Trump’s Grid Battery Ban Leaves Developers Guessing Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The United States is trying to build up its energy storage capacities at a rapid scale. At the same time, it is trying to wean itself off of Chinese battery tech. In many ways, these two goals are in direct opposition to each other. China dominates global supply chains for clean energy tech in general, but especially when it comes to […]

Arab Spring 2.0? Fuel Riots Erupt In Syria As Instability Spreads Across Mideast New footage posted on X shows what appear to be protests, with Israeli news organizations saying the anger is erupting because of skyrocketing fuel costs, reminiscent of the Arab Spring food riots 15 years ago. i24NEWS reports that demonstrations have popped up in parts of Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor provinces, with protesters blocking roads and […]

Truckers Hauled Hundreds Of Kilos Of Cartel Cocaine On US-Canada Freight Lanes By Phil Brink of FreightWaves.com, Federal prosecutors charged a California restaurant operator after agents seized more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine. Investigators found the drugs inside his residence and Hyundai Sonata, according to a federal affidavit. Searches also uncovered three firearms, a digital scale and $11,800 in cash. The operation grew […]

Bill Maher Delivers A Brutal 9/11 Reality Check To The Left Bill Maher used the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say something that once required no courage at all: terrorists are terrorists. That the observation now counts as provocative says something about how far we’ve come since 2001. On Real Time with Bill Maher, in a segment titled “Clash of Civilizations,” Maher walked through what has happened in the 25 […]

Shareholder Ownership Gives Way To Corporate Control Authored by Iain O’Brien via RealClearMarkets, Today’s business ownership landscape is increasingly complicated by financial, voting, contractual and capital arrangements. A direct relationship between ownership and control can no longer be assumed, particularly for strategically important companies. Sika, a Swiss chemicals company, entered a four-year corporate battle in […]

Johnson Says $5,000 Trump Payments Require Congress To Act House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Sunday that President Trump’s plan to send $5,000 dividend checks to American adults if Republicans keep both the House and Senate would require an act of Congress.  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks during the second day of the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 10, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times […]

The Extremism – And Irrelevancy – Of The ‘Democratic Socialists’ Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times, This column may provide you with all you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). This is the fringe group that the media and a relatively small handful of voters have turned into a supposedly significant force. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been much in the news lately. Their […]

California Enacts New Child Safety Laws On Social Media And AI Chatbots Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed bills that restrict how social media companies may design products for children and that tighten rules for AI companion chatbots. California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters in Stockton, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images He announced the package on […]

Resource Nationalism Hits Tungsten: US Locks Down Scrap, UK Funds Mine, Zimbabwe Bans Exports, Vietnam Weighs Curbs Governments are tightening control over tungsten supplies, creating an opening for Almonty Industries as Western buyers seek alternatives to China’s quasi-monopolistic market position on not just tungsten but rare earths. Tungsten and other critical materials underpin defense production, semiconductor manufacturing, AI […]

New Report Exposes Climate Litigants’ Campaign To Influence The Judiciary Authored by Michael Toth via RealClearEnergy, Thousands of judges across the nation have sat through climate-science training and received literature from trusted federal bodies and scientific institutes. Those judges had every right to expect that the information they received was neutral, objective, settled science. They were mistaken. My latest […]

Hormuz Deal Hits Snag: Monday’s Gulf-Iran Shipping Talks “Postponed” Summary: Monday’s Hormuz Meeting With Iran and Gulf Nations “Postponed”  UAE Meets With Iran Leaders As Tehran Teases Oman Shipping Deal A planned meeting for Monday morning between several Gulf nations and Iran has been postponed. The meeting was supposed to hammer out a possible deal on a temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. “In the […]

The Fauci Diary Entry That Explains Why MAHA Must Exist Authored by Peter Navarro via The Epoch Times, I fought Anthony Fauci across a White House table over the China travel ban, lockdowns, masks, hydroxychloroquine, vaccines, and boosters. Yet one of the most damning pieces of evidence I have ever seen against the man did not surface until six years later, when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released Fauci’s private pandemic diary. […]

Trump Rejects AI “Pause” As Obama Urges Democrats To Regulate It Update (1455ET): President Trump and former President Obama have now weighed in on the ‘pause’ – with Trump calling for full steam ahead, and Obama endorsing the pause so the government can regulate AI (good luck with that). From the Irish Open in Doonbeg on Sunday, Trump dismissed Saturday’s “pace the frontier” pile-on from Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. […]

