Tesla Unveils Cheaper Model Y Starting at $37,990 After Tax Credit Loss Tesla unveiled a cheaper Model Y today with prices starting at $37,990–$39,990, about 15% below the previous base model, as the company works to reverse slowing sales and lost U.S. tax incentives. Elon Musk has long promised a mass-market EV, though he scrapped a $25,000 car plan last year. Still, he argued in July: “The desire to buy the car is very high. […]

Furlough Backpay Not Automatic, Instead – Congress Must Authorize: Leaked WH Memo Democrats are in a panic today after Axios reported a leaked memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) which challenges a 2019 law widely interpreted to guarantee back pay to furloughed employees during a government shutdown. According to OMB general counsel Mark Paoletta, the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment […]

CDC Says COVID-19 Vaccination Now Up To Each Individual Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer broadly recommends COVID-19 vaccination. The agency now says that each person should take a range of factors into account, and consult with their doctor, before receiving a shot. A nurse holds a COVID-19 vaccine, in a file illustration photograph in Miami, […]

Subpar 3Y Auction Stops Through Despite Pullback In Foreign Buying The week’s first coupon auction just priced, and it was quite solid, taking advantage of the broader risk off mood.  At 1pm ET, the Treasury sold $58BN in 3Y paper, at a high yield of 3.576%, up from 3.485% last month but not that far off the lowest high yield in the past three years. The auction stopped 0.8bps through the 3.584% When Issued, the biggest stop since […]

Trump Calls Off Diplomacy With Maduro As Secret DOJ-Approved Kill List Revealed Several significant developments this week have paved the way for more likely US military escalation off the coast of and in Venezuela, at a moment of unprecedented numbers of Pentagon assets parked in the Caribbean. First, President Trump has called off diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, The New York […]

‘Bigger, Faster, More Permanent Than All Waves Combined’: No Sector Will Be Untouched By AI Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Hajnen Payson is a highly valued internet search and marketing expert.  He’s worked for companies such as Experian, UFC, LifeLock/Norton, international banks and big companies that hold government contracts that require top security clearances.  Governments and companies around the world are rushing […]

“Matters Of Corruption”: Biden Staff Blocked CIA From Distributing Hunter-Ukraine Concern Memo Newly declassified memoranda show then-Vice President Joe Biden’s staff intervened in February 2016 to block the Central Intelligence Agency from circulating an intelligence report to policymakers that summarized how senior Ukrainian officials perceived his son’s business dealings and his December 2015 trip to Kyiv. According to the […]

Rabobank: Gold Confirms The World Has Passed The Fiscal Event Horizon By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank France is once again engulfed in political crisis following the resignation of Prime Minister Lecornu just hours after his cabinet was sworn in. Lecornu lasted less than a month in the job, a tenure that makes Liz Truss look like Lord Liverpool. Jordan Bardella, President of the right-wing National Rally, […]

Ford Shares Hammered On Report Aluminum Plant Fire May Disrupt Ford F-150 Production A devastating fire at a major aluminum plant in New York in mid-September is set to roil the U.S. auto industry and could even disrupt production of Ford Motor’s F-150 pickup trucks, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.  The Novelis aluminum mill in Oswego, New York, suffered a fire on September 16 that destroyed the building housing […]

Tech, Crypto Dump On Report Exposing ORCL’s ‘Razor Thin’ Margins On AI Chips Is the ‘batshit insane’ delusion of AI/ORCL about to break? As a reminder, a month ago, ORCL stock soared after forecasting extraordinary growth:  “We signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers in Q1,” said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. “This resulted in RPO contract backlog increasing 359% to $455 billion. It was an […]

Burger Chain Installs ‘Tallest And Biggest’ American Flags At Restaurants Nationwide Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake has started installing large American flags at its outlets across the country, the company said in an Oct. 5 post on X. The U.S. flag at the White House on June 30, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times “The flag installations have begun at Steak […]

German Mayor Stabbed By ‘Gang Of Men’ In Broad Daylight, Manhunt Underway A large-scale manhunt is underway after a newly elected mayor of a town in the western-central part of Germany was found critically injured in her apartment on Tuesday. Iris Stalzer, who a mere weeks ago became the mayor of Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia and is a center-left Social Democrat, sustained multiple stab wounds and is reported to be fighting […]

Legal Battles Rage Over National Guard Deployments To 5 States – What To Know Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump has announced his intent to send National Guard troops to major cities across the United States in an effort to combat criminal activity. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock In response, some government officials have alleged that he’s exceeding his legal […]

