The Bullish And Bearish Case For 2026 Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The year ahead presents both a bullish and bearish case for investors. Will 2026 be another year of above-average returns, or will it be a year of disappointment? The bulls argue that the key ingredients for a sustained rally are in place. A powerful technology cycle, aggressive corporate spending, and supportive policy measures all point […]

Power Diverted From Data Centers To Households Across PJM Network Amid Historic Freeze The massive winter storm that disrupted US energy production, sparked the most flight cancellations since Covid, and paralyzed much of the eastern half of the country for days is finally over. BofA chief economist Aditya Bhave has warned that the winter blast could deliver a meaningful hit to first-quarter GDP. However, the eastern half of the US […]

De-Dollarization? Gold Over Debt – The End Of The Keynesian Paper Promise Mirage Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Despite the consensus narrative, what we are currently experiencing globally is not “de‑dollarization,” but a broad loss of confidence in developed economies’ fiat currencies and sovereign debt as a reserve asset for central banks and institutions. This fundamental loss of confidence in the solvency of developed […]

SK Hynix Soars On Microsoft Supply Deal Report; KOSPI Breaks Out, Shrugs Off Tariff Threat SK Hynix shares hit an all-time high in overnight trading in South Korea after a local media outlet reported that the semiconductor company, which specializes in memory chips, has become the sole supplier of advanced memory for Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence chip. Also overnight, despite President Trump’s tariff threat against South […]

Georgia Scrambles After Leak Reveals Rising Dependence On Russian Gas Via Eurasianet.org, Georgia’s imports of Russian gas rose sharply in 2025, with newly disclosed pricing showing higher costs than in previous years. The leak has sparked political backlash, as critics warn of renewed dependence on Gazprom and heightened risks of corruption and leverage. Authorities have launched a security investigation, framing the […]

“Communism Is A Sh*tty Deal”: Cuba’s Power Grid Descends Further Into Blackout Nightmare   Cuba is facing a severe and worsening energy crisis driven by a tightening U.S. blockade, part of President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy across the Caribbean region, as reported Sunday, with conditions now deteriorating further as the island’s power grid appears to be imploding under strain, resulting in blackouts lasting up to 20 hours per […]

How German Media Cast Trump As Evil, And Davos Elites As Moral Saviors Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Donald Trump’s appearance at the World Economic Forum was portrayed by the German media as the very embodiment of evil against the pristine white backdrop of Davos’ snow. To cast politicians like von der Leyen, Merz, and Macron as the “good” counterparts only exposes this media spectacle for what it is: farce. A love-hate […]

NATO Secretary General Admits EU Incapable Of Defense Without US Help The globalist frenzy of the Davos Summit is subsiding and the geopolitical world is left to ponder (and question) some of the more “optimistic” comments made by world leaders.  One such claim was made by Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who argued that Europe ‘unequivocally’ has the ability to defend itself without US support.    The claim coincided with […]

Shakespeare Was A Black Jewish Woman – Claims Feminist Historian Authored by ‘Sallust’ via DailySceptic.org, Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. The Tempest IV.1 One of the positive sides to radical feminist historical scholarship is the opportunity to learn about revelations that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The latest is that William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman” according to a new book covered in […]

IDF Recovers Final Slain Hostage From Gaza, All 251 Returned To Israel Israel is calling it “painful moment of closure” – as the Israeli military (IDF) has confirmed the return of the final captive’s remains from Gaza. “There are officially no more hostages in captivity in Gaza,” the IDF announced on X Monday. Finally, all of the 251 people taken during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Israel have been returned, whether […]

EU’s Digital Networks Act: Infrastructure Push Or Another Regulatory Straitjacket? Submitted By Thomas Kolbe The European Commission has presented the final draft of the Digital Networks Act. The legislation is intended to establish an EU-wide framework for investments in broadband expansion and telecommunications infrastructure. Whether this approach will succeed in mobilizing private capital on a larger scale, however, remains […]

The “BRICS Naval Drill” That Wasn’t Authored by Andrew Korybko, South Africa allowed this false perception to spread as a symbolic act of defiance against Trump given his hatred of BRICS, whose members and partners were invited to this drill, and to signal to the domestic audience that their country has friends across the world amidst its tensions with the US. Most folks have probably heard about the “BRICS naval drill” that […]

New Woke Star Trek “Starfleet Academy” Series Is An Embarrassing Critical Failure The charm of Star Trek as a concept is that the franchise offers a relatively positive vision of humanity’s future rather than the predictable doomsday scenarios that have saturated television for decades.  Setting aside the show’s strange ties to the RAND Corporation and Gene Rodenberry’s pandering to the United Nations, Star Trek essentially […]

