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  • AI is boosting demand for high skill tech jobs while quietly killing entry-level roles
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on March 6, 2026 at 11:36 pm

    AI is raising demand for builders, not erasing them In February, a Citadel Securities analysis using Indeed data showed software-engineer job postings rising while overall job postings stayed weaker. That split does not mean AI is creating jobs across the whole economy. However, one of the clearest fears around large language models may be somewhat The post AI is boosting demand for high skill tech jobs while quietly killing entry-level roles […]

  • After $679 million in Iran war bets, Democrats move to ban prediction markets tied to military action
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on March 6, 2026 at 9:05 pm

    Washington lawmakers are moving on multiple fronts to curb the most politically toxic corners of prediction markets after millions of dollars flowed into bets tied to US-linked military action in Iran. Over the past week, several Democratic lawmakers have been pursuing multiple paths to rein in the fast-rising business. One effort, led by Rep. Mike The post After $679 million in Iran war bets, Democrats move to ban prediction markets tied to […]

  • Bitcoin could tag $90,000 again but only if this level stops acting like a sell wall for trapped traders
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on March 6, 2026 at 7:10 pm

    Bitcoin’s brief rally above $73,000 during the past day has the feel of a price performance that could still fade, fast, noisy, and familiar to anyone who has watched bear-market rebounds fail. What is different this time is not the price print, but the growing alignment of signals pointing to a possible transition out of The post Bitcoin could tag $90,000 again but only if this level stops acting like a sell wall for trapped traders appeared […]

  • Oil shock could send Bitcoin down 45% if price surge forces Fed to delay cuts
    by Gino Matos on March 6, 2026 at 5:05 pm

    President Donald Trump projected four to five weeks for the conflict with Iran to come to an end. The market priced its playbook: headline shock, brief spike, diplomatic theater, then normalization. That script worked in 2019 when drones hit Saudi Aramco facilities, and Brent jumped 15% only to surrender the entire gain within weeks. Traders The post Oil shock could send Bitcoin down 45% if price surge forces Fed to delay cuts appeared first on […]

  • The $3 trillion private credit boom is starting to crack — and Bitcoin could feel it first
    by Gino Matos on March 6, 2026 at 3:05 pm

    Blue Owl Capital’s OBDC II fund permanently halted redemptions in February. The firm replaced quarterly tenders with return-of-capital distributions funded by loan repayments and asset sales, committing to return roughly 30% of net asset value within 45 days. Blue Owl also announced plans to sell $1.4 billion of assets across three credit funds to generate The post The $3 trillion private credit boom is starting to crack — and Bitcoin could […]

  • Bitcoin volatility could explode in April as SEC reviews the market behind ETF leverage
    by Gino Matos on March 6, 2026 at 1:15 pm

    On Apr. 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission will host a public roundtable on listed options market structure covering quote-driven competition, customer experience, and growth. This is standard regulatory fare, except that Bitcoin exposure is migrating into regulated, centrally cleared products just as the SEC is reconsidering how the machinery works. Small changes to spreads, The post Bitcoin volatility could explode in April as SEC […]

  • Bitcoin mining profit plummets to $500 per BTC as costs surge past $70k as Wall St funds miners’ AI escape hatch
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on March 6, 2026 at 10:11 am

    Wall Street is pouring billions into public Bitcoin mining companies, but the investment thesis has little to do with the emerging industry’s future. Instead, the financial institutions are treating these crypto firms as critical power-and-permitting infrastructure, a scarce asset in an artificial intelligence boom that is increasingly constrained not by a lack of advanced semiconductors, The post Bitcoin mining profit plummets to $500 per BTC […]

  • Bitcoin fails again at $71,500 as weakening momentum raises risk of a deeper pullback
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on March 5, 2026 at 7:10 pm

    Bitcoin has again failed to hold $71,500, reinforcing the level as a long-term ceiling while global markets shift into a risk-off environment driven by rising oil prices and higher bond yields. The latest rejection came after Bitcoin briefly rose past $73,000, then lost momentum and fell back below $71,500. The move extends a pattern that The post Bitcoin fails again at $71,500 as weakening momentum raises risk of a deeper pullback appeared […]

