Novo Nordisk Extends Slide After Announcing Price-Cuts For Blockbuster Obesity Drugs Novo Nordisk shares in Copenhagen can’t catch a bid. The liquidation is accelerating again after a Bloomberg headline on Tuesday morning: the Danish drugmaker will slash U.S. list prices for Wegovy and Ozempic next year. The move suggests that the new CEO is pursuing market share amid intensifying competition in the GLP-1 space. Jamey Millar, […]

Despite Rise In December, US Home Prices Saw Weakest Full-Year Gain Since 2011 For the fifth straight month, US home prices across its 20 largest cities rose in December (according to the admittedly lagged and smoothed Case-Shiller data released today). The 0.47% MoM rise is down very mopdestly from the upwardly revised +0.53% MoM in November Source: Bloomberg However, “national home prices grew just 1.3% for the year – the […]

Jittery Futures Erase Gains Amid AI Doomsday Fears A short rebound in stocks fizzled after Monday’s drop, as worries about the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence continued to unsettle markets which digested yesterday’s AI scare, and await today’s Claude / Anthropic presentation, while preparing for tonight’s State of the Union address (“SOTU”). Some have suggested that Trump may attack power generation risks […]

Early Tax Refunds Are Showing A 14% Increase, IRS Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The average tax refund for American taxpayers has increased on a year-over-year basis, the IRS said in a Feb. 20 update. The average refund amount increased 14.2 percent in 2026 to $2,476 as of Feb. 13, according to the agency. Last year, the average refund for the same time period was $2,169. Meanwhile, the average direct […]

Jane Street Sued For Crypto Insider Trading That Accelerated Terraform Collapse For years – literally – we have been pounding the table and pointing out market rigging and manipulation irregularities in the crypto markets which, for reasons of our own, we attributed to one of the world’s foremost HFT shops and most profitable “market makers” in the world (if not India), Jane Street. Below is an example from 2023, and here are […]

Moscow Police Targeted In Deadly Car Bombing On 4th Anniversary Of Russian Invasion There’s been another killing by explosive device in the heart of Moscow – this time coming on the fourth anniversary of the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Russian Interior Ministry has confirmed that a culprit detonated powerful bomb beside a police patrol car in central Moscow early Tuesday, near a public transport hub, which killed one […]

AMD Shares Soar After Meta Chip Deal Worth More Than $100 Billion Shares of Advanced Micro Devices surged the most in five months in premarket trading, after Meta disclosed a multi-year deal to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs to power its next-generation AI data centers. Meta will begin deploying these AMD chips in the second half of 2026. The first phase will support the deployment of 1 gigawatt. AMD stated: This […]

Cartel Kingpin “El Mencho” Dead. Here’s A Shortlist Of Possible Successors Mexico’s most wanted cartel boss was killed Sunday in a Mexican military operation reportedly supported by U.S. intelligence; however, the emergence of potential successors indicates the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is not at the end of its road, only suggesting the decapitation strike is more likely to drive short-term fragmentation and retaliatory […]

Lamborghini EV Lanzador Bites The Dust As Electrified Supercar Demand Hits “Close To Zero” Big legacy U.S. and European automakers are frantically dialing back their electric vehicle bets, scaling back once-hyped roadmaps to full electrification as demand for these vehicles implodes. The latest automaker to reverse course is not a mass-market sedan or SUV maker, but a luxury supercar brand: Lamborghini. CEO Stephan Winkelmann told […]

Trump’s Board Of Peace Mulling Stablecoin For Gaza Efforts: FT Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, The Board of Peace established by US President Donald Trump, which requires a $1 billion contribution for membership, is reportedly exploring a stablecoin for use in rebuilding Gaza’s economy following two years of war triggered by a Hamas terror attack in October 2023. According to a Monday Financial Times report, […]

80% Of The World’s Population Will Use Social Media By 2028 Launched in 2004 as an experiment at Harvard, Facebook is often regarded as the defining social media platform of its era, the one that brought such platforms into the mainstream. Facebook reached one million users just ten months after its launch; it took Mark Zuckerberg’s social network around eight years to reach one billion users. That milestone was reached in […]

‘Out Of Africa’: Beijing Slashes Investment Up To 85% Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, For more than a decade, China’s footprint across Africa has expanded at a phenomenal pace. Railways in Kenya, ports in Tanzania, energy projects across sub-Saharan Africa, and militarized infrastructure in various places have meant billions in state-backed loans. For decades, Beijing has positioned itself as Africa’s largest […]

