Fed’s Waller Pushed Rate-Hike Hopes Lower After Stating The Obvious A top Federal Reserve official said he would be “inclined” to keep interest rates on hold, highlighting divisions among the US central bank’s governors as they prepare for a crucial vote this month. Outspoken Fed Governor Chris Waller clarified this morning what many knew… that he would support holding rates steady at the central bank’s meeting in two […]

‘Low Hire, Ho Fire’ Economy Confirmed By Latest Jobless Claims Data The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time remains near multi-decade lows at 206k last week in line with expectations and flat to the prior month… Continuing jobless claims ticked up modestly but remain near two-year lows, below the 1.8mm Maginot line… However, surveys (Conference Board) remain sure it is ‘hard to get a […]

Futures Flat As Yields Ignore Oil Meltup Futures are flats with Tech in line and small caps lagging even as bond yields dip 1bp across the curve, ignoring the continued rise in oil. In a quiet session ahead of tomorrow’s jobs report, Japan remains the standout, with the yen strengthening on more hawkish BOJ repricing and intervention speculation, pressuring exporters.  Risk is modestly bid after yesterday’s reprieve in energy […]

Yen Suddenly Surges To Bessent Intervention Highs… No One Knows Who/Why… Yesterday we noted the sudden spike in JPY which prompted numerous desks to speculate on an intervention. It wasn’t large – which made many suggest it wasn’t or that it was a tester for liquidity. Today, we are seeing something different – a steady bid for the Japanese currency lifting it to post-Bessent/BoJ highs… The slope (not entirely vertical) […]

Record 89% Of Americans Say Government Corruption Widespread A record 89% of US adults say government corruption is widespread – which is up 10% from last year, and far above the average 72%-79% between 2010 and 2025, according to a new Gallup poll.  Unsurprisingly, Democrats’ perceptions of government corruption spiked the most since 2024 – going from 57% to 91% this year, while independents also feel this way at 90%. […]

“Save Us From Our Traitor Gov’t”: Massive Madrid Protests Erupt Over Socialist Regime’s Handling Of Ceuta Invasion Spain’s Ceuta border invasion has morphed into a major political headache for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid to protest the government’s handling of the crisis, potentially accelerating the political shift identified by Nomura analysts, who expect […]

President’s Party Up Against Poor Odds In The Midterms The Republican Party is controlling the House, the Senate and the presidency at the moment, but the midterm elections coming up at in November have the power to change this Status Quo. Congressional and presidential approval are near all-time lows as the Trump administration’s wars are proving unpopular, but the party is also up against a historical precedent at the same time: […]

Ukraine’s Drone Warfare Devouring 4% Of Global Germanium Demand As China Chokes Supplies Our coverage of rare earths dates back to President Trump’s first trade war, when we warned that “Rare Earths Are China’s Most Potent Weapon In A Trade War.” What followed was predictable. During the 2025 trade war, Beijing steadily tightened its control over exports of gallium, germanium, antimony, tungsten and a growing list of other critical […]

Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocked Again; Insane Karen Arrested For ‘Aggravated Intimidation’ Of Jurors The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial is once again deadlocked over whether the former mother of three should be given a pass due to hysteria and hormones.  The indecision followed five days of deliberations and two notes from jurors saying they could not agree. On Wednesday, Judge William Sullivan gave the panel a […]

UK Government To Fund School Forcing Seven-Year-Olds Into Hijabs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A Labour-run London council has put an Islamic primary school that makes girls as young as seven wear the hijab onto the public payroll. From 1 September, Barnet Hill Academy in West Hendon stops being a fee-paying independent and becomes a voluntary-aided school – almost entirely funded by the taxpayer, legally free to […]

EU’s Kallas Says No Progress On Zelensky’s Cash Infusion For Patriot Missiles On Wednesday EU leadership revealed that the Zelensky government has formally asked the European Commission to provide several billion euros from the EU’s €90 billion ($105 billion) support loan to purchase US-made Patriot air defense missiles. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced just ahead of a meeting with NATO Secretary […]

COVID-19: The Great Forgetting Authored by John MacLeod via The Critic, We have repressed the memories of the pandemic that changed all of our lives… It is a little drawer in a cabinet by my bedside and I have not opened it in years. I have to steel myself to open it now. And, yes, they are all there yet in every variety – black, chequered, colourful. The ear-looped face-coverings behind which I spluttered for two long years, […]

