Iran Rushes To Load Oil Onto Ships In Anticipation Of US Strikes Via Middle East Eye Iran is loading almost three times the amount of oil it normally does onto tankers in the Persian Gulf in a sign it is anticipating a US attack that could prevent its oil from hitting the market.  Iranian oil exports from Kharg Island reached nearly 20.1 million barrels between 15 and 20 February, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing Kpler […]

Dorsey’s Block Fires Nearly Half Of The Company In ‘Massive’ AI Bet, Sending Shares Soaring One week after WIRED reported that things were pretty dismal over at Jack Dorsey’s payment processing company Block (formerly Square), the company announced that they are cutting 4,000 employees – nearly half of their headcount – in order to invest ‘heavily’ in artificial intelligence tools to run more efficiently, including its own […]

The Great Reversal: Trump’s Real Progress In Tackling Legal Immigration Via White Papers Policy Institute, Sixty-plus years of unchecked mass immigration have eroded the fabric of American society to the point where Americans are beginning to wonder if the country can survive. The focus of the media, left and right, when it comes to immigration, has been on the Minneapolis riots over the arrest and detention of illegal aliens. […]

Tech Bosses To Meet At White House, Pledge Their Data Centers Won’t Boost Electricity Bills Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Leaders in big tech are expected to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House next week to pledge that their data centers will not increase the energy bills of Americans living near the facilities. The logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a […]

Automakers Push Toward “Eyes-Off” Driving Despite Mounting Doubts Global automakers are zeroing in on a controversial waypoint in the autonomy race: “eyes-off” driving, known in the industry as Level 3, according to a new report by Reuters. The idea is simple but provocative — motorists could look away to send a message or work on a laptop until the vehicle signals them to retake control. After years spent refining hands-on […]

US Treasury To Allow Resale Of Venezuelan Oil To Cuba to Ease Island’s Fuel Crunch Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced a new licensing policy to streamline the resale of Venezuelan oil to Cuba, with the goal of supporting the island’s private sector and bolstering humanitarian efforts amid ongoing fuel crises. The refinery El Palito in Puerto Cabello, […]

Trump Advisers Want Israel To ‘Attack Iran First’ For Better Optics: Politico Politico is out with a crazy story on Thursday, but which will make sense to those following the trajectory of US foreign policy over the past couple decades plus. Senior US officials want Israel to strike Iran before Washington launches a renewed assault in order to build domestic backing for war. Advisers to President Donald Trump are “privately arguing […]

“You’re Not Alone”: Reporters Comfort Those Triggered And Traumatized By Scenes Of Patriotism Authored by Jonathan Turley, This week, most Americans found a moment of rare unity in our pride over the performance of our athletes in the Winter Olympics. After years of rage politics, there was a brief respite as we joined in cheering our team in representing the United States in Milan and Cortina. Well, most of us. Some in the […]

“Squatty Potty” Millionaire Charged With Possession Of Child Porn Hoard Robert Edwards, the inventor of the “Squatty Potty” and a contestant on the show “Shark Tank”, has been charged with the possession of a digital hoard of child pornography materials including videos and images.  Edwards, 50, was arrested for allegedly buying and receiving countless images of child sexual abuse between March 2021 and November 2025, the U.S. […]

Hillary Clinton Says She Knew Nothing About Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes Hillary Clinton told members of Congress on Feb. 26 that she does not have knowledge about crimes carried out by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2026. Johannes Simon/Getty Images “I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering […]

Average 7Y Auction Stops On The Screws Amid Stock Rout After yesterday’s mediocre 5Y auction, we had just one coupon sale left: 7Y paper at 1pm today. And with today’s wholesale post-Nvidia, risk-off move it was expected to be an easy sale, which is more or less what it was. The Treasury sold $44 billion in 1 Year notes at a high yield of 3.790%, down sharply from 4.018% last month, and the lowest since November. The auction also […]

Travel Stocks In Focus After Cartel Chaos Erupts In Mexico The U.S. State Department has lifted its “shelter in place” alerts for Americans after Mexican special forces, aided by U.S. intelligence, killed a top drug cartel boss, sparking cartel-related chaos across at least one key tourism town in the third-world country just south of the U.S. southern border. Helicóptero del ejército mexicano operando ayer en Puerto Vallarta […]

EPA To Reform $5 Billion ‘Clean School Bus’ Program Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revamping the Biden administration’s Clean School Bus (CSB) program, which focused on installing electric buses at U.S. schools, the agency said in a statement released on Feb. 19. The overhauled program will focus on providing school districts with “increased […]

