Supreme Court Sides With Trump Over Venezuelan Deportations, But Requires Due Process For Each Case The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Trump administration’s request to halt lower court judge James Boasberg’s order stopping Trump from deporting suspected members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). Salvadoran prison guards escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the […]

US Conference Of Catholic Bishops Ends Refugee Program After USAID Funding Cut The days of the Catholic Church receiving billions from U.S. taxpayers appear to be over. Earlier this year, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cut funding to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). On Monday, the non-governmental organization (NGO)—which has been highly sympathetic to nation-killing policies […]

How Lies From The Biden Administration Expanded The Ukraine War Authored by William Anderson via The Mises Institute, Most of our readers are too young to remember the Vietnam War of a half-century ago, but those of us alive who held draft cards classifying us as 1A have a more personal perspective. In 1971, when I received my low draft number, all I could think was that perhaps I, too, would have to participate in the horror that […]

Apple Scrambles: Five Air Freighters Full Of iPhones Rush To US Amid Trump’s Tariff Blitz Apple contracted at least five emergency air freight shipments of iPhones and other products from India and China to the U.S., aiming to avoid new tariffs following President Trump’s “Liberation Day” blitz last Wednesday. “Factories in India and China and other key locations had been shipping products to the US in anticipation of the higher […]

The Poverty Of The Criticism Of Trump’s Agenda Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Two strange phenomena now characterize the political landscape. One, opposition to the Trump administration’s initiatives has reached a near-unprecedented fever pitch. The frenzy is manifested in strange ways. At the bottom end, there is an epidemic of street terrorism, including the keying of Teslas, bullying their owners, […]

​​​​​​​Trump Stuns By Saying US Is In ‘Direct’ Nuclear Talks With Iran In a surprise statement President Trump says he has been holding “direct talks” with Iran and a “very big meeting” involving “very high-level” officials is planned for this coming Saturday. The declaration was unexpected given that as recently as this weekend Iran repeated that it would not hold talks with Washington so long as “maximum pressure” […]

Trump Tells Bibi He Might Not Reduce Tariffs On Israel: ‘We Give You $4BN A Year’ Update(1759ET): Netanyahu did not get the quick or clear answer he was hoping for from President Trump in the Monday afternoon meeting in the Oval Office. Netanyahu pledged Israel will move quickly to close the trade gap and reduce trade barriers with Washington. “Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same,” the Israeli […]

2 States Poised To Be First Since 1980 To Eliminate Income Tax Via Headline USA, About 45 years have passed since a U.S. state last eliminated its income tax on wages and salaries. But with recent actions in Mississippi and Kentucky, two states now are on a path to do so, if their economies keep growing. The push to zero out the income tax is perhaps the most aggressive example of a tax-cutting trend that swept across states […]

Fundraiser For Killer In Texas Track Meet Stabbing Rakes In $140,000 In the wake of last week’s shocking fatal stabbing of a star athlete at Texas high school track meet, the family of the admitted killer has rapidly raked in more than $140,000 in an online fundraiser, with donors attaching defiant messages describing the killer as the victim of racism and bullying.  On Thursday, 17-year-old multi-sport athlete Austin Metcalf […]

Title IX And Trump 2.0: No More Radicalism Masquerading As Civil Rights Authored by Teresa Manning via American Greatness, Last week, the Trump Administration dropped Biden’s appeal of a July Oklahoma court ruling on Title IX. The ruling had stopped Biden’s April 2024 Title IX regulation from taking effect, joining several other courts that also found the rule both illegal and unconstitutional since it gutted due process, […]

6-Sigma Miss In Consumer Credit Confirms US Consumer Is Finally Down And Out Two months ago, when discussing what was at the time a record, $41 billion monthly burst in December consumer credit (both revolving and non-revolving), and which paradoxically hit just one month after a shocking collapse in revolving consumer credit… … we said that while the “surge in credit card usage may explain the burst in spending to end the […]

Farewell, Fugazy! Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Ah, the delicious smell of peak fear on Sunday/Monday…and max NOISE on X.”  – Raoul Pal That ruckus you hear in the capital markets is the sickening howl of the Fugazy Economy meeting its extinction.  Fugazy means fake, unreal, dishonest, misaligned to what societies need to thrive. Fugazy means mis-using the time-value of things that purport to be wealth to multiply […]

