Category: Economy

The Harsh Truth About Life In Canada Today Authored by Mikkel Thorup via InternationalMan.com, Canada is often portrayed as a land of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity. Reality, however, tells a different story… Statist policies, crushing taxes, bloated bureaucracy, and a society overtaken by woke ideology have shattered Canada. This is a cautionary tale for those…

Mueller Announces Parkinson’s Diagnosis, Will Not Testify In Epstein Investigation Former FBI Director and Trump special counsel Robert Mueller claims he has Parkinson’s disease, and “cannot comply with a request to testify this week before a congressional committee investigating the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations,” the NY Times originally reported Sunday evening before stealth-editing their article to lead…

She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students but Fail Society Authored by Hannah Frankman Hood via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), A nineteen-year-old college student is suing her former high school for negligence because she graduated despite being unable to read or write. The student, Aleysha Ortiz, graduated from Hartford Public…

DHS’s New Election Integrity Czar Has Receipts On Pennsylvania’s 2020 Fraud Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, Left-wing media outlets pounced this week to attack President Donald Trump’s new appointee for the Department of Homeland Security’s election-integrity czar. Outlets including the Associated Press and ProPublica accused Heather Honey of being an “election denier” for the doubts she has cast over the…

The Pentagon Cracks Down On Big Tech’s Coziness With China Authored by Paul Bradford via American Greatness, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last week that the military would cease using a Microsoft program that relied on Chinese engineers. This obviously presented a major security issue, which Hegseth noted. “If you’re thinking ‘America first’ and common sense, this…

Trump Admin Prepares Crackdown On Illegals Draining HUD-Backed Housing Funds Tax-paying Americans have endured years of negative economic and social impacts from the illegal alien invasion facilitated under the Biden-Harris regime, which ultimately served their progressive billionaire friends, dark-money-funded far-left NGOs, and mega-globalist corporations. No sane American voted for this invasion, yet Democrats allowed it…

Peter Schiff: Gold To $6,000 Next Year, Dollar Index To 70 Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance I sat down with my friend Peter Schiff this weekend to get his targets on gold miners, gold, the dollar and markets heading into the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026. Schiff, never shy about his views, has…

Democrats Demand “Assault Weapons” Ban After Trans Mass Shooting In Minneapolis In the US gun deaths are often the focus of progressive and international criticism, with claims that the US is a wellspring of violence and murder that could be solved simply by banning firearms.  The disdain of the political left for the 2nd Amendment…

Trump Admin Moves To Cut Another $4.9 Billion In Foreign Aid Funding Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump on Aug. 28 proposed the cancellation of $4.9 billion in appropriated funds for foreign aid spending, using a maneuver that could effectively bypass the congressional approval process normally required to…

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Chicago Mayor Going To War With Trump Over Possible Immigration Crackdown Leftists in sanctuary cities and states are scrambling to stop Donald Trump’s deportation efforts, but is there anything they can realistically do to interfere with operations to remove illegal aliens from the US?  Short of going to war with the federal government and a…

Chinese Fentanyl Financier Evades U.S. Extradition After Daring Mexico City Tunnel Escape  Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper,  In a case reminiscent of the underground prison break of Sinaloa cartel boss “El Chapo” Guzmán, a high-profile Chinese national code-named Chino — who prosecutors say trained Hispanic drug traffickers to operate on U.S. soil, and who has been…

Southwest First To Fly With Secondary Cockpit Barriers – Almost 24 Years After 9/11 Over the past year, long-unique Southwest Airlines has been announcing big changes to its boarding and checked-baggage policies that will make it much like every other airline. However, the carrier distinguished itself from the field on Friday by pioneering the use of…

The last time unemployment was 5% was in August 2021. The job market was rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic, which had driven the jobless rate to 14.8% in April of the previous year. Economists often refer to 5% as “full employment.” Above that level, there is a possibility of an inflationary increase. The jobless rate…

Every Industry Is An Airport Lounge Now Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance I’m sure some of you saw that recent op-ed about airport lounges. It was written by David Mack for The New York Times. He laments the decline of airport lounges, recalling a grim experience at Orlando’s Club MCO: long waits, sad buffets, and weak drinks that…

Missouri Governor Calls Special Session For Redrawing Congressional Map Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced on Aug. 29 that he was calling state lawmakers back to the capital for a special session tasked with redrawing the congressional district lines ahead of the 2026 election. His announcement came just hours after fellow Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott…

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Europe In The Balance? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant — often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime — surfaces. Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to…

Homeland’s Noem Fires 24 FEMA Employees After Data Breach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired 24 workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after a cyber breach threatened national security, she announced on Aug. 29. A cyber hacker breached FEMA systems, but no sensitive data was taken from any Department of Homeland Security…

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Key Points In just a few weeks, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release key inflation data. That data will come into play in the context of next year’s Social Security COLA. Current estimates are calling for a 2.7% COLA in 2026, but if inflation picks up, that number could increase. Are you ahead, or…

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Escobar: Russia-China – From The Memory Of WWII To BRICS/SCO Synergy Authored by Pepe Escobar, Three – interlocked – dates ahead of us could not be more crucial in shaping the next configuration of the currently incandescent geopolitical chessboard. 1. August 31/September 1st. Tianjin – half-an-hour by high-speed rail (120 km, roughly $8) from Beijing….

