Department Of Labor Floats Stricter Rules For Unemployment Benefits Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,The Department of Labor is proposing stricter rules for Americans trying to get unemployment benefits.To receive unemployment compensation (UC) benefits under the proposed rules, people would have to carry out a minimum of five unique job searches per week, unless exceptions are met.”This action is necessary to reduce […]

Pathway To Citizenship For DACA? Trump Directs DHS Chief To ‘Work With Democrats’ On Immigration Reform Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Monday that President Trump instructed him to work with Democrats on immigration reform, a day after President Trump told “60 Minutes” that his mass deportation campaign may have gone too far – but Mullin says that won’t include Amnesty.  Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne […]

“Could Be First Shoe To Drop”: AI Power Stocks Tumble As SoftBank’s Write-Down Deepens Bubble Fears GE Vernova and Bloom Energy shares plunged Tuesday after SoftBank Group disclosed a $3.7 billion charge tied to power equipment procurement. We asked whether this write-down, cancellation, or “revised procurement strategy” in the AI spending boom could signal trouble ahead in a note titled “Masa’s $3.7 Billion Bonfire: SoftBank […]

Houthis Mount Another Large Missile Assault On Riyadh & East-West Pipeline On Tuesday the Houthis launched another major missile salvo deep inside Saudi Arabia, however Saudi authorities have yet to acknowledge the fresh attack, or to publicly assess possible damage – though there are reports of missile alerts in the kingdom.The Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, announced the group once again targeted King Khalid […]

Hegseth Overhauls Military Education To Forge Warriors, Not Bureaucrats Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJ Media,Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not going to bend to the Democrats or weak-kneed appeasers. He is still aggressively implementing his America First agenda.On November 9, the Department of War issued a press release on how to “restore a culture of accountability and warfighting excellence” in education and training. […]

Ugly 10Y Auction: Foreign Demand Plummets, Directs Soar, Resulting In Biggest Tail Since February After a subpar 3Y auction on Monday, today’s 10Y auction – which followed another hot CPI print – was downright ugly.Let’s start at the top: the high yield of today’s auction was 5.020%, which hit just as yields hit their peak for the day, with the 10Y rising more than 10bps above 5.0% for the first time in weeks. Still, this was a drop […]

America’s Nuclear Revival Is Running Into A Fuel Supply Wall Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice,Foreign suppliers provided 93% of the uranium delivered to U.S. reactors, so progress on domestic enrichment still leaves the front of the fuel chain exposed. Only five plants worldwide convert uranium at scale. Per the National Interest, the West needs about 44,000 metric tons of feedstock a year and has roughly 34,000 tons of […]

Susie Wiles ‘Pay-For-Play’ Scandal Goes Nuclear With New Pfizer Accusations; White House Responds Pollster Mark Mitchell, an adviser to Vice President JD Vance, says Susie Wiles, Trump’s former chief of staff, warned him off criticizing Pfizer, which he called her old lobbying firm’s “number one client.”Before she ran Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and then his White House, Wiles spent nearly a decade as a managing partner at Ballard […]

Iran’s IRGC Says 3 More Oil Tankers Hit By Sea Mines In Strait of Hormuz Update(12:50ET): On Tuesday Iran has said its forces took out more oil tankers violoating its protocol. The IRGC announced late in the day that a third offending oil tanker on the “unauthorized route of the Strait of Hormuz exploded this afternoon after hitting a naval mine,” as cited in Tasnim.This has remained a daily occurrence, and with the US naval […]

HUD Announces Largest Decrease In Homelessness On Record Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a 6.3 percent annual decrease in homelessness in the United States, the largest decline on record.HUD said that on a single night in January 2026, 698,425 individuals were homeless, 6.3 percent fewer than January 2025, when President Donald Trump took office. The […]

The Reverse Ginsburg Scenario: Democrats May Only Need To Wait Rather Than Pack The Court Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley,Below is my column in the Hill on one possible impact of the midterm elections: the possible shift of the Court to a liberal majority by simple attrition rather than packing. The decision of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to remain on the Court will make the election in 2028 an […]

The Other Shoe Has Dropped: DOJ Investigating Marc Elias In Peltola Scandal Case Authored by Tim O’Brien via PJ Media,On October 29, I openly wondered whether the “stench of Alaska’s Peltola scandal would spread to Marc Elias.” Wonder no more.According to Just the News, the shady leftist lawyer who is best known for his work smearing President Donald Trump with the Russiagate hoax is now implicated in a scandal that’s likely to […]

CPI Prints Hotter Than Expected; 50bps Rate-Hike Now On The Table As Fed’s Waller Sparks Hawkish Panic With today’s CPI print (and its ‘ghost’ YoY data and healthcare plug) on everyone’s mind, hawkish comments from Fed Governor Chris Waller already gave markets a jolt this morning, pushing bond yields off their lows, with the biggest moves at the US short-end. “If, as I expect, the monthly rate of inflation improves in October, I […]

