Economy & Finance

ACLU And Celebs Release Cringe Appeal To Allow Men In Women’s Sports Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The American Civil Liberties Union has rolled out a new campaign pushing for biological males to compete in women’s sports, just as the Supreme Court takes up cases that could finally protect female athletes from unfair competition. […]

EU Mulls Ditching Accession System Used Since Cold War To Fast-Track Ukraine When in doubt, just change the rules – or so goes the thinking in Brussels as it seeks to get creative on ways to allow Ukraine’s quick accession to the European Union, despite it being consistently ranked among the most corrupt governments on earth.

Shale Pioneer Harold Hamm Steps Back From Bakken After Decades Harold Hamm says low oil prices are forcing a step he hasn’t taken in decades: shutting down drilling in North Dakota’s Bakken, according to Bloomberg. “This will be the first time in over 30 years that Harold Hamm has not had an operation with drilling

Another $3.5 Billion For Gas Power Generation Talen Energy is following in the footsteps of utility peers Vistra and Constellation by spending billions of dollars acquiring gas generation assets to expand their capacity and grow market share in the growing power demand market. After spending about $3.5 billion to acquire gas generation capacity in Pennsylvania

Underwater Auto Trade-Ins Reach Record Highs: Edmunds Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, A record number of automobile owners are carrying negative equity of $10,000 to more than $15,000 into trade-ins on new vehicles, according to online vehicle data analytics website Edmunds. In the fourth quarter of 2025, a record high of 27

Trump Stuns By Floating Tariffs On Countries That Stand In The Way On Greenland Days ago as it became clear that Europe and the United States would be locked in a showdown over the future fate of Greenland and its sovereignty, the EU touted that it has some cards to play, as leaders stepped up

Trump Says Wants To Keep “Hassett Where He Is” Sending Warsh Fed Chair Odds Soaring; Gold Slides In a strong hint ahead of Trump’s decision later this month who the next Fed chair will be, the president appears to have hobbled the chances of one of the Kevins when he said that Kevin Hassett was

“Connection Timed Out”: X Goes Dark At around 10:10 ET, X went down, displaying a “connection timed out” message, suggesting an issue on the Cloudflare side. Here’s the error message, indicating a host-side failure. Website tracker Downdetector is currently showing a spike in reported X outages. The disruption appears to be nationwide. Developing… Tyler Durden

Washington & Moscow Trade Blows At UN As US Carrier Steams Toward Middle East US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the “brave people of Iran” have risen up and that President Donald Trump “has made it clear all options are on the table to stop

Isotopes 101 Submitted by TightSpreads  Many smart investors are catching up to the nuclear story already, but there is another angle to it that is grossly uncovered: isotopes. This educational primer provides a useful starting point for understanding isotope market opportunities and the nuclear equities or advanced materials companies to be featured soon. Why is