China Set To Approve Nvidia H200 AI Chip Purchases As Soon As This Quarter Top on our market radar this morning: a Bloomberg News report says China is preparing to approve limited imports of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips as soon as this quarter, restoring partial access to a massive market after years of restrictions. If Bloomberg’s report proves accurate, you can imagine how Jensen Huang is feeling right now. Sources told the outlet […]

Defense Stocks Blast Off As Trump Seeks Budget Boost To Defend Western Hemisphere European and US defense stocks rose early Thursday after President Trump pushed for a 50% increase in defense spending by 2027. “After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other political representatives, I have determined that, for the good of our country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, […]

Initial Jobless Claims Continue To Show No Signs Of Labor Market Stress Following a decline in job cuts in December (according to Challenger Grey)… …the number of people applying for jobless benefits for the first time ticked up very modestly from a lower revised number… but remains at very muted levels… Source: Bloomberg New York saw the largest jump in claims while New Jersey saw the largest decline… Continuing […]

Futures Drop After Latest Trump Headline Vortex, Silver Slides Ahead Of Index Rebalance US futures are lower as New Year optimism gives way to jitters about the economy and geopolitics with attention turning to tomorrow’s NFP report. Traders are also trying to make sense of Trump’s latest edicts on defense and corporate landlords, with a vortex of headlines making things feel more unpredictable than usual. As of 8:00am […]

Left-Wing Protest Industrial Complex Activates Across Multiple Cities After ICE-Involved Shooting In Minneapolis It didn’t take long. Within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in the Minneapolis area, the Democratic Party’s protest industrial complex moved into action, quickly creating conditions for coordinated demonstrations across multiple cities. The rapid response suggested these nonprofit activist networks were on standby, […]

Infamous CIA Double-Agent Aldrich Ames Dies At 84 Aldrich Ames, one of the most consequential double agents in the history of U.S. intelligence, has died while serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Maryland, according to a report by The Associated Press. Ames, a former senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency, was convicted in 1994 of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia in what remains one of the most […]

Trump Admin Declares War On Added Sugar, Embraces Real Foods In Massive MAHA Reset Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In response to decades of corporate-poisoned nutrition advice, the Trump administration has unleashed updated federal dietary guidelines that torch added sugars, champion protein and healthy fats, and slam the door on ultra-processed junk fueling America’s chronic disease crisis. The MAHA triumph, […]

Tim Walz Activates Emergency Operations Center, Alerts National Guard After ICE-Involved Shooting Sparks Protest Threat Update (1640ET): Gov. Tim Walz activated Minnesota’s Emergency Operations Center within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis, as concerns grow that a coalition of left-wing activist groups could mobilize in the streets, evoking familiar and uneasy parallels to the unrest that followed the death […]

Military Spending Is On The Rise In Asia Over the past five years, military expenditure in Asia has climbed sharply, reflecting escalating regional tensions and global security concerns. According to the most recent SIPRI data, major military spenders in the region, such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Taiwan, have significantly boosted their defense budgets. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat details below, China remains the […]

Bus Drivers Arrested For Earning Up To €50k-A-Year Cash Transporting Illegals Between France And Spain Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Spanish police have arrested 15 international bus drivers in Barcelona, accused of transporting illegal migrants between France and Spain in exchange for cash, exploiting their access to regular cross-border routes, according to reports by El País. The Spanish National Police said […]

US To Withdraw From 66 International Bodies, Treaties The Trump administration withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties that it said go against the country’s interests, the White House announced on Jan. 7. According to the presidential memorandum, 31 entities were tied to the United Nations, while 35 others were not. “The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be […]

How Chinese-Made Radar Defense Systems Failed In Venezuela Authored by Sean Tseng via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. forces stormed into Venezuela before dawn on Jan. 3 and captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a lightning operation that punched in and out of Caracas before its air defenses could mount an effective response. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Imaginechina/Alamy, public […]

Hungary Won’t Leave The EU, It Will Fall Apart On Its Own, Orbán Says Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary would not leave the European Union, which instead would “fall apart on its own” due to “leadership chaos” and said Brussels aimed to cut Hungary off from Russian energy supplies during a press conference on Monday.  As EuroNews reports, Orbán rejected the possibility of Hungary leaving the EU, saying the […]

