India Is Set To Be The G20 Growth Leader In 2026 The latest OECD Economic Outlook (December 2025) revealed that the global economy has proved resilient last year, even though fragilities remain, with a range of risks including “elevated policy uncertainty and rising barriers to trade”. According to the organization’s forecasts, global GDP growth is projected to slow down from 3.2 percent in 2025 to 2.9 percent in 2026. As Tristan […]

Texas Issues Warning About Unsolicited Seed Packages From China Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas has warned residents not to plant what it calls “mysterious seeds” that arrived in unsolicited packages from China, as authorities investigate thousands of such reports across the state. Packages containing unknown seeds from China. Texas Department of Agriculture State authorities first became […]

Black Harvard Dean Fired After Anti-White, Anti-Police Social Media Posts Resurface A Harvard University dean has been removed after a student-run news outlet, the Yard Report, dug up old social media posts slamming whiteness, the cops, and advocating for looting and rioting.  eh… Gregory Davis, the former Dunster House Allston Burr resident dean, wrote the posts in question between 2019 and 2024 – mostly on X. He became dean […]

Lebanese Army Says Plan To Limit Weapons To State Forces At Advanced Stage Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Lebanese armed forces said on Jan. 8 that their plan to restrict weapons to official security agencies had entered an “advanced stage,” after expanding their presence across southern Lebanon. Members of the Lebanese army secure the area near the site of an Israeli strike, after […]

Did Dr. Spock’s Parenting Advice Kill 60,000 Babies? Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience, Dr. Benjamin Spock is remembered as one of the foremost authorities on raising children. His influential and prolific books, first published in the mid-1940s, advised parents to be more affectionate and flexible with their young kids, countering what was then the entrenched norm of being rigid and aloof. Though most parents today […]

FDA Says Many Fitness Wearables, AI Tools Exempt From Regulation The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 6 clarified that it will not regulate some artificial intelligence (AI) tools and wearables. In a guidance document, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said tools used to help make clinical decisions are sometimes exempt from FDA oversight, such as those not intended to analyze medical images. In a second document, the […]

Data Centers Were 40% Of PJM Capacity Costs In Last Auction: Market Monitor Submitted by Ethan Howland of Utility Dive Data center load accounted for $6.5 billion, or 40%, of the $16.4 billion in costs from the PJM Interconnection’s December capacity auction, according to the grid operator’s independent market monitor. About $6.2 billion of those costs is related to data centers that haven’t been built but could come online […]

One Fell Swoop: Lawsuit Eyes Death Blow To Racial Preferences Authored by RealClear Investigations’ Benjamin Weingarten, Opponents of affirmative action hoped that the Supreme Court had delivered a death blow to the controversial policy in 2023 when Chief Justice John Roberts declared for the court’s majority that “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” But as sweeping as that pronouncement was, it […]

Senate Advances Resolution Preventing Trump From Further Military Force In Venezuela Without Approval The Senate issued a harsh rebuke of President Trump’s actions in Venezuela, voting 52-47 on a bipartisan measure to block him from using military force “within or against Venezuela” unless he obtains Congressional approval first. Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, speaks to reporters alongside Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, during a pen and pad meeting […]

Farmland Shock: Georgia Grower Drops 3,000 Acres, Warns Of Unplanted Ground in 2026 By Chris Bennett of Farm Journal How deep is the farm crisis? Adios to acreage. In November 2025, Alex Harrell, among the most highly reputed producers in the U.S., dropped an old-school grading scale, A to F, across his 6,000-acre operation and slashed almost half his ground, notifying 12 landlords in a three-week window. “I can’t speak to the […]

Zelensky Complains He Hasn’t Received A Clear Security Guarantee, Despite Big Talk From West This week kicked off with France and the UK agreeing to send troops to Ukraine once a ceasefire with Russia is reached, and there have been unconfirmed reports that Washington is planning to do the same – but President Trump has not at all formally signed off on this. Of course, such a move would result in a firm ‘no’ from Moscow, which […]

Mamdani’s Clown Show Offers Its Opening Act Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Zohran Mamdani promised a political revolution. What New York received in his first hours as mayor was a seminar in how slimy, two-faced doubletalk can face-plant when its reality is laid bare. Mamdani was sworn in on January 1 with soaring rhetoric about affordability, equity, and transformation. It’s been literally one week and the socialist imbecile […]

