South Korea Risks Economic Self-Sabotage With $1 Trillion Crackdown On US Tech Giants For those who don’t know, South Korea is big on extracting money from Big Tech firms in the United States – a protectionist tactic similar to China – aimed at curbing the dominance of global tech platforms when it comes to social media, search, e-commerce and app stores, while favoring domestic players such as Naver, Kakao and Coupang.  […]

Soys To Men: The Democratic Party Is Hemorrhaging Males Democrats today resemble a pack of lost puppies – unsure which direction to run: left, further left, or all the way into the radical fringe, where political violence and assassination culture is normalized, anti-American sentiment is celebrated, and socialism and Marxism are embraced. The original ‘No Kings’ protest was the election of Donald Trump, in which the American people […]

Watch: Oligarch-Battling Bernie Sanders Thinks It’s Perfectly Normal To Own Three Homes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Oligarchy fighter and working class man of the people Bernie Sanders sees nothing out of the ordinary in owning three large properties. When recently questioned about his three houses, the ‘No Kings’ figurehead passed it off as if most Americans own multiple properties and he’s just like […]

Don’t Tell ‘Commie Mamdani’: Wall Street Bonuses Poised To Smash Records From quantum stocks to AI chips to crypto, the surge in asset price inflation this year has positioned Wall Street’s 2025 bonuses to shatter records amid rising profits and trading revenues. New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, in his latest annual report on the city’s securities industry, said that while Wall Street profits lagged in the first half […]

Reality 101: What Students Must Learn About Energy Authored by Portia Roberts via RealClearEnergy, Higher education is increasingly under attack for what and how students learn. Some of that is political. Some, deserved. “Energy” is now one such political battleground. Environmental studies have swallowed the energy domain, stripping it of realism and producing too many graduates unready for the real world. Will most […]

Pair Of US Bombers Again Fly Close To Venezuela, Sparks Speculation Of Imminent Attack It appears that the US Air Force has for the second time in under a week conducted a bomber flight very near to Venezuela’s coast as a show of force.  It comes after days ago the US Southern Command confirmed what it called a “bomber attack demonstration mission” in skies over the southern Caribbean last week. Presumably this is what just […]

Who Are The Real Kings? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries. He ran three times in a general election. He was elected twice, and his party recently won a Republican Congress. In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign. He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his basement. He outsourced his campaign to Democratic […]

Zelensky Touts Successful Test Of ‘Flamingo’, Homegrown Cruise Missile Which Can Hit Moscow Back in August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky boasted that his military no longer needed US ‘permission’ to conduct long-range strikes on Russian territory with missiles. This was given that Ukraine had been developing its own domestic designed and produced long-range missile. Zelensky at the time unveiled the ‘Flamingo’ cruise […]

New York AG Urges Public To Send Footage Of ICE Raids Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, New York State’s attorney general on Wednesday called on the public to send her office photos, videos, and other documentation of federal immigration operations for review, just a day after an enforcement operation targeted street vendors in Manhattan’s Chinatown turned to chaos as protestors confronted agents. Attorney […]

Vance In Israel Blasts ‘Stupid Political Stunt’ Which Was An ‘Insult’ By Knesset Israel’s parliament has given initial approval to a controversial bill that would extend Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, widely viewed as tantamount to full Israeli annexation of the Palestinian territory, in a move widely condemned internationally and even receiving strong pushback from the United States. The measure narrowly passed […]

Ron Paul: It Didn’t Start With Trump Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute, “What do you expect when you sue the president?” Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump’s political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution. That quote, though, is much older. It is from an IRS agent addressing officials of a conservative […]

NATO Jets Scrambled Over Lithuania After Russian Aircraft Breach Airspace NATO member Lithuania on Thursday alleged that a pair of Russian jets violated its sovereign airspace, in what the government quickly condemned as a breach the country’s territorial integrity. “This evening, Russian military planes violated Lithuanian air space. This is a blatant breach of international law and territorial integrity of Lithuania,” the […]

Deranged Democrats Go All In On “Trump Is Destroying The White House” Hoax Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrats, led by greasy Gavin Newsom, are going all in on the latest fake talking point that President Trump is literally destroying the White House. As we earlier highlighted, they kicked off this hoax earlier in the week with the likes of Newsom and Hillary Clinton pushing complete nonsense that Trump is […]

