Economy & Finance

Downtown Baltimore CRE Crash Signals Deeper Fiscal Crisis Ahead A localized commercial real estate crash has been spreading through downtown Baltimore City’s office market like cancer, with more than $1 billion in property value erased since 2020. The rapid decline of the commercial tax base in the downtown area is colliding with deep structural crises, […]

Ruthless Taxation And The Hyperstate: How Germany Profits From Crisis Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, The Hormuz crisis offers us a profound insight into the real power structures in Germany. Nothing seems able to convince the Berlin monolith to partially shield its citizens from the consequences at gas stations through tax cuts. It is now unavoidable

Alleged Chinese Spy Ship Lurking Near U.S. Base In Qatar Raises Questions The War Zone’s Ian Ellis posted on X about a suspicious Chinese vessel operating in the Gulf area, which he described as a “Chinese surveillance ship” with “close ties” to the People’s Liberation Army. According to Ellis, Hai Yang Shi You (285) was

The Technate Was Always Coming Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, And what you can do about it (besides complaining). Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread,

The Petroyuan Myth: War Failed To Shake The Dollar Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times, Despite sanctions and two wars, the yuan is losing ground, with much of its earlier rise tied to Russia and now reversing. The Kremlin drafted a memo this year outlining seven areas of potential economic convergence with Washington,

FBI Spooked By 15 Stolen Crop-Spraying Drones In New Jersey What has become extraordinarily clear is that nearly every data center, stadium, government building, power plant, substation, and other critical infrastructure site shares one major vulnerability: the lack of a low-cost, early-warning detection layer against one-way attack drones. Additionally, Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) architecture should

Launching AI Into Orbit Authored by Timothy Murphy via RealClearDefense, The Strait of Hormuz reminds us that a single chokepoint can shape the global economy overnight. What most policymakers miss is that space has its own version of Hormuz—and we are rapidly losing control of it. Multiple sectors of the global economy are dependent on

Top US Diplomat Takes Post In Caracas As Part Of Post-Maduro Transition Plan For the first time in many years, the United States has a top diplomat officially in residence representing Washington to Venezuela. Veteran US diplomat John M. Barrett has arrived in Caracas to serve as chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Venezuela,

Trump Admin Pitching US Companies To Rebuild Gulf Infrastructure Hit By Iran, Arab Officials Say ‘Tone-Deaf’ Via Middle East Eye The Trump administration has told several Gulf states that they should use American companies to rebuild their infrastructure damaged by Iran’s retaliatory strikes amid the US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic, US and Arab officials familiar with

Trump Evacuated As Shots Fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Shooter Dead Shots were fired during the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) at the Washington Hilton ballroom on Saturday evening, prompting the immediate evacuation of President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President, and other high-profile attendees by Secret Service. Guests were ordered