US Industrial Production Surged To End 2025 While ‘soft’ survey data has been disappointing, hard macro data has been resilient and Industrial Production ended 2025 on a bright note with a 0.4% MoM surge in December (considerably better than the +0.1% MoM expected) complementing November’s 0.4% MoM rise. This left industrial production up 2% YoY… Source: Bloomberg The index for utilities increased 2.6 percent in December, […]

Beijing First? Canada’s PM Carney Opens The Doors To Chinese EVs The invasion of Chinese electric vehicles into North America is set to accelerate after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to roll back the triple-digit tariffs previously imposed on Chinese EVs. The move sharply diverges from President Trump’s America First policy, which aims to revitalize the North American auto industry. While Chinese EVs remain effectively […]

Trump Says ‘Venezuela Leaker’ Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump said the “leaker on Venezuela” has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed bets earlier this month. “The leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail right now,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday, […]

Stocks Rise As Tech Meltup Accelerates Futures are higher, and trading near record territory, led by tech as this year’s great rotation shows no sign of slowing, broadening the base of names driving Wall Street’s push back towards all time highs. As of 8:00am, S&P 500 futures were 0.3% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.4% as the latest wave of enthusiasm for technology stocks carried into Friday. Overnight headlines […]

EU NatGas Spikes Most In Two Years As “Perfect Storm” Unfolds Dutch TTF natural gas futures, Europe’s benchmark gas contract, are up 25% on the week and on track for their largest weekly gain since October 2023. The abrupt reversal in sentiment reflects tightening storage levels, short covering, and a burst of unusually cold weather sweeping across the continent. “Sentiment has completely turned … you could almost call it a […]

Porsche Sales Plunge Most In 16 Years Porsche AG shares in Germany are headed for their steepest weekly decline since trading began in late 2022, after the 911 maker reported that vehicle sales in the 2025 selling year fell to their lowest level in 16 years. The 911 maker announced earlier that it delivered 279,449 vehicles to customers worldwide in 2025, down 10% from 310,718 in 2024. This marked the largest annual drop in […]

UK Govt Threatens To Return Lucy Connolly To Jail For Sharing Joke Post On X Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Lucy Connolly, the 42-year-old UK woman previously sentenced to two years in prison for a post on X is back under the microscope of Britain’s speech enforcers, with the government threatening to put her back behind bars for merely reposting a satirical jab at Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The latest drama […]

UN Chief’s Last Annual Speech Warns Global Cooperation ‘On Deathwatch’ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will step down as head of the UN in 2026, and on Thursday he issued a stark warning to world leaders upon the occasion of this last annual priorities speech. He said that international cooperation is being pushed “onto deathwatch” by widening geopolitical rifts and increased and unpredictable violations of international […]

Leaked Internal Emails Show Berlin Greens Urged To Deflect Blame From Far-Left Attack On Power Grid Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, An internal email from the Berlin Green Party parliamentary group has revealed a deliberate communication strategy following the sabotage attack on the city’s power grid by far-left activists, instructing lawmakers not to focus on the perpetrators and instead to direct public criticism […]

Data Centers, Power Infrastructure, Healthcare Set To Lead Next Phase Of Construction Boom Eric Gaus, chief economist at Dodge Construction Network, joined Goldman Sachs analysts to discuss the overall state of U.S. building construction, assessing which project types are likely to dominate and the underlying strength of the trend. “We come away from our discussion with a continued outlook for private non-residential construction […]

China Leads Global Coal Power Additions Despite Renewables Push By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com China continues to nearly single-handedly prop up global coal consumption and new coal-fired power generation, despite being also the world’s leading investor in renewables and battery storage.  China is set to commission as many as 85 coal-fired power generating units this year, out of a total global of 104 coal projects slated […]

Danish Intelligence Confirms The Russia-China Threat To Greenland A 2025 Intelligence Assessment by the government of Denmark highlights the long term Russian and Chinese ‘threat’ in Arctic waters, at a moment Greenland officials have rejected the US assertion that the large resource-rich island and its waters are being gradually influenced and taken over by the Russia/China ‘menace’. Trump has recently stated, “We need that […]

What’s Behind Washington’s Signaling Support For NATO Troops In Ukraine? Authored by Andrew Korybko, It might be a negotiating tactic to pressure Russia into concessions on its maximalist goals in the conflict as a quid pro quo for not reprioritizing Russia’s containment over China’s by extending Article 5 to NATO states’ troops in Ukraine and thus reducing the odds that they’ll actually deploy there. France and the […]

