Iran Set To Emerge With More Hormuz Leverage Than Before The War Under Draft US-Oman Deal President Trump said late Tuesday that talks with Iran are “moving along very nicely” – in a highly fluid and ambiguous situation where it appears the two sides are only interacting indirectly at best. But the Iranian side has continued to insist that there are currently no peace or ceasefire talks happening, but only the Iran-Oman […]

Treasury Refunding: No Change To Auction Sizes As Bessent Deepens Reliance On Short-Term Debt For yet another quarter, the Treasury’s Quarterly Refunding offered no surprises, which considering the state of the US bond market is probably not a bad thing.  In its 8:30am ET report, the US Treasury retained its previous guidance for future debt issuance, signaling no change in note and bond auction sizes well into 2027 even as […]

“This Is Going To Surprise Some People”: Leading Biden COVID-19 Figure Embraces The Lab Leak Theory Authored by Jonathan Turley, Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha this weekend became the latest denier of the lab theory to do a 180-degree turn. During the interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Jha admitted that he now believes that the most likely explanation is a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of […]

“Hiring Patterns Are Changing”: ADP Reports Weakest Job Gains In 6 Months, But… Following a weaker than expected JOLTS report, but better than expected ISM employment data, ADP reports today (ahead of Friday’s payrolls report) that the US economy added only 44k jobs in July (below the 65k expected and the lowest since January) after a revised 95k increase in the prior month… With the Goods-producing side of the economy losing […]

Futures Hit New Record High On Strong Earnings Following Historic Call Buying Frenzy S&P 500 futures are up following yesterday’s first ATH since June; both tech and small caps are lagging, pointing to another potential broadening. A jump in US tech stocks is holding too, with Nasdaq-100 contracts rising after a 3.3% surge in the session before, powered by semiconductor stocks and blowout Palantir earnings. S&P futures are […]

Brent Bounces As Houthis Attack, Sink Vessel Off Yemen With Sea Drone The Houthis have quickly made good on their earlier threat, with the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre having reported the following fresh attack off Yemen: UKMTO has received a time-late report of an incident 9NM southwest of Al Mukha, Yemen. The CSO of the vessel has reported that the vessel was attacked by an Uncrewed Surface Vessel […]

Fauci’s Time Is Up… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Sen. Rand Paul has locked in the date for a committee vote that could finally impose real consequences on Anthony Fauci, the longtime public health official whose pandemic-era decisions reshaped daily life for millions of Americans. On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will vote on a resolution holding Fauci in contempt of […]

“Momentum Continues”: Lilly Jumps After Raising Revenue Outlook On Surging GLP-1 Demand Shares of Eli Lilly & Co. are rising in premarket trading after the pharmaceutical giant raised its full-year revenue forecast following a 48% jump in second-quarter sales, fueled by accelerating demand for the diabetes drug Mounjaro and the obesity treatment Zepbound. Lilly’s second-quarter results topped Wall Street expectations: Adjusted […]

Inside Ford’s “Passionate” Reinvention Ford has reshaped its business by narrowing its lineup to vehicles with stronger brand appeal and higher profit potential. Instead of offering a wide range of sedans, hatchbacks, and family cars, the company is concentrating on trucks, SUVs, sports cars, and models that customers can personalize with factory-backed upgrades, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. At a recent event, […]

BP Retreats Further From Green Energy With Archaea Sale Via City A.M., BP plans to sell Archaea Energy after the US biogas operation delivered weaker-than-expected returns. Second-quarter adjusted profit climbed to $5.7 billion as Middle East disruption lifted oil and gas prices. Meg O’Neill is simplifying BP’s portfolio, reducing debt and concentrating investment on its most profitable assets. BP has announced […]

You’ll Never Guess Which Nation Drinks The Most Tea Or Coffee With a global market valued at more than $300 billion in 2026, tea is said to be the second most consumed hot beverage in the world. As the United Nations notes, the tea industry provides “a major source of income and export earnings for some of the poorest countries and, thanks to its high labor requirements, generates numerous jobs, particularly in remote and […]

New Signals Point To Another Possible Migrant Invasion Against Ceuta The scenes from the Ceuta invasion were deeply alarming, as 60,000 predominantly military-aged men, many carrying no supplies, crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave. The invasion set off alarm bells across the West, reinforcing concerns that uncontrolled mass migration poses a major national security risk. According to The Sun, there are new concerns […]

