New Gig Economy Job: Train AI That Replaces You A Bay Area startup called Mercor has hired tens of thousands of white-collar contractors for temporary work, training artificial intelligence to perform the very jobs many of them once held, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. In effect, these white-collar workers are being paid to accelerate their own obsolescence by feeding and perfecting models for chatbot makers, such […]

Crypto Takeaways From Davos: Politics And Money Collide Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, While geopolitical tensions and the Greenland standoff set the tone at Davos 2026, crypto resurfaced as a secondary but consequential theme. US President Donald Trump used a few minutes of his Davos speech to double down on his ambition to turn the US into the world’s crypto capital and voice support for crypto-friendly […]

Horton: “Zionism Ultimately Is The Achilles Heel In America First” Last night, ZeroHedge hosted Scott Horton and former Trump NSC chief of staff Fred Fleitz for a wide-ranging discussion on the question: How successful has President Trump’s foreign policy agenda been so far in his second term? Much of the exchange revealed shared criticism of post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy’s belligerence towards Russia. Horton and Fleitz […]

The Case Against Declaring Artificial General Intelligence Authored by Lewis Liu via CityAM.com, Today’s AI systems fail badly in out-of-distribution scenarios, as shown by their inability to interpret real-world geopolitical crises. Large language models reflect the ideological biases of their creators, undermining claims of neutral “general” intelligence. The real economic opportunity lies in tightly governed […]

“Sleeping On The Job”: DC Opens Medicaid Investigation Following Nurse And Aide Neglect Claims D.C.’s inspector general has opened an investigation after complaints surfaced about home health nurses and aides allegedly sleeping while on duty, following a News4 I-Team report that included hours of video showing caregivers appearing to sleep overnight, according to NBC. The investigation stems from the account of Damon Brooks, a […]

DHS Says Mahmoud Khalil May Be Sent To Algeria Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said on Jan. 21 that Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at the center of the Trump administration’s deportation battles, may be removed to Algeria. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who leads the department’s Office of Public Affairs, made the […]

Watch: Convicted Minnesota Scammer Says Walz, Ellison Were Aware Of $250M Fraud The media has been giving quite a lot of attention to Aimee Bock, the head of a Minnesota nonprofit at the center of the largest pandemic relief fraud in the nation’s history – which she now says Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison had to have known about. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform […]

Davos Is Dead: Western Civ Has Suffered Enough… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Up In Smoke “This is how tyranny looks in the modern world. It arrives dressed as dialogue, consensus, and expertise. It is imposed by people who sincerely believe they are doing nothing at all.” – DataRepublican Davos — The World Economic Forum (WEF)— is toast. Trump, Bessent, and Lutnick exposed the wretched org of overcompensated […]

Trump Says US ‘Armada’ Moving Towards Iran Via Middle East Eye US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is sending an “armada” towards Iran, threatening Tehran against resuming its nuclear program. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after returning from meetings with world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said Washington was closely monitoring Iran as US naval assets moved into the region. “We have a lot […]

Here Come Humanoid Robots: Industry Makes Clear Pivot Toward “Dedicated-Purpose” Commercial Deployments Goldman analyst Jacqueline Du published her field trip notes after speaking with six C-level management teams at robotics companies across Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen in recent days. The companies she met with include Unitree, Mechmind, Fourier, LimX Dynamics, UBTech, EngineAI, Paxini, and Orbbec. “Overall, we see the […]

Homeland Security Seeks To Restrict Immigrants From Relying On Welfare Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to change a rule that determines eligibility for permanent residency—commonly known as a green card—based on whether an applicant is considered a “public charge,” someone who is likely to depend primarily on public benefits. That […]

The Next 10 Days Of Winter: The Worst In 40 Years Across The US Submitted by @RyanMaue, A meteorologist’s main purpose: keep you alive, and marked safe.✅ There is nothing we can do to stop this epic week of weather, and believe me, I have been trying to find silver linings or rays of sunlight. So, the best preparation is fresh, accurate, and expert information from trusted sources. While every new weather model run (alphabet […]

Trump Touts “Total And Permanent” Access To Greenland, While Nobody Has Any Clue What’s In The Deal Trump said on Thursday he had secured “total and permanent” US access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China.  News of a framework deal came as Trump backed off tariff threats against Europe and ruled out taking […]

