February 2026

This Weeks Jobs, JOLTS Reports To Be Delayed Due To Govt Shutdown Here we go again. The government shutdown, which should be lifted in 24-48 hours once the House votes (we reported yesterday that Mike Johnson allegedly has the votes to pass the vote), is again jamming the machinery of government data reporting.  The BLS […]

World’s Nuclear Club Will Grow If US Doesn’t Act By Thursday, Medvedev Warns We reported earlier that the last major nuclear arms control treaty between superpower rivals Russia and the United States is set to expire this week. Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, has throughout the Ukraine

“100% Preventable”: FAA Accepts Its Failures Led To Fatal Midair Collision Near Reagan National Airport Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford said on Feb. 1 that the agency accepts the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that a series of systemic failures by the

ICE Drops $70 Million On Massive Arizona Warehouse To Detain And Deport Illegals Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Arizona is ground zero in the fight to reclaim U.S. borders, with ICE shelling out a whopping $70 million for a 418,000-square-foot warehouse in Surprise—the size of seven football fields—to process and detain illegal aliens targeted

The ‘Full Of Wind’-y City: Chicago Mayor Johnson Puts “ICE On Notice”… Of Meaningless Gesture Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have long been a critic of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has been a disaster for my home city. From moronic proposed taxes to racist comments, Johnson has brought some of the greatest devastation to the city

On-Chain Activity Soars As Crypto Crumbles, ‘Mega-Whales’ Buying The Bitcoin Dip As Retail Runs For Exits Crypto prices are rebounding this morning, after further weakness over the weekend to its lowest since Trump’s election victory.  “From a technical perspective, the recent drawdown is bringing price closer to attractive levels,” said Joel Kruger, a markets strategist

EU Faces Hard Choices After LNG ‘Wake-Up Call’ Authored by Irina Slav, via OilPrice.com, Europe is growing uneasy over its heavy reliance on U.S. LNG, with EU officials warning that energy security risks are shifting rather than disappearing. Diversification options are limited: sanctions on Russian gas and strict EU methane regulations effectively rule out major

Key Events This Week: Payrolls, ISMs, ADP And Many More Earnings Welcome to February with another big sell-off in Gold (-5%) and Silver (-10%) overnight, and a partial US government shutdown that isn’t as severe as the record one before Xmas, and is expected to get resolved soon. Nevertheless, as Jim Reid writes, it’s typical

Huge Surge In New Orders Sends US Manufacturing Activity Near 4 Year Highs With ‘hard’ data sustaining signs of solid growth (e.g. factory orders and jobless claims), ‘soft’ survey data has been bouncing back since the start of the year This morning we get the final Manufacturing PMI data from S&P Global and ISM for