DOJ Sues Arizona, Connecticut For Failing To Hand Over Voter Rolls Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Jan. 6 that it is suing Arizona and Connecticut for allegedly failing to turn over their full voter registration rolls for federal inspection. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a press conference in Washington on Dec. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch […]

China Blocks Japan From ‘Heavy’ Rare-Earths Supply, Will Filter Down Across Global Supply Chains Going all the back to November 7, when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi first provoked outrage in China by suggesting that Japanese Defense Forces could militarily defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, there’s been a steady spiraling in relations between Tokyo and Beijing. First, China’s punitive measures took place […]

2026 Forecast: ‘Tis The Season For Wild Guesses Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdevice.com, It’s that time of year when every Wall Street analyst posts their forecast for where the S&P 500 will close at the end of 2026. This year, as in every other, Wall Street expects the S&P 500 to post positive returns. As shown below, Bank of America is the most cautious, with a 3% gain, while Deutsche Bank and Capital […]

Sudden Change Of Heart By Colombia’s Petro: ‘Good Call’ With Trump Leads To Planned WH Meeting Another foreign leader and strident Trump critic has had a rapid about-face after coming under ‘threat’. And this in turn has caused President Trump to cool his own condemnations and rhetoric. Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro has long been among the fiercest opponents of the US President’s Venezuela policy, and especially his weekend […]

China Set To Approve Nvidia H200 AI Chip Purchases As Soon As This Quarter Top on our market radar this morning: a Bloomberg News report says China is preparing to approve limited imports of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips as soon as this quarter, restoring partial access to a massive market after years of restrictions. If Bloomberg’s report proves accurate, you can imagine how Jensen Huang is feeling right now. Sources told the outlet […]

Defense Stocks Blast Off As Trump Seeks Budget Boost To Defend Western Hemisphere European and US defense stocks rose early Thursday after President Trump pushed for a 50% increase in defense spending by 2027. “After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other political representatives, I have determined that, for the good of our country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, […]

Initial Jobless Claims Continue To Show No Signs Of Labor Market Stress Following a decline in job cuts in December (according to Challenger Grey)… …the number of people applying for jobless benefits for the first time ticked up very modestly from a lower revised number… but remains at very muted levels… Source: Bloomberg New York saw the largest jump in claims while New Jersey saw the largest decline… Continuing […]

Futures Drop After Latest Trump Headline Vortex, Silver Slides Ahead Of Index Rebalance US futures are lower as New Year optimism gives way to jitters about the economy and geopolitics with attention turning to tomorrow’s NFP report. Traders are also trying to make sense of Trump’s latest edicts on defense and corporate landlords, with a vortex of headlines making things feel more unpredictable than usual. As of 8:00am […]

Left-Wing Protest Industrial Complex Activates Across Multiple Cities After ICE-Involved Shooting In Minneapolis It didn’t take long. Within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in the Minneapolis area, the Democratic Party’s protest industrial complex moved into action, quickly creating conditions for coordinated demonstrations across multiple cities. The rapid response suggested these nonprofit activist networks were on standby, […]

Infamous CIA Double-Agent Aldrich Ames Dies At 84 Aldrich Ames, one of the most consequential double agents in the history of U.S. intelligence, has died while serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Maryland, according to a report by The Associated Press. Ames, a former senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency, was convicted in 1994 of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia in what remains one of the most […]

Trump Admin Declares War On Added Sugar, Embraces Real Foods In Massive MAHA Reset Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In response to decades of corporate-poisoned nutrition advice, the Trump administration has unleashed updated federal dietary guidelines that torch added sugars, champion protein and healthy fats, and slam the door on ultra-processed junk fueling America’s chronic disease crisis. The MAHA triumph, […]

Tim Walz Activates Emergency Operations Center, Alerts National Guard After ICE-Involved Shooting Sparks Protest Threat Update (1640ET): Gov. Tim Walz activated Minnesota’s Emergency Operations Center within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis, as concerns grow that a coalition of left-wing activist groups could mobilize in the streets, evoking familiar and uneasy parallels to the unrest that followed the death […]

Military Spending Is On The Rise In Asia Over the past five years, military expenditure in Asia has climbed sharply, reflecting escalating regional tensions and global security concerns. According to the most recent SIPRI data, major military spenders in the region, such as China, India, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Taiwan, have significantly boosted their defense budgets. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat details below, China remains the […]