Pink-Clad Feminist Mob Rallies In Support Of Confessed Child Murderer A mob of liberal women decked out in pink is taking to the streets in front of the Plymouth Superior Courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a rally in support of Lindsay Clancy during her ongoing murder trial.  The group, which is often accused of being “terminally online”, has been invading social media discussions for weeks to inject arguments in defense of […]

Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Intervening Oneself Out Of Quagmire? Yesterday’s market moves again showed that jawboning and temporary interventions are rarely enough when the underlying problem is fundamental. As a “thank you” for Trump’s last-minute intervention to reduce joint US-South Korean military drills – and his claim to have spoken with Kim Jong Un […]

Lacy Hunt: Fed’s Been “Stealth-Easing” Since December “We’re seeing a major secular shift, that we’re now moving into a period of capital shortage, as well as we’re witnessing the end of the three-decade period of globalization, which led to significant disinflation.” That prediction comes from Dr. Lacy Hunt, once one of the bond market’s most prominent bulls and secular disinflationists. Well… no longer. He’s now a […]

They’re Getting Revenge, Starting Today… Via the Tom Woods Letter, I absolutely insist to you: I really am trying to stop writing about this topic. But too much insanity keeps breaking out, and I have no choice but to comment on it. You know the story: a Cambridge academic, Jason Arday, was found to have plagiarized his dissertation, borrowed heavily from others in his published articles, produced essentially worthless […]

Services Sector Survey Surge Sparks US Growth Rebound Hopes In August After a relatively ugly series of disappointing macro data – and a hectic week of interventions – preliminary August data from S&P Global’s PMI survey was expected to signal a slowdown in growth for the US economy (but still growth). But, the respondents had other things on their mind as while Manufacturing slipped, the Services sector of the economy soared […]

China Sentences Evergrande Founder To Life In Prison Five years after Chinese property development firm Evergrande Group collapsed under the weight of enormous debt, founder Xu Jiayin was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Xu Jiayin, also known as Hui Ka Yan, founder of property developer Evergrande, appears for sentencing at the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Shenzhen, China, on Aug. 20, 2026. Shenzhen Intermediate […]

Teen Drops Social Media Addiction Claims Against Meta, Google, & Snap, Ahead Of October Trial Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A 15-year-old New Jersey girl whose lawsuit served as a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of designing platforms to addict young users dropped her remaining claims Thursday against Meta Platforms, Google, and Snap Inc. The plaintiff, identified in California […]

Broadcom CDS Explodes As It Seeks Up To $100 Billion In Massive Off-Balance Sheet Debt Deal Amid the growing angst about hyperscaler CapEx (and more specifically, the historic flood of new debt issuance to fund it), attention among the always-bullish equity talking-heads has shifted – and rightfully so – to the bond markets as alarm signals flare up with an increasing frequency. Of course, for ZeroHedge readers, this is not a new […]

China Firmly Rejects US Demand To Back Its ‘Most Crushing Economic Operation’ Against Iran China has firmly rejected Washington’s call to join in implementing US sanctions to “squash” Iran’s economy, pushing back against Trump administration pressure to be part of the “toughest sanctions in history” which has marked a new phase of conflict focused on extended economic warfare, as a military solution is seen as increasingly […]

Futures Rise On Opex Day As Yields Stabilize; Bitcoin Almost Tags $80,000 US futures rebound from Thursday’s slump, and trade at session highs on.  As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures were 0.4% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.6%, while Bitcoin headed for its best week in more than three years, rising just shy of $80,000 before reversing. S&P 500 futures jerked higher and yields extended declines as oil edged lower […]

British Protesters Jailed For Longer Than Migrant Who Sexually Assaulted Girl Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, British men who protested outside an Essex asylum hotel have been locked up for far longer than the migrant whose sexual assaults on a 14-year-old girl and a woman triggered the demonstrations. Charlie Land, 24, and Jonathan Glover, 48, received 32 months and 30 months respectively at Chelmsford Crown Court […]

HSBC Warns Global Zinc Market Is Flashing Signs Of Tightness HSBC’s Global Commodity Team warned Thursday that the zinc market is flashing warning signs of extreme tightness: Global zinc mine supply remains tight: HSBC’s Global Commodity Team expects global mine supply to fall 2.1% y-o-y to 12.5mt in 2026, driven mainly by lower production in Latin America. The zinc market is expected to be slightly tight in 2026e, driven by a […]

