Oil Spikes After Trump Urges Iranians To Keep Protesting, Says “Help On Its Way” Update(0953ET): President Trump on Tuesday morning has called on Iranians to keep protesting in the streets, where clashes with security services have spiraled and turned violent – but in some locations have waned. He’s told Iranians to “take over your institutions” – which is essentially a call for coup or armed insurrection. Trump further said he […]

“Entered New Era”: SK Hynix To Build $13 Billion Memory Plant As Nvidia CEO Says AI Demand Soaring One week after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the auidence at CES Las Vegas that AI data centers are creating a “market that never existed” for memory, the global leader in high-bandwidth memory, SK Hynix, announced that construction of a new $13 billion advanced memory manufacturing plant will begin this spring, with first production […]

Here’s Proof That UK’s X Ban Threat Has Nothing To Do With Protecting Children Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As UK authorities ramp up their assault on free speech, a viral post shared by Elon Musk exposes the glaring hypocrisy in the government’s “protect the children” narrative. Data from the The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and police forces reveals Snapchat as the […]

US Equity Futures Jump To Record High After Core CPI Comes In Cool US equity futures were initially weaker as the market weighs geopolitics, inflation data, and the start to earnings season, where JPM reported results that were mixed at best (unexpected weakness in bank underwriting kept the stock flat in premarket trading). However, just after core CPI printed below estimates, futures spiked as high as 7030, rising to a new record […]

Core CPI Prints Cooler Than Expected In December, Near 5 Year Lows On the heels of ‘solid’ labor market data from BLS (lower unemployment), ADP (weekly employment change remaining positive), and a rebound in Small Business Optimism; this morning we get a glimpse of the other side of The Fed’s mandate as the last CPI print for 2025 prints. From what we can tell, President Trump did not drop any hints this time ahead of the release […]

JPM Kicks Off Q4 Earnings Season With Rare Miss Driven By Weakness In Debt Underwriting Ahead of the official start of earnings season this morning when JPM reported Q4 results, Goldman’s head of Delta One Rich Privorotsky wrote that “attention now turns to JPM to set tone for earnings seasons. Prices/multiples are elevated across the sector so hard to argue expectations are low.  Focus on NII/NIM durability as deposit costs and […]

L3Harris Rockets Higher On “First-Of-It’s Kind” Pentagon Investment Into Missile Unit L3Harris Technologies (our top stock for the Hemispheric Defense Theme) announced on Tuesday a “first-of-its-kind” proposed partnership with the Department of War (DoW) to significantly boost solid rocket motor production. The DoW will inject $1 billion into L3Harris’ Missile Solutions unit through a convertible preferred investment, creating a […]

2026 Earnings Outlook: Another Year Of Optimism Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Wall Street consensus forecast for 2026 earnings growth is strong by historical standards. Analysts are giddy and projecting another year of double-digit growth in S&P 500 earnings per share (EPS). FactSet’s most recent data showed an expected 2026 earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 of about 15 percent. That is […]

Orsted Shares Jump After Judge Allows Trump-Halted Wind Project To Resume Shares of Danish wind giant Orsted A/S rose on Tuesday after a US federal court ruled that construction work could resume on the company’s $5 billion Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island while legal challenges with the Trump administration persist. On Monday, the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction […]

RFK Jr. Alleges Germany Targeting Doctors For Legitimate Vaccine, Mask Exemptions Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on Germany to end what he described as unjust prosecutions of German doctors for granting patients exemptions from mask and vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’ve learned that more than a thousand German physicians and thousands […]

DC, New York Brace For Deep Mid-January Freeze An Arctic front is forecast to descend into the central and eastern U.S. later this week. Above-average temperatures will give way to below-normal conditions across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing colder weather back to major metro areas through the end of the month. The setup closely mirrors the December weather pattern that locked much of the eastern US into a prolonged cold […]

Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics Are Becoming More Complex Authored by Andrew Korybko, Tensions are growing between Turkiye-Pakistan and Israel-Cyprus-Greece… Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments: 1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus and […]

Le Pen’s Political Future Hangs In The Balance As Appeal Begins This Week The political future of Marine Le Pen hinges on a crucial appeal in Paris this week that will determine whether she can run in the 2027 presidential election, after she was barred from public office over misusing 4 million euros of EU funds.  Marine Le Pen, pictured in Dec. 2024 at her party’s offices in the National Assembly. (via El Pais) Le Pen, who leads […]

