From Bartenders To Builders: Data Centers Drive America’s Blue-Collar Comeback A seismic shift is underway in the U.S. labor market after a quarter-century of America’s industrial base being hollowed out following China’s entry into the WTO, a period marked by the decline of goods-producing jobs while leisure and hospitality employment surged. The driver of the current job shift is the data center buildout phase, which is expected […]

How Can We Restore Trusted Elections? Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times, It’s mind-boggling that elections and election results take so long to complete, especially in a developed nation such as the United States. A person votes in the Virginia redistricting referendum at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Alexandria, Va. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson It’s inexcusable that our modern […]

Movie “Citizen Vigilante” Exposes Migrant Crime Issue And Triggers Outrage The current political climate across the west is tumultuous and chaotic, largely due to one volatile issue causing deep divisions:  Mass immigration.  Not just mass immigration, but mass invasion from third-world countries and facilitated by liberal governments.  Leftists, driven by an obsession with multiculturalism and Marxism, desperately want mass […]

The Myth Of Price Controls Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel’s recent admission that Cuba’s generalized price caps failed to contain inflation, generated shortages, encouraged illegal markets, and reduced tax revenues is another confirmation of a much older economic lesson: price controls do not solve inflationary pressures, and they intensify the distortions they are meant to prevent. The […]

Trump Admin Kicks Off American Nuclear Renaissance With $17.5 Billion Loan Program For Reactor Projects With hyperscalers set to spend roughly $800 billion on data-center capex this year alone, alongside reshoring and broader grid electrification, baseload power demand is poised to surge. We have made the case that intermittent solar and wind are no match for the scale and reliability requirements of the modern economy, and that […]

The Next Commodity Supercycle Has Already Started Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, The world rotates between two sectors: technology and energy. You have to turn the lights on or nothing happens. You need both the lights and the energy to power them. No lights, only energy? Nothing. Lights with no energy? Nothing. Essentially you have to innovate or you never progress. Markets tend to rotate between those […]

Automakers Race Into Humanoid Robots As Timeline For Blue-Collar Job Disruption Emerges Bernstein analyst Eunice Lee is out with a fascinating note explaining why automakers are making a mad dash into the world of humanoid robotics, arguing that their manufacturing scale, supply-chain depth, and years of investment in autonomous driving give them a structural lead in the emerging physical-AI market. Lee writes that automakers are […]

California Residents Sue Gas Stations Alleging AI Price Fixing Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Three California residents are suing a fuel pricing company and several gas station operators, alleging that they use artificial intelligence-based pricing systems to raise gasoline prices in an uncompetitive manner. Gas prices above $6 a gallon are displayed at a Shell station in Los Angeles on on May 4, 2026. Justin […]

SpaceX Builds A Regulatory Moat Around Its Starlink Empire Scotiabank analysts write that SpaceX is using the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) process to transform spectrum rights, service approvals, and satellite rulemaking into a regulatory moat around Starlink. This reinforces its position as the rocket and AI company moves to secure years of dominance as the leading space-based communications provider. Scotiabank’s […]

Obama-Appointed Judge Dismisses Federal Government’s Lawsuit Challenging Los Angeles Sanctuary City Policy Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A California judge has dismissed the federal government’s legal challenge to Los Angeles’s sanctuary city ordinance that restricts the use of city resources to assist federal immigration enforcement. People in the audience hold up signs as the Los Angeles City Council considers a […]

Cyberattack Hits Iran’s Banking System, Disrupting Card Networks At Three Major Lenders It seems that the United States and Israel have not completely given up on covert efforts toward regime change in Iran, or at least on sabotage efforts to weaken the government’s hold over the population. The precursor to Trump’s Operation Epic Fury was of course the January economic protests, which saw serious clashes with police and security […]

Randi Whinegarten Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote a hyperbolic piece titled “America’s Teachers Can’t Afford to Teach,” which appeared in Time magazine on June 11. The excessively whiny article is filled with half-truths meant to make readers feel sorry for impoverished, underpaid teachers. Among other things, she asserts that the vast […]

UN Maritime Agency Initiates Plan To Clear Hormuz Traffic: Hundreds Of Vessels, 11K Sailors The Strait of Hormuz is supposed to be ‘open’ now, based on the MoU framework, though things are expected to be extremely slow moving, despite signs of life in terms of an increased transit flow becoming evident only this week. The saga of just how hundreds of ships will traverse is developing and tenuous: “The UN’s International Maritime […]