DHS Confirms: Illegal Alien Trucker Who Killed 3 In California DUI Crash Entered U.S. Via Biden’s Open Borders Update (1355ET): The Department of Homeland Security has released new information about the illegal alien truck driver who entered the U.S. under the Biden-Harris regime’s open-border era. The illegal alien from India killed three people in a horrific crash in San Bernardino County, California, while driving an […]

US Equities Extend Gains After Confirmation Of Trump-Xi Meeting Next Thursday Update (1335ET):  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has just confirmed that President Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi on October 30th. “On Thursday morning local time, President Trump will participate in a bilateral meeting with President Xi of the People’s Republic of China,” Leavitt said. This is 48 hours before the 100% tariff […]

Insane Mafia-Linked NBA Gambling Scandal Erupts; Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups Arrested Among Dozens Of Alleged Riggers What we know: Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones have been arrested  The years-long investigation spanning 11 states has resulted in over 30 arrests The Bonnano, Gambino and Genovese organized crime families were allegedly involved as enforcers, taking a cut of the winnings There was […]

GLD Loses Its Shine: What’s Next After This Volatility Trap Submitted by SpotGamma It seemed like gold just could not lose in 2025. GLD – the largest gold ETF – had surged over 30% in just two months as traders flocked in, driven by inflation concerns and tariff headlines. Spot gold found itself well beyond the $4,000/oz milestone for the first time ever during this rally, fueled by both institutional and retail interest. […]

The Bezzel: Is It 1925 All Over Again? Authored by Christopher Whalen via DailyReckoning.com, During a conference call with investors last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon made a memorable response to a question from Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo about the collapse of a subprime auto lender called Tricolor that cost the bank $170 million. Tricolor went bankrupt due to allegations of fraud, including double-pledging of collateral, […]

Tonight: Debt Debate – Addressing The $38 Trillion Elephant In The Room LIVE NOW: Tonight’s ZeroHedge Debate: Michael Green vs Patrick Newman on Solving the Debt Crisis https://t.co/mvAU4PVDcM — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 23, 2025 **************** Tonight at 7 pm ET, ZeroHedge and George Gammon (of the Rebel Capitalist show) are hosting a debate over America’s mounting public debt – which now sits at over $38 […]

Markets Are Trading As If Every Escalation Automatically De-Escalates By Michael Every of Rabobank Everything until now has been a warm-up As we head deeper into Q4 there is a natural tendency to think about the end of an exhausting year. However, there is a very high probability that the whirlwind of crazy headlines so far in 2025 have just been a warm-up for what is yet to come. After all, the Trump admin is still laying the […]

“War On Crypto Is Over”: Trump Pardons Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Two weeks ago we reported on rumors that The White House was considering pardoning Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of Binance better known as ‘CZ’. And today, The Wall Street Journal reports, according to people familiar with the matter, that Trump has indeed pardoned CZ following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto […]

Trump Now ‘Fully On Warpath With Russia’ With Oil Sanctions, Medvedev Says Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and close Putin-ally has blasted President Donald Trump’s new sanctions against Russia’s oil giants as an “act of war” which puts the United States on the direct warpath with Russia. “The US is our enemy, and their talkative ‘peacemaker’ has now fully embarked on the warpath with Russia,” Medvedev, who serves as a top […]

Democrats Exhibit Amnesia About Biden-Era Lawfare Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department exhibit amnesia about the norm-eviscerating, undemocratic lawfare they launched during the Biden administration. A federal grand jury in Virginia […]

EU Targets Russian LNG, Crypto, & Banking In Sweeping 19th Sanctions Package “We waited for this. God bless, it will work. And this is very important,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Brussels, as EU countries announced the bloc’s latest round of large-scale anti-Moscow sanctions Thursday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had encouraged allies to “join in” as the US hit Russia’s two largest oil giants with […]

Existing Home Sales Rise Off Record Lows As Mortgage Rates Drop With mortgage rates tumbling, housing market participants were disappointed this week by the lack of enthusiasm by homebuyers to apply for mortgages (though there was a decent bounce in refi activity). This morning’s existing home sales data (admittedly for September) will give us a further glimpse into the reality oh home-buying vs home-selling as the gap between […]