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  • Government Science Is An Oxymoron

    ZeroHedge - Oct 22nd 2025 11:45am EDT

    Government Science Is An Oxymoron Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute, Donald Trump has been criticized heavily for cutting federal funding of science. Opponents claim that his decision threatens to undermine American innovation, weaken the nation’s economy, and diminish its global influence. Yet the assumption behind these complaints is rarely examined. It is taken […]

  • Apple Slashes iPhone Air Output, Boosts Production Of Base, Pro iPhone 17 Models, Nikkei Reports

    ZeroHedge - Oct 22nd 2025 9:40am EDT

    Apple Slashes iPhone Air Output, Boosts Production Of Base, Pro iPhone 17 Models, Nikkei Reports Building on the “Are We In An iPhone Supercycle?” note we published on Tuesday, a new report from Nikkei Asia says Apple has sharply cut production of the iPhone Air due to soft demand while boosting orders for other iPhone […]

  • Slovak PM Claims EU Tried To Sabotage Canceled Trump–Putin Peace Summit In Budapest

    ZeroHedge - Oct 22nd 2025 8:45am EDT

    Slovak PM Claims EU Tried To Sabotage Canceled Trump–Putin Peace Summit In Budapest Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused some within the European Union of attempting to sabotage peace by disrupting the now-canceled meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest. “The […]

  • The Bering Strait Tunnel Will Likely Remain A Pipe Dream

    ZeroHedge - Oct 22nd 2025 6:30am EDT

    The Bering Strait Tunnel Will Likely Remain A Pipe Dream Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia might still fund some less ambitious infrastructure projects in its Far East-Arctic region to keep the economy hot after the war ends, help veterans find work, and encourage settlement there… Trump reacted positively to the proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, chief […]

  • How The Louvre ‘Heist Of The Century’ Unfolded

    ZeroHedge - Oct 22nd 2025 5:00am EDT

    How The Louvre ‘Heist Of The Century’ Unfolded Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The audacious theft of priceless jewels from the Louvre in Paris on Oct. 19 was called “the heist of the century” by several local newspapers, and commentators quickly drew parallels to similar headline-grabbing crimes over the years. […]

  • Global Corporate Tax Levels Continue To Slide, But France Remains Highest

    ZeroHedge - Oct 22nd 2025 2:45am EDT

    Global Corporate Tax Levels Continue To Slide, But France Remains Highest Since the turn of this century, OECD countries have experienced a marked trend of declining corporate tax rates. The average corporate income tax rate applied by OECD members fell from about 33 percent in 2000 to between 24 and 25 percent in recent years […]

  • 1997–2025: When The West Is Distracted, China Advances

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 11:25pm EDT

    1997–2025: When The West Is Distracted, China Advances Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, For nearly three decades, the Western world has hardly had a calm time—terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, financial meltdowns, pandemics, and deepening political fractures. Each has seized the headlines, drained treasuries, and monopolized the attention […]

  • Japan Pushes Back On US Pressure To Halt Russian Energy Imports

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 6:25pm EDT

    Japan Pushes Back On US Pressure To Halt Russian Energy Imports By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com, Japan will base any decisions about energy imports on its national interests, the country’s trade minister Yoji Muto has said, following suggestions from the Trump administration that Japan suspends all purchases of Russian oil and gas. “Since the invasion […]

  • John Brennan Hit With Criminal Referral Over Steele Dossier Lies

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 3:00pm EDT

    John Brennan Hit With Criminal Referral Over Steele Dossier Lies House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former CIA director John Brennan to the Justice Department for prosecution, alleging that Brennan made false statements to Congress about how the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian election interference handled material from the so-called Steele dossier. […]

  • Trump To Buy Tiny 1 Million Barrels For SPR As China Unleashes Record Oil Stockpiling Spree

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 1:11pm EDT

    Trump To Buy Tiny 1 Million Barrels For SPR As China Unleashes Record Oil Stockpiling Spree Badly beating down oil jumped, if only briefly, on a Bloomberg report that the Trump administration plans to buy 1 million barrels for the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, taking advantage of low oil prices to begin filing the depleted […]

  • Alaska’s $44 Billion LNG Project Nears Key Milestone As Pipeline Study Wraps Up

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 11:45am EDT

    Alaska’s $44 Billion LNG Project Nears Key Milestone As Pipeline Study Wraps Up By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The proponents of the $44-billion Alaska LNG are expected to complete by the end of the year the crucial engineering and cost study for an 800-mile-long pipeline set to service the export project, U.S. Secretary of the […]

  • Eos Energy Shares Surge After Announcing New $75 Million Facility In Pennsylvania

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 9:40am EDT

    Eos Energy Shares Surge After Announcing New $75 Million Facility In Pennsylvania Shares of Eos Energy Enterprises surged more than 20% this morning (before pulling back into the cash equity open) after the company announced a $75 million battery manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania to supply Talen Energy Corp. and help meet the state’s fast-growing data […]

  • Rare Earths Stocks Soar After Mega US-Australia Minerals Deal To Slash Dependence On China

