Auto Tariffs Increasingly Looking Like A “Permanent Fixture”, Deutsche Bank Says According to Deutsche Bank, with U.S. auto tariffs increasingly looking like a permanent fixture, they’re closely monitoring how automakers are responding each week—particularly on pricing, incentives, and production shifts, according to a note out this week by analyst Edison Yu. While the administration has hinted at potential relief, there’s […]

‘Live Free & F**k Italian Girls’ – African Soccer Player Fired From Italian Team After Threatening Meloni’s 7-Year-Old Daughter Via Remix News, A Black footballer from Cameroon mocked Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insulted the police, boasted that he eats for free and does not pay rent, and that he “f**ks Italian girls.” He has now been fired from the Cluentina Calcio […]

Trump Trade War Results In Record $12 Billion Surge In Customs Revenues Sometimes, especially when stocks are tumbling, bond yields are soaring and the dollar looks like it is about to lose its reserve currency (and be replaced by what: the yuan? the euro? the turkish lira?), it is easy to forget what is the driving motive behind Trump’s trade war. And in a nutshell, it is this chart: US debt which at $37 trillion is unsustainable, […]

Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet, Our Propaganda Authored by Benjamin Zycher via RealClearEnergy, It is Earth Day 2025, the central religious holiday of the environmental left, and the theme this year is “Our Power, Our PlanetTM.” That “TM” trademark symbol is both a reality and a joke. It is a reality in that the organizers of Earth Day actually found it appropriate to trademark “Our Power, Our PlanetTM.” The […]

Early OpenAI Investor: The Chilling Reason Why U.S. Must Win AI Race Against China Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has issued a grave warning, declaring that the United States is in a do-or-die AI race against China, with the specter of worldwide communist ideology looming if America falters. Khosla cautioned that failing to lead in AI could allow China’s authoritarian regime to impose its oppressive vision globally. “There’s […]

Round Two! Trump Slams Zelensky For Rejecting Crimea Proposal For Peace Trump vs. Zelensky Round Two? Tensions initially looked to have cooled after the Zelensky-Vance-Trump February 28 verbal blow-up and showdown at the Oval Office (see clip below), but the spat is heating up once again, and is fast getting personal. President Trump has slammed President Zelensky in a Wednesday post on Truth Social, saying of the Ukrainian leader, […]

Stop All Federal Funding Of Universities Authored by Connor O’Keeffe via The Mises Institute, The Trump administration has found itself in a dispute with Harvard University. It began when the President’s team sent several Ivy League universities a list of changes they expected the schools to make. The move is part of a new right-wing strategy which recognizes that we currently live under a vague, necessarily politicized […]

Boeing CEO Confirms China Halted Orders; Goldman Notes “Improved Earnings Results” For Planemaker  Boeing reported first-quarter results that Goldman analysts described as “improved,” but the real headline this morning isn’t the earnings—it’s CEO Kelly Ortberg’s CNBC interview, in which he revealed that China has halted aircraft deliveries. In a televised interview with CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, CEO Ortberg stated that […]

Behind Yesterday’s Gold Selloff: Near-Record ETF Liquidation Amid yesterday’s equity meltup, ETFs accounted for 34% of the overall tape (vs an YTD avg 28%) as the desk skewed better to buy driven by a mix of domestic, international and sector exposures. However, the action was not uniform, because unlike recent weeks which have seen aggressive equity ETF selling/shorting offset by a surge in ETF buying, yesterday the flows were […]

Waste Of The Day: NY Staircase Costs Almost $1 Million Per Step Authored by Jerremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Every journey starts with a single step, but the cost of each step isn’t usually $935,000. That’s how much New York State will spend to repair each of the 77 stairs leading up the grand entrance to the Capitol building in Albany after ignoring the maintenance for over a decade. The cost gradually rose […]

Iraqis Outraged By Visit Of Syrian Leader Jolani Over al-Qaeda Past Via Middle East Eye Safaa Rashid was barely an adult in 2005 when an explosion ripped through the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing his 21-year-old cousin, a university student who was working part-time at an electrical goods shop in the city’s center. “A suicide bomber stormed the market and detonated his explosive belt, killing my cousin and dozens of innocent […]

Xiaomi To Delay First SUV Release After Fatal Accident Xiaomi has postponed the launch of its first electric SUV, the YU7, following a fatal accident involving its flagship EV—a setback in its high-stakes bid to challenge Tesla and BYD, according to Bloomberg. Originally set to debut in June or July, the YU7’s release has been quietly shelved with no new date confirmed, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company […]

