Japan’s Electricity Prices Surge 25% As LNG And Coal Costs Soar Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice, Japan’s average power prices jumped by over 25% at the start of this week from the previous week amid soaring LNG and higher coal prices. The nationwide power price rose by over 25% week-to-week to $0.19 (31.15 Japanese yen) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on Monday, Bloomberg reported, citing data from Japan Electric Power […]

Feds Using DNA To Probe Ilhan Omar ‘Married Her Brother’ Claim, Eye Conspiracy Charge: Report Federal prosecutors plan to use DNA evidence in their criminal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), people familiar with the probe told the New York Post on Monday. One source said the DNA is critical to proving the long-running allegation that Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a marriage to her brother, made so he […]

$270 Million In Suspicious Student Aid Fraud Flagged By Treasury Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has discovered roughly $270 million in suspicious financial activity likely associated with student aid program fraud. FinCEN issued an alert in July asking financial institutions to report suspicious activities linked to student aid […]

The Great Rare Earth Disconnect: Prices Up 23%, Miners Down 28% Here is a question that should be harder to answer than it is: China still controls the rare earth spigot, the latest Trump-Xi summit did nothing to loosen its grip, Japan is about to run out of yttrium, Washington has put a $110/kg floor under NdPr, and Western buyers are paying anywhere from 5x to 346x the Chinese price for heavy rare earths. So why are rare earth […]

“A Good Idea”: SpaceX Jumps On Blowout Quarter, Musk Confirms Committees Discussing Tesla Merger Update (1730ET): The earnings call has seen SPCX shares extend their after-hours gains amid a tsunami of attention-grabbing comments from Elon Musk and CFO Bret Johnsen. Perhaps the most shocking was Musk saying that he sees between $500 billion and $1 trillion of annual recurring revenue by the end of 2027. Then he stepped it up […]

The Deep(er) Midterms Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away. One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and […]

US Nears Russia Deal To Free Detained Americans, Witkoff En Route To Moscow ABC and The New York Times are reporting that multiple Americans detained in Russia could soon be free as part of a major Trump deal with Moscow.  Negotiations are said to be in the final stages, with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff set to be in Moscow on Wednesday. And so a major announcement and release could happen by the time he leaves the Russian […]

When The Normals Say Enough Is Enough Authored by Silvio Canto, Jr. via American Thinker, Remember the kid in school who was always negative and complaining about everything? I usually avoided that kid, and maybe voters are starting to turn off all of this political anger, too. I think they call it “fatigue” as Scott McKay points out: I was at lunch Wednesday with one of my non-political friends, and — as often happens, and […]

Anthropic’s Updated S-1: An $80.7BN Half-Year Loss, A $750BN Compute-Tab, And A ‘Catastrophic Incident’ Warning Three weeks ago, when the first leaked draft of Anthropic’s confidential IPO prospectus made the rounds, we noted that CEO Dario Amodei was preparing to take the company public at the exact moment the underlying math of the frontier AI trade had begun to turn against him. That September filing showed a company that […]

Iran Rejects Report That Deal Is ‘Close’ After Qatar, Pakistan Push ‘Compromise Proposal’ To End War Update(1117ET): The somewhat expected quick rejection is coming from the Iranians via newswires: IRAN-US TALKS CONTINUE, REPORTS DEAL IS CLOSE ARE WRONG And Israeli media: “At least once, the US Trump administration was ‘very close’ to approving an attack on Iran” i24 Stein’s reports citing sources. Oil bouncing back on the […]

CME Plans World’s First Tungsten Futures As Booming Missile Demand May Spark Severe 2030 Shortage CME Group plans to launch the first tungsten futures contract as deepening resource nationalism, Chinese export restrictions, and rising demand from the global rearmament cycle intensify Western governments’ focus on securing conflict-free materials and highlight the industrial base’s urgent need to hedge future price risk. These new […]

SpaceX Earnings Preview: Equity Sees $125 Billion, Credit Sees 83 Cents Today after the close, SpaceX (SPCX) reports its second quarter as a public company, a day ahead of Tesla and (as Deutsche Bank puts it) “surprisingly early.” The first one did not go well: the stock slid despite a big revenue beat and closed down 14% the next day, wiping out some $225 billion in market value. This time, the sellside is mostly looking past the […]

Is YouTube Still Running Cover For Fauci? Authored by Peter Navarro via The Epoch Times, Anthony Stephen Fauci harmed millions of Americans by mismanaging the pandemic. Google’s YouTube and its woke censors helped him every step of the way. The pandemic is over. The censorship is not. YouTube still suppresses speech that threatens Dr. Fauci and the failed policies he built. The latest example is an interview I gave to Epoch […]

