Political Betting Slumps On Prediction Markets As Crypto And Sports Boom Americans head to the voting booths today with Democrats favored to take control of both the House and Senate according to mainstream polls and prediction markets. Attention has shifted to prediction markets, where the implied probability of a Democratic sweep stands at roughly 75%, down slightly from 78% earlier this morning.The attention on prediction […]

Tech/Crypto Tank As Dem Midterms Sweep Odds Soar: Watch Election Night Results Live Here And so it begins…2040ET: Senate: 43D – 32R ~~ House: 42D – 18R ~~ Governor: 11D – 8RAs a reminder, President Trump posted on his TruthSocial this morning that “I think Midterm results will be better than you think.”We shall see…The market does not like the way this is going……as Dem Gina Hinojosa takes an early lead against Greg Abbot in […]

New Jersey Governor Bans “Illegal Russian Fuel” Inbound To Ports New Jersey Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill warned port and terminal operators in the state against “purchasing or unloading the illegal Russian fuel currently bound for the east coast of the United States.” Sherrill’s move threatens to complicate President Trump’s efforts to bring Russian diesel into US markets to ease high industrial fuel prices amid a severe […]

Scott Galloway’s Unhinged Tirade Against Elon Musk Takes A Very Dark Turn… Marketing professor and anti-MAGA podcaster Scott Galloway launched an unhinged attack on Elon Musk, branding the billionaire a “traitor to the West” before invoking the infamous Rosenberg espionage case, which ended with the execution of two Americans during the Cold War.Galloway spewed the incendiary comments during a discussion with former technology […]

Korybko: Washington’s Claims Of Canadian Meddling Are Interesting & Ironic Authored by Andrew Korybko via Korybko (Substack),They’re interesting because few could have predicted that Canada of all countries would one day meddle in American elections, and they’re ironic because the examples cited are a sliver of how the US regularly meddles in other countries’ elections.The US Embassy in Canada released a fact sheet in late […]

‘Made In China’ Hypercar Crashes In 300-MPH Test-Run Chinese automotive news website CarNewsChina reports that BYD’s Yangwang U9 Xtreme supercar crashed on a closed-loop track in China while attempting to reach a mind-boggling 500 kilometers per hour, or about 311 miles per hour.Footage of the $3 million Yangwang U9 Xtreme shows the hypercar striking a barrier at high speed. The impact tore the vehicle to shreds, but the cockpit […]

California Released 24,000 Illegal Immigrants With ICE Detainers, DHS Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,Almost 24,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges have been released into communities since Jan. 20, 2025, due to California’s refusal to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.”There are more than 81,000 criminal charges […]

Eisenkot Refuses To Join US-Backed ‘Unity Government’ With Netanyahu Via The CradleIsraeli Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot says he will not serve in any government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even at the personal request of US President Donald Trump, Israel’s Public Broadcaster (KAN) reported Monday.”I will not sit in a government led by Netanyahu,” Eisenkot reportedly said during a recent closed-door meeting, […]

Jim Bovard: Cynicism Should Win The Mid-Term Elections Authored by Jim BovardIn an era of clueless voters and profoundly dishonest candidates, cynicism is one of the last best checks on political power run amok.  Regardless of the final vote count in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections, both Republicans and Democrats have earned all the distrust they will reap.   Any hope that elections would safeguard the Constitution […]

Do Young People Understand the Democratic Socialists Of America? Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times,Polls show that many young folks in their 20s and 30s favor the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Some polls estimate that more than 40 percent of folks in that demographic think that socialism, rather than capitalism, is a beneficial system for society.However, do these young people truly understand what the DSA […]

Haley Stevens Gave Democrat Voters ‘Permission To Change Their Minds’ And Vote For Mike Rogers Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) dropped a bombshell endorsement on Sunday, switching her support from Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed to Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race a mere two days before Election Day. Her move drew swift condemnation from leaders and allies in her own party. Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike […]

Mysterious Group Plots To Mass-Dox America’s Billionaires, Teases First Targets A shadowy international group calling itself The Capytistas is preparing to expose the private homes of some of America’s wealthiest individuals in a new campaign, according to a dossier viewed by WIRED. Trillionaire and former presidential adviser Elon Musk speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 26, 2025.Jim […]

AMD Soars After Blowout $17 Billion Guide… As Free Cash Flow Quietly Shrinks To 4% Of Revenue Three months ago, AMD beat on every line and the stock crashed anyway. Tonight, the market got the number it wanted.After a brutal month in which AMD shares lost more than a quarter of their value, pummeled first by Intel’s PC warning and then by the broader AI capex hangover, Lisa Su delivered the one thing that matters in this tape: a […]

