Tate Brothers To Remain In Custody As They Fight Extradition To UK, Judge Rules Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Social media influencers and brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in U.S. custody, a magistrate judge ruled on Wednesday, as they continue to fight their extradition to the United Kingdom on rape and sex trafficking charges. In a surprise move during a custody hearing on Aug. 27, both brothers took […]

Perfectly Timed AI Panic Resurrects ‘Bipartisan AI Safety Bill’ A stalled bipartisan artificial intelligence safety bill has suddenly found new life on Capitol Hill – propelled by a combination of dire warnings from inside the industry’s leading labs and a brewing grassroots revolt threatening Republicans in key midterm states. According to a new report from Semafor, momentum is building for a Senate regulatory framework just as […]

Trump Floats $5,000 “Stimmy” Checks For Every US Adult Citizen If GOP Holds Congress During a speech Wednesday night at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, President Trump proposed sending every adult American citizen a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in November. “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them,” Trump […]

Emergency Slide Accidentally Deployed On New Qatari-Gifted Air Force One Before Trump Flew To Texas Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, The new Air Force One’s emergency slide was accidentally deployed on Sept. 9 before President Donald Trump boarded to attend the first-ever 2026 Republican Midterm Convention. The inflatable slide popped out shortly before the president was scheduled to board the plane and fly to […]

Trump Open To Pardoning Cohen After Former Attorney Says He Was Pressured Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider giving his former personal attorney Michael Cohen a pardon after Cohen said he felt he was “pressured and coerced” while testifying against Trump in a criminal trial. “If everything is checking out, it’s something I would consider,” Trump told […]

WTI Tops $101 As Strategic Petroleum Reserve Nears Record Low Following Brent’s lead (which is following Shanghai’s demand push), WTI topped $100 this morning for the first time since May, fueled by festering Middle East hostilities (with Saudi-Houthi attacks stealing the headlines) and the Saudis latest statement showing crude output at a 36-year low. That suggests the market is transitioning to a regime where $100 Brent is the […]

Rate-Hike Odds Spike As Fuel Costs Push US Producer Prices Higher In a relatively unusual turn around, US producer prices hit today ahead of tomorrow’s CPI. Interestingly Consumer prices get all the headlines, it is PPI that offers the most read-throughs for Core PCE – The (old) Fed’s favorite inflation gauge). Headline producer pries were expected to rebound significantly from July’s flatline as oil prices rebounded on […]

Copper Stocks Hammered As White House Tariff Doubts Rattle Metals Trade Copper future and related stocks plunged on Thursday morning after a Reuters report said that the White House’s “copper tariff plan stalls amid affordability concerns.”  The Trump administration has yet to decide whether to impose tariffs on refined copper, sending copper prices around the world to record highs this summer as physical copper flooded US […]

“There Is No Day After Tomorrow”; Bessent Warns Of Consequences To Losing AI Arms Race To China Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States cannot afford to fall behind China in artificial intelligence, warning that a Chinese lead would outweigh other U.S. advantages. “Beating China – there is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this,” Bessent said on Sept. 9 at […]

Houthis Seize Yemeni Port Of Mocha, Gaining Greater Leverage Over Bab Al Mandab Strait Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants (Ansar Allah) have scored a major victory against Saudi-backed government forces, after the war was fiercely reinvigorated this month, having seized a historic Red Sea port on Thursday which effectively givens the Houthis even greater leverage over the Bab Al Mandab Strait. The port of Mocha – also spelled […]

Betting Against The House? By Bas van Geffen, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank Brent futures broke through $100 per barrel after a series of attacks in the Middle East raise concerns that the conflict could intensify again. Iran said that it is ready to escalate its counterstrikes if the US continues to attack its territory and infrastructure. Parliament speaker Ghalibaf warned that Iran’s next targets are US oil and gas […]

Existing Home Sales Slump (Again) In August, Supply Hits 10 Year High Existing home sales tumbled for the 3rd straight month in August, falling 2.0% MoM, sparking its biggest annual decline since January… This implied an annualized rate of 3.98 million in August, marking one of only two times since the fall of 2024 that sales have dipped below 4 million… “Mortgage rates and home sales move in opposite directions, so it’s […]

After AfD Victory In Saxony-Anhalt, Merz And Weidel Trade Blows During Intense Debate In Bundestag Via Remix News, Three days after the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) landslide in Saxony-Anhalt, the Bundestag’s general budget debate turned into a verbal battle between AfD co-chair Alice Weidel and Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with the two battling it out over mass immigration, democracy, crime, Ukraine, and the future of Germany. […]

