Clintons Bend The Knee To Comer, Agree To Testify In House Epstein Inquiry Just hours after Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) rebuffed Bill and Hillary Clinton’s attorney’s last-ditch conditional offer, the former president and former secretary of state appear to have acquiesced and agreed to key demands from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee to testify about Jeffrey Epstein in a closed-door deposition. The initial […]

Israel Surrenders To The Truth: Admits 70,000 Killed In Gaza Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Throughout the Israel Defense Forces’ post-Oct 7 war on Gaza, the State of Israel and its collaborators and sympathizers around the world have ridiculed the alarming death toll maintained by Palestinian health authorities, dismissing the count as a gross exaggeration aimed at maliciously demonizing Israel. Now, after more than two […]

Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI At $1.25 Trillion Valuation Confirming earlier reports, late on Monday Elon Musk said SpaceX has acquired xAI, a deal that combines his powerful rocket-and-satellite business with his artificial-intelligence startup that is facing steep competition. SpaceX confirmed the deal Monday, posting a memo Musk sent out about the arrangement on its website.  The deal gives SpaceX a valuation of $1 trillion, […]

UAE Firm Bought 49% Of Trump-Linked Crypto Startup For $500M: WSJ Authored by Amin Hagshanas via Cointelegraph, A UAE-backed investment vehicle quietly agreed to buy nearly half of World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency startup linked to President Donald Trump, just days before he returned to the White House, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Aryam Investment 1, an Abu Dhabi entity backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin […]

California Plans “Mileage Tax” To Bleed Citizens For Even More Cash Lawmakers in the California State Assembly have moved to direct the Transportation Commission to prepare a study on the effects of a road charge for delivery to the legislature.  A road charge is a program that imposes fees based on the number of miles each citizen drives over a specified period, and is designed to offset gas tax losses from the wider use of […]

Border Czar Homan Says More Than 145,000 Illegal Immigrant Children Located Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, U.S. authorities have located more than 145,000 illegal immigrant children who were previously unaccounted for under the Biden administration, border czar Tom Homan said on Jan. 30. Homan said the findings came as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, and the Health and Human Services […]

The Arrest Of Don Lemon: Journalists Cannot Also Be Activists The line between journalism and activism has become excessively thin in the past ten years, and the problems associated with this trend are numerous.  Media figures have long leaned toward the liberal side of the political spectrum; liberal bias among journalists is nothing new.  However, direct participation in an activist insurgency to help it or lead it or […]

Have Fiat Money, Will Tyrannize Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask instead what your country has been doing to you and is likely to keep doing to you for as long as it can buy with fiat money the votes of a majority.” – Gary North, “History Revisionism – High Priests of Woodrow Wilson’s Covenant” Gary North’s article focuses […]

“All In” On AI: Deutsche Bank Says Tesla No Longer Just A Car Company Deutsche Bank’s latest note argues that Tesla Inc. is no longer mainly a car company, but a long-term bet on artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomy. In the report, Edison Yu and his team of analysts at Deutsche say that after Tesla’s latest earnings, any doubt about its direction is gone, describing the company as now “all in on Physical AI.” The […]

The Circular Firing Squad: Staffers At CNN And CBS Denounce Efforts To Restore Balance Authored by Jonathan Turley, The decline of American mainstream media has long been obvious, with public trust and revenues plunging. Some companies are responding with the novel idea of restoring objectivity and neutrality to coverage. For years, news organizations have essentially written off half of the country. However, as news […]

Clinton Judge Goes On Unhinged Rant In Order Releasing Illegals In a country now run by activist judges who get to decide the ‘will of the people,’ a Clinton-appointed US District Judge has just written quite the screed. Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, the father of Liam Ramos, left, is being detained with his son in Texas after being arrested by federal immigration authorities. (Obtained by Columbia Heights Public Schools; […]

Bezos’ Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism To Focus On The Moon Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Blue Origin decided to shift its focus from the edge of space to the Moon. The company announced on Jan. 30 that it was pausing all of its suborbital commercial flights on its reusable New Shepard rocket for no less than two years in order to focus more resources on delivering a crewed lunar lander to NASA in time to meet […]

“F**k ICE!”: Awards Season Exposes ‘Spoiled, Entitled, Reality-Denying Tyrants’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The political grandstanding started way back in 1973 when the irascible Marlon Brando stayed home from the Academy Awards but sent an Apache princess, one Sacheen Littlefeather, to the podium to decline his award (Best Actor for The Godfather) on account of the 71-day standoff at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in […]

