Oil Slides As Qatar Touts ‘Talks’ Again; Iran Struck Large Crude Tanker Overnight Iran is said to have struck a Very Large Crude Carrier in the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, signaling what will likely be the resumption of strikes on foreign vessels seeking to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, after last week’s diplomatic talks at the UN failed to produce a breakthrough. Still, for the time being more oil is being shipped through the […]

Trump Launches America.Gov Website Simplifying Access To Government Services Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 29 directing all federal agencies to integrate services with a new website designed to make it easier for users to find information and interact with the government. He described the tool as “one of the most revolutionary product launches of all […]

Senate Passes ‘Protect College Sports Act’ The Senate on Sept. 28 passed a bill that seeks to bring stability to the rapidly changing landscape of collegiate sports, sending it to the House of Representatives. The Protect College Sports Act of 2026 passed on a 77-22 vote. The bill aims to address growing concerns surrounding athlete compensation, transfer rules, conference realignment, and long-term athlete protections. Since the […]

Supreme Court Lets Trump’s Third-Country Deportations Resume, Takes Case Update (1516ET): The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume third-country deportations and agreed to hear the underlying dispute this winter. In a brief emergency-docket order in DHS v. D.V.D., the justices stayed U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s Feb. 25 judgment, which had blocked the Department of Homeland Security from […]

Why Businesses Haven’t Left California – Yet Authored by Tom Wilson via the Mises Institute, California has a strange relationship with business. Its lawmakers seem determined to make doing business more expensive, yet companies continue to operate there. Taxes rise, regulations accumulate, and new compliance requirements are added, but California remains home to some of the most successful companies in the world. That raises a […]

Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, When Elon Musk took over Twitter, fired four out of five employees, and rebranded it X (just because he thought it sounded cool), the talking heads predicted doom for the company. The opposite happened. It is now one of the most popular sources of news in the world, and a major delivery system for what social media is supposed to be. He always […]

Trump Mulls Big Russia Sanctions Relief For Prisoners, Risking Wrath Of Allies & Hawks Diplomacy is obviously stalemated and almost non-existent when it comes to the Iran conflict and Hormuz Strait crisis, and so the White House needs some level of a ‘win’. It seems President Trump continues to look for this in the years-long Ukraine crisis, as he’s said to now be mulling a major deal which would see the Kremlin free some […]

Education Department Scraps Biden-Era Title IX Gender Identity Protections Via American Greatness, The Education Department announced Monday that it has formally rescinded the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX that extended sex-discrimination protections to students based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Schools will instead return to Title IX regulations adopted during President Donald Trump’s first […]

Group To Sue New York Over Union-Backed “Hit-Job” Law Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A national worker-rights group plans to go to federal court Monday to block a New York law it says was written to silence outreach to public employees about their right to leave their unions. The group argues the new law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech because it allows state government officials to shut down […]

Tesla Patents “Electric Fan Car” Weeks Before Roadster Reveal The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Tesla an “Electric Fan Car” patent less than three weeks before the Tesla Roadster 2.0 reveal. The USPTO filing illustrates four electric ducted fans positioned side by side in the rear diffuser and states that the system is designed to “increase downforce and reduce drag.” “The achievable speed around corners, […]

5 Takeaways From The New US-China Tariff-Relief Product Lists Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The United States and China have released product lists covering about $30 billion in imports in each direction that could receive lower tariffs under an agreement reached after Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington. The lists cover 77 categories of Chinese goods entering the United States and 1,619 categories of […]

IEA’s Birol Says “Ready To Act” If Energy Shock Worsens As US Offers 40 Million-Barrel SPR Lifeline Summary:  US DoE Offers 40 Million Barrels From SPR  IEA Head Says SPR On Standby If Energy Crisis Deepens  EU Eyes Methane Rule Retreat As Energy Crisis Deepens; IEA Floats Another Emergency Oil Dump IEA Head “Ready To Act”; US DoE Offers 40 Million Barrels From SPR Brent crude futures moved lower to $103.90 a barrel, […]

Trump Asks Supreme Court To Restore Restrictions On Transgender Inmate Treatments Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the Bureau of Prisons to enforce restrictions on medical interventions and social accommodations for transgender federal inmates while a legal challenge continues. The Justice Department’s emergency request follows a lower court […]

