Pinky Promise By Molly Schwarz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank Iran is feeling some of the economic pressure of Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast” with reports from Al-Hadath suggesting that Iran has agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for the relaxing of US sanctions. This, of course, is the uranium that Iran was apparently never enriching, and even if they were enriching it in facilities that no one […]

Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, When Elon Musk took over Twitter, fired four out of five employees, and rebranded it X (just because he thought it sounded cool), the talking heads predicted doom for the company. The opposite happened. It is now one of the most popular sources of news in the world, and a major delivery system for what social media is supposed to be. He always […]

Leaked Anthropic IPO Prospectus Shows $42BN Net Loss, $518BN In Unfunded Spending Commitments, And $20BN In Cash When Anthropic confidentially submitted its draft S-1 to the SEC back in June, it was clear there were many shocking numbers in the IPO prospectus which the company did not want made public amid speculation of massive ongoing losses, but few were prepared for what was leaked today to Reuters.  According to a copy of the […]

US Home Prices Are Rising At Their Fastest Pace In Over A Year, But… Amid soaring mortgage rates, new home prices falling rapidly, and collapsing homebuilder confidence, US home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the fourth straight month in July (according to the latest – admittedly lagged – data from S&P Cotality Case-Shiller). The 20-City Composite index rose 0.32% MoM (far stronger than the 0.2% MoM rise […]

Caravan Of 600+ Migrants Making Its Way Through Mexico To The US Border Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Hundreds of migrants, largely from Honduras, are currently moving north through Mexico toward the United States, coinciding with the lead-up to the midterm elections in November. Dubbed the “Faith and Hope” (or “Fe y Esperanza”) caravan, the group reportedly left Honduras with about 300 people on September 20, and […]

Oil Slides As Qatar Touts ‘Talks’ Again; Iran Struck Large Crude Tanker Overnight Iran is said to have struck a Very Large Crude Carrier in the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, signaling what will likely be the resumption of strikes on foreign vessels seeking to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, after last week’s diplomatic talks at the UN failed to produce a breakthrough. Still, for the time being more oil is being shipped through the […]

Futures Rise As Oil Drops, Dragging Rates Lower US equity futures have reversed earlier losses and trade in the green, near session highs, as bond yields drop across the curve, following a decline in oil which has also hit the dollar, despite lack of any tangible news out of Iran and as traders brace for the week’s first labor data following a neverending firehose of artificial-intelligence news and events. As of 8:15am ET, […]

Hurricane Polo Pounds Baja, Threatens To Swing Its Moisture Across US Southwest Hurricane Polo made landfall in Mexico’s Baja California Sur as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening to Category 1, with maximum sustained winds around 80 mph. Forecasters are now tracking the massive plume of tropical moisture associated with Polo, which could bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding to the southwestern US, with all eyes on Texas. […]

Tether Says It Helped Freeze $550M In Iran-Linked USDT This Year Authored by Felix Ng via Cointelegraph, Stablecoin issuer Tether said it helped authorities freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026, as a Senate Democrat called for an investigation into the stablecoin issuer on Monday. In a statement on Monday, the company said it has been working closely with international law enforcement for years. This year […]

Oura Shelves $2.2 Billion IPO Despite Strong Demand As Listing Delays Mount Smart ring maker Oura has shelved its planned US IPO, becoming the latest high-profile company to postpone a listing amid mounting market uncertainty. The Fed’s recent rate hike, the prospect of another increase in late October, elevated fuel prices, and sharply higher Treasury yields are clouding the outlook for consumers and investor risk appetite. The […]

EU Eyes Methane Rule Retreat As Energy Crisis Deepens; IEA Floats Another Emergency Oil Dump The European Union is considering postponing methane emissions requirements for imported oil and gas to help boost energy supplies, with the Northern Hemisphere winter just months away. Energy prices in the bloc are already soaring, and uncomfortably low supplies of diesel and natural gas could push them even higher. The energy-stricken […]

Trump Denies He Offered Sanctions Relief, As Iran Insists No Change On Enrichment Stance Summary Trump by day’s end denies offering Iran sanctions relief in exchange for nuclear concessions; the morning headlines triggered a sharp drop in oil prices. US-Iran talks may resume, but only indirectly, this week; however Tehran remains skeptical after Trump rejected its ceasefire proposal. Iran announced targeting 19 vessels […]

