Economy & Finance

White House Says Cuban Regime Is “Bound To Fall” Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the situation in Cuba, where the population of nearly 10 million are impacted by rolling blackouts and instability, during a press briefing April 8. She further clarified President Donald Trump’s recent […]

New Jersey Governor Sherrill Lifts 40-Year Nuclear Moratorium Governor Mikie Sherrill signed legislation that scraps New Jersey’s 40-year de facto moratorium on new nuclear power plants, clearing the way for expanded baseload generation in a state long plagued by some of the nation’s highest utility bills.  The bill, S3870/A4528, amends the Coastal Area Facility Review

FBI Arrests Former Army Contractor For Allegedly Leaking Top Secret Details About Special Forces To Media Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The FBI arrested a former Fort Bragg civilian contractor April 7 for allegedly providing top secret details about the Delta Force special forces unit to a journalist who later published the

South Beirut Sees Mass Exodus Amid Diplomatic Scramble To Ward Off Israeli Raids Israel has on Thursday warned civilians in south Beirut to evacuate their homes and neighborhoods, amid fears of a fresh impending aerial assault, after IDF strikes across Lebanon and the capital the day prior led to at least 250 Lebanese deaths and

CoreWeave Expands Meta AI Deal To $21 Billion, Issues $4.25 Billion In New Convertible & Junk Debt CoreWeave has expanded its agreement to supply Meta with AI computing capacity, lifting the total value of the deal to $21 billion, as reported by Bloomberg. The updated terms extend AI cloud services through December 2032. This means

Iran To Allow No More Than 15 Vessels Per Day Through Hormuz: Russian Media Despite the positive development of a shaky US-Iran ceasefire holding, the reality is that Tehran still maintains de facto control over the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway. A mere few vessels passed without incident on Wednesday, before Iran’s military closed the

Shmeasefire By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist of Rabobank The trouble with ceasefires is that they often require both sides to agree to a set of terms, and then actually cease fire. However, if the set of terms are not comprehensively established and neither side can be held accountable to pause hostilities, then the so-called

“Build Geothermal At Scale”: Fervo Energy Locks In 1.7 GW Turbine Supply Deal With Turboden Fervo Energy and Turboden, part of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, announced a three-year framework agreement to supply Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbines for up to 35 of Fervo’s standardized 50 MW GeoBlocks. The deal totals 1.7 gigawatts of carbon-free,

House Democrats Threaten Contempt For Bondi If She Doesn’t Testify In Epstein Probe Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on April 8 threatened to file contempt of Congress charges against former Attorney General Pam Bondi if she doesn’t testify before the House as part of its ongoing

Marc Faber Vs Brent Johnson On What’s After Iran War: Utopia Or Crash As the dust begins to settle from the latest escalation in the Iran conflict, markets are left to grapple with a more complicated question: what comes next? Is this the beginning of a reset toward stability, another leg up in markets, and