Core US Factory Orders Surged In March To Best YoY Growth Since Nov 2022 Headline Factory Orders rose 1.5% MoM in March (dramatically better than the 0.6% MoM expected) – the best since November. February’s data was also revised higher. However, overall, orders were only up 2.1% YoY – the lowest since JUly 2025 Source: Bloomberg Core Factory Orders surge 1.6% MoM (also better than the 1.3% MoM expected) and up for the 5th […]

FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses Shares of transportation and logistics giants FedEx and UPS dropped in premarket trading after Amazon debuted Amazon Supply Chain Services, opening its freight network to sellers far beyond the Amazon marketplace. Amazon said ASCS is a move to “open its freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes.” It […]

Market Correction Risk: Why Summer 2026 Looks Risky Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The S&P 500 hit a fresh record high last week. The median stock in the index is sitting 13% below its 52-week peak. That divergence is not a footnote or a curiosity. It’s the loudest warning the market has flashed since the dot-com era, and it’s arriving at the worst possible moment on the calendar. Market correction […]

Can The GOP Oust Thune To Get The SAVE America Act Passed? In 2024, voters handed the Republican Party a trifecta in Washington – the White House, the House, the Senate – and yet one of the most broadly popular pieces of election-integrity legislation in recent memory is collecting dust in the upper chamber. The SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and […]

Congress Sets MKUltra Hearing As CIA Mind-Control Experiments Face Renewed Scrutiny Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The CIA’s MKUltra program, one of the most disturbing chapters in American intelligence history, refuses to fade into obscurity.  A congressional hearing scheduled for May 13 is thrusting the agency’s decades-old experiments back into the spotlight, raising fresh questions about government […]

“Just Another Dip Investors Will Buy”: Futures Drop, Oil Rises On Renewed Iran Tension US futures whipsawed and crude oil spiked higher as tensions flared up again in the Middle East, taking the focus off a run of strong earnings by megacap tech companies. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.2% from Friday’s record highs, falling as much as 0.5% just minutes earlier after Iran’s Fars agency claimed two […]

Pentagon Hails Two US Merchant Ships Safely Exiting Strait, As Iran Vows Attack On US Navy Entering Hormuz Summary CENTCOM hails two US merchant ships exiting Hormuz Strait safely in “first step”. Bessent issues remarks warning the US “will fire if fired upon.” Iran insists Hormuz is under its control & says it targeted & struck a US Navy vessel, which the Pentagon/Central Command has denied. Trump announced […]

Ukrainian Drone Hits Moscow Luxury Tower, Miles From Kremlin A Ukrainian one-way attack drone struck a high-rise apartment building in Moscow in the early hours of Monday, causing no reported casualties and only limited damage. The strike occurred just miles from the Kremlin, highlighting Ukraine’s long-range drone strike capabilities. The New York Times reports that the drone strike comes five days before Russia’s May 9 Victory […]

Tens Of Millions Of Taxpayers May Be Owed IRS Refunds From Pandemic Era: Watchdog Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The IRS’s internal watchdog has stated that tens of millions of U.S. taxpayers may be owed refunds or abatements of penalties or interest during the COVID-19 federal disaster period. A 1040 Internal Revenue Service tax form, in this file photo. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times “The […]

Trump Disapproval Rate Hits Career-High – War And Rising Costs Take Toll Though tempered by the prospect of additional GOP gerrymandering of House districts in the wake of a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Democrats’ hopes for a rout of Republicans in the approaching midterm elections are rising after a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that President Trump’s disapproval rating is now the highest of either of his two terms […]

Norwegian Cruise Cuts Outlook On Gulf Disruptions, Fuel Shock Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings shares fell in premarket trading in New York after the cruise ship operator lowered its full-year 2026 outlook, as disruptions in the Middle East, higher diesel costs, and softer travel demand in Europe weighed on first-quarter bookings. “The Company is experiencing headwinds related to disruptions in the Middle East, including higher fuel […]

From “Don’t Be Evil” To Drone King: Eric Schmidt’s Interceptors Deployed With U.S. Troops Google’s old motto, “Don’t be evil,” was retired for very good reasons eight years ago. On Friday, Google joined the growing list of tech firms preparing to deploy AI tools for national security work at the Department of War. But this note is not about Google. It is about Eric Schmidt’s ventures in the drone warfare space, accelerated by the […]

