How A Techno-Optimist Became A Grave Skeptic Authored by Roger Bate via the Brownstone Institute, Before Covid, I would have described myself as a technological optimist. New technologies almost always arrive amid exaggerated fears. Railways were supposed to cause mental breakdowns, bicycles were thought to make women infertile or insane, and early electricity was blamed for everything from moral decay to physical collapse. Over […]

Visualizing All Of The World’s Silver Reserves By Country Silver prices surged to new all-time highs in December, extending a powerful end-of-year rally supported by geopolitical uncertainty and a weaker U.S. dollar. Silver futures briefly touched around $80, marking an unprecedented 160% rally in 2025 that outpaced even gold. Against this backdrop, Visual Capitalists Bruno Venditti notes that understanding where the world’s […]

Congressional Budget Office Projects Lower Than Expected US Population Growth Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Jan. 7 that the U.S. population will likely grow by only 15 million people in the next 30 years, a decline from its last estimate. The office projects 364 million people living in the United States in 2056, up from the current population of around 349 […]

Even Google’s Founders Have Had Enough Of California, And Are Saying Adios Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin quietly began unwinding portions of their financial empires in California in the days leading up to Christmas, according to corporate filings reviewed by The New York Times, as progressive lawmakers consider a proposed billionaire wealth tax. This development confirms our earlier note that California is on an […]

Meritocracy Vs. Credentialocracy Authored by Steven Kritz via the Brownstone Institute, It is generally acknowledged that the Baby Boom generation (of which I am a member) has been the most successful, socioeconomically speaking, in the history of this planet, and the prospects for the generations following to match or surpass us are not looking good. As a confirmation of the disparity, I recently read that while Baby Boomers make […]

Venezuela’s Methane Problem Looms Over Trump’s Oil Revival Plan President Trump’s push to revive Venezuela’s oil sector is colliding with a major technical obstacle: vast methane leaks from crumbling infrastructure that could scare off large international investors, according to Bloomberg. Satellite monitoring shows huge plumes of methane rising from abandoned rigs, corroded pipelines and aging facilities across the country. […]

Three Takeaways From Trump’s Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic Authored by Andrew Korybko, The overarching trend is that the US is militarily reasserting its historical “sphere of influence” over the Americas, and enforcing the maritime component of “Fortress America” is so important for Trump 2.0 that it’s willing to rubbish the “rules-based order” over it and even risk an accidental war with […]

Watch: Conservative Honduran Lawmaker Narrowly Survives Bomb Hurled At Her In National Congress A shocking scene played out in a Latin American country Thursday, but this time it’s not Venezuela, but nearby Honduras. A Honduran legislator from the country’s conservative National Party of president-elect Nasry Asfura was speaking to the press within the halls of the Honduran national congress, or just outside, when suddenly an […]

Prosecutor Calls Newsom ‘King Of Fraud’ For Oversight Failures Authored by Dave Mason via The Center Square, U.S. First Assistant Attorney Bill Essayli Thursday called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “the king of fraud,” accusing him of a lack of oversight on spending to address homelessness. FILE – California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, […]

Residential Electricity Prices Are Surging Even More We have been warning about this for months… In one year, this will be the most popular chart on this site pic.twitter.com/h93gWXMoNL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 11, 2025 … and months…. between exploding electricity bills and lack of jobs for grads, a new luddite revolution is coming – they will be burning down data centers within a year — zerohedge (@zerohedge) […]

“The Giant Sucking Sound”: Exodus From California Continues For Taxpayers & Businesses Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is […]

‘Comrade’ Singham Faces House Subpoena Over Alleged CCP-Linked NGO Network Fueling Anti-ICE Protests John Solomon’s Just the News reports that a dark-money NGO network tied to CCP-linked communist billionaire Neville Roy Singham was allgedly activated as a command-and-control support node to organize nationwide anti-ICE protests just hours after the deadly shooting in Minneapolis. “China may be helping astroturf far-left protests […]

Trump Says US Will Begin Strikes On Cartels In Mexico Authored by Joseph Lord and Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced in an interview aired Jan. 8 that the United States would begin launching strikes on cartels in Mexico. “We knocked out 97 percent of the drugs coming in by water, and we are going to start now hitting land with regard with the cartels,” Trump told Sean Hannity from Fox News. […]

