CNN Fearmonger’s Trump’s “Despot” Talk Of Third Term Is “A Serious Threat” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and leftist ‘Presidential historian’ Alexis Coe agreed Monday that talk of President Trump serving a third term is “a threat” and that it would be a “nightmare scenario”. As we earlier highlighted, Trump responded to a reporter who asked about Steve Bannon’s remarks that […]

$500 Billion & Counting: Next Chapter In Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Revealed Microsoft and OpenAI signed a new, long-term, definitive agreement that opens the next chapter of their partnership, advancing their “vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly” and “make its benefits broadly accessible.” Under the new agreement, OpenAI’s recapitalization and formation of a public benefit corporation (PBC) means that […]

US Consumer Sentiment Slips For 3rd Straight Month In October But Tariff-Fears Fade American Consumers’ confidence dipped to 94.6 in October (but beat expectations of 93.4) from an upwardly revised September print of 95.6. A measure of expectations for the next six months fell in October to 71.5, the lowest since June, while a metric of present conditions increased. Source: Bloomberg This is the third straight monthly decline […]

Biden Judge Releases Man Who Ordered $45K Hit On Pam Bondi Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, A federal magistrate judge appointed during the Biden administration earlier this week released the anarchist accused of posting a bounty targeting Attorney General Pam Bondi.  The judge, Douglas Micko, allowed Tyler Maxon Avalos to be released from a Minnesota federal prison as long as he does not travel outside the […]

Jamaica’s Catastrophe Bond Faces Trigger Risk As Devastating Hurricane Melissa Nears Landfall Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall in Jamaica today as a devastating Category 5 storm. Prime Minister Andrew Holness warned that no Caribbean nation could withstand such a powerful force. Now, the catastrophe bond (cat bond) market that provides coverage for the Government of Jamaica is in focus, amid the risk of triggering. […]

US Home Prices Rebounded In August; Tampa Still Seeing Declines After five straight months of MoM declines, S&P Case-Shiller reports that home prices in America’s 20 largest cities surged 0.19% MoM (far better than then -0.10% MoM expected)… Source: Bloomberg On a YoY basis, price gains slowed to +1.58% (from +1.81%) – the slowest since July 2023 – the seventh straight month of deceleration in overall price gains. As […]

Musk’s Anti-Woke Grokipedia Has Landed – Hosts 900,000 Articles On Day 1 Elon Musk’s anti-woke alternative to Wikipedia — an aspiration he announced less than a month ago — went live on Monday, with “Grokipedia” already boasting nearly 900,000 articles by the end of its first day. “The goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive […]

Futures Flat Ahead Of Two Huge Days As Gold Slides The record-busting stock rally paused ahead of two huge days which include an avalanche of Mag7 earnings, central bank meetings, and the Trump-Xu summit summit. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures are flat with Nasdaq futures up 0.1% as Mag7 names are flat to up small premarket. Cyclicals underperform, dragged by commodity-related Equities. Europe’s Stoxx 600 falls 0.3% dragged […]

New ADP Employment Report Signals Rebound In Labor Market In the wake of the vacuum of macro data caused by the government shutdown, ADP has launched a new weekly release of its preliminary US employment estimate, released every Tuesday. This weekly report will provide the change in private sector employment, offering the most current view of the labor market based on ADP’s fine-grained, high-frequency data. This timely and […]

Federal Workers Union Calls On Democrats To Support GOP Bill And End Shutdown Authored  by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, A labor union representing U.S. government employees has called on Democrats in Congress to support a GOP-backed funding bill that would end the government shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a union representing 820,000 employees, published a demand from its president, […]

The Most Dangerous Era In History Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We live in what Brett Arends claimed as “The Dumbest Stock Market In History,” but I believe it is potentially the most dangerous era. That phrase is not hyperbole as it reflects structural distortion, extreme valuations, and an investor base intoxicated by momentum and narrative. The MarketWatch piece puts it bluntly: “At one level, […]

“Need To Be Lean”: Amazon Cuts 14,000 Corporate Jobs In Major AI-Era Restructuring Update (0800ET): Amazon announced major “organizational changes” across its corporate workforce that will result in the elimination of 14,000 jobs, as the company accelerates investments in artificial intelligence and automation. The restructuring at the corporate level comes less than a day after a Reuters report suggested Amazon was preparing to […]

