Stolen $586,000 Copper Shipment Found Hours Later At Kentucky Warehouse A load of copper worth nearly $600,000 was recovered on Sept. 11 after investigators followed a trail from Illinois to Kentucky and Ohio, wrapping up the initial search only about eight hours after the theft was reported, according to Yahoo News. The case began when a shipment scheduled to travel from DeKalb, Illinois, to Rock Hill, South Carolina, never made […]

‘Keep Digging’… Says Shovel-Salesman Jensen Huang Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Maybe it’s the bullshit detection genes that were passed down to me from my mother, but I simply can’t wind up trusting a word Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says about how much AI regulation the United States needs. Just call it a gut reaction from me. It doesn’t mean Huang is necessarily wrong about AI. It’s just that I look at him and all I […]

Ocean Container Freight Costs Explode, Rivaling COVID-Era Crisis Highs A worsening ocean freight price shock is reviving concerns about the supply-chain disruptions seen during the pandemic and the 2024 Red Sea crisis. If continued through the fall and winter, higher shipping costs could intensify inflationary pressure, squeeze corporate margins, and weaken growth. Together, these factors raise the risk of a broader economic […]

FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, While the same ‘current thing’ leftists who spent years on climate, oil and “Palestine” now chants that AI will wipe out the human race, FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the agency is using the technology to actively prevent mass shootings, including school attacks, before they happen. Patel said artificial […]

Big Oil Backs Mazama’s $135 Million Bet On Superhot Geothermal Mazama Energy announced $135 million in new capital with an oversubscribed Series B that included ConocoPhillips and Shell Ventures. With Devon Energy initially backing Fervo in 2023, a pattern is emerging with oil and gas veterans placing their bets in the geothermal industry.  Some of the techniques developed by the O&G industry are translating well to […]

The Fed Rate-Hike Won’t Fix The Inflation It Targets Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Fed did what the bond market dared it to do. This past week, in a unanimous vote, the FOMC raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, the first Fed rate hike since 2023. The stated reason was “price stability.” Yet this is a Fed whose own chairman has spent the past year […]

Bessent And He Lifeng Open High-Stakes Trade Talks Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are meeting Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters on Sunday for a critical round of trade negotiations. The all-day session marks the final ministerial push before President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington beginning […]

Good Intentions Paved The Road To The 2008 Financial Crisis Authored by Paul Mueller via The Daily Economy, This week marks the eighteenth anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers, a key event of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). Lehman’s failure and the GFC more broadly were dramatic economic events. Lehman Brothers was the largest bankruptcy in US history to date. The global financial crisis gave rise to the Great […]

WW3 Near-Miss? AI Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Components Aboard Chinese Vessel Bound For Iran Could runaway artificial intelligence (AI) spark a future WW3? We don’t need movies like Terminator 2 and its SkyNet to help us imagine this, it’s 2026 and there is already a terrifying real-world precedent that could have kicked off a shooting war with nuclear-armed China. A human analyst within the US intelligence community utilized […]

Watch: British Cops Grill Street-Preacher After Someone Takes ‘Offense’ At Bible Passages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s latest public-order farce is not a machete fight, a rape gang or a phone-snatch. It is a man on a high street with a Bible. Footage circulating Friday shows three female officers surrounding a Christian street preacher in a busy shopping precinct. One of them looks like she should […]

Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock Military conflicts, economic wars, and resource wars are converging ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. Export restrictions on critical materials and energy products are adding economic pressure worldwide, raising the risk that supply disruptions and retaliatory measures widen existing conflicts. With no clear path to de-escalation, the […]

The Arctic Front Of The “Cordon Sanitaire” Is The Most Threatening To Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The military-technical developments there aim to greatly mitigate Russia’s nuclear second-strike capabilities via the Golden Dome in parallel with posing an unprecedented fifth-generation aerial threat via the F-35As that’ll outmatch Russia’s Su-57s by 10:1 without the US and 35:1 if it’s included. RT reviewed […]

Total PsAI-Op: How Altman, Amodei, And The ‘EA’ Cult Are Milking “Rogue AI” Breakouts To Protect A Trillion-Dollar Bubble The sudden emergence of an ‘AI Panic’ over the past weeks and months was highly suspect from the beginning. According to tech insiders, Silicon Valley’s apex AI labs are deliberately overselling “rogue AI” hacks to pressure the federal government into building a regulatory moat that would lock out future […]

