The SEC’s Risky Plan To Decarbonize The U.S. Financial Markets Authored by Paul Tice via RealClearEnergy, Reports of the impending death of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement have been greatly exaggerated. While several sustainability-minded companies and Wall Street firms have recently adopted a lower ESG profile due to the public backlash, this is largely a tactical retreat until the government provides air […]

Lawfare Collapsing Amidst Harris’ Vow To Prosecute Trump Authored by Kevin Spivak via RealClearPolitics, Largely shedding Joe Biden’s canard that Trump must be defeated to save democracy, Kamala Harris’ conceit is that she prosecutes criminals and Donald Trump is one. “I know Donald Trump’s type,” she sneers. As San Francisco district attorney and then California attorney general, Harris supported jailing parents of […]

Watch: Kamala Harris Gives Trainwreck Answers To Simple Questions In First Solo Interview One might think that weeks of debate prep with an actor playing Donald Trump would prepare Vice President Kamala Harris for a simple post-debate interview. One would be wrong. On Friday, Harris gave her first interview since last week’s debate – this time, instead of going with a major news network, she sat down with an ABC News affiliate in […]

Signed Into Law: New Jersey Eliminates Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver Via Money Metals, Sound money advocates are hailing their hard-fought victory today as New Jersey’s Senate Bill 721 was signed into law – thereby removing sales taxes on purchases of gold, silver, and other precious metals above $1,000 effective January 1, 2025. The long-anticipated bill signing by Gov. Phil Murphy positions New Jersey alongside 44 other […]

Politico Paints Zelensky As An ‘Autocrat’ On Very Day US Says Negative Coverage Is All RT’s Fault The below is not a Russian state media headline.  Ironically on the very day that the Biden administration declared a global war on Russian state media and pro-Moscow ‘influence campaigns’, Politico published a rare piece directly going after President Zelensky, saying he’s making terrible decisions and increasingly acting like an […]

A Plague On Both Your Monetary Houses Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance For all the huffing and puffing I do about politics, you’d think that both candidates would have substantially different ideas for monetary policy, should they be elected. After all, this is supposed to be a finance blog. But the truth is, they don’t. While I do think the Republican Party is more inclined to decrease the size of government and cut some […]

Former ICE Official Warns: Venezuelan Prison Gang Preparing For “Big Gang War” In Colorado A retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement official warned DailyMail in a new shocking interview that Venezuelan prison gangs are quickly setting up their network in preparation for all-out gang wars on America’s city streets and in neighborhoods. Just days ago, unclassified documents from the US Army North Division warned thousands […]

Pentagon Renovates Israeli Air Base To Make Room For New Boeing Military Jets Via The Cradle The US Department of Defense is building aircraft facilities in Israel to accommodate new US-made KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker planes that could assist in an attack on Iran, The Intercept reported Friday. Army Corps of Engineers documents show new buildings will be constructed and existing buildings will be upgraded, including […]

Americans Can’t Hide From Nuclear War, Moscow Warns As West Mulls Escalation The Kremlin has issued yet more warnings following reports that the Biden administration could soon greenlight long-range attacks by Kiev forces on Russian territory using US-supplied arms. Both the UK and Canada are on board, we reported earlier, and British Prime Minister Ken Starmer is visiting Washington where he’s directly lobbying Biden to jump on […]

Trump Vows To End Taxes On Overtime Pay If Elected In November Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump has said he plans to end taxes on overtime wages for individuals who work more than 40 hours a week if he is elected to the White House again. Trump made the comments during a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona on Sept. 12, telling the crowd that working class Americans […]

North Korea’s Kim Lauds Close Moscow Ties, Wishes Russians ‘Victory’, In Shoigu Visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lauded North Korea’s rapidly developing relations with Moscow during a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu in Pyongyang on Friday. The two hailed deepening ties on the political, economic, cultural, and security fronts. This as Washington has long accused North Korea of supplying […]

What Would Hugo Do? Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “The wavelike movement affecting the economic system, the recurrence of periods of boom which are followed by periods of depression, is the unavoidable outcome of the attempts, repeated again and again, to lower the gross market rate of interest by means of credit expansion.  There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit […]

These Are The Best Employers for New Graduates In America The first job after graduation is an essential stepping stone that can often define one’s future career path and opportunities. While today’s new grads are entering one of the strongest job markets in decades, the U.S. labor market has become increasingly competitive in the past couple of years post-pandemic. While the pandemic boom led the unemployment rate to fall as […]

The Coming Shift In World Trade Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, In July of 1944, a year and some months before the official end to the Second World War, allied powers gathered at the Bretton Woods Hotel in New Hampshire to hammer out a new economic order that would dominate the world at war’s end. The meeting alone expressed great confidence in a coming victory. They were not wrong. As part of the new plan for […]

“Shock To System”: Europe Hammered With Cold Blast & Snow “Shock to the system,” Scottish meteorologist Scott Duncan wrote on X, adding, “Unusually strong cold is pouring south out of the Arctic into Europe right now. This is an ideal setup for deep fresh snow accumulations in the Alps and flooding in Central Europe.”  Shock to the system 🥶 Unusually strong cold is pouring south out of the Arctic into Europe right now. […]

Why’s Russia Re-Engaging With The IMF? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The relationship between Russia, the IMF, and BRICS isn’t what most folks have been led to believe… IMF Communications Director Julie Kozack confirmed during a press briefing on Thursday that the first Article IV consultations with Russia since 2021 will take place next week. She also praised BRICS expansion. Both of these caught multipolar […]

‘Russian Collusion’ Redux: The Tenet Media Psy-Op Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, As a liberty writer and economist I have been working within the alternative media for almost 20 years now. I was there at the inception of what we consider the modern counter-media movement, when a scattering of radio hosts, writers and video bloggers started to come together to create perhaps the greatest unsung information revolution […]

These Are The States With The Most Million-Dollar Homes Million-dollar homes are becoming more common, with the U.S. having 621 cities where a typical home is worth $1 million or more. While high interest rates have caused commercial real estate prices to fall, it hasn’t had the same impact on the residential market. Housing inventory has increased, but it still remains below average historical levels. At the same time, while […]

6 Proven Nutritional Strategies For Building Muscle Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pumping iron at the gym is only half the muscle-building battle. The adage “muscles are built in the kitchen” rings truer than ever. Foods and supplements you choose can amplify your workouts, turning efforts into visible results. With countless options available on the market, finding the most effective can be […]

US Women’s Life Expectancy Is The Lowest Among Developed Nations In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu shows female life expectancy at birth across a selection of high-income countries, based on data compiled by The Commonwealth Fund. It highlights how women’s life expectancy in the U.S. is at least two years lower than its peers, despite the country spending more on health care… Data and Key Takeaways The figures […]