Trump Uses Recission “Loophole” To Cut Nearly $1 Billion In Funds For Illegals To summarize the Democrat Party’s current strategy on immigration, here is essentially how it works:  Whenever in power, they create billions in incentives and subsidies to entice third world migrants to flood the US en masse.  With open borders and amnesty programs, moving 10 million or more illegals at a time into the country is easy and fast.  When […]

Russia Tightens Secrecy On Energy Exports Authored by Charles Kennedy via Oilprice.com, Refinery production figures, export contracts and tanker routes are now off-limits to public reporting in Russia, under a decree Putin signed Monday, Reuters reported. The Kremlin points to unfriendly actions by Washington and its allies as the reason, and the restrictions took effect on signing, with the government given 10 days to define […]

Eight Marines Were Injured By Iranian Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Attack 2 Weeks Ago Several days ago The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon quietly added dozens to its tally of American servicemembers wounded amid the Iran war. Since March and hearkening back to the opening weeks of Operation Epic Fury, there’s been an alleged constant Trump administration effort to conceal or at least downplay damage and casualties from […]

UK Pride Group “Captures” A 1,000-Year-Old Castle Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, They called it “Capture the Castle.” Not a picnic. Not a concert. Capture. On Saturday morning a 1,000-year-old Norman fortress in Devon was wrapped in a 150-metre rainbow banner while organisers talked about occupying the ramparts and sending a message that the building now belongs to their cause. Nobody has to guess at the intent. […]

Dutch Doctors Euthanize Two-Year-Old Toddler In First Case Of Its Kind A doctor in the Netherlands euthanized a toddler in what officials said is the country’s first case involving a child under 12, and a government-appointed review panel concluded the physician acted “with due care.” The child, who was nearly 2 years old and suffering from severe medical conditions, died at the end of 2025, with details only becoming public this […]

South Korea Summons Acting Ukrainian Ambassador Over North Korean Prisoner Transfer Revelation Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Ukraine’s acting ambassador to the country on Sept. 28 to convey Seoul’s displeasure over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s revelation that two North Korean prisoners of war had been transferred to South Korea. South Korean […]

Where Robots Do The Most Housework Over the past two decades, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have evolved from gimmicks for tech lovers to actual mass-market products. Today, these automated little helpers are capable of performing household chores as good as, if not better than humans, freeing up valuable time for their owners to focus on more important things such as (paid) work, family or leisure […]

British Schoolkids Told To List Only The Positives Of Mass Migration Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Children as young as seven are being sat down in British classrooms and told to list the “positive” aspects of migration – and only the positives. No pressure on housing. No wages. No hotels. No community strain. Just the approved script. Show Racism the Red Card, which brands itself the UK’s “leading anti-racism […]

The Rising Drone Threat: Why Our Critical Infrastructure Has Become Dangerously Exposed Authored by Mike Adams via NaturalNews.com, The era when America’s above-ground infrastructure could be considered safe is now over. The drone revolution has quietly dismantled that assumption, and I believe we are dangerously unprepared for the era of distributed drone warfare. The same precision-strike capability that hit Saudi pipelines […]

Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Revive Third-Country Deportations The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 24 to revive its third-country deportation program that sends deportees to countries that were not named in their removal orders. The Trump administration has said it removes individuals to third countries when it cannot quickly return them to their home countries. However, critics say the […]

The Hidden Mechanism Behind Washington’s Control Of Iraq’s Oil Money Via Middle East Eye For more than two decades, Iraq’s oil wealth has passed through a financial system centered thousands of miles away in New York. The arrangement, created after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, was initially designed to protect Iraqi oil revenues from creditors and help fund reconstruction. Today, it gives Washington significant leverage […]

Colombia Extradites Alleged Drug Lord ‘The Spider’ To California A Colombian rebel commander nicknamed “The Spider” is now in U.S. custody after a change in leadership in Bogotá cleared the way for his extradition, according to CBS. Geovany Andres Rojas, also known as “Araña,” was transferred to California over the weekend, where prosecutors have charged him with drug trafficking and terrorism offenses tied to his […]

Wage-Cuts Hit Hospital Workers In China As Financial Pressures Mount Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, Workers at hospitals in several parts of China are facing cuts to wages and performance bonuses, with some medical workers reporting monthly base salaries of less than 2,000 yuan ($298) as public institutions struggle under mounting financial pressure. A nurse moves a bed through a corridor at a hospital in Duan Yao […]