Marc Elias’ Legal Team Threatens Media With Lawsuit For Questioning Roy Cooper’s Health Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, Marc Elias has long been at the center of controversial election tactics, including criminal investigations. If lawyers had to take an oath to first do no harm, the court-sanctioned Democratic lawyer would leave Hippocrates gobsmacked. Well, Elias is back and his legal team is threatening the […]

China’s iPhone Flippers Face Losses Before Apple’s Foldable Even Launches Apple’s first foldable iPhone, the Duo, launches in mainland China and the United States this Friday, following an October 16 preorder opening. Yet days before the first handsets even ship, Chinese speculators who lined up to flip launch-day units are already watching their expected profits evaporate. apple.comBecause the phones have not been delivered yet, […]

This Is Perhaps The Most Dystopian Thing Ever… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, France’s streets burned, shops were looted and stripped bare and a historic town hall collapsed under arson. Yet the most striking images from Saturday night were not the fires. They were the people who carried on as if nothing was happening. One woman jogged straight through thick black smoke past a burning barricade, treating the […]

Trump Dangles $100 Million Kentucky Pharma Investment, But Only If Republicans Win Midterms Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced plans for the Department of War to invest $100 million to support a pharmaceutical company, with the offer conditional on Republicans winning the midterm elections next month. President Donald Trump takes the stage at the Truist Arena on the campus of North […]

Putin’s Hometown: Biggest Ukrainian Attack On St. Petersburg Since War’s Start St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, came under heavy drone attack early Sunday – resulting in huge fires over what is also the second most important civic center after Moscow. An oil depot and oil export facility suffered direct hits, despite President Trump multiple times making it known that he’s vehemently opposed to such attacks, given the […]

Saudi Arabia Cancels In-Person ‘Davos In The Desert’ Event Amid Houthi Attacks Update(11:13ET): Saudi Arabia, having come under nearly daily ballistic missile attacks from the Houthis in Yemen, will not hold its ‘Davos in the Desert’ flagship investor conference in-person next week. Instead it looks to merely be an online event.  “Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a marquee showcase for foreign investment, was to […]

Cook Case Tests The Limits Of Fed Independence Authored by Alexander W. Salter via The Daily Economy, President Trump has renewed his effort to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board. Whether he has a legitimate reason to fire her is another matter. The White House announced a three-person “committee of inquiry” to investigate whether Cook made false statements on mortgage applications, and whether that is sufficient […]

Zelensky Knows Peace Deal Would End Him, Lavrov Says Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is currently in the Gulf region. On Sunday he visited Bahrain, which was hit frequently by Iranian drone and missile attacks earlier in the US-Iran war. On Monday, the top Russian diplomat is meeting with senior Iranian officials in Tehran, where top of the agenda is the ongoing conflict with the US as well Iran-Russia relations. This […]

US Homebuilder Confidence Crashes To 14 Year Low, Blame Mortgage Rates & Immigration American homebuilder confidence crashed to 29 in October – down from 32 in September and worse than the 31 print expected as rising mortgage rates, energy and material costs, and worsening labor and lot conditions have pushed builder sentiment to a 14-year low. All three of the major HMI indices posted losses in October. The index measuring […]

Democracy Manifest By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank US stocks defied a strong lead from Europe and Asia on Friday to close broadly in the red. IT, telecommunications and the consumer discretionary sector led declines while energy, materials and consumer staples performed well. Oil prices surged following further reports of attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran claiming that two tankers […]

IRGC Again Warns Trump: If US Bombing Renewed “World Will Face Serious Energy Crisis” After President Trump previewed that he’s mulling the resumption of a major US bombing campaign of Iran for after the November midterm elections, Iranian officials are busy pushing back with their own warnings and red lines. Trump has even lately teased potential new offensive action even before the US Congressional elections. Iran’s Foreign […]

Hedge Fund CIO: “By The Time These Things Are Glaringly Obvious, It’s Too Late, Checkmate” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management Colosseums “Classic late cycle,” said Sparks. “Beginning of the end, that’s what’s unfolding,” said the investor, entrepreneur, iconoclast. “At the end, everything converges to financial flows.” In every huge cycle, the last stage is Ponzi-like. “Who’s going to buy the […]

Bolsonaro, Lula Tied In Latest Poll As Brazil’s Runoff Election Countdown Enters Final Week Brazil’s right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traded barbs in their first presidential debate on Sunday night. The latest polling data show Bolsonaro’s lead over Lula has narrowed ahead of this weekend’s runoff election. 🚨 JUST IN: In a stunning moment, socialist Brazil President Lula […]

