NatGas Jumps 75% As Extreme Cold, Blizzard Risks Threaten Appalachian Gas Supply US natural gas futures are ripping higher, up roughly 75% in just three trading days, and are on pace to post the largest weekly gain on record. The move has all the signs of a classic winter-driven short squeeze, with traders scrambling to cover as a polar blast descends into the Lower 48. An intense Arctic blast and a sprawling winter storm […]

US Q3 GDP Revised Up to 4.4%, Highest In Two Years While it’s ancient history now – even preceding the record long government shutdown – and nobody will care, moments ago the BEA reported that its first revision of third quarter GDP came in a bit hotter than expected as US GDP grew slightly more than initially reported, supported by stronger exports. Due to the recent government shutdown, this updated report for the third quarter […]

House To Vote On Bill To Fund The Government Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a multi-bill package to fund the federal government on Thursday. The legislation includes funding for the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. Most portions of the bill are expected to pass […]

Rate-Cut Odds Tumble As Jobless Claims Hover Near 56-Year-Lows Following last week’s plunge back below 200k, analysts expected a small rise to 209k this week but the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time remained flat at 200k. Notably, as is usual at this time of year, non-seasonally-adjusted claims spiked… Source: Bloomberg …basically hovering at its lowest levels since 1969… Source: […]

US Futures, Global Markets Rally After Trump Greenland Pivot US equity futures and global stocks are sharply higher as the S&P again marches toward a new ATH while the latest vol spike subsides, after Trump’s tariff pivot eased geopolitical fears, though Greenland and other flashpoints mean the optimistic mood is laced with some caution. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures rose 0.5% after the benchmark’s biggest advance […]

Das: Trump’s Spat With The Fed Is Not About Central Bank Independence Authored by Satyajit Das via New India Express, The spat between the White House and Fed Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell, a President Trump appointment, is hardly unusual. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon bullied the central bank to lower interest rates. Central banks function as the government’s banker, issue currency, maintain the payment system and […]

Ubisoft Crashes Most On Record After Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Maker Unveils Reorganization, Cancels Games Ubisoft Entertainment SA shares in Paris crashed the most on record after the maker of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (more commonly known for Assassin’s Creed) announced widespread restructuring, studio closures, project cancellations, and sharply lower guidance. Shares plunged as much as 36% in the intraday session, […]

$6,000 Gold Ahead As Trump-Treasury & Fed Will ‘Run It Hot’ In 2026 Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Financial writer, market analyst and precious metals expert Craig Hemke predicted at the beginning of 2024 that the US would add a whopping $2 trillion in debt.  It did.   At the beginning of 2025, Hemke predicted the US dollar would take a big hit.  It did, and record high gold and silver prices score Hemke another […]

Trump Will “Wipe Iran Off The Face Of The Earth” If It Ever Tries To Assassinate Him There’s no evidence that agents from Iran have ever tried to assassinate President Trump – though there have been lots of rumors and even a federal court case suggesting some kind of past plot in a “murder-for-hire” scheme. But the topic was raised as Trump spoke to NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Tonight, which marked the second anniversary of […]

Greentanamo: Trump Deal Gives US Sovereignty Over Small Pockets Of Greenland For Military Bases Update (1630ET): Details of Trump’s Greenland deal are trickling in. With little official information on what Trump earlier called “a framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland”, which prompted the president to call off tariff threats that he had issued in an effort to secure American ownership of Greenland, and sparked a […]

Trump Unveils His Board Of Peace In Davos: A Replacement To The UN Or A US-Led Coalition Of The Willing? On the second and final day of his visit on Jan. 22, U.S. President Donald Trump released the Board of Peace charter, which is part of the peace process between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza. The White House on Jan. 16 named several members of the Trump administration, as well as international leaders, to positions […]

Cocoa Prices Set For Worst Monthly Drop On Record As Demand Craters Cocoa futures in New York tumbled to two-year lows as fresh grinding data confirmed that consumers are balking at high chocolate prices. Contracts are now down more than 28.5% on the month, and if the decline holds through the end of next week, January would register the largest monthly percentage drop on record, with Bloomberg data going back to 1970. The […]

