Key Points in This Article: Intuitive Machines (LUNR) is advancing lunar access and space-based semiconductor manufacturing, with its stock rocketing 18% yesterday due to partnerships and analyst support. Its recent Space Forge collaboration aims to produce high-purity semiconductors in microgravity, supported by a Texas Space Commission grant. An analyst’s Buy rating and $17 price target…
This article will be updated throughout the day, so check back often for more daily updates. The tech-heavy NASDAQ notched a new high this morning, just above 23,394 on earnings. In fact, just last night, Alphabet ( Revenue of $96.43 million was above expectations of $94 billion. EPS of $2.31 was also above estimates calling…
The tariff-driven market volatility has been rough on shares of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc. (NYSE: NIO), which in April fell to a multiyear low of $3.02. Shares rebounded afterward, and they are now up 12.8% year to date, after an 11.7% pop in the past week following the launch of a new…
Can you imagine a world where businesses were not looking to disrupt and earn billions of dollars? Considering the US funeral market generates almost $20 billion a year, it’s next on the list of opportunities startups want to profit from. Key Points The business of death is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. Startups know that…
So far this year, one of the better performers among Magnificent 7 has been Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META). Its shares have outperformed the broader market and are currently up 12.1% from six months ago, after retreating modestly from a recent all-time high of $747.90. For comparison, other Magnificent 7 members have fared much worse….
Geopolitical Powder Keg Erupts: Thai F-16s Strike Cambodian Targets In Border Clash A long-standing border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia sharply escalated overnight, with reports that a Thai F-16 fighter jet conducted air-to-ground strikes on multiple Cambodian military positions near the disputed border region. Reuters reports that Thailand readied six F-16 fighter jets but deployed only…
Americana 2030s: Musk Says Retro-Futuristic Diner Could Roll Out Around Nation Elon Musk’s retro-futuristic Tesla Diner and Supercharger in Los Angeles quietly opened its doors to first responders over the weekend. Musk announced on X that if the concept proves successful, a nationwide rollout is a possibility. “If our retro-futuristic diner turns out well, which I…
Why Bitcoiners Will Benefit From Stablecoin Legislation Authored by Julia Cartwright via the American Institute for Economic Research, The recent passage of the Senate’s GENIUS Act and House’s upcoming “Crypto Week” mark a seismic shift in the financial world. The bill, which passed by a 68–30 vote, establishes a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, including reserve requirements, issuer disclosures,…
Photo by Marques Thomas on Unsplash Adam Ozimek had an interesting tweet today: It’s a compelling point. The op-ed he’s referring to is by law professor Zephyr Teachout, in which she accuses grocery stores of using market power to squeeze out smaller competitors and raise prices for consumers. I’m not sure who has “mocked” Teachout’s…
Meme Stock Mania Returns, Bitcoin At ATH. But Have You Checked Used-Rolex Prices? The meme stock craze of 2021 appears to be making a roaring comeback this week. On Tuesday, shares of Kohl’s soared as much as 90%, while premarket trading on Wednesday saw heavily shorted names, such as GoPro, jump 50% or more. It all began with…
EU Tightens Russian Oil Cap, But Loopholes Undermine Impact Authored by Cyrill Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, EU launches its 18th sanctions package, lowering Russia’s oil price cap to around $47.60/barrel and targeting the energy sector more aggressively. Loopholes remain widespread, with Greek-owned tankers helping transport Russian oil, and non-OECD nations like China and India continuing to…
Survey Reveals “Seismic Shift” As More Parents Reject Vaccine Schedule A new survey published in the JAMA Network by researchers at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that an increasing number of pregnant women and new mothers are delaying, or even outright refusing, government-recommended vaccines that hospitals and pediatricians push…
Germany’s €450 Billion EU Tribute: Brussels Demands, Berlin Pays By Thomas Kolbe Political centralism doesn’t come free of charge. On the path toward the United States of Europe, Brussels is entangling itself in a web of overreach, control mania, and interventionism. The invoice for this arrogance is being handed down to the outposts of Eurocracy….