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 7:20am EDT

    Rare Earths Stocks Soar After Mega US-Australia Minerals Deal To Slash Dependence On China President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a minerals deal on Monday at the White House to expand America’s rare earth supply and diversify away from China’s dominance in critical minerals used in EVs, semiconductors, and defense weapons. Beijing’s weaponization of […]

  • 64% Of Rwanda Politicians Are Women; Just 4% In Nigeria

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 5:45am EDT

    64% Of Rwanda Politicians Are Women; Just 4% In Nigeria Data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union shows the extent to which differences in gender equality in parliament exist between countries, with only four nations currently representing an even or almost even 50:50 split of men to women in their lower house of parliament. These are Andorra, Mexico, Bolivia […]

  • EU Energy Ministers Want To Finish Ditching Russian Gas In Two Years

    ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 4:15am EDT

    EU Energy Ministers Want To Finish Ditching Russian Gas In Two Years European Union energy ministers think they’ll be able to phase out the import of Russian gas by 2028, and have backed a proposal that would begin the process by phasing out the contracts themselves for both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) by Jan. 1, […]

  • Who’s Most Affected By Federal Cuts To DEI And EBT

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 9:20pm EDT

    Who’s Most Affected By Federal Cuts To DEI And EBT The inherent threat of socialist programs rests in the fact that they can be used by a political party or a politician as a means to bribe voters from certain demographics to support destructive policies in exchange for handouts.  The Democratic Party understood this well […]

  • New Generation Of Industries Emerges In Texas As Rare Earths Race Ignites

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 8:05pm EDT

    New Generation Of Industries Emerges In Texas As Rare Earths Race Ignites Authored by Dylan Baddour via Inside Climate News (emphasis ours), Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for oil. This time, they’re after lithium for batteries and other rare elements. Chevron and Halliburton announced East Texas projects this summer. Exxon has acreage across […]

  • Gigantic Muslim ‘Planned Community’ Meets Resistance From Texas AG

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 5:40pm EDT

    Gigantic Muslim ‘Planned Community’ Meets Resistance From Texas AG Authored by Wendi Strauch Mahoney via AmericanThinker.com, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has asked the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) to review what he says is evidence that entities tied to the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC)’s EPIC City project violated state and federal securities laws — and to refer […]

  • Trump Blasts Colombian President As ‘Lunatic, Drug Leader’ While Vowing New Tariffs

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 3:45pm EDT

    Trump Blasts Colombian President As ‘Lunatic, Drug Leader’ While Vowing New Tariffs President Trump has put Colombia on notice, and will hit the South American nation with new tariffs. He has further charged President Gustavo Petro with being an “illegal drug leader,“ saying the US will also halt all aid to the country. Trump asserted […]

  • Sustaining The Unsustainable

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 1:20pm EDT

    Sustaining The Unsustainable By Rabobank The Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P500 closed around half a percentage point higher on Friday following comments by Donald Trump to Fox News that elevated tariffs on China are not “sustainable”. Markets seem to be interpreting this line as the latest incidence of TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and bidding […]

  • Speculative Bull Runs And The Value Of A Bearish Tilt

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 12:10pm EDT

    Speculative Bull Runs And The Value Of A Bearish Tilt Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The recent market crack certainly woke up the more complacent bullish investors. Of course, the complacency was warranted, given the recent market surge, conversations about “TINA” (There Is No Alternative), and how “this time is different.” But that is what a speculative bull run looks […]

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  • Was The CIA Misleading Witkoff & Kushner On Key Intel About Hamas During Critical Phase Of Peace-Talks

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 10:20am EDT

    Was The CIA Misleading Witkoff & Kushner On Key Intel About Hamas During Critical Phase Of Peace-Talks Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge, A fascinating hour-long interview with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as they outline the backstory to the Israel-Hamas peace agreement in Gaza. During a segment (prompted below) Witkoff and Kushner are […]

  • Futures Rise As Trade, Credit Fears Fade Ahead Of Earnings Deluge

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 8:43am EDT

    Futures Rise As Trade, Credit Fears Fade Ahead Of Earnings Deluge US equity futures are higher led by small caps, with sentiment TACOed for a second consecutive weekend thanks to Trump’s comments that the US will “be fine” with China ahead of trade talks between the two sides. It’s going to be a busy week […]

  • EU Capital Markets Union: Germany’s Merz Calls For A “Wall Street” For Europe

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 5:20am EDT

    EU Capital Markets Union: Germany’s Merz Calls For A “Wall Street” For Europe Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the German Bundestag, Friedrich Merz appealed to the EU to integrate the fragmented European capital market more deeply and reduce bureaucratic hurdles. His vision for the next step: a kind of Wall Street for Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich […]

  • The Rise & Rise Of AfD: Exploring The Unprecedented Political Dumbassery Afoot In The Federal Republic

    ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 3:30am EDT

    The Rise & Rise Of AfD: Exploring The Unprecedented Political Dumbassery Afoot In The Federal Republic Authored by ‘eugyppius’ via A Plague Chronicle, The firewall is making AfD the strongest party in Germany, artificially empowering the left and destroying the centre-right, who alone can lift it There’s a subtle, little-discussed but very bizarre political phenomenon […]