Seven Toss-Ups, A Decoy Candidate, & A 1AM Finish: Your Election Night Survival Guide And so it begins…The drama of election night in the US plays out across 50 states and six time zones, with poll closings cascading across the country from east to west.Each state sets its own polling hours, and sixteen states have different closing times depending on which time zone the polling place is in. The first to close are Kentucky and […]

Do Young People Understand the Democratic Socialists Of America? Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times,Polls show that many young folks in their 20s and 30s favor the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Some polls estimate that more than 40 percent of folks in that demographic think that socialism, rather than capitalism, is a beneficial system for society.However, do these young people truly understand what the DSA […]

Haley Stevens Gave Democrat Voters ‘Permission To Change Their Minds’ And Vote For Mike Rogers Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) dropped a bombshell endorsement on Sunday, switching her support from Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed to Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race a mere two days before Election Day. Her move drew swift condemnation from leaders and allies in her own party. Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike […]

Mysterious Group Plots To Mass-Dox America’s Billionaires, Teases First Targets A shadowy international group calling itself The Capytistas is preparing to expose the private homes of some of America’s wealthiest individuals in a new campaign, according to a dossier viewed by WIRED. Trillionaire and former presidential adviser Elon Musk speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 26, 2025.Jim […]

AMD Soars After Blowout $17 Billion Guide… As Free Cash Flow Quietly Shrinks To 4% Of Revenue Three months ago, AMD beat on every line and the stock crashed anyway. Tonight, the market got the number it wanted.After a brutal month in which AMD shares lost more than a quarter of their value, pummeled first by Intel’s PC warning and then by the broader AI capex hangover, Lisa Su delivered the one thing that matters in this tape: a […]

Inside The $250 Electric Bill: Dissecting The Midterms’ Most Hated Piece Of Mail Today, for perhaps the first time in modern American history, the monthly electric bill is on the ballot.Not literally, of course (although in nine states, utility commissioners literally are), but as Reuters put it on Friday, this could be “the first election to feature utilities and electricity, specifically, as a prominent issue in the midterms.” […]

Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, & Paradoxes Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency’s expansive powers.2022 vs. 2026In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4 a gallon through October, on the eve of the […]

“Technical Glitch” Disrupts Westchester Voting, Potentially Affecting 250,000 Ballots Summary: Blamed on a “Technical Glitch” Westchester County Key House BattlegroundVoting Machines Reject Paper Ballots Across Westchester County”Technical Glitch” Impacts 250,000 Ballots In Westchester CountyWhat is now being called a “technical glitch” has prevented voting machines across Westchester County, New York, from scanning ballots at 332 […]

The Great Wealth Divide: Own The Right Assets… Or Fall Behind Authored by Kelly Caro via Doug Casey’s International Man,Let’s start with three assumptions that I consider rock-solid.1. Government spending will continue to grow.2. The government will need more currency debasement to finance that spending.3. Wages will not keep up.If I had to distill this into a single point, it would be:You can’t outrun the money printer by working […]

Leaving Las-Vega: Nomura Structured-Notes Head Says Banks Face ‘Hedging Squeeze’ Amid Booming Business Structured notes have been booming, with SEC-registered US notes on track to hit about $300 billion this year, up from roughly $200 billion last year. But the demand that had been levitating option premiums has gone, according to Alex Micalizzi, Nomura’s international head of equity structured notes, leaving the banks that sell […]

Iran Rejects Latest Draft Proposal To End War: US ‘Must Act On 7 Conditions’ To Reopen Hormuz SummaryIran Rejects US Draft Proposal: Tehran insists all seven conditions must be met before reopening the Strait of Hormuz.Negotiations Remain Uncertain: Reports of US-Iran concessions raised hopes of a breakthrough, but Iran indicates a deal remains distant.Back to Headline Ping-Pong: Oil prices initially plunged on optimism over […]

McHaggis? Court Green-Lights Lawsuit Alleging That The McRib Contains Non-Rib Meat Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org,Many were excited when McDonald’s recently announced, “The McRib is back.” The question is whether it is really back or really a McRib. In an interesting decision out of Chicago, U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled that McDonald’s must go to trial on a class action lawsuit alleging that the popular […]

Berkeley Voters To Decide Whether To Initiate Public Bank With New Parcel Tax Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times,Voters in Berkeley, California, will decide in the coming election whether to start a public bank using a new parcel tax as seed money in order to create long-term investments in affordable housing, green energy, and small businesses.Public banking is on the ballot in Berkeley! Measure Z would fund Public Bank East […]