What Broke Trade Was The Fiat Dollar Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The postwar trading order is taking on an entirely new shape. We can put brackets around the old one, like a tombstone: 1944–2025. Having known some of the economists and statesmen who put together the old order, I’m in a position to explain what they had in mind and also what went wrong with it. What will replace it is still very much in […]

Watch: Massive “Beast” Oil Rig Tips Over On Alaska’s North Slope A large mobile drilling rig known as “The Beast” tipped over Friday afternoon while being transported along a gravel road on Alaska’s North Slope, prompting an emergency response from local and company officials, according to Yahoo.  The incident happened around 4:45 p.m. and involved the Doyon 26 rig, which was operating for ConocoPhillips. In a joint […]

“Sleep Tight, America. We Got This”: NatGas And Coal Power Plants Prevented Grid Collapse During Historic Winter Blast Submitted by Criterion Research President James Bevan,  Winter Storm Fern’s Arctic blast from January 21-26 provided clear data on generation dispatch patterns during extreme cold weather events. The storm stressed multiple U.S. power grids, such as PJM and ERCOT and demonstrated the operational characteristics […]

Winter Storm Fern To Lower Q1 GDP By 0.5% To 1.5% Winter storm Fern is mostly over, its resulting damage, however, will linger for a long time. To assess the economic impact of the brutal winter storm, BofA chief economist Aditya Bhave looked back at Winter Storm Viola, which hit the US in February 2021. Both storms put roughly half the country under a winter weather advisory. Consumer spending fell by 0.9% m/m in February 2021, […]

Why Bitcoin’s Failing Its Role As A ‘Safe Haven’ Versus Gold Authored by Francisco Rodrigues via CoinDesk.com, In theory, bitcoin should thrive during times of uncertainty as it’s sound money that’s censorship-resistant. In practice, it’s becoming the first thing investors sell when push comes to shove. As geopolitical tensions flared over the past week, following Trump’s threats of tariffs against NATO allies over […]

Republican On Health Committee Sells UNH Weeks Before Stock Tanks On Lower Payout Rates Shares of major health insurers – including UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health dropped like a rock on Monday following a Wall Street Journal report that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plan to increase payments to insurance companies by just 0.09% on average next year – falling far short of analyst expectations of […]

Maryland Jury Rules Walmart Liable For Selling Shotgun Used In Employee Suicide Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a notable torts verdict in Maryland where a jury handed down a multi-million dollar verdict against Walmart for selling a shotgun to an employee who used it to commit suicide. The verdict raises difficult questions over Walmart’s responsibility for the suicide of Jacob Mace, who lied to store employees, under […]

“Did The White House Just Blink?” Border Patrol Boss ‘Demoted’ As Minneapolis Mayor Says Feds Are Leaving On the heels of President Trump’s reconciliatory statement earlier hailing his “very good call” with Governor Tim Walz, and decision to send Tom Homan to the frontlines in Minnesota… “…we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump said. “I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what […]

‘Enough Of Washington’s Orders’ – Venezuela’s Interim President Tells Populace Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez has publicly pushed back against Washington in a rare first since the US military invasion and overthrow of Nicolás Maduro, assering she has had “enough” of US directives. While President Trump initially declared that Washington would effectively “run” Venezuela, he later endorsed Rodríguez as a […]

Trump Threatens To Raise Tariffs On South Korean Goods To 25%; Won Slides Here we go again.  President Trump threatened to hike tariffs on goods from South Korea to 25% from 15%, citing in a Truth Social post what he said was the failure of the country’s legislature to codify the trade deal the two nations reached last year, a failure which was obvious from miles away as the terms of the trade deal require Korea to invest […]

The Fatal Limits Of The Technocrat Class Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Goliath dies not because collapse occurs, but because scale mistakes itself for life. What survives was never his. This guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver speaks to a dynamic woven into all of my work: the intrinsic impossibility of fixing what technocratic management broke with more technocratic management. Attempts to do so […]

FBI Launches ‘Signal-Gate’ Investigation: Patel Update (1520ET): “Signal-Gate” continues to erupt out of Minneapolis, as the organizational structure or command-and-control nodes of left-wing activists operating within encrypted messaging apps were infiltrated and exposed on Sunday, revealing that on-the-ground pressure campaigns against federal agents were highly coordinated and, according to some experts, exhibit characteristics […]