Vance Seeks To Assure Trump Base Iran War Entering “Much Different Phase” Vice President JD Vance – who was said to have opposed launching Operation Epic Fury from the beginning – has issued some fresh statements on the future of the Iran conflict which sound a bit off-rampy. He could just be voicing his own wishful thinking, however, in proclaiming the conflict will soon enter “a much different phase” in the coming months. He […]

TikTok Mob Now Stalks Clancy Holdout Juror’s Family Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The same online machine that turned a confessed child killer into a cause has a new target. After hanging Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the lone holdout juror’s family says TikTok extremists have them trapped indoors, leaving notes at his mother’s house and refusing to let them live in peace. The juror’s brother told the New York […]

DOJ Uses Never-Before-Used Terror Court to Deport Afghan Woman Over Election Day ISIS Plot The Justice Department has used a national-security court that sat unused for three decades to deport an Afghan woman from the United States who supported an ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024. AG Todd Blanche On Friday, officials announced that Nazira Haji Zada, 47, a permanent resident from Fort Worth, […]

Who Aligns The Aligners? Brief Legal Thoughts On The “AI Safety” Fights To Come Authored by Preston Byrne via Preston Byrne, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has published an essay – We Must Pace The Frontier – in which he writes: I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure […]

Mysterious Illness Striking Young Workers In The South Doctors at Harris County’s public hospitals have spent more than a decade treating an unusual group of dialysis patients, men in their 20s and 30s who work outdoors and whose kidneys have failed without a clear medical explanation, Fox News reports, following a Texas Monthly investigation. A review of county hospital records found that roughly one in six emergency dialysis […]

BRICS Summit Takes Aim At US Influence Over The Global Economy Authored by Eurasianet via OilPrice.com, BRICS demanded greater developing-country influence at the IMF, World Bank and WTO but avoided directly naming the United States in its criticism. The declaration urged “maximum restraint” in the Middle East and made no mention of Ukraine, illustrating the compromises required to maintain consensus. Kazakhstan […]

US Interceptor Inventory Took Another Big Hit Last Week, As CBO Pegs War Cost At $38 Billion+ America’s already-diminished inventory of air defense interceptor missiles took another significant hit last week, as dozens more were expended to defend US troops in Jordan from an Iranian attack. This latest incident illustrates Iran’s use of crafty and increasingly technologically-advanced attacks to further sap US munitions supply and […]

House Panel Votes To Hold Billionaire Leon Black In Contempt For Ghosting Epstein Investigators Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Businessman Leon Black, who skipped a deposition regarding his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, should be held in contempt of Congress, a House of Representatives panel recommended on Sept. 15. Former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black (R) arrives for an […]

Dario Amodei’s Brain Trust Of Bad Ideas Authored by Jordan Schachtel via American Greatness, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to shape the future of artificial intelligence – and, by extension, the future of civilization. Yet in doing so, he seeks input and advice from an ideologically uniform group of individuals and institutions. In a series of sprawling essays on his website, Amodei has outlined his expectations for a world […]

Houthis Issue Video Of Saudi F-15 Shootdown, As Ground Clashes Intensify In Yemen Update(1135ET): The Houthis have released new footage which appears to confirm the earlier Saudi F-15 jet shootdown, with aircraft falling in the Marib area. The footage shows militants celebrating near the wreckage. Below is the clip as released by Ansar Allah officials, which has since been given confirmation by some foreign and international […]

Beyond Oil And Gold: Venezuela Readies First US Aluminum Shipment In Years As Resource Race Heats Up Venezuela is emerging as a source of energy and critical materials for the US as the Trump administration expands sourcing channels within the Western Hemisphere. Existing crude trade and a gold supply agreement with Caracas are being paired with efforts to develop broader industrial metal ties, including potential access to nickel […]

Fed Hikes Rates For First Time Since July 2023, Signals 1 More Hike In 2026 Tl;dr: As the market expected, The Fed hiked rates by 25bps (for the first time since July 2023) despite a trend lower in CPI over the last three months. Today’s decision was unanimous and the ‘Dots’ signal one more hike in 2026. The Fed members increased their GDP outlooks, lowered their unemployment forecasts, but hiked their inflation outlooks… The […]

The Fed’s Mortgage Policy Made Homeownership Cost More Authored by Antón Chamberlin via The Daily Economy, The median household in Miami earns about $62,000 annually; homeowners with a mortgage have monthly housing costs pushing $2,900. Annualized, this equals more than half the median household income. In Los Angeles, the numbers come in at $82,000 and $3,500 for 51 percent. New Yorkers are paying 49 percent, and New Orleanians […]

