What Else Are They Hiding? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, This past couples of weeks was a wild ride. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released many thousands of pages of documentation concerning the strange world of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) while Dr. Anthony Fauci was at the height of his power as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci’s wife headed the ethics department […]

Iran Launches Battlefield Trophy Propaganda Campaign With Captured US Reaper Drone The off-ramp narrative is growing louder. With the US midterm elections quickly approaching, the Trump administration may have reached its “declare victory and leave” moment, shifting from military operations toward a negotiated peace deal, one that must last more than one month. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reinforced that possibility earlier, […]

Texas Energy Giant Oncor Supports Governor’s Data Center Freeze By Emma Penrod of UtilityDive.com About 44 GW of large load projects slated for Oncor’s service territory qualified for ERCOT’s new “Batch Zero” interconnection process for large loads, company executives told analysts during a Thursday earnings call. But the timeline for that process is uncertain following an order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that paused new […]

Both Iranian & Israeli Officials Call Out ‘Paper Tiger’ Saudi Arabia Regional rivals and enemies are calling out Saudi Arabia as a “paper tiger” which must rely on others for protection and defense needs. Criticisms of Riyadh are being issued on the same day the kingdom signed a major security pact with the other major Muslim-dominant nations of Pakistan and Turkey. Formally called the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement, it […]

The WNBA Is At War With Its Biggest Stars Via The Daily Signal, This is a lightly edited transcript of an Aug. 6 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast… Jack Fowler: And the whole trans issue is coming up in the WNBA, and various coaches are like, “I don’t know. Should a she – I can’t say who should be playing.” They will not say that a biological woman should be playing in the […]

Visualizing 75 Years Of America’s Electricity Transition Over the past 75 years, the U.S. electricity system has shifted from one dominated by coal to one in which natural gas and renewables supply nearly two-thirds of generation. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows annual U.S. electricity generation by source from 1950 to 2025 using data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It tracks […]

Hawaii’s ‘Blood Quantum’ Rule Deepens The State’s Housing Crisis Authored by Rachel Chiu via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s “blood quantum” […]

US Official: Hormuz Deal Is Imminent, Upon Which US Will Lift Blockade Of Iranian Ports Summary US official tells Reuters that US will lift blockade upon Omani deal announcement. Bessent: Hormuz could reopen under a 30-60 day ceasefire as soon as “today or tomorrow.” Iran asserts that US & Israeli vessels remain barred until sanctions are lifted and compensation is paid. Trump says the conflict could “end pretty soon,” […]

Bessent’s ‘Yentervention’ Does Not Fix Japan’s Underlying Structural Issues Authored by Ed Dowd via ‘Beyond The Narrative’ substack, …a delicate meal to cook before Midterms… My conclusions on the Bessent yen intervention: The move is a temporary Band-Aid at best and sharp yen strength can historically trigger carry-trade unwinds and risk-asset volatility, but it does not fix Japan’s structural debt or rate […]

Reality Bites: Socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani Turns To Capitalist Bankers For Help After socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani went after Citadel’s Ken Griffin, created a property database of wealthy homeowners that makes the list easily accessible to “Luigi-worshipping leftist thugs,” and endlessly bashed America and capitalism, all while his friend, Democratic Socialists of America’s unofficial spokesperson Hasan Piker, called on […]

Meet The Lab-Leak Proponent Set To Take Fauci’s Old Job Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, Politico reported that physician-scientist Steven Quay is going through final vetting to take over Tony Fauci’s job at the NIH, reporting that aligns with rumors I’ve been hearing from sources inside the administration for several months. Quay sat for an interview with me on the DisInformation Chronicle podcast last […]

Cambridge’s Black Time-Travelling Professor (And His Many Superhuman Feats) Authored by Mark Collett, Running a single marathon is a great achievement. Running 30 marathons is a spectacular feat. Running 30 marathons in 35 days is something only a world-class athlete could achieve. But running 30 marathons in 35 days, and running the final nine of those marathons with a broken leg – that’s an impossible feat that would require […]

“Fire Is… Beautiful”: Suspect In Spokane Wildfire Confesses He Planned Arson For Weeks The suspect charged on Aug. 3 with starting the Old Trails fire in Spokane, Washington, that forced more than 60,000 people to evacuate told police he had planned the attack for weeks. The suspect, Aaron Farinacci, told police in an interview that “fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of […]

