Brasília Makes Friends With Beijing Authored by Jake Scott via FEE, On a Sunday night in late July, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and China’s Xi Jinping spoke for more than an hour. It was cordial and faintly triumphant, with the two governments announcing their intention to accelerate a long-stalled China-Mercosur trade agreement. Alongside this, there are plans to deepen cooperation on satellites and critical-minerals […]

Jury Weighs Whether “Darn Good Mother” Lindsay Clancy Is Criminally Liable For Murdering Her 3 Kids Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial started on Aug. 27 after five weeks of testimony. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children while her now-ex-husband was running errands in January 2023. The 36-year-old mother faces three counts of first-degree murder, one for each […]

States Race To Cut Food Stamp Errors Before Penalties Kick In Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, States are racing to reduce faulty payments to food stamp recipients, in a bid to avoid penalties included in the signature budget bill passed by Republicans last year. Starting in October 2027, states with payment error rates of 6 percent or higher must cover 5, 10, or 15 percent of SNAP benefit costs, depending on the […]

Mayor Of Indiana City Claims Race Discrimination After Delayed Utility Repairs If a group’s entire world view is built on the notion that they are perpetual victims because of their race, every time something bad happens to them they are going to go looking for racism as the scapegoat.  In other words, they are going to see “racism” under every rock and behind every tree.  They will even see racism in a power outage.  When it […]

Trump’s Energy Policy Could Cost US 540 GW Of Renewables, Says NRDC By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive Aspects of the Trump administration’s energy policy – such as the rollback of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, the introduction of new tariffs and offshore wind lease buybacks – could cause the U.S to lose between 390 GW and 540 GW of new wind, solar and energy storage capacity over the next decade, according to projections […]

Federal Court Dismisses Musk’s X Lawsuit Against New York Law Forcing Platforms To Define Speech A Trump-appointed judge just dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X seeking to void a New York state law requiring social media companies to disclose how they define and monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, foreign political interference and disinformation. U.S. District Judge John Cronan in Manhattan rejected X’s argument […]

Judge Crushes Maryland Democrats’ Gerrymandering Games Submitted by Maryland Freedom Caucus Annapolis Democrats spent months insisting there was nothing to see here. On Tuesday, a Maryland judge told them otherwise — in writing, and in language sharper than anyone expected. The bottom line: a circuit court judge just ruled that House Bill 2100, the constitutional amendment Governor Wes Moore and legislative Democrats rammed […]

Your Tax Dollars At Work: Georgia Teacher Creates ‘Fart Corner’ In Classroom, Calls It The ‘Gas Station’ An Atlanta elementary school teacher has created a designated “fart corner” where students can pass gas without leaving class or interrupting lessons, according to NBC. Second grade teacher Candy Sydney Browning calls the area the “gas station,” while the specific spot is known as the “gusty winds area.” Students […]

Trump Complained About Big Oil Profits, But Dumped Exxon Stock On Ceasefire Day By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com, President Donald Trump’s investment accounts sold between $500,000 and $1 million of ExxonMobil stock on April 7, the same day Trump announced a ceasefire in the Iran war and hours before Exxon shares opened 6.5% lower, according to financial disclosures reviewed by CBS News. Exxon closed at $163.91 on April 7 […]

Moody’s Downgrades Baltimore City’s Credit Rating Amid Population Collapse Moody’s Ratings downgraded Democrat-led Baltimore City’s bond rating this week, highlighting a rapidly deteriorating financial situation as declining reserves, depleted utility funds, and mounting borrowing costs strain the crime-ridden metro area best known for the hit HBO series The Wire. Local outlet Fox Baltimore reports that the ratings agency lowered […]

The Rise And Fall Of ‘Resistance’ Hero Alexander Vindman Authored by Blaise Malley via Responsible Statecraft, On paper, Alexander Vindman’s loss in last week’s Florida Democratic Senate was a shocking upset. After all, Vindman had a 16-to-1 fundraising advantage and far more national name recognition than the winner – progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon. But the results reflect more than one poorly-run campaign. Vindman is one […]

Newly Formed Lake Threatens 2nd Flood At Nepal-Tibet Disaster Zone A rapidly expanding dammed lake above a Nepal-Tibet flood zone poses a severe new threat to Gyirong Port, where hundreds of people remain unaccounted for following an initial catastrophic surge. Formed by mudslides near the junction of two rivers, the blockage sits about 11 miles upstream of Rasuwagadhi and has created a 27-acre lake, according to Nepal’s National […]

