Sen. Blumenthal ‘Fearful’ Trump Will Put Troops In Iran As Congressional Votes Loom Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Tuesday that he was “fearful” that the Trump administration would put “boots on the ground” in Iran as the war the US and Israel launched on Saturday continues to escalate. “I just want to say that I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting […]

The Global Race To Unlock Nuclear Fusion Authored by Felicity Bradstock via oilprice.com, Governments worldwide have been racing to unlock the secret to nuclear fusion energy for several decades, with the aim of producing abundant, clean energy. While several generation milestones have been achieved in recent years, accomplishing commercial-scale production continues to be extremely complex. However, with more recent successes, are […]

Visualizing Iran’s Vast Size & Why Any Ground Invasion Means Years-Long Quagmire Most Americans have little understanding or concept of Iran’s size in terms of geography or population. The ethno-religious make-up of the sprawling Mideast/West Asian nation is also deeply important, given the US is already talking about arming and supporting some kind of Kurdish-led anti-Tehran ground operation.  Suffice it to say, Iran’s […]

Trump’s Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality Authored by Andrew Topf via oilprice.com, Last week US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, before later declaring his administration will control Venezuela’s oil sales “indefinitely”. Decrying the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, including that the South American […]

The 10 Most Common Medications Americans Are Taking Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Americans are popping pills at a rate that might surprise even their doctors—and most of what they’re taking, they chose themselves. The Epoch Times/Shutterstock Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults take at least one pill each week, and one in six takes five or more, according to a recent study published in JAMA, […]

Article 5 Looming: NATO Shoots Down Iranian Ballistic Missile Fired At Turkey There’s looming fear that Trump’s Operation Epic Fury is fast spinning into a broader regional war, even a possible WW3 scenario – though large powers like Russia and China are expected to remain on the sidelines.  Illustrating this potential, on Wednesday a ballistic missile launched from Iran and tracked across Iraqi and Syrian airspace before heading […]

Typical US Homeowners Stay 12 Years In Their Homes – 20 Years In Los Angeles Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. homeowners stayed in their houses for about 12 years as of 2025—the longest median time since 2022. A view of houses in a neighborhood in Los Angeles on July 5, 2022. Frederic Brown/AFP via Getty Images In a March 4 report, Redfin noted that the “stay put” trend peaked at 13.4 years […]

“You Are Not Choosing To Die, You Are Choosing To Arrive”: Google’s Gemini Accused Of ‘Coaching’ Florida Man To Suicide Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alphabet’s Google is facing what the plaintiffs call its first wrongful-death lawsuit tied to its Gemini chatbot after the family of a 36-year-old Florida man alleged the AI system encouraged him to take his own life following weeks of […]

Hollywood Celebrities Flee The US As The Woke Movie Industry Implodes The collapse of Hollywood has been on the radar for some time now, though the industry consistently and vehemently denies they are in decline.  The movie industry Titanic is sinking fast and the celebrity rats are abandoning the ship.  Some of are even leaving the US for foreign shores.  The media claims that the death of Hollywood is a signal that America is […]

NY AG James Orders Hospital To Resume Gender-Transition Treatment For Minors Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, In a rare and controversial move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth. NYU Langone had discontinued such treatments after funding threats from the Trump administration. It is now caught between the […]

U.S. Submarine Sinks Iranian Warship In First Torpedo Kill Since WWII Update (1325ET): U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that a U.S. Navy submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena with a Mk 48 torpedo off the coast of Sri Lanka. According to a Military Times report, the DoW confirmed this was the first kill by a U.S. submarine since World War II. “In the Indian Ocean, an American submarine sank an Iranian warship […]

Karnage: Korea Kospi Suffers Biggest Crash In History – Is It A Buying Opportunity? Yesterday we discussed the dramatic move in Korean stocks, which saw the Kospi tumble by 7.4%, its biggest drop since the August 2024 carry trade unwind, and which put a dramatic halt to the historic meltup in the country’s stock market driven almost entirely by memory (Samsung and SK Hynix) and semiconductor stocks. However, as we noted earlier […]

Primary Losers: Crockett Cries ‘Disenfranchisement’, Crenshaw Crushed Rep. Jasmine Crockett has just lost her Democratic Senate primary in Texas to Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico, who will now try to become the first Democrat in nearly 40 years to win a Senate election in Texas. He will face the Republican winner between longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas AG Ken Paxton.  Crockett, a racist, who says that […]