Spain & Greece Have The Best Pension/Salary Replacement Rate In The World How much of your paycheck would a pension replace in retirement? Depending on the country, the answer ranges from more than 80% to less than 20%. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks countries by their projected gross pension replacement rate, based on data from the OECD. The rate compares pension benefits with pre-retirement […]

‘Horrible Violence’: Quiet Dutch Village Turns Into A Battlefield Authored by – Remix News Staff – via Remix News, A suspected underworld revenge attack linked to fugitive drug trafficker Jos Leijdekkers, known as “Bolle Jos,” left a security guard dead and two police officers wounded in the quiet Dutch village of Overasselt in the early hours of Sept. 1, 2026. Surveillance cameras captured vans full of masked men carrying […]

The Two Lineages Of Liberty Authored by Philippe Lemieux via Mises Institute, Liberty’s history is often presented as a direct consequence of the Enlightenment: inherited authority was subjected to reason, persecution gave way to toleration, monarchy to constitutional government, and privilege to individual rights. In this account, classical liberalism leads naturally to Austrian economics and modern libertarianism. That sequence […]

Man Accused Of Trying To Set Portland Record Store On Fire After They Wouldn’t Buy His Records A dispute over a record sale escalated into threats and an alleged attempt to set a Portland record shop on fire, according to prosecutors. Adrian Orange, 40, is accused of confronting the owner of Vinyl Resting Place in St. Johns on Aug. 27 after the store declined to purchase records he brought in, according to KATU ABC. Court documents […]

Qatar And UAE Turn To Rare LNG Ship Transfers As Hormuz Crisis Drags On By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Three LNG carriers loaded from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf have transferred their cargoes onto other vessels outside the Strait of Hormuz in the past month, a move that’s highly unusual for LNG cargoes but one that could raise the crippled LNG shipments from the region. LNG traffic at the […]

Xi In Rare Egypt Visit Blasts ‘External Interference’ In Mideast, As Iran War Drags On Chinese President Xi Jinping in a rare trip to the Cairo told his Egyptian counterpart on Wednesday that “external interference” in the Middle East should be opposed, Chinese state media reported. Talks in the Egyptian capital between Xi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi were a first in a decade. Interestingly, Xi at one point pledged […]

ICE Arrests More Than 120 Illegal Immigrants At Memphis Nightclub Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Federal immigration officers arrested 121 illegal immigrants on Aug. 30 at a Memphis nightclub during a targeted multiagency enforcement action, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. New Orleans field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) led Operation Corral Light at the El Corralon […]

MIT Student Claims To Make One Of The World’s Deadliest Chemicals, Sparking HAZMAT Response A potentially dangerous laboratory incident at MIT triggered a hazmat response last week after a graduate student told medical personnel he believed he had created dimethylmercury, a highly toxic mercury compound, according to the NY Post. The student, who has not been publicly identified, went to a local emergency room and reported the […]

Trump’s New Foundry School Aims To Train America’s Manufacturing Workers Of The Future Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration will launch Foundry School on Thursday, a national training program meant to prepare entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders for a rebuilding of U.S. manufacturing. Vice President JD Vance is set to headline the event, according to a State Department […]

Take-Two Slides Into Correction As Grand Theft Auto Leak Investigation Intensifies Take-Two Interactive, whose Rockstar Games studio is developing Grand Theft Auto VI, was hit by a series of leaks last month ahead of the fall release. Bank of America analysts described the leaked footage as “impressive, but unlikely to surprise,” while TTWO shares have tumbled into a correction since the leaks surfaced online. The leaked clips […]

OpenAI Hits Back At Apple In Trade Secrets Lawsuit Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, OpenAI has pushed back against Apple’s accusations that it stole the iPhone maker’s hardware secrets, blaming the dispute on Apple’s own handling of departing employees. In a court filing on Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge to deny Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would bar the ChatGPT maker and two former Apple […]

Russia Accused Of Helping Iran Develop Carrier-Killing Supersonic Cruise Missiles Yet another major allegation against Russia has emerged this week in the pages of the London-based Financial Times, which says that Moscow has been helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles, in a clandestine program that has been ongoing throughout the war with the US and Israel. Early in the conflict, it was widely reported that advanced and […]

Dallas Police To Shut Down Hundreds Of Flock Cameras Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The police department in Dallas has announced it will shut down hundreds of Flock cameras due to a funding pause, making it another U.S. city to remove the controversial camera system. Two Flock Safety cameras in a neighborhood in Jessup, Md., on Aug. 26, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The department said in a social media […]