August 2025

Tesla Fined $243 Million By Florida Jury In Autopilot Crash Lawsuit Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tesla shares responsibility for an accident involving its vehicle’s Autopilot system, and must pay $243 million as compensation, a jury from the District Court, Southern District of Florida, said in an Aug. 1 verdict. […]

Gold Signals War – Martin Armstrong Warns Of “Panic Cycle In 2026” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Less than two weeks ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong warned his “Socrates” predictive computer program showed a “100% Chance of Nuclear War.”   Since then, a war of words has flared up between President Trump and Russia, and he

Tesla Board Approves 96 Million Share Stock Award To “Retain” Elon Musk  Tesla’s Board approved a special interim equity award for Elon Musk to compensate and retain him for “extraordinary work”.  “As you know, Elon has not received meaningful compensation for eight years since the 2012 CEO Performance Award was last earned in 2017,” Robyn Denholm &

UPenn Student Paper: School Caving To Trump Admin Over Men In Women’s Sports Is “Fascism” By Dave Huber of The College Fix The University of Pennsylvania student paper is very upset the school agreed to Trump administration demands regarding men’s participation in women’s sports — so much so it says UPenn is “descending into fascism” (its

The Risk Of Too Much Optimism Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, After a long period of “complacency” in the market, volatility finally returned on Friday, dropping more than 1%. As we noted Friday morning, before the market opened: “While stretches have previously been longer, a consideration of such an event is that low volatility tends to beget

Most Americans Won’t Get COVID-19 Booster This Fall, Survey Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A majority of Americans said they will likely not receive a COVID-19 booster vaccine this fall, according to a poll released Friday. A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 25,

Go Ahead And Rage At Boomers, But The Problem Is The Entire Economic Order Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The entire economic order is bankrupt–ideologically, politically and financially. A friend sent me a clip of Tucker Carlson going off on the Boomer generation, and I get it. Tucker’s takedown was epic and entertaining

German Military Sees 28% Surge In Recruits As Leaders Hype Russia Threat Germany’s historic reversal on its military posture and stregnth has long been on display since near the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. Berlin has been drastically expanding its military spending and is even recently mulling compulsory service for the nation’s armed forces. But

Russia’s Nuclear Ambitions Face Funding Crisis Via Eurasianet.org,m Russian energy entities, including Rosatom, are experiencing significant financing difficulties, raising doubts about their ability to fulfill international energy project commitments. Kazakhstan has decided to independently build thermal power plants originally contracted to Russia’s Inter RAO due to a lack of promised financing, and is increasingly turning to