Samsung Unleashes $80 Billion Shareholder Return After SK Hynix’s “Buyback Bazooka” To Revive Memory Trade Days after SK Hynix unveiled a staggering 40 trillion won, or $28.6 billion, “buyback bazooka” aimed at putting a floor under its shares following a sharp six-week selloff, Samsung Electronics joined the capital-return push. The world’s largest memory-chip maker said Friday that it plans to return as much as 110 trillion won, […]

Pennies Have Been Abandoned, Now What Will Be Done With Nickels? Authored by Adam Dick via RPI The United States government minted its final penny in November of 2025. This came after fiat money inflation succeeded in depriving pennies of nearly all their value. Pennies are still circulating, but it is increasingly common for stores to round cost totals to avoid giving pennies in change. Also, people seeing that the metal […]

Medieval Diseases Have Returned To Los Angeles In what can only be described as a stunning failure of state and local policy and leadership, Los Angeles County recorded its highest tally of flea-borne typhus cases in 2025, confirming 220 diagnoses, up from 187 the year before, according to the county’s Department of Public Health. Almost nine in ten of those patients ended up hospitalized. Fleas that feed on infected rats, opossums, […]

US To Send Hospital Ship Next Year To Peru To Help With Impact Of El Nino Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, The United States will send a military hospital ship to Peru’s Pacific coast next year to help the country cope with the impact of the El Niño weather phenomenon. Plans to send the hospital ship USNS Comfort to the northern Pacific coast of Peru in February 2027 were confirmed by U.S. Ambassador to Peru […]

Bessent: Aim Is To ‘Collapse’ Iran Regime Through Economic Warfare, But US Unlikely To Restart Major Combat Summary US shifts toward economic warfare, away from military strikes: Bessent says maximum sanctions likely mean no major new military campaign for now. Regime change rhetoric persists: Bessent says Washington intends to “collapse” Iran’s regime. USS George Washington arrives: A new US carrier is now operating in the […]

Popular Ukrainian Official Raises Stakes Against Zelensky With Election Call: Democracy Held ‘Hostage’ Ukrainian President Zelensky is once again under immense internal pressure, amid new corruption investigations which run straight through the presidential office as well as growing calls to finally hold elections despite the ongoing war with Russia. Mykhailo Fedorov, the country’s popular young former defense minister and a […]

Ceuta Invaders Are Now Eating The Cats And Birds: Report Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Volunteer caregivers in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta report that cat colonies are vanishing, dead animals are turning up cut apart, and birds such as pigeons and seagulls are being found half-devoured in the weeks since tens of thousands of migrants poured across the border from Morocco. Nearly three weeks after […]

Houthis Claim Fourth Attack On Saudi Aramco Refineries This Month Yemen’s Houthis, or the Ansar Allah movement, released a statement Thursday announcing new military operations against Saudi Arabia which targeted an Aramco facility and an airport in Najran province, saying that forces “carried out two military operations using two drones.” “The first targeted a sensitive target belonging to the Saudi enemy at Najran Airport, […]

Ukraine Corruption Scandal Deepens: ‘Operation Forrest Gump’ Shocks Zelensky Government With More Searches Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix News, Ukrainian anti-corruption services launched searches under codename “Operation Forrest Gump,” targeting, among others, the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The move expands the ongoing anti-corruption investigation which has seen a number of […]

Pennsylvania Dangles Permitting Carrot For Data Centers That Bring Their Own Power Submitted by Ethan Howland of UtilityDive Pennsylvania will give data center projects preferential permitting treatment if they commit to a set of power supply, environmental and cost-responsibility requirements under an executive order issued Tuesday by Gov. Josh Shapiro, D. The state Department of Environmental Protection will develop the new […]

“Let’s Downsize”: Antifa Uses Instagram To Put ‘Luigi-Style’ Hit On Flock Camera CEO Karlyn Borysenko, who describes herself as an anti-communist analyst and observer of the far-left, posted a screenshot of an Instagram post from an account called “3chordpolitics.” The post could be interpreted as a targeted, implicitly violent communication directed at Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety. With high confidence, the […]

The All-Seeing Eye Authored by Todd Hayen via OffGuardian, What was once the paranoid whisper of conspiracy has become the marketed convenience of ‘life logging’ – yet beneath the promise of perfect memory lies the total erasure of privacy, turning every shrew into a unwitting performer on the surveillance stage. (If you haven’t read enough of my work to know what a “shrew” is, read this: Sheep and Shrew) During a recent […]

Cost Of Living Remains Biggest Challenge Facing Americans The war in Iran marked a significant setback in Americans’ year-long battle with high prices. While inflation has come down a long way from its 2021/2022 highs, when it peaked at 9 percent, it remains elevated at 3.4 percent. More importantly though, as Statista’s Felix Richter reports, people are still struggling to cope with the lasting effects of […]