Nervous-Looking Macron Urges Military To Produce Own Version Of Russia’s Oreshnik French President Emmanuel Macron while addressing French military personnel at the Istres airbase in the south of the country on Thursday said that Europe needs its own answer to Russia’s cutting edge hypersonic arsenal. In the remarks he specifically invoked Russia’s hypersonic ‘Oreshnik’ missile, which has been launched on Ukraine at least two […]

A Greenland-To-Patagonia Defense Axis Authored by Rick Fisher via The Epoch Times, While President Donald Trump’s ambition to control Denmark’s massive territory of Greenland has many strategic merits, it is also politically problematic and risks wasting scarce political capital that could be directed toward a far greater prize. A far more decisive use of the administration’s three years of limited political capital would […]

Trump Kicking BRICS Out Of The Americas Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, the U.S. dollar has dominated global finance as the chief reserve currency. It’s used in international trade, sovereign lending, and central bank reserves. This dominance allows the United States to borrow cheaply and wield great financial leverage globally. Recent actions by the Trump […]

“Emergency Intervention”: Trump To Cap Residential Electric Bills By Forcing Tech Giants To Pay For Soaring Power Costs Back in August, when the American population was just waking up to the dire consequences the exponentially growing army of data centers spawned across the country was having on residential electricity bills, we said that the chart of US CPI would soon become the most popular (not in a good way) chart in the […]

PJM Trims Near-Term Load Forecast On Stricter Data Center Vetting, Economic Outlook By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The PJM Interconnection scaled back its load growth forecast through 2032 compared to last year’s estimates, but the largest U.S. grid operator expects electric demand to surge past those expectations through the next decade, according to an annual report released Wednesday. PJM expects its summer peak load will […]

First European Troops Arrive In Greenland In Dark Of Night In a move that will further inflame already rising tensions over Greenland, the first European troops have quietly begun arriving on the island following President Trump’s repeated provocative declarations on the need for Washington to take control of the territory, according to Germany’s Bild. The newspaper reports that a Danish military transport aircraft landed […]

36,000 Refugees Could Not Provide IDs When Entering US After Afghanistan Withdrawal: Deputy IG Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A deputy inspector general revealed in a Jan. 14 Senate hearing that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees could not provide key identification when entering the United States through a Biden-era parole program. Additionally, lawmakers revealed that more than 50 individuals in the United […]

Day One Of UBS China Conference Reveals Emphasis On Humanoid Robotics The first day of the UBS Greater China Conference in Shanghai wrapped up earlier today. It is one of the largest investment conferences hosted by the global wealth manager and investment bank, with a particular focus on Asia. “Robotics has climbed the agenda from previous years, but humanoids in every home remain many years off,” analysts from the bank said […]

Inflation And Revolution Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The revolutionary fervor in Iran today has deep political roots and invites every theory concerning outside influences that have a deep stake in the kind of regime that rules this country. But amidst all the speculation about what’s really happening here, there is an overwhelming factor rarely mentioned. Iran has experienced the sort of inflation that […]

Gavin Newsom Caught In Massive Self-Own Over California Gas Prices The children running Gavin Newsom’s X account might be legitimately brain dead, as evidenced by their latest attempt to ‘own’ conservative influencer Benny Johnson.  On Tuesday, Johnson took to the streets of Los Angeles, posting from an ARCO station that “The average price of gas in America is $2.82 per gallon.” “There are 19 states where you can find gas […]

Muslim Nations Scramble To Acquire Pakistan’s JF-17 Fighter Jet Via The Cradle Several Muslim-majority states are in talks with Pakistan to acquire the JF-17 fighter jet, co-produced with China, as they scramble to upgrade their air forces amid shifting regional security dynamics. According to multiple reports from Reuters, Pakistan is in talks or has reached preliminary arrangements with Libya, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, […]

“It Has Cast A Shadow Over The Permian”: Drilling Slows In Texas As Venezuelan Oil Policy Raises Concerns Efforts by the Trump administration to push more Venezuelan oil onto the global market, with the goal of lowering prices, are creating concern in West Texas, where producers say cheaper oil threatens drilling, jobs and local business activity, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Oil prices have fallen since […]