What Recession? Initial Jobless Claims Hover Near Multi-Decade Lows The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time remains in ‘strong labor market’ mode with just 223k last week – a level it has oscillated around for three years now… Moreover, this broad low level of initial jobless claims has not been seen since the late ’60s… Continuing claims remain around 1.9 million Americans… For now, the […]

BOE Keeps Rate On Hold In 8-1 Vote The Bank of England held interest rates at 4.5% as expected, and says it will stick to a “gradual and careful” approach to easing as some of its more outspoken doves turned cautious. The vote split was 8-1 (expectations were for a 7-2 split), with external member Swati Dhingra voting for a 25bp cut and Mann moving into the unchanged group. The BoE said that interest rates are still on a […]

Futures Slump, Erasing Most Post-Fed Gains US equity futures swooned shortly after 5am ET, erasing all post-FOMC gains, as doubts grew that the Fed can significantly cut interest rates in the face of potentially inflationary trade tariffs and sentiment was weighed down by comments from ECB President Lagarde, who said that US tariffs could hit growth in the region, and couldn’t make firm commitments on interest rates. As of 8:00am […]

10 Signs That A Significant Portion Of Our Population Has Gone Nuts Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Have you noticed that people around you are behaving more erratically?  These days, you just never know what is going to set someone off.  A person may seem relatively normal, but then the moment you express an opinion that they don’t like they totally lose it.  It is almost as if the majority of the […]

Nvidia CEO Will Spend Hundreds Of Billions On US-Made Chips   In an exclusive interview with the Financial Times, Nvidia’s chief executive and co-founder, Jensen Huang, revealed that the company plans to spend several hundred billion dollars worth of U.S.-made chips and electronics over the next four years. Nvidia’s move aligns with President Donald Trump’s “America First” vision, shifting supply chains away from China and Taiwan […]

White House Hails Recent Drops In Egg And Gas Prices Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The White House on March 17 announced a drop in egg and gasoline prices, calling it a win for the Trump administration’s economic agenda. A woman shops for eggs at a store in New York City on Feb. 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times “Americans are continuing to see the benefits as the economic agenda of […]

“Sounds Serious”: Buzz Grows Around Apple’s First Foldable iPhone Apple is now 6.5 years behind the foldable smartphone trend, which first emerged in late 2018 with the Royole FlexPai, a folable handset from the Chinese phone company Royole. The first widely recognized foldable phone, Samsung Galaxy Fold, debuted in 2019 but required a redesign due to durability concerns. Since then, the foldable market has expanded with major […]

CDC Warns About Elevated Risk Of Dengue Fever Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday sent an alert to health officials and providers about relatively elevated levels of dengue fever cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on April 23, 2020. (Tami Chappell/AFP via Getty Images “Dengue activity remains high […]

Morgan Stanley Prepares To Cut 2,000 Jobs & “Water Down” DEI Initiatives Morgan Stanley is set to cut around 2,000 jobs by the end of the month as part of a broader effort to enhance operational efficiency, according to a report from Bloomberg. At the same time, The Wall Street Journal reported that the investment bank is scaling back or restructuring its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in response to internal […]

“$225 & Dropping!”: Unhinged Gov. Tim Walz Openly Roots Against American Company   Unhinged Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told Democrats at an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, town hall on Tuesday he openly roots for the death of the most American-made car company: Tesla Motors.  “I was saying, on my phone, I know some of you know this, on the iPhone. They’ve got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost […]

Key Coca-Cola & Pepsi Ingredient ‘Controlled By RSF Paramilitary In Sudan’ Via Middle East Eye Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is currently controlling access to a vital ingredient used in Coca-Cola and Pepsi across vast swathes of the country, according to a new report. Gum arabic, an organic emulsifier derived from the sap of the acacia trees, is a major ingredient in a range of products, including the […]

Sleek New Chinese EVs Are “Taking Over” In Emerging Markets Chinese EVs like Great Wall, BYD, Chery, and SAIC are flooding the streets in places other than the U.S., according to a new report from Bloomberg. While the U.S., Canada, and the EU impose tariffs to protect domestic automakers, emerging markets are embracing Chinese vehicles, creating fresh competition for global carmakers. Places like “Bangkok to Johannesburg to Sao […]

