2026 Earnings Outlook: Another Year Of Optimism Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Wall Street consensus forecast for 2026 earnings growth is strong by historical standards. Analysts are giddy and projecting another year of double-digit growth in S&P 500 earnings per share (EPS). FactSet’s most recent data showed an expected 2026 earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 of about 15 percent. That is […]

Orsted Shares Jump After Judge Allows Trump-Halted Wind Project To Resume Shares of Danish wind giant Orsted A/S rose on Tuesday after a US federal court ruled that construction work could resume on the company’s $5 billion Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island while legal challenges with the Trump administration persist. On Monday, the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction […]

RFK Jr. Alleges Germany Targeting Doctors For Legitimate Vaccine, Mask Exemptions Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on Germany to end what he described as unjust prosecutions of German doctors for granting patients exemptions from mask and vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’ve learned that more than a thousand German physicians and thousands […]

DC, New York Brace For Deep Mid-January Freeze An Arctic front is forecast to descend into the central and eastern U.S. later this week. Above-average temperatures will give way to below-normal conditions across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, bringing colder weather back to major metro areas through the end of the month. The setup closely mirrors the December weather pattern that locked much of the eastern US into a prolonged cold […]

Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics Are Becoming More Complex Authored by Andrew Korybko, Tensions are growing between Turkiye-Pakistan and Israel-Cyprus-Greece… Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments: 1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus and […]

Le Pen’s Political Future Hangs In The Balance As Appeal Begins This Week The political future of Marine Le Pen hinges on a crucial appeal in Paris this week that will determine whether she can run in the 2027 presidential election, after she was barred from public office over misusing 4 million euros of EU funds.  Marine Le Pen, pictured in Dec. 2024 at her party’s offices in the National Assembly. (via El Pais) Le Pen, who leads […]

EU Official Plotted To ‘Organize Resistance’ Against Hungary’s Orban, Files Show Authored by Kit Klarenberg via The GrayZone, A senior European Union official has been secretly seeking to remove Hungarian President Viktor Orban since at least 2019, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The files show in January 2019, the EU’s International Coordinator for the Directorate-General for Migration and Home […]

China–EU EV Conflict Nears Resolution As New Pricing Framework Emerges China and the EU took a significant step Monday toward easing their long-running electric vehicle trade dispute after Brussels released rules that could allow Chinese exporters to replace punitive tariffs with negotiated pricing commitments, according to the South China Morning Post. The European Commission said companies may submit price undertakings that […]

Germany’s Mittelstand Succession Crisis: Who Will Take the Reins? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany faces a massive wave of business transfers. The decline in entrepreneurship and self-employment has multiple causes; blaming the young generation’s supposed obsession with work-life balance belongs more to the realm of fables. When a productive and market-successful company exits the competition, productive capital is lost […]

A Paleoconservative Rips Apart Trump’s Venezuela Overthrow Authored by Terry Cowan via Substack There is no way to put a pretty face on our most recent regime-change adventure. It is pig-ugly, and not defendable on any level, or from any angle or perspective. The reality of it all is plain to see. The Administration boldfacedly asks, as the old saying goes, Who are you going to believe; me or your lying eyes?. Only a political […]

Day 1,419: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict Just Surpassed Soviet War With Nazi Germany This week has marked another grim milestone in the nearly four-year long Russia-Ukraine war. The conflict has just entered its 1,419th day – which means it has officially surpassed the entirety of the historic Soviet campaign against invading Nazi Germany, which lasted 1,418 days from June 1941 to May 1945. Red Army forces eventually drove Nazi […]

Money And Power: Fiat Currency, Monetary Corruption, & The Architecture Of Extraction Authored by Justin Pak via The Mises Institute, Money is often described as neutral, technical, or merely instrumental—a passive medium facilitating exchange within an otherwise political society. This view is not only mistaken; it is profoundly misleading. Money is the hidden constitution of every political order. It determines which […]

Behind The Utter Failure Of Russian Anti-Air Systems In Venezuela There are reports that during the Trump-ordered military raid on Venezuela to oust and capture President Nicolás Maduro, at least one US helicopter was hit by surface fire or possibly small missile, but the chopper managed to keep flying – with the pilot wounded – and the damaged aircraft made it back from the mission safely. But this raised the question: what […]

