Washington, DC Has The Highest Share Of Renters In America, Nearly Double National Average About one in three U.S. households rents, a ratio that has stayed surprisingly steady over the past six decades. But with mortgage rates soaring from 2.7% in 2020 to almost 7% today – and home prices continuing to climb – the share of renters has edged up. Today, it takes $121,400 to afford a typical home, or 43% higher than the average […]

Aussie Data Centers Could Swallow 40 Million Litres Of Water Per Day, That’s About 80,000 Households Authored by Jerry Zhu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Australia’s utility industry warns the country’s current water supply is not enough to accommodate the explosive growth of data centres and artificial intelligence (AI). A photo of the Global Switch data centre in Ultimo of Sydney, Australia taken on May 9, 2025. […]

“Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old West Virginia boy as part of a broader examination into sextortion networks that have increasingly targeted American teenagers, resulting in what experts describe as a national crisis of online predation, the New York Post reported. Bryce Tate, 15 Bryce […]

Trump Warns Of ‘Severe’ Tariffs On Canadian Fertilizer If Needed Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering “very severe” tariffs on fertilizer imports from Canada as the United States readies a $12 billion aid package for farmers grappling with the repercussions of the ongoing trade war. Trump mentioned the increased levy on Canada while responding to reporters’ […]

US Army Looks To Build Small Refineries For Critical Minerals By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The U.S. Army will develop small-scale refineries to ensure domestic supply of critical minerals for defense and military purposes as the United States and the Western allies look to reduce their dependence on China.  “We need to come up with a way to ‌make our own (critical minerals) domestically that we can actually monitor […]

Tony Blair ‘Dropped’ From Trump’s Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’ Via Middle East Eye Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is no longer being considered for a seat on a “board of peace” for Gaza chaired by US President Donald Trump. According to the Financial Times, Blair’s name was dropped under pressure from several Arab and Muslim states. The status of the “board of peace” remains unclear and while the idea has received wide […]

Rich People, Poor Morals: Wealthy Are The Most Likely To Rip Off Self-Checkout Machines Rich people, poorer morals? A new LendingTree report claims the shoppers most likely to rip off the self-checkout machine aren’t the desperate — they’re the well-off, according to the NY Post. Americans making over $100,000 a year are twice as likely to steal at self-checkout compared to low-income shoppers. A hefty 40% of six-figure […]

Question Everything Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, The average person in the First World receives far more information than he would if he lived in a Second or Third World country. In many countries of the world, the very idea of twenty-four hour television news coverage would be unthinkable, yet many Westerners feel that, without this constant input, they would be woefully uninformed. Not surprising, then, […]

Adam Schiff Laments Trump Wasn’t Jailed Sooner As DOJ Turns On Him Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., lamented that the Biden administration did not move more quickly to incarcerate President Donald Trump, suggesting that even more aggressive action could have thwarted his 2024 electoral prospects.  Schiff, who himself is facing a federal investigation into allegations of […]

Goldman Reminds Clients Where Travel & Leisure Cracked First Ahead Of 2008 Crisis Goldman analysts led by Lizzie Dove examined how different segments within travel and leisure reacted to, and ultimately recovered from, the 2008-09 recession. Her analysis offers a valuable framework for identifying where consumer stress tends to appear first inside the travel space and whether today’s warning signs in a K-shaped, bifurcated […]

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Order Halting Wind Energy Projects Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Dec. 8 vacated President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order that halted federal permitting and leasing for wind energy projects, saying it violated U.S. law. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys […]

Zelensky Says ‘Ready For Elections’ After Trump Indicated He’s An Obstacle To Peace Update(1435ET): Is this finally the end of the road for Zelensky? President Trump has really ramped up the pressure, in a fresh Politico interview signaling that the Ukrainian leader must begin to accept reality and make compromises, starting with holding elections. According to a fresh audio statement being circulated, Zelensky has newly responded […]

Trump Threatens Tariff Increase On Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Dispute President Donald Trump weighed in on a decades-old border water dispute on Monday, saying he would impose a 5 percent tariff hike on Mexican imports if the country fails to swiftly deliver the water it owes from the Rio Grande. The ultimatum is designed to help struggling U.S. farmers, especially in Texas, amid alleged treaty violations over the past five […]

