Heart Attack Risk Halved In Survivors Taking Tailored Vitamin D Doses, Researchers Say Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Researchers found that adult heart attack survivors who took specific vitamin D doses reduced their risk of developing another heart attack by more than half, compared with people who did not take the vitamin D dose. A man sits in a hospital waiting room in Irvine, Calif., on July 8, […]

Watchdog: Chicago Public Schools Blew Millions On Trips, Spas, And Overseas Travel A new investigation by Chicago Public Schools Inspector General Philip Wagenknecht shows overnight and travel spending in the district surged from about $300,000 in 2021 to nearly $8 million by 2024, according to WTTW. His report says some staff exploited the district’s “lax, vague, inadequate and unenforced” rules, leading to “exorbitant” […]

Trump Names Saudi Arabia A ‘Major Non-NATO Ally’ During MbS Candlelight Dinner Attended By Tech Moguls  Aside from a couple of hiccups involving exchanges with the press, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MbS) visit to the White House went well, after he came bearing massive gifts, especially a pledge for a whopping $1 trillion in US investment. During the Tuesday night candlelight dinner in his honor, which was attended by Elon […]

Ackman Floats “Immediately Actionable” Blueprint To Free Fannie And Freddie Bill Ackman thinks he knows what to do to finally resolve the 16-year limbo trapping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the mortgage-finance pillars that remain under federal control over a decade after the financial crisis. In a Tuesday presentation on X, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management outlined a three-step proposal he says […]

Venezuela’s Maduro Seeks ‘Face-to-Face Talks’ With Trump Officials  Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made clear early this week that he’d be willing to hold “face-to-face” talks with US officials and warned President Trump against starting a war with his country. “In the United States, whoever wants to talk with Venezuela will talk, face to face, without any problem,” Maduro said on […]

“GPUs Are Sold Out”: Nvidia Soars After Blowing Away Results, Projections In our preview of NVDA’s Q3 results, we said that “it’s not a question whether the company beats – they always do – but whether the “blowout” and the “smash” will be big enough to impress a market that has already priced in perfection, and beyond, for the GPU maker.” The market was impressed. Here is what NVDA just reported for Q3:  Adjusted EPS $1.30, […]

What We’ve Lost Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life. Amidst the constant drumbeat of tech “progress” and grandiose “solutions,” it’s a useful exercise to ask: what have we lost in the past 40 years despite all the “progress” and “solutions”? Put another way: what did we have in 1985 that we no longer have, despite all the […]

Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI Board; Harvard Launches Investigation After Epstein Revelations Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI following the release of messages in which Summers was asking Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice to try and bed a female mentee whose father was a former CCP official.  Then-Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers speaks at the University’s 2004 Commencement […]

Venezuela Sentences Doctor To 30 Years For WhatsApp Message Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Venezuelan socialist regime has just sentenced a 65-year-old doctor, Marggie Orozco, to 30 years in prison for criticizing the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in a WhatsApp voice note in 2024. Orozco was reportedly found guilty of “treason to the fatherland, incitement to hatred, and conspiracy” in complaining about […]

‘Massive Shift’ In US-Korea Relations After Trump Gets Seoul To Stop Targeting Tech Last month we noted that South Korea has been effectively running a racket to extract money from Big Tech through the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) – which, taking a note from the EU, has repeatedly targeted US firms with massive fines over various business practices. For years, the targeted industries have argued that Korean “network usage […]

FOMC Minutes Expose Fractured Fed; “Many” See No Tariff Inflation, “Several” Fear Disorderly Drop In Stocks Since the last FOMC meeting (Oct 29th), gold is the best performing asset (along with the dollar) as bonds, stocks, and oil are all down notably… Source: Bloomberg Rate-cut odds for the December meeting continued to tumble after Powell’s hawkish comments (and the follow-up FedSpeak). Today saw BLS confirm no more […]

“This Is A National Emergency” – US Govt To Buy 10 Large, New Nuclear Reactors Hot on the heels of news that it will invest “hundreds of billions” in loans to the nuclear power industry, including one already disbursed loan for $1BN to restart Three Mile Island, Bloomberg reported that the US government also plans to buy and own as many as 10 new, large nuclear reactors that could be paid for using Japan’s $550BN funding pledge, […]

US Pressuring Ukraine To Make Serious Territorial Concessions In First: Report Update(1429ET): It looks like for the first time Washington is getting serious about ending the Ukraine war, now apparently offering territorial concessions. And the Trump White House is reportedly leaning on President Zelensky to accept, per the FT: “According to people with direct knowledge of the document, the draft plan would require Ukraine to […]