Wall Street Skeptical Of GameStop CEO’s $56 Billion eBay Takeover Bid Summary: eBay Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from GameStop GameStop CEO Tells CNBC: We Haven’t Heard Anything Yet From eBay Wall Street analysts “skeptical” about the GameStop Takeover of eBay GameStop CEO Reveals Unsolicited Offer to Buy eBay eBay Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from GameStop eBay confirmed that it […]

Real Estate Browser Extension In France Provides Immigration Data Overlay Via ReMix, A French website and real estate browser extension for Chrome is promoting an unusual data offering, which includes information on immigration levels, insecurity, and Islamization rates — all factors that real estate buyers may want to take into consideration before they make an investment. The OVMF assigns various scores “automatically in […]

Europe Will Lose Billions In Revenue If US Military Bases Shut Down Europe is in far greater economic trouble that most people realize.  In an April 2026 report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), it was reveled that the UK’s GDP per capita is lower than all 50 U.S. states, including the poorest, Mississippi. While the majority of Britons mistakenly believe the UK is as wealthy or wealthier than the US, data shows the UK’s […]

Iran Outraged After Assassination Of Top Shia Cleric In Damascus Via The Cradle Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei on Sunday strongly condemned the assassination of a Syrian Shia religious cleric, describing it as a terrorist attack and “heinous crime.” On Friday, Sayyid Farhan al-Mansour, Imam of the Sayyeda Zainab Shrine in the southern suburbs of Damascus, was assassinated after a hand grenade was thrown at his […]

All-Time High 55% Of Americans Say That Their Financial Situations Are Getting Worse Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse, Americans were not even this stressed about their financial situations during the Great Recession. As you will see below, a brand new Gallup survey has discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that their finances are getting worse. That is higher than any reading that Gallup recorded […]

Russia’s Oil Revenues Surge As The World Scrambles For Supply Authored by Felicity Bradstock via oilprice.com, Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several major world powers introduced strict sanctions on trade with Moscow. Europe and the United States have been gradually decreasing their dependence on Russian gas and other energy products and putting pressure on other countries to do the same, to place a financial […]

Chinese Hackers Spied On Cuban Embassy As Trump Ramped Up Blockade Threats In a story which hearkens back to bygone Cold War years, fresh reports say that Chinese hackers breached and spied on the American Embassy in Cuba at a moment President Trump threatened a US naval blockade, similar to what was in place just before the overthrow by US military intervention of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro According to the findings from the […]

Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy Over Forced Marriage Plot Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix, An Iraqi father accused of beating, imprisoning, and threatening to kill his daughter after she refused an arranged marriage has been arrested in Sweden on a European warrant issued by Italian authorities. The 52-year-old man was tracked down by Taranto State Police after the authorities in […]

In “Watershed Moment” China Orders Companies To Defy US Sanctions China ordered companies in the country not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade, deploying for the first time a blocking measure introduced in 2021 that was aimed at protecting its firms from foreign laws it deemed unjustified.  Refiners – including Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery which was sanctioned last […]

Blue Cities Across The US Are Spiraling Into Financial Collapse Many people are familiar with the “blue state exodus” over the past several years, but are they aware of the blue city business exodus?  It might be one of the biggest economic stories in modern US history, and Democrats are trying to keep it as quiet as possible.  There is a blood letting going on in blue cities; a financial disaster in the making.  And, like most […]

Tesla Made $573 Million Selling To Musk’s Other Companies Last Year Elon Musk’s business empire is becoming increasingly intertwined — and if SpaceX eventually goes public, Wall Street will likely take a much harder look at how money moves across his companies. A newly disclosed filing shows Tesla booked more than $570 million last year from transactions with Musk-controlled companies, according to Insider. That included […]

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell’s Anti-Communist Classic George Orwell’s prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee the creation of certain technologies which make the future look even more bleak.  The reason his books, like 1984 and Animal Farm, are considered classics of literature is because they are […]

The Permanent Distortion Theory Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance “This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing. It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated. It was the rallying cry of dot-com lunatics buying companies with no revenue in 1999. It was the intellectual foundation of housing perma-bulls in 2006 who believed home prices could only go up because, apparently, […]