Economy & Finance

US NatGas Spikes Most Since Ukraine Invasion On Arctic Blast, Major Winter Storm Threat US natural gas futures surged for a second straight session as an Arctic cold blast and mounting winter storm threats forced traders to reassess energy demand, with heating demand across much of the eastern US now forecast to surge sharply. As […]

30 Ways Trump Impacted The World In His First Year Authored by Travis Gillmore and Cathy He via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump used his first year back in the White House to set the tone for his second presidency, changing the nation and the world in the process. Through more than 225 executive

Trump Calls UK Chagos Deal “Great Stupidity” – Demonstrates Greenland Must Be Taken Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Canada… and now President Trump sets his sights on ‘defending’ America’s influence over the tiny but strategically important Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia and the Chagos islands. Early Tuesday the US president on social media blasted the UK government

Oklo’s Isotope Business: Atomic Alchemy Submitted by Tight Spreads Oklo is one of the most impressive nuclear companies in the public equities market. They uniquely and strategically intersect arguably the most important themes today: energy dominance, critical material supply chains, and national defense. The market is not pricing in the potential value of the Y-Combinator

Bipartisan FY26 Minibus Released As January 30th Shutdown Approaches It seems that Congress may bypass our regularly scheduled shutdown drama – as House appropriators released the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 early Monday, marking a significant step toward completing all 12 annual spending bills ahead of the January 30 funding deadline and averting

1956 & 2026: Bookends For Europe? Authored by Michael Every via Rabobank, As our senior strategist Ben Picton underlined yesterday, the US has total escalatory dominance in its clash with the EU over Greenland, which all emotions aside, is not in the EU or even in Europe: geographically, it’s in the Western Hemisphere / North

USA Rare Earth Soars, To Build Plant In France With Government Support USA Rare Earth (USAR), a US-based (duh) rare earth miner, refiner and processor, which for much of the past year lived in MP Minerals’ shadow amid expectations that it too will receive government generosity, surged on Tuesday on news that it will build

“The US Is Basically Not A Good Credit”: Danish Pension Fund To Sell US Treasuries Over the weekend, Deutsche Bank’s head of FX George Saravelos laid out one theoretical reason why in his view, Europe has leverage over the US in the latest burst of transatlatnic tensions over Greenland: or rather $8 trillion reasons why

More Than 10,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Minnesota: Noem Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Jan. 19 that more than 10,000 criminal illegal immigrants had been arrested by federal law enforcement officers during ongoing immigration-related operations in Minneapolis. “We have arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal

Carney’s Beijing Gambit Triggers Trump Warning In The Form Of A Big Beautiful Map After over the weekend warning that he would impose a 10% tariff on imports from several European countries in response to their opposition to his Greenland takeover plan, later threatening the tariff could be raised to 25% within weeks if those