Oil Slides As Qatar Floats New Iran Deal, Bessent Promises Hormuz Breakthrough: ‘May Have Deal Tomorrow’ Another fake ceasefire in progress? Or are we to believe it’s for real this time? There’s nothing on the ground-level at all that currently suggests the warring sides are imminently about to agree to a new ceasefire, or are so much as back at the negotiating table. And yet Tuesday morning headlines are now being driven by […]

Futures Hit Record High As Oil Tumbles After Bessent Says Hormuz May “Reopen Tomorrow” S&P futures are trading at all time high with the latest push higher triggered by comments from Scott Bessent on CNBC who echoed Trump in saying that “we may have Iran deal tomorrow to open Hormuz” (or we may not). The Nasdaq also looks set to extend Monday’s gains: As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.4% to an all time high of 7655 […]

Caterpillar Erupts As Quarterly Sales Top $20 Billion For First Time Amid AI Data Center Boom Caterpillar shares jumped in pre-market trading after reporting a second-quarter beat, driven by strong growth in its heavy machinery, power and energy business amid the data center buildout, reshoring, and other activities reindustrializing the nation under the Trump administration. Revenue soared 24% from one year ago to $20.54 billion, […]

Saudi Aramco Profit Soars As CEO Warns Hormuz Closure Removes 100 Million Barrels A Week Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer by volume, reported a 33% jump in second-quarter profits on Tuesday as the war-driven surge in Brent crude, which averaged $97 a barrel, boosted earnings. The company maintained export flows by redirecting crude around the disrupted Strait of Hormuz through its East-West Pipeline to the Red Sea. […]

Global Bond Market On Edge As Japanese Yields Soar After “Horrible” 10Y JGB Auction While much of the market focus has fallen on the US long-end, which saw substantial pressure in the past week, sending 30Y yields to 5.27%, the highest level since 2007, it was Japan again which stole the show overnight. But first, recall that the primary tradeoff for the BOJ preventing it from raising rates and comfortably pushing up the yen without […]

“Creepy” Smart Glasses Are Creating A Privacy Problem Smart glasses are quickly becoming the next major consumer tech battleground, with Meta leading the market and rivals including Google, Samsung, and Apple preparing their own AI-powered eyewear. But as the devices become more capable, they’re also fueling a growing debate over whether convenience is coming at the expense of privacy, according to a new report from Wired.  Unlike […]

Trump Says Iran Faces ‘Decapitation’ If It Doesn’t Sign A ‘Good’ Deal Summary Trump says Iran faces ‘decapitation’ if it doesn’t agree to a deal. Trump says Gulf allies halted planned US strikes in favor of diplomacy. Iran says Hormuz talks with Oman are progressing, but US actions remain the obstacle. Oil prices still falling on optimism over Hormuz negotiations & uptick in transit. Tehran is betting it can outlast Trump […]

Senator Urges National Security Review Of Chinese Solar Company’s Planned Use Of Facility Near US Military Base In Ohio Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to carry out a national security review of a Chinese solar company’s potential use of a facility located near a major U.S. military base in Dayton, Ohio. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) speaks during a […]

Pentagon Crowdsources ‘Creative, Unconventional’ Ideas To Pressure Iran President Trump’s weekend somewhat comical, hyperbolic, or even absurd proclamation that he was planning an attack on Iran which would have been “the biggest attack since World War II” and could have been “disastrous” for Iran – before being called off – is raising serious questions.  It is now month six of the war, but the same question could have been […]

UK Police Force Invites Non-Muslim Staff To Fast During Ramadan As Act Of Solidarity Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, West Midlands Police force is actively inviting non-Muslim officers and staff to go without food and water during Ramadan as a deliberate “act of solidarity” with Muslim colleagues. The force presents this as a way for officers to grasp the “significance of Ramadan” for Muslim residents in one of […]

Iron Ore Below $100 As UBS Warns “Fundamentals Are Deteriorating” Iron ore futures in Singapore fell to their lowest intraday level in one year as deteriorating fundamentals continued to weigh on the market. Steel demand in China remains soft amid an ongoing construction slump and weakening mill margins, while supply continues to increase, reinforcing expectations of a growing surplus. Bloomberg noted earlier that the latest […]

The EU & The Iron Law Of Oligarchy Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, Along, long time ago—27 years, to be exact—my boss (the inimitable Mark Melcher) and I predicted that the European Monetary Union would be the death of the EU. The Euro, we wrote for our clients at a now-defunct big brokerage house, would be a disaster and would destroy everything that the post-war Europeans had spent the previous several […]