Harvard Hires Graduate Charged With Assaulting Israeli Classmate As Teaching Fellow Authored by Gabrielle Temaat via The College Fix, Harvard University recently hired a graduate of its Divinity School who was criminally charged with assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel protest.  Elom Tettey-Tamaklo; Across the Divide/Youtube Elom Tettey-Tamaklo is now working as a teaching fellow at the school, earning a […]

Indoctrination Starts Early: New Book Tells 5-Year-Olds Abortion Is A ‘Superpower’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a brazen push to normalise the unthinkable, radical abortion activists are now targeting America’s youngest minds with a colorful children’s book that glorifies killing the unborn as some kind of heroic “superpower.” The extreme left are coming for the kids, framing abortion as […]

Solid 10Y Auction Sees Jump In Foreign Demand, Prices On The Screws After a solid, but tailing, 3Y auction to start the FOMC week yesterday had little impact on the yield curve, moments ago the Treasury sold $39BN in 10Y paper in another solid auction, which however once again had no impact on the secondary market.   The auction priced at a high yield of 4.175%, which was up from 4.068% in November and the highest since August. […]

As Russia Makes More Gains In East, Trump Concedes “At Some Point, Size Will Win” Little has changed on the US-proposed peace plan for Ukraine. Zelensky and the Europeans are rejecting it while Trump is calling out the Ukrainian leader, telling him he better “get on the ball” and accept reality. Not much has changed on the ground either, with battlefield trends pretty much being consistent stretching back many months. Moscow […]

Defense Bill Requires Trump Spy Agencies To Declassify COVID-19 Origins Intel, Chinese Obstruction Slipped into the nearly 3,100-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a provision that requires “declassification” and “transparency” related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and would require the Trump administration’s spy agencies to release its intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology where COVID […]

Federal Judge Orders Release Of Old Ghislaine Maxwell Files About Jeffrey Epstein Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in New York on Dec. 9 ruled that the Department of Justice (DOJ) can unseal records in the case against Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, weeks after the passage of a law that required the government to disclose case records related to both Epstein and Maxwell. Judge Paul A. […]

Goldman Tracks “Lovely Polar Vortex Spinning Into Third Week” Waking up across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday morning, temperatures are hovering in the upper single digits in some spots, especially in interior areas west of the I-95 corridor. Those regions have already seen their first accumulating snow, marking an early start to winter. Goldman sales trader Ranald Falconer updated clients on weather forecasts and […]

Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Argues For Supreme Power Of DC Bureaucracy Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge, Highlighting exactly why Barack Obama, Joe Biden and James Clyburn needed to deploy a 2021 Machiavellian strategy to get her moved onto the Supreme Court, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) argues for the supreme power of the DC bureaucracy that must not be challenged by the President of the United States […]

Exxon Jumps 4% After Company Boosts 2030 Cash-Flow Outlook Exxon is trading sharply higher today, rising nearly 4% after the opening bell as investors reacted to a stronger long-term outlook from the company. The oil giant raised its expectations for future earnings and cash flow through 2030, driven by continued growth in its most profitable assets and additional structural cost savings. The update has pushed Exxon shares back […]

Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar Even As Number Of Quits Plunges To 5 Year Low After a two month data hiatus, moments ago the BLS published the first jobs-linked report when it released the October JOLTS job openings and labor turnover survey. And following the last published JOLTS, which hit a little over two months ago on Sept 30, covering the month of August and which reported just 7.227 million job openings, the October report […]

Bad News Democrats: Tesla Takedown Operation Fails As Purchase Sentiment Recovers Sentiment around Elon Musk’s Tesla brand has significantly improved from the low levels seen earlier this spring, following a coordinated takedown effort by Democratic-aligned billionaire-funded NGOs, left-wing activist networks, far-left militant groups, progressive lawmakers, and left-leaning corporate media operating in what appeared to be a […]

Trump Reversing “Humphrey’s Executor” Is NOT Priced In By Michael Every of Rabobank There are key central bank decisions this week, starting with the RBA today. However, the market has already priced in their expected outcomes. What it’s failing to price in, though it’s more important, is the stream of political and geopolitical developments in which it operates. Not Trump threatening Mexico with an extra 5% tariff over water; […]