Economy & Finance

Mamdani’s First 100 Days Aren’t Getting High Marks From Voters Zohran Mamdani rode a wave of progressive enthusiasm and sweeping promises to become the Mayor of New York City. Now, as he closes in on his first hundred days in office, he’s learning that governing is a lot harder than campaigning, and a new poll […]

Several US Warships Reportedly Transit Strait Of Hormuz As Pakistan Talks Led By Vance Start With Indirect Format Summary:  Axios reporting that ‘several’ US Navy warships crossed the Hormuz Strait on Saturday without coordination with Tehran in a huge, surprising development. Peace talks in Pakistan begin in indirect format, led by Vance and on Iran side

Novorossiysk Restarts Oil Loadings At Reduced Capacity After Drone Strike By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice Russia has restarted limited oil loadings at its Black Sea port of Novorossiysk after a drone attack earlier this week forced a full suspension. Operations at the Sheskharis terminal resumed late Thursday, but only one berth is currently active. A

Metal Shock: Gulf’s Largest Aluminum Producer Declares Force Majeure A little more than a week after Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), the Gulf’s largest aluminum producer, halted operations at its Al Taweelah smelter following Iranian missile and drone strikes, EGA has now declared force majeure on parts of its contract book, signaling that supply chain disruptions

The ‘Leading UK Scientists’ Letter Urging Abandonment Of North Sea Is Ideology Masquerading As Science Authored by Tilak Doshi via Tilak’s Substack, The Financial Times reported on Good Friday that “more than 65 leading UK scientists” had signed an open letter, published as a Google Doc, urging the Government to abandon new North Sea oil and gas drilling in

Visualizing America’s Slide In ‘Happiness Rankings’ Since 2011 The United States has steadily slipped in the global happiness rankings over the past decade. While it still ranks among the top 25 in the latest World Happiness Report, the U.S. is no longer close to the leading group of Nordic countries that consistently dominate the top

Who’s Afraid Of Emmanuel Macron? Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, French President Emmanuel Macron is doing that peculiar French thing again…acting tough while looking weak.   He gave a speech last Friday at Yonsei University in Seoul during which he demanded that nations not become “vassals” of China or the United States.  Macron wants South Korea to join Canada,

The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us As much as many centrists and libertarians are opposed to Donald Trump’s ongoing strikes against Iran, I have to say, the downstream result might end up becoming one of the most libertarian results I have ever seen. For decades,

Court Documents Reveal Confession Note Hand Written By Alleged Kirk Assassin In September of 2025, prosecutors in the Charlie Kirk murder case alleged that they had access to a hand-written note left by prime suspect Tyler Robinson for his trans boyfriend which contained a confession to the crime.  Tyler Robinson, 22, left a note under a

US Draft Registration Becomes ‘Automatic’ By Year-End: A Detailed Breakdown Authored by Edward Hasbrouck via AntiWar.com, On March 30th, the Selective Service System (SSS) sent the White House its proposed regulations for “automatic” [sic] draft registration for review and approval before they are made public. This is the first visible step in the transition from trying to get young men to