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 […]

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 […]

From Vibrancy To Vacancy: America’s Going, Going Gone! Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, I hate shopping. I hate crowds. I hate malls. I don’t believe I had entered a mall in over a decade, until Monday. My visit to the once vibrant Montgomery Mall in Montgomeryville, PA was a shocking confirmation of what I had been predicting about retail stores since 2008. Next to the term Dead Mall in the dictionary […]

President Trump To Skip Super Bowl, Slams Halftime Show With Bad Bunny, Green Day Trump made history last year as the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl when he showed up at the game in New Orleans, but on Saturday, he announced he won’t be attending this year.  Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump blasted the NFL for choosing Bad Bunny and Green Day as halftime performers. Trump told the New York Post that the […]

Supreme Court Orders CA Dems To Justify ‘Prop 50’ Maps Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The Supreme Court on Thursday gave California Democrats a week to respond to the California Republican Party’s request to block the new Democrat-drawn congressional district maps from being used in November. The request for a response, issued by Justice Elena Kagan, who is handling the emergency-injunction request for the […]

Cuba Charges US With Imposing ‘Marine Siege’ For ‘Piracy’ Of Its Oil Imports A Cuban diplomat has accused Washington of “international piracy” as the US moves to choke off Venezuelan oil supplies to the island following the Jan.3rd Pentagon operation that led to the ouster and abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. Carlos de Céspedes, Cuba’s ambassador to Colombia, told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the United States has […]

12,000 Flights Canceled, NatGas Spikes Again As Winter Storm Fern Paralyzes Eastern US Update (1900ET): The good news for those across the southern US and the Mid-Atlantic is that the massive snowstorm turned ice storm will wind down this evening. In the Northeast, snow will continue overnight. The bad news: much of the eastern half of the country is set for a week of dangerously cold temperatures. The end is finally here […]

“Do The Right Thing”: President Trump Urges “Common Sense” From Democrats Amid the escalating violence in Minnesota, we calmly ask you to cast your mind back a few years – we know it’s hard, but just try… President Obama gave his ICE chief an award for deporting 409,000 illegals (in 2012). President Trump’s ICE chief has deported 290,000 (in 2025) and he is called a Nazi. The ICE chief… the same guy – Tom Homan. The […]

What The Left Doesn’t Want You To Know About Alex Pretti, The Man That Border Patrol Shot Mainstream media outlets rushed to paint Alex Pretti as a blameless ICU nurse gunned down by heartless Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. They highlighted his work caring for veterans and seized on video snippets showing him holding a phone. The New York Times ran with that angle, running the headline “Man Killed by Federal […]

Maybe Truflation Is On To Something By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Fed On the betting apps, it looks like Rick Rieder has become the odds on favorite to win. I like the idea of mixing things up at the Fed and think that having a market practitioner in charge would be an interesting change. If he gets the nomination, expect more of a focus across the yield curve (our view all along of how the Fed will operate in 2026). […]

Heavily Shorted USA Rare Earth To Soar After US Govt Takes 10% Stake It was last July 9, when we told readers all about “The Coming Rare Earth Revolution And How To Profit: All You Need To Know About The “Ex-China Supply Chain.” It was here that we said MP Materials (and to a lesser extent USA Rare Earth Corp) was best positioned to capitalize as global rare earth trade flows and pricing adjust over the coming years (also, as a […]

California’s Billionaire Tax: A Mirror Of EU Green Socialism Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The mid-19th century Gold Rush earned California the nickname “Golden State.” Over generations, the region became a place of aspiration— a projection screen for ambition and prosperity. Here, the American Dream coalesced into tangible stories of social mobility. Today, the state has become the stage for a political experiment that mirrors […]

Scientists Pioneer Reverse Solar Panels To Create Energy At Night By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are developing a “reverse solar” panel, called a thermoradiative diode, which generates electricity by emitting infrared light (heat) into cold surroundings. The device works by capturing heat absorbed by the Earth during the day and radiating it out at night, offering a way to […]

Transtifa ‘Kyle’ Instructs Comrades In Minneapolis: “Get Your F**king Guns, Stop These F**king People”  About one year ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Division conducted an unclassified briefing warning of an emerging domestic threat vector described as “nihilistic accelerationism.” The briefing was around the time of a series of attacks in which left-wing militants firebombed Tesla vehicles at showrooms. […]

“Befuddled By The Insanity Swirling Around Me…” Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, Fake It Until You Make It “My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” — George Carlin The government reported CPI of “only” 2.7% and the financial pundits and Trump toadies celebrated the “lowest inflation in 5 years”. This is after “surprisingly good” unemployment report where the […]

Schumer: Democrats ‘Will Not Allow’ DHS Funding Bill To Move Forward Update (1603ET): Chuck Schumer is out with a new statement explicitly refusing to move forward with DHS funding as part of the six-part spending package to avert a government shutdown.  “Senate Democrats will not allow the current DHS funding bill to move forward,” he said, adding “Senate Republicans must work with Democrats to advance the other five funding […]