Social Media: The Biggest Threat To Teens’ Mental Health? In 2010, Mashable declared June 30 as Social Media Day, intended to celebrate the impact of social media on communication, connection and culture. Originally launched to recognize the positive impact that platforms like Facebook, Twitter (now X) or Instagram have on human interaction around the world, we’re marking the occasion by acknowledging some of the downsides of […]

BitMine Raises $250M To Launch Ethereum Corporate Treasury Authored by Adrian Zmudzinski via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin miner BitMine Immersion Technologies has secured a $250 million private placement to jumpstart its Ether treasury. BitMine signed a private placement for the purchase and sale of 55,555,556 shares of common stock for $4.50 per share, yielding gross proceeds of approximately $250 million before expenses, the […]

Trump Pivots To Pressuring Israel For New Ceasefire Deal In Gaza “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!” President Trump wrote on social media early Sunday, pivoting from a month dominated by large-scale Iran strikes to seeking more peace and stability in the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict. Naturally, the Palestinian side remains doubtful that any real progress will be made, given especially that the Netanyahu […]

SLR: Could It End The Bond Bear Market Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On June 25th, the Federal Reserve quietly announced a significant change to the Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR). While the headlines were muted, the implications for the U.S. Treasury market were anything but. For sophisticated investors, this technical shift marks a subtle but powerful pivot in monetary mechanics. It could create […]

Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration To Fire USIP Board Members Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented the Trump administration from restructuring the leadership at the Institute of Peace (USIP), according to a June 27 order. The issue stems from a Feb. 19 executive order from President Donald Trump […]

Iran UN Envoy Makes Clear That Nuclear Enrichment ‘Will Never Stop’ In a “Face the Nation” interview on Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, vowed that Tehran will “never stop” enriching uranium as this is an inalienable right and matter of national sovereignty under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran has constantly highlighted that its archnemesis Israel has a secret nuclear arsenal […]

The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict “Chaos” & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material Authored by Jonathan Turley, The end is nigh. That seems to be the message this week from the three liberal justices at the Supreme Court when faced with the nightmarish prospect of parents being able to remove their young children from mandatory classes on gay, lesbian and transgender material. The decision […]

Senate Version Of Trump Tax Bill Adds $3.3 Trillion To Deficit, $500BN More Than The House; Debt Ceiling Raised By $5 Trillion The Senate version of President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) will add nearly $3.3 trillion to US deficits over a decade, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, half a trillion more than the $2.8 trillion in deficit expansion under the House version of the same […]

The Great Repression By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank US equities closed higher on Friday, the Dollar fell and Treasuries bull-steepened as markets extended the risk rally sparked by the Israel-Iran ceasefire. The NASDAQ and S&P500 both reset record highs. The latter is now up almost 5% for the year after being flat YTD as recently as the final week of May. Equity futures point higher again today on […]

“Frozen At The Wheel”: Bessent Slams Fed For Delay On Rate Decisions In Wide-Ranging Interview US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday criticized Federal Reserve policymakers for what he described as their hesitant posture on interest rates, while signaling that the U.S. Treasury is unlikely to alter its current strategy on debt issuance by increasing long-term bond sales. In a wide-ranging interview, Bessent said that […]

Stablecoins Are Becoming ‘Default Settlement Layer” For The Internet Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoins have become the backbone of internet payments, with adoption now outpacing major traditional card networks in onchain volume, according to Noam Hurwitz, head of engineering at Alchemy. Hurwitz told Cointelegraph that stablecoins have seen “explosive” adoption, adding that they are “becoming […]

Mysterious Blast Paralyzes Oil Tanker In Mediterranean Weeks After Russian Port Call A mysterious blast struck a tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil near Libya, and the vessel is now being towed to Greece for damage assessment, according to Bloomberg, citing a statement from the ship’s manager. The incident comes amid growing concerns about attacks on commercial vessels navigating highly contested waters, including the Strait […]

3 Goals For Trump’s Trade Negotiations Authored by Adam Millsap viathe American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), The Trump administration has increased tariff rates on dozens of countries in part to kickstart trade policy negotiations. These tariffs include 10-percent tariffs on dozens of countries, tariffs of over 30 percent on China, 50-percent tariffs on steel and aluminum, and 25-percent tariffs on autos. While the […]

