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Putin's Hometown: Biggest Ukrainian Attack On St. Petersburg Since War's Start St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, came under heavy drone attack early Sunday - resulting in huge fires over what is also the second most important civic center after Moscow. An oil depot…
Cook Case Tests The Limits Of Fed Independence Authored by Alexander W. Salter via The Daily Economy, President Trump has renewed his effort to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board. Whether he has a legitimate reason to fire her is another matter. The White House…
Zelensky Knows Peace Deal Would End Him, Lavrov Says Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is currently in the Gulf region. On Sunday he visited Bahrain, which was hit frequently by Iranian drone and missile attacks earlier in the US-Iran war. On Monday, the top Russian…
US Homebuilder Confidence Crashes To 14 Year Low, Blame Mortgage Rates & Immigration American homebuilder confidence crashed to 29 in October - down from 32 in September and worse than the 31 print expected as rising mortgage rates, energy and material costs, and worsening labor…
Democracy Manifest By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank US stocks defied a strong lead from Europe and Asia on Friday to close broadly in the red. IT, telecommunications and the consumer discretionary sector led declines while energy, materials and consumer…
IRGC Again Warns Trump: If US Bombing Renewed "World Will Face Serious Energy Crisis" After President Trump previewed that he's mulling the resumption of a major US bombing campaign of Iran for after the November midterm elections, Iranian officials are busy pushing back with…
Hedge Fund CIO: "By The Time These Things Are Glaringly Obvious, It's Too Late, Checkmate" By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management Colosseums “Classic late cycle,” said Sparks. “Beginning of the end, that’s what’s unfolding,” said the investor, entrepreneur,…
Bolsonaro, Lula Tied In Latest Poll As Brazil's Runoff Election Countdown Enters Final Week Brazil's right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traded barbs in their first presidential debate on Sunday night. The latest polling data…
Futures Rise As Dip Buyers Rush Back Into Chips After Worst Nasdaq Week Since Liberation Day US futures are higher - but well off session highs hit before the European open - as dip buyers storm back into chipmakers after the Nasdaq's worst week since the April 2025 tariff…
Let The Morons Eat Cake Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance When I first got involved with investigative forensic equity research about 15 years ago, I remember being genuinely stunned by what I was finding. I was drawn into the world of skeptical inquiry after reading…
Brent Flirts With $110 Before Reversing As Wright Declares Pump Prices Have "Peaked" Brent crude futures briefly tagged $109.99 a barrel in overnight trading before retreating from five-month highs during the Asian session and into European trading, as signs of recovering Middle…
Struggling Volkswagen Plans Pay Freeze Through 2030 As Job Cuts Loom: Report In another episode of the "death of Europe," a new report from Germany brings more troubling news for struggling automaker Volkswagen, suggesting to us that globalists in the bloc have squandered not…
French Bonds, Stocks Drop As Far-Left, Migrant Riots Worsen; Macron Fails To Restore Order French government bonds sold off, and the CAC 40 fell Monday after a weekend of nationwide riots and chaos intensified concerns over political instability as the Macron government failed…
Saudi Arabia Cancels In-Person 'Davos In The Desert' Event Amid Houthi Attacks Update(11:13ET): Saudi Arabia, having come under nearly daily ballistic missile attacks from the Houthis in Yemen, will not hold its 'Davos in the Desert' flagship investor conference in-person next…
Europe Braces For A Winter Energy Crisis As Gas Reserves Run Low Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice, Europe faces another expensive winter as low gas reserves and Middle East disruptions drive up energy prices. Rising fuel costs threaten household budgets, industrial…
70% Of Moroccan Asylee Claims In Ceuta After Mass Entry Cite Persecution Over Sexual Orientation Spanish police say about 70% of the Moroccans processed in Ceuta after July's mass entry have asked for asylum alleging persecution over their sexual orientation, according to El…
Germany's Rent Control Is Backfiring, New Study Of 107 Cities Finds Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, Across Europe, the housing shortage is getting worse - and left-wing parties have discovered it as a central political issue. Recently, the far-left party DIE…
80% Of New UK Payroll Jobs Since 2014 Went To Foreign Nationals, Think Tank Finds Just one in five of the roughly 3.7 million jobs added to UK payrolls from 2014 through the end of 2025 went to British nationals. Non-EU nationals took about 2.5 million of them, roughly…
Dutch Minister: Young Locals Can Just Live With Their Parents, Migrants Get Houses First Via Remix News, Dutch Housing Minister Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan drew sharp criticism this week after defending priority access to scarce social housing for recognized refugees, arguing…
Omar, Obama, And The Danger Of False Identities Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, On Columbus Day, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant of Representative Ilhan Omar's home. For several months, there have been rumors that she…
Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election In what should come as no big surprise at all, President Trump has issued a whole-hearted endorsement for Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as next Israeli prime minister. Axios points out, "This is the first…
Pentagon Plans To Withhold Report on Minab School Massacre Past Midterms Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com, Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh…
Egypt Approves Troop Deployment In Support Of Saudi Arabia Via The Cradle Egypt announced on Sunday that it has approved the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia on a "defensive mission" to help the kingdom protect itself from the retaliatory military operations carried out by…
"They Will All Go To Jail": Trump Threatens California Election Officials If They Let Non-Citizens Vote On Friday President Donald Trump warned California election officials that they will go to prison if they count mail-in ballots from about 20,000 people who have been…
Saudi Arabia At The Breaking Point Authored by Larry C. Johnson via Sonar 21, For most of this war, Saudi Arabia has been the shock absorber of the world oil market. When Hormuz closed, Riyadh pushed crude west through the East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea and kept at…
Putin Proposes Summit With Trump And Xi To Negotiate End Of Ukraine War; Zelensky Not Invited Amid an escalating war that appears to get farther from any hope of a ceasefire, let alone peace, late on Sunday the WSJ reported that Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, President…
If This Was A Normal Week... Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Maybe it was because I was in Europe that last week didn’t seem “normal.” Maybe that is why some of the things that I would think are most topical don’t seem topical (or at least weren’t what markets…
X Gets "Stronger" As Threads And Bluesky Quarantine The "Worst People On The Internet" Meta Platforms' Threads and rival Bluesky have devolved into far-left echo chambers that some describe as platforms for the clinically insane, where intelligent conversations are severely…
"Escape Valve" No More: San Francisco Moves To End School Choice Lottery Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times, The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUD) board passed a resolution on Oct. 13 to replace the current lottery-based admission policy with a…
Tesla Wins Round In FSD False-Ad Suit As Court Tosses Class Certification Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court blocked Tesla customers in California from pursuing class action claims that the company misled them about the hardware capabilities…
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