Inside The Growing Trend Of Digital Detoxing Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The concept of digital “detoxing” has entered the mainstream, with wellness experts and scientists highlighting its considerable health benefits. Research from BMC suggests that even modest reductions in daily digital engagement can help alleviate symptoms of depression, enhance sleep quality, and lower cortisol […]

Larry Summers Goes Into Hiding; Messages Sought Epstein’s Advice On Cheating With Daughter Of CCP Official In the latest blow to Democrats from the recent ‘Epstein files’ released by House Republicans, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced that he’s stepping back from public commitments after new documents reveal he was asking for Jeffrey Epstein’s advice on how to bang a female mentee behind his wife’s back.  […]

“People Love It”: Trump Talking To Dems About ‘Direct Payment’ Health Care Plans President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he’s spoken with congressional Democrats about a plan to hand people cash that they can use to purchase their own health insurance.  President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One as he departs for Florida from Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Oct. 31, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters […]

Ultraprocessed Foods Linked To Increased Risk Of Precancerous Colorectal Tumors: Study Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new study revealed that ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) may be linked to a rise in colon cancers among young people across the globe. Potato chips are displayed in pharmacy Duane Reade by Walgreens in New York on March 25, 2021. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file The first-of-its-kind study, […]

Trump Suggests Airstrikes On Cartels In Mexico, Colombia: ‘Okay With Me’ President Donald Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office on Monday that potential military strikes in Mexico to disrupt the drug trade would be “okay with me”. He expressed rare openness to direct Pentagon action inside America’s neighbor to the immediate south, at a moment of ongoing deadly drone strikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of […]

FT Confirms Our Report From 2024 That China Is Buying 10x More Gold Than Officially Disclosed One year ago, Goldman’s precious metal analyst Lina Thomas made the case that gold would rise to $3000 by the end of 2025 (it ended up rising more than $1000 higher) as a result of relentless central bank purchases in general, and thanks to China’s ravenous appetite for gold in particular. The bank promptly got pushback on this thesis, […]

Trump Hints US Might Still Be Talking With Maduro, Despite Huge Force Build-Up Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump said on Sunday that the US “may be having discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, suggesting his administration has not entirely cut off diplomacy with Caracas as previous reports have said. Trump made the comments when asked about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement […]

Appeals Court Halts DOT Restrictions On Commercial Driver’s Licenses For Illegals Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia has temporarily blocked the Department of Transportation (DOT) from enforcing a new rule that narrows the conditions under which states may issue commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens. The ruling followed an Oct. 20 petition from two truck […]

Threats Of Sanctions, Economic Warfare, As Japan-China Relations Sink To Decades Low China and Japan are experiencing their most intense diplomatic tensions in years after Beijing issued economic warnings in response to recent comments by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi about a potential Taiwan conflict. As we featured previously, Takaichi had suggested that any Chinese use of force against Taiwan could be considered a […]

Trump Says He Plans To Meet With NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani To “Work Something Out” Update (1700ET): Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he hoped to press President Trump to help ease the affordability crisis. He said that if the president were willing to find common ground on the issue, he would be willing to work with him. “The president ran a campaign where he spoke about a promise to deliver cheaper groceries, a promise to reduce […]

Man Stabbed In Broad Daylight In Times Square Collapses While Yelling “Save The Children” Zohran Mamdani’s election is already making Manhattan safer…and more sane. A man believed to be homeless was stabbed twice in Times Square in broad daylight on Saturday, then staggered around shouting “save the children” as he bled heavily, according to the NY Post.  The 30-year-old was attacked around 11:40 a.m. outside 1501 Broadway […]

ICE, Partners Launch Initiative To Protect 450,000 Children From Unvetted Sponsors Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched an initiative aimed at protecting 450,000 unaccompanied children (UAC) who were illegally smuggled into the United States, and then placed with unvetted sponsors during the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security […]

Nihilistic Accelerationism: Kirk Assassin & Butler, PA Shooter Share Disturbing Online Far-Left Radicalization, Furry Fetish Building on Tucker Carlson’s reporting about President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, and what increasingly appears to be a major FBI cover-up of Crooks’ political leanings and far-left radicalization, a new New York Post investigation reveals even more disturbing details, including a […]

