Why Central Banks Love A Gold Sell-Off Via SchiffSovereign.com, On July 7, Bloomberg published an article with the headline: “Gold’s Bull Market Has Ended and Now All Eyes Are on Bears,” explaining how many retail investors have headed for the exits. That same day, the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, reported its largest monthly gold purchase since 2023. Of course, June marked its twentieth […]

US & Iran Exchange Heavy Strikes For 5th Day As Trump Warns He’ll Take Out Power Plants Next The Pentagon opened Wednesday morning (US time) by announcing yet another round of strikes on Iran, in what looks like sustained action – also increasingly expanding to include civil and energy infrastructure of the Islamic Republic. “At 6 a.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching a wave of strikes against Iran,” […]

Man Fleeing ICE Agents Struck, Killed By Semi-Truck In Florida Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A 28-year-old man died early on July 14 after he ran into the path of a tractor-trailer on State Road 16 in St. Augustine, Florida, moments after running from federal immigration agents at a nearby gas station. Florida Highway Patrol Master Sgt. Dylan Bryan said the sequence of events started in the parking lot of a […]

July Rate-Hike Off The Table After Producer Price Inflation Drops Most Since COVID Following yesterday’s much cooler than expected, Goldman’s Rich Privorotsky notes that today’s PPI print matters more for the core PCE read-through (Fed’s favorite inflation indicator), particularly healthcare and financial services. While May’s headline PPI print was hot, core was cooler than expected, and June’s data release today was expected to […]

Futures Rise After Blowout ASML Earnings Boost Tech Sentiment Futures are higher led by technology stocks, after solid earnings from ASML offered fresh evidence of the relentless demand for chips enabling the global AI buildout and boosted sentiment across the AI Infra trade. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1% and Nasdaq futures rise 0.4%, both off session highs. In Tech, focus is on ASML +4%  on guidance raise (US […]

Federal Regulators Direct Banks To Scrutinize Loans To Illegal Aliens Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Federal banking regulators have closed a long-standing loophole that allow illegal immigrants borrow money from U.S. financial institutions with little scrutiny of their legal status. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the National Credit […]

Largest US Power Grid Is 6.8 Gigawatts Short To Ensure Reliability On Historic Data Center Boom The largest US power grid failed for a third straight year to secure enough future supply commitments to ensure reliability for the future amid a historic boom in data center demand. PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid (Regional Transmission Organization), which serves 67 million customers in 13 states and Washington, DC, said […]

PayPal Soars On Reported $53 Billion Buyout Bid From Stripe And Advent PayPal shares surged the most on record in premarket trading in New York after Reuters reported that payment company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have offered more than $53 billion to acquire the struggling payments platform. PYPL shares are up 20% premarket…  It’s the biggest single-day jump since at least 2015 (which is near the […]

ASML Rises On Upgraded Outlook As Capacity Expansion Signals Robust Chip Demand Technology stocks moved higher early Wednesday after ASML Holding delivered strong earnings and raised its full-year guidance, providing fresh evidence that demand for the advanced chips and manufacturing equipment powering the AI boom remains intact. Nasdaq 100 futures gained about 40bps, while ASML shares rose 4% in Amsterdam after the company lifted […]

US Gov’t Set To Expose Far-Left Radicalization Pipeline Leading Back To Communist Cuba Watching the Democratic Socialists of America tighten their grip on the Democratic Party while far-left activists grow louder and bolder in their calls for revolution, “killing capitalists,” and destroying the U.S. “from within” set off alarm bells.  Even the left-wing outlet The Atlantic acknowledged the troubling rise of “left-wing terrorism” […]

Can Britain’s Next Prime Minister Escape The Net-Zero Trap? Authored by Diana Furchtgott-Roth via Civitas Outlook, Andy Burnham has a chance to restore sanity to British politics by choosing domestic production over Chinese renewables. Britain is suffering from disruptions in both weather and politics as a heat wave grips a country where only four percent of homes have air conditioning. Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as Labour […]

US Restricts Direct Return Of US Citizens From Congo Over Ebola Outbreak Non-citizens had already been prohibited from entering the United States within 21 days of being in Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, and now, the Trump administration has begun using federal authority to bar U.S. citizens who have been in Congo from entering the United States until they spend at least three weeks in another country, an official said on July […]

