How Global Population Growth Is Slowing According to UN calculations, the world’s population will cross the 10-billion mark in 2061. However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, by the end of the century, this number will have started to decline slightly, having reached a high around 10.3 billion in 2084. Leading up to this reversal, the growth of the global populace has actually been slowing down for decades, as seen in […]

NATO’s Last Stand? Authored by Matthew Andersson via AmericanThinker.com, Critics may be misreading the recent NATO summit.   It looks to them as if the U.S. is unilaterally siding with Europe against Russia.   President Trump is smarter: he knows who has the winning hand, and his direct communications with his peers, Xi and Putin, are not always public.  President Trump’s earliest critical instincts toward the EU and […]

Muslims, Marxists, And Mayhem In Minnesota Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com, Many have been asking lately if the onslaught of Islam or the rapid rise of Marxism is more likely to destroy the United States. The correct answer is that they both have the capability to do so. If unchecked, together they will undoubtedly see to our demise. Which one would ultimately prevail has been the subject of a few articles of […]

Women Over 40 Are Now Having More Babies Than American Teenagers Americans are increasingly reaching major life milestones later than previous generations, and parenthood is no exception. While overall U.S. fertility rates have fallen for decades, births among women over 40 are moving in the opposite direction. Rising education levels, delayed marriage, and high housing costs have all contributed to a growing share of women waiting […]

Obamacare Premiums Likely To Rise In 2027, Analysts Say Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, Affordable Care Act premiums rose sharply in 2026 and are likely to continue to do so in 2027, based on early rate change filings by some insurers. A pedestrian walks past an insurance agency that offers Affordable Care Act plans, in Miami on Jan. 28, 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Of the 77 insurers whose proposed rates are now […]

US Unleashes More Attack Waves On Iran As Trump Boasts ‘We Bombed The Hell Out Of Them’; 5th Fleet Navy HQ Reportedly Struck update(2210ET): The Pentagon has confirmed late in the day Sunday that US forces have continues launching more strikes on Iran throughout the day, describing that the latest wave of strikes are aimed to “degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners.” US Central Command has been providing more frequent […]

Hedge Fund CIO: “We Haven’t Yet Diffused AI Across The Economy To The Degree That It Can Be Useful” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “President Putin said, ‘I would love to meet Zelensky in Moscow.’ And I said, ‘I don’t think…you know, I have to put myself in his position. I don’t know that he’d go to Moscow,” said Trump, seated next to Zelensky in the Oval Office, the two of them discussing […]

United States Retains Spot As World’s Top Oil Producer Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The United States was the largest crude oil producer in the world in 2025, outputting a “record-high” 13.6 million barrels per day (bpd), according to a July 9 statement from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). America’s output was far ahead of second-placed Russia, which produced 9.9 million bpd. Saudi […]

These Are The States Driving America’s Economic Growth The U.S. economy grew 2.1% in real terms in 2025, but that national figure tells only part of the story. While every state economy expanded, some grew nearly ten times faster than others. Using the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), this map, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, compares real GDP growth across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. […]

Oil Jumps, Futures Drop On Fresh Iran Strikes, Hormuz Confusion Oil jumped and US equity futures fell after the US launched another round of strikes against Iran, while conflicting claims over the status of the Strait of Hormuz heightened uncertainty. S&P 500 futures dropped 0.2% in early trading Monday after the cash index closed 0.4% higher on Friday. WTI crude climbed 3% at the open, trading around $74, while the dollar […]

US Men’s World Cup Team Required To Split $12.8M Payout With Women’s Team Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, America’s fleeting interest in soccer may once again have abated following a humiliating World Cup defeat to Belgium last Monday, in a game that saw President Donald Trump become personally involved over a red-card dispute. But the high-profile flop in the first elimination round was not the only indignity […]

Geothermal Heats Up: Fervo Drilling Rates Soar 143% While Quaise Raises $134M While the Trump administration keeps pushing domestic energy addition through funding vehicles and executive orders aimed at grid reliability and AI-driven demand growth, two next-generation geothermal developers just posted updates that move past announcements and into measurable progress on drilling and capital formation. Fervo announced that its […]

The Real Point Of The “Patriot Front” Psy-Op Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian, Over the Fourth of July weekend, Washington DC found itself beset by the “Patriot Front”, about 400 guys in matching outfits, with white balaclavas covering their faces and waving flags about. The (relatively small) gathering walked about a bit, did some marching, waved some flags…and scared the press to death! The group marched away from […]

