “Stimmy” Checks For Every US Adult Citizen If GOP Holds Congress During a speech Wednesday night at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, President Trump proposed sending every adult American citizen a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in November. “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them,” Trump […]

Hike Or Hold? Debating The Coming Fed Decision Authored by Michael Lebowitz via Real Investment Advice, Heading into the September 16 FOMC meeting, the debate over whether the Fed should raise rates or hold is heated. To help you appreciate the range of views, we present this article as a courtroom exercise. We will let the prosecution make its case for a rate hike, and the defense make its case for a hold. We will render our […]

Brent Tops $102 As Mideast Conflict Intensifies, HSBC Hikes Oil Forecast Brent crude futures traded above $102 a barrel Thursday morning after Iran threatened to intensify attacks, renewing concerns over tanker flows through the Hormuz maritime chokepoint. The supply risk extends well beyond crude to mounting shortages of refined products, particularly diesel, as the US diesel crack spread trades around $102 a barrel. President […]

HSBC Sees “Upside Risks” From “Super Squeeze” In Commodities London copper futures are trading north of $14,700 a ton, Brent crude futures have climbed above $101 a barrel, US diesel crack spreads are back in triple-digit territory, and the Bloomberg Commodity Index is at a 14-year high. The energy shock has broadened into a rally across the commodity complex, from energy to agricultural products to metals and other critical […]

US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Clears Vienna Hurdle As Congress Review Continues Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says Saudi Arabia won’t sign the Additional Protocol but will accept oversight powers over enrichment, conversion and reprocessing that closely mirror it. The underlying US-Saudi 123 agreement, signed July 22, opens a path to domestic uranium enrichment after a two-year study, a break […]

Migrants Responsible For 47% Of All Violent Crime In German State Of Bavaria Via Remix News, Non-German suspects account for nearly half of all violent crime in the German state of Bavaria, with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now calling for remigration for all criminal migrant suspects. The Interior Ministry data was released in response to a request from AfD state parliament member Martin Böhm. It […]

America’s Next Military Contractors Could Be Hackers Washington may soon outsource part of its cyberwarfare operations to private companies, according to a new report from Bloomberg.  Language tucked into the Senate’s 2027 defense bill would create a pilot program allowing the Pentagon to hire outside cybersecurity firms to penetrate computer networks chosen by the US military. Contractors would operate under US Cyber Command […]

Zelensky’s Plane ‘Almost Hit’ By Drone After Take-Off From Moldova Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store has said that the Ukrainian government plane carrying President President Volodymyr Zelensky nearly struck an unidentified drone on Wednesday. Zelensky is in Oslo where he held talks with Store, chiefly focused on Norwegian assistance in the fight against Russia, and specifically about advancing a European anti-ballistic […]

After Huge Elction Defeat, Top CDU Politician Demands First Steps Towards AfD Ban Via Remix News, After a historic democratic victory for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a top Christian Democrat (CDU) politician, Hendrik Wüst, is now calling for the first concrete steps towards a possible ban of the AfD party. “I said something today, but I don’t think any CDU member has said it […]

The 5 Places In America You Want To Be When Society Begins To Collapse Authored by John Walter via Substack, There is a moment before the fall. You will miss it. Everyone does. The shelves still hold food. The lights still work. The news still talks about politics, sports, the usual noise. But somewhere in the background, something has shifted. The supply chain that moved your breakfast cereal every Tuesday for twenty years now […]

Morgan Stanley: Oil Traders Are “More Precise” With Risk As Wars Drag On By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Uncertainty about how the wars in Iran and Ukraine will unfold is keeping many traders away from taking positions in longer-dated futures contracts, according to Morgan Stanley. Most traders have now moved to bet on futures prices within a three to six-month period, instead of longer-dated futures contracts, as volatility has […]

An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once An experimental drug designed using AI has produced measurable shifts toward a younger biological-age profile in patients. Developed by Insilico Medicine, the drug – rentosertib – was initially engineered to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, age-associated lung-scarring disease. When researchers analyzed blood samples from a Phase IIa […]

NextEra Secures $1.9BN Loan From Dept Of Energy For Restart Of Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant By Zachary Skidmore of DataCenterDynamics NextEra Energy has secured a $1.9 billion loan from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) to support the restart of the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant, which is tied to a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Google. The plant, located in Linn […]

