Who’s Most Affected By Federal Cuts To DEI And EBT The inherent threat of socialist programs rests in the fact that they can be used by a political party or a politician as a means to bribe voters from certain demographics to support destructive policies in exchange for handouts.  The Democratic Party understood this well when they introduced “The Great Society” welfare programs under President  Lyndon B Johnson in the 1960s.  […]

Japan Eyes Letting Banks Hold And Trade Bitcoin As Crypto Adoption Grows Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is reportedly considering reforms that would allow domestic banks to acquire and hold digital assets, including Bitcoin, for investment purposes.  This would be a drastic move away from the conservative stance established in 2020, when local banks were barred […]

One Third Of Americans Have More Credit Card Debt Than Savings One in three Americans now have more credit card debt than emergency savings, according to the latest survey by financial services company Bankrate. As Statista’s Anna Flecks shows in the chart below, this is up ten percentage points from 2011, when the company first started polling the question. Meanwhile, around 53 percent of respondents said that their savings […]

New Generation Of Industries Emerges In Texas As Rare Earths Race Ignites Authored by Dylan Baddour via Inside Climate News (emphasis ours), Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for oil. This time, they’re after lithium for batteries and other rare elements. Chevron and Halliburton announced East Texas projects this summer. Exxon has acreage across the border in Arkansas. Smackover Lithium, a joint […]

Forget Harvard & Stanford, The University Of Chicago Has The Highest Tuition Costs Among Elite US Colleges The cost of attending America’s most prestigious universities continues to soar. For the 2024–25 academic year, the total annual cost of the top 10 national universities now ranges from $77,500 to $98,300, according to data compiled from U.S. News & World Report and College Board. In the graphic below, Visual […]

The Crisis And Revolution Hidden In Plain Sight Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, While we focus on AI and finance, society is crumbling beneath our feet. According to both the mainstream media and social media, the forces that will shape the future are: 1) AI (i.e. technology’s impact on jobs and growth), 2) geopolitical competition for AI dominance, energy, resources, trade, military and financial power, 3) […]

Conservative Takaichi To Become Japan’s New Prime Minister After LDP, Innovation Party Agree On Coalition Sanae Takaichi, the leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister after the LDP and the Japan Innovation Party formally signed a coalition agreement on Monday, giving Takaichi enough support to be elected in parliament on Tuesday. Sanae Takaichi, right, the leader of […]

No ‘King’, But Ten Million ‘Dukes’ Authored by Anthony Esolen via AmericanGreatness.com, I see there were protests this weekend, with the American people rising against the supposed King of the United States, Donald Trump. They seem to be most enraged at his using the National Guard to enforce immigration laws passed by the people’s representatives in Congress, over the will of local dukes and duchesses. Those aristocrats have no […]

Gigantic Muslim ‘Planned Community’ Meets Resistance From Texas AG Authored by Wendi Strauch Mahoney via AmericanThinker.com, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has asked the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) to review what he says is evidence that entities tied to the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC)’s EPIC City project violated state and federal securities laws — and to refer the matter back so he can file suit.   […]

Soros Getting Ready For Showdown Against Trump Administration A Justice Department official recently instructed attorneys to launch an investigation into billionaire George Soros and his son Alex’s influential Open Society Foundations, a move that sent shockwaves across the leftwing NGO-Democrat complex. George Soros, left, and Donald Trump, Photos: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images, Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg President Donald Trump […]

Taibbi: FEMA Workers Improperly Collected Data About Politics Of Disaster Victims Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Last November 8th, on the Saturday after Election Day, one of the more bizarre post-scripts to Donald Trump’s re-election emerged in the form of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) decision to sideline one official accused of telling FEMA workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump” while […]

Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump’s National Guard Deployment in Oregon A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump can send National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon while a lawsuit against the action works its way through lower courts. Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and police, clash with protesters outside a downtown U.S. Immigration and […]

Slouching Towards Peace Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Zelensky has been given a Russian ultimatum via Trump. Accept Russia terms or face total destruction.” – SiriusReport on “X” Well, “No Kings” came and went. Inflatable animal costumes did a brisk business for one week. The old Boomers got a social space to act out their nostalgic re-visit to the Age of Aquarius. They resisted. . . something. (Mainly […]

