FTC Imposes 5-Year Ban On GM Disclosing Geolocation, Driver Data To Consumer Reporting Agencies Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order banning General Motors (GM) from disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for a period of five years, the agency said in a Jan. 14 statement. The FTC had filed a complaint […]

The Wrong Solution: AI Productivity, Employment, & UBI Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It is expected that AI productivity increases will vastly transform the U.S. economy. Firms are utilizing AI productivity enhancements to automate repetitive tasks, and research and coding functions have already been implemented. The obvious problem is that when machines perform functions once done by humans, what are […]

LIS Technologies Launches $1.4 Billion Laser Uranium Enrichment Project In Tennessee LIS Technologies announced a $1.4 billion uranium enrichment project in Oakridge, Tennessee at the former iconic K-25 site, which until 1987 was a massive gaseous diffusion facility built for the Manhattan Project to enrich uranium-235 for atomic bombs. The company will set up shop on the 206-acre on Duct Island, which will be renamed to LIST […]

Democrats Fight To Keep Insurrection Myth Alive In New J6 Committee Authored by Jonathan Turley, The new J6 Committee has started its hearings and, unlike the prior Committee, Republicans have allowed Democrats to select members to sit in opposition. That has led to sharp exchanges, but one of the more interesting occurred between Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) and Jamie Raskin (D., Md.). After Hageman got a witness to admit that […]

ACLU And Celebs Release Cringe Appeal To Allow Men In Women’s Sports Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The American Civil Liberties Union has rolled out a new campaign pushing for biological males to compete in women’s sports, just as the Supreme Court takes up cases that could finally protect female athletes from unfair competition. Featuring ‘stars’ including Megan Rapinoe and Naomi Watts, the ad frames this […]

EU Mulls Ditching Accession System Used Since Cold War To Fast-Track Ukraine When in doubt, just change the rules – or so goes the thinking in Brussels as it seeks to get creative on ways to allow Ukraine’s quick accession to the European Union, despite it being consistently ranked among the most corrupt governments on earth. EU officials have described that a current plan being taken seriously is a ‘limited’ membership tier, part […]

Shale Pioneer Harold Hamm Steps Back From Bakken After Decades Harold Hamm says low oil prices are forcing a step he hasn’t taken in decades: shutting down drilling in North Dakota’s Bakken, according to Bloomberg. “This will be the first time in over 30 years that Harold Hamm has not had an operation with drilling rigs in North Dakota,” he said. “That tells you a whole lot right there: There’s no need to drill it when […]

Isotopes 101 Submitted by TightSpreads  Many smart investors are catching up to the nuclear story already, but there is another angle to it that is grossly uncovered: isotopes. This educational primer provides a useful starting point for understanding isotope market opportunities and the nuclear equities or advanced materials companies to be featured soon. Why is this timely? Because Oklo management has told the street that […]

Another $3.5 Billion For Gas Power Generation Talen Energy is following in the footsteps of utility peers Vistra and Constellation by spending billions of dollars acquiring gas generation assets to expand their capacity and grow market share in the growing power demand market. After spending about $3.5 billion to acquire gas generation capacity in Pennsylvania and Ohio back in July 2025, the company announced it spent another $3.5 […]

Underwater Auto Trade-Ins Reach Record Highs: Edmunds Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, A record number of automobile owners are carrying negative equity of $10,000 to more than $15,000 into trade-ins on new vehicles, according to online vehicle data analytics website Edmunds. In the fourth quarter of 2025, a record high of 27 percent of vehicle trade-ins involved negative equity of at least $10,000, Edmunds reported on […]

Canada’s PM Carney Praises “New World Order”; Opens Door To Chinese EVs The invasion of Chinese electric vehicles into North America is set to accelerate after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to roll back the triple-digit tariffs previously imposed on Chinese EVs. The move sharply diverges from President Trump’s America First policy, which aims to revitalize the North American auto industry. While Chinese EVs remain […]

Trump Says Wants To Keep “Hassett Where He Is” Sending Warsh Fed Chair Odds Soaring; Gold Slides In a strong hint ahead of Trump’s decision later this month who the next Fed chair will be, the president appears to have hobbled the chances of one of the Kevins when he said that Kevin Hassett was “fantastic on TV today”, and Trump wants to “keep him where he is” since “Fed officials don’t talk much” while Hassett is “good at […]