It Appears That Mass Deportations Of The Elderly Are Not Being Considered Authored by Jonathan Turley, With all of the coverage yesterday of the heated arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one order of the Court was likely overlooked. It appears that elderly Americans will not be deported as Alien Elderly Americans. At the request of the A.A.R.P., the Court agreed to change the name of A.A.R.P. v. Trump to W.M.M. v. Trump.  The […]

Palestinian Authority’s Abbas Calls Hamas ‘Sons Of Dogs’ & Demands Release Of Hostages In Fiery Speech Political fractures on the Palestinian side have become more and more public as the Gaza war persists. On Wednesday Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a strong declaration demanding that Hamas release all remaining Israeli captives in order to prevent Israel from using “an excuse” to continue destroying […]

NIH Director Gives Update On New Project To Find Causes Of Autism Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on April 22 that the new project to identify the causes of autism will likely involve patient records and outside researchers. “We’d like to … get access to the medical records of a large portion of the American population,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the […]

Trump To Exempt US Carmakers From Some Tariffs: Report Exactly two weeks after Trump delayed tariffs on most non-China countries by 90 days, and a week after the president exempt most Chinese consumer electronics exports from US duties, the FT reports that Trump is set to spare carmakers from some of his most onerous tariffs following intense lobbying by industry executives over recent weeks. The move would exempt car parts from […]

End The “Green New Scam” Loan Machine Authored by André Béliveau via RealClearEnergy, The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had the potential to be adequate energy resources but struggled to secure private investment. With discussions underway about staffing and budget changes, defenders of the climate-centric status […]

China Weaponizes Magnet Exports, Potentially Delaying Tesla’s Humanoid Robot Production China’s halt on a wide range of critical minerals and magnet exports in retaliation for U.S. tariffs has disrupted some of Elon Musk’s plans to build humanoid robots. The very act of Beijing choking off supplies of critical components highlights the urgent need to friendshore or reshore rare earths mining and refining, as well as advanced […]

Border Czar Says 68,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested So Far, More To Come Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, Approximately 68,000 illegal aliens were arrested inside the United States over the past three months, Tom Homan, designated the border czar by President Donald Trump, told reporters at the White House on April 23. “And we’re going to continue, despite what the district court says,” Homan said, referring […]

“Give Them All the Fentanyl They Want”: SoCal Mayor Under Fire For Homeless ‘Purge’ Comments A Southern California mayor is facing a wave of outrage after doubling down on a proposal to eliminate his city’s homeless population by giving them “all the fentanyl they want” and calling for a federal “purge.” Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris suggested giving the homeless fentanyl to fix the unhoused crisis. AP “What I want to do is give […]

A Recap Of Trump’s First Three Months Authored by Greg Collard and James Rushmore via Racket News, Following Trump 2.0 is a difficult task. There has been no calm in President Trump’s first three months. He even generated controversy on Easter Sunday (then again, so did Joe Biden last year when he proclaimed it Transgender Day of Visibility). Illustration by Daniel Medina/Racket News Besides Trump’s Happy Easter social media […]

Dick Durbin Pulls Out, Announces He Won’t Run For Reelection Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the longest-serving U.S. senator in Illinois history, announced on April 23 that he will not run for reelection next year, capping a career of more than four decades in Congress. U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in Washington on April 18, 2023. Anna […]

Gunmen Execute 26 Tourists In Indian-Controlled Kashmir India has suffered one of its worst terror attacks in recent years, after gunmen conducted mass killings in a picturesque and tourist-poplar spot in the disputed and Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. The site’s location in the mountainous Anantnag district is so remote that it took at least half a day for casualty figures to emerge, but authorities […]

Bessent Calls For ‘Reforms’ Among ‘Bretton Woods Institutions’ To Rein In Global Trade Imbalances Days after Scott Bessent dazzled JP Morgan with closed-door comments (aka not Main Street) that the tariff standoff with China is unsustainable, the US Treasury Secretary is set to deliver comments on Wednesday at the IIF Global Outlook Forum regarding the state of the global financial system as the Trump administration seeks to tamp […]

Beige Book Finds Inflation Mentions Tumble To 3 Year Low, Biggest “Headcount Reductions Are In Government Roles” Was that it for the Atlanta Fed recession (which as we described, managed to fool everyone into believing the US economy is crashing because of… surging gold imports)? One month after the March Beige Book reported that in the first full month of Trump’s presidency, economic activity actually “rose slightly since […]