175 House Democrats Call For Halt To Ilhan Omar Investigation Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times,Scores of House Democrats have called for an end to the federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), claiming it could affect her reelection bid in next month’s midterm elections.A letter, signed by 175 Democratic congresspersons, accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of […]

MSFT Rises On Azure Beat… But Bookings Shrink And Backlog Stalls The consensus long delivered.Microsoft (MSFT) reported Azure revenue growth of 48% in constant currency for the September quarter, crushing its own 44-45% guide, the Street’s ~45% and even the ~47% buyside whisper that, as we laid out this morning in “These Really Matter”, was the real hurdle. In its first-ever standalone disclosure, Azure brought in $33.2 billion, a […]

War Secretary Swears In General Forced To Retire After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,War Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed back an Air Force general who was forced to retire because she did not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was mandated during the pandemic, the Department of War said on Oct. 27.Hegseth, during a ceremony at the Pentagon on Oct. 23, swore Air Force Brig. Gen. […]

Fed Pauses Rate-Hikes As Expected; 2 Dissents Signal Less Hawkish ‘Family Fight’ Since the last FOMC meeting (9/16), where Fed Chair Warsh hiked rates somewhat surprisingly, markets have been wild (even if stocks at the index level may look ‘meh’). The biggest standout is the divergence between bitcoin (up 6%) and gold (down 6%) with a rollercoaster in crude (from down 15% to down just 3%)…While that chart shows bonds ‘meh’ like […]

Minnesota Charges James O’Keefe And Cam Higby With Felonies Over Polling-Place Vouching Stunt Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Wednesday charged conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and influencer Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft, over undercover videos they shot at Minneapolis polling places during the Aug. 11 primary, according to MPR News.The complaints allege the pair visited four Hennepin […]

Has Apple Peaked? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceThere’s no disputing that Apple remains one of the greatest companies in the history of capitalism. Its products are still insanely popular, its ecosystem remains one of the most powerful competitive advantages in modern business, and its stock continues to enjoy the kind of institutional affection that most publicly traded companies could only dream of.Shares are up roughly 28% […]

California’s Billionaire Tax May Cost More Than It Raises, Reports Find Authored by Thomas Savidge via The Daily Economy,California voters will decide on Proposition 40, a proposal for “a one-time 5-percent tax on the worldwide net worth of individuals exceeding $1 billion,” this November.The measure’s obligation reaches backward to January 1, 2026, so any billionaire who was a California resident this year could owe a tax on the […]

Watch Live: Fed Chair Warsh Desperately Tries To Explain Why His ‘Pause’ Is Not Political Warsh will be walking a very fine tightrope in today’s press conference that looks especially delicate.The Fed Chair’s problem today is that he’s spent the last few months telling everyone the Fed needs a “timelier return to 2%”, and then September’s CPI came in hot, and he’s about to skip anyway.While the pause decision was entirely expected […]

“A Lot Of Bad Things Happening All At Once”: Rubino Warns Of Perfect Storm For Banks… And The World Authored by Greg Hunter via USAWatchdog,Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has a new warning about the financial health of the global economy, and it’s not good. Look no further than the most recent revelations of money problems at some of the biggest banks in the world. Rubino calls what we are facing is the “Perfect Storm” […]

U. Connecticut Recruits ‘LGBTQ+’ Scholars For High School ‘Queer Science’ Event Authored by Mia Milner via The College Fix,The University of Connecticut’s College of Engineering sought LGBTQ+ scientists and engineers to volunteer at its recent “Queer Science” conference, a free event for high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.The event is “designed to support the success” of high school […]

Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Cassidy Hutchinson Over Her Jan. 6 Testimony A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has declined to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, ending – for now – a Justice Department effort to charge her with lying to the House Jan. 6 committee, according to two sources who spoke to Fox News. The attempt failed on Tuesday. Cassidy Hutchinson (via AP) The outcome surfaced in court. In a […]

Democrats Planning Their Own ‘Stop The Steal’ If They Don’t Win The Midterms After the 2020 presidential election, Democratic leaders spent years condemning President Trump’s claims that fraud cost him a second term. They described his refusal to accept the results as an attack on democracy, and they pointed to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol as the consequence of his rhetoric.Six years later, with Election Day one week away, many of […]

Inflation Isn’t Finished With Us… And We Should Be Worried Authored by Peter Reagan via BirchGold.com,Today we’re going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly.No, I’m not referring to the classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti western (although, if you haven’t watched it recently, you should! It really holds up.)I’m talking about inflation. And if you’re wondering how inflation can possibly have a “good” side, you’ll understand in […]

