When you see the phony term “mineral independence,” it will be connected with “criticality” and “national security” (and “energy transition” as a secondary basis), but it is ultimately about one thing: collecting subsidies, fat government contracts, and/or pricing/rent power.

Tucker Carlson a few days before the strike on Iran: “Going to war with Iran means going to war against Russia, China, Turkey, and much of the rest of the world. It is World War III. You can't just take out their nuclear facilities.” 👇 Why do people take this clown seriously?

Debt has consistently risen regardless of which party is in power

The Russian 810th marine brigade took staggering losses over the weekend, losing hundreds of men in the Kursk area of the frontline.

❗️🇨🇭Switzerland will allocate almost $6.3 billion for the reconstruction of 🇺🇦Ukraine — Zelensky

🚨 BREAKING: 9,100 KM OF ROADS WILL BE PRIVATIZED.

This sounds sage, but it’s it? Is there a sublime value in the truth of the here and now? Or is it more like: past is prologue, as Rick Rule likes to say? Prologue isn’t a forecast per se, but there’s decision value in using it to inform probability.

A huge mistake for the United States. The The White House has simply put blinders on to the basic economic reality that Americans will pay 100 percent of the tariff revenue generated, most of the deadweight loss, and pay a tariff-like premium for domestic equivalents. Very few win.

Russias crude oil exports have continued to fall at a significant rate.

It's a very bad signal for progressivism's future that they're teaching degrowth slop to their young generation. A whole generation of progressives will grow up thinking that *destroying the economy* should be the goal of public policy.

Rubio: Most U.S. military aid to Ukraine continues on schedule. The real issue is limited production in the West. Ukraine needs more Patriot batteries, but EU countries with unused systems aren’t sharing. If Ukraine’s a priority, that must change. 1/

Putin has no intention of stopping his war in Ukraine.

BREAKING: Trump says NATO will provide, and pay for, weapons to Ukraine

Russia has suffered over a million casualties in Ukraine. That's five times as high as America in the entire Vietnam War. And the pace of losses is accelerating.

Zohran's dad seems like a bad guy

When government bureaucrats are particularly incompetent in their apparent skill area, but are adept at sucking up to their food chain (thinly feigning competence) they tend to get promoted. When that happens, an exodus of the most competent in their organization begins.

Despite HOA fees, current condo prices are remarkably low now in the U.S.

More tariff stupidity (because Americans pay 100 percent of this tax, plus most of the deadweight loss—basic economics).

No. That's a decade old. Bitcoin turned out to NOT be a currency. It is an electronic tulip, perhaps; not a currency.