UK Data Center Planning Hits Record High Amid Scramble For AI Infrastructure Via City AM, Data centre planning applications in England and Wales jumped 63% in 2025, driven largely by AI-related demand and investor enthusiasm. Developers are increasingly targeting unconventional sites, from abandoned hotels to former coal mines and landfills, to secure planning approval. Power availability and grid constraints are likely […]

US Lawmakers Push $2.5B Plan To Break China’s Grip On Critical Minerals A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed creating a new $2.5 billion agency to accelerate U.S. production of rare earths and other critical minerals, according to AP and MSN.  The effort comes as the Trump administration has already taken aggressive steps to weaken China’s control over materials vital to high-tech products, electric vehicles, and […]

Despite Rapes And Violence, Netherlands To Keep Migrant-Student Integration Project Alive Via Remix News, Despite sparking global news coverage documenting violence, sexual assaults, and drug-related crimes in the shared living integration project “Stek Oost,” the city of Amsterdam refuses to shut the project down. According to public broadcaster BNNVARA, the municipality has rejected calls to shutter the facility early and […]

Tesla Cuts Berlin Gigafactory Workforce By 1,700 Employees Tesla’s workforce at its Gigafactory near Berlin has fallen by about 1,700 employees, according to a report by Germany’s Handelsblatt. An internal document cited by the paper shows the Gruenheide site—Tesla’s only European production hub—now employs 10,703 people, a decline of roughly 14% from staffing levels disclosed ahead of works council elections in 2024. The […]

Should India Be Concerned About Poland’s Close Ties With Pakistan Authored by Andrew Korybko, Pakistan’s reported indirect arming of Ukraine through Poland might expand into direct military cooperation between them that could then also elicit concern from Russia… Top Indian diplomat Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said during a press conference with his Polish counterpart Radek Sikorski that he wants to discuss the latter’s […]

No White Men Need Apply Authored by Judge Glock & Christopher F. Rufo via City Journal, On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to end federal spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Yet the government has continued to award contracts based on race and sex. Despite rampant fraud and multiple court rulings against the practice, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has used […]

NIH Lab Studying Deadly Pathogens Reported Biological Incident In November: Federal Records The White Coat Waste Project – which you may remember for exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sick experiments on beagles in 2024 – has obtained a document revealing that the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana reported a biological incident in November 2025.  The National Institutes of […]

How Canada’s Only Leverage Over America Disappeared In An Instant Authored by E.J. Antoni via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), I’d like to talk today about the recent events in Venezuela, specifically from an economic point of view, and who are the real winners and losers. An aerial photo shows the Nave Photon crude oil tanker, carrying a shipment of Venezuelan oil, docked in Freeport, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2026. Mark Felix/AFP via […]

Iran Vows Prolonged All-Out War If Attacked As Trump Still Seeks ‘Options’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday warning the United States that Tehran will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack” – following President Trump reiterating threats against the Islamic Republic. “Our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with […]

Somalia And The High Cost Of Low Trust Authored by Mitzi Perdue via RealClearPolitics, When news broke of the massive child nutrition fraud in Minnesota, many Americans reacted with disbelief. During the pandemic, roughly $250 million intended to feed hungry children was siphoned off, prosecutors say, and spent on luxury cars, real estate, and other indulgences. To most people, it appeared to be a shocking betrayal of public […]

Alberta Sees Large Turnout For Petition To Separate From Canada Crowds of Canadian citizens stood in long lines across Alberta for hours this week to sign a petition for a referendum on leaving Canada – officially titled “A Referendum Relating to Alberta Independence.”  The petition requires at least 177,000 signatures in order to trigger the referendum, which would ultimately decide if the province will separate. Petitions have […]

Under The Bus You Go, Kurds Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, With the fighting continue to rage and north and northeast Syria between central government forces and the nation’s Kurdish minority, the US government appears to have decided that they are backing the former, and that US military support for the Syrian Kurds is over. US envoy Tom Barrack declared the Kurds to have a “great opportunity” to be taken over by the […]

Justice Jackson Cites Racist ‘Black Codes’ As Precedent To Justify Gun Control In Hawaii During oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that the post-Civil War “Black Codes” – a set of openly racist laws enacted in the Democrat-controlled South to strip newly freed Black Americans of basic rights, including the right to possess firearms – could serve as legitimate historical […]