Brent Flirts With $110 Before Reversing As Wright Declares Pump Prices Have “Peaked” Brent crude futures briefly tagged $109.99 a barrel in overnight trading before retreating from five-month highs during the Asian session and into European trading, as signs of recovering Middle Eastern supply offset renewed attacks on energy infrastructure and critical maritime shipping lanes. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright reinforced […]

Struggling Volkswagen Plans Pay Freeze Through 2030 As Job Cuts Loom: Report In another episode of the “death of Europe,” a new report from Germany brings more troubling news for struggling automaker Volkswagen, suggesting to us that globalists in the bloc have squandered not just their inheritance but their economic future through a failing progressive experiment that has neutered Europe’s industrial base. German daily newspaper […]

French Bonds, Stocks Drop As Far-Left, Migrant Riots Worsen; Macron Fails To Restore Order French government bonds sold off, and the CAC 40 fell Monday after a weekend of nationwide riots and chaos intensified concerns over political instability as the Macron government failed to restore order. President Emmanuel Macron conveniently blamed high gas prices, while lefty corporate media ran cover and really tried to reinforce the […]

Growing List Of Major Events Saudi Arabia Forced To Cancel, Postpone Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia have become almost daily at this point, and appear aimed at causing maximal economic and security pain for the kingdom. Riyadh’s international airport has remained closed, as have some other regional hubs that were targeted this month, and flight suspensions to and from Europe and internationally have had a domino […]

Europe Braces For A Winter Energy Crisis As Gas Reserves Run Low Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice, Europe faces another expensive winter as low gas reserves and Middle East disruptions drive up energy prices. Rising fuel costs threaten household budgets, industrial production, and employment across Europe. Increased U.S. LNG supplies could provide some relief, but continued geopolitical risks leave energy […]

70% Of Moroccan Asylee Claims In Ceuta After Mass Entry Cite Persecution Over Sexual Orientation Spanish police say about 70% of the Moroccans processed in Ceuta after July’s mass entry have asked for asylum alleging persecution over their sexual orientation, according to El Periódico de Ceuta, which relays figures from National Police sources first published by the Spanish daily ABC. The number comes from unnamed police sources, […]

Germany’s Rent Control Is Backfiring, New Study Of 107 Cities Finds Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, Across Europe, the housing shortage is getting worse – and left-wing parties have discovered it as a central political issue. Recently, the far-left party DIE LINKE even won the elections in Berlin, the German capital, campaigning on a demand to nationalize large housing companies. In Spain, hundreds of thousands […]

80% Of New UK Payroll Jobs Since 2014 Went To Foreign Nationals, Think Tank Finds Just one in five of the roughly 3.7 million jobs added to UK payrolls from 2014 through the end of 2025 went to British nationals. Non-EU nationals took about 2.5 million of them, roughly two-thirds, and EU nationals another 408,000, leaving Britons with 734,000, according to a Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) analysis of HMRC data. The center-right […]

Dutch Minister: Young Locals Can Just Live With Their Parents, Migrants Get Houses First Via Remix News, Dutch Housing Minister Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan drew sharp criticism this week after defending priority access to scarce social housing for recognized refugees, arguing that many young Dutch first-time home seekers “can still live with their parents.” In an interview with De Telegraaf, the D66 minister was asked why status […]

Omar, Obama, And The Danger Of False Identities Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, On Columbus Day, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant of Representative Ilhan Omar’s home. For several months, there have been rumors that she was under investigation for immigration fraud. A few weeks ago, White House Border Czar Tom Homan acknowledged that the congresswoman was the subject of an […]

Putin Proposes Summit With Trump And Xi To Negotiate End Of Ukraine War; Zelensky Not Invited Amid an escalating war that appears to get farther from any hope of a ceasefire, let alone peace, late on Sunday the WSJ reported that Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow. […]

Trump Issues Full-Throated Endorsement Of Netanyahu Ahead Of Tough Election In what should come as no big surprise at all, President Trump has issued a whole-hearted endorsement for Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as next Israeli prime minister. Axios points out, “This is the first time in the history of the U.S.–Israel relations that a U.S. president explicitly and publicly endorsed a candidate in the Israeli elections.” Getty […]