EU Official Plotted To ‘Organize Resistance’ Against Hungary’s Orban, Files Show Authored by Kit Klarenberg via The GrayZone, A senior European Union official has been secretly seeking to remove Hungarian President Viktor Orban since at least 2019, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The files show in January 2019, the EU’s International Coordinator for the Directorate-General for Migration and Home […]

China–EU EV Conflict Nears Resolution As New Pricing Framework Emerges China and the EU took a significant step Monday toward easing their long-running electric vehicle trade dispute after Brussels released rules that could allow Chinese exporters to replace punitive tariffs with negotiated pricing commitments, according to the South China Morning Post. The European Commission said companies may submit price undertakings that […]

Germany’s Mittelstand Succession Crisis: Who Will Take the Reins? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany faces a massive wave of business transfers. The decline in entrepreneurship and self-employment has multiple causes; blaming the young generation’s supposed obsession with work-life balance belongs more to the realm of fables. When a productive and market-successful company exits the competition, productive capital is lost […]

A Paleoconservative Rips Apart Trump’s Venezuela Overthrow Authored by Terry Cowan via Substack There is no way to put a pretty face on our most recent regime-change adventure. It is pig-ugly, and not defendable on any level, or from any angle or perspective. The reality of it all is plain to see. The Administration boldfacedly asks, as the old saying goes, Who are you going to believe; me or your lying eyes?. Only a political […]

Day 1,419: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Just Surpassed Soviet War With Nazi Germany This week has marked another grim milestone in the nearly four-year long Russia-Ukraine war. The conflict has just entered its 1,419th day – which means it has officially surpassed the entirety of the historic Soviet campaign against invading Nazi Germany, which lasted 1,418 days from June 1941 to May 1945. Red Army forces eventually drove Nazi […]

Money And Power: Fiat Currency, Monetary Corruption, & The Architecture Of Extraction Authored by Justin Pak via The Mises Institute, Money is often described as neutral, technical, or merely instrumental—a passive medium facilitating exchange within an otherwise political society. This view is not only mistaken; it is profoundly misleading. Money is the hidden constitution of every political order. It determines which […]

Behind The Utter Failure Of Russian Anti-Air Systems In Venezuela There are reports that during the Trump-ordered military raid on Venezuela to oust and capture President Nicolás Maduro, at least one US helicopter was hit by surface fire or possibly small missile, but the chopper managed to keep flying – with the pilot wounded – and the damaged aircraft made it back from the mission safely. But this raised the question: what […]

10 Commandment Displays Became Law In Texas, Then The Lawsuits Came Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Melissa Martin, a veteran Texas educator with some 30 years of experience, was thrilled when the state passed a law in 2025 that required the state’s 9,000 public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Lorne Liechty poses with a copy of the Ten Commandments in Rockwall, Texas, […]

New Documents Detail Jack Smith’s $20K Bribe To Informant In 2023, then-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office approved a shady $20,000 payment to a confidential human source for information in the controversial FBI probe, code-named Arctic Frost, which investigated efforts by President Donald Trump and his supporters to challenge the 2020 election results, according to documents FBI Director Kash Patel turned over to Congress this […]

Their Bodies Were Irreversibly Damaged, Now These Former Transgender Teens Are Fighting for Justice Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, Young people who used to identify as transgender have filed dozens of lawsuits in the past few years, but have yet to win a verdict in their favor. They are known as “detransitioners,” those who regret changing their gender identity, often after making irreversible […]

Russia Belatedly Reveals Ukrainian Target Destroyed By Oreshnik Hypersonic Missile The NY Times had called it a warning delivered to Europe at Mach 10: “The message came screaming through the skies at 8,000 miles per hour. Early Friday morning, for just the second time since its all-out invasion of Ukraine, Russia fired a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile — a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic weapon that until recently was […]

“The Globalist Deep State Is In Panic Mode” After Trump’s Cash Cut-Off Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” (which is soon to be massively updated and re-released), thinks evil powers trying to overthrow America are distraught because their money and plans are drying up.  Newman says, “I think the globalist Deep State is in panic mode, and I think the Left […]