With Europe Vulnerable To An Energy Crisis, Putin Says Russia May Pull The Plug On Gas Supplies To Europe Via Remix News, The Russian government, along with domestic energy companies, is examining whether or not to immediately withdraw from the European market, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a statement to Rossiya 1 television on Wednesday evening. Putin appears to be reacting to the indication from Brussels that […]

What Happens Next In Iran? Decapitation, Quagmire Or WWIII? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Before I begin this analysis of the situation in the Middle East and its consequences, I want to warn people that this examination is going to be largely secular and nuanced; which means people on both sides of the divide are going to piss and moan about it. Frankly, I don’t care. To be clear, I’m not interested in the […]

Big-Tech Signs Ratepayer-Protection Pledge As the AI and data center explosion threatens to overwhelm the grid, the Trump administration organized a commitment from the hyperscalers driving that demand: pay your own way, or don’t build here. *TRUMP: TELLING BIG TECH THEY NEED TO PROVIDE THEIR OWN POWER *TRUMP: NEGOTIATED NEW RATE PAYER PLEDGE ON DATA CENTER ENERGY — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 25, 2026 On March 4, the […]

From Big Gulp To Big Gasp: Massachusetts Governor Fights For High-Sugar Beverages Authored by Jonathan Turley, Much of politics today seems to be driven by the source of policies. If President Donald Trump or his administration is for it, Democrats are against it. Democrats have pulled 180-degree turns from past support for unilateral military operations by Democratic Presidents to opposing government shutdowns. However, one of […]

Trump Team Brokers Gold Deal With Venezuela: Up To 1,000 Kg Headed To U.S. Markets As things continue to pop off in the Middle East, the United States is still focused on Venezuela – and has brokered a multimillion-dollar gold deal.  The agreement, first reported by Axios, involves the sale of between 650 and 1,000 kilograms of gold doré bars – which are semi-refined with approximately 98% gold content – from Venezuela’s […]

In Major Win For Putin, US Grants Russia License To Sell Oil To India While Strait Of Hormuz Is Blocked The world desperately needs oil, but can’t get it as 20% of it is literally stuck behind the blockaded Straits of Hormuz. Putin has tons of oil because sales are metaphorically stuck by US sanctions. If the world does not get access to oil soon enough, there will be a global recession or worse, and every day the price of oil rises […]

China In Talks With Iran For Safe Passage Through Hormuz, As WH Scrambles To Contain Rising Energy Prices Summary: Early reports now indicating Iranian strikes at the U.S. Camp Victory base in Baghdad. As “continuous explosions” were reportedly heard. Pentagon chief Hegseth: US has just begun to fight in Iran and Iran is wrong in its calculations if it thinks we can’t continue the war. CENTCOM: operation “going well” and […]

Central Banks Can’t Stop Wars Authored by Alexander Salter via TheDailyEconomy.org, Every time conflict erupts in the Middle East and oil prices jump, the same anxiety follows: will central banks respond with tighter money? It’s an understandable fear. Households dislike inflation, and policymakers are tasked with maintaining price stability. But when inflation is driven by geopolitical crises — such as war in […]

Watch: Marine Veteran Protesting Iran War Suffers Broken Arm In Scuffle With GOP Senator It’s merely less than a week in to the Iran war and Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, being done in cooperation with Israel, and much of the whole Middle East region is on fire. The blowback has been fierce, and as the energy supply disruptions compound and begin to be felt at the gas pumps in American, we expect growing blowback among the US […]

Cost of Living Crisis Continues As Job Market Wanes Authored by Mac Slavo via shtfplan.com, The cost of living crisis is continuing with no end in sight. People used to use their tax refunds for trips or fun experiences, but now they have to either save the money, pay off debt, or use it to keep the lights on or buy groceries. The sad state of most Americans’ financial status is getting progressively worse, too, as it’s […]

Plot Twist: Kuwaiti Fighter Jet Shot Down All Three US F-15s In a remarkable feat, a single Kuwaiti F/A-18 Super Hornet took out all three of the American F-15s that were shot down over Kuwait on Sunday, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. The new narrative replaces the initial reports that attributed the shootdowns to a Kuwaiti Patriot missile battery.  Launching just three missiles, a single pilot went […]

The Duke Lacrosse Case Exposed The Rot In Higher Education, The Media, And The Justice System Authored by William L. Anderson via the Mises Institute, Twenty years ago this month, the infamous Duke Lacrosse Case exploded on the Duke University campus, with three members of the university’s lacrosse team falsely accused of raping and assaulting a black stripper. It took more than a year to exonerate those young men, but only after […]

