Rand Paul Warns Of “Disastrous” Midterms For GOP If Iran War Continues Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a leading voice for non-interventionism within the Republican Party, warned Tuesday that prolonged U.S. military action against Iran could spell disaster for Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. In an interview on Fox Business with host Maria Bartiromo, Paul downplayed internal party divisions as the main risk, instead pointing to […]

Loans To Non-Banks Threaten Banking Crisis Authored by Christopher Whalen via DailyReckoning.com, Last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp released the industry data for US banks for 2025. On the surface, the numbers look reassuring, even strong. But beneath the calm headline figures lies a growing risk that investors should not ignore. Domestic deposits increased for the sixth consecutive quarter in Q4 2025 by $318.3 […]

Oracle Jumps On Solid Earnings And Guidance Boost Despite Soaring CapEx And Cash Burn There was much anxiety ahead of Oracle’s Q3 earnings release: yes, revenue growth would be solid but would it come at the expense of even more capex, which has sent the stock price tumbling more than 50% since its record high on Sept 10. In the end, it turned out the company had learned from recent mistakes and projected a goldilocks future: strong […]

Epstein Guard Googled Him Minutes Before Body Found; Bank Made ‘Suspicious Activity Report’ Over Cash Deposits Authored by Jose Nino via HeadlineUSA, A federal correctional officer assigned to monitor Jeffrey Epstein conducted internet searches about the convicted sex offender just moments before his body was discovered and received thousands of dollars in cash deposits in the weeks preceding his death, newly released Justice […]

Trump Threatens ‘Unprecedented Military Consequences’ As Iran Reportedly Starts Mining The Strait Of Hormuz Summary: CNN says the IRGC had already begun laying explosive mines in the vital Strait of Hormuz. Reuters: AS MANY AS 150 US TROOPS WOUNDED SO FAR IN IRAN WAR CBS says US intelligence has begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane Divergent signals flying […]

Is This The Chart Pressuring Trump Toward An Iran Off-Ramp Brent crude futures tumbled from nearly $120/bbl early Monday morning to as low as $83/bbl by late Monday afternoon after President Trump said the Iran war could end soon. However, the contract had clawed back some losses and was trading around $91 to $95 Tuesday morning. Trump’s assertion that Operation Epic Fury may end “very soon” only reinforces renewed Trump Always […]

IEA Delivers No SPR Action After Extraordinary Meeting As Crude Jawboning Mania Enters Day Two Update (1514ET):  For a second straight day, G-7 leaders attempted to push crude prices lower with headlines about an “emergency meeting” to discuss a possible Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) release aimed at containing Brent and WTI crude prices. However, by late afternoon in New York, the Financial Times reported that the […]

Woke Media Struggles To Explain Why Gen Z Men Are Turning Against Feminism The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think through time and indoctrination they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population.  Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last.  However, this is not how society or individual psychology […]

Hormuz Mine Threat Emerges; White House Denies Tanker Escort Update (1431ET): And there we have it: *LEAVITT: US NAVY HAS NOT ESCORTED TANKER THROUGH HORMUZ Shortly after the farce of Secretary Wright’s deleted tweet on a US military-escorted tanker, CBS’  Jim LaPorta reports that U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. LaPorta added that […]

CNN Does Propaganda For ‘ISIS-Inspired’ Gracie Mansion Attackers, Then Deletes Tweet Whenever the MSM has their cyclical ‘come to Jesus’ moments about why readership is down and nobody trusts them, it never lasts. According to a recent analysis, CNN lost over 40% of its total day and primetime audience from 2017 – 2025 after peddling egregious propaganda, including: Russiagate Joe Rogan horse dewormer Hunter Biden’s laptop is […]

Ugly 3Y Auction Tails Most Since Liberation Day, Bid to Cover Slides Not that anyone will care much in light of the Iran-related news barrage hitting every second, but moments ago the US sold $58BN in 3Y paper in what was a rather ugly auction. Let’s take a quick look. In the week’s first coupon auction, the US sold $58BN in 3Y notes, at a high yield of 3.579%, up from 3.518% last month but in line with auctions since last August. […]

Bitcoin Vs Gold: ETF Flows Point To Early Capital Rotations Signs Authored by Biraajmaan Tamuly via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows have turned net positive over the past 30 days, while gold ETF demand has started to slow down after nine straight months of inflows. The shift comes even as gold prices remain elevated and sentiment around Bitcoin continues to cool. With these contrasting trends in ETF […]

ASP Isotopes Jump On “Material Progress Toward Commercial Uranium Enrichment” Just days after we covered the story on Quantum Leap Energy’s non-binding MOU with a major U.S. nuclear utility, Canaccord Genuity analyst George Gianarikas reiterated his buy rating on the beaten down ASP Isotopes, with an $11 price target citing “material progress” toward commercial uranium enrichment on two continents. On February 23, QLE inked […]