Trump Blasts Colombian President As ‘Lunatic, Drug Leader’ While Vowing New Tariffs President Trump has put Colombia on notice, and will hit the South American nation with new tariffs. He has further charged President Gustavo Petro with being an “illegal drug leader,” saying the US will also halt all aid to the country. Trump asserted Sunday on social media that drug trafficking “has become the biggest business in Colombia” and […]

World’s Most Advanced AI Chips Now Being Made In America Due To Trump’s Policies: Nvidia Chief Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the United States has entered a new “industrial revolution” powered by artificial intelligence, crediting President Donald Trump’s tariff policies and manufacturing agenda for enabling the first-ever production of the company’s most advanced Blackwell AI […]

Now Amazon Package Delays? AWS Still Suffering “Degraded” Service Across US-East Update (1507ET): Fast forward to late in the U.S. cash session, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still experiencing “degraded” service in its US-East-1 (Northern Virginia) region, resulting in disruptions across a number of apps and websites today. But forget the disruptions seen on Snapchat, Facebook, Fortnite, and many other websites today. We […]

India’s Largest Metals Refinery Just Ran Out Of Silver For The First Time In History Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Shortages hit London too. The silver market is broken. Sold Out in India, Panic in London Bloomberg comments How the Silver Market Broke Key Takeaways Vipin Raina’s company, India’s largest precious metals refinery, ran out of silver stock for the first time in its history due to high […]

Watch: Liberal Boomer Paid-Protesters Caught Chaperoning At NYC ‘No Kings’ Protest  The national conversation around the Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, has intensified following the weekend’s “No Kings” protest, where unhinged white baby boomers paraded through city streets, turning the protest into yet another national laughingstock for the Democratic Party. White liberal boomers […]

These Two Things Are Very Different… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fox News featured a segment highlighting how while Barack Obama is constructing a monstrously ugly concrete tower in Chicago, President Trump is overseeing a beautiful giant classical Arch to be located near the Arlington Memorial Bridge. These two things perfectly characterise their respective presidencies. Obama’s presidential library in […]

Sustaining The Unsustainable By Rabobank The Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P500 closed around half a percentage point higher on Friday following comments by Donald Trump to Fox News that elevated tariffs on China are not “sustainable”. Markets seem to be interpreting this line as the latest incidence of TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and bidding up risk (except Bitcoin) as a result. Gold prices dipped from record highs, yields […]

“I Want China To Thrive, But…”: Trump Outlines Three Demands For Beijing Before High-Level Trade Talks  President Trump spoke about his relationship with Xi and the possibility of trade deals with China during his meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this morning. “I expect we’ll probably work out a very fair deal with President Xi of China,” Trump said Monday, as he repeatedly returned to his dynamics with […]

Zelensky Presses Plan For 25 Patriot Batteries Using Frozen Russian Funds President Zelensky got rejected on Tomahawks, but is now seeking to finalizing a deal to purchase 25 Patriot air defense systems, which the Ukrainian leader has described as a major step forward in strengthening the country’s defenses against Russia’s ongoing aerial assaults. Zelensky has told reporters in fresh remarks that the agreement envisions the […]

Speculative Bull Runs And The Value Of A Bearish Tilt Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The recent market crack certainly woke up the more complacent bullish investors. Of course, the complacency was warranted, given the recent market surge, conversations about “TINA” (There Is No Alternative), and how “this time is different.” But that is what a speculative bull run looks and feels like. […]

OpenAI-Microsoft Friction Grows As ChatGPT App Growth Slows, Data Center Buildout Risks Overcapacity OpenAI’s aggressive expansion of datacenters and infrastructure investments – along with its massive pipeline of future projects, fueled by what we call a “circle jerk” in AI vendor financing – has prompted warnings from Microsoft executives that meeting all of Sam Altman’s infrastructure demands could generate overcapacity risks […]

China GDP Grows At Slowest Pace In A Year Amid Crumbling Domestic Demand, Crashing Real Estate Market China’s economic growth slowed to the weakest pace in a year in the third quarter as fragile domestic demand left it heavily reliant on the output of its exporting factories – which have sparked a global deflationary shockwave as China seeks to capture market share abroad through cutthroat price cuts sparking outrage among […]