10 Commandment Displays Became Law In Texas, Then The Lawsuits Came Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Melissa Martin, a veteran Texas educator with some 30 years of experience, was thrilled when the state passed a law in 2025 that required the state’s 9,000 public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Lorne Liechty poses with a copy of the Ten Commandments in Rockwall, Texas, […]

New Documents Detail Jack Smith’s $20K Bribe To Informant In 2023, then-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office approved a shady $20,000 payment to a confidential human source for information in the controversial FBI probe, code-named Arctic Frost, which investigated efforts by President Donald Trump and his supporters to challenge the 2020 election results, according to documents FBI Director Kash Patel turned over to Congress this […]

Their Bodies Were Irreversibly Damaged, Now These Former Transgender Teens Are Fighting for Justice Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, Young people who used to identify as transgender have filed dozens of lawsuits in the past few years, but have yet to win a verdict in their favor. They are known as “detransitioners,” those who regret changing their gender identity, often after making irreversible […]

Russia Belatedly Reveals Ukrainian Target Destroyed By Oreshnik Hypersonic Missile The NY Times had called it a warning delivered to Europe at Mach 10: “The message came screaming through the skies at 8,000 miles per hour. Early Friday morning, for just the second time since its all-out invasion of Ukraine, Russia fired a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile — a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic weapon that until recently was […]

“The Globalist Deep State Is In Panic Mode” After Trump’s Cash Cut-Off Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” (which is soon to be massively updated and re-released), thinks evil powers trying to overthrow America are distraught because their money and plans are drying up.  Newman says, “I think the globalist Deep State is in panic mode, and I think the Left […]

DoJ Charges Venezuelan Illegal Over Border Patrol Vehicle Ramming Attack Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reports that the Department of Justice has charged a Venezuelan national, who was shot by Border Patrol in the Portland metro area last Thursday, with aggravated assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon after allegedly using his red pickup truck to ram a federal vehicle. This follows the recent ICE shooting in […]

South Korea To Lift Ban On Corporate Crypto Investment: Report Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) is reportedly updating its guidelines to allow corporations to invest in digital assets after a nine-year ban.  Listed companies and professional investors will be able to invest up to 5% of their equity capital in crypto assets, reported local news outlet Seoul […]

Mexico Reports Positive Conversation With Trump On Security, Drug Trafficking Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Jan. 12 that she had a productive dialogue with President Donald Trump on efforts to combat drug trafficking and other issues of mutual concern. “We had a very good conversation with the President of the United States, Donald Trump,” Sheinbaum wrote in a post on X on Monday. “We discussed various topics, […]

Trump Imposes 25% Tariff On Any Country Doing Business With Iran “Effective Immediately” After it quietly faded away in late summer, that trade war with China is about to make a triumphal reappearance. In a day that was already flooded by a relentless firehose of newsflow, Trump added to the leaning tower of chaos when said on Truth Social that he was imposing a 25% tariff on goods from countries “doing business” with Iran […]

Trump ‘Favors’ Attacking Iran, Vance Pushing Back, As President Pezeshkian In Streets For Large Counter-Protests Update(1820ET): There are reports of a significant internal Trump administration divide over Iran policy, with Vice President Vance said to be leading the charge for the non-interventionist camp, which much of MAGA might welcome while seeing in Vance the top contender for 2028: President Trump currently leans toward […]

The ICE Elephant: Why The Law Requires All The Facts Authored by Jonathan Turley, In a famous Indian parable, five blind men are brought to an elephant. Each feels a different part of the animal, and they come to radically different views of what an elephant is. It depended on which parts they touched, from tusk to tail. The controversy over the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, is a type of political elephant parable. People […]

Australia Joins The Rare Earth Reserve Rush Australia will begin purchasing and storing key minerals for defense and high-tech industries from local miners as part of a A$1.2 billion ($802 million) national reserve aimed at strengthening global supply chains, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Bloomberg reports that the initial stockpile will target rare earths, antimony and gallium, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, […]