Watch: New Footage Shows Federal Agent’s Perspective In Minneapolis ICE-Involved Shooting There are competing narratives about Wednesday’s ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis. Some left-leaning corporate outlets focused on the fact that a woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a federal enforcement deportation operation, while other media, like the New York Post, highlighted that the woman, identified as 37-year-old […]

Qatari Embassy Damaged In Russian Drone Strike, Doha Shrugs We earlier detailed yet another massive overnight Russian strike on Ukraine – including on the capital and the Western city of Lviv, the latter which was hit with a nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile. More details have emerged Friday as emergency crews assess the damage in Kiev. Notably the Embassy of Qatar in Kyiv appears to have been directly hit, likely by a […]

The Democrats’ Last Rodeo? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine.” – Insurrection Barbie on “X” Chrump, Chrump Chrump… He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society. But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, […]

Russia Thanks Trump For Releasing Two Russian Crew From Seized Tanker Even though the Ukraine war is on a trajectory of escalation, which has included Russia launching a hypersonic ballsitic missile overnight on the western city of Lviv, the United States and Moscow are still finding small areas of understanding and cooperation – keeping the window for improved bilateral relations open. Russia-EU relations have spiraled and are […]

Five States Sue Trump Admin Over $10 Billion Freeze In Child-Care, Family-Assistance Funds Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Attorneys general in five states filed a lawsuit on Jan. 8 seeking to block the Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in federal funds for child care and family assistance programs. The move came just two days after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it was […]

“You Don’t Want This Smoke”: Philly Sheriff, DA Threaten To Arrest ‘Fake Law Enforcement’ ICE Officers Philadelphia’s top law enforcement officials have drawn a red line with the Trump administration after an ICE agent killed an activist protester this week during in Minneapolis.  In a Thursday press conference, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner slammed President Donald Trump as the ‘criminal-in-chief,’ and vowed to prosecute any […]

Rio Tinto And Glencore In Talks To Form World’s Largest Mining Company With $200 Billion Valuation Are we on the cusp of an M&A boom in metals and commodities, with prices continuing to soar? Or are deals just easier to get through under a new administration? Regardless, Rio Tinto and Glencore have reopened merger talks that could create the world’s largest mining company, with a combined valuation exceeding $200 billion — […]

Micro Greenland Lender Whipsaws As Trump Headlines Ignite Investor Frenzy Shares of a Nuuk-based commercial bank, founded in 1967 to serve Greenland’s private and corporate customers, have surged sharply as investors speculate that President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” to secure the Western Hemisphere could ultimately involve acquiring Greenland. The 42% rally in Bank of Greenland shares this year, which has since retraced roughly […]

Iran’s Food Shelves Emptying Out, ATMs Offline, Two Days Into Iran’s Internet Blackout Update(1335ET): Iran is two days into a total internet blackout, which has not only impacted news footage from the ground getting out of the country, but the ability of ATMs to function (already there is a full Wikipedia page). Rumors have begun that people are trying to access their bank savings (despite the collapsing currency crisis) at […]

Seattle Judge Blocks Health Department From Rejecting Head Start Grants With DEI Terms Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must stop requiring that grant applications not include terms related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including the term “pregnant people,” under a new order from a federal judge. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. […]

“Screwing Us Over… Again”: Shale Producers Furious Over Trump’s Venezuela Plan To Lower Crude Prices President Trump is meeting with oil bosses on Friday, but shale producers aren’t necessarily happy about the development of driving crude prices down via expanding into Venezuela.  In fact, independent U.S. drillers are warning President Donald Trump that his push to revive Venezuela’s oil industry — and drive prices lower […]

The Price Of Trump’s “Greenland New Deal”: $100,000 Per Person By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank President Trump has called for a 50% increase of the US defense budget, to $1.5 trillion by next year. This should suffice to build a “Dream Military.” The president argues this is required to keep the US safe and secure, but will it keep his own political position safe? Trump’s new military focus is creating […]