Heading into August, here’s an updated chart showing how each of my 25 Stocks To Watch For 2025 is performing in 2025 versus an estimated S&P 500 return of around 7.7%. My names, equal weighted, have an average portfolio return of 42.318%, with 22 out of 25 names in positive territory and many significantly outperforming…
Turkey Commits Military Support To ‘New’ Post-Assad Syria With Saudis Pledging $4BN In Investment Turkey and Saudi Arabia have indicated this week they are preparing to ramp up their investment and military support to post-Assad Syria, which is under the new regime of President al-Sharaa and his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda). These very…
Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About The De Facto Asian NATO Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Playing any role in a Sino-US war over Taiwan, even a logistical one, could provoke Chinese retaliation… The Financial Times reported that US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby recently asked Australian and Japanese defense…
Visualizing Health Insurance As A Share Of Median Income By US State Americans pay wildly different amounts for health insurance depending on where they live. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows which states pay the most (and least) when health insurance costs are measured as a share of median income. The data for…
Recruits With Heart Failure, Some Mental Health Issues Can’t Join Military: Hegseth Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People who want to join the military cannot do so if they have congestive heart failure or one of a dozen other conditions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a memorandum released on…
Columbia University Agrees to Pay US $200 Million To Restore Federal Funding Columbia University has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve allegations it discriminated against Jewish students, in exchange for the restoration of federal grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition to the bribe cash settlement, Columbia University will also implement a…
‘No Issues’ In Locking Mechanism Of Fuel Control Switches In Boeing Fleet: Air India Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Air India said on Tuesday that precautionary inspections found no issues with fuel control switches on its Boeing aircraft following last month’s fatal air disaster that killed 260 people. The crashed…
“No CGI, No AI, Pure Engineering”: Watch Raw Footage Of ‘Star Wars’-Style Speeder Bike In late April, we were among the first to cover footage from startup Volonaut, showcasing its ‘superbike for the skies‘, a single-seater, jet-powered hoverbike capable of slicing through the air at 124 mph. Months later, Volonaut has released raw flight footage of the…
Pentagon Pulling 700 Marines Off LA Protest Response Mission Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Pentagon is continuing to wind down its troop deployment to Los Angeles, now withdrawing around 700 U.S. Marines who deployed to the California city last month in response to civil unrest. U.S. Marine Corps soldiers…
“There’s No Nothing”: Empty Shelves, Rotten Odors Plague Gov’t-Funded Supermarket In Missouri One of the dozen or so socialist policy proposals from NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is the creation of government-funded grocery stores. While the Democratic Party increasingly embraces socialist and Marxist-leaning policies, such as the seizure of private property, this idea of government-funded…
Appeals Court Declines To Lift Restrictions On Associated Press Access To White House Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, An appeals court on July 22 declined the latest attempt by The Associated Press to lift Trump administration restrictions that bar its journalists from accessing certain areas of the White House. In a one-page…
In-N-Out Burger Owner Latest CEO To Leave California: ‘It’s Tough Here’ Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As In-N-Out Burger prepares to open restaurants and a corporate office in Tennessee, owner and CEO Lynsi Snyder says she and her family will relocate from California. An In-N-Out restaurant in Huntington Beach, Calif….
What Happens To An Annuity If An Insurance Company Fails? Authored by Anne Johnson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Most people see annuities as a haven for their money. The guarantee of a monthly income lends a feeling of security during retirement. But what if the insurance company holding your annuity fails? What happens…
Cooler Weather Outlook Sends U.S. NatGas Prices Sliding U.S. natural gas futures fell for a third consecutive session on Wednesday, hitting its lowest intraday level since late April, as new weather forecasts indicate a much cooler weather pattern unfolding across the Lower 48 for the beginning of August. Bloomberg cited Darrell Fletcher, managing director of…
Iran Acknowledges That US Airstrikes ‘Destroyed’ Nuclear Facilities Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Iran’s foreign minister confirmed this week that U.S. airstrikes left the country’s nuclear facilities “destroyed” but said Iran would continue to enrich uranium. This comes about a month after three facilities were targeted. A satellite image taken…
Trump Admin Slashes 25% Of IRS Workforce In Sharp Reversal Of Biden-Era Expansion In one of the most sweeping overhauls of the federal bureaucracy in recent memory, the Internal Revenue Service is undergoing a dramatic contraction under the Trump administration, which has cut nearly 26,000 positions – approximately 25% of its workforce – through buyouts, retirements,…
Court Blocks Mississippi From Enforcing DEI Ban In Schools Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal court temporarily blocked Mississippi from enforcing a law against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in educational institutions. The order was issued on July 20 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…
Murder Probe After Boy, 15, Stabbed to Death On Downtown Vancouver Street A 15-year-old boy from Surrey, B.C., was fatally stabbed late Saturday near Robson Square, according to Vancouver police, who are now treating the case as a homicide. A Vancouver Police Department (VPD) patch is seen in Ottawa on Sept. 29, 2024. The Canadian…
The Toxic Combination Of Illinois’ Sanctuary Status And The SAFE-T Act By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner It’s hard to believe he’s been walking freely for months. A woman overdosed in his home. He concealed her death and dumped her body in a bleach-filled trash can in his back yard – where it remained for more…
