Elon’s X Overhaul: Muting Political Posts And Banishing ‘Rage Bait’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, While Elon Musk is rightly credited for transforming X into a battleground for unfiltered truth, he dropped two bombshells this week that could significantly reshape the platform. In a move that promises cleaner feeds but sparks fears of shadowy content policing, Musk revealed plans for topic-specific “For You” […]

Key Events This Week: Fed, Central Banks Gallore, Earnings Avalanche With the year still not yet four weeks old, it’s already been a constant firehose of news volatility, even as market volatility has remained relatively contained, DB’s Jim Reid writes this morning. Consider: we’ve moved from Venezuela to Japan, via Iran and Greenland, with a range of other themes running in the background. These now include President Trump on […]

BlackRock Credit Fund Hit With 19% Markdown As Loans Go Bad BlackRock TCP Capital Corp., a publicly traded private-credit fund structured as a business development company, filed an 8-K with the SEC late Friday afternoon, disclosing a 19% markdown in net asset value as troubled loans weighed on performance. The move marks one of the first major private credit signal woes of the new year. The credit fund told investors in the 8-K […]

“The Discombobulator”: Trump Admits Secret Weapon Used In US Operation To Capture Maduro Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has revealed that U.S. forces used a secret weapon to disable Venezuelan military equipment in the Jan. 3 operation that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. “The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said in an interview […]

Carney Cracks: Canada Has ‘No Intention’ Of Pursuing Free Trade Deal With China After Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has “no intention” of pursuing a free trade deal with China, after Donald Trump threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian exports if Ottawa “makes a deal” with Beijing.  Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at a news conference in Quebec City last Thursday (Mathieu […]

Minnesota Business Owner Claims ICE Will Start ‘Putting People In Ovens’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An unhinged leftist business owner from Minnesota told CNN’s Jake Tapper that there is no question ICE is running “concentration camps” and that federal officers could start “putting people in ovens” soon. Tapper was platforming the deranged lunatic as a smattering of leftist-leaning shops in the city […]

Nvidia Ramps Up CoreWeave Investment, Another $2 Billion To Accelerate AI Factories Buildout Nvidia increased its investment in CoreWeave to accelerate the buildout of AI factories, adding more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030. This builds on an existing agreement under which Nvidia has committed to buy more than $6 billion in services from the firm through 2032.  “Demand for AI continues to grow exponentially […]

Futures Rebound From Session Low Amid FX Mayhem As Earning Avalanche, Govt Shutdown Loom US equity futures are weaker but have retraced much of their overnight lows as geopolitics and USD/JPY roil markets ahead of a significant earnings week, as Mag7 earnings reports kick off this week.As of 8:15am, S&P futures are down 0.1% while Nasdaq futures are 0.2% lower; Mag 7 stocks are mostly lower in premarket trading while both […]

Core Durable Goods Orders Rise For 8th Straight Month US Durable Goods Orders soared 5.3% MoM in (admittedly very lagged due to the shutdown) preliminary November data (significantly exceeding the 4.0% MoM expected and a major rebound from October’s 2.1% MoM decline), boosted by bookings for commercial aircraft and other capital equipment. Source: Bloomberg That big jump (the biggest in six months) pushed durable goods orders […]

Pentagon Releases New Defense Strategy: 4 Things To Know Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy late on Jan. 23, placing the homeland and a surrounding sphere of influence as the top priority for the U.S. military. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in […]

Post-Winter Storm, Deep-Freeze Pushes Power-Grids To Brink As Feds Move To Avert Blackouts The major winter storm that dumped heavy snow and ice across much of the eastern US is finally over, but the cold-weather danger is far from over. Roughly 185 million Americans remain under winter alerts today as Arctic air continues to pour deep into the central and eastern states. Wind chills are dropping into the minus 20s and minus 30s in […]

EU Launches New Probe Into Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok The European Commission has opened a new formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and expanded a separate probe launched in December 2023. “The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok’s functionalities into X in the EU,” the European Commission wrote in a press […]

