China Is Learning To Use Less Oil, And That’s A Bigger Deal Than It Sounds By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Three months into the biggest oil supply disruption in modern history, China appears to have discovered something that should make oil bulls at least a little uncomfortable. It can get by on less fuel than anyone thought. China’s gasoline and diesel demand has been falling for years as electric vehicles gained market […]

BofA Sees “Runaway Price Risk” In Spot Sulfur As Global Supply Chain Freezes Sulfur is a critical industrial input produced as a byproduct of oil refining and natural gas processing. With roughly half of the world’s seaborne sulfur trade trapped behind the Hormuz maritime chokepoint, another 15% stuck in Kazakhstan due to export-logistics blockades, and demand destruction still insufficient across global markets, Bank of America […]

Traders Are Shorting Oil As If The Hormuz Crisis Is Over Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Oil traders are increasingly betting on lower prices, with short positions in Brent crude tripling since late March despite the loss of roughly 13 million bpd of supply from the Middle East. Physical market fundamentals are tightening rapidly, as global inventories have fallen by about 250 million barrels and key storage […]

SpaceX Prices Biggest Ever IPO At $135 Per Share While there was little doubt as to SpaceX’s actual IPO price, which due to its novel structure was always going to be $135, and unlike the proposed IPO price ranges as is customary for other initial offerings, moments ago SpaceX (SPCX) made it official when it filed a free writing prospectus (FWP) which confirmed the company sold 555.6 million shares at $135 each, for a total size of […]

France Is Latest EU Country To Ban & Sanction Israel’s Finance Minister A growing list of Western countries have imposed individual sanctions and travel bans on two Israeli hardline ministers who advocate for Jewish supremacy over the Middle East, evidenced in their expansionist policies from the West Bank to Gaza to Syria. The two in question are Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir and Israeli Finance Minister […]

CJ Hopkins: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The New Normal Reich Authored by CJ Hopkins via ConsentFactory.org, So the German Supreme Court has ruled on my case. Their ruling is that they will not rule on my case. They sent my attorney a letter to that effect. It literally says: “The constitutional complaint will not be accepted for a ruling. No explanation is provided. This ruling is incontestable.” So I am now […]

New Pakistani Strikes On Afghanistan Kill 13 Civilians, Taliban Says Several months ago, close in time to when the US-Iran war started, a separate conflict had erupted further east, along the Af-Pak border and even reaching as deep into Afghanistan as far as Kabul (where Pakistani airstrikes rained down). Hostilities have abruptly flared up again along the Afghan-Pakistan border overnight as cross-border airstrikes launched by the […]

‘Full Force Of The Law’: British PM Threatens Belfast Anti-Immigration Rioters While Lowe Says ‘Millions Must Go’ Via Remix News, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has threatened Belfast’s nighttime rioters with the “full force of the law” after they conducted arson attacks on cars and homes on Tuesday night after a brutal video went viral featuring a Sudanese man trying to behead a disabled Scottish victim. “The scenes […]

Why China’s Population Decline Is Irreversible Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times, China’s demographic collapse is so advanced that even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent a massive population decline because there are simply too few women of childbearing age. The ageing crisis facing China is well documented and widely reported. The crisis stems from a combination of longer life […]

Black Activism In America Has Become Cultural Poison Much like the feminist movement (or any leftist movement), black rights activism in America has mutated from its original form into something bizarre and monstrous.  Civil rights conflicts tend to be born from legitimate grievances if a society’s intention is to create general “equality” under the law.  But this is only the surface view, the lipstick, the young and naive version […]

US Investigating Iran War Critic Trita Parsi, Co-Founder Of Non-Interventionist Think Tank Via Middle East Eye The Trump administration has launched an investigation into prominent Iran war critic Trita Parsi, according to a report in the Free Press. According to US officials and documents reviewed by the pro-Trump outlet, officials are looking into the possibility of deporting Parsi, who holds both Iranian and Swedish […]

JPM Call With Axon Reveals Race To Fortify U.S. Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drone Swarms Axon Enterprise is moving beyond its legacy police body-camera and TASER products and rapidly expanding into drones, robotics, and counter-drone systems, positioning itself as a top supplier in the public safety sector, according to JPMorgan analysts. In a note on Wednesday, JPM analysts led by Joseph Cardoso said recent FAA rule changes […]