  • Israel’s Iran war will soon cost the equivalent of 41,300 Bitcoin every week
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on March 5, 2026 at 5:05 pm

    Israel’s Finance Ministry has put a weekly price tag on the country’s widening war with Iran, estimating that the economy could take a hit of more than 9 billion shekels (equivalent to $2.93 billion) a week if emergency limits on activity remain in place. The estimate links the economic toll to the Home Front Command’s The post Israel’s Iran war will soon cost the equivalent of 41,300 Bitcoin every week appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Ripple quietly appears inside Wall Street’s stock-clearing system as it expands XRP payments platform
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on March 5, 2026 at 3:15 pm

    Ripple is sharpening its argument that it can help institutions move value across traditional rails, stablecoins, and blockchain networks. On March 2, DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation updated its MPID directory to add Ripple-owned “Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC” for its first trade. The entry appears under the OTC column. A day later, Ripple The post Ripple quietly appears inside Wall Street’s stock-clearing system as […]

  • How To AI-Proof Your Resumé
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 4:00 am

    How To AI-Proof Your Resumé Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a critical threshold that online job seekers must cross, but the technology has presented a unique challenge. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock As employers increasingly lean on AI systems to screen, schedule, and evaluate candidates, applicants must learn how to get past the algorithm […]

  • Minnesota State Employee Who Vandalized Teslas Last Year ‘Punished’ With 1-Day Suspension
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 3:35 am

    Minnesota State Employee Who Vandalized Teslas Last Year ‘Punished’ With 1-Day Suspension Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, A Minnesota state employee who vandalized six Tesla vehicles last year, causing up to $21,000 in damage, received no jailtime and just a single-day suspension from his job, state records show. Dylan Adams, an employee with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), was caught on Tesla […]

  • California May Flip 50-Year Nuclear Moratorium
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 3:10 am

    California May Flip 50-Year Nuclear Moratorium California, long a leader in aggressive renewable energy mandates, is showing early signs of softening its decades-old ban on new nuclear power. Bloomberg reported cracks are appearing in the state’s 1976 moratorium, driven by surging electricity demand from AI data centers and the challenge of hitting absurd climate targets like 90% clean electricity by 2035 and 100% by 2045. At the […]

  • Why’d The US Temporarily Waive Sanctions On India’s Purchase Of Russian Oil?
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 2:45 am

    Why’d The US Temporarily Waive Sanctions On India’s Purchase Of Russian Oil? Authored by Andrew Korybko, The “politically inconvenient” truth is that the US is unilaterally reshaping the world order in a bid to restore unipolarity, and regardless of one’s opinion about this, it’s objectively achieved some tangible progress as of late. Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett announced that Indian refiners had just been […]

  • These Are The Retailers That Change Prices Most Often…And When They Offer The Largest Discounts
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 2:20 am

    These Are The Retailers That Change Prices Most Often…And When They Offer The Largest Discounts Dynamic pricing is becoming a defining feature of modern retail, with more of America’s best-known brands adjusting prices in real time based on demand, timing, and market conditions, according to Decodo.  A new report from Decodo, which analyzed more than 1.5 million data points across 120 global eCommerce retailers, reveals which […]

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  • ‘Victory’ In Iran Will Look Nothing Like 1945
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 1:55 am

    ‘Victory’ In Iran Will Look Nothing Like 1945 Authored by James Howard Kunstler, You probably wonder what the end of this war will look like. It won’t look like V-J Day in Times Square, 1945, with sailors kissing girls they met five seconds ago. Our country is way too divided and disturbed with politically-inflected mental illness for love to bloom in the streets like it did then. If you happen to catch the glum crew on CNN you […]

  • Bessent Says US May “Unsanction” More Russian Oil Amid Energy Crisis
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 1:30 am

    Bessent Says US May “Unsanction” More Russian Oil Amid Energy Crisis Yesterday, when discussing the stunning development that Russia would be granted a one-month license to sell (formerly) sanctioned oil to india while the Straits of Hormuz are blocked, we said that this step is just the start, and precited “unlimited extensions” in the future. We had to wait less than 24 hours for this to come true. Speaking to Fox Business, […]