UK Taxpayers Funded £7.6 Billion In Welfare For Migrants In Just One Year Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In just one year, over a million migrants in Britain received more than £7.6 billion in welfare, an analysis of government data has found. The Centre for Migration Control (CMC) estimates  that around 1,158,000 foreign nationals received universal credit for low income individuals, after […]

War Is A Racket… The United States was the world’s largest arms exporter between 2020 and 2024, delivering weapons to 107 states.  As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, it accounted for 43 percent of global exports in that time period, up from 35 percent of all international arms sales between 2015 and 2019.    You will find more infographics at Statista France was in second place, accounting for 9.6 percent […]

Huawei-Gate: Europe Guards Against China’s Cash-For-Influence Schemes Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, European authorities are investigating an alleged “cash for influence” scheme in which as many as 15 current and former members of the European Parliament (MEPs) took bribes from Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company. The case, initiated by Belgian intelligence, indicates that greater vigilance is […]

Trump Admin Removes Advisory From HHS Website Labeling Gun Violence A Health Crisis Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The June 2024 advisory by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declaring violent crime involving guns a public health crisis has been removed from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website. The unprecedented advisory was the realization of a goal for gun control […]

Recycling Hero Or Dumpster Fire? How The World Handles Trash Data from the OECD reveals that the American continent has a dirty secret when it comes to how it handles its trash.  As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, almost 57 percent of municipal waste in the five OECD member countries on the American continent is still going to landfill.  While developing Latin American nations Colombia, Costa Rica and Chile factor into […]

Trump To Sign Order Eliminating Department Of Education By Zachary Stieber of the Epoch Times President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on March 20 that will facilitate the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, taking a step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge. The order, which has been under preparation for weeks, will be signed at a White House event with several Republican governors and state […]

Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Megaproject Could Figure Into A Future Deal With The US Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Russian and Chinese interests don’t align on this particular issue and the dynamics associated with it… Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that “Russia Is Wooing Arctic Gas Buyers With Life After US Sanctions”. They cited unnamed sources to report that Novatek, the company behind the Arctic LNG 2 megaproject, […]

Deportation Of Haitian Migrants Underway As Protection Status Revoked The first of what is expected to be many deportation flights has landed in the crisis worn country of Haiti this week, carrying 46 aliens including 25 convicted felons expelled from the US.   The Trump Administration has revoked protections established during the Biden Administration that shielded roughly half a million Haitians from deportation.  They will […]

The 3 Things Experts Say Would Make US Education World Class Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Plummeting reading and math scores are often blamed on COVID-19, but negative trends in U.S. public school performance compared with that of other developed countries predate the pandemic. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported at least […]

Harvard Is Now “Tuition Free” For Familes Making Under $200,000 Per Year For Harvard, at least, looks like there won’t be any more need for the U.S. taxpayer to subsidize student loans… That’s because Harvard University will eliminate tuition for students from families earning $200,000 or less, aiming to expand access amid political scrutiny. Families making $100,000 or less will also receive free housing and meals, according […]

Zelensky Backs Trump Proposal To Halt All Strikes On Energy Facilities Update(1220ET): Fresh off a Wednesday morning phone call with President Trump, Zelensky has said that he backs the US proposal to halt all strikes on energy facilities in the context of the Ukraine war, according to Bloomberg. Still, he has at the same time vowed to ‘win this war’. Just hours prior, overnight, Ukrainian drones had targeted a Russian oil facility […]

White House Promotes 2 IRS Whistleblowers Who Exposed Tax Agency’s Favoritism For Hunter Biden Authored by Mark Tapscott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two IRS agents who risked their careers by blowing the whistle on the tax agency’s treatment of former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, are being promoted to top jobs in the Treasury Department, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley […]

Israeli Troops, Tanks Start New Ground Offensive In Gaza Over a day after it restarted aerial bombings of Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have resumed “focused ground operations” in the “center of the Gaza Strip” over the past 24 hours. As we observed earlier, clearly an indefinite all-out war is back on, and the collapsed ceasefire will not be put back together anytime soon. The IDF says it has “re-expanded their control to […]