Shale Pioneer Harold Hamm Steps Back From Bakken After Decades Harold Hamm says low oil prices are forcing a step he hasn’t taken in decades: shutting down drilling in North Dakota’s Bakken, according to Bloomberg. “This will be the first time in over 30 years that Harold Hamm has not had an operation with drilling rigs in North Dakota,” he said. “That tells you a whole lot right there: There’s no need to drill it when […]

Another $3.5 Billion For Gas Power Generation Talen Energy is following in the footsteps of utility peers Vistra and Constellation by spending billions of dollars acquiring gas generation assets to expand their capacity and grow market share in the growing power demand market. After spending about $3.5 billion to acquire gas generation capacity in Pennsylvania and Ohio back in July 2025, the company announced it spent another $3.5 […]

Underwater Auto Trade-Ins Reach Record Highs: Edmunds Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, A record number of automobile owners are carrying negative equity of $10,000 to more than $15,000 into trade-ins on new vehicles, according to online vehicle data analytics website Edmunds. In the fourth quarter of 2025, a record high of 27 percent of vehicle trade-ins involved negative equity of at least $10,000, Edmunds reported on […]

Canada’s PM Carney Praises “New World Order”; Opens Door To Chinese EVs The invasion of Chinese electric vehicles into North America is set to accelerate after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to roll back the triple-digit tariffs previously imposed on Chinese EVs. The move sharply diverges from President Trump’s America First policy, which aims to revitalize the North American auto industry. While Chinese EVs remain […]

Trump Says Wants To Keep “Hassett Where He Is” Sending Warsh Fed Chair Odds Soaring; Gold Slides In a strong hint ahead of Trump’s decision later this month who the next Fed chair will be, the president appears to have hobbled the chances of one of the Kevins when he said that Kevin Hassett was “fantastic on TV today”, and Trump wants to “keep him where he is” since “Fed officials don’t talk much” while Hassett is “good at […]

Trump Stuns By Floating Tariffs On Countries That Stand In The Way On Greenland Days ago as it became clear that Europe and the United States would be locked in a showdown over the future fate of Greenland and its sovereignty, the EU touted that it has some cards to play, as leaders stepped up in defense of Denmark’s longtime hold on the resource-rich Arctic territory: The European Parliament is considering putting on hold the […]

“Connection Timed Out”: X Goes Dark At around 10:10 ET, X went down, displaying a “connection timed out” message, suggesting an issue on the Cloudflare side. Here’s the error message, indicating a host-side failure. Website tracker Downdetector is currently showing a spike in reported X outages. The disruption appears to be nationwide. Developing… Tyler Durden Fri, 01/16/2026 – 10:24

Washington & Moscow Trade Blows At UN As US Carrier Steams Toward Middle East US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the “brave people of Iran” have risen up and that President Donald Trump “has made it clear all options are on the table to stop the slaughter” – this despite widespread reports that the protests and rioting are over at this point. “President Trump is a man of […]

Isotopes 101 Submitted by TightSpreads  Many smart investors are catching up to the nuclear story already, but there is another angle to it that is grossly uncovered: isotopes. This educational primer provides a useful starting point for understanding isotope market opportunities and the nuclear equities or advanced materials companies to be featured soon. Why is this timely? Because Oklo management has told the street that […]

US Outraged Iranian Warships Are Docked At Cape Town: South Africa ‘Cozying Up’ To Tehran The United States is making its anger known to longtime but strained ally South Africa, charging the country’s defense ministry of ignoring directives from its own government to send Iranian warships home after they took part in naval exercises in South African waters. Washington’s statement held nothing back: “South Africa can’t lecture […]

Gavin Newsom Caught In Massive Self-Own Over California Gas Prices The children running Gavin Newsom’s X account might be legitimately brain dead, as evidenced by their latest attempt to ‘own’ conservative influencer Benny Johnson.  On Tuesday, Johnson took to the streets of Los Angeles, posting from an ARCO station that “The average price of gas in America is $2.82 per gallon.” “There are 19 states where you can find gas […]

“Emergency Intervention”: Trump To Cap Residential Electric Bills By Forcing Tech Giants To Pay For Soaring Power Costs Back in August, when the American population was just waking up to the dire consequences the exponentially growing army of data centers spawned across the country was having on residential electricity bills, we said that the chart of US CPI would soon become the most popular (not in a good way) chart in the […]

