From Vibrancy To Vacancy: America’s Going, Going Gone! Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, I hate shopping. I hate crowds. I hate malls. I don’t believe I had entered a mall in over a decade, until Monday. My visit to the once vibrant Montgomery Mall in Montgomeryville, PA was a shocking confirmation of what I had been predicting about retail stores since 2008. Next to the term Dead Mall in the dictionary […]

President Trump To Skip Super Bowl, Slams Halftime Show With Bad Bunny, Green Day Trump made history last year as the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl when he showed up at the game in New Orleans, but on Saturday, he announced he won’t be attending this year.  Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump blasted the NFL for choosing Bad Bunny and Green Day as halftime performers. Trump told the New York Post that the […]

Supreme Court Orders CA Dems To Justify ‘Prop 50’ Maps Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The Supreme Court on Thursday gave California Democrats a week to respond to the California Republican Party’s request to block the new Democrat-drawn congressional district maps from being used in November. The request for a response, issued by Justice Elena Kagan, who is handling the emergency-injunction request for the […]

Cuba Charges US With Imposing ‘Marine Siege’ For ‘Piracy’ Of Its Oil Imports A Cuban diplomat has accused Washington of “international piracy” as the US moves to choke off Venezuelan oil supplies to the island following the Jan.3rd Pentagon operation that led to the ouster and abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. Carlos de Céspedes, Cuba’s ambassador to Colombia, told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the United States has […]

12,000 Flights Canceled, NatGas Spikes Again As Winter Storm Fern Paralyzes Eastern US Update (1900ET): The good news for those across the southern US and the Mid-Atlantic is that the massive snowstorm turned ice storm will wind down this evening. In the Northeast, snow will continue overnight. The bad news: much of the eastern half of the country is set for a week of dangerously cold temperatures. The end is finally here […]

“Do The Right Thing”: President Trump Urges “Common Sense” From Democrats Amid the escalating violence in Minnesota, we calmly ask you to cast your mind back a few years – we know it’s hard, but just try… President Obama gave his ICE chief an award for deporting 409,000 illegals (in 2012). President Trump’s ICE chief has deported 290,000 (in 2025) and he is called a Nazi. The ICE chief… the same guy – Tom Homan. The […]

What The Left Doesn’t Want You To Know About Alex Pretti, The Man That Border Patrol Shot Mainstream media outlets rushed to paint Alex Pretti as a blameless ICU nurse gunned down by heartless Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. They highlighted his work caring for veterans and seized on video snippets showing him holding a phone. The New York Times ran with that angle, running the headline “Man Killed by Federal […]

Maybe Truflation Is On To Something By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Fed On the betting apps, it looks like Rick Rieder has become the odds on favorite to win. I like the idea of mixing things up at the Fed and think that having a market practitioner in charge would be an interesting change. If he gets the nomination, expect more of a focus across the yield curve (our view all along of how the Fed will operate in 2026). […]

Heavily Shorted USA Rare Earth To Soar After US Govt Takes 10% Stake It was last July 9, when we told readers all about “The Coming Rare Earth Revolution And How To Profit: All You Need To Know About The “Ex-China Supply Chain.” It was here that we said MP Materials (and to a lesser extent USA Rare Earth Corp) was best positioned to capitalize as global rare earth trade flows and pricing adjust over the coming years (also, as a […]

California’s Billionaire Tax: A Mirror Of EU Green Socialism Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The mid-19th century Gold Rush earned California the nickname “Golden State.” Over generations, the region became a place of aspiration— a projection screen for ambition and prosperity. Here, the American Dream coalesced into tangible stories of social mobility. Today, the state has become the stage for a political experiment that mirrors […]

Scientists Pioneer Reverse Solar Panels To Create Energy At Night By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are developing a “reverse solar” panel, called a thermoradiative diode, which generates electricity by emitting infrared light (heat) into cold surroundings. The device works by capturing heat absorbed by the Earth during the day and radiating it out at night, offering a way to […]

Transtifa ‘Kyle’ Instructs Comrades In Minneapolis: “Get Your F**king Guns, Stop These F**king People”  About one year ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Division conducted an unclassified briefing warning of an emerging domestic threat vector described as “nihilistic accelerationism.” The briefing was around the time of a series of attacks in which left-wing militants firebombed Tesla vehicles at showrooms. […]