“Not Behind Us”: Major US Tool Distributor Warns Tungsten Cost Shock Is Hitting Factory Floors Speaking at the Jefferies Industrials Conference earlier on Wednesday, MSC Industrial executive Martina McIsaac warned of a tungsten supply shock rippling through the company’s supply chain and continuing to drive up industrial tooling costs. McIsaac told Steve Volkmann, an industrial analyst at Jefferies, that inflation affecting […]

D.C. Gas Ban Gets Favorable Hearing In Federal Appeals Court Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, A federal appeals panel appeared inclined Tuesday to let Washington, D.C.’s restrictions on natural gas in certain new buildings stand. The case turns on the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, or EPCA, which gives the Department of Energy authority to set efficiency and energy-use standards for appliances including […]

Iran State Media Says ‘Enemy’ Attacks On Southern Iran Overnight Summary Iran state media: ‘Enemy’ attacks on southern Iran overnight Trump: “This war will end immediately after our election.” Iran escalates with “20 for 2” response doctrine: 20 targets for every 2-3 targets struck. Iran sets heightened conditions for war’s end: Tehran calls for an end to attacks, Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, an end to the […]

“Really Bright Future”: Wall Street’s Big Bet on Booming Red America Escalates Goldman Sachs is nearing a major milestone on its new Dallas campus, where the exterior of an 800,000-square-foot building is nearly complete and the Wall Street firm is preparing to begin work on the interior ahead of a planned January 2028 opening. The new Goldman Sachs campus in downtown Dallas is under construction, with a projected opening in January […]

University Of Washington Settles Case Against Professor Disciplined For Mocking Land Acknowledgment Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Land acknowledgments have become standard at academic and political events, including the opening of the Obama Presidential Library and a recent Michigan Democratic event. While supporters insist it merely shows respect for original inhabitants, critics argue it is the ultimate […]

Appeals Court Blocks IRS From Sharing Data With Immigration Authorities Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The IRS may not disclose the addresses of illegal immigrants to immigration officials, a U.S. appeals court said on Sept. 8. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a February ruling from a district court that deemed an IRS policy to share the addresses of […]

Data Center Revolt Accelerates Ahead Of Midterms As Wells Fargo Warns Of Fourfold Jump In Active Moratoriums With the midterm elections just 55 days away, the data-center buildout story has become a major political issue. Socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have proposed a nationwide moratorium on new data-center buildouts. President Trump, meanwhile, has promoted data centers and […]

Jack Dorsey’s Block Seeks US Trust Bank Charter For Bitcoin, Stablecoin Authored by Ezra Reguerra via Cointelegraph, Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block seeks to establish a federally regulated trust bank to provide custody services for Bitcoin and stablecoins. Block said Tuesday it had submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to create Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national […]

Internet Loses It After Russian Official Turns Out To Be Peter Griffin’s Twin A newly appointed Russian government official has exploded across social media after users seized on a press-conference photograph and began joking that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have a difficult time pushing a man of his size out of a window, according to the Daily Star. 🍖🍔🍩 “Russia and Armenia are like one big family — […]

29 Health Systems Dropping Medicare Advantage Plans Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Twenty-nine health systems are dropping Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, citing prior authorization denials, reimbursement issues, and deal renegotiations. A Medicare Advantage PPO card sits on top of a Medicare card, in this file photo. AP/Jenny Kane The number of terminated contracts this year is down from 40 in 2025 and 32 in 2024, […]

Hunter Biden Blames Liquidity, “Predatory Snipers” For LAPTOP Memecoin Collapse Update: Straight from the horse’s mouth – it crashed because of “predatory snipers” or something, according to a post by Hunter on X.  As you may have seen, the LAPTOP memecoin saw a sharp swing in token price during its first hours of trading. The headlines are all the same. Token down 99%. Rug pull. Biden Crime Family. The list goes on. This […]

Hyped Mecca Joint Defense Pact Is MIA After Houthis Targeted Four Saudi Cities Saudi Arabia got pummeled by cross-border Houthi ballistic missiles and drones on Tuesday, where a reported four Saudi cities were targeted. …So what about those much hyped Mecca Defense accords that were just signed last month? The pact between Riyadh, Islamabad, and Ankara has been likened to NATO Article 5, where an attack on one is an ‘attack on […]