Overthrow: Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Ops Targeting Venezuela’s Maduro It is easy to imagine that there’s been CIA infiltration into Maduro’s Venezuela for a long time, but covert operations there are now becoming an “open secret” – as fresh Wednesday reporting in the New York Times indicates. “The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up […]

Elizabeth Warren: Leftism For Thee But Not Me Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, When Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren recently traveled to the Big Apple to endorse New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, she was asked if overt socialism is really the best model for Democrats to adopt. “You bet,” she replied in her signature folksy style. The Boston lawmaker wasn’t just jumping on the sudden trendiness of […]

LA County Declares State Of Emergency Over ICE Raids; Will Pay Rent & Provide Legal Aid Los Angeles County has declared a state of emergency over ongoing ICE raids – and will provide rent relief for tenants who have ‘fallen behind as a result’ of the enforcement actions targeting people living in the United States illegally.  The declaration – introduced by County Supervisors Lindsey P. Horvath and Janice Hahn, passed […]

Quantifying The Benefits Of Capitalism Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The graph below presents another opportunity to revisit how capitalism and the economic freedom it entails lead to prosperity. The scatter plot below shows the intersection of The Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Index with per capita GDP for 102 of the largest economies. Before analyzing the graph and what it implies for […]

Another Judge Hijacks Oval Office, Halts Federal Firings During Shutdown The pattern is clear; Trump does: anything Democrats: sue Democrat judge: sides with fellow Democrats suing Supreme Court, six months later: ‘What Trump did was fine’ And in today’s case:  Trump: Fires federal employees during shutdown Democrats: sue Democrat judge: Blocks path The judge: Clinton-appointed San Francisco district judge Susan Yvonne […]

Unusual Appearance Of Armed ‘Mystery’ Russian Men On Estonia’s Border Raises NATO Alarm The Estonian government and media are making noise among NATO allies about mysterious armed men which showed up on the Baltic country’s border on the Russian side. “Unidentified Russian troops spotted at Estonia’s border have raised concern in Tallinn while Moscow has dismissed it as routine,” European media reports, following several weeks of […]

Beige Book Finds “Little Change” In Economic Activity, AI Gets Blamed For Weak Labor Market With econ data indefinitely postponed as a result of what is rapidly shaping up as the longest government shutdown on record, today’s otherwise sleepy Beige Book was sure to get abnormal attention as it was one of the few incremental economic data points in a calendar bereft of actual news. Alas, it proved to be a dud, if only because there […]

Mexican Cartels Placing Bounties On Federal Agents, DHS Says Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Oct. 14 that it has obtained “credible intelligence” that cartels in Mexico have placed bounties on U.S. law enforcement officers and officials. Mexican cartels—which have used Chicago, along with other major U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta, as […]

U.S. Soybean Exports Show Signs Of Recovery – Even As China Pivots Elsewhere Soybean farmers across the U.S. Midwest have found themselves caught in the middle of an expanding trade war storm between President Trump and Beijing. Overnight, Trump threatened to halt trade in cooking oil with China, warning of an “Economically Hostile Act” that he said is deliberately “causing difficulty for our soybean farmers.” The tensions […]

The Free Market May Sack Kimmel Again Authored by Alex Rosado via RealClearPolitics.com, Last month, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” reemerged from cancellation with a ratings jump and social momentum. His midnight honeymoon, however, is already over. Kimmel made incendiary comments over free speech champion Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, slamming President Trump’s leadership […]

Stocks Erase Gains As Trade Tensions Resurface; Bessent Blames ‘Lone Wolf Warrior’ Beijing Diplomat Update (1300ET): As we noted earlier, stocks jumped around the US cash open on optimistic headlines about possible tariff delays by Bessent and Greer: “*GREER: EXPECT CHINA RARE EARTHS MOVE DOESN’T GO INTO EFFECT,*BESSENT SUGGESTS POSSIBILITY OF LONGER CHINA TARIFF TRUCE”. The realization that what they actually said was a […]

Binance Rolls Out $400M Program For Traders Hit By Friday’s Downturn Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Binance is launching a $400 million relief program for traders hurt by losses across its ecosystem during Friday’s crypto sell-off, despite saying it does not accept liability for user losses. According to a Tuesday post by the exchange, the initiative will distribute $300 million worth of token vouchers, […]