Biden Hotline To Help Unaccompanied Migrant Children Ignored 65,000 Calls Disturbing reports were revealed during a hearing held last week by the House Committee on Homeland Security on the role of NGOs (non-profit organizations) in facilitating the unprecedented border crisis during the Biden Administration. A key witness, Ali Hopper, founder and president of GUARD Against…
Tesla Stock Flat After Q2 Earnings Light On Revenue And Earnings, Heavy On Vision, But Lacking Guidance Beside all the things we noted in our Tesla earnings preview, one thing analysts will be watching out for is how executives address questions about tariffs. Tesla’s battery business has long been a sleeper success and growth driver…
When the lever-action rifle design was patented over a century and a half ago, it represented a giant leap in firearm technology. In the time since, lever-actions have become an American icon. Lever-action rifles offer shooters a faster rate of fire than their bolt-action counterparts. They are often more compact than other rifle designs and…
If you ask 1,000 different Americans about the state of the U.S. economy, you will get 1,000 different opinions. But what is the truth? In this article, I am going to share information with you that is indisputable. I like to examine things from an analytical point of view, and so I always want to…
Judge Denies DOJ Request To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts; Comer Subpoenas Ghislaine A federal judge on Wednesday denied a Department of Justice request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a mid-2000s criminal investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) petitioned a federal court in Florida to…
Alphabet Shares Rise After Big Upward Revision To CapEx Outlook; Search Revenues Soar Investors were anxious hoping for reassurance that Alphabet’s ability to compete and defend its search empire during the artificial intelligence boom (despite being bought for 10 days straight going into tonight’s earnings). In a word, the answer was ‘yes’ – they can…
This post Lindsey Graham vs. Putin appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian war, Senator Lindsey Graham has been a primary instigator. His involvement goes back to at least 2016, when he visited Ukraine and told soldiers that “your fight is our fight”, while accusing Russia of “hacking our elections”. After the war truly…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. Still No Earnings 4:09 pm Alphabet just reported very solid earnings but we’re still waiting on QuantumScape. Once the company reports we’ll begin analyzing their earnings. Closing Bell Has Rung 4:02 pm by Eric Bleeker The closing bell has rung and we’ll be monitoring…
Iranian Officials Fear Israeli Sabotage In Spate Of Mystery Fires, Explosions A month after the Trump-declared ceasefire between Iran and Israel which ended the 12-day war, officials in Iran are increasingly concerned that Israeli intelligence may be engaged in covert sabotage operations on Iranian soil. Iran has for over two weeks been experiencing a wave…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. Volume Production of More Affordable Model By the End of the Year 4:20 pm by Eric Bleeker That should get some investor attention! More on Earnings… 4:18 pm by Eric Bleeker Tesla reported its financial results for Q2 2025, marking a significant transition in…
Court Rules Against New Jersey Bid To Ban ICE Detention Facilities In State Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New Jersey does not have the authority to prohibit private prison companies from housing illegal immigrants on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit…
In this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, joins Federalist Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to explain how leftist nonprofits illegally use American tax dollars to push Democrat politics and discuss what Congress can do to stop it. Walter recently testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight:…
Tesla Earnings Preview: Profitability, Robotaxi, Optimus And Musk’s ‘America’ Party In Focus Tesla will report its second-quarter 2025 earnings today after the close. A conference call with executives, including CEO Elon Musk, is scheduled for 5:30 PM ET. Here is a snapshot of expectations: Analysts expect EPS to come in at $0.44, down sharply from…
In case you’ve missed it, meme stock mania has made a bit of a resurgence here in 2025, with names like OPEN and KSS squeezing higher for what appears to be no reason at all. Zero Hedge did a great wrap up of the gamma squeeze in OPEN here. The way these speculative meme cauldron-bubbles…
Macron Sues Candace Owens For Defamation For Claiming His Wife Is A Man French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron launched legal proceedings against conservative podcaster Candace Owens in a Delaware court, seeking damages for what they characterize as a sustained defamation campaign targeting the French president’s wife. The 218-page complaint, filed Wednesday…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. More On Earnings… 4:22 pm by Eric Bleeker ServiceNow reported strong financial results for Q2 2025, with total revenues reaching $3.215 billion, a 22.5% year-over-year increase. Subscription revenues were $3.113 billion, also up 22.5% from the previous year. The company exceeded its guidance across…
Consider the following tweet: When I moved to Massachusetts in 1982, major cities such as Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline had rent control. Massachusetts is also one of the most Democratic states in the country. Today, Massachusetts doesn’t have rent control. So how did that happen? In 1994, Massachusetts had a referendum on rent control, and voters…
Passive investors seeking a high-tech growth edge should take their time to consider their options. Still, just how many of them can help investors outpace the S&P 500 as the AI revolution (and early innings of the quantum computing uprising) continues to unfold? Of course, the Nasdaq 100 is a popular go-to index option for…
US Olympics Committee Bans Men From Women’s Sports, Says It’s Aligning With Presidential Order Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) issued a policy update on July 21 regarding transgender athlete participation in sports, which indicates that U.S. women’s teams at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will…