US Homicide Rate Plummets To 125-Year Low, Group Reports Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Crime rates continued to fall in 2025, with homicide rates expected to drop to about 4.0 per 100,000 residents, “the lowest rate recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900,” according to a new report published by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Jan. 22. Based on an analysis of crime […]

Beijing Tells Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance To Prepare Nvidia AI Chip Orders Chinese regulators are nearing approval for Nvidia’s H200 AI chips for top domestic tech firms, including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance, signaling Beijing is moving closer to formally green-lighting imports of last-generation AI accelerators, according to a Bloomberg report. Approval would represent a material bull catalyst for Nvidia stock and a major win […]

Forget Trump and Greenland. Howard Lutnick Gave The Davos Speech That Mattered Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, After Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the obligatory headline term was humiliation. “Lonely Trump Humiliated as Major Allies Refuse to Be Bullied,” was one of two Daily Beast stories on the theme, the other being “Trump, 79, Croaks Through ‘Peace’ Grift Speech After 48 […]

Olympic Snowboarder Turned “Cocaine Kingpin” Arrested In Mexico, Flown To US To Face Justice Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who was wanted by the FBI for allegedly leading a violent international drug trafficking operation, has been arrested, the Justice Department announced Friday. Wedding, 44, had been added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list in March. He was taken into custody in Mexico on Thursday night and […]

The Rules‑Based Order That Once Constrained Great‑Power Ambition Has Proved Illusory By Stefan Koopman, senior macro strategist at Rabobank If there is one lesson from this week, it is that the rules‑based order that once constrained great‑power ambition has proved illusory. In Davos, Canada’s Mark Carney captured this with clarity. The world, he argued, is experiencing a rupture rather than a transition. It has become a […]

US Officially Exits World Health Organization Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, America is officially out of the World Health Organization (WHO). “Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization, freeing itself from its constraints, as President [Donald] Trump promised on his first day in office,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr., […]

TikTok Announces Formation Of US Majority-Owned Joint Venture To Prevent Ban Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, TikTok said on Jan. 22 it has formed an American majority-owned joint venture that would oversee data security and the content ecosystem in a bid to maintain its operations in the United States. TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC will operate as an independent entity overseen by a seven-member board of directors […]

Winter Storm Threatens Appalachian NatGas With ‘Freeze Offs’ As Data Center Demand Tightens PJM Grid Submitted by Criterion Research President James Bevan,  An incoming winter ice storm is poised to crimp Appalachian natural gas production at a critical moment when the power grid faces mounting pressure from surging data center demand and extreme cold. Appalachian volumes already plummeted 682/d to 34,745 MMcf/d as the ongoing […]

Putin Not Budging: ‘Frank’ Talks With Witkoff Confirm Territory Is A Red Line Russia’s President Putin held a late-night meeting Thursday at the Kremlin with the US delegation led by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, just hours ahead of planned trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi Friday aimed at pushing the Trump-backed peace framework to end the war in Ukraine. Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov soon after the four-hour […]

“Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home!”: The South Park Market Of 2026 Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I have been a “South Park” fan for as long as I can remember, and while the show isn’t a market guidebook, its brutal satire cuts through nonsense better than many Wall Street commentaries. Just like on the show, characters make absurd decisions and face absurd consequences, which is familiar to investors […]

UMich Sentiment Bounces To 5-Month High As Democrats Realize Their Insane Inflation Fears Were Wrong Having ended 2025 at the lowest Current Conditions Sentiment levels in, well, ever… expectations for preliminary January data were for a modest rebound… and it did…notably more than expected (and a pick up from the flash print): The preliminary January sentiment index climbed to 56.4 from 52.9 in December, according to the […]

“The Expansion Has Cooled”: US Manufacturing, Service PMIs Both Miss, Signal 1.5% GDP Growth With global PMIs today printing on the softer side (especially in France where the service PMI tumbled to 47.9 on expectations of a 50.3 print), moments ago it was the US’ turn to join the parade of soggy prints. Here is what S&P Global reported for the January Prelim PMIs: Manufacturing PMI: 51.9, up from 51.8 in Dec, but missing […]