April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Via Remix News, The imbalance between the Russian and Ukrainian militaries will deepen and may even lead to the fall of Kyiv, believes Dominique Delawarde, a retired French army general. “Russia is certainly continuing to recruit more troops, at a rate of about 1,000 per day, which is more than it is losing on the […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, By the time this is published, everything may have changed, and that is to be expected. Throughout his career, well before and since becoming a politician, Trump has explicitly stated that he does not think it is always a good strategy to be predictable. And while markets love […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
US Treasury Secretary Bessent on Wednesday repeated prior Trump admin threats to get Iran energy exports down to zero, if the Iranians don’t cooperate at the negotiating table in achieving a new nuclear deal. This comes on the heals of US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff having called for a halt to all Iranian enrichment activity. […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on April 15 directing several federal agencies to take measures to prevent Social Security payments from going to ineligible people such as illegal immigrants and fraudsters. A woman walks past a Social Security Administration office in Flushing, New York […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Rogue climate activists in Northern California are launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere in an effort to manipulate the Earth’s temperature. In exchange, the climate startup behind the operation sells “cooling credits” priced at $30 for a subscription or $5 to offset 1 ton of carbon dioxide. The startup’s unregulated operations are […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on April 15 blocked the Trump administration from freezing the disbursement of funds for climate and infrastructure grants, finding that the pause in disbursing funds was illegal. Nonprofits suing the administration over the freeze presented evidence that the indefinite freeze of already-awarded money was […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Reuters has cited a UK-based open-source analysis firm to claim that Russia’s military is now relying almost on entirely on artillery shells produced and supplied by North Korea along the Ukrainian front. “Between September 2023 and March 2025, four Russian-flagged vessels made 64 trips transporting nearly 16,000 containers from North Korea to Russian ports, according […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
The Trump administration has directed the Internal Revenue Service’s top legal official to consider revoking Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, according to the Washington Post, citing three people familiar with the matter. The move represents a significant escalation in the administration’s conflict with the Ivy League institution over its handling of antisemitism and diversity practices. The […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
In a decisive move to address the nation’s overwhelmed immigration system, the Trump administration has rolled out a new policy directing immigration judges to swiftly dismiss asylum claims deemed legally deficient, a long-overdue measure to alleviate frivolous claims and legal loopholes that has paralyzed the US immigration court system, which has a backlog of nearly […]
April 17, 2025 No Comments Markets
Authored by Marc Joffe via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has announced his intention to shut down California’s cap-and-trade program, which raises revenue for the state and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. If successful, the Trump administration will deal a major blow to California’s ambitions to be a climate change policy leader by starving multiple […]