Redistricting Chaos Takes Center Stage At Supremes; Ketanji Compares Race To Being Disabled While House lawmakers remain largely absent from Washington’s high-stakes government-funding fight, the real political action this week is happening in statehouses and courtrooms across the country – where the battle over congressional maps is reshaping the 2026 midterm landscape in real time. The redistricting wars have become the […]

The Year When Everything Happens In No Particular Order Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The pool of speculative fervor will be drained, as impossible as that seems in this moment in history. 2025 may go down as The Year When Everything Happened in No Particular Order, tracking William Gibson’s famous line that “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Those expecting inflation […]

Deadliest-Ever Fighting Between Pakistan & Afghanistan Sees Drone Strikes On Kabul Pakistan and Afghanistan have been exchanging their deadliest fire in years, and border clashes are now threatening to enter the Taliban-ruled Afghan capital of Kabul. A tense, temporary ceasefire has been reached but only after Pakistan launched apparent drone strikes on Kabul, as well as the border province of Paktika, where fighting has raged. […]

US Uncovering Financial Networks Behind Domestic Terrorism, Bessent Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The United States is in the process of compiling a list of organizations, including nonprofits, that could be funding domestic terror activities, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an Oct. 14 interview on “The Charlie Kirk Show.” “We believe people have a right to free speech. They have a right […]

Jamie Dimon Says Gold Can “Easily Go To $5,000 Or $10,000” Fresh from reporting a solid set of numbers for the third quarter, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he sees “some logic” in owning gold, while declining to say whether he thinks the precious metal is overvalued after its record run-up (perhaps smart, considering his catastrophic attempts to assign value to bitcoin over the past decade).  “I’m not a gold buyer — it […]

Watch: Bonkers Democrat Pushes For “Gender-Neutral” 2028 Olympics Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Betty Yee, a Democratic candidate for California governor in 2026, has asserted that biological males who have undergone physical transitions should compete in women’s sports and even suggested that the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics should be made gender-neutral. Yee made the ridiculous statement in an interview with […]

Probably More ‘Cockroaches’: Finger-Pointing Begins In Private Credit As Managers Fear More ‘Late-Cycle Accidents’ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has sparked controversy in banking and finance circles amid a number of high profile (and sudden) bankruptcies, saying during his earnings call yesterday that: “My antenna goes up when things like that happen. I probably shouldn’t say this but when you see one cockroach there are probably […]

Brink Of A “Humanitarian Disaster”: 800 Migrant Families Set To Be Stranded In Pennsylvania Town Amid Factory Closure Before corporate media ever descended on the small Appalachia town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, ZeroHedge had boots on the ground in the late summer of 2024, uncovering a network of labor mules, migrant workers (both legal and illegal), and a web of corruption and exploitation of poor migrants enabled by the […]

Federal Judge Orders ICE To Take Down Security Fence At Broadview, Illinois Facility Via American Greatness, An 8-foot security fence surrounding the Broadview, Illinois Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility has been removed at the order of a  U.S. District Court judge. Judge Lashonda Hunt ordered the removal of the security fence last Friday, claiming that the temporary fence was on municipal land […]

Bitdeer Surges 20% After Announcing Expansion Into AI Data Centers As we noted several months ago, one of the key catalysts behind bitcoin miners is their potential conversion into AI data centers. Today, we are seeing just that… Bitdeer Technologies Group’s shares are up almost 20% in premarket trading after the Bitcoin miner released its September production update and revealed a major strategic expansion into artificial […]

DOGE Says $5.8 Billion Saved From 100 Terminated Federal Contracts Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced this past week that more than 100 federal contracts have been terminated with a value of nearly $6 billion. Multiple agencies “terminated and descoped 108 wasteful contracts” that have a ceiling value of $5.8 billion and resulted in savings of $397 […]

In An Extremely Fragile Market, How To Gain An Edge When Volatility Spikes Friday’s sharp selloff dropped the S&P 500 more than 2.7% as we experienced one of the largest single-day declines of the quarter, as headlines spooked traders. What made the drop especially remarkable is that it took place in an extremely complacent context, with realized vol at the lowest level in years.  So, traders are asking, what’s […]

BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, Microsoft Form Investment Consortium In $40 Billion Data Center Takeover  ZeroHedge Pro Subs are already well-familiarized with the “infinite money” circle-jerk deals powering the AI bubble – from endless chip announcements to vendor financing schemes to a wave of mega-data-center buildouts sweeping the nation. We’ve detailed the mechanics behind this boom and shared the latest Bank of America Fund […]