‘Time Is Running Out For Iran’: The Market Is Calling ‘Bullshit’ On Mainstream’s Narrative, Hugh Hendry Explains… The stock market is telling a different story from the ‘Iran is strong, America is overreaching’ narrative being spewed by mainstream media. For weeks, the financial war narrative has been ‘Iran, strong; America, reckless’, risk’s like mercury and…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that the formerly mandatory annual influenza vaccine for US military members will now be optional. The memorandum […] Source

In Latest Shot At Nvidia, Google Unveils Two Chips For The Agentic Era In a blog post titled “Our Eighth Generation TPUs: Two Chips for the Agentic Era,” Google Senior Vice President and Chief Technologist for AI and Infrastructure Amin Vahdat unveiled the latest generation of the company’s in-house AI chips, splitting the lineup into…

Iran Fires On Third Ship In Hormuz Chokepoint, Says US Navy Blockade ‘No Different Than Bombing’ Summary IRGC seized the MSC Francesca and a Greek-owned ship named Euphoria, which had been attempting to transit the Hormuz chokepoint earlier today. Within hours, a third ship comes under fire by the IRGC Senior Iranian adviser says the US…

Former President Barack Obama is facing backlash for celebrating Virginia’s redistricting plan that looks an awful lot like gerrymandering. Despite being told how terrible the gerrymandering of districts is when it benefits the Republican Party, it seems that the Democrats have no problem with it when it works out in their favor. Obama took to…

Futures Rise After Trump Extends Ceasefire Even As Brent Tops $100 Futures are higher with earnings in full swing and AI winners soaring. Trump indefinitely extended the ceasefire with Iran just before its Taco Tuesday expiration, while maintaining a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, after plans for peace talks fell apart. Still, the market doesn’t seem too…

Psychedelic Stocks Just Went Mainstream Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Donald Trump just did something that would have sounded borderline impossible a couple of years ago: he signed an executive order aimed at accelerating research and access to psychedelic therapies, backing it with $50 million in federal funding and directing regulators to remove barriers that have…

Four years of trading blows with one of the world’s most powerful militaries has come at enormous cost in blood and treasure for Ukraine.

Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile Weigh Potential Mega-Merger A new Bloomberg report states that Deutsche Telekom AG is exploring a mega merger with its U.S. subsidiary, T-Mobile US, in a move that would create a telecom giant valued at roughly $400 billion. If completed, the deal would rank as the largest public M&A transaction ever. Deutsche Telekom…

Iran’s naval forces fired on and seized two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday and directed them to Iranian ports.