Critical Part Of Hungary & Slovakia’s Russian Oil Flows Has Just Been Blown Up Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has reportedly once again struck at the heart of Russia’s energy artery, igniting a fire at a key Transneft oil pumping station in the republic of Tatarstan early Monday. Regional officials confirmed the incident after local media and Telegram channels first reported explosions near the strategic facility, with […]

Female British Cop Defends Freedom Of Speech In “Muslim Area” Of London Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Metropolitan Police has so far not commented on the viral video of a female police officer defending freedom of speech surrounded by a crowd of angry Muslim men in Whitechapel but it has questions to answer. The Mail ran the video yesterday. This is fundamentally a Christian country. We will not tolerate […]

These Are The World’s 10 Deadliest Viruses Some viruses infect millions but kill relatively few. Others spread less widely yet prove far more lethal once contracted. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks 10 of the world’s deadliest viruses by case fatality rate: the percentage of infected people who die from the disease. Rabies tops the list, with a fatality rate approaching 100% once symptoms appear. […]

Despite Deportation Order Dating Back 23 Years, Bosnian Criminal Migrant Gets €7,250 Every Month In Welfare From German Taxpayers Via Remix News, A Bosnian national, identified as Huso B., is being labeled one of the worst cases of a foreigner taking advantage of Germany’s generous welfare system. The man, who has numerous criminal offenses on his record, remains in Germany despite being under a mandatory order to leave the […]

Escobar: The Discombobulated West Authored by Pepe Escobar, Neo-Caligula – a.k.a. The Undisputed Tariff Champion of the World – seems to be surprised that Iran has not capitulated. No wonder. No clueless sycophant amongst his astonishingly mediocre inner circle is intellectually equipped to explain to neo-Caligula, in soundbites, the basics of Shi’ism. It gets worse. What’s actually on the imperial table is the return […]

Is Privacy Entirely Gone? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), If you watch any movie from the 1940s in the film noir genre, you will see a recurring theme. Someone does something bad but runs away to another state. He might put on a disguise. People try to find him but cannot. He checks in and out of hotels under an assumed name. The heroic detective works to put together clues to connect the dots. […]

Who Believes In Aliens, Bigfoot, & The Chupacabra? Belief in the unknown, whether extraterrestrials or legendary creatures, remains surprisingly common in America. The visualization below, created by Visual Capitalist’s Julie Peasley using data from YouGov, explores how likely U.S. adults think it is that aliens, Bigfoot, and the chupacabra exist. Here’s how Americans responded when asked how likely each being exists, […]

Necessary Evil: RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Glyphosate Order Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Feb. 22 said that glyphosate is poisonous but necessary as he backed President Donald Trump’s recent order designating the production of the herbicide as critical to national security. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) speaks at the White House on Jan. 29, […]

Rogue AI Just Yeeted $250,000 Into the Void Solana’s memecoin casino has seen its fair share of rug pulls, pump-and-dumps, and surrealist performance art. But this weekend, it got something new: an AI agent that appears to have fumbled a quarter-million dollars in tokens while trying to tip a stranger 4 SOL. The agent, dubbed Lobstar Wilde, was built by Nik Pash – an OpenAI employee and former head of AI at the coding agent […]

West Virginia Introduces Bill To Sell Machine Guns To American Citizens Submitted by Gun Owners of America, State Legislators in West Virginia have just introduced a bill, authored by Gun Owners of America, that would authorize the State to sell machineguns to citizens. Currently, newly manufactured machineguns are banned for civilian ownership thanks to an amendment slipped into the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act. Known as […]

The DNC Covered Up Its 2024 Election Autopsy, And Now We Know Why After the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic National Committee conducted an autopsy of the party’s defeat and intended to release it. It pledged an honest accounting of how Donald Trump reclaimed the White House. It assured its own officials, strategists, and donor class that a thorough post-mortem was coming. However, after the autopsy was complete, […]

Student ICE Protests Lead To Lockdowns, Debate Over Discipline In Pennsylvania Schools Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), School officials ordered two eastern Pennsylvania schools into lockdown on Feb. 20, while dozens of students left the schools and became unruly. The move came after officials directed the students to cancel their planned protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. […]

AI Beats Human Research Teams At Crunching Medical Data Whether you think AI is on the cusp of replacing millions of jobs, or an overblown Google search designed to agree with you, one thing is sure: people whose job it is to analyze complex medical data might want to pay attention… For years, biomedical research has had a problem: too much data, not enough people who know how to wrangle it – or simply that it took months to […]