October Foreclosure Filings Jump 20% YoY Last month we noted that US foreclosure filings jumped 17% in Q3 of 2025 vs. Q3 2024, with Florida, Nevada, South Carolina, Illinois and Delaware leading the pack, based on research by ATTOM.  Now, ATTOM is reporting a 20% monthly spike in October vs. 2024 – marking the eighth straight month of YoY increases.  Breaking it down: There were 36,766 US properties with some type of […]

From Nukes To AI-Powered Drones: Saudi Arabia’s MbS Bringing Wishlist To D.C. Next Week Via Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants a defense deal that outshines Qatar’s, AI chips and AI-powered drones, and potentially, American nuclear weapons stationed in his country. The wishlist reveals the confidence of a leader who arrives in Washington on Monday, having withstood pressure to normalize ties […]

Labor Demographer Issues Warning: College-Educated Oversupply Is Here Goldman analysts led by Evan Tylenda published a note on emerging labor-market risks and how companies are adapting to aging demographics and shrinking labor pools. One section stood out in particular: the widening mismatch between an oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs. Tylenda and others on […]

All SNAP Beneficiaries Will Need To Reapply For Benefits: Agriculture Secretary Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested on Nov. 14 that everyone registered for the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits should reapply as a result of ongoing fraud discoveries. At least, that is what she said when she shared what the Trump administration […]

“Incandescent Rage”: Far-Left Nonprofit Head Furious Over Democrats Caving To Trump And Ending Shutdown Ahead of the Democratic Party’s government shutdown, the billionaire-funded, far-left activist group Indivisible – the nonprofit partially responsible for color-revolution-style operations aimed at derailing President Trump and the America First agenda at every turn – posted a frantic call to action on its website, urging its […]

US Tests Thermonuclear Bomb Without Warhead In Nevada Desert The United States successfully carried out a test of the B61-12 tactical thermonuclear bomb – but using a non-nuclear, inert version – back in August, according to a newly released statement from Sandia National Laboratories under the US Department of Energy. The tests took place in Nevada from August 19 to 21, which involved F-35 fighter jets deploying and releasing […]

I’ll Be Bullish On Stocks Again…Someday Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Make no doubt about it: I am far more of a skeptic, a cynic, and a bear than most of the lobotomized market participants, analysts, and financial-news anchors wandering around the financial landscape like sedated Grand Theft Auto NPCs. Not only have I personally researched innumerable demonstrable frauds (think about what your mindset would be after […]

Kremlin Trolls Zelensky After Berlin Urges Ukraine To Take Back Fighting-Age Males The Russian Foreign Ministry has mocked the German government’s pleas to Ukraine to keep its fighting-age young men from flooding Germany and the rest of Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday acknowledged the pressing problem in televised remarks discussing Ukraine’s manpower woes with President Zelensky, pleading with him to “ensure […]

Jan. 6 Panel Cost Twice Previous Estimates, Hiring TV Producers To Dramatize Attack Authored by Mark Stricherz via The Center Square, The U.S. House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol cost almost twice as much as previously reported, including spending taxpayer funds for TV news producers and documentary filmmakers to create videos dramatizing its case against President Donald Trump, […]

US Utility Giants Discuss Soaring Power Bills, Grid Reforms In The Data-Center Era Readers were given an epic breakdown on Wednesday detailing the true scale of funding needed for the AI data-center boom, one that would require an estimated $5 trillion in investment, with Washington on the hook for at least $1 trillion of it. In a separate note, we highlighted an inconvenient truth for this cycle: the U.S. is short 44 nuclear power […]

CEO Of Crowd-For-Hire Company Calls For Transparency In Who Funds Demonstrations Via American Greatness, The CEO of Crowds On Demand is urging members of Congress to pass a Transparency In Political Demonstration Act (TPDA) that would require greater transparency in groups that hire demonstrators for events around the country. Adam Swart wrote a letter to Congress on November 11, calling for more transparency in who is hiring […]

BBC Edits Trump; Trump Still The Villain Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side Substack, “Sure, we misquoted him. But now he’s weaponizing our mistake!” Remember that fateful January day when the sitting President of the United States ordered all his angry, disappointed supporters to rush down to the Capitol—where they were busy certifying his opponent’s stolen Electoral College victory—and fight like hell? I […]