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Job Reports Galore, ISMs, Powell And More Prepare to be disorientated this holiday shortened week, as payrolls sees a rare Thursday print ahead of the Independence Day holiday on Friday, with both JOLTS and ADP labor reports ahead of the Payrolls report. We also have the US ISMs tomorrow and Wednesday, and the various global PMI numbers from tomorrow which will give us a good guide to global […]

Canada Scraps Digital Service Tax On U.S. Tech Giants To Revive Trade Talks Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne wrote on X overnight that Canada has withdrawn its controversial Digital Services Tax (DST) on Silicon Valley tech giants, such as Alphabet and Meta, in order to restart stalled trade negotiations with the Trump administration. It’s another win for President Trump, as his ‘Art of the Deal’ tactics continue to […]

9 Underage Girls Sexually Abused By Syrians At Swimming Pool, Mayor Points To ‘Hot Weather’ Via Remix News, After underage girls were sexually assaulted in the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Gelnhausen, the CDU mayor of the area pointed out that “hot weather” makes tempers “fray.” However, local Mayor Christian Litzinge (CDU) appeared to allude that the weather is at least partly to blame for the incident. In a […]

Top Iranian Cleric Issues Fatwah Calling For All Muslims To Seek Vengeance On US, Israel In a new fatwah which appears clearly aimed at the United States, Israel, and their respective leaders Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, a top Iranian Shia cleric has called on Muslims to take vengeance as Islamic ‘warriors’. Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, a longtime prominent Shia religious authority, said in the new edict that any […]

Idaho Wildfire Ambush: Gunman Dead After “Sniper Attack” Kills Two Firefighters Update (Monday morning):  The suspected gunman behind the deadly ambush on firefighters on the east side of Canfield Mountain—a popular hiking spot near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—was found dead. Authorities believe he started a brush fire before opening fire on first responders. What we know so far: Two firefighters were killed while responding to a […]

Futures Push Higher Into Record Territory Amid Trade Talk Progress S&P 500 futures pushed deeper into record territory as progress in trade negotiations aids sentiment following Friday’s record high close for cash index, the first since February. As of 8:00am ET,  S&P futures are up 0.4% on positive trade headlines, including US/Canada, US/EU, US/India, and US/Taiwan (on Friday, the US/Canada flare up limited gains late […]

Trump Says TikTok Buyer Is “Group Of Very Wealthy People” President Donald Trump, in a pre-taped interview on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, revealed that “a group of very wealthy people” is prepared to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations. While he did not disclose the identities of the investors, Trump hinted that the names could be made public in the coming weeks. “We have a buyer for TikTok, by the way. I […]

Zohran Mamdani Admits He Hates Capitalism… Allied With Socialist Operative Linked To Marxist Terror Group Americans were stunned last week when foreign-born, self-proclaimed socialist Zohran Mamdani used CNN as a platform to denounce capitalism—the very system that transformed this country from frontier towns into a global superpower. Capitalism has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, built a middle class, and fueled […]

Can Oil And Gas Solve The AI Power Dilemma Authored by Joe Brettell via UtilityDive.com, The promise, peril and possibilities of artificial intelligence continue to capture the cultural and business zeitgeist worldwide. Hardly a conference or long-form interview can be held these days without a panelist or pundit commenting on the technology’s implications for their profession. Yet despite being the hottest topic in every […]

A Third Of American Households Are Over-Burdened By Housing Costs U.S. Census data analyzed by Harvard University shows that a third of all U.S. households, whether they are buying or renting, spend more than the recommended one third of their income on housing and utilities and therefore qualify as cost-burdened. While the overall rate of households burdened by housing cost in the U.S. was 32.7 percent in 2023, Statista’s […]

J.K. Rowling Destroyed Trans Ideology With One Savage Tweet Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling became a vocal critic of transgender ideology back in 2019, when she supported a woman who lost her job for saying that biological sex is immutable. In 2020, Rowling’s tweets and essay argued that prioritizing “gender identity” over biological sex threatens women’s rights and […]

Meet The Dystopian Startups Making ‘Biological Computers’ From Human Cells Picture a dystopian future where computers don’t just mimic human thinking – they’re powered by actual human brain cells. That future is taking shape in a Cambridge, England, lab, where a groundbreaking device called CL1 is blending biology and technology in ways that could transform how we compute. Developed by Australian startup Cortical Labs and […]