Economy & Finance

President Trump ‘Curious’ Why Iran Hasn’t ‘Capitulated’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday that President Trump was “curious” that Iran hasn’t “capitulated” to US demands due to the major US military buildup in the Middle East and threats of war. […]

US Dominates Global Data Center Population Data centers power everything from streaming and cloud storage to the AI systems reshaping industries. When it comes to scale, one country stands far ahead. The U.S. has 3,960 data centers in this dataset – more than the next 14 countries combined. The map below, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo

What The FBI Is Investigating In Criminal Probe Of 2020 Election Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), After the election offices of Georgia’s most populous county were raided last month, the FBI has disclosed information indicating where its investigation is heading. FBI agents are seen at the facility in Union City, Ga.,

US Begins Evacuating Some Personnel From Beirut Embassy As Iran War Looms When it comes to the Middle East and rising tensions, the most watched US diplomatic compound in the whole region is the American embassy in Beirut. When things get hot, or America is at war, the threat level is always raised here first

Is China Really Dumping US Treasuries? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “China is dumping US Treasuries to get out of the dollar.” This claim has been circulating the mainstream feeds lately, with the narrative that the “end of the dollar is near,” or “the US will lose its funding base” and the “bond yields will surge.” But are those claims

“The World Is In Peril”: Anthropic’s Safety Boss Quits Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, Most people have never heard of Mrinank Sharma. That is part of the problem. Earlier this month, Sharma resigned from Anthropic, one of the most influential artificial intelligence companies in the world. He had led its Safeguards Research

Iran Strike Debate Erupts: Joint Chiefs Chair Allegedly Resists, Trump Fires Back Military generals tend to be much more realistic about the potential negative consequences of going to war, as well as difficulties and challenges, over and against the often more hawkish policy-makers. Currently, Pentagon generals appear to be belatedly speaking up, as Washington beats

Mexico’s Cartel Decapitation Strike Fallout: “Not The End, Just The Beginning” Mexican journalist Luis Cárdenas, listed as a journalist at MVS Noticias and a contributor to El Universal and El Heraldo de México, spoke with security analyst Oscar Balmen about the Mexican Army Special Forces’ decapitation strike against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) by

What Causes Stagflation? Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, In the late 1960’s Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman challenged the popular view that there can be a sustainable trade-off between inflation and unemployment. In fact, over time, according to Friedman, expansionary central bank policies set the platform for lower economic growth and a higher rate of inflation