Category: Economy

WNBA Players Wear Delusional “Pay Us” Shirts In Protest Over Contract Dispute For several years the WNBA and other female sports figures have tried to ride the third-wave of feminist propaganda in and attempt to garner pity from the public and demand a higher pay rate.  In 2020, this was largely centered on the fallacy…

One of the greatest moments in anyone’s professional life is the exact moment they decide they are done working permanently. Whether it’s due to health, finances, or something else, the moment when you can say goodbye to the 9-to-5 forever has to be incredibly freeing.  Key Points This Redditor, who is about to retire, is…

Can We Just Skip To Next Week By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Can We Just Skip to Next Week? Last week felt a bit “boring” despite some headlines on the future of the Fed, banks kicking off earnings season, and company after company associated with AI/Data Centers/High-End Chips having positive headlines. It might explain…

“Effective Immediately”: Shipping Line Suspends EV Cargo Due To Lithium Battery Fire Concerns U.S. shipping and navigation services company Matson surprised customers in recent days by announcing new policies that halt all electric vehicle shipments due to the fire risk posed by lithium-ion batteries. This comes after the Morning Midas—a RoRo carrier transporting EVs and hybrids—erupted…

“Plan On It!” Martin Armstrong Sees ‘100% Chance Of Nuclear War’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Six weeks ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was signaling a big turn toward war.  Now, Armstrong says, “The chances of war with a nuclear exchange is at 100%. . .. Plan on it, this is coming.” Can…

China’s Rare Earth Chokehold Eases – Just Enough To Keep US Hooked China’s export controls on key rare earth elements (REEs) — particularly rare earth magnets essential for EVs, smartphones, fighter jets, and missiles — triggered a sharp drop in shipments to U.S. firms earlier this summer, disrupting production lines, including ones at Ford Motor Company….

Democrats Demand Investigation Into Colbert’s Cancelation Authored by Jonathan Turley, In Washington, Democratic politicians are calling for a congressional investigation, while in New York, the Writers’ Guild is asking New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) for a state probe. No, the issue is not the use of the autopen by Biden staff to carry out presidential…

Sarepta Refuses FDA Request To Halt Elevidys After Three Deaths Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. has refused a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy Elevidys after three patient deaths, Bloomberg reported this weekend. The FDA disclosed that two teenage boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, both unable to…

Watch: Rare Inside Look At Russia’s Secret Shahed Drone Factory Russian state media has broadcast new footage from a major drone production facility in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, where Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones, rebranded by Russia as the Geran-2, are being manufactured.  The defense ministry-produced video constitutes a very rare look inside one of Russia’s main secretive drone assembly plants,…

Analyzing The Ambiguity Over The American-NATO Arms Arrangement For Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The offensive dimension of Trump’s new three–pronged approach to Ukraine involves the sale of American weapons to NATO who’ll in turn transfer them to Ukraine. This aligns with what Trump told NBC several days prior to the aforesaid announcement. According to Reuters’ sources, however, “Trump…

Israeli Settlers Accused Of Killing 117 Sheep Belonging To West Bank Bedouins In the latest ghastly tactic used to displace non-Jews from their West Bank villages and farms, Israeli settlers are accused of carrying out a bloody livestock massacre on Friday, using knives, sticks and guns to kill 117 sheep belonging to Bedouins. Settlers stole…

The European ‘Surprise’ – Why We Misread The Continent’s Shifts Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, Europe’s political landscape continues to defy expectations, leaving analysts and policymakers scrambling to explain outcomes that, in hindsight, seem foreseeable. From the UK’s Brexit vote to Giorgia Meloni’s rise in Italy, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) surge…

Escobar: And It’s One, Two, Three; What Are We Fighting For? NATO’s Wars Authored by Pepe Escobar, All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column’s headline is coming from. Oh yes, this ain’t the late 1960s anymore, so it’s time to revamp it – no AI needed – and expand it: from…

Multi-Billion Dollar Boondoggle: Biden Admin Plan For Electric Mail Trucks Flops Massively A Biden administration effort to electrify the U.S. Postal Service has produced just 250 electric mail trucks in over two years—far behind schedule and slammed by Republicans as a multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.” The nearly $10 billion project aimed to roll out 35,000 battery-powered USPS…

Run, Kamala, Run! (But Would She Lose?) Authored by Arthur Schaper via American Greatness, Former District Attorney, California Attorney General, US Senator, and Vice President Kamala Harris will make her big announcement this summer. Not about seeking a second, er, third bid for the White House in 2028. It’s all about 2026. Will she or…

Trump Again Threatens To Destroy New Iran Nuclear Assets As Tehran Teases Pullout From NPT President Trump has doubled (or tripled) down on his insistence that Iran’s nuclear capabilities were completely obliterated by last month’s US bomber raid on three key Iranian nuclear facilities. He wrote Saturday on Truth Social, “All three nuclear facilities in…

The Desperation To Stop Trump Wasn’t Political, It Was Survival Authored by Ada Nestor via ‘My Reflections From The Edge’ substack, It’s not enough to say they hated Trump. That’s the surface-level distraction they fed the public – tweets, tone, ego. But behind closed doors, the political elite weren’t clutching their pearls over Trump’s behavior….