 “Customers Are Hungry For AI “: Dell Upgrades Long-Term Outlook  Shares of Dell Technologies jumped in premarket trading in New York after executives are expected to unveil a sharply higher long-term financial outlook at the company’s Securities Analyst Meeting on Tuesday morning, boosting confidence in AI-driven demand across its data center and PC units. It seems that with each passing day, more AI-related headlines, from […]

US Airports Experience Delays Due To Staffing Issues Caused By Shutdown: Duffy Major U.S. airports reported widespread delays Monday as the federal shutdown strained an already short-staffed air-traffic system, prompting fresh warnings from industry and labor leaders that the impasse could ripple across the peak travel season. A plane docks on the tarmac after an air traffic control outage, bringing flights to a standstill at Newark […]

‘Best Is Yet To Come’: NYSE Parent Invests $2 Billion In Polymarket At $9 Billion Valuation Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has invested $2 billion in cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket. According to a Tuesday Polymarket X post, the ICE invested $2 billion in the prediction market. The deal values Polymarket at a $9 billion post-money valuation. As […]

Futures Flat As AI Bubble Euphoria Takes A Break Futures are flat after the S&P, Nasdaq and Russell all made new ATHs yesterday, driven by the AI theme and a broad-based rally. As of 8:15am, S&P futures are unchanged while Nasdaq futures eke out a 0.1% gain as trader keep an eye on TSLA’s new car announcement with Mag7 names mixed pre-mkt but Semis seeing a bid led by AMD (+3.6%), MU (+2%). Bond yields are higher while the […]

Trump Slams “Deranged Jack Smith” After Bombshell Memo Exposes Biden FBI Spying On GOP Senators An FBI document obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shows that the FBI, under Joe Biden, spied on 8 Republican senators as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. The revelation that the FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress during its January 6 investigation is bringing […]

Don’t Rule Out The Return Of US Troops To Bagram Airbase Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The convergence of interests between the US, Pakistan, and the Taliban means that a compromise between them to this end can’t be ruled out no matter how unlikely it might appear to be right now. Trump’s recent reaffirmation of his plans to return US troops to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase was rejected by the Taliban, which […]

Macron Launches Last-Ditch Effort To Salvage France’s Gov’t As Resignation Calls Grow Louder A political crisis is rocking France. President Emmanuel Macron has now given outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu until Wednesday night to broker a deal among France’s political parties and avert a deeper crisis following Lecornu’s abrupt resignation early Monday. Lecornu blamed divisions among parties, including Macron’s own […]

Bubble In AI? Echoes Of The Past, Lessons For The Present Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, If you want to understand the engine under this market’s hood, follow the capital. A recent article by Michael Cembalest frames today’s AI boom as a “vendor-financing circle.” This circle occurs when capital raised by one set of companies (via stock, convertibles, or bonds) is recycled into other companies, […]

“Algorithmic Discrimination”: David Sacks Exposes How Democrats Are Plotting To Unleash “Woke AI” Across America White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks blasted Democrat-controlled states, spearheaded by California, for pushing a wave of regulations that could force “woke AI” on the nation. Speaking on the popular All-In podcast, Sacks discussed the frenzy of state-level AI legislation, noting that all 50 states have […]

“For God’s Sake, Stop The Rhetoric!”: Border Czar Tom Homan Pleads With Anti-ICE Dems Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Border Czar Tom Homan said Thursday that ICE will not be intimidated by the left’s anti-ICE attacks and will continue its mission of deporting criminal illegal aliens. “They won’t stop the men and women of ICE,” he told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. According to the Department of […]

China’s Soybean Boycott – Key Questions Before Trump-Xi Meeting At the end of last week, new details emerged via a Wall Street Journal report outlining the Trump administration’s potential farm bailout, estimated to be in the range of $10 billion to $14 billion, aimed at cushioning farmers amid China’s pivot in agricultural purchases to Brazil. Trump blasted China last week, saying Beijing was “hurting” American farmers during the […]

Goaded By Tariffs, European Pharmaceutical Industry Pivots To The US Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, The U.S. tariff policy and its unmatched pharmaceutical market are pulling European drugmakers to invest more heavily, from new manufacturing plants to U.S. stock listings and discount pricing deals. Since early 2025, European drugmakers have stepped up their U.S. presence. In the most recent move, the United […]