Energy Secretary Clarifies No Nuclear Explosions ‘For Now’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday clarified that the US has no plans to conduct nuclear explosions, at least for the time being, comments that came amid confusion over President Trump’s order for the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Wright […]

Trump Admin Will Partially Fund November Food Stamps: Filing Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will fund food stamps for November at reduced levels, Trump administration officials said on Nov. 3. A woman walks by a sign advertising the acceptance of food stamps, in Miami, Fla., on Oct. 31, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The USDA will spend billions of dollars […]

Kimberly-Clark Suffers Biggest Loss Since ‘Black Monday’ After Unveiling $40 Billion Merger With Tylenol-Maker Kenvue Update (1405ET): Kimberly-Clark shares remain down around 14.5% in late-afternoon trading.  If the losses hold into the close, it would mark the company’s steepest one-day drop since October 16, 1987, or just days before the Black Monday crash on October 19, 1987. Earlier, the Kleenex maker unveiled plans to […]

Sliding Cardboard Box Sales Sets Off Economic Alarm Bells Ahead Of Holiday Shopping Season  Nearly every physical good in the modern economy is transported or stored in a corrugated cardboard box. That’s why box shipments act as a reliable real-time economic barometer, especially very useful now, as the government shutdown enters day 33 and key agencies like the BLS have halted official economic data releases, leaving private […]

Beijing To Pause Probes Into US Chipmakers: White House Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), China will halt investigations targeting U.S. companies involved in the semiconductor supply chain and issue licenses to exporters of rare earth and other minerals critical to high-tech industries, according to the White House. Semiconductor chips on a circuit board of a computer on Feb. 25, 2022. Florence […]

Israel Charges Lebanon Is ‘Dragging Feet’ On Disarming Hezbollah, Threatens ‘Deeper’ Escalation Via The Cradle Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened further escalation against Lebanon on Sunday, accusing the country’s President Joseph Aoun of “dragging his feet” and delaying the disarmament of Hezbollah. “Hezbollah is playing with fire and the President of Lebanon is dragging his feet,” Katz said in a social media […]

700,000 Ineligible SNAP Recipients Purged After USDA Uncovers Widespread Food Stamp Fraud U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins joined Fox News on Sunday and addressed the American people about the USDA’s massive effort to combat fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).  Rollins said that the Trump administration sent letters to all governors prohibiting illegal aliens from accessing benefits, with […]

US Expands Lockheed Martin–Built Spy Blimps Over Caribbean There’s no question that Western Hemisphere defense is back in the Trump 2.0 era.  In fact, it’s a theme we’ve explained to readers throughout the year: the Pentagon’s strategy to reorient U.S. defense priorities away from endless wars in the Middle East and toward safeguarding the homeland and the Western Hemisphere as the world fractures into a dangerous bipolar […]

Master Of The House By Benjamin Picton, senior markets strategist at Rabobank Welcome, Monsieur, sit yourself down, And meet the best innkeeper in town… Markets last week were understandably in risk-on mode in reaction to the sit-down meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi on the sidelines of the APEC conference. The US agreed to cut fentanyl-related tariffs in half to 10ppts in return for cooperation from China on stemming […]

Ukraine Sends Special Forces To Bolster Nearly ‘Surrounded’ Troops In Pokrovsk Ukraine has sent special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, the country’s top military commander announced over the weekend, after the Kremlin has said that thousands of Ukrainian troops are surrounded in Pokrovsk. The strategic city is considered to be “the gateway to Donetsk” – and its loss would be a huge blow to Ukraine’s logistical […]

Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Possible To Hate The Media More… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump administration has banned the media from an area of the White House they previously had access to after some reporters were discovered surreptitiously capturing video of sensitive information. Officials revealed that reporters have also been found ‘spying’ on private, closed-door meetings in the White […]

US Manufacturing Surveys Mixed In October; Prices Down, Production Up Amid the month-long vacuum of macro data, thanks to the shutdown, ‘soft’ survey data has become almost the only leg left standing to judge the economy by (absent the housing data). Following better-than-expected prints across Europe, and beats in Brazil and Canada, this morning’s S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI rose more than expected to 52.5 (52.2 exp), up […]

​​​​​​​Amazon & OpenAI Strike $38 Billion Compute Deal As Microsoft Exclusive Ends The circular AI funding headline arrived 30 minutes ahead of the U.S. cash session. And the circular funding headlines arrive *AMAZON INKS $38 BILLION DEAL WITH OPENAI TO SUPPLY NVIDIA CHIPS — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 3, 2025 This time, Amazon shares jumped 6%, extending last week’s post-earnings rally after news broke of […]