After WaPo Axed 30% Of Staff, We Now Learn They Lost $100 Million Last Year – Again The The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last year, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter – which explains why Jeff Bezos axed 30% of the newspaper’s workforce three weeks ago, including CEO and publisher Will Lewis.  The 2025 loss matches 2024 – when it also lost $100 million, which followed a $77 million loss in […]

Even Banks Now Bow To A Golden Master Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Although I never expected to say this, if you are still wondering about gold’s future price direction, just ask the big banks… Getting Real Emerging from a 2025 in which gold saw 53 all-time-highs and an annual move of 55%, some wondered if this was just another blow-off asset akin to any other, from dot.com stocks to crypto manias. […]

‘Nude Photos, Video Tapes & Sex-Slave Manuals’: Epstein Rushed Evidence Into Secret Storage Unit Before Raid Jeffrey Epstein paid private detectives to remove items from his Palm Beach property and store them in a secret storage locker shortly before he was raided by police in 2005. The storage unit contained three computers, 29 address books, a three-page list of Florida masseuses. The stash also included nude […]

Biden-Appointed Judge Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Dispute Third Country Deportations Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled on Feb. 25 that the government cannot deport illegal immigrants to so-called third countries without giving them “meaningful notice” and an opportunity to dispute their removal. In Wednesday’s ruling, Massachusetts District Judge Brian Murphy (nominated by President […]

PayPal Slides After Report Says Stripe Not In Takeover Talks Bloomberg’s multi-day storytelling began late Monday morning with a report that a “large rival suitor” and other firms were circling PayPal in a potential takeover bid. By late Tuesday in the cash session, the outlet reported that payment processor Stripe had expressed interest in the platform. Now, just moments ago, Semafor reports “PayPal isn’t currently in talks to […]

“Gold For Me Is A Savings Product”: Rick Rule On Debt, Oil Cycles, & Uranium’s Political Reversal Last night’s discussion featuring Rick Rule, Bill Fleckenstein, and Erik Townsend covered the macro landscape from hard assets to energy markets and nuclear policy. Below are highlights from Rule’s remarks. (We recommend readers listen to Fleckenstein and Townsend’s full comments in the complete debate, linked at the […]

US Demands Iran Dismantle Its 3 Main Nuclear Sites In Hours-Long Talks US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held more than three hours of negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva on Thursday in a push to secure a breakthrough on a nuclear deal, with the Omani foreign minister saying the talks will resume later after a pause. It’s being reported that the message Kushner and Witkoff deliver to Trump […]

One Battle After Another By Michael Every of Rabobank One Battle After Another US and Iranian negotiators meet in Geneva today to hear Tehran’s final offer but reports of what they have to say suggests we should prepare for the worst even if Iran sees a “good outlook” for today’s talks. The Kan news agency claims it will only agree to lower uranium enrichment from 60% to 3.67% for seven years, won’t hand over previously […]

World Economic Forum Boss Borge Brende Quits As Epstein Fallout Deepens The Jeffrey Epstein fallout continues to spread across the corporate and political worlds, with new headlines daily. Bill Gates told foundation staff earlier this week, “I did nothing illicit.” Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler, stepped down last week over her ties, and former Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct related to sending […]

Biden’s FBI Secretly Obtained Kash Patel And Susie Wiles’ Phone Records, But NYT Says It’s Cool When Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Donald Trump and people in his orbit, he ended up surveilling then-private-citizen Kash Patel, and Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during 2022 and 2003. Patel, now head of the FBI, told Reuters on Wednesday that he found out about this, and the FBI buried the files in a […]

Hindenburg Alarm: Another Rotation Or Worse? Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In early November, we sounded the alarm about a recent Hindenburg Omen. Per the Commentary’s summary: Bottom line: market breadth is horrendous and will likely lead to a rotation favoring out-of-favor sectors and stocks. Thus, it’s not surprising that the Hindenburg Omen was triggered. If we continue to see more of these Omens, the threat of a […]

Futures Flat Despite Blowout Nvidia Earnings US equity futures managed to erase overnight losses and were trading flat after Nvidia and Salesforce failed to assuage fears about an overheated AI economy while traders awaited color from today’s round of US / Iran talks. As of 8:00am S&P futures were unchanged and nasdaq futures were down 0.1%, with NVDA up 1% premarket but well off overnight highs after its earnings report and […]