The Democratic Party’s Four-Way Squeeze Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . . it’s subversion and nothing about it is accidental. it’s a well worn playbook to use the democratic institutions of a high trust state to destroy a civilization.”  – El Gato Malo on Substack The days might still be long, but this is a dark season in our country’s politics. Everybody’s nervous and many are furious, and yet all that […]

Vance: Federal Government Has Identified $230 Billion In Fraud Since March Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, Vice President JD Vance said on Aug. 5 that the Trump administration has identified $230 billion in fraud and prevented $56 billion in fraudulent payments since the president’s Fraud Task Force was established in March. Vance discussed the task force’s initiatives at a roundtable in the Eisenhower Executive […]

Consumer Credit Jumps More Than Expected In June As Credit Card Debt Spikes One month after the May consumer credit posting a shocking decline – the first since late 2024 – driven by a plunge in revolving credit, things are mostly back to normal, with the Fed reporting in its latest G.19 report that in June, US consumer credit posted a healthy $14.17BN bounce – a full reversal of the May drop of $1.1 billion – and above the $11.9 […]

Senate Passes The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia & Iran Act Of 2026 On Friday the Senate finally passed a bill imposing major new sanctions on Russia due to the grinding war which has been going since February 2022. The bill had bipartisan support, with a vote of 86 to 11, and now it will go to the House – where it is expected to be passed there too. After a year of negotiations and holdups based largely on prior White […]

Uncertainty Rules! By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank US Treasury yields drifted higher yesterday after the Financial Times reported, citing people close to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, that he would be prepared to raise rates as early as September if incoming inflation data surprise to the upside and markets themselves begin pricing a more hawkish path. Yet the market reaction was not confined to the front end […]

Trump Threatens To Jail Arms Shortage ‘Leakers’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Thursday threatened “leakers” with jail time over reports about dwindling US military stockpiles as a result of the Iran war, and claimed the US had plenty of munitions available. “The US has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to […]

Saudi Arabia’s $5 Oil Detour Is Expensive… But Worth It Authored by Leon Stille via OilPrice.com, Rerouting Saudi crude to Asia via Yanbu, Egypt’s SUMED pipeline and the Cape of Good Hope may add around $5 per barrel and up to four weeks to a voyage. That premium is small compared with the economic damage caused by losing access to Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb altogether. Saudi Arabia’s alternative export […]

5th Small Modular Reactor Validated Since June, Poised For Mass Production Another small nuclear reactor has achieved “criticality,” marking the fifth new reactor type to be certified as operationally viable in the United States since June, after none were certified for more than a half-century, as the nation’s “nuclear renaissance” quickly advances to commercial mass-production. Santa Clara, California-based Oklo’s […]

Meet The Investors In SpaceX Who Say Their Shares “Disappeared” Some investors who thought they had secured one of Wall Street’s hottest trades, owning SpaceX before its blockbuster IPO, say the shares they expected to cash in on simply disappeared, according to the Wall Street Journal. The controversy centers on special purpose vehicles (SPVs), investment funds that promise accredited investors exposure to private companies before […]

Rockstar Founder Builds $300M Celsius Stake, Launches Activist Offense: Management “All Need To Be Fired” Summary: CELH shares Jump on CNBC Headline  Rockstar Founder Amasses 5.7% CELH stake, Tells CNBC He Wants To Be CEO Thursday: Celsius Shares Crash As Revenue Misses Estimates Rockstar Founder Begins Activist Move  One day after Celsius Holdings crashed 18% following a dismal second-quarter earnings report, Rockstar Energy […]

US Senate Pushes CLARITY Act Vote To September Authored by Ezra Reguerra via CoinTelegraph.com, Senate Republican leaders are expected to leave for their August recess without voting on crypto market structure legislation, delaying consideration of the bill until at least September, according to a report from Politico.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the chamber would not vote on the legislation before the […]

Consumers More Optimistic On Jobs, Financial Conditions, Stock Prices As Inflation Eases: NY Fed Survey Unlike recent extremely volatile months, consumers expectations for inflation in July barely budged as disclosed today by the latest NY Fed Survey, which showed that inflation expectations in one year fell slightly to 3.6% from 3.7% prior. Estimates for price increases in three and five years remained at 3.3% and 3%, respectively, […]