How Do You Measure Up? How does average penis size compare across different countries? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, maps global data on average erect penis length, offering a visual ranking of 142 countries. The data for this visualization was compiled by Data Pandas. It combines figures from Veale et al. (2014), Lynn (2013),…

From North America To Australia, Migrant Truckers Are Fueling A Highway Safety Crisis Submitted by American Truckers United,  Three weeks after President Trump’s Executive Order reinstated enforcement of English language proficiency requirements for American truck drivers—regulations that had been waived by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2016 under President Obama—a growing number of unsafe…

Israel Orders Evacuations In Central Gaza, Widening Military Offensive On Sunday, the Israeli military (IDF) issued new evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza, which even after years of war with Hamas is an area where Israeli ground forces have rarely operated, further restricting access between Deir al-Balah and the southern cities of Rafah and…

The Persistence Of Benefit Cliffs: A Behavioral Look At A Policy Problem Authored by Vladimir Snurenco via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), Benefit cliffs occur when earning slightly more—through a raise or extra hours—leaves people worse off because they lose government benefits. Many economists believe these cliffs can be “smoothed out” through better program…

“Illegal Alien Monster” Shoots Border Patrol Agent Point-Blank In Manhattan Update (1750ET): An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot in the face by a moped-riding illegal alien in a New York City park. The suspect, 21-year-old Dominican national Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, reportedly entered the country under the Biden-Harris regime’s open-border policies. Despite having…

Gabbard To Release More Obama Russiagate Files, ‘Cannot Fathom’ How Durham, Mueller Missed Evidence Of ‘Years-Long Coup’ Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she’ll release more information next week to follow up on her bombshell declassification of documents that show “overwhelming evidence” of the Obama administration laid the groundwork for the years-long Trump-Russia collusion investigation after President Trump…

Democrats Continue To Flounder As Approval Ratings Sink To All Time Lows How low can they go?  Democrat Party politicians are proving that the gutter is truly the limit and even their own voting base has little regard for their leadership. According to recent polling by Quinnipiac University, just 19% of voters questioned give Democrats…

Grappling With Existential Panic Over AI Authored by Mark Jeftovic via EasyDNS.com, If There’s an SOP, You’re SOL Some time over the Christmas holidays, I experienced what I called a moment of “existential clarity” about AI and it’s ramifications – when I realized that in the not-so-distant future, it was entirely possible that most of…

Illegal Migrant Accused Of Decapitating Illinois Woman Captured By ICE The problem of leftist activist judges is growing more worrisome by the day, and one has to wonder how may crimes these officials have facilitated in their efforts set criminal illegals free and “stick it to Republicans”.   Immigration authorities in Chicago have arrested a Mexican…

Insurers Request Huge Obamacare Rate Hikes, Many Over 20% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Medical care costs are surging already. A big leap is coming. Health Care Shock Coming The Wall Street Journal reports Obamacare Insurers Seek Double-Digit Premium Hikes Next Year If you buy your own health insurance, you are probably going to pay…

Army Special Operations Command Issues Terror Threat For Retired DoD Officials In Florida On Thursday, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) issued a “Duty to Warn” notification concerning a credible terrorist threat targeting retired senior Department of Defense officials with prior involvement in operations within the Syria/Iraq theater. The geographic focus of the threat…

Full Assault On The Media Machine: Trump Slashes USAID Submitted by Thomas Kolbe After fierce internal disputes and the resignation of Elon Musk as a government advisor, the United States has now entered a new phase of fiscal consolidation. On Friday, the House of Representatives cleared the way for the first major round of budget…

Manhattan Shooting: Border Patrol Agent Shot In Face, Suspects Described As “Hispanic Males”  An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot in the face while walking through a park in New York City. Initial reports describe the suspects as “Hispanic males,” and one has been arrested. Authorities say the incident appears to have been a…

Watch: Delta 767 Engine Erupts Into Flames After LAX Takeoff Last month’s deadly Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash remains very vivid in the public’s memory, especially after dramatic footage went viral on X. Those fears were reignited Saturday when a Delta Air Lines Boeing 767’s engine caught fire during takeoff from Los Angeles International…

Across this year, shares of the “Magnificent Seven” have not traveled in the same direction. Among the best examples of how differently they have performed is that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has moved higher by 28% this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is down 16%. Nvidia is the world’s market cap leader at $4.2 trillion. Apple, which…

Europe’s Online Censorship Laws Could Restrict Americans Too, Analysts Say Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For many Americans, talk of a crackdown in Europe on “hate speech” and “misinformation” may seem a faraway issue, but legal experts say that Europe’s online censorship laws could affect Americans, too. This photo shows…

Japan PM Ishiba Vows To ‘Stay On’ Despite Ruling Coalition Facing Major Loss; Exit Polls Show Update (1015ET): The governing coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is likely to lose a majority in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election Sunday, according to exit polls, worsening the country’s political instability. Voters…