What JPMorgan Saw Inside Tesla’s Fremont Factory As Humanoid Production Nears Retail flows across Asia remained heavily concentrated in newly listed, high-beta names, most notably Chinese robotics maker Unitree following its blockbuster Shanghai debut. The retail craze surrounding physical AI merely shows Beijing’s accelerating push to dominate the humanoid market. To close out the week, we pivot across the Pacific for a peek […]

The Push To Bring Back Recess Time In Public Schools Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Spencer Taylor describes his high school experience as a dark time, rife with detentions, suspensions, and over-medicated peers who acted up because they, too, couldn’t sit still in class all day. New students tour Nora Sterry Elementary School in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2025. There is a nationwide push to bring back or increase […]

Socialist Leader Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Affordability Pitch Masks “Guerrilla Class War” To “Bleed Enemy Dry” We have extensively profiled how communism is on the rise in America and how the Democratic Party has served as its primary vehicle into mainstream electoral politics. The Marxists in the Democratic Socialists of America have a platform that, in the long run, has very little to do with affordability but everything to do […]

Former Alabama Basketball Player Wins Defamation Suit Against NY Times Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, An Alabama jury ruled on Aug. 20 that The New York Times defamed ex-college basketball player Kai Spears when the newspaper falsely reported in 2023 that he was present during a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa. Kai Spears #32 of the Alabama Crimson Tide dribbles the ball during a practice session at State Farm Stadium […]

Trump To Flood US With 300,000 Tons Of Tariff-Free Ground Beef To Tame Prices Ahead Of Midterms With 74 days remaining until the midterm elections and average retail ground-beef prices hovering near $7 per pound, President Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday morning that his administration will temporarily waive certain tariffs on ground-beef imports. The move follows our Monday report highlighting signs that consumers are […]

Remember The Names Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . . it’s subversion and nothing about it is accidental. it’s a well worn playbook to use the democratic institutions of a high trust state to destroy a civilization.” – El Gato Malo on Substack An eerie quiet masks the panic rising among the many players in the long-running train of crimes carried out under color-of-law against the people of this country that […]

ICE Arrests 5 Suspected Child Predators In Undercover Operation Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested five suspected child predators during an operation in Omaha, Nebraska, between Aug. 12 and 14, the agency said in an Aug. 20 statement. (L–R) Bryan Dady, Jocsan Aparicio Santos, Logan Trigg, Law Eh, and Tillian Hutton were arrested for suspected sexual crimes […]

China Firmly Rejects US Demand To Back Its ‘Most Crushing Economic Operation’ Against Iran China has firmly rejected Washington’s call to join in implementing US sanctions to “squash” Iran’s economy, pushing back against Trump administration pressure to be part of the “toughest sanctions in history” which has marked a new phase of conflict focused on extended economic warfare, as a military solution is seen as increasingly […]

Mass Casualties As Russian Drones Slam Into Mall In Zelensky’s Hometown At least 15 have been killed and 121 injured after a Friday afternoon apparent Russian drone strike on a busy shopping call in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials say. Casualty numbers could grow amid ongoing search and rescue efforts at the scene. Some of the injured are in serious condition. President Zelensky quickly issued a […]

Saylor’s Strategy Treasury Back To Breakeven As Crypto Rips, StanChart Says $100k Bitcoin Year-End Call May Be ‘Too Low’ Markets are reminding investors that volatility has two sides in digital assets. As Standard Chartered’s crypto guru, Geoffrey Kendrick, begins his latest note, we’ve been used to (earlier in 2026) prices falling sharply. Now we are starting to see (only starting) what happens when prices rise sharply. So […]

Biden Adviser Warned Fauci, CDC Director Cloth Masks Didn’t Work Well: Text Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A doctor who advised President Joe Biden on COVID-19 warned Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top Biden administration officials in a newly disclosed text message that wearing cloth masks provided “very limited protection.” Dr. Michael Osterholm, who was part of Biden’s COVID-19 transition advisory team, […]

FERC Approves SPP “Topology Optimization” Plan For Cutting Grid Congestion By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved the Southwest Power Pool’s proposal for using “topology optimization” to reduce grid congestion and its related costs. Traditionally, grid operators respond to grid congestion by redispatching power plants, which can lead to higher production and congestion […]

