Futures Rise As Trade, Credit Fears Fade Ahead Of Earnings Deluge US equity futures are higher led by small caps, with sentiment TACOed for a second consecutive weekend thanks to Trump’s comments that the US will “be fine” with China ahead of trade talks between the two sides. It’s going to be a busy week for earnings, with Tesla, Netflix and General Motors among companies reporting. As of 8:00am, S&P futures are up […]

Kushner: Trump Believes Israel Is “Getting A Little Bit Out Of Control” Via The Libertarian Institute  In an interview, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said the President believed Israel was out of control following the attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Qatar.  Kushner and Trump’s Envoy Steve Witkoff appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday. When asked how Trump responded after learning of the Israeli […]

Paramount Is Laying Off Up To 3,000 Employees Starting This Month By Luke Bouma of CordCutterNews Paramount Global is poised to initiate a sweeping round of layoffs affecting up to 3,000 employees as early as the week of October 27, 2025. This accelerated timeline, drawn from insights shared by industry insiders, comes just weeks after the closure of Skydance Media’s transformative acquisition of the storied entertainment giant […]

Trump Says Gaza Ceasefire Still In Place As Israel Halts Short-Lived Airstrikes The Trump-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is hanging by a thread, as local officials say that nearly 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 230 wounded overall since the ceasefire’s start on October 10. Israel on Sunday launched dozens of new airstrikes in response to what it called Hamas’s “blatant violation” of the deal, but which the militant group […]

Rally Into Year-End? 3 Reasons To “Buy Dips” Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, This past week delivered a sharp pickup in volatility and quick reversals, underlining how fragile the tape has become. Early in the week, markets were pressured by renewed trade rhetoric from former President Trump. He threatened a 100 percent tariff on Chinese imports starting November 1 in response to China’s export controls on […]

Escaping The ‘Digital Concentration Camp’; Gold Fights The ‘Financial Control Grid’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), publisher of “The Solari Report,” is back with a new cutting-edge publication called “Plunder.” CAF has been pushing gold (and silver) as an investment for the past few years.  The record high price of the yellow metal has proven her right.  In order for the few to […]

Amazon AWS Identifies Root Cause Of Widespread Internet Outage Affecting US-East Services​​​​​​​ Update (0615ET): Amazon Web Services (AWS) has largely restored operations after a major disruption in its US-East-1 (Northern Virginia) region earlier this morning that affected numerous apps and websites relying on the service. Root Cause Identified: AWS engineers traced the issue to a DNS resolution problem affecting […]

“Coup d’Flat”: Billionaire-Funded ‘No Kings’ Color-Revolution Turns Into White Liberal Boomer Parade As Dems Become National Laughingstock The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, unleashed a highly coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization nationwide on Saturday; the same tactics U.S. intelligence agencies have used overseas for years in regime-change operations. Yet the turnout […]

EU Capital Markets Union: Germany’s Merz Calls For A “Wall Street” For Europe Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the German Bundestag, Friedrich Merz appealed to the EU to integrate the fragmented European capital market more deeply and reduce bureaucratic hurdles. His vision for the next step: a kind of Wall Street for Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz used his government statement on Thursday to take a strategic look at what […]

Shell’s Fuel Shortage In Indonesia Proves The Next Era Is Electric Around 200 Shell outlets in Indonesia have run out of gasoline after domestic supply disruptions tied to state oil giant PT Pertamina and a sweeping corruption probe, according to Bloomberg. Rivals such as BP AKR and Vitol’s Vivo have also been empty for weeks. Lines now snake through Pertamina’s own stations, the only ones still reliably selling fuel — though […]

The Rise & Rise Of AfD: Exploring The Unprecedented Political Dumbassery Afoot In The Federal Republic Authored by ‘eugyppius’ via A Plague Chronicle, The firewall is making AfD the strongest party in Germany, artificially empowering the left and destroying the centre-right, who alone can lift it There’s a subtle, little-discussed but very bizarre political phenomenon that has interested me ever since I started blogging and […]

Europe Generates The Most Electronic Waste Every person in the world generates on average around 8 kilograms of electronic waste per year worldwide. However, there are significant regional differences. As Statista’s Valentina Fourreau shows in the chart below, using data from the latest E-Waste Monitor, Europe leads the way with around 17 kilograms of electronic waste per inhabitant, while each person in Africa generates only […]

