AI ‘Vibe Coding’ Could Put Ethereum Roadmap Ahead Of Schedule: Vitalik Buterin Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says an experiment that used artificial intelligence to prototype the blockchain’s roadmap out to 2030 in just a few weeks could have lessons for developers.  “This is quite an impressive experiment. Vibe-coding the entire 2030 roadmap within weeks,” […]

Top Energy Analyst Says Iran’s Navy Too Weak To Completely Choke Hormuz FGE NexantECA Chairman Emeritus Fereidun Fesharaki told Bloomberg TV on Monday morning that any attempt by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to choke off the critical Strait of Hormuz using warships, drones, and missiles would likely be short-lived, as the regime’s naval capability is too weak to sustain a blockade against U.S., British, and French naval […]

Construction Spending On Data Centers, Factories, Powerplants, And Office Buildings: Boom, Bust, And In Between Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street, Construction spending on data centers in 2025 exploded by 32% from the prior year, by over 100% in two years, and by 344% from 2020, to $41 billion, according to the Census Bureau on Friday. Spending on construction costs of data centers used to be buried in office construction […]

Trump Claims ‘We Will Easily Prevail’ In Iran War, Vows ‘Whatever It Takes’ In Open-Ended Timeline Summary: President Trump opened Monday’s Medal of Honor ceremony in the White House East Wing with a carefully prepared, somewhat brief statement on Operation Epic Fury. Speaking deliberatively – but not quite with the level of his typically confident and energetic tone and demeanor – he spoke initially and broadly on the rationale […]

SaaS: Is There Opportunity In The Destruction? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A specter is haunting Wall Street – the specter of the “SaaSpocalypse.” Since the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) peaked on September 19, 2025, it has fallen roughly 30%. For context, the broad technology indexes like XLK and QQQ are essentially flat over the same period, and the semiconductor ETF (SMH) is up […]

What’s Igniting Today’s U.S. Antimony Spike? Potential Catalysts United States Antimony Corp. shares are surging in the early U.S. cash session as geopolitical risk around U.S.-China relations is set to deteriorate, with Beijing’s condemnation of the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran raising the likelihood that President Trump’s upcoming trip to Beijing could be a bust. The deterioration in Sino-U.S. relations was evident overnight, […]

US Government Seizes Over $580 Million In Crypto Linked To Southeast Asian Scams Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said federal authorities have frozen and seized more than $580 million in cryptocurrency tied to Southeast Asian scam networks, marking a major escalation in the government’s campaign against cross-border crypto fraud. The funds were restrained through the Justice […]

Rep. Ted Lieu Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy In Congressional Hearing Authored by Jonathan Turley, Years ago, Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Cal.) demanded that “Facebook should do more internally to regulate fake news and point out fake news.” This week, he finally made his case for such private censorship. Lieu went full conspiracy theorist during a congressional hearing this week, leaving many gobsmacked. Lieu’s rave about the alleged […]

European Gas Prices Soar 50% After Qatar Shuts World’s Largest LNG Export Plant In its scenario analysis of how the Iran war could impact energy markets, Goldman laid out a section dedicated to nat gas, and specifically LNG, which like oil, is one of the commodities that is especially reliant on prompt passage through he Straits of Hormuz to reach its destination.  Specifically, unlike oil which Goldman calculated had already […]

Target Cuts Synthetic Colors From Beloved Breakfast Food Authored by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell via The Daily Signal, The Make America Healthy Again movement has made its mark on one of America’s largest retailers. Dr. Marty Makary, FDA commissioner. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Target announced Friday that every cereal it sells, including national brands, must exclude synthetic colors by the end of May. Health and Human […]

Trump’s Strategy Is A High Risk-High Reward Gamble By Rabobank The New Age Of Empires The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday morning, and not a ‘one-and-done’ strike aimed at more negotiations. Rather, it’s an operation to destroy Iran’s nuclear program remnants, its ballistic missile production and stockpiles, its navy, and to back *regime change*. Both the U.S. and Israel are calling on the Iranian people to rise […]

Russia’s Key Novorossiysk Export Hub Again Pounded In Large Ukrainian Drone Wave Iran is understandably dominating global headlines, but major events are still happening in oh yeah that other war which has been raging for four plus years in eastern Europe. Like with the Iran conflict theatre, major geopolitical repercussions impacting energy oil prices are coming out of the Ukraine war. An overnight Monday large-scale drone wave […]

