The European Commission has presented the final draft of the Digital Networks Act. The legislation is intended to establish an EU-wide framework for investments in broadband expansion and telecommunications infrastructure.

APAC stocks were mostly higher following on from the rebound on Wall Street, but with some of the gains capped ahead of key events and big tech earnings stateside.

The reality is that no such “BRICS naval drill” was held and none might ever be organized due to the group’s economic focus...

Hollywood refuses to learn.  Woke politics do not sell, not today and not in the 32nd Century.... 

The postwar trading order is taking on an entirely new shape... We can put brackets around the old one, like a tombstone: 1944–2025...

ConocoPhillips Alaska and the North Slope Borough said all workers were accounted for and that no one suffered serious injuries...

"Affordable Power. Grid Reliability. All from American Coal." 

Winter storm Fern is mostly over, its resulting damage, however, will linger for a long time.

Bitcoin behaves more like an "ATM" during uncertain times, with investors quickly selling it to raise cash...

What a lucky duck!

The jury awarded approximately $2.5 million in economic damages and $8 million in non-economic damages...

Behind scenes it's something different: rapidly liberalizing the economy, rewriting laws for foreign investment...

 

Here we go again. 

"As soon as Higby put that post out, I opened an investigation on it. If that leads to a break..." 

...collapse is not the absence of order. It is the failure of particular scales of organization...

Silver just did a GameStop...

Map shows scale of the American military buildup around Iran...

Inflating financial asset prices while eroding the real value of fiat currencies generates social discontent, weaker productive investment, and a dangerous sentiment of confidence...

An insider's realistic assessment of where things stand...

 

The Justice Department has said arresting the individuals is necessary to deter potential ‘copycats’ from disrupting churches and synagogues...