No Retreat, No Add Vance By Michael Every of RabobankIt’s Friday the 13th, traditionally a day when bad things happen – so far we have bad omens; not just a spike in JGB and Australian bond yields this morning, but that Microsoft Outlook and Teams are both down, so I don’t know who will be able to read this.The US has decided it can’t reach a deal to end the Ukraine war without Europe, yet the Ukrainian press says, ‘Europe […]

Most Americans, Including Republicans, Want Congress To Pass Legislation To End Iran War; New Poll Finds Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com,A new poll from Reuters/Ipsos has found that a majority of US adults, including the majority of Republicans, want Congress to pass legislation to end the Iran war, a conflict that’s been extremely unpopular among the American people.The poll asked if respondents would support or oppose the […]

Watch Live: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Joins JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon To Pitch Record IPO Anthropic is streaming a fireside chat today at 12 PM ET between CEO Dario Amodei and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as part of the marketing push for what is shaping up to be one of the largest IPOs on record. The Claude maker has set a $70–$78 price range for 825 million shares, implying a roughly $1 trillion valuation (closer to $1.4 trillion […]

“Irresponsible & Dangerous”: Bessent Slams WSJ Over Publishing Photo Of Home As IRGC Threats Force Move To Military Base Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined CNBC earlier this morning to describe why the Secret Service has relocated him from his Washington, DC, home following Iranian death threats. There was no word on whether these new threats were connected to a plot reported in 2024 to kill then-President-elect Donald […]

Dem Lawmakers Launch New Probe Of RFK Jr. Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,Democratic lawmakers have begun new probes into Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including whether he lied to Congress.One investigation looks into Kennedy’s testimony during confirmation hearings in 2025 when he told senators that a trip he took to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines.”Lawmakers cited recent media reports that showed […]

Fresh Off Turning Down Trump, Dana White Finds Himself In A Fight With… ‘Power Spank’ Power Slap, the slap-fighting league co-owned by UFC CEO Dana White, has sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Lingerie Fighting Championships stop using the name “Power Spank” – the lingerie promotion’s parody in which women take turns slapping each other on the backside instead of the face.All the angles 🎥Peter Truchlik is coming in […]

‘Speechless At The Dysfunction’: Ebola ‘Out Of Control’ In Congo As Deaths Top 5,400 Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times,Congo’s Ebola outbreak remains out of control six months into the response, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said, with there being a disconnect between the resources available and what is actually reaching patients, communities, and medics.MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said on […]

First-Take On Almonty Earnings: “Sangdong Ramping, With First Cargo Loaded” Almonty Industries, a leading supplier of conflict-free tungsten to Western markets, reported third-quarter earnings below Wall Street expectations, but Bank of America analysts describe initial shipments from its Sangdong mine in South Korea as “ramping up well” and the first cargo loaded. BofA metals and mining analyst Lawson Winder wrote in a note on […]

Quality Over Quantity: The Missing Signal In Jobs Data That Explains The Vibecession Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,Recession Indicators Turned Green. Job Quality Hasn’t.October’s jobs report pushed the headline recession indicators back to green, but “labor hoarding” explains why the earnings boom still isn’t reaching full-time workers.Key TakeawaysS&P 500 earnings are on track to grow 31.4% in […]

Back To The Fax Machine: Microsoft’s Meltdown Exposes The Agentic Economy’s Weakest Link Traders reached for fax machines, Japan’s finance ministry pinned paper notices to the wall, and the AI assistants meant to automate the office went dark right along with the inbox. Hang in there clippy… For more than 18 hours, the AI agents Silicon Valley says will soon do your job couldn’t read your email, because nobody could. A Microsoft […]

ICE Sets All-Time Records: 483,200 Deported, Arrests Nearly Double Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness,U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested and deported more people over the last year than at any point in its 23-year history, the agency announced Thursday, according to an Associated Press report published by ABC News.ICE deported 483,200 people in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That was 9% more than […]

“Commerce Has The Pen”: Bessent Throws Lutnick Under The Bus Amid Agreement To Testify In Nvidia Spy Scandal Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday publicly pinned the failure to blacklist Megaspeed on Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department, as Lutnick agreed to testify before the Senate Banking Committee over the Nvidia spy scandal. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about reported tension between […]

Soaring Electricity Costs Force Britain To Rethink Its Green Agenda Via City A.M.,Labour is making affordable energy a central priority as high electricity prices undermine British industrial competitiveness.Decisions on North Sea drilling and electric vehicle targets are testing the government’s commitment to net zero.Ministers face pressure to reform electricity levies while balancing economic growth against long-term climate […]

Something Big Brewing: Mossad Chief Meets With CIA Director In DC, Oil Spikes President Trump has since the Republicans’ midterm thrashing played down the prospect of renewed major war on Iran. But he also on Thursday stated the United States does not need a deal with Tehran, which suggests an abondment of stalemented indirect peace talks. “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their […]

Helsinki Warns Ukraine Against Expanding War Into Gulf Of Finland After Russian Warship Struck In a rare moment of the Ukraine war spilling far outside its boundaries into the north, Finland’s military on Thursday alerted the world that its military detected a rare strike on a Russian navy vessel in the Baltic Sea.A spokesperson for the Finnish armed forces told Reuters they “detected… a strike on a Russian warship in the Gulf of […]

Blanche Says DOJ Has Not Confirmed If Ex-Nvidia CEO’s Affair Partner Was A Spy Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times,Attorney General Todd Blanche said neither the Department of Justice (DOJ) nor the FBI has confirmed whether a woman associated with ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was a Chinese spy.Blanche made the remarks at a press conference on Nov. 12 after a reporter asked when the DOJ learned that Alice Huang – not a […]

Rate-Hike Odds Steady As Food & AI Lift Producer Price Inflation To 4 Year High After the hotter-than-expected CPI earlier in the week, wholesale inflation was expected to accelerate at a slower pace in October (relative to the +1.3% MoM surge in September).Headline Producer Prices printed just slightly cooler than expected (+0.3% MoM vs +0.4% MoM exp), lifting PPI up 6.5% YoY (from 6.3% YoY in September). That is the highest […]

Democratic Senator Says ‘Beauty’ Of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com,Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on Monday that the “beauty” of the nearly five-year-old Russia-Ukraine war is the fact that the US is “paying Ukrainians to kill Russians.” Graves of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war with Russia at a cemetery in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 27, 2025. (IMAGO/Andreas Stroh via […]

Futures Rise As Wall Street Moves On From Jensen, Microsoft Outage Drags Into Day Two US futures are higher as traders move on from the Nvidia leadership shock and shrug off a global Microsoft outage that is now in its second day, while the IEA’s call that the oil market is swinging to a surplus and a rebound in short-dated Treasuries take some of the edge off the week’s bond rout heading into the PPI report. As of 8:00 am ET, […]

The Last Man Defending ‘Open’ AI Just Left The Building: How Jensen’s Fall Clears The Way For A Federal Crackdown… Four months ago, Jensen Huang was the most powerful voice in Washington arguing that Americans should be allowed to download AI models and run them on their own hardware.This morning he resigned as Nvidia’s CEO, and he gave up his board seat too. A few hours earlier, The Information reported that Alice Huang (no […]

United Airlines Moves To Ban Use Of AI Agents In Booking Flights For Customers Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times,United Airlines is moving to ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to make flight reservations on behalf of customers over concerns of possible security risks and violations of federal regulations.United warned travelers on Nov. 11 that sharing their account details with AI assistants could expose […]

Mapping Alleged Chinese Spy Network Behind Banned Nvidia Chip Flows To China Jensen Huang spent decades building Nvidia into a multitrillion-dollar AI chip giant. He ends the week out of the top job, with CFO Colette Kress stepping in as interim CEO. But for Jensen, he might have a future elsewhere … That would be an honor— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2026 Reports of three extramarital relationships, including one with […]

Trump’s $40 Billion Mineral Push Enters Democrats’ Crosshairs: Which Miners To Own, Which To Avoid The Trump administration’s efforts to break China’s grip on critical metals mining and refining span $40 billion across 160 mining and minerals deals, creating massive new targets for Democrats when they take control in January.That strengthens the case for producing miners that did not take government handouts and have limited ties to […]

British Universities Push Sharia Loans While Taxpayers Cover The Unpaid Tab Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,British universities are now openly advertising government-backed “interest-free” student loans designed around Islamic finance rules.The Alternative Student Finance product, based on the principle of takaful, replaces interest with a mutual “contribution” that is ring-fenced to fund other students on the same scheme […]

After France, Belgium Is Europe’s Next Debt Flashpoint Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker,In the shadow of France’s sovereign debt crisis, other smoldering fires threaten to become a raging blaze. In Belgium, things could come to a flashpoint that sets the entire eurozone alight.Among the many catastrophic lessons of the great financial and sovereign debt crisis more than a decade ago, one came as a surprise: it is not […]