Western Official Claims Iran Has Just ‘Days Left’ For Depleting Missile Arsenal Among the most crucial open questions in the ongoing Operation Epic Fury – or perhaps the most pressing issue – is which warring side will outlast the other in terms of maintaining missile and interceptor numbers, and for the US side this means enough to achieve the (somewhat ambiguous) military objectives. Speculation and estimates are flying wildly […]

Iran Signals ‘Prolonged War’ As US Strikes Go Deeper, Kurdish Groups Deny Reports Of Offensive Here are some of the most critical developments unfolding in the US-Iran conflict:  Iraqi Kurdistan govt statement: Not a single Iraqi Kurd has crossed the border. This is patently false. The U.S. Senate rejected a War Powers resolution that sought to force President Trump to end or seek congressional approval for military […]

Two States, Two Visions: California Wants To Add A Wealth Tax; Florida Wants To Remove One Authored by Siri Terjesen & Michael Ryall via The Epoch Times, While Sacramento legislators debate how to extract more money from residents who are already leaving, Tallahassee legislators are moving in the opposite direction. The fiscal philosophies now playing out in California and Florida represent the starkest tax policy divergence in […]

Costco Beats Out Walmart As Cheapest Grocery Store In The U.S. A new pricing analysis from Consumer Reports suggests shoppers may find better deals than expected—sometimes well below Walmart’s prices. The February study, carried out by the New York–based Strategic Resource Group, compared grocery baskets in six major metro areas across the U.S. Walmart, the nation’s largest and most widespread grocer, served as the pricing […]

QatarEnergy Declares Force Majeure As One-Fifth Of Global LNG Supply Goes Dark Qatar’s long-standing image as the world’s most reliable LNG supplier abruptly ended on Wednesday after QatarEnergy halted LNG production and declared force majeure to customers, a major shock to global gas markets given that Qatar accounts for 20% of global LNG exports, with 80% of those volumes to Asia.  “Further to the announcement by QatarEnergy […]

Watch: Bessent Teases ‘Series Of Announcements’ To Stabilize Oil; Says Trump’s 15% Tariff Will Kick In This Week Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump’s 15 percent global tariff will take effect sometime this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Following the Supreme Court’s rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy last month, Trump imposed a 10 percent global […]

Crude Stocks Rise 3.5 Million, Highest Since May 2025 With oil flows passing through the Straits of Hormuz blocked indefinitely, markets were paying especially close attention to today’s weekly DOE report on oil stocks, to see how much capacity the US has in case of a prolonged lockout. The result was satisfactory.  The DOE reported the following weekly changes: Crude +3.475MM, more than the expected +3.00MM, and the highest […]

Novo Nordisk Finally Catches Bid After FDA Warns Telehealth Companies Novo Nordisk shares in Copenhagen finally caught a bid after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 30 warning letters to telehealth companies for making false and misleading claims regarding compounded GLP-1 products (otherwise known as copycat GLP-1s) offered on their websites. FDA has warned 30 telehealth companies about misleading drug ads. Consumers […]

Services ISM Smashes Estimates, Prints At 56.1 Highest Since 2022, As Prices Paid Tumble After the Manufacturing ISM print earlier this week came modestly stronger than expected (albeit with the Prices Paid component spiking and sending 10Y yields higher), some were expecting a similar improvement in today’s Services ISM print. What they got instead, was a blowout number, and one suggesting that whatever weakness the US economy was […]

Rising Energy Costs May Hit All Sectors Eventually By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Nowhere To Run There don’t appear to be many safe havens as the situation in Middle East continues to evolve. Not in markets, and not in the region either. At the time of writing, Israel has launched a new strike on Iran. And the US is considering arming Kurdish forces, trying to convince them to take part in a ground […]

Air Freight Rates To Spike As Iran War Escalates By Eric Kulisch of FreightWaves The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on Saturday is already disrupting air cargo traffic in the Middle East, a key freight corridor between Asia and Europe where two of the world’s largest cargo airlines are based, and raising the potential for a rise in air freight rates.  Airlines are suspending flights, rerouting traffic […]

“A Watershed Milestone”: Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm To Gain Access To Fed’s Payment System Kraken has secured a Federal Reserve “master account,” giving its banking arm direct access to the Fed’s core payment systems and making it the first crypto firm to operate on the same rails as traditional financial institutions, Coindesk reported. The company said its unit, Kraken Financial, received approval for a Federal […]