The 4 Percent Rule Is Showing Its Age: Smarter Withdrawal Strategies For 2026 Authored by Peter Daisyme via Due, The 4 percent rule has guided retirement planning for three decades. The idea is simple: withdraw 4 percent of your savings in year one, adjust that dollar amount for inflation each year after, and your money should last about 30 years. It is a useful starting point and a great mental shortcut. But the person who created […]

FBI Mole Wore Wire Inside Newsom’s Inner Circle: Lawyer A mole working for the Biden FBI was secretly recording Gavin Newsom’s inner circle before the agency expanded its corruption probe into the California governor and his wife, according to a bombshell report by the NY Post.  Gov. Gavin Newsom, Alexis Podesta Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, a 45-year-old Sacramento consultant and Newsom appointee – no known relation to […]

US Navy Tests 3D-Printed Composite Patches To Speed Up F/A-18 Fighter Jet Repairs Authored by Mrigakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) and Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) have co-developed a 3D-printed composite repair method designed to reduce F/A-18 Super Hornet maintenance times by approximately 50 percent. An F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot prepares for flight at […]

America’s $31 Trillion Economy By State As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, its economy has grown to nearly $31 trillion, making it the world’s largest by a wide margin. Using the latest estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), this visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks every state by nominal GDP in 2025, showing how each contributes to national output. […]

‘Something Has Gone Completely Wrong’: Palantir’s Alex Karp Goes Ballistic On OpenAI, Anthropic On Wednesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp delivered a blistering critique of frontier AI labs, accusing them of having an “effing insane” business model that leaves enterprises paying escalating token costs for limited value while risking their proprietary data and intellectual property. He said that top AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI […]

Green Hypocrisy. The Case Of Baltimore’s Bresco Waste-To-Energy Incinerator Authored by Geoffrey Pohanka via RealClearEnergy, One definition of hypocrisy is pretending to have beliefs, values, or virtues that your actions do not match. In simple terms, it means saying one thing and doing another. On June 4th, 2024, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed executive order 01.01.2024.19, Implementing Maryland’s Climate Pollution […]

These Countries Have The Highest Percentage Of Female Population Across most of the world, men and women are present in nearly equal numbers. Yet in a handful of countries and territories, women make up well over half the population, creating some of the world’s largest gender imbalances. This visualization, created by Harris Saleem via Visual Capitalist, ranks the countries and territories with the highest female share of the […]

Feds, LAPD Announce Major Human Trafficking Sting In LA Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Federal authorities have arrested 10 people in a major human trafficking investigation, with prosecutors saying the individuals targeted children and adults along South Los Angeles’ Figueroa Corridor, marking the second large federal operation in the area in less than a year. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli speaks as Los […]

Jill Biden’s Memoir Sales Appear To Be Manipulated By Bulk Sales Former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir, View from the East Wing, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list on June 21. But how much of its sales were genuine sales from interested readers is unclear. Former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden speaks with journalist Paola Ramos (L) at the Sixth and I temple and venue on June 3, 2026 in the […]

Alive And Kicking: News Of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated Authored by John Murawski via RealClearInvestigations, Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of “cultural appropriation.” Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized “fatphobia,” even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably […]

Billionaire Governor Pritzker Embraces Socialist Candidates As The Future Of The Democrat Party It’s a common and almost inevitable component of communist history that the leaders of proletariat movements always end up becoming some of the wealthiest people in those movements.  The idea of “equity” is a fantasy; every society no matter how “progressive” has an elitist class with more money and more power than the common citizen.  […]

Building Codes For Energy Conservation Can Increase US Home Costs By $14,000: DOE Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, States that adopt the updated 2024 International Energy Conservation Code could see building costs for a typical single-family home go up by $14,000, the Department of Energy (DOE) warned on June 26. The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is a model code developed by the Washington-based […]

Feds Nab Alleged Member Of “Sprawling” Cuban Communist Subversion Network Linked To Hasan Piker’s Havana Trip Readers have been well ahead of both the federal government and the mainstream news cycle in asking whether there is a “Cuba connection” behind the radicalization of the Democratic Party and its aligned billionaire-funded nonprofit universe. What was once dismissed as speculation is now beginning to look more like a foreign […]