  • 3 Reasons Why Obamacare Is So Hard To Fix
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 1:05 am

    3 Reasons Why Obamacare Is So Hard To Fix Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, Obamacare had problems even before it launched in 2014. Marketplace websites were glitchy during the open enrollment period, frustrating many would-be customers. Sweeping changes ushered in by the Affordable Care Act, the law creating Obamacare, all but guaranteed that premiums would increase—which they did by 23 percent in the […]

  • FBI Investigating Suspected Cyber Attack On Sensitive Surveillance Network
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 12:40 am

    FBI Investigating Suspected Cyber Attack On Sensitive Surveillance Network The FBI is scrambling to investigate a suspected cybersecurity incident involving a sensitive internal network used to manage court-ordered wiretaps and foreign-intelligence surveillance warrants, according to CNN. The bureau confirmed the activity in a brief statement, saying that it had “identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks” […]

  • US Gasoline Demand Fell Further Amid Long-Term Structural Shift: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption
    by Tyler Durden on March 7, 2026 at 12:15 am

    US Gasoline Demand Fell Further Amid Long-Term Structural Shift: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street, Gasoline consumption in the US, in terms of product supplied to gas stations, declined by about 1% in 2025, to 8.91 million barrels per day, according to EIA data, below where consumption had first been in 2003, even though the US population increased by 52 million people, or by 18%, over the […]

  • Dems To Keep Blocking DHS Funds Despite Noem Firing
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 11:50 pm

    Dems To Keep Blocking DHS Funds Despite Noem Firing On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and tapped Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma as her replacement, marking the first administration shake-up of Trump’s second term. Democrats had been demanding her ouster for months, but they’ve made it quite clear that the move changed nothing in their eyes, and the standoff over […]

  • 4 Takeaways From Top Minnesota Officials’ Testimony On State’s Massive Fraud
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 11:25 pm

    4 Takeaways From Top Minnesota Officials’ Testimony On State’s Massive Fraud Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two of Minnesota’s top officials, Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, testified before Congress for more than four hours on March 4 about their state’s multibillion-dollar fraud controversies. (L-R) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Rev. […]

  • “We Have An Emergency”: Newsom’s Climate Obsession Could Wreak Havoc California’s Oil Industry
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 11:00 pm

    “We Have An Emergency”: Newsom’s Climate Obsession Could Wreak Havoc California’s Oil Industry The oil-and-gas industry is sounding the alarm over a tightening of California’s cap-and-invest program, warning that stricter emissions caps could drive up gasoline prices and jeopardize the viability of in-state refining. The California Air Resources Board is advancing amendments to the cap-and-invest framework, a market-based […]

  • Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court And Trump With DEI ‘Rebrand’
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 10:40 pm

    Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court And Trump With DEI ‘Rebrand’ Authored by Teresa R. Manning via American Greatness, Just over a year ago, President Trump issued two executive orders banning destructive diversity ideology (a.k.a. “DEI” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion”) from the federal government and its contractors, including colleges and universities. The EOs sought to restore merit as […]

  • Mills: Trump Admin “Reveling In The Carnage” As Tehran Burns
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 10:20 pm

    Mills: Trump Admin “Reveling In The Carnage” As Tehran Burns Last night, Bret Weinstein joined ZeroHedge to moderate a debate on the Iran war featuring Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative (magazine founded by Pat Buchanan), and Max Abrahms, Northeastern University professor and terrorism expert. The discussion went far and wide. From Chabad to whether the war has strengthened Iranian hardliners to the […]

  • USPS Could Run Out Of Funds Within A Year Without Congressional Action: Postmaster General
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    USPS Could Run Out Of Funds Within A Year Without Congressional Action: Postmaster General Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General David Steiner said on March 4 that the service could run out of cash reserves within a year unless Congress removes a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money. A USPS van driver parks the car on a street in Manhattan, New […]

  • AIPAC-Targeted ‘AK Guy’ Set To Take GOP House Seat After Sex-Suicide Scandal
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 9:40 pm