Even More Winning By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at RabobankBrent crude oil sank $4.60 to its lowest price since September, at $93.70/bbl on renewed hopes of world peace, as Trump announced over the weekend that it’s “highly unlikely” that we will order extensive strikes on Iran, assuming Iran signs a “very strong agreement.” The definition of what constitutes a “very strong agreement” may be flexible, […]

Rubio Says ‘No Need’ For Major Combat Operations In Iran, As Sanctions Are ‘Devastating’ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Paris where he told a meeting of G7 ministers on Tuesday that the United States is “open to diplomacy” to end the conflict with Iran but that “the Iranian demands are totally unrealistic.”Tehran is not backing off its seven conditions, which include things like the removal of sanctions and the payment of […]

Why Nvidia’s Nightmare May Be Just Beginning Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceJust to put a bow on the Jensen Huang saga, before this story broke in a big way, I wrote that investors should be preparing for more bad news across the AI trade. I still believe that’s the case, and arguably more so now than I did a few days ago.Just hours after I raised the question of whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could be forced to resign…a […]

Anthropic Launches $100 Billion IPO Worth $1.4 Trillion… Or $1.0 Trillion, Depending On Who’s Counting Summary:Anthropic IPO Roadshow Begins CNBC Reports 20% Of Shares Allocated For Retail Goldman Sachs Leading Investment Bank on IPO IPO Debut Next Thursday, Nov. 19 Anthropic Launches $100 Billion IPO Worth $1.4 Trillion… Or $1.0 TrillionGoldman Lead Bank On Anthropic IPO Projects Revenue Of $600 Billion By 2030Goldman Sachs […]

Largest US Single-Family Landlord Settles FTC Lawsuit Over Alleged Deceptive Pricing Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,The largest single-family rental property manager in the United States has agreed to pay $49.75 million to settle alleged charges that it deceived customers about rental prices.Progress Residential and owner Pretium Partners to pay $49.75 million to settle FTC and states’ charges over deceptive […]

Gaza-Born Socialist Challenging Fetterman In 2028 Is Running On His Biggest Red Line Philadelphia writer Ahmed Moor, a 42-year-old Democratic Socialists of America member born in Rafah, in southern Gaza, announced Monday that he will run in the 2028 Democratic primary for Sen. John Fetterman’s Pennsylvania seat, making him the first declared challenger to a senator who has increasingly sided with Republicans. Ahmed Moor via WGAL […]

House GOP Threatens Jensen Huang With Subpoena Over Alleged Chinese Spy Affair; Rubio Warned Trump Update (1450ET): House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) is prepared to subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if he doesn’t respond by Wednesday to a request from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, Mast told ABC News on Tuesday.As we previously noted, Mast, Rep. John […]

Senate Republicans Revolt Against Their Own Leaders A bloc of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is pushing to postpone Tuesday’s GOP leadership elections, arguing that the conference needs time to examine its midterm election losses before it picks the leaders who will guide it in the minority. Sen. Ron Johnson and Sen. Rick Scott. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images) Democrats won control of the Senate with 54 seats, and […]

Binance Warns iOS Flaw Could Let Malicious Apps Steal Crypto Wallet Keys Authored by Zoltan Vardai via Cointelegraph,Cryptocurrency exchange Binance warned Tuesday that an iOS flaw could expose crypto wallet recovery phrases and private keys if a user runs a malicious app on an affected iPhone.Binance listed iOS 26.7.1, 27.0.1 and 27.2 among the affected versions that could allow malicious apps to read local files from other apps, […]

Ukraine & Russia Quietly Signal A ‘Little Flexibility’ On Territory In Abu Dhabi Talks The first day of trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine, the United States held in Abu Dhabi has ended, with the second full day to take place Wednesday.The BBC, citing US officials, has said that Ukraine and Russia have privately shown “a little bit of flexibility” over disputed territory. via Reuters The US official still cautioned that […]

In Major Win For Nuclear Energy, Nearly Half Of Senate Democrats Join GOP To Advance Permitting Overall The Senate voted 73-25 on Monday evening to invoke cloture and open debate on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), the sweeping permitting overhaul written by Republicans Shelley Moore Capito and Mike Lee with Democrats Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse.Supporters were hoping for 15 to 20 Democrats, […]

Pentagon Scrambles Tankers From Second British Base, Weeks After Bombers Fled Fairford The U.S. military moved refueling tankers and other aircraft out of RAF Mildenhall in England on Monday over a reported Iranian threat, the Wall Street Journal reported, weeks after Washington pulled its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford for the same reason.Two KC-135 tankers diverted to Germany early Monday, and several more left later in the day for […]