Ryan Routh Sentenced To Life Behind Bars For Trump Assassination Attempt Update (Wednesday): U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon sentenced Ryan Routh to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Trump during the 2024 presidential election cycle, according to AP News. Federal prosecutors said Routh spent months planning the attack, showed willingness to kill anyone who interfered, and expressed zero remorse during the […]

Nuclear Nuggets From Goldman Offers Snapshot Of Reactor Space, Uranium Prices, Cameco Our Dec. 23 note, “Why the Price of Uranium Is About to Soar,” was published just days before uranium futures surged 25% to above $100 per pound. Prices have since corrected about 10% to around $91 per pound, but the broader thesis remains intact: up and to the right. As we first outlined to readers since December 2020 (read here), uranium has […]

Japan Is Normalizing: Risks To The Yen Carry Trade Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Japan Bond Meltdown Sends Yields to Record High on Fiscal Fears,” read a January 2026 Bloomberg article. Headlines like this, and many others, warn that Japan’s abrupt interest rate increase is an omen of dire trouble. While that may be the case, given decades of economic woes, declining demographics, and extreme […]

Putin Touts Energy Ties With China, While India Still Dodges Issue Of Russian Oil Ban Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video link call on Wednesday, wherein Putin hailed Russia’s energy relationship with China as “strategic” while emphasizing that Beijing has become Moscow’s top buyer of oil and gas since the Ukraine ‘special military operation’ began. The timing is the most notable aspect, […]

NFL: ICE Will Not Be Present At Super Bowl Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Federal immigration officers will not make an appearance at the Super Bowl this year, NFL Chief Security Officer Cathy Lanier announced at a news conference on Feb. 2. “There are no planned ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] or immigration enforcement operations that are scheduled around the Super Bowl or any Super Bowl-related […]

White House Nukes Friday’s Planned Iran Talks, Oil Spikes Update(1235ET): Oil is spiking on this breaking headline that the White House has nuked the Iran nuclear talks: THE NUCLEAR TALKS WERE CANCELED ON FRIDAY DUE TO THE IRANIANS’ REFUSAL TO ENGAGE IN NON-NUCLEAR ISSUES- AXIOS REPORTER “The U.S. told Iran on Wednesday that it will not agree to Tehran’s demands to change the location and format of talks planned for […]

January US Jobs Report Rescheduled For February 11 The government reopened after another theatrical two-day shutdown, but that doesn’t mean that Friday’s payrolls report will come when it is due (after all, it’s not like the BLS had 30 days to prepare for it, oh wait, they did). Instead, the January employment report has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data, originally due […]

Chuck Schumer Claims Voter ID Laws Are The Return Of “Jim Crow” The Democrat Party strategy relies heavily on the tactic of associating everything they don’t like with the race-based conflicts of the past, even though they have no knowledge or understanding of basic history.  Their intention is to energize their low-IQ base with hot button rhetoric while blithely dismissing any reasonable debate on otherwise common sense […]

No Global Recession In 2026, But Period Of Poor Growth Continues Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The IMF estimates for 2026 show no signs of recession. However, the global economy remains in a period of poor growth, high debt, persistent inflation and low productivity. There may not be a recession, but citizens feel poorer as net real wages decline in most economies, remaining below pre-pandemic levels. Why? Because in most […]

LGBT Activist Judge Faces Felony Charges For Wrongfully Detaining A Defense Attorney A Texas LGBT judge with a history of clashing with authorities over her activism has been arrested and charged after she allegedly handcuffed and held a defense attorney captive in her jury box for the crime of arguing for the right to confer with her client during a probation hearing.     Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez was indicted […]

‘Nearly Indestructible’ Fuel: Nano Nuclear CEO Talks ‘Laser Enrichment’ On Shawn Ryan Show 2025 was a watershed moment for the US nuclear industry: enthusiasm for a global nuclear renaissance gripped the investment community as the valuations for publicly traded companies were pushed into the stratosphere. Tickers associated with nuclear reactors were pushed up several hundred percentage points, with Nano Nuclear one of the best […]

WTI Holds Losses As Freezing Temps Sparked Massive Drop In US Production Crude oil prices (WTI) are trending moderately lower this morning as traders weigh geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a report of sharply lower US stockpiles reported by API overnight. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff will hold indirect negotiations in Oman on Friday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim reported, adding […]