House Of Horrors: Cops Search Epstein’s Zorro Ranch For Strangled Girls, ‘Human Experimentation’ Weeks after New Mexico officials launched an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico – which has since been purchased to turn into a Christian retreat, the FBI and local law enforcement descended on the 7,500 acre property in search of dark secrets, including the possible graves of trafficked girls who may have […]

First Deutsche Bank, Now UBS Warns U.S. Airlines “Nearly 100% Unhedged” Against Energy Shock Building on Deutsche Bank analyst Michael Linenberg’s warning last week that surging jet fuel prices pose an “existential threat” to airlines, analysts at UBS offered their own take on the unfolding energy shock set to unleash turbulence across the industry, noting that U.S. airlines are “nearly 100% unhedged” against jet fuel costs above […]

Shots Fired At U.S. Consulate In Toronto As Iran War Fuels Terror Fears Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, Police responded at 5:29 a.m. Tuesday to reports that someone fired shots at the American Consulate at University Avenue and Queen Street West in the heart of Toronto, in an incident that comes as Western security agencies confront growing fears that the Iran war is triggering retaliatory violence far beyond the Middle […]

Boeing Slides After Wiring Flaw Discovery Set To Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries Boeing shares fell a little more than 3% in late-morning trading in New York after a new report from The Wall Street Journal stated that deliveries of some narrow-body 737 MAX jets would be delayed following the discovery of scratched wiring on newly built aircraft. Boeing told the WSJ that each affected jet can be fixed within days and that the wiring […]

World’s Biggest Hedge Funds Crushed By Oil Price Surge We knew something was off when Bloomberg reported yesterday that Balyasny’s chief commodities strategist, Damien Courvalin, whom the multi-strat hedge fund poached from Goldman in 2023 after a 16-year span at the bank where he led the bank’s oil research and become one of the most prominent oil analysts on Wall Street, had left the hedge fund where he oversaw the fimr’s […]

Archer Accuses Flying Taxi Rival Joby Of Depending On Chinese Suppliers Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Flying taxi maker Archer Aviation has alleged that its rival Joby Aviation has been misleading regulators and investors for years by hiding its connections to China. In a March 9 filing in federal court in California, Archer accused Joby of running a manufacturing unit in Shenzhen, China, for more than a decade […]

N.C. Medicaid Scammers Sentenced To Over 14 Years In Prison For ‘Somali-Style Fraud’ Scheme Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, A federal judge has sentenced four individuals to more than 14 years in federal prison for running a $12.7 Million “Minnesota-Somali-style fraud” scheme in North Carolina that paid more than $1 Million in kickbacks to drug addicted patients. The fraudsters, Brandon Eugene Sims, 40; […]

US Existing Home Sales Bounced In February As Mortgage Rates Tumbled Despite tumbling mortgage rates, existing home sales plunged (the most since COVID) in January, with some blaming ‘below-normal temperatures’ despite The West suffering the biggest declines (and unaffected by the winter storms). Consensus was for a modest 0.8% MoM decline in February (again despite an ongoing drop in mortgage rates) but sales actually surprised to […]

89 Arrested In Florida Human Trafficking Operation, Sheriff’s Office Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A sheriff’s office in Florida announced this week that an undercover operation led to 89 human and sex trafficking-related arrests, resulting in more than 1,200 separate felony charges. A Hillsborough County Sheriff vehicle as seen in a file photo. Google Maps via The Epoch Times The […]

After 144 Years In New Jersey, Exxon Asks Shareholders To Back Texas Move To Cut Litigation Risks Whether it is Chevron, Tesla, Oracle, Caterpillar, CBRE, Fisher Investments, and/or an expanding roster of other major companies, corporate America has spent the better part of the post-Covid era shifting headquarters to Texas for one simple reason: the state offers a much more business-friendly environment than left-leaning blue […]

ADP Signals Best Job Gains In Almost 4 Months, As BLS Payrolls Plunged For the four weeks ending February 21, 2026, ADP reports that private employers added an average of 15,500 jobs a week.  Employment gains reached their highest since Thanksgiving week last year, holding steady in February after five straight weeks of strengthening.  This positive labor market signal stands in the face of last week’s surprised plunge in […]

Futures Slide, Reversing Overnight Gains As “Off-Ramp Optimism” Fades S&P futures are unchanged this morning, but approaching session low, following Trump comments that appeared to be the first signs of an off-ramp which however were followed by renewed fighting in the Middle East. While the risk is of re-escalation, JPMorgan writes that we are “seeing a global unwind of war-related trades as the market awaits additional news […]