The Decline Of Mainstream Media: From COVID To Capital Markets Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Many of my subscribers first found me before the COVID narrative became mainstream, when I was ringing the alarm bells about the stock market in late 2019 and early 2020 and warning people that the virus was going to be a much bigger deal than people thought. At the time, almost nobody cared about COVID. The consensus view was that […]

Supreme Court Sides With Trump Admin On Removing Green Card Holders Accused Of Crimes Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, In a 6-3 decision Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration, holding that green card holders can be stripped of their status if they traveled abroad while facing criminal charges involving moral turpitude, finding that pending allegations are sufficient to […]

Meta Developing Prediction Market App Called “Arena” To Compete With Polymarket, Kalshi The company formerly known as Facebook which has yet to change its name from the terribly outdated Meta to something more AI-related, even if Meta has so far lost any hope of being a leading frontier model, is developing a new app called “Arena” that mirrors a prediction market platform to compete with the runaway success of Polymarket and […]

Judge Blocks SNAP Restrictions On Sugary Drinks, Candy Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Monday blocked the USDA from restricting the use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ​Program (SNAP) to buy sugary foods or drinks in five states. Bags of candy on shelves at a Target store in Austin, Texas, on June 4, 2025. Brandon Bell/Getty Images U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued the […]

Ras Laffan Explosion Threatens To Slow Qatar LNG Ramp, Goldman Says A powerful explosion tore through Qatar’s key natural gas plant late Sunday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 66 others. While the incident does not appear to have directly impaired LNG export capacity, it has certaintly raised the risk that Qatar may slow the restart of operations as a precaution. The timing could not be worse. The blast at Qatar’s giant […]

US Senate Passes Housing Bill With Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The U.S. Senate passed a sweeping housing affordability bill Monday night — and tucked inside its pages is a provision that could permanently reshape America’s digital currency landscape: a formal ban on a Federal Reserve-issued central bank digital currency through the end of 2030. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing […]

The Burden Of History: Justice Jackson’s Curious Call To Overturn Critical 2nd Amendment Precedent Authored by Jonathan Turley, Since her confirmation in 2022, Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson has established a legacy that is fast becoming one of the most radical in the Court’s history. Her sole dissents have drawn sharp criticism from both her conservative and liberal colleagues. However, for critics of some of these decisions, […]

Trump Privately Told Zelensky To Act ‘More Boldly’ Toward Russia: Ukrainian Media While the globe’s attention has been fixated on efforts to finally achieve US-Iran peace, based on negotiations in Switzerland, the Russia-Ukraine war has been quietly (or not so quietly) heating up, as evidenced in the increasingly brazen Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow and Crimea. A slew of Ukrainian publications on Tuesday are reporting that this […]

Average 2Y Auction Stops Through, Has Highest Yield Since Jan 2025 In the week’s first coupon auction, moments ago the Treasury sold $69BN in 2Y notes at a high yield of 4.189%, up from 4.071% and the highest yield since January 2025; the auction also stopped through the When Issued 4.192% by 0.3bps, the biggest through since January. The bid to cover was perfectly average at 2.643, unchanged from last month’s 2.640 and right on […]

Kuwait Offers Gulf Oil Loadings In Ports Deep In Persian Gulf As Producers Seek Hormuz Outlet Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Kuwait is offering naphtha for loading at its ports deep into the Persian Gulf in the first such tender in months, as Middle Eastern oil producers seek to raise shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. State-held Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has issued a tender to sell naphtha cargoes […]

MP Materials’ Lawsuit Against USA Rare Earth Highlights Battle For America’s Future In Minerals USA Rare Earth has dismissed a lawsuit filed by MP Materials, calling the claims “completely without merit” and arguing the case is an attempt to slow its growth. The company said it will deny all allegations that it improperly obtained confidential information from a former MP employee, according to Bloomberg. The dispute underscores […]

This Is Only Fifth Time QQQs Gapped Down When Within 2% Of An All Time High In a day of sharp, downward pointing market moves and superlatives, we can add another: according to calculations from BTIG’s Jonathan Krinsky, today’s 2% gap down in the QQQs is a historic event. “Since QQQ’s inception (’99), this is just the 5th time that’s happened when the day prior was within 2% of a 52wk high and the VIX was below 20.” What happens […]