Erosion Of Freedom In The EU: From Censorship To Centralized Power Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The European Union has increasingly fallen on the defensive in foreign policy. Domestically, the Green Deal has significantly damaged the economic foundation. Together with its main pillars Berlin and Paris, the Brussels-based EU Commission is pushing forward the systematic construction of a censorship apparatus to suppress its own failures […]

Global Energy Transition Threatened By Critical Transformer Shortages By Haley Zaremba of Oilprice.com The global clean energy transition has passed a tipping point as renewable energies have simply become too cheap to fail. Worldwide, nations both rich and poor are rushing to install more and more wind and solar capacity to keep up with rising energy demand rates driven by global economic development and the age of AI. But while […]

Three Lessons From Venezuela’s Economic Collapse Authored by Matthew Mitchell via TheDailyEconomy.org, President Trump has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado. Unlike Machado, however, he does not accept the central lessons that can be gleaned from five decades of Venezuelan misrule. There are three.  Lesson 1: Past prosperity is no guarantee of future […]

Left-Wing Activists Run Shadow Police Force On Signal To Target ICE In Minneapolis Last week, federal prosecutors issued six grand jury subpoenas to Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and others, as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded federal deportation operations. While the subpoenas appeared focused on whether public statements […]

Brussels Discipline Machine: How von der Leyen Survived, And Parliament Paid The Price Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Ursula von der Leyen survived her fourth vote of no confidence in the European Parliament on Thursday. In the process, the EPP Group has increasingly resorted to drastic measures to enforce internal discipline and ensure a uniform voting outcome within its ranks. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen once again […]

Venezuela Continues To Top Global Inflation Forecasts In 2026 In 2026, U.S. inflation is projected to decline to 2.4%, ultimately remaining above the Fed’s target. Many European and Asian countries, meanwhile, are expected to see sub-2% increases in prices. Countries facing instability, like Venezuela and Sudan, will brace for significantly higher price pressures. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the […]

Ethereum Prepares For Quantum Era With New Security Team And Funding Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, The Ethereum Foundation has made post-quantum security a central focus of the network’s long-term roadmap, announcing the formation of a dedicated Post Quantum (PQ) team. The new team will be led by Thomas Coratger, a cryptographic engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, with support from Emile, a cryptographer […]

Visualizing Life Expectancy In The World’s Largest Economies Despite living in the world’s largest economy, Americans have shorter life expectancies than residents of many other wealthy nations. People in Japan – the world’s fourth-largest economy – live about five years longer on average. Meanwhile, residents in countries like France and Italy outlive Americans by roughly four years. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

The EU’s Green Crackdown Threatens European Industry Amid Deindustrialization Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Brussels and Berlin are increasing regulatory pressure on European industry. With the tightening of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, agriculture is now moving even further into the crosshairs of climate regulation. That the EU is increasingly isolating itself on the international stage seems to concern no one. If this […]

America Can’t Secure Its Future On Imported Minerals Authored by Jack Bergman via RealClearPolitics.com, If the past few years taught us anything, it’s that national security no longer stops at the water’s edge or the factory gate. It runs through the mines, mills, refineries, and logistics networks that supply the metals inside our jets, ships, satellites, power grid, and the next generation of energy technologies. Copper, […]

China’s Sacked Top General Accused Of Leaking Nuclear Secrets To US: Report On Saturday morning the world woke up to news that China’s most senior military officer, who is second only to Xi Jinping, has been put under investigation over alleged “grave violations of discipline and the law.”  The detained Gen. Zhang Youxia is a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Communist Party body that controls China’s armed […]

JD Vance Notes Something Very Important About Minneapolis Chaos Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge, Last week CPB commander Greg Bovino was asked what makes Minneapolis different from other cities where ICE enforcement operations have taken place. Bovino noted in the Minneapolis region there is no separation between the extremists on the ground and the people in local government. Today, Vice President JD Vance concurs and […]

Centrus To Invest $560 Million for High-Rate Manufacturing Plan Centrus Energy, which has long been one of our favorite stocks throughout 2025 and into 2026, is redirecting over 60% of the $900 million Department of Energy (DOE) funding award back into the economy to secure the US domestic nuclear fuel chain. Centrus will invest $560 million into their Oak Ridge, Tennessee, centrifuge production facility to convert it to a […]