Leftists Call For Political Purge Of MAGA If They Return To Power You might have thought it wasn’t possible, but leftist activist rhetoric has become even more unhinged than usual in the past month as ICE agents try to do their lawful jobs in Democrat controlled sanctuary cities like Minneapolis.  During the Obama Administration, ICE carried out millions of deportations of illegal aliens without a peep from progressives.  […]

Netflix Craters On Disappointing Guidance, Stock Buyback Pause It was already an ugly quarter for NFLX shareholders who have been caught in a painful takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery which has hammered the stock. And it only got uglier moments ago when Netflix reported Q4 earnings which came in solid, along with record subscribers for 2025, but it was the company’s disappointing guidance due to higher program […]

By The Numbers… Trump’s (Second) First Year In 10 Charts Authored by Emel Akan and Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Trump’s policies have influenced everything from economic growth and stock market performance to gas prices and mortgage rates. Stock Market Performance Since President Trump took office in January 2025, stock indexes have reached new highs. The S&P 500 Index rose nearly 16 percent through Jan. 14, […]

Trump’s Long, Meandering Pre-Davos Presser: ‘Things Are Going To Work Out Pretty Well’ Summary: In what was a long and meandering speech, with no questions from the press taken till well over an hour in, President Trump’s ‘pre-Davos’ press briefing varied greatly in terms of topics, themes, and emphasis. The president drifted between thoughts in a meandering, unscripted, and often tangential way – as he’s been known to sometimes […]

Goldman Exec Denies Plan To Oust Top Lawyer Over Epstein Revelations A senior Goldman Sachs executive says rumors of a plan to oust general counsel and top adviser to CEO David Solomon, Kathryn Ruemmler, are “completely untrue,” after recent document dumps from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate revealed that she was far closer with him than previously known.  Ruemmler – a former top legal advisor in the Obama administration – told […]

Shellenberger: The Left Is Getting People Killed At This Point Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger has accused the radical left of getting people killed through ongoing delusions and interference with federal immigration enforcement, pointing to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as a prime example. Appearing on FOX News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” […]

“I’m $6K Behind”: Maryland Power Bill Crisis Sparks Debt Panic As 14,000 Residents Cry For Help Online The Maryland power bill crisis first came to our attention in August 2024, when years of poor power-grid management by Democrats (mostly due to backfiring ‘green’ policies) in the state collided with surging electricity demand from AI data centers. Fast forward to today: the power bill crisis in the one-party rule state of […]

Mexico Quells Strike Rumors As US Issues Written Assurance: No Military Flights Seeking to tamp down speculation that US bombs and drones could actually be flying south of the border to do cartel raids, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Washington has assured her there will be no American military flights over Mexico. Sheinbaum said Monday she received “written” guarantees from the US that American military aircraft would […]

Zelensky Skips Davos As Kiev Plunged Into Worst Power & Water Crisis Of War Ukraine’s energy crisis continues, not only with nationwide rolling blackouts, but with fresh overnight Russian strikes on the capital having plunged nearly 6,000 of the city’s buildings into darkness amid subzero temperatures. President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced Tuesday he is skipping the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) summit given his […]

Exposed: Teachers Unions Funneling Millions To Soros-Linked Groups, Far-Left Agendas Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, New Labor Department filings reveal the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, has been channeling millions in taxpayer dollars to far-left political outfits, including Soros-backed networks and shadowy activist groups.  Instead of bolstering education, these […]

Markets May Be Wrong About The Risks Of Venezuela & Greenland Authored by Daniel Lacalle,  Most of the recent reports about the potential opportunity in Greenland and Venezuela focus on the large capital expenditure required, technical challenges, and legal security risks. However, markets may exaggerate the risks and underestimate the potential. It is interesting to read that the United States should not invest in […]

HUD Initiates Investigations Into Race-Based Housing Programs In Minneapolis Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating the city of Minneapolis’s “comprehensive racialized housing plans,” the department said in a statement on Jan. 16. HUD’s Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) notified the city of the investigation and stated […]

US NatGas Spikes Most Since Ukraine Invasion On Arctic Blast, Major Winter Storm Threat US natural gas futures surged for a second straight session as an Arctic cold blast and mounting winter storm threats forced traders to reassess energy demand, with heating demand across much of the eastern US now forecast to surge sharply. As of 09:00 ET, NatGas futures are up nearly 27%, marking the largest intraday jump since Russia’s […]