Florida Supreme Court Allows New GOP Congressional Map To Remain In Place Via American Greatness, The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block a new congressional map approved by Republican lawmakers earlier this year. The map allows the districts to remain in place as the state prepares for upcoming elections. The decision marks a victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican leaders who advanced the mid-decade […]

Fed Up With Food Delivery App Fees & Tips? Barclays Has Terrific News Whether consumers are ordering from Uber Eats or DoorDash, delivery costs before tips now average roughly $8 to $10 per order. Add in the tip, and the basic meal for one at Chipotle, such as a burrito bowl, moves into unaffordable territory for many working-class folks. The result is that food delivery, once pitched as a mass-market convenience, is […]

Middle Schoolers’ Reading & Math Scores Remain Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, US Results Show Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Although math and reading scores for 9-year-old students across the country have improved slightly over the past three years, their 13-year-old peers have seen no gains in the same subject areas, according to U.S. Department of Education data released on June 10. Still, scores for both age […]

“It Was Like Two Bucks”: Homeless Residents Say They Were Paid To Vote In Los Angeles Mayoral Race Shocking videos posted on social media show multiple homeless Skid Row residents claiming they accepted cash payments ranging from $2 to $5 in exchange for voting for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and city councilwoman Nithya Raman in last week’s mayoral election. Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the mayoral race on Monday, after […]

Australian Financial Watchdogs Back New Powers To Curb Money-Laundering Via Crypto Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, Australian crime-fighting and financial agencies are moving to prevent the use of cryptocurrency for money laundering, scams, and money-mule activities. Illustration of Bitcoin and Ethereum coins held together in front of diverses EURO banknotes in Paris, France, on June 5, 2026. Joao Luiz Bulcao/Hans […]

Cops Bust India-Based Gold Scam Before Widow Loses $700K A widow who was told her Social Security funds were being used to support terrorism nearly lost $700,000 in a gold scam, according to WOOD ABC 8.   The fraudsters convinced her to buy gold, but a suspicious coin dealer alerted authorities before the transaction could be completed. Ben Soldaat, owner of Grand Rapids Coins, noticed several red flags. The woman seemed […]

Raising Girls Who Won’t Be Bullied Off The Starting Line Authored by Patti Garibay via RealClearPolitics, The parents of California high school track athlete Reese Hogan did something no parent should have to do. They went to the press to ask why Gov. Gavin Newsom is fine letting a biological boy compete against their daughter for a girls’ title. Reese put in the hard work required for a girl to take home the title. Reese is the […]

Trump Nominates US Attorney Jay Clayton As Director Of National Intelligence Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is nominating Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be his director of national intelligence. The move comes weeks after former intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard said she is stepping down from the role. Trump, in announcing the […]

One Forgotten Housing Supply-Side Lever Could Unfreeze Affordability Rental affordability remains far superior to mortgage affordability, with the U.S. 30-year fixed mortgage rate trending around 6.5% in early June. With home prices still at record highs, last week’s housing report showing sellers pulling listings at a near-record pace as buyers balk at prices is yet another warning sign that the frozen housing market remains well […]

Polls Turn Against Netanyahu As Trump Says PM ‘May Quit Politics’ Via The Cradle A poll published by an Israeli research center on Tuesday has revealed that most Israelis do not want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to run in the upcoming election.  The poll was released by the Viterbi Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, based in occupied Jerusalem. It was conducted between May […]

Crisis Comes Closer: Social Security’s Projected Insolvency Moved A Year Earlier Continuing a trend of increasingly dismal projections, Social Security’s trustees have revised their prediction of when the massive benefit program’s trust fund will run out of money, moving it to the fourth quarter of 2032, sooner than last year’s projection that the money will run out in 2033. They attributed most of the the change to declining […]

Karen Bass’ Brother Joins Class-Action Lawsuit Against Karen Bass over LA Wildfires Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The brother of embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has sued the very city government his sister leads, alleging officials failed to protect homeowners and business owners during the destructive Palisades Fire. Kenneth Bass and his wife Cindy joined a class-action lawsuit in May against the City of […]

New CFTC Prediction Market Proposal Would Ban War And Terrorism Bets While Allowing Sports Markets The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has unveiled a proposed framework for prediction markets that would prohibit contracts tied to violent or harmful events, including terrorism, war, and political assassinations, while largely preserving sports-based markets, according to Bloomberg. Under the proposal, “gaming” would be […]