Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Japan’s finance minister on Nov. 25 unveiled a plan to cut wasteful government spending, drawing parallels to the United States’ Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama arrives at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2025. Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters Finance […]
Lithium prices have awakened from a multi-year bust in the second half of this year, with Chinese lithium carbonate prices jumping from $6,000 a ton to $11,000 a ton, driven by what Goldman analysts describe as “temporary Chinese supply cuts” and “strong energy-storage-system (ESS) demand.“ For some context, lithium markets flipped dramatically from the 2020 […]
Kupor said that DOGE is no longer the “centralized entity” it once was when Trump appointed Musk to lead the agency in January. Later Sunday, Kupor appeared to take issue with the Reuters story in a social media post, without challenging any of its facts. “The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under […]
Some of the biggest names in tech attended President Donald Trump’s Tuesday dinner with Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reflecting the industry’s deepening ties to both the White House and the Middle East Kingdom. On Wednesday, some of the participants announced new deals with a Saudi-backed firm around data centers and artificial intelligence […]
Left-wing political violence is metastasizing across the Western world like stage-four cancer. From the political assassination of Charlie Kirk by a furry-loving leftist, to the transgender extremist who massacred Christians in a Minneapolis church, to Antifa terror cells attacking ICE facilities and torching the vehicles of their political opponents in Europe, the West must come […]
By Eric Tegler of TWZ.com, Army installations within the lower 48 states will have operating nuclear microreactors starting in the fall of 2028 if the Army’s Janus program moves forward on schedule. The addition of nuclear power will diversify the energy sources available on military bases and provide a critical enhancement to their resiliency, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