Germany’s Deindustrialization: Capital Flight, Green Policy, And The Point Of No Return Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) sees the German economy in a prolonged phase of deindustrialization. Together with the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the chamber reiterates calls for far-reaching reforms to boost growth and investment. Yet both associations still shy away from touching the […]

Waste Of The Day: Grants For Winter Heating Bills Are Missing Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The nonprofit New Opportunities, Inc. used $2.8 million in taxpayer funds meant for low-income families’ heating bills on its own operating expenses, according to the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management. In a Dec. 22 letter obtained by CT Insider, CT Mirror and more, OPM Secretary Joshua Wojcik […]

Zelensky Calls On Trump To Topple Chechen Leader After Maduro Suddenly everyone wants to enter the regime change business, as various country names and ‘rogue’ leaders are now being casually thrown around in conversations of “who’s next” for Trump to take out. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has joined in. He’s now urging the United States to pressure Russia by “carrying out some sort of operation” against Chechen head […]

Silver Will Remind Us: We Are Deeply Dependent On The Earth Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary We live in a world that has engineered distance between us and the physical limits our ancestors once lived inside of. The constraints that shaped generations before us—weather, harvest, transport, salt, fuel, season, strength, distance, labor, time—have been replaced by one dominant modern […]

U-Haul Growth Index: Newsom’s California Dead Last For Six Straight Years Moving company U-Haul has released its annual migration ranking, which continues to show a sustained outflow from high-tax, crime-ridden, Democrat-run states toward lower-tax states where law and order are cherished. Right off the bat, the report’s authors note that “Florida ranks 2nd for net gain of one-way customers; California last for sixth year in a […]

Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion May Stay Legal Due To Obamacare Amendment Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court of Wyoming, on Jan. 6, ruled that two state laws banning the procedure and the availability of abortion medication were unconstitutional. A patient prepares to take a pill for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, on, Oct. 12, 2022. Charlie […]

EU Strategery Authored by T.L.Davis, The EU, so desperate to exert their dictatorial powers, to feel the exhilarating rush of adrenaline from smashing someone’s face with the butt of a rifle, has revealed itself. It is that rarest of all birds, both fascist and communist in its outlook on the world. Having been able to conquer most of Western Europe with a simple change in immigration policy it is heady with success, brazen and […]

The Truth About Venezuela Under Socialism, From Those Who Fled It Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), DORAL, Fla.—Zarai Maza survived a torched vehicle and a horrific car crash after peacefully protesting the Venezuelan regime, an unacceptable act in her home country, where speaking out could cost you your life or those of your family members. (L–R) Accountant Carlos Higuerey, human rights advocate Zarai […]

Why Trump Soured On Machado: It Has Nothing To Do With The Nobel Prize The fact that the Trump administration chose to anoint Delcy Rodríguez, who served as Nicolás Maduro’s staunchly loyal (or so he thought) Vice President, as the new leader of the country has left many wondering why he passed over Maria Corina Machado. Machado, as a longtime Venezuelan opposition and democracy activist, had made headlines last month when […]

Iran Signals ‘Pre-Emptive’ Action After Sen. Graham & Israel Threaten Khamenei’s Life Via The Cradle The Iranian military warned on 7 Wednesday that Tehran could potentially launch a pre-emptive attack on Israel in response to the escalatory rhetoric recently from both Tel Aviv and Washington. “Iran views the escalation of hostile rhetoric against the Iranian nation as a threat and will not leave its continuation unanswered,” […]

Senate Races To Resurrect Obamacare Subsidies – With New Caps, Fees And Fines Washington’s bipartisan dealmakers are inching toward reviving lapsed Obamacare subsidies – but this time with tighter strings attached. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-ME) A cross-party group of roughly a dozen senators is close to finalizing an agreement that would restore enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits that expired Jan. 1, according to negotiators […]

Death Toll Rises As Fighting Expands Between Syrian Army & Kurds In Aleppo Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Fighting erupted between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian Army today in the Aleppo Governorate, with the battle centering around a checkpoint in the town of Deir Hafer. At least seven people were killed in the course of the fighting, six of them civilians. A number of civilians were also reported wounded, though […]