Physical Oil Flips From Bidding War To Fire Sale As Gulf Barrels Flood Back For much of the past two months, the most important oil price in the world was the one nobody saw on TV.While ICE Brent futures chopped around in a range, the price of actual, deliverable barrels went parabolic: as we noted at the time, Dated Brent refused to come down even as Gulf flows recovered, North Sea Forties was quoted above $140 a barrel in early […]

Expert Flags Crucial Mistake That May Have Doomed Florida Learjet The crucial mistake may have come before the Learjet began its fatal plunge: flying into dangerous weather instead of going around it, according to a veteran pilot interviewed by the New York Post.Justin Crabbe, a pilot and CEO of charter-booking platform Jettly, told the paper that air traffic controllers had given the crew flexibility to avoid the weather before […]

BMW ADRs Tumble On Full-Year Outlook Cut, China Demand Woes Add BMW to the growing list of European automakers slashing forecasts due to softening demand, especially in China.BMW’s ADRs fell 5% late in the US cash session after news that the struggling automaker slashed its full-year automotive profit outlook to around breakeven and warned of delivery declines. The European automaker said it would accelerate restructuring and phase […]

Houthis Launch Cross-Border Ground Raids On Saudi Territory Fresh reporting in Mideast regional outlets suggesst a major escalation in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. While drones and missiles have been launched on Saudi territory almost daily since September, a new report says that Houthi militants are actually conducting ground force incursions.In a development that’s been largely unreported, “The Houthis have launched multiple […]

“Laboratories Of Democracy”: Five State Ballot Measures To Watch Today Authored by Jon Miltimore via The Daily Economy,On Tuesday night, millions of Americans will track election results to see which party controls Congress after the ballots are counted. Far less attention will be paid to state elections, including ballot initiatives that could have far-reaching economic consequences.Here are five outcomes to watch.1. California […]

Indian National Pleads Guilty In $227 Million COVID Test Scam, Bought Data From Pakistani Firm Syed Murtuza Kablazada, an Indian national living in Des Plaines, Illinois, pleaded guilty Friday to a Medicare fraud scheme that billed $227 million for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits nobody ordered, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors say he paid about $11 million to a purported telemarketing company in Pakistan for the […]

US Gulf Allies Prepare For Heavy US Bombardment Of Iran And Iranian Retaliation; Report Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com,The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the US’s Gulf Arab allies are preparing for heavy US strikes against Iran that they expect to provoke major Iranian retaliation against their infrastructure.The report said that the Gulf states believe that the US attacks could come as early as this week. […]

Dubai Benchmark Slips Into Contango For The First Time Since July The curve of the Dubai benchmark is showing signs that rising oil flows from the Middle East are exceeding demand for the first time since early July, when the three-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire allowed millions of barrels to leave unhindered the Strait of Hormuz.Physical flows have been gradually rising for the past two months as Gulf producers accelerated […]

Buying The Median US Home Now Takes A $112,700 Salary… And $492,000 In San Jose Buying the national median-priced home ($434,900, per HSH.com’s second-quarter 2026 data) takes an income of $112,695 a year with 20% down ($347,920 borrowed) at a 6.41% mortgage rate. That is $9,213 more than in the first quarter, and HSH says affordability worsened in all 50 of the large metros it tracks over the quarter. It is still $1,273 below the […]

Obama Judge Orders Federal Officials To Stop Sending Lists Of Noncitizen Voters To States Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,The federal government must stop transmitting lists of people officials say are confirmed or suspected noncitizens registered to vote, a U.S. judge ruled on Nov. 2.Bulk disclosure of the lists to states likely violates the Privacy Act, which prohibits disclosure of identifiable personal […]

Trump To Cut Off $4B Annual Israel Aid By Year-End, Jokes He’d Move There To Become PM ‘If People Got Tired Of Me’ President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will end its nearly $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of the year, saying he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the cutoff months ago. Trump argued Israel no longer needs the assistance and that the annual payment had […]

Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar By Over 330K, Amid Near-Record Surge In Americans Quitting After three straight months of disappointing JOLTS reports, moments ago the BLS reported that in September the number of job openings soared by 333K from an upward revised 7.190 million (vs 7.079 million pre-revision) to 7.523 million…… beating estimates of 7.164 million handily, the first time the job openings print hasn’t disappointed […]