US Industrial Production Surged To End 2025 While ‘soft’ survey data has been disappointing, hard macro data has been resilient and Industrial Production ended 2025 on a bright note with a 0.4% MoM surge in December (considerably better than the +0.1% MoM expected) complementing November’s 0.4% MoM rise. This left industrial production up 2% YoY… Source: Bloomberg The index for utilities increased 2.6 percent in December, […]

Trump Says ‘Venezuela Leaker’ Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump said the “leaker on Venezuela” has been jailed, a remark that has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets following a series of well-timed bets earlier this month. “The leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail right now,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday, […]

Stocks Rise As Tech Meltup Accelerates Futures are higher, and trading near record territory, led by tech as this year’s great rotation shows no sign of slowing, broadening the base of names driving Wall Street’s push back towards all time highs. As of 8:00am, S&P 500 futures were 0.3% higher with Nasdaq 100 contracts up 0.4% as the latest wave of enthusiasm for technology stocks carried into Friday. Overnight headlines […]

EU NatGas Spikes Most In Two Years As “Perfect Storm” Unfolds Dutch TTF natural gas futures, Europe’s benchmark gas contract, are up 25% on the week and on track for their largest weekly gain since October 2023. The abrupt reversal in sentiment reflects tightening storage levels, short covering, and a burst of unusually cold weather sweeping across the continent. “Sentiment has completely turned … you could almost call it a […]

Porsche Sales Plunge Most In 16 Years Porsche AG shares in Germany are headed for their steepest weekly decline since trading began in late 2022, after the 911 maker reported that vehicle sales in the 2025 selling year fell to their lowest level in 16 years. The 911 maker announced earlier that it delivered 279,449 vehicles to customers worldwide in 2025, down 10% from 310,718 in 2024. This marked the largest annual drop in […]

UK Govt Threatens To Return Lucy Connolly To Jail For Sharing Joke Post On X Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Lucy Connolly, the 42-year-old UK woman previously sentenced to two years in prison for a post on X is back under the microscope of Britain’s speech enforcers, with the government threatening to put her back behind bars for merely reposting a satirical jab at Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The latest drama […]

UN Chief’s Last Annual Speech Warns Global Cooperation ‘On Deathwatch’ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will step down as head of the UN in 2026, and on Thursday he issued a stark warning to world leaders upon the occasion of this last annual priorities speech. He said that international cooperation is being pushed “onto deathwatch” by widening geopolitical rifts and increased and unpredictable violations of international […]

Leaked Internal Emails Show Berlin Greens Urged To Deflect Blame From Far-Left Attack On Power Grid Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, An internal email from the Berlin Green Party parliamentary group has revealed a deliberate communication strategy following the sabotage attack on the city’s power grid by far-left activists, instructing lawmakers not to focus on the perpetrators and instead to direct public criticism […]

Data Centers, Power Infrastructure, Healthcare Set To Lead Next Phase Of Construction Boom Eric Gaus, chief economist at Dodge Construction Network, joined Goldman Sachs analysts to discuss the overall state of U.S. building construction, assessing which project types are likely to dominate and the underlying strength of the trend. “We come away from our discussion with a continued outlook for private non-residential construction […]

China Leads Global Coal Power Additions Despite Renewables Push By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com China continues to nearly single-handedly prop up global coal consumption and new coal-fired power generation, despite being also the world’s leading investor in renewables and battery storage.  China is set to commission as many as 85 coal-fired power generating units this year, out of a total global of 104 coal projects slated […]

Danish Intelligence Confirms The Russia-China Threat To Greenland A 2025 Intelligence Assessment by the government of Denmark highlights the long term Russian and Chinese ‘threat’ in Arctic waters, at a moment Greenland officials have rejected the US assertion that the large resource-rich island and its waters are being gradually influenced and taken over by the Russia/China ‘menace’. Trump has recently stated, “We need that […]

What’s Behind Washington’s Signaling Support For NATO Troops In Ukraine? Authored by Andrew Korybko, It might be a negotiating tactic to pressure Russia into concessions on its maximalist goals in the conflict as a quid pro quo for not reprioritizing Russia’s containment over China’s by extending Article 5 to NATO states’ troops in Ukraine and thus reducing the odds that they’ll actually deploy there. France and the […]

Nervous-Looking Macron Urges Military To Produce Own Version Of Russia’s Oreshnik French President Emmanuel Macron while addressing French military personnel at the Istres airbase in the south of the country on Thursday said that Europe needs its own answer to Russia’s cutting edge hypersonic arsenal. In the remarks he specifically invoked Russia’s hypersonic ‘Oreshnik’ missile, which has been launched on Ukraine at least two […]