Anthropic’s AI Warning To Weigh On Stocks As Contracts Traded On Hyperliquid Slide Coordinated calls by the top AI execs, including Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and even Elon Musk, to slow development of the technology are likely to weigh on chipmaker and supply-chain stocks in the near term, Bloomberg reports, but will probably have limited long-term impact as spending on computing infrastructure remains strong, market watchers say, at […]

Warsh Faces An “Incredibly Difficult Dilemma” This Week By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Never Forgotten! And Some Work Stuff… The 25th anniversary of 9/11 hit hard. What a scary day! What a scary time. I only attended a couple of funerals, but will never forget the last moments of some people who I had done business and hung out with for years. The funerals were cathartic. The whole experience even 25 years later seems […]

If Dems Win The House: Data Centers, Nuclear, Venezuela Oil Deal Likely Targets With polling favoring Democrats to win a House majority in the fall and two months till US midterms Nov. 3 (where BofA’s Michael Hartnett expects a market rout in case of a Democratic sweep), Dems have begun to preview priorities should they win back the gavel. Earlier this week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who won a crowded primary in August […]

Don’t Raise Rates Based On A PCE That Will Be Re-Written September 30th Authored by Richard Roberts via RealClearMarkets, The Federal Open Market Committee votes on interest rates September 16. Two weeks later, on September 30, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will revise the PCE price index, the inflation measure the Fed targets, back to 2021 and publish the August reading in the same release. Governor Christopher Waller has […]

Trump Admin Weighs Emergency Powers To Boost Refining As Diesel Tops $6 With national average diesel prices above $6 a gallon and regular gasoline firmly above $4.20, the Trump administration faces mounting pressure to deploy every available policy tool to contain fuel costs ahead of the midterm elections. Disruptions tied to the Russia-Ukraine war and turmoil in the Gulf are intensifying the global refining super squeeze. […]

“I Ain’t Playin'”: Cognizant, Cloudera PERM Filings And H-1B Processing Suspended Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Labor Department’s inspector general said Tuesday that federal officials have suspended PERM filings for tech company Cognizant and software company Cloudera and halted H-1B processing for both firms. The logo of U.S. multinational information technology consulting and outsourcing company Cognizant […]

Yemen Blame Game Begins: “Saudi-American F**k Up Of Epic Proportions” An official affiliated with Saudi-backed militias in Yemen told CNN that the Houthis “committed everything they had – waves upon waves of fighters… along with their available ballistic missiles and weapons.” “But the air support never came,” the source said in reference to the fact that the Saudi-backed side rapidly folded and retreated in just days last […]

Attack Drone Hits Warsaw-Bound Passenger Train Near Polish Border, Raising NATO Spillover Risk Western media outlets reported early Sunday that a Russian attack drone struck a civilian locomotive on the Kiev-to-Warsaw route just two kilometers from Poland’s border. Whether a false-flag operation or an actual Russian strike, the incident suggests mounting spillover risks near NATO territory ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. […]

“Not Entirely Satisfied”: German Foreign Minister Grumbles That Ukraine Isn’t Buying Enough German Guns Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The more upset that his taxpayers become with their country’s lack of tangible returns from the billions of euros that it’s given to Ukraine, the more that support for the AfD is expected to surge… German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul complained that Ukraine isn’t buying enough […]

Long-Term US Unemployment Rate Creeps Up To 27% Despite Blockbuster August Hiring Despite the recent blockbuster August jobs report, the anemic pace of hiring in prior months has been exacerbating challenges for long-term unemployed Americans, new research from the Richmond Federal Reserve finds. The long-term unemployment rate – those who are out of work for 27 weeks or longer as a share of the total unemployed – has been steadily […]

Anthropic Bans Israeli Account Over Iran, Gulf Social Media Citizen Profiling Via The Cradle, An operation run by or on behalf of the Israeli-Singaporean commercial intelligence vendor S2T Unlocking Cyberspace used Claude models to map, classify, and profile social media users across Iran and the Persian Gulf, according to a threat intelligence report published by Anthropic on 11 September. (Photo credit: AP / Vahid Salemi) The […]

“Something’s Going To Happen”: DHS Chief Says Lefty Ilhan Omar “Married Her Brother”, Floats Deportation Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said “something’s going to happen” in an ongoing investigation involving unhinged leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas.  Mullin said that Omar married her brother as part of an immigration-fraud […]