IRGC Vows ‘Not A Drop Of Oil & Gas Will Be Exported’ From Region Amid Sustained Cross-Gulf Fighting Summary: Iran-US fighting is sustained but in tit-for-tat pace, with new reported strikes across the Gulf. Trump declares FULL blockade on Iranian ports, while IRGC asserts ‘wartime control’ of Hormuz. Trump drops 20% transit fee plan; oil prices ease. Multiple tanker attacks over past day again disrupt shipping & cause […]

Watch: US Military Unleashes Suicide Drone-Boat Swarm On Iranian Submarine Facility Three U.S. Navy-backed Saronic Corsair one-way attack sea drones struck Iran’s Bandar Abbas Naval Base on Sunday, according to U.S. Central Command. The operation marks the clearest sign yet that the U.S. military has taken a page directly from Ukraine’s maritime warfare playbook, using expendable, autonomous, suicide stealth drone boats to […]

UK Adopts ‘No Gain, No Loss’ Tax Treatment For Crypto Lending And Liquidity Pools Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The United Kingdom’s HM Revenue & Customs will treat certain disposals involving cryptoasset loans and liquidity pools as “no gain, no loss,” deferring Capital Gains Tax until a user makes an economic disposal of the underlying cryptocurrency. The measure, published Monday, takes […]

EU’s Russian LNG Imports Hit Record High Ahead Of 2027 Ban Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, The European Union imported a record 9.97 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG)  worth €5.96 billion (~$6.82 billion) from Russia’s Yamal LNG facility in the first half of 2026, marking a 16% increase compared to the same period in 2025 as they front-loaded Russian energy supplies ahead of impending phase-out […]

Where Men Outnumber Women Around The World Why do some countries have noticeably more men than women, while others have the opposite pattern? This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins, shows which countries have male- or female-majority populations using World Population Review data on the number of males per 100 females. While sex ratios at birth differ only slightly, demographic forces can produce striking imbalances […]

“Deport Criminals Who Steal Or Kill”: Spanish Model Blasts Barcelona’s Immigration Crisis Via Remix News, Influencer and model Jessica Goicoechea has posted a video on her social media channels in which she openly criticizes the insecurity she believes plagues Barcelona and details the personal measures she has taken to protect herself. In the clip, Goicoechea displays several security items she recently bought in Andorra, […]

Iran War 3.0: Where Did This All Go Wrong? Authored by Alastair Crooke When the US Navy, in co-ordination with Qatar and Oman, tried to slip a convoy of four vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, via Omani waters, last Tuesday night – rather than pass via Iran’s officially approved route – Trump may have imagined (or been told) that with the massive funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei under way, that Iran would […]

China’s Mass Production Of Dual-Use Drone Engines Fuels A Global Proliferation Crisis China’s greatest military advantage may be its ability to convert its massive civilian manufacturing base into wartime production of low-cost, one-way attack drones modeled after Iran’s Shahed-136. This is especially alarming because the U.S. defense industrial base is only beginning (read here) to prepare for a transition to wartime output, even […]

Open Borders Are A Death Sentence To Western Nations Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, As simmering conflicts between Western citizens and Western governments boil over the next few years, we must never forget how we got to this point: Elected officials and irremovable bureaucrats occupying permanent administrative roles have refused to respect the wishes of the citizens whom they ostensibly represent and serve. […]

Fast Food Giant Under Investigation Over Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak: Report Federal and state health officials are reportedly zeroing in on Taco Bell restaurants as a possible culprit in one of the biggest parasite outbreaks to slam the U.S. in years, a nasty bug that turns your guts into a nonstop disaster zone of explosive diarrhea and misery. More than 4,000 people have already been sickened, the vast majority of them in […]

New Women’s Athletics Guidelines Crack Down On ‘Sexualizing’ Camera Angles Authored by Calum Patterson via Dexerto, New broadcasting guidelines have been introduced in Europe to prevent women athletes from being sexualized through camera angles and slow-motion replays. The European Broadcasting Union partnered with European Athletics to release new guidance for women’s athletics coverage, with broadcasters urged to focus on […]

Israeli Officials Try To Push US Refueling Tankers Out Of Ben Gurion Airport Amid Disruptions Immense controversy has remained centered on Ben Gurion International Airport as dozens of giant US Air Force refueling tankers have essentially taken over the main Israeli flight hub for many months, since the start of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. Reports also say it has cost the airport hundreds of millions of dollars at this point. The […]

The Lockdown Disaster Must Not Be Forgiven Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, Six years since “15 Days to Slow the Spread”, data shows why our policies didn’t work… That policy has to have been one of the most disastrous in world history, created by “experts” who took all established pre-pandemic planning documents and tossed them out the window at the first opportunity. It was a policy based on […]