Google Sued For Allegedly Using Gemini AI Tool To Track Users’ Private Communications Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times, Google LLC is accused in a civil lawsuit of using its artificial intelligence program Gemini to collect data on users’ private communications in Gmail as well as Google’s instant messaging and video conference programs. Until around Oct. 10, the Gemini AI assistant required the user to deliberately […]

US Designates Venezuela’s “Cartel Of The Suns” As Terrorists, But Its Existence Is Dubious Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday that the State Department would be designating the so-called Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” – though many analysts and reporters have questioned whether the group actually exists. “Based in Venezuela, the Cartel de los Soles is headed by […]

Just Spill The Beans Already… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Isn’t it obvious what’s at the heart of this Jeffrey Epstein psychodrama? The country is sick unto near-death with official secrecy, cover-ups, black ops, stonewalling, and never-ending games of political hide-the-salami — especially when those salamis are directed up the Republic’s own rear end. The worst victim of sexual abuse is America herself. Can’t […]

Judge Says ‘Government Misconduct’ By DOJ Prosecutor May Have Tainted Comey Case A federal magistrate judge on Monday said that “government misconduct” may have tainted the DOJ’s case against former FBI Director James Comey, and has ordered prosecutors to turn over records of secret grand jury proceedings to Comey’s defense counsel as they seek to dismiss the false-statement and obstruction-of-Congress charges pending against him in […]

EBITDA And The Warnings Of Charlie Munger Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, This past week, Greg Feirman wrote an interesting article about “The Perils Of Adjusted EBITDA.” Before we get into his discussion, let’s discuss what EBITDA is. EBITDA is an acronym that stands for “Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.” Over the years, EBITDA has become a go-to metric […]

Still No Deal: Rare Earth Talks Between China And U.S. Drag On With Little Tangible Progress So Far The US and China are still hashing out the details of how Beijing will loosen rare-earth export restrictions, weeks after a trade truce that Washington said would boost shipments, according to Bloomberg.  In other words, there’s still no rare earth mineral trade deal, despite the “truce” between the two countries.  Negotiators […]

Cooling Labor Market Drives Uptick In Gig-Platform Hours We haven’t heard much in corporate media about short-term, flexible, on-demand work, otherwise known as the gig economy, but a new Goldman note offers color into what’s happening with these part-time jobs as the labor market cools. Let’s take a look at the news cycle for mentions of “gig economy.” Notice how the topic surged in the early days of the Covid pandemic, when it […]

Trump Offers Lifeline To UK ‘Thought Criminals’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump White House is mulling political asylum for British free speech activists branded “thought criminals” under Keir Starmer’s regime, in one example offering refugee status to those prosecuted for silent protests outside abortion clinics as well as expressing online dissent. The transatlantic intervention, said to be […]

Stocks Slide After Amazon Shocks With Another Massive Bond Offering, But Rebound On News Boaz Weinsten Selling Hyperscaler CDS Just when it seemed that risk was about to stabilize, this morning Amazon decided to add more supply to the biggest trade of 2026 – which, as BofA’s Michael Hartnett, laid out over the weekend is shorting hyperscaler bonds – when it announced that it was planning to raise about $12 billion through a bond […]

Duffy Averts Nationwide Airport Crisis As “Normal Flight Operations Resume”  The 43-day federal government shutdown that plunged major US airports into chaos is finally easing, with operations normalizing just in time for the year’s busiest holiday travel period. “The FAA has determined that normal flight operations can resume after multiple days of positive staffing with air traffic controllers in our towers,” Transportation […]

150 Years Of Data Destroy Democrat Dogma On Tariffs: Fed Study Finds They Lower, Not Raise, Inflation A new historical analysis is challenging the central premise that has guided trade policy, inflation forecasting, and Federal Reserve decision-making for decades. According to the study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco spanning 150 years of tariff changes across three major Western economies, higher tariffs […]

Key Events This Week: Macro Returns With Payrolls Thursday, FOMC Minutes And Speakers Galore, But Nvidia Earnings Matters Most After the resolution of the US government shutdown, markets face a packed calendar of delayed and scheduled releases this week, although maybe the most important event will be Nvidia’s earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. According to DB’s Jim Reid, one of the most interesting developments last […]