10Y Yield Extends Rise After Surge In ISM Manufacturing Prices After ISM’s almost unprecedented bounce higher in January, US Manufacturing dipped in February: S&P Global Manufacturing PMI fell from 52.4 to 51.6 – weakest in seven months ISM Manufacturing PMI fell from 52.6 to 52.4 (better than expected) And this is occurring as ‘hard’ data ebbs lower… “February saw US manufacturers report the weakest expansion […]

Iranian Drones Strike EU Country In War First The Iran war has just for the first time, and rather quickly given it’s only the third day of the conflict, expanded to include an EU nation in the Mediterranean. Iranian-made drones have reached Cyprus and at least one has made ground impact. But they may have been launched from nearby Lebanon. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Akrotiri, Cyprus came under attack Monday morning, […]

Key Events This Week: Payrolls, Retail Sales, ISM, Beige Book… And War In Iran Outside the obvious and huge attention on the Middle East, the key focus this week will be on the US jobs report on Friday, retail sales on the same day, the ISM indices (today and Wednesday), and the Fed’s Beige Book, also due on Wednesday. European releases will include inflation data tomorrow and the ECB’s accounts of their February meeting on […]

Migrants Filmed Catching And Butchering Swans, Ducks In UK And Ireland Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Shocking videos reveal migrants setting traps and snatching protected birds from public waterways, fueling outrage over unchecked immigration destroying local wildlife. Video evidence from Ireland shows a local resident dismantling crude wire cages placed along Dublin’s Grand Canal by tent-dwelling migrants, […]

Modern Warfare Sees First Drone Strike On A Commercial Data Center We told readers one month ago that, while trillions of dollars are being allocated to the global data center buildout, virtually every Wall Street analyst remains fixated on financing, chip stacks, power, land, water, and other obvious mainstream inputs. However, we identified one overlooked emerging threat they missed: the risk of kamikaze drone attacks. By Sunday […]

Futures Tumble As Iran War Sends Oil, Gold And Dollar Sharply Higher US equity futures and global stocks tumbled, the dollar and gold rallied and oil soared as military strikes intensified across the Middle East, sending oil to its biggest surge in four years and stoking concern that faster inflation could weigh on the global economy. AS of 8:10am ET, S&P 500 futures are down more than 1% – but off overnight lows – after the […]

Oil Shock Risk: Biggest Saudi Refinery Halts Operations After Drone Strike A drone strike forced Saudi Aramco to suspend operations at its Ras Tanura complex while damage assessments are underway on Monday, reviving a 2024 warning we issued that any successful Iranian or Iran-backed militia strike on critical Saudi refining infrastructure could trigger a global oil shock and, in a more severe scenario, set the stage for a broader […]

Trust In The US Government Has Plunged From 77% To 17% Over the past seven decades, Americans’ trust in the federal government has dropped from postwar highs to historic lows. In 1964, 77% said they trusted Washington to do what is right most of the time. As of September 2025, that figure stands at just 17%. The chart below, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, tracks this long-term shift, using data from Pew Research […]

War Stocks Jump: These Firms Have The Most Middle East Exposure Update (Monday):  Defense stocks in Asia and Europe are extending their rally after the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, added fresh momentum to the global defense trade. The move is spilling over into U.S. premarket trading, where big defense firms such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and RTX jumped as investors panic-buy war stocks. […]

The UK’s New Grooming Gang Scandal Authored by Fraser Myers via The American Conservative, In borderless Britain, it seems as if barely a day goes by without some monstrosity being committed by a migrant who should never have been in the country in the first place. The world is now familiar with the ongoing scandal of Britain’s predominantly Pakistani rape gangs. Yet what is also unfolding right now is a wave of brutal sexual […]

“We Will Not Negotiate”: Iran Security Chief Denies WSJ Report Summary: Iran seeks to resume discussions with the United States, spearheaded by Iranian security chief Ali Larijani OR NOT: Larjiani has denied a Wall Street Journal report that he reached out to Washington. Trump said he had three or four potential candidates to lead Iran, but they were all killed in the initial attack.  Trump on Iran ops: “We have hit […]

Germany’s Strategic And Economic Vulnerability Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A year of tariff disputes with the U.S., coupled with tighter climate regulations, has left deep marks on the German economy. The most visible consequence is a 17.8% collapse in German car exports to the United States last year. Overall exports to the U.S. fell 9.4% to €146.2 billion, while total trade volume dropped by 5%. At the same time, China has […]

Where Food Inflation Is Expected To Hit Hardest In 2026 Food prices remain one of the most persistent cost pressures for households worldwide. In 2026, grocery bills are projected to rise sharply in some countries, while remaining relatively stable in others. According to new forecasts from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food inflation will vary dramatically across 160 countries in 2026, ranging from […]