France’s €107 Billion Deficit Shock: The Next Euro Debt Crisis? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Tuesday marked another low point for European fiscal stability. France, a cornerstone of the euro system, confirmed once again that it remains a leading candidate and potential trigger for a future euro financial crisis. According to the French Ministry of Finance, the deficit of the French central government amounted to around €107 […]

How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years Over the last 200 years, economic leadership has shifted from China to the British Empire, then to the United States, and increasingly back toward Asia. This streamgraph, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, tracks how the share of global gross domestic product (GDP) held by major economies changed from 1820 to 2025. The visualization incorporates the latest available data […]

US Expands Strategic Foothold On Somalia’s Coast As Yemen Conflict Simmers Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A US military delegation visited the local government in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region on Sunday and signed a deal to expand the US military presence in Bosaso, a port city on the Gulf of Aden, according to the Puntland government. Saeed Abdullahi Deni, the president of Puntland State, held talks with a […]

Which Countries Think They’re On The Right Track? Public confidence in national direction varies dramatically around the world. Respondents in several Asian countries are broadly optimistic, while majorities across much of Europe and the Americas believe their countries are on the wrong track. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks 30 countries by the percentage of adults ages 16 to 74 who believe their country […]

Half Of Foreign Welfare Recipients In Spain Are Moroccan Via Remix News, Nearly half of all foreign nationals receiving Spain’s Minimum Living Income (IMV) are Moroccan, according to previously unpublished figures obtained by The Objective through a transparency request. The National Social Security Institute recorded 139,446 foreign recipients of the benefit, including 69,517 Moroccan nationals. Foreigners therefore […]

The Last Places Standing When The Sky Turns To Ash Authored by Madge Waggy, “We are standing at the precipice of something we cannot comprehend, and the silence from those who know is deafening. The mechanisms are already in motion, the chess pieces positioned with mathematical precision while the world sleeps. I have seen the projections. I have read the classified briefings that never reached your evening news. What comes […]

Oil Markets Price In An Iran Deal That Does Not Exist Yet Oil prices tumbled Tuesday as traders once again priced in a U.S.-Iran agreement before anyone had actually signed one. West Texas Intermediate was trading at $75.64 per barrel shortly before 2 p.m. ET, down $4.70, or 5.85%, while Brent had fallen $4.61 to $79.16. Both benchmarks touched three-week lows as hopes rose that an agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz. As […]

Abbott Orders Pause On Texas Data Center Approvals Pending Audit Texas Governor Greg Abbott just ordered a pause on approving new data center projects via the state’s grid interconnection process over concerns that a surge in electricity demand could threaten reliability amid growing opposition to the projects.  The timing couldn’t be worse – as Texas is on the cusp of becoming one of the world’s largest hubs for […]

Socialist Wisconsin Gov Candidate Won’t Back Down After Calling To “Cancel Thanksgiving” Far-left Wisconsin gubernatorial contender Francesca Hong appeared to double down on resurfaced comments demanding that Thanksgiving be abolished, declining to walk back the post when confronted about it on national television. “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” Hong wrote on X in a post she later deleted, according to Fox […]

Florida’s Ban On Children Attending Drag Shows Is Constitutional, Appeals Court Says Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court says Florida’s ban on children attending sexualized drag shows is constitutional. On Tuesday, the court overturned a lower court’s decision that had blocked the state’s law. Hamburger Mary’s, a bar and restaurant chain that holds drag shows and previously held what it […]

Physical AI Faces One Critical Chokepoint, And Here’s How To Profit The rise of physical AI is already underway, with humanoid robots entering factories, warehouses, and other industrial environments, and soon the modern battlefield.  Global shipments of humanoid robots are expected to accelerate in 2027, but the broader robotics revolution faces one critical chokepoint: access to the rare-earth magnets that power high-performance […]

Is ‘Communist’ No Longer A Slur? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists”—once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like—and even appear comfortable being called—communists. With every new […]

The Byproduct Ate The Product: Inside America’s Proteinmaxxing Cheese Glut For most of the history of dairy, whey was the stuff you got rid of – the watery byproduct left after milk becomes cheese, fed to hogs or poured out while the actual product went to market. In 2026, with an entire nation proteinmaxxing its way through GLP-1 prescriptions and 40-gram breakfast bars, the ‘cheddar’ isn’t in the cheese itself: America is now […]