Trump Urges Adoption Of Single Federal Standard On AI Regulation Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said the United States should adopt one federal standard for governing artificial intelligence (AI), saying it’s important for the United States to stay ahead of China in the race for AI dominance. In a Truth Social post on Nov. 18, Trump said the United States needs a single AI standard […]

Army Announces Next Steps On Janus Program For Next-Generation Nuclear Energy As part of next steps for the Janus Program, the Department of Army said that it has selected nine installations for consideration in which to site microreactor power plants, and the Defense Innovation Unit released an Area of Interest to solicit commercial solutions for advanced nuclear power technologies. The Janus Program, the Army’s […]

Ugly, Tailing 20Y Auction Sees Slide In Bid To Cover, Foreign Demand, As Directs Soar To Record In this week’s lone coupon auction, which just happens to print an hour before the release of the October FOMC minutes, moments ago the US sold $16BN in 20Y bonds at a high yield of 4.706%, up 20bps from 4.507% last month and the highest since August. The auction also tailed the When Issued 4.704% by 0.2bps, the first tail since June. […]

Government Intervention, Not BlackRock, Is To Blame For The Housing Crisis Authored by Diyar Kasymov via The Mises Institute, Is building more homes not enough? Recently, there have been more and more Gen-Z memes about boomers selling their overvalued houses to BlackRock instead of to young couples, and then the corporation rents the house to the couple for 2x the price. The housing crisis is not a false alarm. The median rent […]

As Energy Costs Remain High, Utility Debt Builds For Millions Ahead Of Winter Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An increasing number of American households are falling behind on their utility bills as energy costs remain elevated heading into winter, according to a new analysis from two nonprofits. Steam rises from a coal power plant in Adamsville, Ala., on April 11, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via […]

Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Goes Stealth Mode, Still “Active In Markets”  Bloomberg’s Claire Ballentine caught up with “Big Short” investor Michael Burry following last week’s news that he had deregistered Scion Asset Management with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Burry told Ballentine in an email that Scion’s latest iteration functioned essentially as a “friends and family” fund, not a traditional asset-gathering […]

NATO Scrambles Jets Amid One Of Deadliest Russian Attacks On Western Ukraine Russia overnight carried out its typical aerial and drone strikes on Ukraine, but this time escalated attacks in Ukraine’s West, which apparently were close enough to the border to cause alarm in nearby Poland and Romania. The two NATO member countries scrambled jet fighters in response amid the massive Russian and drone and missile strikes which killed […]

“What Has Become Of Us”: Rosie O’Donnell May Have Just Handed Trump A Golden Defamation Lawsuit Authored by Jonthan Turley, I have previously expressed skepticism over some defamation cases against the media brought by President Donald Trump under existing case law. However, comedian Rosie O’Donnell may have supplied the President with a another defamation case if she cannot back up sensational claims made against the President […]

Cloudflare Blames Database Error For Outage That Took Down 20% Of The Web Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Internet services provider Cloudflare says that a fault in its bot detection system triggered an outage that took down around 20% of webpages, including several crypto platforms. Cloudflare said in a post-mortem statement on Tuesday that a “feature file” used by its Bot Management System to fight off […]

Surprise Crude Draw Stabilizes Oil Prices After Early Plunge On Russia Peace Talk Headlines Oil prices tumbled overnight following API’s report suggesting a large build in crude inventories, , which would take oil stored in commercial tanks to the highest level in more than five months, if confirmed by official data this morning. The supply buildup may help cushion the impact of US sanctions against Russian producers Rosneft PJSC […]

Rearranging The Chairs By Michael Every of Rabobank Rearranging the Chairs Tuesday was another down day for most markets as the US weekly ADP jobs report suggested the labor backdrop is weakening and housing starts sagged. As the FT puts it, ‘Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $60bn.’ Here Is The Batshit Insane Chart That Sent Oracle Stock Soaring 25% After Hours https://t.co/Haus5Ueybg — […]

MP Materials Stock Spikes After JV Deal With Saudi Arabia’s Flagship Mining Company MP Materials stock is up more than 6% heading into the cash open after the company announced a rare earth refinery joint venture with Saudi Arabia’s flagship mining company. MP, the U.S. Department of War, and Saudi Arabia’s state mining giant Maaden have announced a joint venture to build a rare earth refinery in Saudi Arabia, marking one of the […]