Economy & Finance

Uncharted Territory: US & Russia Now Have No Limits On Nuclear Weapons On Thursday the world woke up entering uncharted territory as the US-Russia New START Nuclear Treaty has expired without renewal. The pact’s last active day was February 4. While there’s yet hope that a comparable replacement could soon be forged between the globe’s largest […]

Leftists Put Hits Out On Nick Shirley After He Exposed Massive Somali Fraud In Minnesota Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Nick Shirley, the YouTuber who went viral for exposing alleged Somali-run daycare fraud in Minnesota, has revealed that leftists have put out hits on his life. In a shocking update, Shirley’s security team informed him he was

Six-Month Low In Coffee Futs Signals Potential Relief After Beans On Amazon Surge Tracking a single brand of dark-roast arabica beans on Amazon via the price-tracking website CamelCamelCamel shows that a 2.2-pound bag has nearly doubled in price since August. For American consumers, paying roughly twice as much for the same bag of coffee beans

New York City Joins WHO’s Global Outbreak Response Network After US Exit Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New York City’s health department said on Feb. 4 it has joined the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the latest Democratic-led jurisdiction to link up with the

Amazon Plunges After Forecasting 50% Surge In Capex To $200BN In our AMZN earnings preview, we said that the price reaction from META and GOOGL “leaves Amazon in a precarious place as it prepares to report earnings after the close today: does it project some berserk number or does it risk being conservative? After all, the

Xi Used Latest 2-Hour Call To Warn Trump On Taiwan Red Lines More details have emerged from Wednesday’s Trump-Xi phone call, which it turns out was quite lengthy for the two leaders, lasting about two hours. We reviewed previously that President Trump hailed the “excellent” call, which was “long and thorough” – but Chinese version

Trump Sidesteps 2028 GOP Endorsement On Vance, Rubio Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. President Donald Trump opted not to choose between Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential successors in the 2028 Republican presidential primary during a Feb. 4 interview with NBC News. U.S.

Amazon Earnings Preview: All Eyes On CapEx At first, the market was happy to reward big capex forecasts (META); but just a few days later, it changed its mind and decided that the bigger the beat, the bigger the penalty (as was the case with GOOGL today). That leaves Amazon in a precarious place as

You Don’t Own Your Stocks the Way You Think You Do Authored by Jack McPherrin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Most Americans believe that when they “buy” a stock, bond, or exchange-traded fund in a brokerage account, they become the legal owner of that security. The statement shows their name, and the shares appear

Newsom Won’t Cut Ties To Homeless Fraudster Firm Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics.com, Borrowing from novelist James Hilton, who coined the word “Shangri-La” to describe a Tibetan utopia in a 1933 novel, Franklin Roosevelt gave that name to the peaceful retreat we know as Camp David. For California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles