“Not Acceptable At All”: Trump Blasts Former US Attorney’s $50M Concord Deal After NYT Report Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times,President Donald Trump said on Oct. 31 that it’s “unacceptable” that former U.S. Attorney Alina Habba Mildon signed a $50 million multi-year contract while serving in the Department of Justice.Trump is now going after his former lawyer, Alina Habba, over her $50 million deal:“I thought it was […]

Poland Launches Security Operation Along Kaliningrad Border, Fearing Russian ‘Sabotage’ More border tensions have emeged between Poland and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, at a moment tensions continue to soar related to the Ukraine war as well as Western accusations of Kremlin-orchestrated sabotage.Polish police and security forces have launched a special operation to ‘secure’ the border area, having picked up intelligence […]

Trump Says He’ll Turn Into ‘Mr. Veto’ And Issue Preemptive Pardons If Dems Dominate Midterms President Trump said that if Democrats win the House or the Senate on Tuesday, he will govern by veto until the two sides cut a deal, telling Fox News’ Miranda Devine that he would “become Mr. Veto.” President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One (Getty) “Well, if that happens, I guess I’ll become Mr. […]

Skynet, Spies, And Your Vote Doesn’t Count: The 10 Biggest Red Flags In Anthropic’s IPO Filing When Anthropic’s S-1 went public on Oct 26, the headline number was a $974 million operating profit on $11.6 billion of second-quarter revenue. It also came with what we tallied as roughly $800 billion in compute commitments, including up to $120.5 billion owed to Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI.Monday’s amendment filled in the blanks, and it’s not […]

Kid Rock Tells Bill Maher What He Thinks Of El-Sayed – Compares To ‘Pieces Of Sh*t’ 9/11 Hijackers Kid Rock used a Friday night appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO show to go after Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s Senate race, comparing a candidate he called “well-spoken, even a good-looking guy” to the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center just days before Tuesday’s election. Kid Rock just TORE APART […]

From Stablecoin To Foundation: Tether CEO Unveils Asimovian Vision To “Reduce The Darkness” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino cast the company as Asimov’s Foundation, a seed of light for the coming dark age. Somewhat ironically, the seed money, it turns out, is the Empire’s own debt, and a growing pile of Swiss gold.Ardoino envisions Tether through the eyes of Asimov’s psychohistory: civilizational decline can’t be stopped, but the […]

3 Midterm Outcomes & How They’d Move Stocks Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceWith the midterm elections now here, I wanted to quickly lay out the three potential scenarios I see unfolding, and how I think the stock market could react to each. Most of my readers are already familiar with my first, and what I think could happen to markets as a result: Could Democrats Crash This Market?As I’ve been prattling on about for month, I […]

State Department Goes Dark After Substation “Event” Cuts Power To DC’s Foggy Bottom News broke late this morning that Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood had lost power in what local reports describe as an “unscheduled loss of electrical power.”Local outlet 7News reports that more than 1,100 Pepco customers lost power this morning after an incident at the utility’s I Street Substation.Daily Wire reporter Mary Margaret Olohan […]

Conservatives In Disbelief Over Democrat’s Answer: “One Of The Craziest Things I’ve Ever Heard A Politician Say” Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing backlash after suggesting that concerns over transgender students in girls’ sports and locker rooms are so-called manufactured political issues.The controversy erupted after El-Sayed appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” where correspondent Ross Douthat pressed him about […]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Floats More US Talks In Rare Overture Update(0855ET): Oil is tumbling in the wake of a somewhat rare headline out of Tehran Iranian President Pezeshkian says the Supreme Leader has granted the government some authority on dialogue, ISNA reportsOIL FALLS TO INTRADAY LOW, BRENT TRADES NEAR $106/BBLOil prices down 6% on hopes of US-Iran diplomacyThis marks some of the most significant confirmation yet that the […]

DOE Announces $10.1B In Loans To Constellation, Alliant, For 3.7 GW By Robert Walton, Senior Editor at UtilityDiveThe U.S. Department of Energy announced $10.1 billion in loans and loan guarantees to Constellation Energy and Alliant Energy this week, aiming to support 3.7 GW of new capacity from nuclear and other technologies.DOE’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing on Tuesday announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 […]

DC Judge Tosses Charges Against Former F.B.I. Officials Accused Of Lying About Hunter Biden Laptop A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed the criminal complaint against two former FBI officials accused of misleading Congress in 2023 about the bureau’s work on the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said the case against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides “cannot be described as anything other than […]

France Votes To Tax Big Tech By The Gigabyte – And Someone Just Bent The Barrel Back France’s National Assembly voted on Friday to tax the internet by the gigabyte. An amendment to the 2027 budget would charge every company that sends data to French internet subscribers €0.055 per gigabyte, and its Socialist authors expect it to raise €10 billion a year.But by Sunday, someone had turned the tax on the party that wrote it. An […]