Fentanyl Involved In 70% Of US Drug Overdose Deaths Perhaps the most dangerous thing about fentanyl is the fact that, due to its low price and high potency, it is often used to lace other drugs. Whether it’s heroin, cocaine, meth or counterfeit pills mimicking prescription opioids such as Vicodin or Oxycontin – fentanyl is…

China Accelerates Coal Plant Commissioning To 9-Year High Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Despite record solar and wind capacity additions and booming renewable energy output, China is not giving up on coal, on the contrary.  During the first half of 2025, China commissioned as much as 21 gigawatts (GW) of coal power, the highest…

Watch: Maduro Stages Military Show Of Force As US Warships Near Venezuela is really trying to flex back after the Trump administration dispatched three Navy destroyers to waters near Venezuela this month, and Reuters has said that a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine is also en route to the region. In response Venezuela’s defense minister has ordered increased…

I sat down with my friend Peter Schiff this weekend to get his targets on gold miners, gold, the dollar and markets heading into the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026. Schiff, never shy about his views, has spent decades warning of bubbles, currency debasement, and the inevitability of gold’s resurgence. This year the…

Denver School Accused Of Violating Title IX Over All-Gender Restrooms Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Education Department said on Thursday that Denver Public Schools violated Title IX, the law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools, by converting sex-separated restrooms into “all-gender” facilities. Denver East High School in Denver on April…

Australia’s Largest Rare Earth Miner Plans US Expansion To Compete With China Australia’s Lynas, the world’s largest rare earths miner outside China, plans to raise A$825mn (US$538mn) to boost stockpiles, expand capacity, and invest in magnet makers in Malaysia and the US, according to the Financial Times. Rare earths are critical for products ranging from…

“We’re Losing Our Community”: Short-Term Rentals Are Ruining Three Rivers, Residents Say In the early 1970s, Three Rivers was a quiet foothill town where cattle ranchers sparred with a wave of tie-dyed newcomers looking for open space and a slower way of life. Back then, the biggest changes came from the clash of cultures. Today,…

Trump Signs Executive Order ‘Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’ Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump on Aug. 28 signed an executive order to “[Make] Federal Architecture Beautiful Again,” with a focus on using classical and traditional architecture in new federal buildings. Jefferson Memorial across the Tidal Basin in…

Half Of American Schools Require ‘Equitable’ Grading And Most Teachers Are Opposed: Survey Lackluster student performance has plagued the Schenectady, N.Y., city school district for years. The school district, like many others, implemented a “grading for equity” policy in response to dismal test scores. However, as Aaron Gifford reports below for The Epoch Times, a…

New Recall Of Potentially Radioactive Cocktail Shrimp In 27 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Food and Drug Administration announced on Aug. 28 a new recall of cocktail shrimp sold in Walmart stores across 27 states for potential contamination due to being prepared, packed, or held under insanitary…

Houthis Confirm Prime Minister & Top Officials Killed In Massive Israeli Strike Yemen’s Houthi government has belatedly confirmed that an Israeli attack launched days ago killed its prime minister, Ahmed al-Rahawi, who was the most senior Houthi official to have been slain in the ongoing conflict thus far. The official Houthi statement further acknowledged that several al-Rahawi’s…

When Washington Gets Out Of The Way – Energy Workers Deliver Results Authored by Larry Behrens via RealClearEnergy, This Labor Day feels different. After years of paying too much at the pump and hearing politicians in Washington tell us it was all Putin’s fault, American families are finally getting relief. The reason is simple: our…

Florida Probe Uncovers Migrant CDL Test Cheating With Hidden Cameras Florida investigators say some migrants have been using hidden cameras and earpieces to cheat on commercial driver’s license (CDL) exams, allowing them to operate 18-wheelers despite not knowing English, according to WTLV-TV and Breitbart. According to WTLV-TV, applicants used tiny cameras to transmit test questions…

Prominent Ukrainian Politician Assassinated In Broad Daylight On Streets Of Lviv Former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy – a prominent voice on the hardline Ukrainian right – was shot and killed in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, grabbing headlines in Ukraine and internationally, and resulting in an urgent manhunt for the assailant. He…

Israel Sees Sykes-Picot Borders As ‘Meaningless’ & ‘Will Go Where They Want’: Trump Envoy Via Middle East Eye Israel is not interested in adhering to the Middle East’s established borders set by the WWI Sykes-Picot agreement and has the “capacity or the desire” to take over Lebanon and Syria, according to US special envoy Tom Barrack. Barrack made…

Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Expansion Of Fast-Track Deportations A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s attempt to expand fast-track deportations across the United States, ruling that the policy violated illegal immigrants’ constitutional rights to due process. In an Aug. 29 decision, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)…

Democrats “Are Society Destroyers” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller shredded Democrats during a press briefing, defining them as having aligned with an overall ideology that is anti-human. “[Democrats] are society destroyers,” Miller declared. “It’s a simple choice. You either side with civilization, or with anarchy and violence,” he…

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has the largest market cap in the world, at $4.25 trillion. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is second, with a market capitalization of $3.77 trillion. That is a difference of $480 billion. That difference is equivalent to the market capitalization of ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM). Key Points NVIDIA Is An Arms Merchant NVIDIA’s Market Share…

Minneapolis Shooter’s Mother Not Speaking To Police Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The mother of the man who killed two children at a Minneapolis church and school and left 18 other people wounded is not speaking to authorities, the city’s police chief said on Aug. 28. In the aftermath of…

Key Points in This Article: Investors have faced a rollercoaster year with sharp drops and recoveries. The S&P 500‘s gains are increasingly being driven by a concentrated group of large-cap stocks. Fears of a market crash looms large, but a rare market signal with 100% accuracy over the past seven decades suggests a bullish continuation….

From Blacklist To NIH Director: Jay Bhattacharya On Fauci, Bioweapons, And The Collapse Of Free Speech In Science Director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, sat down for an extended interview with ZeroHedge. Bhattacharya, long known as one of the fiercest critics of lockdown orthodoxy, has gone from blacklisted dissenter to running…