Massie Explains Strategy For Going After Hegseth The non-interventionist D.C.-based think tank Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has published an interview with the one Republican who has been most outspoken against Trump’s Iran war. Trump had in turn starting last spring launched a political war of his own against Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who has been in the hot seat, with his political future in question. But Massie […]

“Calm Down, Lefties! Quiet!”: French Soldiers Applaud Military Chaplain’s Warning Of ‘Great Replacement’ Via Remix News, A leaked video of a French military chaplain addressing paratroopers in a cathedral has circulated widely on social media. In the clip, the chaplain makes disparaging remarks about leftists, tells soldiers to keep fighting for their national heritage, and warns of the risk that French values and culture could be […]

The Apocalyptic Game: Panic And Opportunity Authored by Sasha Gong via American Greatness, America’s latest argument over artificial intelligence has suddenly become apocalyptic. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon accused AI companies of “gambling with our lives.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow the development of frontier models, an idea supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk. At the same time, […]

Military Report Details Six UFOs Traveling At 480 MPH Newly public military records are offering another look at unexplained objects encountered by U.S. forces, including a cluster reportedly moving through Middle Eastern airspace at extraordinary speed, according to the NY Post. According to a CENTCOM account from 2025, military personnel tracked six round objects traveling together at about 480 mph. Their flight path was unusual […]

‘Princes Of The Dollar’: Why QE Is Over Authored by Kane McGukin via Bombthrower, What the G20, Werner, and Warsh tell us about America’s new monetary playbook In every transition, there are road signs along the way. Matt Dines has been one of the more accurate minds of late on the monetary and geopolitical transition we are living through. His and Camron Otsuka’s commentary earlier this month on Mine Print Hash, post the G20 […]

Foreign Capital Returns To Brazil As Goldman Clients See 20% Stock Rally If Bolsonaro Defeats Socialist Brazil’s tightening presidential race could drive a sharp repricing of local equities. A new Goldman Sachs survey of 70 global investors found that half see at least 20% upside in EWZ, the US-listed Brazil equity ETF, by year-end if right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro defeats socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. […]

Waste Of The Day: SBA Reviewed Loans 20 Years Late Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, The Small Business Administration potentially made $11.5 million in improper payments to banks after overruling its own employees who had recommended reducing or denying government guarantees on 16 failed small-business loans. For another 13 failed loans, SBA took so long to review them that the six-year statute of […]

Tesla Engineers Audit Chinese Suppliers As Optimus Commercialization Nears About a month after JPMorgan analysts toured Tesla’s Fremont factory and confirmed a “targeted four-month transition following the end of S/X production in May” to humanoid production lines, a new report on Friday says that Tesla engineers arrived in China to inspect robotics component suppliers, as Elon Musk appears to be moving closer and closer toward the […]

HHS Awards $42.3 Million To Push ‘Treatment First’ Model For Homelessness & Addiction Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $42.3 million in new supplemental cash Friday to states and territories with the goal of speeding up the implementation of the Treatment First model for homelessness tied to addiction. The Substance Abuse […]

Appeals Court Rules Federal Ban On Interstate Handgun Sales Unconstitutional Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against the federal government’s ban on interstate transfers of handguns on Sept. 18, finding the nearly 60-year-old law was unconstitutional. The ruling reverses provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 that prohibit handguns from being sold directly from […]

CENTCOM Claims US Military Has Escorted A Billion Barrels Of Crude Out Of Hormuz Brent crude futures eased toward $103 a barrel by the end of the week as mixed Iran headlines and hopes for renewed diplomacy around next week’s United Nations General Assembly weighed on energy markets. On Saturday morning, CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said the US had escorted 1 billion barrels of oil and more than 2,000 commercial vessels out […]

Trump Drops ‘Fake News’ Receipts As CNN, MSNBC, Politico Journos Have White House Badges Revoked Update (1200ET): Following through on his promise, journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were denied access to the White House grounds on Sept. 19 after President Donald Trump announced a ban targeting the outlets the day before. Akayla Gardner, a White House correspondent for MS NOW, said that her press pass was revoked at the […]