“Calm Before The Storm?” UBS Warns Of Stock Market Turbulence As Midterms Loom “This may be the calm before the storm,” UBS chief economist Arend Kapteyn wrote in a note on Wednesday morning. Kapteyn is referring to a historically turbulent stretch for equity markets ahead of midterm elections, which threatens to amplify the seasonal rise in market volatility. “Indeed, since 1928, these have been the most volatile months of the […]

US Announces South Africa Visa Curbs Citing Racism Against Afrikaners Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of State announced Tuesday new visa restrictions against some foreign nationals in South Africa who are alleged to be involved in discrimination and incitement of violence against minority groups in the country. A State Department news release said the policy will target any individual involved in […]

Watch Live: Fed Chair Warsh Explains Why He Hiked Rates Into Stagflation The FOMC just (unanimously) hiked rates for the first time since July 2023 despite recent inflation prints slowing… Additionally, recent macro surprises are clearly signaling stagflation – the central banker’s nemesis… So, a hike for credibility… but Warsh’s biggest challenge will be communicating his outlook without reverting to forward […]

DOJ Accuses Russian Intel Ring Of Plotting Murder On American Soil In something that sounds straight from the plot of “Homeland” or the more recent CIA thriller “Lioness”, the Trump administration has charged multiple members of Russia’s intelligence services with running a “global assassination network” that targeted Kremlin critics. The Department of Justice has newly revealed and alleged that one murder plot even took place on […]

Democrats Still Don’t Know How To Read Charts Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media, Democrats can be unintentionally hilarious sometimes. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reposted a chart on X Tuesday claiming housing prices are “the most unaffordable in history,” and that it was Trump’s fault. There was just one huge problem. Great work, @realDonaldTrump! — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 15, 2026 The chart Newsom […]

Two Robinhood Engineers Accused Of Making $50,000 By Front-Running Crypto Listings Federal prosecutors have accused two former Robinhood engineers of turning their access to the company’s crypto plans into personal trades, according to Bloomberg. Hefu Chai, 36, and Huaisong Xiang, 30, are accused of learning in advance which digital assets Robinhood intended to add to its platform. Rather than simply keeping that information […]

FBI Agent Wanted To Criminally Investigate Elon Musk, Email Shows Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, An FBI agent pitched investigating Elon Musk for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to an email released on Sept. 15. FBI agent Kevin Gounaud wrote in the Feb. 22, 2025, missive to a supervisor that he wanted to recommend opening a criminal investigation into the person or people […]

Apollo Puts A Multi-Trillion-Dollar Price Tag On America’s Industrial Comeback Apollo’s head of thematic investing, Rob Bittencourt, says US reindustrialization is already “underway,” driven by efforts to reshore critical supply chains, rebuild domestic industrial capacity, expand data centers, restart the rearmament cycle, and power up the grid for the next evolution of the modern economy.  Rebuilding the industrial base […]

Crude Slides On Report Saudis Could Restore Half Of East-West Pipeline Flows Within Days WTI futures fell to $101 a barrel around midday in New York after Bloomberg reported that Saudi Arabia could restore roughly half the East-West pipeline’s capacity within days. The pipeline, a critical export route bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, has been shut since last week’s drone attack. The outlet reported: State-run Saudi Aramco is […]

Ahead Of The Fed: Bessent, Bullion, Bans, & Hawkish Bias Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Before jumping into the Fed, let’s just spend another minute on diesel, and Bessent’s “Performance” which along with Warsh’s Difficult Task, were formed the bulk of last weekend’s Never Forgotten! And Some Work Stuff… Bessent’s “Performance” & Bullion On the Treasury buyback, we didn’t even get to […]

Zuck Torches Dario’s AI Nanny State, Wants ‘Trust Us Bro’ Instead After Anthropic’s Dario Amodei set off a firestorm on Saturday calling for a ‘pause’ in AI development until hand-picked arbiters are installed inside the frontier labs (a gift to Beijing), Mark Zuckerberg sided with the testosterone wing of the tech-bro complex with a builder’s response: police yourselves. You don’t need anyone’s permission – or a cartel, to do it. […]

Barclays Warns Potential US Diesel Export Ban Could Backfire Senate Majority Leader John Thune revived discussion of a potential US diesel export ban with reporters Tuesday, a day after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said any export halts on crude or petroleum products were unlikely to lower consumer prices. The divergence in messaging suggests growing pressure across the Trump administration to contain surging fuel costs ahead of […]