A Panicking Oracle Plans To Raise Up To $50 Billion, As Its Stock And Bonds Crater Just over a month ago, on Dec 17, alongside the news that Abu Dhabi was set to invest billions in OpenAI thus preventing a year-end tech rout, we said that ORCL CDS – which on that day hit the widest level since the 2008 financial crisis at 156bps – “may have gone a bit too far”… ORCL CDS limit down tomorrow (of course, there is no limit down in […]

San Francisco Ends $5M-A-Year Program That Supplied Alcohol To Homeless Addicts Sigh. It’s not parody. It’s San Francisco. The city is shutting down a controversial program that used millions in taxpayer funds to provide alcohol to homeless residents struggling with addiction, according to the NY Post. Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city will end the Managed Alcohol Program, which cost about $5 million each year and began during the […]

Joe Rogan Defines Chaos In Minneapolis As “Color Revolution” Left-wing unrest in Minneapolis and elsewhere across the country – whether protests or riots over the past few weeks or over the last decade targeting President Trump and the America First agenda – is being framed as a color revolution operation fueled by dark-money-funded NGOs, and that narrative is now reaching a wider audience. Democrats are uneasy that this framing […]

Democrat Wins Texas Special Election, Eroding GOP’s Slim House Majority Republicans’ thin majority in the US House grew slimmer still on Saturday, as a special election in Texas has filled a long-vacant seat with a Democrat who’s vowed to “tear ICE up from the roots.”  Progressive leftist Christian Menefee will represent Texas’s 18th Congressional District, after beating fellow Democrat Amanda Edwards in a runoff election for a […]

Is An Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust Right For You? Are You Super Rich? Authored by Javier Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) can allow affluent individuals to pass on wealth to heirs while keeping it outside of their taxable estate. This could help them reduce or avoid the estate tax upon death, which can be as high as 40 percent. Photo Smoothies/Shutterstock It also can help […]

Hollywood Celebrities Are Losing Their Minds And Calling For “Revolution” As the information age barrels forward the age of the celebrity is coming to a close.  Largely because Hollywood elites do not understand how to navigate social media and their true personalities always bubble to the surface.  With no agents or managers to filter their impulsive opinions, narcissistic celebrities readily expose themselves and their […]

Isaacman: NASA Aims To Build ‘Martian Outpost’ On Mars With Nuclear Propulsion Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced his agency’s commitment to developing a nuclear propulsion system for missions to Mars within the next three years. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (L) speaks at a press conference at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Jan. 17, 2026. (T.J. […]

How Easy Is It To Open A Daycare In Minnesota? Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Minnesota is facing heavy scrutiny after the Trump administration accused bad actors in the state of exploiting federal funds from child-focused programs for personal gain. The Minneapolis skyline, on Jan. 11, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Dec. 29, 2025, that 98 people—85 of […]

Trump Says Federal Authorities Won’t Respond To Protests In Democrat-Led Cities Unless Asked Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump on Saturday announced federal authorities will not intervene in protests in Democrat-led jurisdictions, but will continue to forcefully protect federal property. Federal officers in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 9, […]

House Speaker Says He Has Votes To End Government Shutdown This Week House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that he is confident that the House will end the partial government shutdown that was initiated on Saturday after Congress failed to approve a measure to keep the government funded. “We’ll get this done by Tuesday, I’m convinced,” Speaker Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We do have to do it by a rule […]

The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like An Economic Boom Authored by Matt Stoller via The BIG Newsletter, The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That’s why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad. On Friday, Donald Trump nominated candidate Kevin Walsh to become Chair of the Federal Reserve. Warsh is mostly an orthodox Wall […]

Lutnick Too? New Epstein Files Reveal Trip To Pedo Island After He Said He Cut Ties We’re gonna need a bigger cork board.  As far as massive distractions go, the latest Epstein files release seems to be all anyone is talking about. Not only do they mix random and salacious claims called into the FBI tip line (which could have been lodged by anyone for any reason – so you should assign low value to those), there are tons of […]

The Fed, Electricity, And Affordability By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Fed, Electricity, And Affordability Three distinct topics, but at the same time, they are almost (kind of) the same topic, or at least interconnected. A Warsh Fed We discussed Warsh on Friday (along with gold, Bitcoin, and the flippant use of “debasement”). Dismissing the “Warsh is a Hawk” narrative: We are looking for 3 rate cuts by […]

