Brent Falls To Pre-War Levels As Trump Contradicts Tehran On Hormuz Tolls, Nuclear Inspections Brent crude oil prices fell below $75 a barrel late yesterday, marking the first time the global benchmark has traded under that level since the outbreak of the Trump-initiated Iran conflict. The drop in crude prices could provide relief for consumers and businesses by easing pressure on fuel costs and inflation, a desired Washington […]

Futures Rebound From “Chip-Wreck” Ahead Of Critical Micron Earnings US stocks are set for a rebound with equity futures higher as Semis and Tech stage a partial recovery from yesterday’s “Chip-Wreck” as KOSPI retraced about 20% of its losses ahead of earnings from the single-biggest contributor to US outperformance this year: Micron’s third-quarter numbers are an even bigger deal than usual, following Tuesday’s shakeout of an […]

Mamdani-Backed Candidates Win New York House Primaries Authored by Nicholas Zifcak & Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, All three candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their closely-watched House primary races on Tuesday, handing the democratic socialist a victory in his bid to move his party more to the left. Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander (R) arrives with New York City Mayor Zohran […]

Chip Party Must Go On: SK Hynix To Raise $29 Billion In US Listing About two days after a Chosun media report from South Korea sparked a global sell-off in memory stocks and triggered a 10% crash in the Kospi, a new report states that memory giant SK Hynix is planning a massive $29.4 billion US listing. This move will test investor appetite for another mega AI-linked offering and demonstrate whether markets can absorb another […]

Tanker Owners Having The Best Week Of The Hormuz Crisis As VLCC Rates Soar By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com The Strait of Hormuz may be reopening, but don’t tell tanker owners the crisis is over. They’re making too much money. As Middle Eastern producers scramble to move crude that has spent months stranded in the Persian Gulf, tanker rates have exploded higher, turning a slow return to normal into a windfall for shipping […]

Rheinmetall Plunges After Germany Scraps Warship Order Rheinmetall shares plunged as much as 17%, the largest intraday drop in more than a year, after the Financial Times reported that Berlin has scrapped a multi-billion-euro program to build six F126 frigates. The German Ministry of Defense told FT on Wednesday that the decision was due “to significant delays in the project, foreseeable cost increases and the risks that would […]

AI Reshaping US Jobs But Not Yet Triggering Mass Unemployment, Says European Central Bank Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun shifting American workers away from occupations most vulnerable to automation, but its overall effect on U.S. employment and wages still remains “muted,” according to a European Central Bank study released on Monday. U.S. companies have been investing […]

Starmer’s Resignation ‘Unites Us All’: Russia’s Top Negotiator Celebrates The British establishment has remained deeply adversarial to Russia even as across the pond President Trump has tried to improve bilateral relations with Moscow. The UK was among the first nations to hand Kiev long-range missiles, especially the Storm Shadow (a Franco-British low-observable, long-range air-launched cruise missile) – and so Moscow doesn’t have […]

Here’s What Andy Burnham Means For Crypto In The UK Authored by Aaron Wood via CoinTelegraph.com, Amid waning poll numbers and pressure from inside the Labour Party, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stepped down.  During Starmer’s tenure, the government introduced a moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political campaigns, citing concerns that crypto could become a vector for foreign influence in UK elections. Beyond the […]

Trump Insists Iran Caved On Nuclear Inspections, As Tehran Touts US To Unfreeze $12BN; Hormuz Tolls Still Disputed Summary Conflicting Claims Remain: Washington and Tehran continue to dispute whether Iran agreed to extensive IAEA nuclear inspections and the terms of sanctions relief; also, Hormuz tolls remains an issue of contention. $12 Billion Asset Release: Iran says $12 billion in frozen assets will be released initially, with […]

German Swimming Pool Bans Visitors Who Can’t Speak German, Citing Safety Concerns Via Remix News, A public swimming pool in Germany has introduced strict new admission rules barring entry to anyone who cannot speak German, with management insisting the policy is essential to guarantee the safety of guests. The Heidebad natural swimming pool in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, now requires visitors to demonstrate German language skills […]

Ursula von der Leyen To Visit Armenia Next Week As Pro-EU Aspirations Ramp Up Brussels is eyeing Armenia as the small Caucasus nation has lately made it’s pro-EU aspirations known, given just earlier this month Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party won parliamentary elections, in a vote widely seen as signififying its major pro-Western shift. Pashinyan had claimed a “historic victory that will ensure Armenia’s eternity […]