Trump Stuns By Floating Tariffs On Countries That Stand In The Way On Greenland Days ago as it became clear that Europe and the United States would be locked in a showdown over the future fate of Greenland and its sovereignty, the EU touted that it has some cards to play, as leaders stepped up in defense of Denmark’s longtime hold on the resource-rich Arctic territory: The European Parliament is considering putting on hold the […]

“Connection Timed Out”: X Goes Dark At around 10:10 ET, X went down, displaying a “connection timed out” message, suggesting an issue on the Cloudflare side. Here’s the error message, indicating a host-side failure. Website tracker Downdetector is currently showing a spike in reported X outages. The disruption appears to be nationwide. Developing… Tyler Durden Fri, 01/16/2026 – 10:24

Washington & Moscow Trade Blows At UN As US Carrier Steams Toward Middle East US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the “brave people of Iran” have risen up and that President Donald Trump “has made it clear all options are on the table to stop the slaughter” – this despite widespread reports that the protests and rioting are over at this point. “President Trump is a man of […]

US Outraged Iranian Warships Are Docked At Cape Town: South Africa ‘Cozying Up’ To Tehran The United States is making its anger known to longtime but strained ally South Africa, charging the country’s defense ministry of ignoring directives from its own government to send Iranian warships home after they took part in naval exercises in South African waters. Washington’s statement held nothing back: “South Africa can’t lecture […]

Gavin Newsom Caught In Massive Self-Own Over California Gas Prices The children running Gavin Newsom’s X account might be legitimately brain dead, as evidenced by their latest attempt to ‘own’ conservative influencer Benny Johnson.  On Tuesday, Johnson took to the streets of Los Angeles, posting from an ARCO station that “The average price of gas in America is $2.82 per gallon.” “There are 19 states where you can find gas […]

“Emergency Intervention”: Trump To Cap Residential Electric Bills By Forcing Tech Giants To Pay For Soaring Power Costs Back in August, when the American population was just waking up to the dire consequences the exponentially growing army of data centers spawned across the country was having on residential electricity bills, we said that the chart of US CPI would soon become the most popular (not in a good way) chart in the […]

US Industrial Production Surged To End 2025 While ‘soft’ survey data has been disappointing, hard macro data has been resilient and Industrial Production ended 2025 on a bright note with a 0.4% MoM surge in December (considerably better than the +0.1% MoM expected) complementing November’s 0.4% MoM rise. This left industrial production up 2% YoY… Source: Bloomberg The index for utilities increased 2.6 percent in December, […]

Trump Says ‘Venezuela Leaker’ Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump said the “leaker on Venezuela” has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed bets earlier this month. “The leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail right now,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday, […]

Stocks Rise As Tech Meltup Accelerates Futures are higher, and trading near record territory, led by tech as this year’s great rotation shows no sign of slowing, broadening the base of names driving Wall Street’s push back towards all time highs. As of 8:00am, S&P 500 futures were 0.3% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.4% as the latest wave of enthusiasm for technology stocks carried into Friday. Overnight headlines […]

EU NatGas Spikes Most In Two Years As “Perfect Storm” Unfolds Dutch TTF natural gas futures, Europe’s benchmark gas contract, are up 25% on the week and on track for their largest weekly gain since October 2023. The abrupt reversal in sentiment reflects tightening storage levels, short covering, and a burst of unusually cold weather sweeping across the continent. “Sentiment has completely turned … you could almost call it a […]

Porsche Sales Plunge Most In 16 Years Porsche AG shares in Germany are headed for their steepest weekly decline since trading began in late 2022, after the 911 maker reported that vehicle sales in the 2025 selling year fell to their lowest level in 16 years. The 911 maker announced earlier that it delivered 279,449 vehicles to customers worldwide in 2025, down 10% from 310,718 in 2024. This marked the largest annual drop in […]

UK Govt Threatens To Return Lucy Connolly To Jail For Sharing Joke Post On X Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Lucy Connolly, the 42-year-old UK woman previously sentenced to two years in prison for a post on X is back under the microscope of Britain’s speech enforcers, with the government threatening to put her back behind bars for merely reposting a satirical jab at Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The latest drama […]

UN Chief’s Last Annual Speech Warns Global Cooperation ‘On Deathwatch’ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will step down as head of the UN in 2026, and on Thursday he issued a stark warning to world leaders upon the occasion of this last annual priorities speech. He said that international cooperation is being pushed “onto deathwatch” by widening geopolitical rifts and increased and unpredictable violations of international […]