Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A Santa Fe judge on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company committed 43.9 million violations of state consumer-protection law by making misleading statements about Facebook users’ data privacy and control. The case, filed in 2021, grew out of the […]

US & Israel Prepare Post-Election Strikes On Iran Despite Escalation Warnings At this point it seems both sides believe another major round of the US-Iran war is imminent. There’s been ample speculation of late whether President Trump will initiate another bombing campaign before or after the November midterm elections. The White House may throw its hands up in the air and reason that Republicans are going to do bad in the […]

“Lost Its Mojo”: Wolfe Downgrades Netflix As Billions In Content Spending Fails To Deliver Hits Wolfe Research downgraded Netflix early Thursday, warning that “bears are winning the engagement debate” and that the subscription-based streaming service “has lost its mojo.” “Engagement failed to respond to rising investment, and last week’s content leadership changes convince us that solutions require patience & lower incremental […]

French Police Identify Antifa As The “Ideologically Distinct Group” Behind The Riots Despite Democratic Denials Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Years ago, I called Antifa the Keyser Söze of the left, after the character in “The Usual Suspects.” In the film, the character Virgil explains how Söze stayed in the shadows to be portrayed as a myth: “becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at […]

Jobless Claims Near 60-Year Lows Amid ‘Low-Hire, Low Fire, Low-Inspire’ Economy The number of American filing for unemployment benefits for the first time dropped (again) last week to 194k – basically in line with 60 year lows… Michigan saw the largest rise in initial claims last week while Ohio and Tennessee saw the biggest decline… Continuing Claims ticked up but remains very close to 3 year lows… The cleanest way […]

Futures Slide As Market Runs Out Of AI Patience, Oil Jumps On Saudi Attacks US futures are lower as the AI trade discovered that there is no right answer on capex: Meta spent more, Tesla spent less, and the market slammed both (after an initial kneejerk bounce), while a fresh wave of deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia, a US-ordered departure of diplomats from the kingdom and an NYT report that the US and Israel have drawn up plans for […]

Music Publishers Sue Anthropic For Copyright Infringement Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A federal district court in California is set to hear arguments this week as a group of music publishers sues Anthropic, alleging that the artificial intelligence (AI) firm is stealing their work. Led by Concord Music Group, the plaintiffs say that Anthropic trained its AI model, Claude, using copyrighted lyrics from their […]

First French Riots, Now Italian Trucker Blockades: What’s Driving Europe’s Rapid Descent Into Chaos? Social unrest in France has plunged President Emmanuel Macron’s government into turmoil, while demonstrations elsewhere in Europe are converging with mounting concerns about sovereign debt. Italy’s trucker blockades now threaten critical food supply chains, adding another source of disruption. Local outlet Italia 24H Live reports […]

Brent Tops $112 As Tanker Attacks And Saudi Strikes Fuel Escalation Fears Despite our overnight note titled “More Oil Is Leaving The Gulf Than Before The War”: And Here Comes The Shocking Freight Bill, Brent crude futures topped $112 a barrel early Thursday as fears of escalation in the Gulf area mounted and chaos and turmoil continued. There’s a bunch of overnight news pushing Brent prices higher.  Let’s begin with news that […]

French Budget Rejections Fuel Debt Crisis Fears As Yield Spread Over Germany Hits 15-Year High French government bonds sold off earlier today, pushing 10-year yields above 5% as budget concerns and social unrest sent the country’s borrowing premium over Germany to its highest since 2011. The French 10-year yield climbed to 5.11%, its highest since 2002, while the spread over equivalent German debt widened to 174 basis points, […]

EU Better Hope Global Warming Is Real As NatGas Withdrawals Begin With Dangerously Low Reserves European natural gas futures climbed for a second day as countries began drawing on stockpiles already at exceptionally low seasonal levels. Brussels is now left hoping that Greta Thunberg’s global warming narrative is real to ease pressure on the region’s fragile energy balance. Even then, one or two severe cold snaps could accelerate […]

Ken Griffin Says AI Is “Almost Certainly” A Bubble As Corporate America Opens Its Anthropic And OpenAI Bills The man who runs one of the world’s most profitable hedge funds and America’s biggest market maker has a word for the AI trade, and it starts with a “b”.  Speaking at the Future of Global Markets Conference in New York on Tuesday, Citadel founder Ken Griffin told Bloomberg that investors are “almost certainly” in the midst […]

