Buyers Trading In Vehicles With Negative Equity Face Record Monthly Payments: Edmunds Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, The number of automobile owners trading in vehicles with negative equity continues to rise, with 29.6 percent of trade-ins in the second quarter showing more money owed on existing auto loans than the vehicles were worth, according to automotive insights platform Edmunds’s July 16 vehicle transaction […]

US Gas Prices Cross Politically Sensitive $4 Level Closely Watched By Trump The U.S. national average for a gallon of regular 87-octane gasoline has climbed back above the politically sensitive $4 threshold as U.S. military forces and Tehran enter a ninth day of tit-for-tat strikes. This level is significant because it is where fuel costs begin to alter spending and driving behavior among working-poor households, while also […]

400+ Ukrainian Drones Launched On Moscow In One Of Biggest Attack Waves To Date The Russian capital has been hit with a massive drone wave from Ukraine, which injured at least ten people – including three Chinese citizens – local authorities say. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has stated that more than 400 UAVs were launched toward Moscow and its suburbs overnight in one of the largest single raids since the war’s start. Reuters: […]

Houthis Announce Blockade On Saudi Shipping, Threaten Drone & Missile Attacks On Kingdom Yemen’s Houthi rebels have announced they are imposing a new maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in response for a recent attack on Sanaa Airport, and after years of the kingdom leading a blockade of Houthi-controlled Yemeni ports. A military statement by Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the maritime ban on all Saudi shipping will be […]

Texas PUC Approves “Ride-Through” Rules For Data Centers By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive, The Texas Public Utility Commission on Thursday unanimously approved rules that will require large computational loads, like data centers and crypto-mining facilities, within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas footprint to stay stable and connected to the grid through disruptions. Modern computational loads, Kenteel Engineering said […]

Suspect Detonates Incendiary Device Outside Manhattan Federal Building Summary: Suspect Arrested  FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the incident FBI Tells Fox News “individual deployed an incendiary device”  Immigration agents and FBI rushed out, guns drawn, and FPS apprehended the suspect Explosion Hits Outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan Suspect Arrested BREAKING: Suspect apprehended after […]

“I’m Not Living In Communist America”: Bill Maher Blasts Marxist DSA Democrats, Says He May Vote For JD Vance “I’m not living in Communist America… I’ve read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing,” Bill Maher told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview that aired on Sunday. Bill Maher: “I’m not living in Communist America… I’ve read the quotes […]

Tungsten Miner Soars After Billionaire Forrest Takes 17% Stake Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, founder and executive chairman of iron ore giant Fortescue, has agreed to acquire Oaktree Capital’s entire 16.8% stake in the Sydney-listed tungsten producer EQ Resources. Shares of EQ Resources in Sydney surged 34% on Monday following news of the transaction, which is valued at about 190 million AUD ($133 million) based on […]

Mediators Float 10-Day Ceasefire As Pezeshkian Tells Citizens Iran Engaged In ‘Full-Scale War’ Casualties Mount on Both Sides The US military is bombing Iran for what is now the ninth straight day of renewed fighting, in a campaign which has expanded to include both civic and military infrastructure, also as Iranian retaliatory attacks keep up the pressure on the Gulf states, and have reached into Jordan, which deadly effect on an […]

US Agencies Miss GENIUS Act Deadline, Extending Stablecoin Uncertainty Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, US regulatory agencies missed the rulemaking deadline under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act on Saturday, which marked one year since the law was signed.  Several US regulatory agencies published proposed rules and collected public feedback during the past year, […]

Futures Rebound On Fresh Bout Of Iran Optimism As Hyperscaler Earnings Loom US equity futures rebound from Friday’s selling, indicating a firmer start to the week with S&P futures rising 0.5% at 8.00am ET, and Nasdaq futures up 1% after a sluggish start to the session, after Iran’s Foreign  Ministry said it had received proposals from mediators about the conflict with the US. In premarket trading, semis are higher as are Mag7 […]

Breaking Down The $655 Million World Cup Prize Money The 2026 FIFA World Cup is awarding $655 million in performance prize money, making it the richest tournament in the competition’s history. Every stage of the tournament came with a larger financial reward, giving teams another incentive to advance as far as possible. Performance prize money has increased nearly 50% since 2022, when FIFA awarded $440 million. This Markets […]

Largest Reactor Fleet Owner Backs Shipyard Prefab Model With Gas-To-Nuclear Plan Constellation Energy already runs the largest nuclear fleet in the United States and has spent the last couple of years signing big power deals with data center operators and retailers to restart reactors and keep existing plants online longer.  With Microsoft taking the restarted Three Mile Island unit and Meta locking up output from Clinton, […]