What The Hell Happened To Don Lemon? From “Racism Is Over” To White Christian-Hating Radical Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In one of his most revealing moments years ago, Don Lemon sat down with Morgan Freeman and admitted exhaustion with the race narrative. “Sometimes, I get so tired of talking about it,” Lemon said. “I wanna just go, ‘This is over. Can we move on?’” Don Lemon once told Morgan […]

Speculation US May Announce New Nuclear Plant During Korea Trade Negotiations At a time when China, which is now leaps and bounds ahead of the US in energy generation, is building 29 nuclear power plants compared to zero for the US… Since the last update, Russia has added one additional nuclear reactor under construction (up to 5). China is still at 29; the US is still at 0 https://t.co/u9SnLCeFkI pic.twitter.com/2lUIFnXtOL — […]

Tom Homan Announces 700-Agent Drawdown As Minnesota Counties Begin Cooperating With ICE Border czar Tom Homan revealed moments ago at a press conference in Minneapolis that an unprecedented number of counties are now coordinating with federal authorities and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they reach the streets. As a result, Homan noted, fewer federal agents are needed in the metro area. “We currently have an […]

US Services Sector Surveys Signal Solid Growth In January, But… Following the dramatic rebound in US Manufacturing survey data – driven by a surge in new orders – ‘Soft’ data has bounced back dramatically from its post-government shutdown lows (which is ironically occurring as the hard data – which was so resilient through the shutdown – has started to roll over)… …and this morning’s Services Sector survey data builds on […]

Putin ‘Kept His Word’ On Ceasefire, Trump Says, As Large Attacks On Kiev Resume President Trump has praised his Russian counterpart for keeping his word on the brief winter freeze ceasefire. Last week Trump had picked up the phone and urged President Putin to refrain from attacking Kiev and other major cities. Trump said of the surprise pause that Putin had agreed to halt strikes for one week. Trump has newly told reporters that […]

New York To Deploy Legal Observers From AG James’ Office To Monitor Federal Immigration Agents Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, New York is launching a new initiative to monitor immigration enforcement in the state, Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday. Her announcement comes amid heightened tensions and increasing protests, threats, and violence against federal agents carrying out arrests of illegal aliens. […]

No Surprises In Treasury Refunding Statement: No Auction Size Increases For “Next Several Quarters” Ahead of today’s much-anticipated quarterly refunding announcement by the US Treasury, some were hopeful that Bessent could pull an anti-Yellen and forecast a gradual decline in long-term issuance in coming quarters, sending yields lower. None of the happened, however, and instead the Treasury did not surprise markets, announcing that […]

ADP Employment Report Confirms ‘No Hire, No Fire’ Labor Market While we will not be getting the payrolls report this week (due to a very brief govt shutdown), ADP’s Employment report paints a poor picture for hiring (even if jobless claims paints a healthy picture for ‘not firing’) adding just 22k jobs (well below the 45k expected). Goods producing firms added just 1k jobs (Construction +9k, Manufacturing -8k – which has lost […]

Futures Rise Despite Software, AMD Rout Ahead Of Google Earnings US stock futures are up small with Tech lagging on rotation fears, though major indices are off their overnight lows. The AI narrative has been flipped upside down, with traders focused on perceived losers, most of which are in the Software sector, where “there’s no floor” according to one investment manager. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.2%, well […]

Gold Investors: Remember 1933 Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Investors have been rightly impressed by the remarkable run of gold, which in dollar terms has doubled in price over the past year. This performance vastly outpaces the stock markets (which are also sitting near all-time highs) and bitcoin (trading sideways to down for months), the cryptocurrency challenger touted as a “digital gold” safe-haven […]

United Nations Warns That It’s Going Broke Without US Financial Support Officials at the United Nations are pleading for relief this week after admitting that the premier globalist organization is going broke because of US cuts and changes to their budgeting rules which require them to pay back some “unspent funds”.  Unpaid dues from member states are also building. As the Trump administration slashes support over criticism that […]

Melinda French Gates Breaks Silence On Explosive Claims About Bill Gates In Epstein Files Melinda French Gates, the philanthropist and ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has broken her silence on the latest release of damning documents tied to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, saying the renewed scrutiny of her ex-husband’s associations evokes “very, very painful” memories from their marriage. In an interview with NPR’s […]

EU vs. Elon Musk: The Battle Over Free Speech Escalates In Paris Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A raid on Elon Musk’s company X in Paris: On Tuesday morning, the French public prosecutor gained access to the company’s offices. The stated purpose of the investigation is the dissemination of child pornography and violations of personal rights through the spread of Deepfakes. X’s offices in Paris, which were searched by investigators […]