Wall Street’s Bonus Pool Will “Break Records” This Year Wall Street bonuses are on track to hit new records this year as profits surge and dealmaking rebounds. Profits at the 130 New York Stock Exchange firms reached $30.4 billion in the first half of 2025, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who said they could reach the “highest level on record” if the trend continues. Compensation expenses rose nearly […]

Leftist Musicians, Record Labels Meltdown Over Spotify Allowing ICE Ads Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Streaming company Spotify is featuring ICE recruitment ads in between content on its free tier, prompting deranged leftists within the music industry to throw tantrums. Bands and musicians including Massive Attack, Sylvan Esso, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have started campaigns to remove their songs […]

Trump Wants New “Golden Fleet” Of Future Battleships For Hemispheric Defense America is back in the Americas. President Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 plan, focused on hemispheric defense, centers on securing the homeland and the wider Western Hemisphere. The first visible military reposturing came with Trump’s announcement of the Golden Dome continental missile defense shield, followed by renewed pressure on Venezuelan narco-terror […]

They’re Coming For Your Wood-Burning Stove… Again Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda. Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause cancer, “similar to cigarette smoke,” and so on. Jeremy Vine is asking if it’s time to ban them. This isn’t new – for want of a better word – […]

“We’re Living Through A Coordinated Sabotage Of Truth-Seeking Institutions” “A civilization is defined by its ability to discern truth from falsehood,” writes ‘Camus’ (@newstart_2024) in a post on X. So, what happens when every apparatus built for that purpose is systematically dismantled? Bret Weinstein issues a stark warning: we are living through a coordinated sabotage of our truth-seeking institutions. This is not a minor […]

EU Leaders Call for “Regulatory Reset”, But It’s Just A Power Play Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The criticism of the European Union’s regulatory policies is growing louder. In a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, 19 EU heads of government demand the abolition of “superfluous and unbalanced regulations.” It’s a grotesque political theater we are witnessing these days. Nineteen EU heads of government have signed a semi-public […]

Africa Is The World’s ‘Youngest’ Region, Asia The ‘Oldest’ The world’s population is aging, but not evenly. While some regions are growing older at an alarming pace, others remain remarkably young. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu maps the median age in every country, showing where populations are oldest and youngest around the globe. Median age measures the midpoint of a population’s age distribution. In other […]

Germany And Poland Are Growing Weary Of Ukrainian Refugees And War Via Remix News, New data from Germany and Poland is putting a spotlight on aid to Ukraine, including welcoming refugees who end up receiving benefits from the state. These countries are now asking just how much more they are willing to give. Ever since Russia’s invasion in 2022, Ukrainian citizens aged 18 to 60 have been able to leave the country only with […]

The Green Mirage: The Hidden Costs Behind The Electric Car Hype Authored by Mark Keenan via AmericanThinker.com, In Sweden, a two-kilometer stretch of electrified highway allows electric vehicles to charge while they drive — a prototype for 3,000 kilometers of such roads planned by 2045. It all sounds sleek, modern, and progressive, like something from a futurist’s dream. Eddie Grant once sang, “We’re gonna rock down to […]

What Americans Worry About More than half of Americans said that they considered the cost of living among the biggest issues plaguing the country. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, this is more than any of the other 17 issues surveyed by Statista Consumer Insights among 60,000 Americans between October 2024 and September 2025. You will find more infographics at Statista Around 40 percent of respondents considered […]

China Envisions ‘Dry Canal’ To Compete With Panama Canal Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In response to the Trump administration’s new U.S. policy of reasserting control over the Panama Canal, China and Brazil are exploring the possibility of building a transcontinental railway to provide an advantageous alternative to the Panama Canal. The proposed rail system would potentially run from Brazil’s […]

Political Protests Have Tripled Since Trump 1.0 The number of political protests held during Trump’s first nine months in office this year have more than tripled compared to the same period in his first term. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, using data collected and analyzed by Harvard University and University of Connecticut titled the Crowd Counting Consortium, there had been 29,138 political protests as of September […]

Civilian Casualties Reported As US Conducts Record Number Of Somali Drone Strikes Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A drone strike that hit southern Somalia on Tuesday may have caused civilian casualties, according to Somali media reports. Garowe Online reported that the strike hit the Lower Shabelle Region, which neighbors Mogadishu, in an area controlled by al-Shabaab militants. The report did not say how many civilian […]