Futures Rise As Dip Buyers Rush Back Into Chips After Worst Nasdaq Week Since Liberation Day US futures are higher – but well off session highs hit before the European open – as dip buyers storm back into chipmakers after the Nasdaq’s worst week since the April 2025 tariff turmoil, while oil slides after President Trump waived Russian sanctions to seal a diesel deal and Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Persian Gulf flows have […]

Let The Morons Eat Cake Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance When I first got involved with investigative forensic equity research about 15 years ago, I remember being genuinely stunned by what I was finding. I was drawn into the world of skeptical inquiry after reading GeoInvesting’s exposé of Longwei Petroleum back in 2012 where they concluded the U.S. listed company, trading on a major exchange with exposure to U.S. retiree […]

French Bonds, Stocks Drop As Far-Left, Migrant Riots Worsen; Macron Fails To Restore Order French government bonds sold off, and the CAC 40 fell Monday after a weekend of nationwide riots and chaos intensified concerns over political instability as the Macron government failed to restore order. President Emmanuel Macron conveniently blamed high gas prices, while lefty corporate media ran cover and really tried to reinforce the […]

Brent Flirts With $110 Before Reversing As Wright Declares Pump Prices Have “Peaked” Brent crude futures briefly tagged $109.99 a barrel in overnight trading before retreating from five-month highs during the Asian session and into European trading, as signs of recovering Middle Eastern supply offset renewed attacks on energy infrastructure and critical maritime shipping lanes. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright reinforced […]

Struggling Volkswagen Plans Pay Freeze Through 2030 As Job Cuts Loom: Report In another episode of the “death of Europe,” a new report from Germany brings more troubling news for struggling automaker Volkswagen, suggesting to us that globalists in the bloc have squandered not just their inheritance but their economic future through a failing progressive experiment that has neutered Europe’s industrial base. German daily newspaper […]

Europe Braces For A Winter Energy Crisis As Gas Reserves Run Low Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice, Europe faces another expensive winter as low gas reserves and Middle East disruptions drive up energy prices. Rising fuel costs threaten household budgets, industrial production, and employment across Europe. Increased U.S. LNG supplies could provide some relief, but continued geopolitical risks leave energy […]

70% Of Moroccan Asylee Claims In Ceuta After Mass Entry Cite Persecution Over Sexual Orientation Spanish police say about 70% of the Moroccans processed in Ceuta after July’s mass entry have asked for asylum alleging persecution over their sexual orientation, according to El Periódico de Ceuta, which relays figures from National Police sources first published by the Spanish daily ABC. The number comes from unnamed police sources, […]

Germany’s Rent Control Is Backfiring, New Study Of 107 Cities Finds Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, Across Europe, the housing shortage is getting worse – and left-wing parties have discovered it as a central political issue. Recently, the far-left party DIE LINKE even won the elections in Berlin, the German capital, campaigning on a demand to nationalize large housing companies. In Spain, hundreds of thousands […]

80% Of New UK Payroll Jobs Since 2014 Went To Foreign Nationals, Think Tank Finds Just one in five of the roughly 3.7 million jobs added to UK payrolls from 2014 through the end of 2025 went to British nationals. Non-EU nationals took about 2.5 million of them, roughly two-thirds, and EU nationals another 408,000, leaving Britons with 734,000, according to a Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) analysis of HMRC data. The center-right […]

Dutch Minister: Young Locals Can Just Live With Their Parents, Migrants Get Houses First Via Remix News, Dutch Housing Minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan drew sharp criticism this week after defending priority access to scarce social housing for recognized refugees, arguing that many young Dutch first-time home seekers “can still live with their parents.” In an interview with De Telegraaf, the D66 minister was asked why status […]

Omar, Obama, And The Danger Of False Identities Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, On Columbus Day, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant of Representative Ilhan Omar’s home. For several months, there have been rumors that she was under investigation for immigration fraud. A few weeks ago, White House Border Czar Tom Homan acknowledged that the congresswoman was the subject of an […]

Putin Proposes Summit With Trump And Xi To Negotiate End Of Ukraine War; Zelensky Not Invited Amid an escalating war that appears to get farther from any hope of a ceasefire, let alone peace, late on Sunday the WSJ reported that Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow. […]