PayPal Shares Soar Most On Record After “Chat To Checkout” Deal With OpenAI  PayPal shares in New York jumped the most on record in premarket trading after the online payment processor announced a new deal with chatbot maker OpenAI to integrate its digital wallet directly into ChatGPT. The new payment feature is expected to make chat-to-checkout transactions seamless within ChatGPT. A news release from PayPal unveiled plans to […]

Trump Praises Japan As Key Ally, Signs Rare-Earths Deal And U.S. Investment Boost President Trump’s second stop on his three-country Asia tour was Japan, where he met overnight with newly elected conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and reaffirmed the U.S.-Japan alliance. He praised Takaichi’s plans to boost defense spending to 2% of GDP and pledged unwavering U.S. support, calling the partnership “an ally at the strongest […]

Millions Of America’s Teens Are Being Seduced By AI Chatbots Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Our kids are being targeted by AI chatbots on a massive scale, and most parents have no idea that this is happening. When you are young and impressionable, having someone tell you exactly what you want to hear can be highly appealing. AI chatbots have become extremely sophisticated, and millions of America’s […]

American Airlines To Resume Israel Flights Amid Gaza Ceasefire, After 2-Year Absence American Airlines has remained the US global carrier which maintained a suspension of its flights to Israel over safety and security concerns for the longest period of time, stretching all the way back to the Gaza war’s start. But on Sunday, it finally announced that it plans to resume flights to Israel in March, marking the carrier’s return to […]

“A National Disgrace”: Largest Federal Worker Union Sides With GOP Plan To End Shutdown The nation’s largest union of federal workers has called on Congress to pass a ‘clean’ short-term funding bill to immediately end the government shutdown which is now in its fourth week.  Representing over 800,000 federal and Washington government workers, the American Federation of Government Employees argued that the shutdown was an […]

US Steps Up Pressure On Hungary To Cut Off Russian Oil Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via Oilprice.com, The U.S. is increasing pressure on Hungary to cut off its reliance on Russian oil imports and vows to work with Hungarian authorities and neighboring countries to help Budapest wean off Russian supply, a senior U.S. diplomat says.   Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, rejected in a Fox News interview suggestions […]

NATO Member To Start Shooting Down Menacing Contraband Balloons Out Of Belarus NATO member Lithuania is complaining about the latest aerial threat to its airspace: balloons. The government announced Monday that it is closing the border with Belarus after repeat incursions into Lithuanian and European Union airspace of highly menacing smuggler balloons out of Belarus. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė announced, “Lithuania […]

Shock New Report Lays Out The Full Scale Of Environmental Damage Caused by Onshore Wind Turbines Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic, Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights […]

Iceland Is The World’s Most Peaceful Country Today, Western and Central Europe stand as the most peaceful region in the world. This comes at a time when global conflict deaths have reached a 25-year high, and 106 countries have become more militarized over the past two years—reversing two decades of decline. Meanwhile, the successful resolution of conflicts has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years. The graphic below, via […]

“It’s Only Going To Get Worse” – Irish Teen Girl Delivers Passionate Warning Against Mass Immigration Via Remix News, A 15-year-old Irish girl, Kaiden McKenna, an active boxer in her hometown of Castleblayney, delivered a moving speech against mass immigration earlier this week. In the video, she describes her fear of taking public transportation and simply going for a jog in her hometown — all due to rising immigration and the […]

Is The US Weaponizing Energy Geopolitics In A Bid To Break Apart BRICS Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The US’ latest sanctions against Russia, the first under the second Trump Administration, are intended less as a weapon against the Russian economy and more as a means of weaponizing energy geopolitics in a bid to break apart BRICS, especially its Russia, India, China (RIC) core. This assessment is based on India […]

As Gaza Ceasefire Surpasses Two Weeks, Israel Ramps Up Strikes In Lebanon Despite a US-backed ceasefire having officially been in place for over a year in Lebanon, Israel has been steadily ratcheting its aerial attacks in southern Lebanon, against what it says are Hezbollah and terror targets, resulting in scores of casualties. The latest attack came on Monday, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) having confirmed an airstrike in […]

How Gut Microbes Drive Cancer Risk – And What You Can Do to Restore Balance Authored by Brendon Fallon & Lynn Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), When Linda, 52, entered menopause, she expected hot flashes and sleep disturbances – but not persistent bloating, fatigue, and a sense that something deeper was off in her body. A gut microbiome analysis revealed one more issue: an overgrowth of harmful bacteria in her small […]