Huge Uptick In Israeli Airstrikes On Gaza Since Trump Hailed ‘Historic’ Hamas Deal Middle East regional media has reported a huge uptick in Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip since President Trump announced a “historic” agreement which Hamas finally signed on to.  The agreement would result in a phased complete disarmament of Hamas and the handing over of governance to newly proposed National Committee for the […]

Spanish Opposition Leaders Calls For PM Sánchez To Be ‘Put In The Dock’ Over Immigrant Lies Via Remix News, Vox leader Santiago Abascal has called for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to be put “in the dock,” accusing his government of lying about the number of illegal migrants returned to Morocco following the latest mass influx into Ceuta. Abascal traveled to the Spanish enclave at the weekend after canceling a planned visit […]

12 Glaring Realities Of Marxist Socialism Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times, In a free society that embraces free markets and the rule of law, young people must be made aware of the glaring realities regarding the alleged “fuzzy and warm” nature of Marxist (collectivism, communism, progressivism, socialism) iterations.  There are at least twelve aspects of the Marxist ideology that are clear and present […]

“We Use Thicker Steel”: Security Firm Fortifies HVAC Units Against Thieves Copper wiring, light poles, catalytic converters, copper gutters, and even Tesla charging cables have long been targets for thieves. But in crime-ridden metro areas governed by progressive or reformist socialist city halls that have adopted softer enforcement policies, where lefty prosecutors are perceived as unwilling to pursue property crimes, criminals […]

Arming Local Police With Drones. Who Pulls The Trigger? Authored by Burak Oktenli via RealClearDefense, Last Sunday, the World Cup was played in New Jersey, capping a summer in which American stadiums have hosted the largest sporting event on earth. Federal planners saw the airspace problem coming: the executive order that reorganized America’s counter-drone posture names the 2026 World Cup explicitly as an event to protect. What […]

The Real Reasons Why Funding For The Democrat Party Is Collapsing Recent polling suggests that expectations of a “blue wave” in Congress for the 2026 mid-terms are crumbling fast, and as we examined recently, the Democrats are facing one of the biggest financial shortfalls in DNC history.  The organization has around $16 million of cash on hand for campaign operations after debts are counted.  The Republicans have over $129 […]

Israeli Finance Minister Requests Netanyahu Approve Three Jewish Settlements In Gaza  Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday repeated his call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve the establishment of three Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as senior Israeli ministers continue to speak openly about their plans for permanent Israeli control of the […]

SpaceX In “Final Stages” Of Securing New Massive Rocket Launch Site In Louisiana Several Louisiana media outlets report that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in the “final stages” of securing approximately 130,000 acres on Pecan Island for a massive new spaceport to launch rockets into orbit. The Times-Picayune reports a source with knowledge about the deal said SpaceX is poised to take control of roughly 130,000 acres at Pecan Island – more […]

Capital One Cites Anti-Money Laundering Review Over Trump Organization Debanking Claims Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Capital One asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, part of the Trump Organization, claiming that the bank’s 2021 debanking of hundreds of Trump-linked accounts followed an internal anti-money laundering review and not the political discrimination the […]

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Crushes Woke Odyssey Film At Box Office Hollywood pulled out all the stops for “The Odyssey” – They relied heavily on director Christopher Nolan’s built-in and generally pretentious audience to drive early box office revenues.  The hype machine was running non-stop for months before the release.  The distributor’s focused heavily on IMAX ticket sales, which cost more than double a normal theater […]

The Pentagon’s Hidden Housing Scandal: Outsourcing Duty Of Care Authored by Jay Rogers via RealClearDefense, Sen. Jon Ossoff released a report on July 8 documenting lead exposure in a newborn, mold-related emergency room visits, and a cockroach infestation living inside a family’s oven, all in privatized military housing at Fort Benning and Fort Stewart. Read it and you’d think it was written in 2022. It wasn’t. That’s the scandal: […]

The Kospi Made South Korean President Lee Jae Myung; It May Yet Unmake Him… There is a particular cruelty in the timing. When the Kospi began its final, cratering descent in late July, President Lee Jae Myung was roughly 11,000 miles away, midway through an 11-day diplomatic tour of South America, watching from hotel suites as the index he had made the totem of his presidency collapsed. His finance minister apologized to […]

“I No Longer Trust Anyone…” Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org, Sad, but true. Since the Covid fiasco, I’ve seen the true nature of people – or at least the nature they were willing to show once the fear got turned up and the herd started moving. Most of them are still firmly under the sheep banner, content to graze wherever they’re told. A small handful stand under the “critical thinker” banner. Those are […]