Retail Leverage Goes To Extremes Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, U.S. markets surged on Friday, setting new all‑time highs for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite as investors cheered a cooler‑than‑expected inflation print (CPI for September at 3.0 % vs ~3.1 % expected). That report kept hopes alive for further rate cuts at next week’s FOMC meeting and hopes that the end of Quantitative […]

Reports Of Low Voter Turnout For Key Midterm As Milei’s Chainsaw Austerity & Big Beautiful Bailout On The Line Some 36 million eligible Argentines are headed to the polls Sunday for legislative elections which are key to determining the fate of President Javier Milei’s sweeping reform agenda, and could unsettle financial markets if his support collapses, despite record US assistance in the form of the ultra-controversial big […]

Louvre Heist Suspects Caught, Crown Jewels Still Missing Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, Two suspects in the daring Louvre heist that saw $100 million worth of historic French crown jewels disappear have been caught, according to authorities. Unfortunately, the dazzling royal gems are still missing. The breathtakingly daring and mind-bogglingly successful daytime Louvre robbery this month saw four robbers use a […]

French Socialists Pitch Scaled-Down Wealth Tax Bill As Offer To Save Lecornu, Macron, Avert Elections  France’s Socialist Party introduced a scaled-down version of its wealth tax proposal as a potential compromise with the ultra-fragile minority government of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu. The new version of the wealth tax amendment was offered during Saturday’s budget debate, delaying a critical vote until late next […]

Bessent Announces US-China Trade “Framework” Reached; Rare Earth Controls Deferred President Trump kicked off his Asia tour by not only signing trade deals across Southeast Asia but also formalizing a ceasefire deal between Thailand and Cambodia. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with China’s top trade team on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur. Those trade […]

“We Don’t Want His Likeness On Campus”: Protesters Move To Block Kirk Memorial At UVU Authored by Jonathan Turley, A plan at Utah Valley University (UVU) to create a memorial to Charlie Kirk has been met by protests and a petition signed by thousands to block the effort. One protester declared, “We don’t want his likeness on campus.” That is hardly a new sentiment since Kirk was assassinated on the campus on Sept. […]

Antifa Retreats From Portland ICE Facility After Police Dismantle Encampment The decentralized anti-fascist warriors in the Portland-area cell, aligned with the radical Democratic Party, were in full retreat overnight after officers from the Portland Police Department cleared out their encampment in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Portland metro area.  Nick Shirley, who is an independent journalist […]

Miller Eviscerates TBS (Trump Ballroom Syndrome) Leftists Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Senior White House aide Stephen Miller had some choice words during a Friday interview for Democrats over their faux outrage concerning President Trump’s upgrade to the East Wing, and the addition of the grand ballroom. “The ‘scandal’” Miller noted, “is how Democrats on the left have scarred the landscape of our […]

Which Streaming Services Are The Most Expensive Prices have increased again for subscription services to streaming platforms in 2024 and 2025.  Disney+ is the latest to raise its costs, increasing from $15.99 per month to $18.99 per month as of October 21, 2025. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, this places it on the upper end of monthly pricing, alongside Hulu, which raised its monthly prices from $17.99 to […]

Fringe Theories For A Faulty Financial System Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, We’re obviously living in tumultuous times. If investors sense they’re on a financial roller coaster, they’re right. Recently, I scanned my market tickers and saw that everything was up. Stocks, bonds, gold, silver, the dollar, cryptos and commodities were all advancing. Of course, that didn’t last. The next day cryptos […]

IRS Reinstates $20,000 / 200-Transaction Threshold For Form 1099-K The Internal Revenue Service on Oct. 23 issued a fact sheet confirming that the higher reporting threshold for Form 1099-K has been restored under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, reversing changes made during the Biden administration. The IRS building in Washington on March 25, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Form 1099-K applies to individuals who earn money […]

MSNBC Claims Trump Wants To Use Military As Private Army To Kill Americans Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, MSNBC platformed a deranged staff writer for the Atlantic who claimed that President Trump is going to use the military to kill anyone he pleases, including Americans. As we earlier highlighted, the Pentagon has deployed the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group to the U.S. Southern Command area of […]

Europe’s Suicide Pact: Debt, War Economy, And The Climate Cult Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The EU summit on Thursday in Brussels focused primarily on security issues. To put it bluntly: Ukraine must somehow turn its lost war against Russia into a victory, and the EU must be militarily ready for action by 2030. The fact that this would only be feasible with a functioning economy has apparently not yet dawned on the power center in […]