Can Anyone Govern Britain… Or America? Authored by Daniel McCarthy via PJMedia.com, As Britain gets ready for its seventh prime minister in just 10 years, it’s time to ask whether the parliamentary system itself is broken. That might explain not only why landslide election victories don’t translate into stable leadership in Britain but also why America’s Congress is so feckless.  Is representative government an idea whose […]

10 Points To Understand Alexandr Dugin Authored by J.Michael Waller via American Greatness, Russian theorist Alexandr Dugin offers a vision to address widespread cultural despair and the desire for a revival of national sovereignty and Christian tradition. He offers a way out of wokeness and globalism. His price? The end of the United States and Western civilization. Dugin has tapped into a legitimate vein of frustration and […]

Lutnick Eyes Crackdown On Chinese Humanoid Robots One day after the House Select Committee on China sounded the alarm over China-based Unitree selling humanoid robots on Amazon to U.S. consumers, a new Politico report states Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick held a closed-door meeting with top U.S. executives and signaled that the Trump administration is considering strong action against subsidized robotics imports from China. […]

She Took Two Key Items: New Details Raise Doubts Over Los Alamos Lab Assistant’s Death Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Fresh reporting reveals that Melissa Casias, administrative assistant at the Los Alamos nuclear lab, left home with everyday possessions that suggest she intended to survive – not end her life – raising new questions in the widening pattern of mysterious deaths among nuclear and UFO-linked personnel. […]

“We Must Act”: TotalEnergies CEO Joins Calls To Rewire Gulf Energy Flows Around Hormuz The Strait of Hormuz was disrupted or nearly closed for roughly three and a half to four months, offering Gulf states aligned with the U.S. one clear message: energy flows – or tanker transits – must be rewired through pipeline networks that bypass the maritime chokepoint. By creating alternative pipeline export routes through the UAE, Iraq, […]

DHS Proposes To Increase Citizenship Application Fees By 80% Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration on June 23 proposed increasing the cost of becoming an American citizen in a move that would nearly double the price of naturalization. The proposal would raise the government’s fee for filing an online naturalization application form, the N-400, from $710 to $1,280, an 80-percent increase, […]

From Bartenders To Builders: Data Centers Drive America’s Blue-Collar Comeback A seismic shift is underway in the U.S. labor market after a quarter-century of America’s industrial base being hollowed out following China’s entry into the WTO, a period marked by the decline of goods-producing jobs while leisure and hospitality employment surged. The driver of the current job shift is the data center buildout phase, which is expected […]

How Can We Restore Trusted Elections? Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times, It’s mind-boggling that elections and election results take so long to complete, especially in a developed nation such as the United States. A person votes in the Virginia redistricting referendum at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Alexandria, Va. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson It’s inexcusable that our modern […]

Movie “Citizen Vigilante” Exposes Migrant Crime Issue And Triggers Outrage The current political climate across the west is tumultuous and chaotic, largely due to one volatile issue causing deep divisions:  Mass immigration.  Not just mass immigration, but mass invasion from third-world countries and facilitated by liberal governments.  Leftists, driven by an obsession with multiculturalism and Marxism, desperately want mass […]

The Myth Of Price Controls Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel’s recent admission that Cuba’s generalized price caps failed to contain inflation, generated shortages, encouraged illegal markets, and reduced tax revenues is another confirmation of a much older economic lesson: price controls do not solve inflationary pressures, and they intensify the distortions they are meant to prevent. The […]

Trump Admin Kicks Off American Nuclear Renaissance With $17.5 Billion Loan Program For Reactor Projects With hyperscalers set to spend roughly $800 billion on data-center capex this year alone, alongside reshoring and broader grid electrification, baseload power demand is poised to surge. We have made the case that intermittent solar and wind are no match for the scale and reliability requirements of the modern economy, and that […]

The Next Commodity Supercycle Has Already Started Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, The world rotates between two sectors: technology and energy. You have to turn the lights on or nothing happens. You need both the lights and the energy to power them. No lights, only energy? Nothing. Lights with no energy? Nothing. Essentially you have to innovate or you never progress. Markets tend to rotate between those […]

Automakers Race Into Humanoid Robots As Timeline For Blue-Collar Job Disruption Emerges Bernstein analyst Eunice Lee is out with a fascinating note explaining why automakers are making a mad dash into the world of humanoid robotics, arguing that their manufacturing scale, supply-chain depth, and years of investment in autonomous driving give them a structural lead in the emerging physical-AI market. Lee writes that automakers are […]