‘You Will Only Have Yourselves To Blame’: Trump Warns Anti-Data-Center Crowd Not To ‘Kill The Golden Goose’ Despite recent polls showing that 70% of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their area (including 60% of Republicans), President Trump on Monday warned that communities that don’t embrace them will “end up being backwards and poor.” “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data […]

Amazon Shares Tumble Amid News Of FTC ‘Advertiser Deception’ Lawsuit The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is about to drop a lawsuit on Amazon today alleging that the e-commerce platform manipulated prices paid by businesses to advertise on its retail platform, which made the company tens of billions of dollars over a seven-year period, WSJ reports, citing agency officials.  According to the report: The lawsuit, joined by a […]

“Prepare For More Severe Scenarios”: Bank Of England Chief Warns Of AI Threat To Global Financial System As the world marches towards open-weight, efficient, unrestricted frontier AI models out of China, Western leaders are starting to panic over the lack of guardrails. Most recently, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey suggested that the threat posed by AI could lead to a chaotic correction in global financial markets, as […]

Lake America Name Begins Appearing On Google Maps In US Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Google Maps has updated its site to include Lake America in place of Lake Ontario, following the direction of President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Great Lake. “It’s official! LAKE AMERICA on Google Maps,” Steven Cheung, assistant to the president and White House director of communications, posted on X on Aug. 30. […]

Lindsay Clancy And The Political Weaponization Of Mentally Ill Women Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us After the publishing of George Orwell’s 1984, communist governments and organizations around the world condemned the book as “anti-Soviet slander” and “capitalist propaganda.” Orwell died only eight months after the book’s release and his personal feelings on the details of the story are limited to a few […]

PG&E, California Utilities Crash As Wildfire Bill Spark Downgrade Wave Shares of California’s largest publicly traded utilities crashed on Monday morning after state lawmakers unveiled wildfire legislation that failed to provide the liability protections Wall Street analysts had hoped for. PG&E plunged as much as 21%, its sharpest decline since 2020, while Edison International crashed as much as 24%, its largest drop since […]

The ‘Daejon Love’ Stock Market Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Words cannot do justice to the sheer idiocy of the story that broke this past week. It is hilarious, depressing, fascinating and deeply embarrassing for the human race all at once…a story that is proof that we may collectively be both far more gullible and far more comfortable with deception than even the most cynical among us previously imagined. The story centers […]

Key Events This Week: Jobs, JOLTS, Beige Book And ISM Following on the heels of Warsh’s speech at Jackson Hole last Friday, which was hawkish yet which also sent yields to multi-year highs thus refuting claims the Fed Chair regained some credibility, the data docket picks up this week with the main event being Friday’s August employment report. Regarding Warsh, he delivered a crisp message to market participants last Friday that […]

Bessent To Unveil Weekly Iran-Related Secondary Sanctions, After 1st Round Falls Flat The US Treasury Department plans to roll out new secondary sanctions every week to intensify economic pressure on Iran, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed Sunday. “You’re going to see a lot more of these every week,” Bessent said ahead of a meeting of Group of 20 (G20) financial leaders in Asheville, North Carolina, confirming that […]

Something Big? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Icelanders voted “no” to reopening EU membership talks in a referendum over the weekend, albeit by the fairly narrow margin of 2.8 percentage points. Against a backdrop of uncertainty over global trade and geopolitical ructions – including the Greenland crisis at the turn of the year – one intriguing conclusion is that the vote appears to have been driven […]

Trump Says NBC’s Kristen Welker Will Be Reported To FCC Over Endorsement Comments Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Sunday that NBC News’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Welker had “just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike […]

One Dead, 15 Missing After “Significant” Flash Flood Rips Through Grand Canyon The National Park Service said flash floods swept through a section of Arizona’s Grand Canyon, leaving one person dead and 15 others unaccounted for. ⚠️ UPDATE: Significant flash flooding in Bright Angel Canyon has closed Phantom Ranch, Bright Angel Campground, the entire North Kaibab Trail to Phantom Ranch, Black Bridge, Silver Bridge and the […]

Strategy Buys $370M Of Bitcoin In First Purchase Since June Via Decrypt.co, Strategy has started buying Bitcoin again after a summer spent selling it. The Bitcoin treasury company picked up 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million in the week to August 30, at an average of $80,318 apiece, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That takes its stack to 845,050 BTC, bought for $63.73 billion at an average of […]

Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed Apologizes For Comments After Synagogue Attack Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Progressive Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, apologized on Aug. 29 for comments he made in March after an armed assailant drove into a Detroit-area synagogue and opened fire. El-Sayed, who edged out establishment candidate Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the Democratic […]

Trump Vows US Will Respond To Iranian Attacks After Ballistic Missile Strikes On Jordan Summary Trump vows retaliation after Iran’s own ‘retaliatory’ missile attacks on US bases in Jordan. Eight Iranian missiles were intercepted by Jordan amid the first major tit-for-tat military strikes in a month. US forces struck Iranian missile launchers on Larak Island, reportedly killing two people. Iran threatens further retaliation, […]

Stock Futures Drop To Close Out August As Oil Jumps On Renewed Iran Hostilities US stock futures dropped in thin trading with most traders out as summer draws to a close, while oil prices jumped after the US and Iran exchanged attacks for first time in weeks. Brent futures rallied almost 4% topping $90-handle and WTI contracts rise above $86 a barrel. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures dropped about 0.2% and contracts on the Nasdaq […]

Book-Sellers Alarmed As AI Giants Shred Millions Of Books Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Charlie Becker’s family bookstore in Houston has been connecting people with literature for more than 30 years. Becker said the family has “seen a lot of changes” since his dad opened the used and rare book store in 1993. Charlie Becker, owner of Becker’s Books, in Houston on Aug. 8, 2026. Mark Felix for The Epoch Times […]

24 States To Sue US Postal Service Over Mail-In Ballot Restrictions When did “election integrity” become such a contentious issue in the US?  Perhaps it was election night in November 2020 when Joe Biden and the Democrats received an impressive “hockey stick” spike in votes after most Americans went to bed.  Most of these votes came from absentee mail-in ballots, an event which inflated Joe Biden’s numbers to 81.2 million – The […]

Bessent Convenes G20 Finance Chiefs To Confront China’s $1.2 Trillion Trade Surplus Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with G20 finance ministers and central bank governors later today in Asheville, North Carolina, to discuss strategies for reviving economic growth, correcting global imbalances, reassessing trade relationships with China, and addressing the sovereign debt mess. The agenda today will also include plans to […]

China’s Record Ship Swarm Around Taiwan Sends Decoupling Alarm To Wall Street One of our emerging investment themes (beyond nuclear, AI, and “Powering Up America”) is the accelerating US-China decoupling, with a particular focus on companies with robust ex-China supply chains as Beijing increasingly weaponizes exports of strategic materials, including tungsten and germanium. At the same time, the Trump administration’s expanding […]

Feds Arrest Foreign National In California On Voter Fraud Charges Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Federal officials on Aug. 28 arrested a foreign national living in California who they say illegally registered to vote and made false statements. Election workers conduct ballot tabulation at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California’s state primary election in the City of Industry, Calif., on […]

Unitree’s Blockbuster IPO Short Circuits Shares of Unitree Robotics have nearly halved since the Chinese company’s blockbuster IPO almost two weeks ago, as concerns about a humanoid robotics bubble continue to mount. Not even China’s World Humanoid Robot Games or World Robot Conference generated enough enthusiasm among retail or institutional investors to rekindle upward momentum. The warning signs were first visible from the […]

One Every Minute: These Numbers Are Unsustainable… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, One migrant is now being granted settlement or citizenship in Britain every single minute, according to newly released Home Office figures. In the three months to June 2026, 140,122 foreign nationals were given indefinite leave to remain or British citizenship – 1.07 people every 60 seconds. Across the full year, nearly 200,000 were […]

Pentagon Strikes Iranian Island Target, In First US Military Action In Weeks Update(1615ET): Things have been quiet for many days and weeks on the military front when it comes to the Iran war, but on Sunday there are some emerging reports of new but limited US strikes. According to the latest late Sunday from Axios: Senior American official: Earlier today, American forces attacked two Iranian launchers on Larzac Island. […]

Google Retreats On ‘Parasite SEO’ Crackdown In Europe To Head Off EU Antitrust Fine Alphabet’s Google said on Friday that it has changed how it enforces its spam rules in Europe, following concerns from EU regulators that the policy could unfairly hurt news publishers and other websites that carry content from commercial partners. The Google logo outside the company’s offices in London on June 24, 2025. Carlos Jasso/Reuters The […]