Iran War Until 2029? Vance, Rubio Privately Warn Trump It Could Drag Through End Of His Term President Trump on Wednesday told reporters to expect more US attacks on Iranian tankers, as the war over the Hormuz Strait continues to escalate in piecemeal tit-for-tat fashion.  “The attacks are made by us. We’ve knocked out nine of their ships. I would say that the attacks are caused by us, and you’re going to see a lot more,” the […]

Wall Street Responds To Apple’s Foldable iPhone As Margin Risks Cloud Launch Apple revealed its new foldable iPhone on Wednesday afternoon, and Wall Street analysts were largely positive about the specs and demand outlook. However, enthusiasm for the device diminished by mounting concerns that restrained price hikes across the iPhone lineup could pressure hardware margins. Apple shares are up 1% in premarket trading in New York […]

“Bulletproofing The Hemisphere”: Rubio Kicks Off South America Tour As Continent Lurches Right Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off his three-nation tour of Latin America on Tuesday, first meeting with Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella. He will visit Ecuador and Peru later this week, supporting the Trump administration’s increasing engagement with a growing bloc of right-leaning governments aligned with the US. At […]

Watch: Prosecutor Claims It’s ‘Wrong, But Not Illegal’ To Jerk-Off In Front Of Kids Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A Soros-backed Florida prosecutor told the public that a man pleasuring himself on a park bench in front of children was “wrong,” then insisted it is not a crime. Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monique Worrell used a press conference to defend her office’s refusal to charge Kevin Chapman, 61, […]

EUR Drops As ECB Hikes Rates (As Expected); Raises Inflation Outlook, Sees Downside Growth Risks The European Central Bank increased interest rates for the second time since the Iran war broke out in February, responding to signs inflation is set to stay well above 2%. The deposit rate was lifted by a quarter-point to 2.5% on Thursday, as predicted by almost all economists in a Bloomberg survey. “The conflict in the Middle East […]

Futures Slide As Yields, Oil Spike Ahead Of PPI US stock futures slumped for a 3rd consecutive day, unable to find traction, and trading at session lows with tech underperforming as Treasury yields pushed higher keeping risk appetite firmly in check ahead of the latest print on US factory prices and earnings from Oracle. As of 8:15am ET, S&P futures are down 0.2%, with Nasdaq futures lagging, and down 0.5%. Pre-market, […]

Hike Or Hold? Debating The Coming Fed Decision Authored by Michael Lebowitz via Real Investment Advice, Heading into the September 16 FOMC meeting, the debate over whether the Fed should raise rates or hold is heated. To help you appreciate the range of views, we present this article as a courtroom exercise. We will let the prosecution make its case for a rate hike, and the defense make its case for a hold. We will render our […]

Brent Tops $102 As Mideast Conflict Intensifies, HSBC Hikes Oil Forecast Brent crude futures traded above $102 a barrel Thursday morning after Iran threatened to intensify attacks, renewing concerns over tanker flows through the Hormuz maritime chokepoint. The supply risk extends well beyond crude to mounting shortages of refined products, particularly diesel, as the US diesel crack spread trades around $102 a barrel. President […]

HSBC Sees “Upside Risks” From “Super Squeeze” In Commodities London copper futures are trading north of $14,700 a ton, Brent crude futures have climbed above $101 a barrel, US diesel crack spreads are back in triple-digit territory, and the Bloomberg Commodity Index is at a 14-year high. The energy shock has broadened into a rally across the commodity complex, from energy to agricultural products to metals and other critical […]

US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Clears Vienna Hurdle As Congress Review Continues Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says Saudi Arabia won’t sign the Additional Protocol but will accept oversight powers over enrichment, conversion and reprocessing that closely mirror it. The underlying US-Saudi 123 agreement, signed July 22, opens a path to domestic uranium enrichment after a two-year study, a break […]

Migrants Responsible For 47% Of All Violent Crime In German State Of Bavaria Via Remix News, Non-German suspects account for nearly half of all violent crime in the German state of Bavaria, with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now calling for remigration for all criminal migrant suspects. The Interior Ministry data was released in response to a request from AfD state parliament member Martin Böhm. It […]

America’s Next Military Contractors Could Be Hackers Washington may soon outsource part of its cyberwarfare operations to private companies, according to a new report from Bloomberg.  Language tucked into the Senate’s 2027 defense bill would create a pilot program allowing the Pentagon to hire outside cybersecurity firms to penetrate computer networks chosen by the US military. Contractors would operate under US Cyber Command […]