War Stocks Back In Focus As ‘Operation Epic Fury’ Drains Tomahawk Supplies The scale of the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran this weekend was massive, involving hundreds of fighter jets, bombers, and air-delivered munitions across more than 100 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked targets. Our focus has shifted to U.S. munitions stockpiles, which were already dwindling after four years of the Russia-Ukraine war. The conflict so far […]

Equity Futures Slide, Oil And Gold Jump, But No Panic The widely anticipated Sunday night open of futures trading is here, and it is a bit anticlimatic. Yes, futures are broadly lower, oil and gold are higher, but there is no panic, and as Bloomberg’s Mark Cudmore writes, most non-energy moves are relatively contained and almost everything has pared back from the opening extremes.  To wit, oil is up 8.5%. but it was up as much […]

The Microreactor Race Is On Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClearEnergy, For the past half century, successive Presidential administrations and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have thwarted the development of advanced reactor designs that might fulfill President Eisenhower’s vision for the “peaceful uses of atomic energy.” Westinghouse’s eVinci microreactor, a cross-section of which is shown here. Westinghouse […]

Beyond Phishing: The New ‘Deepfake’ And QR Code Credit Card Scams Of 2026 Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The newest credit card scam warning signs look different from old-school phishing emails. In 2026, face-tampered QR codes (“quishing”) in public places are a growing trend. Or an urgent phone call from what sounds exactly like your bank, but is actually an AI-generated voice clone. Man holds […]

Iran Blowback: At Least 22 Killed Trying To Storm US Consulate In Pakistan Mass anti-American protests have broken out in areas of the Middle East especially with large Shia Muslim populations. This is happening in parts of Pakistan, but also across Iraq – given the majority of Iraq is Shia, and shares deep sympathies with the Iranian religious establishment. The blowback to the Trump-ordered attacks on Iran has begun, especially […]

Is Credit Whispering, Or Screaming? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Is Credit Whispering? Or Screaming? For the past couple of years, it has been relatively safe to assume credit is well behaved and relatively range bound. It is unclear if that remains the case. We may be in a situation where the AI spend, the AI displacement, and the Working Poor are forming a storm of some sort. How severe remains to be seen, but for the […]

Operation Epic Fury: Trump Says Could Last Four Weeks As Chaos Breaking Loose In Mideast Summary: Trump on Iran ops: “We have hit hundreds of targets including Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems, nine ships, and naval buildings.” Britain threatens to join war on Iran — Telegraph Trump says conflict with Iran could last four weeks, Daily Mail reports: “It’s always been a four week process. We figured it will […]

DOJ Charges 30 More People For Minnesota Church Invasion Via Headline USA, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi said on social media that 25 people were in custody and more arrests would follow. The new indictment comes a month […]

Joe Biden Makes Insane Claim That He Reduced Illegal Immigration It’s time for a fact check.  Former President Joe Biden is back after a year largely absent from the public eye, and he’s just as incoherent as ever.  Biden left the White House in disgrace after a dismal first term when his own party supplanted him as the primary candidate for the 2024 elections against Donald Trump.  His cognitive decline became obvious after his […]

The Trump Administration Ditches Another Rogue DOJ Official Authored by Tudor Dixon via American Greatness, The second Trump administration is very different from the first. As 45th president, Donald Trump was saddled with disloyal officials who constantly undermined his agenda. The Ukraine impeachment scandal, among other events, was the result of this internal subversion. But the second term sets a new standard for loyalty. […]

Oil Soars Over 10% In OTC Trading, Whether That Sticks Depends On How Long The War Lasts With war in the middle east raging, and the world’s most important oil transit choke point – the Straits of Hormuz which accounts for 20% of daily global oil transit – “effectively” halted after at least three ships were attacked in the vicinity of the waterway – even as Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera TV his country […]

Robert De Niro Could Face 5 Years In Prison Over Trump “Get Rid Of Him” Threats Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Bill O’Reilly has called for the Secret Service to haul in Robert De Niro for an “intensive interrogation” following the actor’s repeated threats against President Trump, warning that De Niro could face up to five years behind bars if convicted under federal law. The demand comes amid growing […]

OPEC+ Agrees To Boost Oil Output As US War On Iran Disrupts Shipments On Sunday, OPEC+ agreed to boost oil output by 206,000 barrels per day for April just as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation disrupted oil flows from key members of the producer group in the Middle East. It had debated options ranging from 137,000 bpd to 548,000 bpd, according to five sources. The agreed increase, which brings an end to a […]