Japan’s Biggest LNG Buyer Creates Standalone Trading Arm Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Japan’s JERA is creating a wholly-owned subsidiary to develop and manage its LNG, upstream, low-carbon fuels, and shipping businesses, the biggest Japanese LNG importer and largest power producer said on Wednesday. The new company, JERA Global Energy Solutions (JERA GES), will be the Japanese utility giant’s response to […]

NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Keep Nation’s Largest Grid From Buckling Under Heat Dome Summary: NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Power Generation Keep PJM Alive  First Day of Heat Dome Across Mid-Atlantic; Last Through Weekend  “Set Your AC To 78F”: NYC Socialist Pleads With Residents As Fragile Grid Faces Blackout Risk GridStatus’ website shows the PJM Interconnection under severe peak-demand stress as heat-driven cooling loads surge across the […]

World’s Largest Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out Up until now, when it comes to real estate, Blackstone was best known in recent years for dumping many of its trophy office properties – which in the aftermath of work from home never recovered their projected cash flow potential – at a huge discount. Now, it may be pulling a page from its old, pre-Lehman playbook  by calling the top in […]

US Nuclear Regulator Proposes Changes To Nuclear Safety Standards Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A U.S. nuclear regulatory agency proposed sweeping reforms July 1 to modernize nuclear reactor licensing and safety practices, shifting away from a global radiation measurement standard after 50 years. The cooling towers for units 4 (L) and 3 (R) are seen at Plant Vogtle, operated by Georgia Power Co., in east […]

Warren Pushes Progressive Agenda In Senate Primaries As Schumer Prioritizes Path Back To Majority Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are engaged in a high-stakes contest for influence over the future direction of Senate Democrats, with the Massachusetts progressive working to reshape the caucus through targeted primary support while the New York leader focuses on expanding the map to retake the majority. […]

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Sues Trump, Admin Officials Over Allegedly Vindictive Investigations Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, Former CIA Director John Brennan is seeking a court order requiring the Trump administration to retain records related to allegedly vindictive investigations into him and his involvement in probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Former Director of the U.S. […]

Iran Runs Into Big Problem: No Buyers For Its Oil, As Full Tankers Pile Up Off China Iran was euphoric when as part of the Trump MOU, it got permission to flood the world with its oil after Trump effectively eliminate sanctions that had been in place for 40 years. However, it has quickly run into another, potentially far bigger problem: as the armada of Iranian oil tankers exits the Persian Gulf, it is now struggling to find buyers […]

Justice Department Sues California Over Glock Ban, Handgun Roster Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, The Justice Department (DOJ) on July 1 sued California over its ban on “machinegun convertible pistols” and its “handgun roster.” A Glock handgun and two magazines in a file photograph. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo The law bans the purchase of Glock pistols and guns with similar firing mechanisms, according to a DOJ […]

SAP Slows Hiring, Freezes Travel As AI Push Accelerates Not even a day after reports swirled that Microsoft was preparing to cut thousands of employees, and as the broader tech sector continues to hemorrhage white-collar workers replaced by chatbots, the latest AI-related job-displacement news is coming from Europe’s largest software company. Bloomberg reports that German enterprise software giant SAP, best known for software that […]

FDA Allows Label Saying Zyn Nicotine Pouches Less Harmful Than Cigarettes Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Food and Drug Administration is letting Philip Morris International market its Zyn nicotine pouches as being safer than cigarettes. Zyn nicotine cases and pouches on a table in New York City on Jan. 29, 2024. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The FDA said on June 30 that the pouches can now feature the […]

Blue Owl Gates Investors Again After Top BDCs Hit With Massive 38%, 19% Redemption Requests After a catastrophic Q1 for private credit BDCs, Q2 is proceeding just as many had expected: just as bad. After alternative asset manager titans such as Apollo, Blackrock, Blackstone and Cliffwater all gated their investors for a second straight quarter following a surge in redemption requests that easily surpassed what took place in Q1, […]

Judge Blocks USPS Ballot Rule Tied To Trump’s Election Integrity Order Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing a Trump administration proposal to boost election integrity by enhancing ballot tracking and verification, finding it conflicted with a 2021 settlement requiring the agency to prioritize the timely delivery of election mail. U.S. District […]