Germany Marches Toward Reinstating Military Conscription, Starting With Fitness Database Under US pressure to bolster its armed forces so as to deter supposed Russian aspirations to invade NATO countries, Germany is moving toward reinstating military conscription, with the initial steps centering questionnaires and medical exams that will feed a database detailing each young man’s fitness, aptitude and willingness to serve. The plan […]

New Facial Recognition Vans Rolled Out For Use By 7 More UK Police Forces PA Media via The Epoch Times, A new fleet of facial recognition vans are to be rolled out by seven police forces across the UK in an expanded pilot programme. A police officer views a camera feed from inside a live facial recognition (LFR) van. Andrew Matthews/PA The Metropolitan Police, South Wales Police and Essex Police have been using the facial […]

US, Switzerland Reach Tariff Deal That Lowers Duties, Stokes Investment The United States and Switzerland have reached a trade deal under which Swiss imports to America will be subject to a reduced 15 percent duty, officials said. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Nov. 14 that the administration had “essentially reached a deal” with the Swiss government after months of negotiations in the context of […]

Tucker Exposes Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks’ Social Media History, The FBI Coverup, And More Strangeness Tucker Carlson has just released a deep dive into Donald Trump’s attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks – who both the Biden and the Trump FBI have been very quiet about since the July 13, 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.  In late September, Carlson’s team received an anonymous tip from someone who said they had […]

Germany’s “Council Of Economic Experts” Calls For Higher Inheritance Taxes, And Bows To The State Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In its latest annual report, Germany’s Council of Economic Experts — once regarded as a market-oriented corrective to government excess — has presented what can only be described as a courtesy opinion. Rather than challenging the political status quo, the five “wise men” largely echo Berlin’s own […]

Friday Night Meltdown: Trump Yanks MTG Endorsement, Mocks Massie’s Remarriage After Wife’s Death Capping a week in which he faced a coordinated blitz by Democrats and allied journalists working to implicate him in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump had a social media meltdown Friday night, lashing out at two GOP representatives who both enjoy deep national support among conservatives. Trump withdrew his endorsement of […]

Climate Circus COP30: Capital Bazaar And Moral Rejuvenation Submitted by Thomas Kolbe From November 10 to 21, the latest climate summit, COP30, is taking place in Belém, Brazil — a global stage for fighting what is labeled the “climate-damaging gas” carbon dioxide. Germany has sent a 170-member delegation to participate — ostensibly to “save the planet,” but more realistically to distribute German taxpayers’ money […]

Deep In The Fourth Turning: The Darkest Hours Are Before The Dawn Via Gold and Geopolitics Substack, Foreword I first thought to write this as a multi-part series, but I finally decided to group everything together as it wouldn’t do justice to this article. There’s a lot to unpack when discussing the ongoing societal changes, and I feel I barely touched on anything but the essence of that. Even then, standing at more than 6000 […]

Russia Still Open To Trump-Backed Peace Talks, But Ukraine Must Open Door: Kremlin Clearly the status of US efforts to find peace in Ukraine have stalled to the point of dying, following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska back in August. Since then attacks on energy sites by both warring countries have only intensified. The White House in the meantime unleashed its latest round of sanctions targeting Russia’s two state oil majors […]

Major American Fast Food Chain Moo-ving To Popular ‘New’ Milk Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced in a Nov. 13 alert on X that it is changing its milk and chocolate milk to A2 beginning Dec. 1. A sign for the Steak ‘n Shake chain restaurant in Middletown, Del., on July 26, 2019. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Steak ‘n Shake said the shift was due to A2 being […]

Humanoid Robot Roundup: Auto Industry Poised To Lead First Wave Of Adoption In last week’s “Humanoid Robot Roundup” report, we provided readers with additional color on Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot following the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. Limited production of Optimus has already begun at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory, with plans to scale production next year. In this week’s robotics roundup, we […]

Anti-Abortion ‘Word Game’ Referred To Aussie Authorities For Investigation Authored by Naziya Alvi Rahman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A fundraising “game” created by prominent anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe has sparked political backlash in South Australia. Joanna Howe speaks to supporters of an abortion law reform gather on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide, Sept. 25, 2024. AAP Image/Matt Turner It has […]

Consumers Ditch Restaurants For Groceries As Budgets Break  Goldman analysts led by Christine Cho attended the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference (RFDC) in Las Vegas earlier this week. The conference drew restaurant executives and founders, franchisees and multi-unit operators, private-equity investors and lenders, industry consultants, and other stakeholders across the broader restaurant ecosystem. Cho and her team […]