Germany’s Rust Belt Future: Deutsche Bank’s Debt-Fueled Mirage Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Deutsche Bank sees the German economy on the verge of a turnaround. The debt-financed stimulus blaze is supposed to deliver it. Meanwhile, the collapse of the real economy is accelerating. Storm clouds are gathering over Germany’s economy. 2025 will bring a new insolvency record – that much can already be predicted with certainty.  More […]

Hungary’s Orban From Copenhagen Summit: “The EU Has Decided To Go To War” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is newly warning that EU leaders are preparing for war with Russia, soon after he participated in the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen. He has denounced this as “horrifying” that “the EU has decided to go to war” and that at Wednesday’s informal EU summit, leaders pushed a war strategy on how to […]

German Police Probe Left Party Youth Over ‘Target’ Stickers On AfD Leader’s Head Via Remix News, A sticker featuring a target over a photo of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leader, Alice Weidel, is allegedly being distributed by the Left Party Youth in Hannover, Germany. The sticker, which also features the text, “Aim Here,” has sparked an investigation by the German police. “This sticker is being distributed by the […]

Danish PM Alleges Russian ‘Hybrid’ Drone War ‘Only The Beginning’  Some of the more tiny NATO countries are pretending to carry the biggest stick, at least judging by their outspoken jingoistic rhetoric of late. Small ‘Eastern flank’ countries like Estonia and Lithuania have long exhibited this loud anti-Moscow rhetoric, but Denmark is increasingly joining in. Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen in a fresh interview given to […]

Erdogan Threatens Operation Against Syrian Kurds If ‘Integration’ With Damascus Fails Via The Cradle President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated Wednesday that Turkey will not allow Syria’s fragmentation if a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the Syrian military led by self-appointed President Ahmad al-Sharaa collapses. “We have engaged all channels of diplomacy, both to preserve Syria’s […]

Trump Says Radical Left’s Shutdown Misstep Opens “Unprecedented Opportunity” For Mass Firings Of Fed Workers Update (1320ET): As we mentioned earlier, Democrats voted for a full-blown government shutdown, which has inadvertently given the Trump administration the greatest gift ever: the ability to revive DOGE-style efforts to cut waste and fraud. “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame,  to determine […]

Dugin: War Is Ahead Of Us Authored by Alexander Dugin via Arktosjournalcom, The new multipolar world order is not set in stone and is unlikely to be peacefully accepted, but rather is bound to be shaped through escalated conflict, recalling how historic shifts are decided through the unpredictable unfolding of war. A shift in world order usually occurs through war. Very rarely are those who wield global power willing to […]

China’s C919 Jet Faces Delays Despite Big Airline Orders For once, something China relies on the US for to build is the problem, and not the other way around… Deliveries of China’s first narrowbody jet, the C919, appear to be lagging, with financial reports from the country’s top three airlines raising questions about engine supply, the South China Morning Post wrote this week. Air China and China Eastern each received only […]

Putin: ‘All NATO Countries Are Fighting Us’ While EU Leaders ‘Whip Up Hysteria’  Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Group in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces are advancing along the entire front in Ukraine, and warned that Moscow is now facing down all of NATO. “All NATO countries are fighting us, and they’re no longer hiding it,” he said. “Unfortunately, there are […]

Alberta Proposes New Oil Pipeline By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com Alberta has proposed to build a new oil pipeline to the British Columbia coast that could carry up to 1 million barrels daily of crude oil, to be exported to Asian markets. The Calgary Herald reported the provincial government was ready to commit C$14 million to early planning for the project, with Premier Danielle Smith expressing hope the project could get federal […]

FICO Spikes On Plan To Go Direct To Lenders, Upends Experian, Equifax, TransUnion Fair Isaac shares surged today after announcing a plan that bypasses the big three credit bureaus – Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion – in providing its credit scores directly to mortgage lenders. Until now, mortgage resellers had to purchase FICO scores through the bureaus, who added markups of about $10 per score, according to the Wall Street […]

Top FDA Vaccine Official Says US Vaccine Schedule May Be Suboptimal Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The current vaccine schedule in the United States may not be optimal, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official said in a new interview. Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, in an undated file photograph. FDA […]

Russia Has Upgraded Missiles To Successfully Evade Ukraine’s Patriots We’ve been documenting how more and more US Patriot missile batteries have been showing up in Ukraine, as even Israel has of late openly acknowledged sending one, with more said to be on the way. But it hasn’t taken long for Russia to respond by upgrading its ballistic missile systems to evade Ukrainian air defenses, including US-supplied Patriot systems, […]