EU Accuse Trump Of Pushing Ukraine Into ‘Surrender’ As Witkoff Meets Zelensky In Oslo As President Trump ratchets the pressure on Zelensky, the expected furious voices out of the EU are at a fever pitch. EU High Representative Kaja Kallas on Tuesday rebuked the United States amid reports Washington has cut off intelligence-sharing, and after Trump signed a waiver preventing the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia from being […]

The Simpsons Brings Back Apu As Irritable, Loud, And Unlikeable Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Simpsons has finally let the the Indian character Apu speak again after nearly a decade of silence prompted by previous accusations of ‘racist stereotyping’ levelled at the show all stemming from the fact that a white actor voiced the character. However, what has now transpired perfectly illustrates what happens when […]

RTX Boosts Outlook Again As Missile Demand Fuels Rearmament Supercycle RTX Corp., formerly Raytheon Technologies, raised its full-year outlook for a third straight quarter as the Western rearmament supercycle gathers momentum. Wall Street welcomed the earnings update: RBC Capital Markets called the results “strong,” Goldman Sachs highlighted a “solid quarter” with higher guidance, and UBS pointed to “accelerating defense growth.” […]

Voters More Worried About Iran War Than Immigration Or Crime: Polls Authored by Blaise Malley via Responsible Statecraft, As election day nears, two new polls show the Iran war has emerged as one of the most important issues shaping voters’ midterm decisions. Image Credit: San Francisco, CA USA – March 7, 2026: Anti Iran war protesters rally calling for an end to the US- Israeli war. (Phil Pasquini / Shutterstock.com) National […]

Don’t Let The Fed Steal Your Kids’ Future Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute, The Federal Reserve’s inflation machine not only disrupts our lives now, but it also is making life even for difficult for those facing an uncertain future… My grandson is 21, pursuing a degree in college and active in sports and social life. His future looks bright. But he and others of his generation will enter that future with a […]

JPMorgan Takes JPM Coin To Ethereum For Institutional Clients: Report Authored by Ezra Reguerra via Cointelegraph, JPMorgan Chase, the world’s biggest bank by market capitalization, is expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, JPMorgan said JPM Coin represents US dollar deposits held at the bank and lets eligible clients transfer funds within seconds, around the clock. A […]

France Slaps Curfews On Riot-Plagued Cities As Report Links Unrest To Communists An 11 p.m. curfew took effect in parts of the Paris metro area on Monday, along with curfew restrictions in other cities, after the Macron government embarrassingly struggled for weeks to contain far-left social unrest and chaos that had spiraled out of control. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the measures helped restore calm overnight and will […]

Florida Issues Arrest Warrant For Former Cuban Leader Raul Castro Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Florida is seeking to arrest former Cuban leader Raúl Castro over his alleged role in a conspiracy to shoot down and murder three U.S. citizens and one lawful resident aboard two civilian aircraft more than 30 years ago. The state arrest warrant was announced Monday by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who […]

Loop Downgrades Apple As iPhone Rebound Shipment Hopes Slide Apple shares are down about 1% in premarket trading in New York on renewed concerns about iPhone demand. Loop Capital technology analyst Ananda Baruah downgraded Apple from “Buy” to “Hold,” citing slumping expectations that the company will recover lost iPhone shipments next year and warning that skyrocketing memory chip costs could further squeeze profit margins. Baruah […]

Mutatis Mutandis Not Ceteris Paribus By Michael Every of Rabobank 2026 has seen economists and strategists forced to accept that geopolitics, rather than being the odd ‘exogenous shock’, is a structural backdrop disrupting models and markets. If an economic or market call depends on a geopolitical one, it logically requires an entirely different skillset. Of course, people adapt. Six years ago, economists and strategists busily […]

Chinese Tech Giants Order $35 Billion Of Nvidia’s Latest ‘Compliant’ GPUs – Except There’s A Huge Problem ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s new RTX PRO 5500 workstation GPUs, representing a collective sticker price exceeding $35 billion, as Chinese tech giants scramble for export-compliant hardware amid ongoing U.S. trade restrictions, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with […]

Trump Unveils $8 Billion Harvest Fuel Relief Program To Support Farmers Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced a new Department of Agriculture program offering $8 billion to farmers during harvest season, as rising diesel costs strain operations nationwide. “And when the Republicans win, we will pass even more funding for our farmers,” Trump told a standing-room-only crowd of thousands […]