Pentagon Plans To Withhold Report on Minab School Massacre Past Midterms Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com, Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections. According to an earlier […]

Egypt Approves Troop Deployment In Support Of Saudi Arabia Via The Cradle Egypt announced on Sunday that it has approved the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia on a “defensive mission” to help the kingdom protect itself from the retaliatory military operations carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF). The Egyptian House of Representatives held “an emergency session to discuss the President of the Republic and Supreme […]

“They Will All Go To Jail”: Trump Threatens California Election Officials If They Let Non-Citizens Vote On Friday President Donald Trump warned California election officials that they will go to prison if they count mail-in ballots from about 20,000 people who have been identified as possible noncitizens by the federal government, intensifying the legal dispute with the state mere weeks before the midterm elections. FILE – […]

Saudi Arabia At The Breaking Point Authored by Larry C. Johnson via Sonar 21, For most of this war, Saudi Arabia has been the shock absorber of the world oil market. When Hormuz closed, Riyadh pushed crude west through the East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea and kept at least part of its exports moving. That bypass is now under attack. Ansar Allah has seized islands at the mouth of the Red Sea, declared a “maritime ban” on […]

If This Was A Normal Week… Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Maybe it was because I was in Europe that last week didn’t seem “normal.” Maybe that is why some of the things that I would think are most topical don’t seem topical (or at least weren’t what markets were responding to?). Or maybe it was just a weird week, where the underlying narrative wasn’t as much about the usual suspects, and was much more […]

France Enters “Point Of No Return” As Riots And Chaos Spread President Trump said, “France is burning!” on Truth Social early this morning, as what appears to be the fall of France quickly unfolds. Consumed by nation-killing Third Worldism through a decade of unfettered mass migration and a cancerous far-left movement, the nation is on a troubling trajectory as its imploding welfare state collides with a fiscal mess. Riots across […]

X Gets “Stronger” As Threads And Bluesky Quarantine The “Worst People On The Internet” Meta Platforms’ Threads and rival Bluesky have devolved into far-left echo chambers that some describe as platforms for the clinically insane, where intelligent conversations are severely lacking and discussions become shouting matches among those suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and infected by the woke mind virus. Democrats flee X […]

“Escape Valve” No More: San Francisco Moves To End School Choice Lottery Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times, The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUD) board passed a resolution on Oct. 13 to replace the current lottery-based admission policy with a neighborhood-based system for elementary schools. Board members voted 5-2 to develop a policy under which every student would be assigned to a neighborhood school based […]

Tesla Wins Round In FSD False-Ad Suit As Court Tosses Class Certification Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court blocked Tesla customers in California from pursuing class action claims that the company misled them about the hardware capabilities of its full self-driving (FSD) technology. A class action is a lawsuit filed when a group of people or businesses suffer common injuries as a result of a […]

BTIG Spots “Real-World Evidence” Humanoid Robots Are Entering The Workforce Goldman Sachs’ recent upward revisions to global humanoid robot delivery forecasts through the end of the decade, along with rising estimates across Wall Street desks, point to broader expected adoption in factories, restaurants, and other workplaces. Military applications and household use could follow soon.  BTIG strategic opportunities analyst Jesse […]

Saudi Helicopter Downed, Two Pilots Killed, In First Of Renewed Yemen War Saudi Arabia has confirmed two military pilots are dead after their reconnaissance helicopter crashed near the border with war-ravaged Yemen – the first such reported Saudi military deaths since the renew of war with the Houthis last month. Saudi official statements are calling it a crash, describing it as a malfunction or accident, while the Houthis are […]

Pimco Sees A 6% 10-Year… Here’s Why “Bad Inflation” Caps Yields Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Will interest rates go up to 6%? That’s the question on many investors’ minds since Pimco’s chief investment officer, Dan Ivascyn, told the Financial Times last Friday that a 6% 10-year Treasury yield is “certainly possible.” This week’s hotter-than-expected September CPI report only added fuel to that […]

Live-Fire Drill Sparks Massive Gas Explosion At Canadian Base, Killing 7 A live-fire training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta reportedly ended in a major explosion and wildfire Saturday, leaving at least seven people dead and dozens injured, according to local outlet Global News.  The report said a projectile was fired during the FTX that struck “a gas line or gas well” within the base’s training area, […]