“Flip The Switch”: NJ Republicans Launch Ad Blaming Democrats For Power Bill Crisis  With Election Day in New Jersey ten days away, early in-person voting begins today. The New Jersey governor’s race between Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli is tighter than ever. On Friday, President Trump spoke for about ten minutes via a tele-rally for Ciattarelli, saying, “Mikie, as they call her, the only thing she’s […]

Hungary Scrambles To ‘Circumvent’ US Sanctions On Russian Oil Majors Via The Cradle Hungary is seeking to circumvent new US sanctions on Russian oil companies in an effort to avoid disruptions to the country’s energy supplies, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. In press statements, Orban emphasized that banning cheap and reliable oil and gas from Russia would significantly increase the energy bills of the Hungarian […]

Chinese Nationals Arrested In Georgia For Attempting To Buy Black Market Uranium  In an entirely bizarre and alarming story emerging out of the Republic of Georgia, the country’s State Security Service announced Saturday that three Chinese nationals had been arrested in Tbilisi for allegedly attempting to illegally purchase two kilograms of uranium. They are accused of attempting to illegally obtain “nuclear […]

Ankara Court Dismisses Case To Remove Turkish Opposition Leader In ‘Surprise’ Ruling Via Middle East Eye A court in Ankara has dismissed a corruption case that sought to unseat the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), saying it had no substance. The case against Ozgur Ozel, which focused on alleged vote-buying at the CHP primary in November 2023, was rejected as “moot” by a judge at the Ankara 42nd […]

Over 100 ‘BSL-4’ Bioweapons Labs Now Operate Worldwide, With More Under Construction Authored by Jon Fleetwood via Substack, Over the past few years, the world has entered a new era of high-containment biological research—marked by a dramatic expansion of laboratories capable of working with the most lethal viruses known to man. These include facilities built to the highest biosafety standard, Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4), and […]

Maduro Boasts He’s Moved Thousands Of Russian Anti-Air Missiles To Venezuela’s Coast Venezuela’s president has been warning that his armed forces have deployed 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S anti-aircraft missiles across its territory, at a moment President Trump has ordered an unprecedented force build-up in the Caribbean. “Any military force in the world knows the power of the Igla-S, and Venezuela has no less than 5,000,” Nicolas […]

Queensland LNP Government Restores Biological Definition Of ‘Woman’ Authored by Crystal-Rose Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Queensland’s Minister for Women Fiona Simpson has restored the state’s official definition for a woman. A sign indicating an ‘all gender’ facility at Sydney Airport in Australia on Oct. 12, 2025. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times Under the previous Labor government, the definition was widened to […]

US Flying Surveillance Drones Over Gaza To Monitor Ceasefire The White House has promised no boots on the ground in Gaza as part of Trump’s peace plan, which has resulted in a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel holding for two weeks, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have assets in the air. The United States has begun deploying surveillance drones over the Gaza Strip to verify that both Israel and Hamas are adhering to the […]

California Has Largest Population Of Centenarians: Census Report Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Golden State has the largest number of residents living well into their golden years, according to a new U.S. Census report issued on Sept. 22. A 100-year-old American World War II veteran, Harold Terens, and his 96-year-old bride, Jeanne Swerlin Terens, toast each other with glasses of champagne […]

Huge Mellon Donation: Secretive Banking Heir Revealed As $130M ‘Private’ Benefactor To Pay Troops Based billionaire recluse Timothy Mellon has been revealed as the (now formerly) anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the shutdown. Hell, the virtuous (signaling) Mark Cuban – who’s worth more than Mellon, won’t even do that for Ukraine where ‘half his family’ is from. The […]

“I Am Not Done” – Kamala Harris Teases New White House Run Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House. The former vice president hinted that she may run for president again in 2028 during an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuessenberg. Kuessenberg brought up Harris’s young nieces and asked, “When are they going to see a woman in charge in the White […]

Trump Hikes Canada’s Tariffs By 10% for Not Pulling Anti-Tariff Ad Immediately President Trump announced on Saturday afternoon that he will increase tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to an anti-tariff advertisement by the province of Ontario that featured Ronald Reagan, and which is roiling one of the world’s biggest bilateral trade relationships. Trump said the ad campaign misrepresented Reagan’s speech on tariffs, and […]