Inside The $250 Electric Bill: Dissecting The Midterms’ Most Hated Piece Of Mail Today, for perhaps the first time in modern American history, the monthly electric bill is on the ballot.Not literally, of course (although in nine states, utility commissioners literally are), but as Reuters put it on Friday, this could be “the first election to feature utilities and electricity, specifically, as a prominent issue in the midterms.” […]

Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, & Paradoxes Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency’s expansive powers.2022 vs. 2026In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4 a gallon through October, on the eve of the […]

“Technical Glitch” Disrupts Westchester Voting, Potentially Affecting 250,000 Ballots Summary: Blamed on a “Technical Glitch” Westchester County Key House BattlegroundVoting Machines Reject Paper Ballots Across Westchester County”Technical Glitch” Impacts 250,000 Ballots In Westchester CountyWhat is now being called a “technical glitch” has prevented voting machines across Westchester County, New York, from scanning ballots at 332 […]

The Great Wealth Divide: Own The Right Assets… Or Fall Behind Authored by Kelly Caro via Doug Casey’s International Man,Let’s start with three assumptions that I consider rock-solid.1. Government spending will continue to grow.2. The government will need more currency debasement to finance that spending.3. Wages will not keep up.If I had to distill this into a single point, it would be:You can’t outrun the money printer by working […]

Leaving Las-Vega: Nomura Structured-Notes Head Says Banks Face ‘Hedging Squeeze’ Amid Booming Business Structured notes have been booming, with SEC-registered US notes on track to hit about $300 billion this year, up from roughly $200 billion last year. But the demand that had been levitating option premiums has gone, according to Alex Micalizzi, Nomura’s international head of equity structured notes, leaving the banks that sell […]

Iran Rejects Latest Draft Proposal To End War: US ‘Must Act On 7 Conditions’ To Reopen Hormuz SummaryIran Rejects US Draft Proposal: Tehran insists all seven conditions must be met before reopening the Strait of Hormuz.Negotiations Remain Uncertain: Reports of US-Iran concessions raised hopes of a breakthrough, but Iran indicates a deal remains distant.Back to Headline Ping-Pong: Oil prices initially plunged on optimism over […]

McHaggis? Court Green-Lights Lawsuit Alleging That The McRib Contains Non-Rib Meat Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org,Many were excited when McDonald’s recently announced, “The McRib is back.” The question is whether it is really back or really a McRib. In an interesting decision out of Chicago, U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled that McDonald’s must go to trial on a class action lawsuit alleging that the popular […]

Berkeley Voters To Decide Whether To Initiate Public Bank With New Parcel Tax Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times,Voters in Berkeley, California, will decide in the coming election whether to start a public bank using a new parcel tax as seed money in order to create long-term investments in affordable housing, green energy, and small businesses.Public banking is on the ballot in Berkeley! Measure Z would fund Public Bank East […]

Physical Oil Flips From Bidding War To Fire Sale As Gulf Barrels Flood Back For much of the past two months, the most important oil price in the world was the one nobody saw on TV.While ICE Brent futures chopped around in a range, the price of actual, deliverable barrels went parabolic: as we noted at the time, Dated Brent refused to come down even as Gulf flows recovered, North Sea Forties was quoted above $140 a barrel in early […]

Expert Flags Crucial Mistake That May Have Doomed Florida Learjet The crucial mistake may have come before the Learjet began its fatal plunge: flying into dangerous weather instead of going around it, according to a veteran pilot interviewed by the New York Post.Justin Crabbe, a pilot and CEO of charter-booking platform Jettly, told the paper that air traffic controllers had given the crew flexibility to avoid the weather before […]

BMW ADRs Tumble On Full-Year Outlook Cut, China Demand Woes Add BMW to the growing list of European automakers slashing forecasts due to softening demand, especially in China.BMW’s ADRs fell 5% late in the US cash session after news that the struggling automaker slashed its full-year automotive profit outlook to around breakeven and warned of delivery declines. The European automaker said it would accelerate restructuring and phase […]

Houthis Launch Cross-Border Ground Raids On Saudi Territory Fresh reporting in Mideast regional outlets suggesst a major escalation in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. While drones and missiles have been launched on Saudi territory almost daily since September, a new report says that Houthi militants are actually conducting ground force incursions.In a development that’s been largely unreported, “The Houthis have launched multiple […]