“Most Jobs Will Disappear Forever”: Bill Gates Calls For Taxes On AI And Robots To Protect Jobs For Humans Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates warned Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) will permanently eliminate many white- and blue-collar jobs and called for taxes on AI and robots along with protections reserving certain jobs for humans. Bill Gates in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, […]

Zelensky’s Top Aide Named In Explosive Court Audio In Mudra Corruption Case Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Kyrylo Budanov has been named as part of a major corruption case involving Zelensky’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Iryna Mudra, who was arrested and is currently center of a top corruption court case, local outlet Hromadske reported Wednesday, citing court documents. Mudra, who was Zelensky’s #2 […]

State AGs Target ‘Big Four’ Accounting Firms, Claim They’re Pushing Climate Disclosures Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, A coalition of 16 state attorneys general is investigating the “Big Four” accounting firms, alleging that they may have pushed climate accounting on client companies. Climate change activists hold signs during a press conference with members of the House of Reps. Sustainable Energy and Environment […]

Trump Close To ‘Massive’ Deal For Seizing Stake In Venezuela’s Vast Oil Fields Amid ongoing global oil supply disruptions due to the Iran war and Hormuz Strait crisis, and also as Ukraine’s war on Russian oil refineries and export terminals heats up, the Trump administration has been scrambling to tap new reliable and long-term energy sources. Now, nearly eight months since the US miliary raid on Caracas which removed from power […]

Moscow Warns It Could Target British Military Facilities In Unprecedented Statement From the very start of the Ukraine war, the United Kingdom has consistently been among Kiev’s most open and ardent military supporters, time and again transferring heavy weaponry, including cutting edge long-range missiles like the Storm Shadow. At the start of this week, Britain announced it plans to provide Ukraine with classified technology to […]

Quinn: They Know What’s Coming, Because They Planned It… Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency involved.” – Ludwig von Mises […]

Alberta Premier Rejects Using Oil As A Weapon Against Trump Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith has rejected the idea of slapping export taxes on crude oil exports to the United States in retaliation for the Trump administration’s tariff salvo against Ottawa, saying they would be damaging to Canada. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks at the Canada Strong and Free Network in Ottawa on […]

Army’s Project Janus Selects Five Reactor Companies For Rapid Development The US Army’s Project Janus, which we detailed at length back in November, has selected its initial batch of reactor developers to bring advanced nuclear energy to Army installations to ensure resilient and ready power.  BREAKING: The first fully operational commercial nuclear microreactor will be deployed at a U.S. Army installation in 2028. To achieve […]

Trump Officially Renames Lake Ontario To “Lake America” Now, on to important matters…  On Thursday, US President Donald J. Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move he’s been teasing in recent days on Truth Social – including writing that America doesn’t “expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer” amid an ongoing trade spat with Canada.  On Tuesday, Trump posted an image of the lake with ‘Lake […]

New Jersey May Pay Home Battery Owners To Help Grid When Demand Surges New Jersey officials are weighing a plan that would allow homeowners to use batteries as emergency energy backups and a way to earn extra money. Under the proposal, storage systems installed at customers’ homes could join a virtual power plant program, helping the grid when electricity demand surges and paying participants for taking part. On July 15, the New […]

Follow The Risk Via SchiffGold, Tracing the distribution of risk is an important method that is helpful for understanding the trade-offs of any government action. Almost every government action reduces risk for some group and repackages the risk and forces another group to bear it. The government often serves as a hedge against risk, but it is important to understand who the payer is and what the costs are before blindly signing […]

Qatar And Kuwait Restore 70% Of Pre-War Oil Exports Through Hormuz Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Qatar and Kuwait have managed to boost their crude oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz to 70% of pre-war levels as they followed the United Arab Emirates in shuttling oil through the chokepoint and using ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman, anonymous traders told Bloomberg on Thursday. Before the Middle […]

Average 7Y Auction Stops On Screws As Foreign Demand Drops A stellar 2Y auction, a subpart 5Y, and it only makes sense that we end the week with a perfectly average sale of $44BN in 7Y bonds. The last coupon auction of the week priced at a high yield of 4.512%, up from last month’s tailing 4.473%, and on the screws with today’s When Issued 4.512%. Remarkably, this is the 3rd 7Y auction to price on the screws in 2026 alone, […]