Woman Charged In ISIS-Inspired Plot To Bomb NY State Capitol Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, FBI agents foiled an alleged ISIS-inspired bomb plot on the New York State Capitol on Aug. 19 that they say was concocted by a local woman who had pledged allegiance to the terrorist group earlier this year. Jessica Bowie, 35, was captured by surveillance while doing reconnaissance on the New York Capitol in an undated […]

Situational Flipping: Citadel Has Dumped Almost All Of The Stocks It Acquired From Leopold Aschenbrenner After the market learned in late July that Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness hedge fund had blown up under too much Total Return Swap and option leverage (as we had warned a month earlier would happen), the next big question facing investors was: how long would Citadel keep the positions it bought from Leopold (at a […]

Trump Tells Michael Cohen “They Weaponized You” In Radio Interview, Praises His Recanting Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump appeared on Michael Cohen’s radio show and commended his former attorney for recanting his previous statements. Their conversation marked a surprising thaw years after their relationship collapsed amid public feuds and legal battles. Part of the interview with Cohen’s […]

ActBlue Co-Founder Invokes the Fifth Amendment As House Fraud Probe Widens ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis sat before the Committee on House Administration, the House Oversight Committee, and the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday and declined to answer a single substantive question during a closed-door deposition that reportedly lasted less than half an hour. DeBergalis invoked his Fifth Amendment right against […]

Pink-Clad Feminist Mob Rallies In Support Of Confessed Child Murderer A mob of liberal women decked out in pink is taking to the streets in front of the Plymouth Superior Courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a rally in support of Lindsay Clancy during her ongoing murder trial.  The group, which is often accused of being “terminally online”, has been invading social media discussions for weeks to inject arguments in defense of […]

Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire? Yesterday’s market moves again showed that jawboning and temporary interventions are rarely enough when the underlying problem is fundamental. As a “thank you” for Trump’s last-minute intervention to reduce joint US-South Korean military drills – and his claim to have spoken with Kim Jong Un […]

Lacy Hunt: Fed’s Been “Stealth-Easing” Since December “We’re seeing a major secular shift, that we’re now moving into a period of capital shortage, as well as we’re witnessing the end of the three-decade period of globalization, which led to significant disinflation.” That prediction comes from Dr. Lacy Hunt, once one of the bond market’s most prominent bulls and secular disinflationists. Well… no longer. He’s now a […]

They’re Getting Revenge, Starting Today… Via the Tom Woods Letter, I absolutely insist to you: I really am trying to stop writing about this topic. But too much insanity keeps breaking out, and I have no choice but to comment on it. You know the story: a Cambridge academic, Jason Arday, was found to have plagiarized his dissertation, borrowed heavily from others in his published articles, produced essentially worthless […]

Services Sector Survey Surge Sparks US Growth Rebound Hopes In August After a relatively ugly series of disappointing macro data – and a hectic week of interventions – preliminary August data from S&P Global’s PMI survey was expected to signal a slowdown in growth for the US economy (but still growth). But, the respondents had other things on their mind as while Manufacturing slipped, the Services sector of the economy soared […]

China Sentences Evergrande Founder To Life In Prison Five years after Chinese property development firm Evergrande Group collapsed under the weight of enormous debt, founder Xu Jiayin was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Xu Jiayin, also known as Hui Ka Yan, founder of property developer Evergrande, appears for sentencing at the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Shenzhen, China, on Aug. 20, 2026. Shenzhen Intermediate […]

Teen Drops Social Media Addiction Claims Against Meta, Google, & Snap, Ahead Of October Trial Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A 15-year-old New Jersey girl whose lawsuit served as a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of designing platforms to addict young users dropped her remaining claims Thursday against Meta Platforms, Google, and Snap Inc. The plaintiff, identified in California […]

Broadcom CDS Explodes As It Seeks Up To $100 Billion In Massive Off-Balance Sheet Debt Deal Amid the growing angst about hyperscaler CapEx (and more specifically, the historic flood of new debt issuance to fund it), attention among the always-bullish equity talking-heads has shifted – and rightfully so – to the bond markets as alarm signals flare up with an increasing frequency. Of course, for ZeroHedge readers, this is not a new […]

Futures Rise On Opex Day As Yields Stabilize; Bitcoin Almost Tags $80,000 US futures rebound from Thursday’s slump, and trade at session highs on.  As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures were 0.4% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.6%, while Bitcoin headed for its best week in more than three years, rising just shy of $80,000 before reversing. S&P 500 futures jerked higher and yields extended declines as oil edged lower […]