Authored by Mark Keenan via AmericanThinker.com, In Sweden, a two-kilometer stretch of electrified highway allows electric vehicles to charge while they drive — a prototype for 3,000 kilometers of such roads planned by 2045. It all sounds sleek, modern, and progressive, like something from a futurist’s dream. Eddie Grant once sang, “We’re gonna rock down […]
Netflix Crashes After Musk’s “Cancel” Crusade Leads To Top, Bottom Line Miss
As Goldman wrote in its preview, positioning into today’s earnings from Netflix was muted at best, with the stock serving as a “funding short” for various tech-linked pair trades. It is therefore safe to say that expectations were rather muted (with options pricing in 7.5% implied move). Well, for once Wall Street had it spot […]
The Gold And Silver Boom Is Ominous
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve not seen days like these for gold and silver since the late 1970s. It is nothing short of spectacular for investors and hoarders of the tried and true metals. People who have kept the faith in the real are being rewarded. For everyone else, these are […]
US Reports Biggest Ever Budget Surplus For Month Of September Thanks To Record Tariffs
Those looking for data on the US budget deficit contained in the Monthly Treasury Statement had to wait a few weeks because of the government shutdown, but better late than never, and today at 2pm, the Treasury unveiled the US income statement for the just concluded fiscal year 2025. It was ugly, but not as […]
Creditors Of Bankrupt First Brands Say Billions “Simply Vanished” Amid Debt Rehypothecation Nightmare
Hot on the heels of the spectacular implosion of subprime auto lender Tricolor (whose name is a not too subtle reference to the Mexican flag, and appropriately so as the company was almost exclusively targeting illegal aliens as its customers, so probably not a shock that it had a very unhappy ending), last month’s mega […]
Establishment Fears About Trump’s Focus On The Fed Are About Optics, Not Policy
Authored by Connor O’Keefe via The Mises Institute, After the Federal Reserve’s board voted to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percent last week, the Wall Street Journal editorial board declared that the central bank was now “Trump’s Federal Reserve.” The editors are referring to the political establishment’s ongoing concerns that President Trump is mounting an unprecedented […]
Hillary Clinton & The Loss Of Shame In American Politics
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and […]
