Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, While the deal hasn’t been finalized, it looks like for the next 90 days (at least, as extensions become the norm), the U.S. is back to 30% on China while they are at 10% on the U.S.  The Fentanyl related tariffs might be higher, but sounds like that can be reduced […]

Russia’s Izvestia newspaper is reporting Monday that “NATO launches major military exercise along Russia’s border” – in reference to new major drills kicking off in Finland, also involving the militaries of Sweden and the United Kingdom. The exercises are dubbed Northern Strike 125 and Northern Star 25 and involve some 7,000 total personnel and aim to develop […]

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Assessing a bear market rally proves challenging when you experience it firsthand. It is only in hindsight that the complete picture reveals itself to investors. Of course, after a bear market rally, investors tend to review their investments and speculate on what they should have done differently. Retail investors […]

US equity futures and the dollar soared after China and the US agreed to slash tariffs and de-escalate a trade war that had sparked turmoil in global markets. Treasuries and gold tumbled after the US cut China tariffs from 145% to 30% while China slashed US tariffs from 125% to 10% for 90 days. With the countries […]

“Our top priority remains bringing an end to the fighting and an immediate ceasefire,” the State Department said Sunday concerning the war in Ukraine. And yet the overnight exchanges of fire, especially drone attacks on a large scale, doesn’t suggest the warring sides are actually any closer to ceasefire, despite that over the weekend President […]

China and the U.S. moved to ease trade tensions early Monday, agreeing to a temporary 90-day reduction in reciprocal tariffs on each other’s goods, according to a joint statement released by both governments on X. The accord, viewed as a breakthrough in a multi-month trade war between the world’s two largest economies, helped spark a rally […]

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Border Patrol posted footage of a massive processing facility on the southern border that has been dismantled, but just a few months ago was heaving with thousands of illegal aliens, proving conclusively that the flow could have been stopped at any time. The videos show the huge area […]

How well are Americans managing their money, and how does it vary between the states? This financial literacy map, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, attempts to answer both questions using 2025 data from WalletHub, a personal finance services company. They ranked and scored states on three main benchmarks: financial education, financial planning (or consumer habits), and […]

Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Renowned attorney Larry Klayman predicted on USAWatchdog.com that there would be full-blown, legal civil war happening in the court system.  He also predicted that violence from the “rabid left” would not only increase but explode.   Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch USA, says there are now more than 233 federal […]

In the Trump administration’s latest blow to the wokes, the Pentagon on Friday instructed military leaders to conduct a sweeping review of all library materials across bases and academies, with orders to remove any books promoting what the Department of Defense deemed “divisive concepts and gender ideology.” According to internal memos reviewed by the Associated […]