Americans are moving across the border to afford life. Now the Fed may raise rates

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Americans living in a U.S. border city are moving back across the border because groceries, bills and housing costs have become too expensive, while labor’s share of national income has fallen to roughly 53%. Now oil is pushing inflation higher and markets are pricing a possible Fed hike. Americans commute from Mexico to avoid Trump’s … Read more

Germany’s AfD just won its biggest state election victory in party history

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IT'S HAPPENING The exit polls in Germany say that the AfD will win with almost 45% of the votes in the regional election in Saxony-Anhalt. This is a historic LANDSLIDE win for the right-wing party. A political earthquake just happened today. — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) September 6, 2026 🇩🇪 Likely future leader of Germany: “In my … Read more

1 in 20 deaths in Canada is a MAID death, 100,000 projected by spring 2026.

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CANADA’S MAID EXPANSION: 100,000 DEATHS AND A GROWING ORGAN-DONATION PIPELINE In less than a decade, Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program has moved the country toward a grim milestone: nearly 100,000 people euthanized under the banner of healthcare. At the same time,… pic.twitter.com/1BcEfLqpKt — Redacted (@RedactedNews) September 4, 2026 76,475 cases since 2016. 16,499 in … Read more

Data centers must put up cash before they get tax cuts

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This man’s testimony before Ohio’s legislature on what is taking place with data center development, its industry outlook and ultimate impact to communities is over target 🎯 Brilliant idea to compel multi-year state bonding of projects to payroll if industry downsizes to not… — Marcell Strbich (@marcellstrbich) August 29, 2026 Ohio is moving toward a … Read more

Carney: “Canada is growing jobs at 4x the rate of the United States.”

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Carney: “Canada is growing jobs at 4x the rate of the United States.” https://t.co/ba3Yom4jQj pic.twitter.com/aCCPvHqHbl — AllThingsCanada | ATC (@AllThingsCanATC) September 5, 2026 Unfortunately and sadly — Majority of Canadians kept voting the Liberal Party no matter what😠https://t.co/dRhyiVCzOE — AllThingsCanada | ATC (@AllThingsCanATC) September 5, 2026 Same Friday, two very different labor-market prints. The U.S. … Read more

Women gained all of the new jobs since January 2025.

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Women gained all of the new jobs since January 2025. pic.twitter.com/djY1wOfV4J — Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) September 5, 2026 All the HR departments: https://t.co/urEEWQo3tn pic.twitter.com/5AhHxadWRC — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) September 7, 2026 Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August https://fortune.com/2026/09/04/jobs-report-september-women-162000-jobs/ Women gained 158,000 of August’s 162,000 payroll jobs. Men gained only about … Read more

Indonesia: The Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up

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via Martin Armstrong Indonesia is another economy that deserves far more attention than it receives in the West. The world’s fourth-most-populous nation expanded 5.29% year-over-year during the second quarter of 2026, beating economists’ expectations of 5.10%. That followed an even stronger 5.61% expansion during the first quarter. For the entire first half of 2026, Indonesia grew 5.45%. … Read more

Taiwan Is Preparing for the Drone War

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via Martin Armstrong Taiwan has proposed another $4.6 billion in defense spending, and what is particularly interesting is where a substantial portion of that money is going. Taipei wants more than 600 coastal surveillance and reconnaissance drones, over 40,000 coastal attack drones, and an initial fleet of more than 100 unmanned suicide boats. This comes only days … Read more

China embarks on another stage in its property crisis via a bank bailout

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via notayesmanseconomics We have started the week we some pretty major economic news from China and they have taken a leaf out of the playbook of the Western Imperialist Capitalists with this. China rolled out a package of capital injections worth about 360 billion yuan (US$54 billion) on Sunday for the country’s largest state-owned insurers … Read more

Diesel just hit $5.85 a gallon, up 56% since the war started. Now harvest season is coming

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Diesel just hit a record $5.85 a gallon, up 56% since the war started. This is a supply shock. Refineries are going dark. Russian plants are down from drone strikes, Middle East plants are damaged, and California alone has lost 17% of its refining capacity. The US is exporting a… pic.twitter.com/po93KMPaCl — Kurt S. Altrichter, … Read more

Britain was at war with Argentina. Israel was still selling weapons to Buenos Aires

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How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands war Declassified files reveal how Tel Aviv deceived Britain while it supplied Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s. Britain suspected Israel had bugged its embassy in Tel Aviv Foreign Office launched propaganda operations against Israel UK still censoring files on Israel’s role in Falklands war … Read more

LLM’s are making people more stupid

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This seems like a no brainer to me with outsourcing cognitive thinking bringing the world of idiocracy ever closer to the doorstep. I would go so far to say using any A.I for tasks such as artistic expression or work would have the same consequence. The ChatGPT group showed notably less brain activity – it … Read more