Mechanical, Technicals, And An Election Submitted by Peter Tchir, Academy SecuritiesAnother hectic week! This market is not getting any easier to manage.I want to refocus attention on a subject that continues to come up in conversations and that we tried to address in last week’s report: Stocks & Credit: Cheap but Getting Cheaper? Energy: Not So Much? That subject is why energy prices are still high, if, according to […]

Key Events This Week: Midterms, Jobs, Earnings, Central Banks And More Welcome to the first business day of November, and as DB’s Jim Reid writes in his Morning Reid note, the week ahead is a big one in the US and with it for global markets, with tomorrow’s midterm elections and Friday’s October jobs report the obvious highlights, alongside the ISM surveys and Wednesday’s Treasury quarterly refunding announcement. Elsewhere, […]

5 Days Later: Oracle Slides After Blowing Through Entire Four-Year “Hard Cap” In One Morning With $20BN Bond, Stock Offering Another day, another hyperscaler scrambling to raise capital.Just one week after Meta tapped shareholders for up to $95 billion, when we said, well, the obvious…Good for META. Now let’s see everyone else’s equity offering pic.twitter.com/l0ve6NNBVl— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 26, 2026 … and just days […]

Lindsay Clancy Returns To Court As Defense, Prosecutors Discuss 2nd Trial Date Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,Lindsay Clancy is scheduled to appear in court again on Nov. 2 as her attorneys and prosecutors convene to discuss possible dates for a new trial, and finish presenting motions left pending from a September hearing.Clancy was very nearly acquitted for the January 2023 murder of her three young children. […]

Showdowns This week is shaping up as a series of showdowns. In the United States we have the midterm elections where prediction markets favor the Democrats overwhelmingly to take control of the House and, less assuredly, to also net control of the Senate.Dem sweep odds, from BofA’s Michael Hartnett (citing Polymarket) pic.twitter.com/6wQQO4RR6G— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 1, 2026 Flowing on from the midterms we see […]

South Africa’s Biggest City Faces Total Infrastructure Collapse Over 50 years of communist anti-colonialism in the third world, aided by some liberal governments in the west, has provided uncomfortable truths about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to human civilization.  The first and most controversial truth is that, in many cases, third world societies are self destructive and incapable of maintaining the most basic of […]

Shorts Beware? China’s Plunge Protection Team Stabilizes Stocks With $15 Billion Swap Rescue Plan China’s version of the Plunge Protection Team is coming out swinging Monday morning, after the central bank announced earlier today that it would inject a new round of a $15 billion swap facility to rescue stocks from a vicious bear market. After markets closed, the People’s Bank of China said it would hold a one-year swap auction […]

For First Time In Years, Air Force Sends F-16s To Remote Aleutians, Near Russia Authored by Nicholas Slayton via Task & Purpose,The Air Force sent several F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to a remote part of the western Aleutian Islands this month, as part of a wider North American Aerospace Defense Command exercise. The deployment was notable as it was the first time in years that fighter jets were at Eareckson Air Station in […]

Trump To Deliver Final Midterm Pitch At Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times,President Trump will deliver remarks at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Nov. 2, a day before the midterms, according to a White House official.The address is expected to serve as Trump’s final campaign message, aiming to help Republicans retain control of Congress.The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was among […]

Ukrainian & Russian Emergency Alert Apps Hacked With Fake Nuclear Attack Warnings Uknown hackers have perpretrated an incredibly cruel prank or action meant to sow mass fear and confusion within the Ukranian population, amid the ongoing war.The country’s nationwide emergency alert mobile app was penetrated, and hackers sent residents in Ukraine’s capital urgent notifications of an impending nuclear strike. Some messages were […]

Rare Iranian Strike On Vessel Hundreds Of Miles From Strait Of Hormuz Sunday saw another vessel attacked in Persian Gulf regional waters. The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) reported that a ship was struck by two projectiles some 83 miles east of Ras al-Khafji, which is the Saudi town on the Kuwaiti border in the northern Persian Gulf.Signficiantly and unusually, this particularl attack occurred hundreds of miles from […]

Futures Rise As Oil Slides Below $100 On Trump Iran Diplomacy Report, Tech Bounces Ahead Of Midterms US futures are higher as a slide in oil, a tentative tech rebound and some old-fashioned seasonality lift sentiment on the eve of the midterms: crude tumbled more than 4% after Axios reported that Trump told Netanyahu he wants to give diplomacy with Iran more time before resuming strikes, chips bounced after Friday’s 7.2% SOX puke, […]