Duffy Threatens To Strip California Of Ability To Issue Commercial Driver’s Licenses Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Oct. 23 that California could lose its ability to issue commercial driver’s licenses and risk losing more funding if it fails to comply with federal transportation rules. The Transportation Department has already withheld more than $40 million in funding from California after an investigation found […]

Prominent Personalities Sign Letter Seeking Ban On ‘Development Of Superintelligence’ Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Hundreds of people, from conservative commentators to prominent tech executives, have signed a letter seeking a ban on “the development of superintelligence.” This year, leading technology firms such as Google, Meta Platforms, and OpenAI have accelerated efforts to build artificial intelligence […]

Pentagon Orders Carrier Strike Group To Join SOUTHCOM Operations Near Venezuela Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has on Friday ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the US Southern Command area of responsibility, joining what is already an unprecedented US military build-up in the southern Caribbean off Venezuela.  And so after nine attacks on alleged narco-smuggling boats, it looks as if the strikes on cartels will only […]

Gen Z’s Grim Economic Prospects Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The generation of young people just starting out in their careers faces an uphill battle unlike anything confronted by their parents and grandparents. For them, the promise of the American Dream is elusive at best. Everything is more expensive. The job market is frozen for pay for which they were hoping. Industry is changing so fast that […]

Rising D.C. Uncertainty Hits “Stressed” Homebuyers, Dining Demand The government shutdown has now entered its 23rd day, after the Senate on Wednesday once again failed to pass a House-approved funding bill – the 12th such attempt. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon led a marathon speech on the Senate floor that lasted nearly 23 hours. Republicans and Democrats continue to battle for narrative control. This time, polling data […]

Watch: Fetterman Continues To Slam His Own Party Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrat Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has once again openly criticised his own party over the ongoing government shutdown, intensifying discussions about a potential primary challenge against him in 2028.  Filming a video in front of the U.S. Capitol, Fetterman bluntly states “Hi, here we are and our government remains closed. And I […]

Atlanta At The Center Of Nationwide Boom In Rental Application Fraud Atlanta has become the center of a nationwide boom in rental-application fraud, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. With average rents for two-bedroom apartments nearing $2,000 a month—well above what many locals can afford—some renters are turning to fake documents and fabricated financial details to qualify for luxury apartments. Social media has […]

Congress Takes A Page From Louisiana: The Case For An American Energy Renaissance Authored by Cameron Sholty via RealClearEnergy, When Louisiana enacted Act 462 earlier this year, it did more than redefine “green energy.” It redefined leadership. Under Governor Jeff Landry’s direction, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to recognize natural gas and nuclear power as a clean, affordable, and reliable energy source […]

‘Chexican’ Narco-Financier Ran New York Fentanyl Cell With Mexican Operatives, US Indictment Shows Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper,  Newly unsealed U.S. government filings reveal that Zhi Dong Zhang — an alleged global fentanyl kingpin with reported ties to Chinese diplomats in Canada, accused of supplying precursor chemicals and laundering funds worldwide for Mexico’s Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels — […]

Passing $38 Trillion: Austrians Versus Keynesians On The Sovereign Debt Crisis We’ve surpassed $38T in debt, and we’re still no closer to balancing the budget. Instead, Republicans want to add another $2T in deficit spending, while Democrats want to add $3T. Where does it end? https://t.co/SMfFjMm3sJ — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 23, 2025 With U.S. debt blasting past $38 trillion, the question isn’t if the reckoning […]

Let’s Shut Down The IRS Authored by J.B.Shurck via AmericanThinker.com, What if the federal government shut down and nobody cared?   I know what you’re thinking: How can we possibly survive without millions of government bureaucrats micromanaging our lives?  Is life even worth living if some self-important cubicle king isn’t putting me on hold before demanding that I resubmit the revised Form K-12.6.2 of the updated rules […]

“Suitcases Filled With Dollars”: Venezuela Reportedly Propped Up America’s Radical Left To Sow Chaos U.S. military developments in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela, are ramping up this week. Two additional narco-terror drug boats were destroyed with guided missiles, and there was news overnight that two Rockwell B-1 Lancer supersonic bombers entered Venezuela’s ADIZ before switching off their transponders in what […]