Lone-Wolf Terror? Senegal-Born Shooter Wearing “Property Of Allah” Shirt Kills 3, Wounds 14 At Austin Bar Shocking new details are emerging about 12 hours after the horrific mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar early Sunday, with New York Post sources indicating that the deceased shooting suspect, Ndiaga Diagne, a U.S. citizen born in Senegal and living in Texas, allegedly carried out the attack that left three people dead […]

CNN Forced To Admit Dems Are Tanking On Immigration Despite Anti-ICE Propaganda Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fresh analysis lays bare the Democrats’ crumbling position on immigration, with voters trusting Republicans more than ever to handle border security—even as radicals ramp up their attacks on ICE and deportations. CNN data analyst Harry Enten highlighted the stark shift during a recent segment, noting […]

Convicted Child Sex Offender To Run For Office In California You can already hear some liberals and left-leaning libertarians now:  “He paid for his crime, right?  So what’s the problem? What about the politicians mentioned in the Epstein files…?” But “whataboutism” is not a valid argument for rationalizing societal decay.  And if America isn’t capable of applying the most basic standards at the lowest levels of government, […]

Market Topping Process? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As we will discuss further in today’s commentary, the market remains stuck in a fairly narrow trading range. The week opened with a broad selloff after Anthropic’s expanded AI capabilities rattled software, cybersecurity, and financial stocks, with IBM suffering its worst session since 2000. CrowdStrike and Zscaler also dropped about 10% on the […]

Iran Names Interim Successor To Khamenei Under 2nd Day Of Massive Bombs, Trump Demands Regime Change As questions hang over who will ultimately succeed Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an interim leader has been appointed to fulfill his duties. Top Shia cleric Alireza Arafi has been named to the interim Leadership Council after Supreme Leader Khamenei was confirmed killed in US-Israeli strikes, state media […]

Three Maritime Incidents Reported In Strait Of Hormuz Energy Chokepoint Update (1045ET): The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reports three maritime incidents in or around the Strait of Hormuz involving commercial vessels. First Incident Second Incident Third Incident Reuters wrote on X, “Tanker owners, oil majors and trading houses suspended oil, fuel and LNG shipments through the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran […]

Germany’s Pension Time Bomb: $2+ Billion In CRE Losses Expose Cracks In The Fiat Era Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, A shock for the insured members of the Versorgungswerk Zahnärzte Berlin-Brandenburg (VZB). According to a report this week by Bloomberg, losses at the private pension fund total €1.1 billion. Roughly 50 percent of its invested capital has effectively been wiped out—channeled into private loans to non-listed […]

Amazon Warns Of “Degraded” AWS Service In UAE After “Power Issues” Amid Middle East Conflict Iran’s retaliatory attack ramped up on Sunday after the U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday morning. Follow-on strikes were reported in Israel, across multiple Gulf states, and maritime incidents affected commercial shipping lanes in and around the Strait of Hormuz. One notable and […]

Tens Of Thousands Stranded Amid Mass Airspace Closures At Mideast Hubs: “It’s Chaos Here” The US State Department is warning all American citizens to exercises extreme caution when traveling abroad amid the ongoing US-Israeli military operation against Iran, which has included two days of heavy bombing aimed at regime change – and which has already resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some 40 top military leaders. […]

EU Imposes Drastic Tariffs on Chinese Goods: Is A Trade War Looming? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Tensions in international trade policy are escalating on multiple fronts. After the U.S. Supreme Court initially declared the tariff regime implemented by President Donald Trump since April of last year unlawful, it appears the administration has explored new ways to stabilize its tariff policy going forward. The signs on the […]

85% Of Babies In 2026 Will Be Born In Asia And Africa In 2026, 85% of babies worldwide will be born in just two continents: Asia and Africa. Where someone is born can shape everything from access to education and healthcare to long-term economic opportunity. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows how global births are distributed across continents, based on population projections from the United Nations. Asia […]

AI Boom And European Bond Markets: A Deep Dive Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The “credit pump” could rightfully claim its place as a symbolic flag of the European Union. With virtually unlimited access to the bond market, politics magically transforms an inexhaustible credit stream into political maneuvers and ideological wizardry. Through this manipulation of money, processes and institutions are transplanted into the real world […]