Texas Dem’s Senate Bid Hits Turbulence: ‘God is Nonbinary’ Zealot Hands Republicans A Golden Ticket Democrats needed a winner in Texas. They may have nominated a liability instead. James Talarico barely had time to savor his primary win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett before the Republican opposition research machine started doing what it does best. Within hours of the Associated Press calling the race, an avalanche of old tweets and […]

AI Agents Prefer Bitcoin Over Fiat: New Study Authored by Martin Young via Cointelegraph, A new study from the Bitcoin Policy Institute indicates that artificial intelligence models prefer Bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money for different financial situations, with very few showing a preference for fiat currency.  The BPI tested 36 models generating more than 9,000 responses, and the AI agents “overwhelmingly […]

Data Center Hunter: Iran Expands Drone Target List, From AWS To Microsoft Facilities Iranian state-affiliated media says the IRGC has targeted Microsoft data centers in the Gulf region with kamikaze drones, days after IRGC drone strikes hit Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates. This underscores a new escalation: commercial data centers no longer appear to be off-limits, a risk we warned readers a little more than a month […]

Iraqi Supply Loss Could Expose The Real Limits Of OPEC Spare Capacity Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Iraq has already begun shutting in production as exports through the Strait of Hormuz become increasingly constrained. Roughly 1.5 million barrels per day are reportedly offline, and officials have warned that figure could approach 3 million bpd if disruptions persist. At 3 million bpd, this becomes one of the […]

Americans Are Plundering Their 401(k) Savings In “Record” Numbers More Americans are tapping their retirement savings to deal with financial emergencies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Last year, a record 6% of workers in 401(k) plans administered by Vanguard took hardship withdrawals, up from 4.8% in 2024 and about 2% before the pandemic. The figures point to a mixed financial picture: many Americans are doing well, but a […]

House Votes Down Iran War Powers Measure, Soon On Heels Of Similar Senate Res. Defeat Update(1714ET): So essentially Congress is not even going to have a robust War Powers debate as war in Iran and the Gulf keeps escalating: The House on Thursday rejected an effort to advance legislation that would restrict President Trump from using further military action in Iran. The failed vote amounts to an endorsement of Trump’s […]

100% Of Audited Medicaid Claims For Autism Care In Colorado Were Improper Or Flawed: Report Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Colorado’s Medicaid program made an estimated $77.8 million in improper payments and another $207.4 million in potentially improper payments for autism therapy, according to a February report from the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services. A sign in […]

US Ambassador To UN Threatens Iran Counterpart: ‘Better Watch Himself In New York City’ Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has issued a veiled threat to his Iranian counterpart, and the clip is going viral, which is likely to further delay the potential for any talks toward halting the war – which at this point still seem non-existent. The spat first erupted Sunday, when Waltz ripped into Iran’s UN Ambassador […]

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis Of A Zero-Flow Strait Of Hormuz Closure Authored by Craig Tindale via X: Executive Summary The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization. What appears at first as a […]

Indiana Governor Signs Bill Allowing Crypto In Retirement Plans Authored by Stephen Katte via Cointelegraph, Indiana will start allowing certain retirement and savings plans to include crypto investments and has enacted stronger legal protections for the crypto industry under a newly signed bill.  Governor Mike Braun signed House Bill 1042 into law on Tuesday, after it passed the legislature last Thursday. The legislation […]

UBS Discusses Next Maritime Chokepoint Investors Should Watch A lot of attention has centered on the Strait of Hormuz since the waterway was effectively shut not only by the IRGC drone threat, but mostly because maritime insurers are withdrawing war-risk coverage across the region. Our focus now shifts to the other critical maritime chokepoints. If Washington can pressure Iranian oil flows and, by extension, curb China’s cheap Gulf […]

The Passive Aggressive Market: Bogle’s Warning Came True Authored by Michael Lebowitz via realinvestmentadvice.com, Since the pandemic, the line between passive investing and aggressive speculation has blurred. The current bout of speculative fervor extends beyond financial markets. For instance, we see the same impulse in the explosion of sports betting and the surge in event-betting sites like Kalshi and Polymarket. In the […]

China Guides Down: Beijing Drops Economic Growth Target To Lowest Level In 35 Years China just admitted what we’ve been reporting for years: the old growth engine is sputtering, and the world’s second-largest economy is officially shifting into a lower gear. At the opening of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday, Premier Li Qiang unveiled a 2026 GDP growth target of 4.5% to 5% – the lowest benchmark since 1991 and the […]