Walmart Still Undercuts Amazon On Food Prices As Last-Mile Grocery Race Intensifies  Amazon’s big move to roll out same-day grocery delivery across 1,000 new cities – on track for 2,300 by year-end – puts Instacart and traditional grocery chains squarely in the crosshairs. But the real shocker isn’t Amazon’s new expanded reach; it’s that Walmart still reigns supreme as the lowest-cost grocer, setting the stage for an […]

FDA Advises Americans Against ‘Mousse’ Sunscreens, Warns 5 Manufacturers Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Americans should “beware” of sunscreen products in mousse form as they may not be effective, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an Aug. 12 X post, with the agency sending warning letters to five companies marketing sunscreen products. A sunbather applies sunscreen onto another […]

Taxpayers On Hook For $3.5 Billion To Replenish Munitions US Used Defending Israel Taxpayers are yet again on the hook for America’s supposed “closest Middle East ally” as the Pentagon is planning to allocate at least $3.5 billion to restock weapons used in defense of Israel. A Bloomberg report issued this week has reviewed Department of Defense budget documents prepared through mid-May. Emergency expenditures are highlighted […]

Trump Criticizes Court Decision To Block Major Arizona Copper Mine Land Transfer Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a land transfer for a major Arizona copper mine, prompting a rebuke from President Donald Trump. Campers utilize Oak Flat Campground in the Tonto National Forest, in Miami, Ariz., on June 9, 2023. Matt York/AP Photo On Aug. 18, the U.S. Court […]

Tariff-Driven Rally Reverses In Lumber Market There is some good news in the lumber market: contracts have plunged more than 14% in recent weeks, reversing highs last seen during the pandemic shortages. The sharp reversal comes as bets on tariff-driven cost pressures and lower interest rates failed to lift demand. At the same time, disappointing housing data and weak earnings across the housing industry underscored the trouble […]

US Adds Steel, Copper, Lithium To High-Priority List Under Uyghur Forced Labor Law Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States will add steel, copper, lithium, and two other products to its import restriction list under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Aug. 19. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington on Aug. 12, […]

US Space Command Prepares For Satellite Vs. Satellite Combat Late last year, an American military satellite and a French counterpart carried out a delicate orbital maneuver that signals a new phase in U.S. space operations. The two conducted a rendezvous and proximity operation (RPO) near an undisclosed foreign satellite (likely Russian), testing the ability to approach, inspect, and potentially manipulate another nation’s […]

Trump Says He’ll Patrol Washington With Police, National Guard Thursday Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump said that he will be patrolling the streets with police and the National Guard in Washington on the evening of Aug. 21. Members of the National Guard patrol near the US Capitol on the National Mall in Washington, on Aug. 20, 2025. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty […]

Only 17% Of 25-34-Year-Old Americans Have Attained The 5 Major Milestones Of Adulthood Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,m What I am about to share with you is some of the clearest evidence yet that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed.  Young adults are forming middle class households at an extremely depressed rate, and that is because the American Dream is simply out of reach for […]

Iranian President Inks Defense Treaty With Belarus, Seeks To ‘Overcome US Sanctions’ Via The Cradle Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed 12 cooperation agreements during Pezeshkian’s official visit to Minsk on Wednesday, strengthening ties between the two nations in defiance of US sanctions. A joint statement was signed alongside the dozen cooperation agreements which cover […]

The Last Global Neoliberal Institutional Pillar Could Soon Crumble By Michael Every of Rabobank We’re All In A Hole Alright The Fed minutes overnight showed the FOMC largely united behind rates on hold in July as they “assessed that the effects of higher tariffs had become more apparent in the prices of some goods but that their overall effects on economic activity and inflation remained to be seen.” Indeed, the key point […]

Ukrainian Suspect Arrested In Italy Over Nord Stream Sabotage Plot “Operation Diameter” In early May, our very own White House correspondent asked President Trump about “opening a formal investigation” into who blew up Russia’s Nordstream pipeline after a couple of years of MSM gatekeeping stranglehold left more questions than answers from the Biden-Harris regime and progressive elites in Brussels.  At the time, “Tyler […]

America Shocked After Learning Debt Must Be Paid Back Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Stop the presses: Americans have just learned that borrowing money means eventually paying it back. Who could have guessed? According to CNBC, nearly 1 in 5 student loan borrowers aged 50 and older are “seriously delinquent”—meaning at least 90 days late—on their student loans. 50 and older. Student loans. Back in 2019, the […]