Public Transport Hell: Foreigners Commit 53% Of Sexual Crimes On German Trains Authored by – Remix News Staff – via Remix News, German Federal Police recorded 98,026 crimes at train stations and on trains in the first half of 2026, with foreign nationals substantially overrepresented among identified suspects in violent, property and sexual offenses relative to their share of the population. In the crime of sexual offenses, […]

“Everyone Has Blown Up”: London Macro Traders Carried-Out As French Carry Trade Implodes (Again) For the better part of three years, the hottest seat in London’s multi-manager world was a European rates book: lever up French OATs in repo, clip the carry, collect the seven-figure payout. This month, the French bond market sent the bill. According to a must-read report from eFinancialCareers’ Sarah Butcher, London’s macro hedge funds […]

European Regimes Renew Their Attacks On Free Speech Authored by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute, In recent weeks, German and French politicians have denounced free speech, and especially the concept of “freedom of speech” as long envisioned in the libertarian tradition of natural rights. French President Emmanuel Macron on September 29 stated that”The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the […]

French Counterterror Police Arrest ‘Ultra-Left’ Activist Over Limoges City Hall Fire French police on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of taking part in the October 17 arson of Limoges city hall, three days after the riots that gutted the 1883 building. The elite RAID unit’s Bordeaux branch took him at 6:15 a.m. in a small, isolated house at Val d’Issoire, in the Haute-Vienne department, according to the Limoges […]

UK Landlords Offered More Than Double Council Rents To House Channel Migrants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, British landlords are being offered thousands more each month to house small-boat arrivals than local councils pay to shelter vulnerable British families, a Daily Mail investigation has revealed. The deals come from Clearsprings Ready Homes, one of three Home Office contractors operating under […]

“Mobilization Will Be Massive”: French Govt Plans To Send Soldiers To The Streets After Admitting Failures French soldiers will take over guard duty so that police and gendarmes can be moved onto the streets for Saturday’s expected protests, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told parliament on Tuesday. Nuñez said troops from Operation Sentinelle, the anti-terror deployment, would replace internal security forces mainly on static […]

NATO To Increase Black Sea Presence Following Drone Attacks On Shipping Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, NATO will send additional military equipment and aircraft to the Black Sea, following a series of drone attacks on shipping vessels in the key waterway. Ships wait in the Black Sea in Constanta, Romania, on Oct. 15, 2026. Andreea Campeanu/Reuters Allison Hart, NATO’s principal spokeswoman, said in an Oct. […]

The Turd-Eaters: France Gives Us A Lesson On The Pillager Class Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Over the years I have written frequently about what I call the “Pillager Class” and the “Producer Class” in an attempt to explore the reasons why certain people, groups and cultures always seem to turn to looting and destruction rather than building anything of value of their own. It is a threat the west has been […]

Israel Detains NY Congressional Nominee In West Bank Olive Grove, Sets Free After Learning Who He Is Some candidates kiss babies two weeks before an election. Brad Lander picked olives in the West Bank. Lander, the former New York City comptroller and the Democratic nominee in deep-blue NY-10, posted this at 6:29am ET on Wednesday: I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply […]

Ukraine’s Anti-Graft Cops Raid The Central Bank… So Where’s The Gold? Ukraine’s wartime corruption saga, which so far has swept through the state nuclear monopoly, the president’s former chief of staff and the prosecutor general’s office, has now reached the one institution that was supposed to be above it all: the central bank. On Wednesday morning, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), working with the […]

How The NYT Hid Big Pharma PR Titan Jack Leslie In Plain Sight Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote one of the most hilarious, misleading pieces I’ve seen in recent months, castigating the NIH for a new vaccine injury clinic based on a leaked statement by Jack Leslie, a senior advisor to the PR firm Weber Shandwick which represents most major vaccine […]

Pezeshkian Now Says Sanctions Must Be Peeled Off Before US Dialogue Returns Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian appeared to add yet another stipulation to Tehran’s growing list of demands that must be met if it is to get back to the negotiating table with the US. Pezeshkian stated that some Washington-led sanctions must be peeled back before direct dialogue can resume again. He voiced that the constantly ratcheting economic […]

Oz Says HHS Is Deferring $1.2 Billion More From California Medicaid Funding Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced in the Oval Office on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is deferring an additional $1.2 billion in Medicaid funding from California over concerns of widespread fraud in its state healthcare programs. The federal […]