Merz, EU Bureaucracy, And Germany’s Illusion Of Reform Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In his government statement on October 16, Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized European overregulation. He cited his own program for cutting bureaucracy in Germany. In reality, however, new layers of bureaucracy are being created domestically. Once again, Merz engaged in political shadow-boxing with his party colleague Ursula von der Leyen. […]

Has Xi Jinping Lost Control Of China’s Military… And China Itself? Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, On October 17, China’s Ministry of National Defense announced that the Communist Party’s Central Committee and Central Military Commission had, after investigations, removed nine senior officers from their posts in the People’s Liberation Army. Pictured: General He attends the opening ceremony of the […]

Disputed Thai-Cambodian Border Still Tense Despite Ceasefire Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia stopped after five days of clashes in July that left dozens dead, according to Nikkei Asia. ASEAN hopes to formalize a broader ceasefire at its Oct. 26 summit in Kuala Lumpur, to be witnessed by U.S. President Donald Trump. But tensions along the border remain unresolved. In Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province, hundreds of Cambodians […]

Slow Drift To New Norms Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org, The agenda moves so slowly that everything they are bucking for will eventually be fact, but no one will think it the least bit odd. It’s like a foxtail slowly digging its way under an unsuspecting dog’s skin, causing serious infection, with the poor animal having no clue it is even there. I remember when I was a kid and first learned of a technique […]

Where Has The National Guard Been Deployed? The National Guard is currently deployed in three cities in the United States: Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis. While troops were briefly deployed in Chicago, they were blocked from activation by a judge on October 9. Similarly, court rulings have stopped the rollout of Oregon’s own National Guard members to Portland, as well as the deployment of National Guard troops from […]

Watch: RFK Jr. Tells Trump He’s “Doing God’s Work” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a moment that has since gone viral, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commented on President Trump’s recent remarks that he doesn’t know if he will get to heaven. During a briefing in the Oval Office regarding an effort to surge fertility in the U.S. (more on that later) Kennedy told Trump “You didn’t believe you were […]

Boeing 747 Cargo Jet Veers Off Hong Kong Runway, Breaks Apart In Water Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 reports that an Air ACT (ACT Airlines) Boeing 747-481 BDSF (a variant of the Boeing 747 cargo aircraft) veered off the runway at Hong Kong International Airport at 03:53 local time (19:53 UTC) and broke apart after hitting water at a ground speed of 49 knots. According the ADS-B data AirACT flight #EK9788 went off the […]

Upper West Side Runs Out Of New Homes Despite Sky-High Prices And Incoming Communist Mayor Even as housing prices look stretched and a divisive new mayor prepares to take office, Manhattan’s Upper West Side is running short on new homes, according to Bloomberg. Only 51 new condo units are expected to be completed in the neighborhood through 2028, according to Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group — a 94% drop from the 869 units […]

Forget The “Great Wealth Transfer”… This Is Much Worse Authored by Peter Reagan via BirchGold.com, What does the average person do when they run out of money before the end of the month? According to Federal Reserve data, nearly half of U.S. households report spending every penny (or more) than they earn in a typical month. Like families juggling credit cards, governments often rely on borrowing to fill the gap — only on a […]

More Money Is Lost In Credit From Forced Selling Than Defaults By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities ProSec and Credit Risk If you missed Thursday’s piece titled Is ProSec the New ESG, then I highly recommend checking it out. In fact, I almost stopped writing today just to make sure people saw that. So many interesting conversations on the back of that, and we think it deserves a read. We think that Production for Security (or […]

Secret Service Discovers Hunting Stand Overlooking Trump’s Air Force One Exit The US Secret Service on Thursday discovered a hunting stand in a tree near Palm Beach International Airport which had a direct line of sight to an Air Force One exit area used by President Trump.  In a Sunday post to X, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the FBI and Secret Service are investigating the matter, and nobody had been linked to the […]

Is This MAGA? Trump Wants Lindsey Graham Donor To Challenge ‘RINO’ Massie Ever-determined to oust popular GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, President Trump has posted yet another anti-Massie rant on social media, trashing the libertarian-minded Kentuckian and urging failed state-level candidate Ed Gallrein to mount a midterm primary challenge. In a 250-word Friday-night post employing his trademark random capitalization, Trump wrote:  […]

“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”: One Bullion Dealer Sees A Rupture In Gold And Silver Markets Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance When silver surged to multi-year highs, veteran bullion dealer Andy Schectman didn’t see just another price move—he saw a rupture in the foundation of the global metals market. In a wide-ranging interview last week, Schectman argued that what’s happening now represents the physical market […]