“Befuddled By The Insanity Swirling Around Me…” Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, Fake It Until You Make It “My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” — George Carlin The government reported CPI of “only” 2.7% and the financial pundits and Trump toadies celebrated the “lowest inflation in 5 years”. This is after “surprisingly good” unemployment report where the […]

Schumer: Democrats ‘Will Not Allow’ DHS Funding Bill To Move Forward Update (1603ET): Chuck Schumer is out with a new statement explicitly refusing to move forward with DHS funding as part of the six-part spending package to avert a government shutdown.  “Senate Democrats will not allow the current DHS funding bill to move forward,” he said, adding “Senate Republicans must work with Democrats to advance the other five funding […]

Investment Risk Is Underappreciated Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Investment Risk Is Underappreciated There’s an old parable worth remembering, especially when it comes to investment risk and the markets. Once upon a time, there was a young shepherd who was tasked with watching over a flock of sheep. Eventually, bored and craving attention, he runs into the village shouting, “Wolf!” The villagers […]

Left-Wing Activists Run Shadow Police Force On Signal To Target ICE In Minneapolis Last week, federal prosecutors issued six grand jury subpoenas to Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and others, as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded federal deportation operations. While the subpoenas appeared focused on whether public statements […]

Repricing Sovereignty Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.,com, Personal Freedom In The Age of Mass Compliance What follows are a couple of excerpts from the last Bitcoin Capitalist Letter, which was a long-form piece that was a refinement of my overall long term investment thesis. It corrects for my biggest mistake in the previous model: the belief that nation states were in secular decline, and centralized government […]

Gavin Newsom Humiliated At Davos After Trolling Trump With “Knee Pads” Stunt Leftists have a disconcerting habit of making everything lame and gay.  And, because they have zero talent for memes or clever ridicule, when they do try to take their political opponents “down a notch” the attempt usually comes off as unintelligent and humiliating.    California Governor Gavin Newsom is the epitome of the bumbling narcissistic leftist […]

‘Repatriate The Gold’: German Economists Urge Withdrawal From US Vaults Authored by Kate Connolly via The Guardian, Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults, spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and the unpredictability of Donald Trump. Germany […]

Where The US Has Military Footholds In Europe Since the beginning of his second term one year ago, President Trump has escalated his public campaign regarding his plans for acquiring Greenland, framing the autonomous Danish territory as a “national security necessity” due to its Arctic location, while the island is also rich in untapped mineral resources. Trump’s rhetoric has ranged from offers to purchase the territory from […]

2026 Is The Year Of Balance Sheet Engineering In The Battery Storage Market By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com In the first quarter of 2026, the global energy storage market is no longer a playground for visionaries… it is a graveyard for the undercapitalized. The data is rough. As of March 2025, QuantumScape sat on $860 million in cash against a trailing twelve-month burn rate of $331 million. This 2.6-year window is the “valley […]

Trump Slams Davos Elites Over “Green New Scam” As Climate Crisis Narrative Falls Apart President Trump used his time at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to denounce the globalists’ disastrous “Green New Scam” policies that have caused degrowth in parts of the West and helped spark an energy crisis with soaring power prices. “You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. Here in Europe, we’ve seen the […]

The AI Factor Behind Trump’s Power Play On China’s Oil Suppliers Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Why is it so important to the Trump administration to take control of Venezuela and encourage the people of Iran to overthrow the Islamic regime? The link between the two is obviously oil. Of course, the strategy in Venezuela involves oil, but also includes restricting China’s influence in the Western Hemisphere, […]

Escobar: The Real “Rupture” In Davos Authored by Pepe Escobar, Whatever the barbarians may be potting, the fact that matters is that China is already deep into the next phase, where it is expected to replace the United States as the world’s primary consumer market. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci Davos 2026 was a demented kaleidoscope. The only […]

Visualizing The World’s 50 Most Powerful Militaries The recent U.S. operation against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demonstrated that military power is not only about troop numbers or superior combat technology. With the successful extraction of Maduro and his wife from a military compound in just 2.5 hours, the extremely effective operation showed how far training, intelligence, and logistics go towards driving military […]