James Carville Has Major Freakout Over The Socialist Wing Of The Party James Carville thinks Democrats are making the same mistake that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016 – and he says they’re doing it all over again. In a Politicon video posted Friday, the veteran Democratic strategist blasted the party’s growing crop of Democratic socialist insurgents, arguing they’re more interested in defeating fellow Democrats than […]

McConnell Watch: CNN Duped Into Running Fake X Post Mocking Its Own Analyst Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, OOPS: CNN This Morning cites parody account of fake congressman @RepJackKimble on list of quotes about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s health. pic.twitter.com/GBXJ37bkoe — Nick (@nspin310) July 8, 2026 Since last year’s corporate takeover of CNN’s parent company, Warner Brothers, by Paramount Skydance and its […]

Trump Admin Subpoenas New York Times Reporters Over Coverage Of New Air Force One The Justice Department issued grand jury subpoenas on Friday to four New York Times reporters, ordering them to testify in Manhattan on Wednesday about stories describing security gaps in the new Air Force One. Federal agents showed up at some of the reporters’ homes to deliver the subpoenas in person, a detail that has The Times claiming amounts to […]

Doll-Heads Apparently Fooling Tesla FSD. Is Facial-Recognition Update Next? Chinese e-commerce platforms are selling miniature heads that, according to Fred Lambert at the EV blog Electrek, are being used to “trick Tesla’s cabin camera into thinking a driver is paying attention.” Priced at $20 to $50 and marketed as dashboard decorations or “travel companions,” these miniature heads are mounted near the rearview mirror to mimic a […]

Inflection Point Overload? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Inflection Point Overload?  Between 250th Celebrations, heat waves, power failures, and jet lag, I feel more discombobulated than I have in a long time (I do admit that I really liked a sign that I think was in PHX airport just past security – Recombobulation Area). I think that’s what I could use. In any case, last weekend’s ProSec Mid-Year Outlook is worth […]

With Dismissed Lawsuits And DOE Support, Holtec Delays Palisades Nuclear Plant Restart Further Holtec announced last week that the major refurbishment projects at Palisades are complete. Reactor vessel inspections, head penetration replacements, steam generator tube refurbishment, primary system decontamination, and operator training all wrapped up. New fuel now sits on site, ready for loading. The company called it a “watershed […]

Clashing Over Saylor, Strategy, And Bitcoin’s Biggest Risks Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Sometimes the best conversations happen after an argument. That’s exactly what unfolded this week when I sat down with fund manager Larry Lepard for a discussion that almost never happened. After disagreeing earlier in the week over my criticism of Michael Saylor, Strategy, and the company’s evolving Bitcoin strategy, we decided to hash […]

Devastating Evidence: Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing A Slam Dunk For Prosecution Did the Israelis do it?  Did the US government?  Did Charlie Kirk’s wife plan it?  Did Trump have Charlie killed?  Nope. It turns out that all the theories raging online about the “real” assassins behind the Charlie Kirk murder were complete bunk – A distraction away from the obvious suspect and the leftist movement that inspired him.      […]

“The Same Monstrous Theme… Collectivism” Authored by The Federalist Papers Project (@TheFederalist1) via X, Ayn Rand was right when she wrote these words, and she is still right now. “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme: collectivism.” That is the part too many people refuse to understand. These systems may use different slogans. They may wave different […]

Mexican President Seeking Legal Action Against The US Over Deaths Of Alien Migrants Should foreign governments be allowed to support or fund lawsuits against the US government over its immigration and enforcement policies?  US sovereign immunity aside, the very idea of foreigners trying to influence American immigration law through indirect civil suits sounds insane.  Why, oh why, should Americans care what Mexico thinks? To put […]

‘Witness List Expanding…’: A Seth Rich Scenario Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Witness list expanding in multi-conspiracy probe out of Fort Pierce. . . .” – Paul Sperry, Real Clear investigations. The scene: February of 2027, a federal courtroom in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County), Florida, the third day of trial in the RussiaGate matter. Defendants seated on the right (from the judge’s vantage) are so numerous they […]

Ukrainian Expert Dismisses Trump Pledge On Patriot Missile License As Empty PR President Trump’s declaration from the NATO summit in Turkey this week saying that he’ll give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot defense systems has been met with a lot of skepticism, both among Ukrainians and internationally.  “We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump had said. “I think they can produce […]