Data Centers “Primary Reason” For High PJM Capacity Prices: Market Monitor By Ethan Howland of Utility Dive Capacity prices — a cost that is ultimately paid for by electricity consumers — surged in PJM’s last two July capacity auctions. An Amazon Web Services data center near single-family homes on July 17, 2024, in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Data center load resulted in $16.6 billion in capacity auction revenue in the PJM […]

Six Thematic Takeaways, Buy-Rated Stocks From Goldman’s Global Sustainability Forum Goldman Sachs hosted its 2025 Global Sustainability Forum in New York, outlining key takeaways on sustainable investing strategies in a rapidly evolving world where reliability and aging demographics dominate and act as tailwinds. Reliability — prioritized investments, including infrastructure and efficiency solutions, towards keeping the power […]

Sanctions And Houthi Threat Boost Fuel Oil Demand By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Contrary to earlier expectations, global demand for fuel oil has jumped the most since 2019 as longer routes to avoid the Houthi threat around the Red Sea and the surge in shadow fleet numbers have contributed to higher fuel oil use in the shipping industry, analysts tell Reuters. Ship owners have installed the so-called scrubbers to reduce […]

Your Hot Tea May Come With A Splash Of Microplastics There’s nothing quite like a Saturday morning ritual, brewing a pot of green tea and settling into the study with a favorite read, whether it’s “The Creature From Jekyll Island” or “Controligarchs” or a collection of declassified briefings on China’s irregular warfare against the West, or even ZeroHedge lifestyle pieces via Watches of Espionage. While many reach for tea hoping […]

Department Of Energy Cancels Another $7.6 Billion In Energy Project Funding By Irina Slave of OilPrice.com, The U.S. Department of Energy has canceled $7.6 billion in funding for previously approved energy projects on the grounds that they would not produce any palpable benefits for Americans. The canceled projects are 223 in total, approved by various agencies from the Department of Energy during the previous administration. […]

Copper Highest In Year On Supply Disruptions Collide With AI And Power Grid Demand Copper futures on the London Metal Exchange rose above $10,500 a ton – the highest since May 2024 – driven by a mix of investing themes, macro tailwinds, and worsening supply outlook.  Freeport-McMoRan’s (FCX) recent force majeure declaration at Indonesia’s giant Grasberg mine, the world’s second-largest copper source, adds to mounting disruptions […]

How To Broker A Gerrymandering Ceasefire Authored by Andy Jackson via RealClearWire, The United States is in the middle of another round of the redistricting wars.  This latest battle began in late August. The Texas legislature approved maps that will likely result in five additional Republicans being elected to Congress. In response, the California legislature passed a plan that would likely result in five Republicans being […]

“Blatant Fraud”: USCIS Operation Uncovers Fraud In 44% Of Pending Immigration Cases In Minneapolis U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI, has announced the results of Operation Twin Shield, a large-scale fraud detection effort conducted across Minneapolis-St. Paul from September 19 to 28. Minneapolis is home to one of the largest Somali communities […]

Generals Gathered In Their Masses… Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute, On Tuesday we observed one of the strangest spectacles of our time. President Trump and his “Secretary of War,” Pete Hegseth, called a mandatory meeting of all the top brass in the US military. Some 800+ general officers, admirals, and the like gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia for a doubleheader talk from Hegseth and […]

Trump Plans Up To $14 Billion Farm Bailout Amid China Pivot To Brazil, WSJ Says Update (1555ET): The Trump administration has been signaling for about a week that it may tap tariff revenues to fund a multibillion-dollar aid package for American farmers, as China shifts its agricultural purchases to Brazil. The Wall Street Journal revealed new details about the potential aid package on Thursday afternoon. People within the […]

Putin Warns US Tariffs On Russia’s Partners Will Backfire: ‘Oil Will Skyrocket, Exceed $100’ Update(1550): Earlier, we reported below that Washington is now openly affirming it will provide Ukraine with US intelligence assistance for long-range strikes targeting Russian oil facilities. Throughout the war, Ukraine has already hit the majority of Russian refineries – a hand full of them more than once – in drone attacks. Also, […]

White House Puts Vance At Helm To ‘Drive [Shutdown] Fight Home’ Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Historically, no one really wins a government shutdown. But JD Vance might. In the 24 hours after Senate Democrats voted against a continuing resolution to keep the federal lights on, the vice president quickly became the face of the White House counterargument. Vance began the day on Fox and Friends to blast […]