Europe’s Von der Leyen Wants To Put Private Bank Deposits Under State Direction Submitted by Thomas Kolbe How will we deal with private property in Europe in the future? A highly complex debate follows from this question, one that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen interpreted in her own very particular way on Friday. In a speech to French business leaders at the MEDEF’s La Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France […]

Bolsonaro Leads Socialist Lula As “Huge Bet” On Right-Wing Victory Fuels Brazil ETF Options Frenzy Summary: “Explosive Surge” in iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ) call open interest BTG Pactual/Nexus Survey Shows Bolsonaro Leads Over Socialist Lula  UBS Calls Brazil Election “Extremely Close” – Bolsonaro Win Would Cement LatAm’s Political Shift The BTG Pactual/Nexus survey released earlier today puts right-wing Senator Flávio […]

Europe Finally Gets Its Own SpaceX Challenger As Isar Reaches Orbit At 10:12pm local time on Saturday, a 92-foot rocket built by Munich startup Isar Aerospace lifted off from a windswept island above the Arctic Circle and reached orbit,  where it deployed five small satellites into a roughly 500-km orbit on what was only its second flight, making it the first commercial European company to deliver payloads to orbit and the first […]

The Bond Selloff Isn’t Fiscal Armageddon, It’s The End Of A Decade Of Financial Repression; Deutsche Bank Authored by Jim Reid, Deutsche Bank global head of macro research, The latest global bond sell-off has revived the idea that markets are fretting over unsustainable public finances. As concerned as I am by this issue in the longer term, the recent bond market weakness at the moment should be seen more as a continuation of the […]

AfD’s Historic Win Shocks German Political Establishment: Here’s What Happens Next The pro-Germany, anti-globalist, anti-mass migration right-wing populist party known as Alternative für Deutschland delivered its strongest election result ever in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, dealing a sharp blow to Germany’s political establishment.  On Sunday, AfD secured 43.8% of the vote in Sunday’s regional election, exceeding polling […]

Ukraine’s ‘Mood Swing’ Against Zelensky: Widespread Fraud, Wartime Protests, Unpopular Dismissals The mainstream media is turning on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and more and more of his population may be doing the same, at a moment of multiple high level corruption cases running straight through the presidential office. To review, this was the second straight summer that controversial decisions by Zelensky sparked […]

‘Deeply Shocked’: Merz Speaks Of ‘Consequences’ After Historic CDU Defeat via Remix News, Germany’s political establishment is still absorbing the shock of Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to 43.8 percent and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz crashed to 17.2 percent. Merz called the result the CDU’s “heaviest defeat” in decades and said it […]

The Exodus Continues… Britain’s 3rd Largest Taxpayer Escapes To Greece Britain’s highest taxpayers have been drifting offshore since the non-dom regime was scrapped in April 2025 and inheritance tax was extended to worldwide assets. This shift is already visible on the Sunday Times lists: six of the 2026 Tax List’s top 100 (including Revolut’s Nik Storonsky) had left in the previous year, the compiler noted that one in nine […]

Iran To Draw New “Restricted Zone” In Hormuz As Saudi Aramco Facility Hit Again, Oil Climbs At a moment US officials have been boasting of more and more oil tankers making it through the Strait of Hormuz under US naval protection and support, Iran has previewed a new ‘restricted zone’ in the Gulf, which it says will be announced in the coming days. The announcement is expected to include maps of the new shipping corridor through […]

Why Won’t China Cut Ukraine Off From Drone-Related Sales? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Indefinitely perpetuating the Ukrainian Conflict through these means indefinitely delays the full implementation of the US’ planned “Pivot (back) to (East) Asia”, can lead to Russia selling its natural resource wealth to China at bargain-basement prices, and maintains China’s “active neutrality”. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty […]

Europe’s Auto Bloodbath Deepens: Jaguar Land Rover To Axe 4,000 Jobs After VW Targets 50,000 More Job Cuts Europe’s industrial base faces yet another setback, with Bloomberg reporting that Jaguar Land Rover plans to cut 4,000 jobs over the next two years. Britain’s largest carmaker is confronting intensifying Chinese competition and adding to the broadening wave of planned and ongoing layoffs across European automakers. The job […]

Greenland’s Icecap Grew This Year Authored by Paul Homewood via The Daily Sceptic, Greenland’s icecap is melting away thanks to global warming, at least that is what we are told. According to the EU’s European State of the Climate 2025 Report, the ice sheet lost 139 Gt last year. They say that is equivalent to about 1.5 times the amount of ice stored in all the glaciers in the European Alps, and raised global mean sea level by 0.4 […]