    AIPAC-Targeted ‘AK Guy’ Set To Take GOP House Seat After Sex-Suicide Scandal His reputation shredded by a sex scandal involving a staffer who committed suicide, incumbent Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales said he was no longer seeking re-election, handing the GOP nomination to YouTube gun personality Brandon Herrera. If his last bid for office is any indication, the self-nicknamed “AK Guy” could soon find himself in the […]

  • The Fog Of Oil
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    The Fog Of Oil Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, War, oil and gold are making headlines of late for overlapping and independent reasons. Below, we avoid the guesswork, finger-pointing or sensationalism attendant to current headlines concerning Iran and stick to a theme which offers some clarity, namely the interplay of oil and gold. The Fundamentals Stay the Same For years, of course, we have tracked the […]

  • Oracle & OpenAI Scrap Texas Data Center Expansion Plan, Sending AI Stocks Lower
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 8:40 pm

    Oracle & OpenAI Scrap Texas Data Center Expansion Plan, Sending AI Stocks Lower AI-related stocks are sliding late in the New York cash session after Bloomberg News reported that Oracle and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, from about 1.2 GW to 2.0 GW. Sources said the expansion was canceled after talks stalled over financing issues and OpenAI’s changing demand forecasts. […]

  • Trump Ready To Continue Operations Until Iranians “Can’t Fight Any Longer”
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 8:10 pm

    Trump Ready To Continue Operations Until Iranians “Can’t Fight Any Longer” Summary: Trump sticking to surrender demand, freshly telling Axios, but tweaking the messaging a bit compared to earlier: “Unconditional surrender could be that [the Iranians] announce it. But it could also be when they can’t fight any longer because they don’t have anyone or anything to fight with.”  Trump’s expected timeline on Operation Epic […]

  • Nearly 20,000 Americans Have Safely Returned Home From The Mid-East: State Dept
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 7:40 pm

    Nearly 20,000 Americans Have Safely Returned Home From The Mid-East: State Dept Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly 20,000 U.S. citizens have returned safely from the Middle East since Feb. 28, when the Iran conflict broke out, Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary at the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, said in a March 5 statement. Smoke rises from a reported Iranian strike in the industrial […]

  • ASP Isotopes Signs MOU With Major Nuclear Operator
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 7:20 pm

    ASP Isotopes Signs MOU With Major Nuclear Operator ASP Isotopes announced Thursday that its Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) subsidiary has entered “a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a large publicly traded U.S. energy company that operates nuclear power stations”. Under the agreement, the utility will evaluate options to provide support and potential financing for QLE’s planned U.S. facilities focused on High […]

  • Did Trump Force China’s Hand? Beijing Nears 500-Jet Boeing Deal Ahead Of Xi Summit
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 7:10 pm

    Did Trump Force China’s Hand? Beijing Nears 500-Jet Boeing Deal Ahead Of Xi Summit Boeing shares moved higher in late-afternoon trading in New York after Bloomberg News reported that the planemaker may be nearing one of the largest sales in its history, potentially to be unveiled during President Trump’s trip to China later this month. People familiar with the potential Boeing-China jet deal said it could be announced during […]

  • It Was All A Mirage: 2.5 Million Native-Born US Workers Were Just Revised Away
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 6:40 pm

    It Was All A Mirage: 2.5 Million Native-Born US Workers Were Just Revised Away One of Donald Trump’s core pre-election promises (along with cracking down on immigration and no more foreign wars) was to boost employment for local-born Americans at the expense of the record employment for foreign-born, mostly illegal, workers. And for a while it worked: four months ago, when discussing the September jobs report, we said that while the […]

  • “Most Dangerous Geopolitical Blitz Since Bretton Woods”: Trump Says Cuba’s Communist Regime Is Next To Fall
    by Tyler Durden on March 6, 2026 at 6:20 pm

    “Most Dangerous Geopolitical Blitz Since Bretton Woods”: Trump Says Cuba’s Communist Regime Is Next To Fall “We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready,” President Trump told CNN in an interview on Friday morning. The president told CNN reporter Dana Bash that Havana will “fall pretty soon” and that he will “place Marco over there.”  2/7 ON CUBA: President Trump said, “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon.” He said he’s going to “put […]

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