Detroit Judge Charged In Plot To Embezzle Money From Over 1,000 ‘Incapacitated Individuals’ A Detroit judge, her attorney father, and two other individuals were charged by federal prosecutors in an alleged “years-long scheme” to embezzle nearly $300,000 from individuals deemed incapacitated or otherwise vulnerable. Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, is alleged – among other things, “to have used $70,000 in a ward’s funds to […]

‘Rock Now Beats Paper’: Making Sense Of “Silver Friday’s” Utterly Rigged Nonsense Authored by Matthew Piepenberg via VonGreyerz.gold, On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are. The Great (Yet Familiar) Fall Despite no change whatsoever in global supply and demand forces, silver went from a $120 near-high on Thursday to a $78 low on […]

Apple Prioritizes Premium iPhone Rollout As ‘Great Memory Crunch’ Tightens Global Supply We have repeatedly warned about the “Great Memory Crunch,” driven by AI data center buildouts absorbing a growing share of global memory supply, and industry insiders now telling consumers and enterprises (read here) should accelerate purchases of electronics that use high-bandwidth memory before prices accelerate further, as supply shortages […]

Schools Closed For 8th Day Across Multiple States As Cold Weather Persists Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Superintendents are keeping schools closed to students across multiple states on Feb. 2 as cold weather persists, leaving some roads and sidewalks difficult to navigate. Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland; Fairfax County, Virginia; and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, North Carolina were among those […]

What Corporate America Is Saying About AI Adoption On Earnings Calls With roughly 50% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization having reported results so far this earnings season, we are focusing on what companies are saying about artificial intelligence on earnings calls. To do that, we lean on Goldman analysts led by Ben Snider, who track executive commentary focused on AI adoption. “AI adoption has remained a popular topic on […]

Bill Maher Torches Virtue-Signaling Lefty Celebs For Ditching Causes Once They’re Not The ‘Current Thing’ After another awards show shitshow of anti-Trump-ism at The Grammy’s, Bill Maher has had it with Hollywood’s relentless virtue signaling, and during his latest monologue on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. And he really let the glitterati have it.  Maher, a leftist liberal himself, began with mock enthusiasm for […]

US NatGas Futs Suffer Biggest One-Day Decline Since 1996 As Weather Models Flip Warmer Update (1350ET): US natural gas futures tumbled on Monday as the latest weather models pointed to warmer conditions across the Lower 48, following several miserable weeks of winter that sent NatGas spot prices soaring due to freeze-offs and spiking power prices amid surging heating demand. The March contract crashed 26% to about $3.218/MMBtu […]

Devon And Coterra To Create Shale Giant In $58-Billion Merger Deal By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Devon Energy and Coterra Energy announced on Monday a definitive agreement to merge and create a premier shale operator in an all-stock transaction, implying a combined enterprise value of about $58 billion.   The deal, announced today after weeks of speculation, would create a company with a significantly increased position […]

Conservative Hardliner Elected President Of Costa Rica High on the minds of Costa Rican voters as they went to the polls on Sunday was undoubtedly the surge in drug-related violence across the otherwise stable Central American country, which has been a trend for the region generally. Conservative candidate Laura Fernandez by Monday morning was able to quickly declare victory in the presidential election after early results […]

What’s The Warsh That Could Happen? By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank The DXY is dealing firmer this morning and precious metals continue to be flogged like the family silver after Donald Trump confirmed the nomination of Kevin Warsh as incoming Fed Chair. In defiance of the President’s oft-stated preference, markets are convinced that Warsh is a hawk. Consequently, zero-yield risk is taking a beating […]

Trump Slashes India Tariffs After Modi Agrees To Drop Russian Oil, Go Full ‘BUY AMERICAN’ In a huge Monday development, President Trump has announced the US will trim its punitive 25% tariff on Indian imports to 18% after striking what he hailed as a new “trade deal” with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Crucially it hinges on New Delhi having reportedly ended its purchases of Russian crude and swapping them for massive US […]

The Market Cycles Potentially Driving 2026 Returns Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market cycles are once again at the center of the investment narrative as we head into 2026. The optimism is familiar as earnings held up in 2025, the economy avoided recession, and big tech lifted the indexes. However, those victories are already reflected in the price. As we head into 2026, with valuations extended, the […]