Jefferies Beats On Record Stock Trading, But Asset Management Revenue Plunges 50% On First Brands, Radiant “Cockroaches” Jefferies is once again the first major Wall Street firm to report its quarter, and once again the story is of two very different banks under one roof: a trading and banking franchise running near record highs, and an asset-management arm that keeps finding new ways to lose money on receivables that may or may not […]

Democrats Split On Whether To Impeach Trump Again If They Win The House Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sept. 28 that Democrats would put lowering costs first if they win the House in November. But he did not rule out impeaching President Donald Trump, as members of his party are split publicly on whether to try for that a third time. Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk […]

Oklo Loses PJM Queue Fight As FERC Points To Flawed Application Data centers have become the favorite explanation for the price-of-power squeeze. But, years of inadequate transmission planning and clogged interconnection queues have left the system struggling to accommodate new generation, too. As we previously highlighted with Three Mile Island’s restart, even a load that used to be connected to the grid can be told to wait […]

Russia’s Drones Zero In On Ukraine’s Data Centers, Mobile Providers The Russian defense ministry on Tuesday indicated that it attacked and struck two military cargo vessels in the Black Sea as well as two data centers in the Ukrainian capital overnight. The vessels, which were sailing foreign flags, were struck off Odessa, President Zelensky also confirmed in a Tuesday statement. DSNS UkraineThe Kyiv region along with ten other […]

Newly Released Fauci Files Reveal Dangerous NIAID-Funded Aerosolized Ebola Research Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released documents from Dr. Fauci’s diary and emails Monday detailing his dangerous NIAID-funded research during the Obama Administration, including a 2015 experiment that exposed vaccinated monkeys to aerosolized Ebola. The risky research was conducted at the United States […]

FICO Crashes Most Since 2004 As Pulte’s Mortgage Score Shakeup Threatens Its Moat Fair Isaac, the company that produces FICO scores, saw its shares crash the most in 22 years early Tuesday in cash trading after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte announced on X that a mortgage-pricing change that Wall Street analysts say could accelerate adoption of rival VantageScore and undermine FICO’s moat.  “We are Simplifying […]

Record Plunge In Real-Estate Job Opening Sends JOLTS Sharply Lower, Hints At Ugly Jobs Report After five straight months of JOLTS beats earlier in the year, including two blowout prints for April and May and zero misses since 2025, the June JOLTS report was a surprising miss (despite the previously discussed surge in government job openings). One month later, the July JOLTS report made it two misses for two, when the US […]

AI Is Repricing Capital Before It Reprices The Economy Authored by Cory Frank via RealClearMarkets, Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, to 3.75 to 4 percent. Inflation remains elevated even as economic activity continues to expand, productivity is strong and capital investment remains robust. At Jackson Hole a few weeks earlier, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh […]

‘Worse Than COVID’: Consumer Confidence Crashes In September The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index plunged in September (-6.7pt to 81.9) – the lowest headline print since April 2014. The Present Situation Index fell sharply, while the Expectations Index slipped further into negative territory. This was the fourth straight monthly miss for confidence and the biggest miss since Dec 2024… “Consumer appraisals of […]

Anthropic Warns Of ‘Existential AI Risks To Humanity’ In IPO Prospectus; OpenAI Scraps Release Of “Deceptive” Model Update (1010ET): Another day, another doom headline involving frontier AI labs. Yesterday, OpenAI announced that they would be scrapping the planned release of its next-gen AI model because of “deceptive” behavior. Today, we find out from a leaked prospectus ahead of Anthropic’s $2T IPO that AI could pose […]

Pinky Promise By Molly Schwarz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank Iran is feeling some of the economic pressure of Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast” with reports from Al-Hadath suggesting that Iran has agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for the relaxing of US sanctions. This, of course, is the uranium that Iran was apparently never enriching, and even if they were enriching it in facilities that no one […]

Leaked Anthropic IPO Prospectus Shows $42BN Net Loss, $518BN In Unfunded Spending Commitments, And $20BN In Cash When Anthropic confidentially submitted its draft S-1 to the SEC back in June, it was clear there were many shocking numbers in the IPO prospectus which the company did not want made public amid speculation of massive ongoing losses, but few were prepared for what was leaked today to Reuters.  According to a copy of the […]