30 Ways Trump Impacted The World In His First Year Authored by Travis Gillmore and Cathy He via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump used his first year back in the White House to set the tone for his second presidency, changing the nation and the world in the process. Through more than 225 executive orders, the president reorganized federal government policy and focus, while advancing his America First agenda. On the world […]

Trump Calls UK Chagos Deal “Great Stupidity” – Demonstrates Greenland Must Be Taken Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Canada… and now President Trump sets his sights on ‘defending’ America’s influence over the tiny but strategically important Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia and the Chagos islands. Early Tuesday the US president on social media blasted the UK government led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, branding Britain’s prior […]

Oklo’s Isotope Business: Atomic Alchemy Submitted by Tight Spreads Oklo is one of the most impressive nuclear companies in the public equities market. They uniquely and strategically intersect arguably the most important themes today: energy dominance, critical material supply chains, and national defense. The market is not pricing in the potential value of the Y-Combinator backed company: Atomic Alchemy acquisition. And those who […]

More Than Ten Countries Have Signed On To Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’ Update (1040ET): CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs said more than 10 countries have joined the proposed “Board of Peace,” though details on which countries are involved remain unclear. More than 10 countries have signed on for the Board of Peace, sources familiar with the discussions tell @CBSNews. pic.twitter.com/UKCbaXfjTm — Jennifer Jacobs […]

Bipartisan FY26 Minibus Released As January 30th Shutdown Approaches It seems that Congress may bypass our regularly scheduled shutdown drama – as House appropriators released the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 early Monday, marking a significant step toward completing all 12 annual spending bills ahead of the January 30 funding deadline and averting another government shutdown. The package reflects a rare point […]

1956 & 2026: Bookends For Europe? Authored by Michael Every via Rabobank, As our senior strategist Ben Picton underlined yesterday, the US has total escalatory dominance in its clash with the EU over Greenland, which all emotions aside, is not in the EU or even in Europe: geographically, it’s in the Western Hemisphere / North America. There is no field where the EU can hurt the US more than it hurts itself. In trade – it’s […]

USA Rare Earth Soars, To Build Plant In France With Government Support USA Rare Earth (USAR), a US-based (duh) rare earth miner, refiner and processor, which for much of the past year lived in MP Minerals’ shadow amid expectations that it too will receive government generosity, surged on Tuesday on news that it will build a facility in Lacq, France, capable of producing 3,750 metric tons per year of rare earth metals and […]

“The US Is Basically Not A Good Credit”: Danish Pension Fund To Sell US Treasuries Over the weekend, Deutsche Bank’s head of FX George Saravelos laid out one theoretical reason why in his view, Europe has leverage over the US in the latest burst of transatlatnic tensions over Greenland: or rather $8 trillion reasons why the US has leverage. As  Saravelos wrote, “European countries own $8 trillion of US bonds and equities, almost […]

More Than 10,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Minnesota: Noem Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Jan. 19 that more than 10,000 criminal illegal immigrants had been arrested by federal law enforcement officers during ongoing immigration-related operations in Minneapolis. “We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting […]

Carney’s Beijing Gambit Triggers Trump Warning In The Form Of A Big Beautiful Map After over the weekend warning that he would impose a 10% tariff on imports from several European countries in response to their opposition to his Greenland takeover plan, later threatening the tariff could be raised to 25% within weeks if those governments fail to fall in line – President Trump has once again escalated, this time with an overnight […]

TACO Tuesday? Everything Crashing As Trump Arrives In Davos Amid Japan Bond Meltdown US equity futures are sharply lower, on pace for their biggest drop of the year, with Beta underperforming. And while geopolitics are the catalyst – as attention remains glued to see what Trump will say next on his Truth Social feed ahead of this week’s Davos meetings – after Trump reignited his trade war with Europe, the moves are exacerbated by a […]

JGBs Implode, Gold Soars: The Trade CNBC Ridiculed Is Crushing Everything Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance As I first noted back in 2023, my disdain, distrust and general disgust for financial media reached a peak in 2016 when CNBC’s Fast Money invited Bill Fleckenstein on the air to offer up his take on the economy and why the Fed-fueled market was “un-shortable”. Bill is a well-known advocate for the Austrian school of […]