Asia Leads Global Value Rotation On Chip Woes By Abishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist A rotation from growth to value stocks is more pronounced in Asia than anywhere else globally, as doubts grow over the chip rally’s staying power. MSCI’s gauge for value stocks in Asia Pacific has risen about 6% this quarter, compared with a 2% drop in its growth counterpart, on track for its biggest outperformance […]

Prolific Recruiter Of Teenage Suicide Bombers Earns US Sanctions Relief, Days Before 9/11 Anniversary Authored by Max Blumenthal via The GrayZone As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen suicide bombers to wreak havoc across […]

Rise Of The Machines: China’s Military Prepares Humanoid Robots For Combat At the start of the year, we warned about the prospect of humanoid robots moving beyond factory floors and into military operations. China’s World Humanoid Robot Games last month showcased advances in robotic speed and mobility, while reports of Beijing’s expanding military research suggest preparations for eventual battlefield deployment are gathering pace. […]

Central Asia Is Escaping The ‘Backyard’ Label Authored by Ziaulhaq Tanin via RealClearWorld, Three decades after their independence, Central Asia is still often viewed through outdated geopolitical lenses – a region once called “Russia’s backyard” and more recently as an arena of competition among Russia, China, and the West. Yet this familiar narrative no longer captures the region’s strategic reality. Central Asian states are […]

Japan’s NEC Halts Quantum Computer Project After Decades Of Research NEC has ended its effort to develop a working quantum computer, reportedly deciding that the project would take too long to deliver an acceptable return on investment, according to a new report by Nikkei. The move represents a significant change in direction for a company that has been involved in quantum computing research for more than three decades. NEC was […]

China’s Provinces Show Evidence Of Financial Pressure And The Economy’s Imbalances Authored by Milton Ezrati via The Epoch Times, Some 28 provinces and separate jurisdictions increasingly have had to turn to Beijing for help closing budget gaps, according to China’s Ministry of Finance. People walk next to a screen with a stocks indicator in the Jing’an district in Shanghai, China, on April 7, 2025. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty […]

This Labor Day Take A Closer Look At America’s Deadliest Jobs, Ranked Labor Day is a time to recognize the contributions of American workers, but it also draws attention to the risks many face on the job. Logging was the most dangerous occupation in America in 2024, with 110.4 fatal work injuries per 100,000 full time equivalent workers, more than 33 times the national rate of 3.3, according to a new study by Moneygeek. Fishing […]

Court Rules Pentagon Can Fire Stars And Stripes Journalists Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A district court denied a motion from three Stars and Stripes journalists that sought to block the Department of War from firing them. The Pentagon in Arlington, Va., in a file photo. Carolyn Kaster/AP While plaintiffs argue that the terminations “violate their First Amendment rights to communicate as citizens on matters […]

Chinese Oil Demand Unexpectedly Soars, Sending Shanghai Crude Above $100, With Brent Prices Set To Follow One of the reasons why the price of oil failed to soar during the “actively kinetic” phase of the Iran war, when shipments through Hormuz were effectively halted and the world faced a shortage of about 10-15mm barrels of oil per day, is that Chinese oil demand suddenly evaporated. Whether due to a sharp slowdown in the economy […]

Hunter Biden To Launch Memecoin, Will Send To TRUMP Holders Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Hunter Biden will reportedly distribute 200 million of the LAPTOP token to his substack subscribers, members of a mailing list and investors in President Donald Trump’s memecoin. Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, announced that he plans to launch a memecoin based on the reports of his infamous laptop, […]

Unhinged Passenger Duct-Taped on Flight Is Identified, Fired From Job An American Airlines flight was forced into an emergency landing Thursday evening after an unhinged passenger was duct-taped to his seat after a racist, sexist meltdown, according to multiple reports. The raging flyer, identified as 67-year-old Arthur Layne Lundeen, allegedly hurled the N-word and anti-gay slurs at flight attendants and unloaded a series of “very […]

Canada’s Tariff Strategy Designed To Interfere With U.S. Midterm Elections Late last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from a trade deal with the United States. According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Canada was “offered the best trade deal of any country on the globe,” but Carney abandoned the deal “at the last minute.” According to the White House, “the U.S. offered Canada the most preferential […]

Hackers Withdraw 320 Million In Bitcoin From Blockstream’s Liquid Network Federation Reserves Authored by Juan Galt via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Liquid Network said Sunday that purported white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet that backs L-BTC. Bridge nodes were disabled, and the sidechain was paused. Other issued assets, including USDT, DePix and RWAs, were unaffected, […]