The DSA & The Myth Of Scandinavian Socialism Authored by Jonathan Turley, This week, Darializa Avila Chevalier was asked if there has ever been a “successful model of socialism anywhere in the world outside the United States in terms of both human rights and widespread economic justice.” The member of the Democratic Socialists of America responded by citing Sweden and Norway. It is a common false claim made by […]

Iran Says Two Tankers Exploded In Hormuz Chokepoint As Ship Traffic Near Standstill Visible maritime traffic through the Hormuz chokepoint remained subdued into the new week after Iranian forces allgedly targeted tankers attempting to transit the narrow waterway, including routes close to Oman. This comes as the US and Iran have been locked in a dangerous tit-for-tat escalation that has entered its ninth day. UK maritime […]

The Next Phase Of Shrinkflation: Rolling Blackouts Via SchiffSovereign, The lights went on at approximately 3pm on September 4, 1882 in New York City. Thomas Edison (with major funding from JP Morgan) had spent roughly two years building the first-ever commercial power plant, located in Manhattan’s financial district. Its total capacity was about 600 kilowatts… barely enough to power a single rack of GPUs today. But at the […]

Western Nuclear Industry Bounces Back With Progress Across Small And Large Designs After last month’s report from Goldman Sachs on the ongoing global nuclear renaissance listed only a couple headlines for the western nuclear industry, June saw a significant bounce back as the industry saw progress across the microreactor landscape and the larger SMR and national grid-scale designs. The Micro Reactor Industry saw a huge achievement […]

Why Are So Many Millionaires Leaving The UK? Authored by Mani Basharzad via the Foundation for Economic Education, Samuel Johnson once wrote that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Today, however, there seems to be one group that is tired of London: millionaires. In the last week of June 2026, one of the world’s most famous antique fairs, the Treasure House Fair, took place in London, attracting […]

Watch: Aerial Drone Airlifts Kamikaze Ground Bot Into Battle As Warfare Automation Accelerates The evolution of autonomous warfare will center on teams of FPV drones, unmanned aircraft, and ground robots operating across a single network. Our view is that the battlefield of the 2030s has already been pulled forward by conflicts across Eurasia, from the Russia-Ukraine war to the US-Iran conflict. It was only a matter of time before […]

Europe’s Heatwave Is Becoming An Energy Crisis Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Europe’s heatwave is disrupting energy and transport, with low river levels restricting barge traffic on the Rhine and driving up shipping costs for fuel, coal, and other goods. High river temperatures have forced France to cut nuclear power generation, reducing electricity output as reactors face cooling constraints. The […]

China Is Building A System To Track Asteroids That Could Potentially Smash Into Earth China is expanding its planetary defense efforts with a new asteroid detection network aimed at spotting dangerous space rocks long before they become a threat to Earth, according to the South China Morning Post. SCMP writes that the planned system will pair a network of powerful ground-based telescopes with satellites in orbit, giving scientists […]

How Long Will Burnham Last? Authored by Mark Littlewood via DailySceptic.org, Over the past decade our political system has chewed through and spat out Prime Ministers at a faster rate than Premier League football teams burn through managers. As Andy Burnham enters 10 Downing Street, why would we think there is any reason he will do much better – in terms of longevity – than his immediate predecessors? I’m keeping my eyes […]

‘Convergence’: Secret Labs Already Deployed Lifelike Female Androids While Public Watches Optimus Toy Demos Authored by Madge Waggy, Technology has an unusual habit of revealing itself twice. The first version appears quietly, almost unnoticed, inside research papers, patent filings, laboratory demonstrations and corporate presentations that attract little attention beyond specialists. The second version arrives years later, […]

‘Going Dark’: The High-Tech Tricks Behind Illegal Chinese Fishing In The Pacific Authored by AAP via The Epoch Times, The interception of a Chinese vessel accused of illegal fishing highlights the technical lengths many use to remain undetected across millions of square kilometres of open ocean. Tuvalu Police operating on a Sea Shepherd patrol boat boarded and arrested a Chinese longliner, the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138, on July 9 for […]

India’s Nuclear Push Further Strains The Massive Uranium Supply Gap Prime Minister Modi secured another major uranium supply line. During his visit to Australia this month, the two sides finalized the administrative arrangements needed to move Australian uranium to India under the previous 2014 nuclear cooperation agreement. The fuel must stay under IAEA safeguards for exclusively peaceful use.  Australia holds roughly 28% of […]