Russia Attacks US-Owned Factory In Ukraine, While Insisting It Has Veto Power Over Any ‘Security Guarantees’ Now nearly a week out from last Friday’s historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, the White House has had to temper its positive predictions on the peace process, after prematurely touting that a Putin and Zelensky bilateral meeting was on the horizon. By Wednesday the Kremlin had made it clear this is not yet the case. […]

“100% By Accident”: Scientists Stumble Upon Laser-Free LASIK Alternative Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A chemistry professor trying to heat cartilage with electricity made a mistake that could change eye surgery. Michael Hill at Occidental College accidentally used too little current in his experiment – and stumbled upon a discovery that might replace LASIK with a gentler treatment that reshapes […]

Cracker Barrel Faces “Bud Light” Moment  Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is steering straight into a “Bud Light” moment – learning nothing in recent years – by abandoning the restaurant chain’s half-century-old logo that symbolized nostalgia for rural Americana and the “old country store” experience. Instead, the company has embraced the woke rebranding of many other household names.  Cracker Barrel’s new logo […]

Globalists Are Rebranding Their “Woke Capitalism” Agenda After Crushing Setbacks Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, People who carefully track the machinations of globalist institutions might have noticed a disturbing atmosphere of silence since the 2024 elections. I discussed this trend a few months ago in my article “Globalists Go Radio Silent As NATO Flirts With World War III”, specifically the dramatic shift that […]

Appeals Court Tosses Trump’s $454 Million Civil Fraud Judgement As Prez Claims ‘Total Victory’ A New York appeals court has tossed out a $454 million civil fraud judgement handed down last year against Donald Trump, his family, and his company.   New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, Donald Trump While the Appellate Division’s First Department upheld the ruling, it found that the $454 million penalty was […]

Lisa Cook’d: DOJ To Investigate Fed Governor, Urges Her Removal Over Alleged Mortgage Fraud The saga surrounding the upcoming termination of the Fed’s DEI hire just escalated dramatically after the Justice Department announced it would investigate Fed Governor Lisa Cook, after a top Justice official informed Fed Chair Jerome Powell of the probe and encouraged him to remove her from the board, in a letter sent Thursday. Ed Martin, […]

Beijing’s Olive Branch: Boeing In Talks On 500-Jet Mega Deal With the tariff trade truce extended to November 10, U.S. and Chinese negotiators are working toward a trade deal ahead of a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping later this year. Key issues include the flow of critical Chinese rare earth minerals to the U.S. and Beijing’s access to advanced Nvidia chips for its AI firms. Now, a […]

Gain-of-Dysfunction: COVID-19 May Increase Aging Of Blood Vessels Among Women: Study Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Women infected with COVID-19 were more likely to have aged blood vessels, according to a new study. The COVID-19 virus (in yellow) emerges from cells. NIAID Rosa Maria Bruno, a professor with Université Paris Cité in France, and co-authors examined 1,024 individuals who […]

Broken Market: In Unprecedented Inversion, It Has Never Cost More To Buy An Existing Home Over A New One After a modest drop in June which pushed them down near 15 year lows, expectations were for existing home sales to continue their decline in July as mortgage rates ticked up. Analysts were wrong, however, as sales of existing homes rebounded 2.0% MoM in July (vs -0.7% MoM expected), leaving existing home sales unchanged […]

U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached A Record 14 Million In 2023 Authored by Jeffrey S. Passel and Jens Manuel Krogstad via Pew Research Center, In the years after the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. immigration policy changes fueled a sharp rise in both legal and illegal immigration. Lawful admissions jumped, as did encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border between migrants and U.S. authorities. The number of unauthorized […]

Texas House Approves Redistricting Plan As California Advances Counter-Move With Democrats having ended their melodramatic two-week walkout intended to thwart a Republican congressional redistricting plan, the Texas House of Representatives swiftly approved the controversial new district boundaries on Wednesday evening. Enactment of the gerrymandering plan is now seemingly inevitable — but California is moving toward a remapping of […]

US Manufacturing Activity “Unexpectedly” Soars To Highest Since 2022 One month after unexpectedly sliding into contraction for the first time in 2025, moments ago the S&P Manufaturing PMI even more unexpectedly soared from 49.8 to 53.3, not only smashing expectations of another decline to 49.7 and printing well above the highest economist forecast and in fact printing 7-sigma above the median estimate… … but was the […]