Key Events This Week: ISM, ADP, PMI, More Earnings, More Fed Speakers, And Longest Gov’t Shutdown In History The market bonanza continues: the S&P 500 posted a 6th monthly gain for the first time since 2021, and those factors outweighed concerns around private credit and fears of an AI bubble. Meanwhile, Japan’s Nikkei had its best month in 35 years as the new government came to office, a meltup driven almost entirely by just […]

Shutdown Woes Grow, Midterm Polls Start To Flow, Fetterman Says Dems ‘Need To Own’ The federal government shutdown entered its 34th day Monday with no resolution in sight, though there were faint signs of movement among lawmakers seeking a way out of the impasse. The House has not been in session for 45 days. Yet as the shutdown stretches on, the political stakes are mounting for both parties – with new polls showing Democrats […]

Putin And Xi Are ‘Serious People’ & ‘Not To Be Toyed With’: Trump Interview President Trump offered some candid and revealing thoughts on his Russian and Chinese counterparts Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during a CBS 60 Minutes interview which aired Sunday. Trump has not appeared on the program in a half-decade, but had much to say, especially regarding America’s two top ‘superpower’ rivals. He called Putin and Xi “very […]

Stocks Extend Rally Into 7th Month As AI Bubble Rally Just Won’t Stop US equity futures are signaling a solid start to November, led by Tech with small caps flat, as traders gauge the durability of a seven-month global equity rally fueled recently by strong tech earnings and easing US–China trade tensions. S&P 500 futures were up 0.2% while Nasdaq 100 futs rose 0.6% as of 8:00 am ET. Pre-market, Mag7 are all higher with […]

The Eye Of The (Stock Market Sh*t) Storm Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance I think I’ve identified the four horsemen of the next stock market apocalypse — each one manageable in isolation, but collectively large enough to reshape a financial system priced for perfection. Subprime auto, commercial real estate, private credit, and crypto all scratch me where I itch when thinking about precarious pockets of today’s stock […]

Russia ‘Closely Monitoring’ Venezuela Crisis As US Builds Up 16,000 Troops Off Coast Russia says it is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela at a moment of unprecedented build-up of military assets threatening the country which possesses the world’s largest crude oil reserves. Responding to a weekend Washington Post report saying that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has requested military assistance from Moscow, […]

Largest Trucking Capacity Purge In History Coming By Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves The Calm Before the Storm: Freight’s Current Reality The freight industry is experiencing what experts describe as one of the most interesting times ever in freight—though unfortunately, not in a positive way for most participants. Motor carriers and freight brokers across the spectrum are feeling significant pain from weak freight volumes […]

Sabotage? Portland ICE Building Plunged Into Darkness After Suspicious Power Blackout Conservative journalist Nick Sortor reports that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Portland metro area has experienced a highly suspicious power outage. Speculation is mounting that this could be an act of sabotage by an Antifa-linked terror cell. Militant far-left groups have a history of targeting power grids, reminiscent of […]

Nigerian President Responds To Trump’s Call For Military Action Against Christian Persecution Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Nigerian government on Sunday responded to a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States could take military action in the African nation if its government does not more to curb the persecution of Christians there by Islamic terrorists. Nigerian […]

Anduril’s YFQ-44 Fury “Fighter” Drone Has Flown By Joseph Trevithick of The War Zone Anduril’s YFQ-44A ‘fighter drone’ prototype has now made its maiden flight. The YFQ-44A is one of two designs currently being developed under the first phase, or Increment 1, of the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. The other is General Atomics’ YFQ-42A, which took to the skies for the first time earlier […]

Seattle Paying Up To 53% More Than The National Average For Gasoline Gas prices are falling across much of the United States, but Seattle drivers are still paying a premium, according to Fox 13 Seattle. The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.066. In Washington state, the average jumps to $4.388 per gallon. In the Seattle–Bellevue–Everett metro area, the price is $4.648 per gallon, and in King County it reaches $4.732 […]

How Canada Built, Then Broke, The World’s Best Immigration System Via Thehub.ca, Welcome immigrants. Many, but not too many. Mostly educated and skilled. Always legal. That is the answer. Or at least a short version of an answer. What’s the question? I’m coming to that. Members of the crowd during a Canada Day parade in Montreal, July 1, 2018. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press. For decades, Canada enjoyed all-party, […]