Economy & Finance

Minneapolis Police Face Mass Exodus As New Paid Leave Program Hits Amid Riots Minneapolis faces a compounding crisis, as dozens of police officers are expected to tap into a new state paid leave program while the city grapples with anti-ICE riots and a staffing shortage that has stretched the department to its breaking point.  Between […]

NYC Mayor Mamdani Under Fire Not For Snubbing Black Appointees Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s newly sworn-in mayor, is already facing criticism less than a month into his tenure. Not for his democratic socialist agenda, but for failing to appoint black and Hispanic officials.  In New York City, the mayor relies heavily on deputy mayors, a group that functions much like a cabinet. Mamdani’s

Gold And Silver Explosion: Something Big Is Happening Gold and silver prices, according to Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com, are signaling stress under the surface of the economy. From shrinking physical inventories to record central bank buying, precious metals warn that the underlying issues aren’t resolved… In early 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic hysteria

Denmark Skips Davos Forum In Protest Over Deepening Greenland Crisis The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos for 2026 is scheduled for this week (Jan. 19-23), focusing on the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue”. Day one, which has kicked off Monday, isn’t much of a display of “dialogue” as some key officials are

Nobel Foundation Says Prize Can’t Be Passed On To Others After Trump–Machado Meeting Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Nobel Foundation said Sunday reiterated its prestigious Nobel Peace Prize cannot be passed on to another person after a Venezuelan opposition leader gifted the prize that she won to President Donald

Nigerian King Must Pay $72k Restitution For Defrauding NC Medicaid During Pandemic Authored by Stephen Horn via The Triangle Trumpet, Ekelekamchukwu Alphonsus Ngwadom, 61, received a suspended sentence requiring three years probation and $72,014.66 in restitution after pleading guilty to twenty-seven felonies in regards to hundreds of Medicaid claims for children’s therapy he fraudulently filed

Japanese Yields Soar To All Time High After PM Takaichi Calls Snap Election Seeking More Spending, Less Taxes In the rapidly approaching endgame for Japan’s monetary experiment, overnight Japanese bond yields hit new record highs, with the long end surging as much as 10bps… … which in turn helped send gold to fresh record highs

Mr. Trump Goes To Davos… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Monsters Of The Deep “Timing, not haste, drives what will happen next.” – Thomas Sowell Minneapolis, the sucking chest wound on America’s body politic, gets a break this week from Gawda’mighty, who is turning the heat down to subzero so that ICE-Watch nose-rings can hole-up

Where The Department of Energy Is Investing Submitted by Tight Spreads The DOE has been flooding their sites with white-papers and latest Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap (FS&T Roadmap) are not just a scientific plan, but an industrial policy designed to transition fusion from the laboratory to the commercial market by the mid-2030s. The DOE