Not Funny… This DEI ‘Sensitivity Training’ Video Is Absolutely Hilarious… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A ‘Harassment and Sensitivity’ employee training video that is really used by top Fortune 500 companies has gone viral, because it’s unintentionally hilarious. It features a guy called Ken (straight and white, obviously) being over the top insensitive toward disabled, transgender, and obese people. No […]

Trump Officials Debate Exporter Tax Credit As Tariff Fallout Mounts: Leaks With markets in turmoil thanks to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s bull-in-a-china-shop tariff math, senior officials in the Trump administration are quietly debating the creation of a new exporter tax credit, a move that signals growing internal concern over the economic costs of the White House’s sweeping tariff policies. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty […]

After The Tariff Earthquake Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The fires that have been ignited are not yet visible. There’s a eerie calm after an earthquake. Those trapped in collapsed buildings are aware of the consequences, but the majority experience a silence, as if the world stopped and has yet to restart. The full consequences are as yet unknown, and so we breathe a sigh of relief. Whew. Everything looks […]

‘Betrayed, That’s The Word’: Small Business Owners Reel as Google AI Destroys Google Search In March 2024, Morgan McBride stood in her half-renovated kitchen posing for a photo shoot. The images were for a new Google ad campaign, a celebration of the ways the search engine had empowered her family’s do-it-yourself home improvement site, Charleston Crafted, to flourish. Just weeks later, she said, traffic from Google dropped more […]

California Bill Would Loosen Restrictions On The Use Of Digital Currency Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A California bill that would allow all businesses and individuals in the state to accept digital asset payments, such as cryptocurrency, and prohibit government restrictions on the use of digital currency, is being considered by a legislative committee. Introduced by Assemblyman Avelino Valencia earlier this […]

“Don’t Be Weak, Don’t Be A PANICAN”: Trump Urges Americans To Hold Tight As “Countries From All Over The World” Negotiate On Tariffs President Trump on Monday urged Americans not to panic over tariff-driven turmoil in the markets, and said that “Countries from all over the World are talking to us.” “The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t […]

‘The Canary Is Sick’: Blackrock’s Fink Says Most CEOs Telling Him ‘We’re Already In Recession’ Blackrock CEO Larry Fink says most CEOs he talks to say the country is ‘already in recession,’ and that the 20% market drop in three days will have ‘potential ripple effects’ on clients, and added that he “still won’t rule out another 20% market decline.” “Are we in a recession?” asked Bloomberg TV host Erik Shatzker. “Most CEOs I […]

US Companies’ Chapter 11 Bankruptcies Jump 20%: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, More companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March than a year ago, indicating economic stress among U.S. businesses, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). “Commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings increased 20 percent in March 2025, with filings climbing to 733 from the 611 filings […]

The End Of Globalization By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at Rabobank There was a clear message emanating from Western policy makers over the weekend: the world is facing the end of the era of globalization. The ECB’s Isabel Schnabel made the point in a speech to business leaders in Italy on Saturday when she said that “Liberation Day was not liberating, but it seems to have marked the end of global free trade.” […]

Great News Europe: US-China LNG Trade Freezes  The escalating trade war between the US and China could increase liquefied natural gas flows to energy-stricken Europe, as China remains on a multi-month buying strike.  Bloomberg cited marine traffic data from Kpler, showing that no US LNG shipments are currently inbound or about to be inbound to China. “Zero LNG trade between China and the US is likely to continue for the rest […]

Jamie Dimon Urges Quick Resolution To Tariff Standoff There was a brief glimmer of hope for equity futures this morning, when amid the market rout, JPM CEO Jamie Dimon urged a quick resolution to the uncertainties sparked by Trump’s tariffs and warned against a potentially “disastrous” fragmentation of America’s long-term economic alliances. “The quicker this issue is resolved, the better because some of the negative […]

Futures, Global Markets Tumble In Panic Selloff As VIX Hits 60 US equity futures are pointing to another day of staggering losses – even as they rise from session lows – as Trump doubled down on sweeping tariffs and as the world continues its flight to safety.  S&P futures had plunged as much as 5.5% around the time Europe opened but the stock selling stampede abated as traders boosted expectations for Fed rate cuts amid […]

CA Fails Audit Of Federal Programs, 66% Of COVID Unemployment Benefits In Question Authored by Kenneth Schrupp via The Center Square, California did not materially comply with the requirements for seven of the 22 federal programs the state auditor examined, including “pervasive” noncompliance in its unemployment benefits program, which could put essential federal funding at risk. “This report concludes that the State did […]