Trump Concedes Iran ‘Seriously Talking To Us’ As Ayatollah Says ‘We Don’t Seek To Attack Any Country’ President Donald Trump made a big admission to Fox News on Saturday. He said Iran is currently talking to US negotiators, and he offered it as a positive sign that attacks on Iran could be averted. “You could make a negotiated deal that would be satisfactory with no nuclear weapons,” Trump said. “They should do that, but I don’t […]

More Than 1 Million Bots Have Joined A New AI-Only Social Network Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots are posting, commenting, joking, debating, and questioning existence, philosophical ideas, website errors, problems humans have tasked them with fixing, and more on a new Reddit-style platform designed solely for AI participation. Moltbook.com was created and launched on Jan. 28 by human […]

Colombian Mercenary Pipeline Funnels South American Fighters To Ukraine’s Frontlines Bombardment stopped mid-last week with what appears to be an energy ceasefire in place between Ukraine and Russia (probably should thank President Trump), but the only issue with that is that both sides are likely stockpiling missiles and amassing drones, which only suggests that after the ceasefire breaks, bombardment of the energy-starved city […]

Watch: New Footage Shows Bannon Exploding At Epstein: “Total And Complete Bullshit!!” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a heated exchange from a long-unreleased 2019 interview that was just made public through recent Department of Justice Epstein file releases, Steve Bannon confronts Jeffrey Epstein on the question of when human life begins. Epstein dodges by suggesting it “can’t be measured,” then doubles […]

US Military Still Not Prepared For Major Attack On Iran, Only ‘Limited’ Strikes President Trump has acknowledged that he has a plan for Iran, but naturally isn’t going to make it public. “Well, we can’t tell them the plan,” Trump said Saturday. “If I told them the plan, it would be almost as bad as telling you the plan – it could be worse, actually.” Several Gulf allies have meanwhile complained of being “in the dark” on what the […]

Bears Are An Endangered Species Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 🏛️ Market Brief – Market Volatility Returns Markets ended the week mixed as investors processed the Federal Reserve’s latest policy decision, rising geopolitical tensions, and the early results of the S&P 500 earnings season. The Fed held the federal funds rate steady at 3.50–3.75 percent, as expected. Chair Jerome Powell […]

Latest Epstein Emails Reveal Bill Gates Slipped Wife Antibiotics For STD He Got From Russian Hookers Democrats thought that the firehose release of Epstein files would “finally” bring down Trump. Instead, not only is that not happening (one can argue the latest batch of docs further cements Trump’s claim that he had distanced himself far enough from Esptein in recent decades as this admission from Epstein himself to his favorite […]

ICE Buys Warehouse Network To Support Ramped Up Deportation Operations The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to convert 23 e-commerce warehouses across the country, primarily in the eastern U.S., into a large-scale network of immigration detention centers aimed at expanding capacity to fulfill the mandate the American people gave President Trump to deport more than one million illegal aliens per year and restore […]

Bifurcation Nation & The TINA Economy’s Freefall Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, The term “The K-Shaped Economy” has entered the lexicon to describe the divergence of the top tier of earners and owners of capital from the lower tiers, as the trajectory of the first is up and that of the second is down. While the “The K-Shaped Economy” offers visual clarity, it’s ultimately an abstraction. Longtime […]

Convicted Terrorist Who Plotted To Bomb British Consulate Now Standing For Election In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Shahid Butt, a 60-year-old Muslim activist with a conviction for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, is now gunning for a seat on Birmingham City Council.  Yes, really. Convicted in 1999 and sentenced to five years in a Yemeni prison, Butt was found guilty of forming an armed […]

UBS CIO Americas: AI Remains “Underhyped And Underappreciated” Building on Goldman analyst Brian Singer’s comparison of the AI data-center buildout to the U.S. shale boom, where AI remains in the early “appraisal phase” of the innovation cycle, a stage historically most bullish for infrastructure spending and equity multiple expansion, fresh commentary earlier this week from UBS CIO Americas reinforces the view that bubble […]

Brussels Versus Washington Authored by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness. Instead of becoming a technological powerhouse, it produced rules, many rules, with effects now extending far beyond its own borders. In 2026, those rules are colliding head on with an American president who […]