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain Summary:Spain Train Collision Among Nation’s Deadliest As Death Toll Jumps To 64 Two High-Speed Trains Collide South Of Madrid Death Toll Jumps The death toll from this morning’s collision between two high-speed trains south of Madrid has risen to 64, Bloomberg reports, placing it among Spain’s deadliest rail disasters. For context, the 2013 Santiago de Compostela […]

The Mortgage Ends, But The Tax Bill Doesn’t: Inside America’s Property-Tax Revolt Paying off a home ends the mortgage. It does not fix the cost of keeping the house. That distinction is becoming the economic fault line beneath America’s widening property-tax revolt. Denise DiFabio/Facebook via Reason A rising valuation looks like prosperity on a balance sheet. The tax bill arrives in cash. For an owner who wants to stay put, […]

Coinbase Denies Systems Breach, Says Vendor Exposed Customer Data Authored by Zoltan Vardai via Cointelegraph,Some Coinbase customers’ contact information was exposed in a security incident at analytics vendor Amplitude, the exchange said Wednesday.The incident impacted a “small subset” of Coinbase customers, along with other Amplitude clients, Coinbase Support said on X.Coinbase has not had a data breach. Amplitude, an analytics […]

World Peace By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at RabobankWall Street traders walked into the office yesterday morning to see headlines that world peace was just beyond the horizon, as Turkish, Saudi, Qatari, and Pakistani officials wrapped up meetings in Tehran to try and bring an end to the war. And so, the headlines rocked that “Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls for Meeting Conditions to End War.” Markets priced in […]

WTI Surges Back Near War Highs: Gasoline Inventories Surge, US Production Rebounds To Record High Oil prices rose Wednesday as traders focused on renewed threats to Middle East energy supplies after Yemen’s Houthi militants said they targeted Saudi Arabia’s largest oil refinery.The Houthis said Tuesday that they struck Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery in the Eastern Province with a ballistic missile.Prospects for diplomatic talks […]

European NatGas Crosses 100-Euro “Psychological Mark” As Winter Supply Fears Mount European natural gas prices hit triple-digit territory for the first time since December 2022. The energy-stricken continent has already begun drawing from critical stockpiles, with levels well below seasonal norms, as it braces for a cold snap and continued disruption to supplies transiting through the Strait of Hormuz.Benchmark TTF NatGas futures […]

First Images Show Flavio Bolsonaro Stepping Off Private Jet In Miami After Lula’s Totalitarian Crackdown Summary:First Images Of Bolsonaro Exiting Private Jet In MiamiBrazil In Political Crisis? Bolsonaro Lands In Miami After Lula’s Totalitarian Crackdown Threatens Political Crisis In BrazilBolsonaro Footage Exiting Private Jet In Miami First footage of Flávio Bolsonaro and possibly his family exiting a private jet in Miami […]

Trump Hints Trilateral Ukraine Peace Talks May Not Happen In Person More disappointment: President Trump has hinted that any near-future trilateral talks involving the US, Russia, and Ukraine to end the war might not actually take place in person.Trump told reporters that a meeting is set to happen soon. “I would say it would be a meeting. They’d like to have a meeting, so we’ll see. We’ll probably make it. It could be done not […]

OpenAI Eyes Google’s Chips Hours After Oracle Deal, While Anthropic Taps JPMorgan For Retail IPO Amid Warren’s ‘Existential Risk’ Inquisition Alphabet bulls couldn’t have scripted the timing any better. Just hours before Google’s parent company reports third-quarter earnings – and a day after Oracle confirmed it will bring Google’s custom AI silicon to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – word leaked that OpenAI is preparing to buy […]

Iran Rejects ‘Unacceptable’ Qatar Draft Proposal To End War Update(0945ET): That was fast. Within a couple hours of an earlier Reuters report saying Qatar had presented Iran with a new US draft deal to end the war, Tehran has issued a fresh denial:Iran has rejected a proposal from Qatar to end the US-led war on the country, calling it “unacceptable”. Qatar presented the draft deal, which would look to end the eight-month conflict, […]

‘No Point’: UC Berkeley Math Professor Quits Grading Homework Over Student AI Use Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness,A prominent mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley has stopped grading homework for correctness due to the widespread and unavoidable use of artificial intelligence tools by students.Breitbart reports Professor Richard Borcherds, a 1998 Fields Medal winner, has abandoned grading assignments […]

Chinese Humanoid Stocks Catch Bid As Unitree Pulls Forward Breakthrough Timeline, JPM Turns Uber Bullish Yushu Technology Co., also known as Unitree, surged in its blockbuster IPO before tumbling from late August into early fall. The stock has soared since mid-October as Unitree’s earnings come into focus and expectations build that breakthroughs will arrive sooner than previously anticipated.Unitree shares in China jumped nearly […]