Economy & Finance

Putin Puts A Price Tag On Greenland, Appears To Relish NATO Turning On Itself “This certainly does not concern us,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday at a moment it seems the entirety of the West’s attention is fixated on President Trump’s designs on Greenland. “I think they will sort it out among themselves.” Putin […]

House Republicans Pass Reconciliation Bill Banning Welfare For Illegal Aliens Via American Greatness, House Republicans passed a sweeping new framework for a second reconciliation bill that would ban illegal aliens from receiving a single dime from taxpayer-funded federal welfare programs. The proposal, which was led by the Republican Study Committee (RSC) also seeks to reform

French Navy Intercepts Russia-Linked Oil Tanker In Mediterranean: ‘We’ll Let Nothing Pass’ Thursday saw another Russia-linked tanker, part of the so-called shadow fleet of sanctions evading vessels, boarded by a European country’s navy. Such incidents are ramping up, and likely Moscow is also increasing its security deployments related to protecting the vessels. Just as Ukrainian

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Commutation Of Fraud Sentence Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of conspiring to defraud investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup, has asked President Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence, potentially cutting nearly six years off her time behind bars. Holmes

Bank Of America, Citigroup May Launch Credit Cards With 10% Rate Once again Trump’s brash negotiating style appears to be paying off.  Two weeks after Trump shocked the world by demanding lenders cap credit card interest rates at 10% for one year, Bank of America and Citigroup are exploring options to do just that in an

Democrats Join Republicans In Voting The Clintons In Contempt Of Congress Authored by Jonathan Turley, Yesterday, a curious thing happened in a House Committee. Bill and Hillary Clinton were actually held accountable for flouting the law — at least as a preliminary matter. In the House Oversight Committee, Democrats joined Republicans in approving contempt resolutions

Trump Sues JPMorgan And CEO Jamie Dimon For $5 Billion Over Alleged ‘Political’ Debanking President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon, claiming the banking giant debanked him for political reasons.  The lawsuit was filed Thursday morning in a Miami state court by his attorney, Alejandro Brito, on behalf of Trump

WTI Dips After Geopolitical Risk Eases, Across-The-Board Inventory Builds Oil prices are lower this morning after Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said that the US, Russia and Ukraine will meet in coming days for trilateral team meetings. WTI dropped below $60 as Zelenskiy urged Russia to be “ready for compromises.” Any breakthrough to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine

Court Blocks Feds From Searching Materials Obtained In Raid On WaPo Journalist Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has blocked the government from searching data obtained in a raid last week on the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson. The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge William B. Porter comes

Foreign Policy: Grading Trump’s Second Term So Far Following Dinesh D’Souza and Dave Smith’s clash on what really is America First last week, fault lines were largely drawn on geopolitical lines. Core differences between the Carlson-Gaetz-Bannon and Shapiro-Levin-Loomer camps of the conservative movement lie on issues like the U.S. relationship to Israel, the capture of