French Bond Yields Explode To 24-Year High As Unrest And Fiscal Crisis Collide France’s accelerating death spiral, amid social unrest by far-left groups, political gridlock, and deteriorating public finances as the welfare state teeters on the brink of implosion, comes just six months before a presidential election that has only given polling tailwinds to right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen. A Financial Times opinion piece earlier […]

Wall Street Set For Largest Bonuses In Industry History This Year New York’s financial industry is enjoying an extraordinary earnings boom, with profits potentially topping $90 billion this year and setting the stage for the biggest round of Wall Street bonuses on record, according to Bloomberg. According to a new analysis from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, securities firms generated more money during the opening six months of […]

Franklin Templeton Warns: No One Is Ready For A Eurozone Debt Crisis 2.0 New curfews in major French cities have helped contain the weeks of social unrest marked by far-left radicals and migrants burning buildings, looting mom-and-pop and luxury stores, and clashing with police. President Emmanuel Macron’s failing government still faces another emerging issue: an alarming debt burden and a welfare state on the brink of collapse, […]

BBC Game Rewards Kids For Supporting Open Borders Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The BBC’s education platform, used by nearly 1.7 million schoolchildren every week, is gamifying open borders. In a Roblox-hosted game called Increasing Immigration aimed at pupils aged 11 to 14, choosing to deport migrants living in the UK without proper visas loses points on the economy and public health. Players are warned: […]

France’s Open-Air Incinerators: The Uncounted Toxic Toll Of Annual Street Protests Every time political anger spills into French streets – whether over pension reforms, fuel taxes, police shootings, or the annual ritual of Saint-Sylvestre on New Year’s Eve – the post-mortem follows a familiar script. The Ministry of the Interior tallies the arrests, insurers calculate the millions in property damage, and municipal crews sweep up the […]

Why Can Nothing Be Built In Britain? Authored by Mani Basharzad via The Foundation for Economic Education, A public company in the UK was building a high-speed railway when it suddenly faced a regulation that few could have predicted: a £100 million ($132 million) bat tunnel. The railway passed through Sheephouse Wood, an area inhabited by rare Bechstein’s bats. To comply with environmental regulations that protect the bats […]

Micron Faces Taiwan Strike As Union Demands “Fair Profit-Sharing System” Neoclouds and hyperscalers face mounting pressure as scrutiny grows over AI’s circular financing, while Morgan Stanley has outlined several scenarios that could derail the $1.6 trillion AI data-center buildout. Now, another potential pressure point is emerging in the chip supply chain. Reuters reported that a union locked in a pay dispute could launch a […]

Why France? Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, France is burning. But why? The obvious answer to that question is that it has imported massive numbers of people – often young, military-aged men – from parts of the world where violence is more prevalent. Or, as the President of the United States put it over the weekend, “The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, […]

US, Japan Begin Major Military Exercises Focused On Islands Near Taiwan Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com The US and Japan kicked off their biennial Keen Sword military exercise on Monday, one of the largest joint drills between the two countries. This year, the exercise will focus on Japan’s southwestern islands, including its westernmost island, Yonaguni, just 68 miles east of Taiwan. Both the US and Japan have deployed […]

Mexico Accuses Ex-Chihuahua Attorney General Of Treason For Letting US Agents Join Cartel Lab Raid Mexican federal prosecutors have accused a former state attorney general of treason for allowing US agents to join a drug-lab raid, and they arrested him again within hours of a state judge ordering him not to be jailed. Federal agents took Cesar Jauregui Moreno into custody after a Chihuahua court hearing ended Sunday night, and he is […]

The Pope’s Tweet And The Quiet Suicide Of Order Authored by Kyle McClay via American Thinker, On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Pope Leo XIV posted a short statement that will be quoted by every abolitionist group in the country: the death penalty is “inadmissible” because it attacks the “inviolability and dignity of the person.” Effective detention, he insists, can protect society while still leaving the guilty a chance […]

US, Partners Seize Nearly 1,500 Pounds Of Cocaine In The Caribbean Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A U.S. task force and foreign partners seized nearly 1,500 pounds of cocaine in two operations in the Caribbean Sea over the past week. The first interdiction involved U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detecting a go-fast boat in the Caribbean, directing it to a port, and seizing about 562 pounds of […]

Man Sells Everything, Travels 1,200 Miles To Meet Dream Woman, Only To Discover She’s AI A lovestruck man sold everything he owned and traveled more than 1,200 miles by bus to meet the woman of his dreams, only to discover the beautiful blonde he had fallen for was nothing more than an AI-generated fantasy, according to local media. Edimar Rocha Martins, a 49-year-old bricklayer from Brazil, believed he had finally found true […]

Hacker Copied Records Of Millions Of California Students Through Education Contractor ETS Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The California Department of Education said Friday that a hacker accessed the data of millions of students by exploiting the system of a nonprofit contractor that works with the state. The data included students’ names, birth dates, addresses, and disability status. The California Department of […]

“Big Tent” Backfires: Dem Rep Claims DSA Sent Her White Powder And Warned Of Impending “Civil War” U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Grand Rapids) is getting a taste of what happens when her “big tent” party fails to curb far-left extremism within its own ranks and is consumed by Marxist revolutionaries from the Democratic Socialists of America. Here’s what Scholten claims: Today, I received a threatening letter at my Grand Rapids, […]

Controversial Map In Netanyahu Briefing Triggers Wave Of Speculation Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a map of the wider Middle East showing his country and the UAE aligned with a paramilitary in Sudan accused of committing genocide, and separatists in Libya, Yemen and Somaliland. The map, which carried the logo of Germany’s Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Institute, will not surprise regional […]

The Billionaire Couple Quietly Spending Millions To “Reinvent” The Democrat Party A billionaire hedge fund couple is dumping millions into a high-stakes effort to push the Democratic Party away from its increasingly radical left flank and challenge its entrenched leadership. Steve and Sue Mandel, wealthy Democrat donors from Greenwich, Connecticut, have committed at least $20 million to a network of political groups aimed at […]

Bolivia’s Energy Crisis Deepens As Natural Gas Reserves Run Dry Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice, Bolivia’s dwindling natural gas reserves and declining exports have undermined its economy and intensified fuel shortages. Rising global energy prices and subsidy cuts have increased living costs and fueled widespread protests. A $1.9 billion IMF rescue package and energy-sector reforms aim to stabilize the economy, but […]

Japan’s Electricity Prices Surge 25% As LNG And Coal Costs Soar Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice, Japan’s average power prices jumped by over 25% at the start of this week from the previous week amid soaring LNG and higher coal prices. The nationwide power price rose by over 25% week-to-week to $0.19 (31.15 Japanese yen) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on Monday, Bloomberg reported, citing data from Japan Electric Power […]

Feds Using DNA To Probe Ilhan Omar ‘Married Her Brother’ Claim, Eye Conspiracy Charge: Report Federal prosecutors plan to use DNA evidence in their criminal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), people familiar with the probe told the New York Post on Monday. One source said the DNA is critical to proving the long-running allegation that Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a marriage to her brother, made so he […]

$270 Million In Suspicious Student Aid Fraud Flagged By Treasury Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has discovered roughly $270 million in suspicious financial activity likely associated with student aid program fraud. FinCEN issued an alert in July asking financial institutions to report suspicious activities linked to student aid […]

The Great Rare Earth Disconnect: Prices Up 23%, Miners Down 28% Here is a question that should be harder to answer than it is: China still controls the rare earth spigot, the latest Trump-Xi summit did nothing to loosen its grip, Japan is about to run out of yttrium, Washington has put a $110/kg floor under NdPr, and Western buyers are paying anywhere from 5x to 346x the Chinese price for heavy rare earths. So why are rare earth […]

“A Good Idea”: SpaceX Jumps On Blowout Quarter, Musk Confirms Committees Discussing Tesla Merger Update (1730ET): The earnings call has seen SPCX shares extend their after-hours gains amid a tsunami of attention-grabbing comments from Elon Musk and CFO Bret Johnsen. Perhaps the most shocking was Musk saying that he sees between $500 billion and $1 trillion of annual recurring revenue by the end of 2027. Then he stepped it up […]

The Deep(er) Midterms Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away. One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and […]

US Nears Russia Deal To Free Detained Americans, Witkoff En Route To Moscow ABC and The New York Times are reporting that multiple Americans detained in Russia could soon be free as part of a major Trump deal with Moscow.  Negotiations are said to be in the final stages, with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff set to be in Moscow on Wednesday. And so a major announcement and release could happen by the time he leaves the Russian […]