J.K. Rowling Completely Obliterated Her Critics With One Powerful Post Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Chris Columbus, director of the first two Harry Potter films, has declared that a reunion of the original cast is “never going to happen,” blaming J.K. Rowling’s controversial views on transgender issues. Columbus described the situation as “so complicated with all the political stuff,” noting that actors like […]

Nestlé Fires CEO Over “Undisclosed Romantic Relationship With Direct Subordinate”  Nestlé shares are lower in Switzerland after the company abruptly terminated its CEO, Laurent Freixe, for an undisclosed relationship with a direct subordinate. “The departure of Laurent Freixe follows an investigation into an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate which breached Nestlé’s Code of Business Conduct,” Nestlé […]

Futures Tumble As Yields, Dollar Spike; Gold Hits All Time High Following our warning that September tends to be the worst month for the S&P by a wide margin… September is by far the worst month for stocks in the broken markets (post QE) era pic.twitter.com/iEZxKja6Ui — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 1, 2025 … US equity futures are acting accordingly and tumble on the first trading day of the month, dragged lower as […]

“Quite Dangerous”: Gilt Yields Hit Highest In 27 Years As UK Budget Bungle Rattles Investors UK capital markets are creaking once again as investors’ confidence in the Starmer government is crushed amid concerns over the fiscal outlook. The yield on long-dated UK bonds rose to the highest since 1998… Source: Bloomberg …and the pound was pummeled… Source: Bloomberg …sparking a vicious circle whereby rising debt costs […]

White House ‘Very Optimistic’ Supreme Court Will Strike Down Tariff Ruling, Navarro Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said that an Aug. 29 court ruling that struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs would cause negative economic consequences, but he said he’s “very optimistic” that the Supreme Court will overturn the order. In a 7–4 decision, the […]

Tesla’s European Sales Slump Continues Into August Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Tesla’s sales slump in Europe extended into August, with sharp declines in key markets underscoring the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) maker’s struggles against rising Chinese competition and a consumer backlash against CEO Elon Musk. Fresh data from French car industry group Plateforme automobile show Tesla registrations down by 47.3 […]

Bessent: “We May Declare A National Housing Emergency In Fall” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Washington Examiner on Labor Day that the Trump administration may declare a national housing emergency in the coming months to address the affordability crisis. Bessent’s comments come just ahead of an expected interest-rate cut cycle, underscoring the administration’s urgent effort to address the affordability crisis, which […]

China Expected To Unveil “World’s Most Powerful Laser,” New Hypersonic “Eagle” Missiles At Military Parade Beijing is set to display a range of previously unseen advanced weaponry during a military parade in Tiananmen Square on September 3, signaling its growing military prowess amid heightened tensions with the U.S. over the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. Satellite imagery circulating on social media indicates that the parade, […]

Brace For Another Huge Negative Payrolls Revision, Greenlighting A 50bps September Rate Cut It was almost exactly one year ago that the constant stream of BS coming out of the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) finally snapped.  For years, ZeroHedge had been writing that Biden’s Bureau of Labor Statistics had been massaging the jobs data to make the economy appear stronger than it was – if only to give the braindead puppet in the […]

‘Statistically Almost Impossible’ – 4 AfD Candidates Have Died ‘Suddenly And Unexpectedly’ Before Key State Election Via Remix News, Four Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidates died “suddenly and unexpectedly” in Germany’s largest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, right before state elections. Anger and theories are running rife on social media about the sudden deaths of the AfD candidates. “According to WDR, four […]

Lagarde’s Hypocrisy: ECB Vs Fed Autonomy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe ECB President Christine Lagarde has warned the U.S. Federal Reserve not to lose its independence to politics. A transparent maneuver, considering the ECB has long since merged with Brussels into a political entity. In an interview with French radio station Classique, Lagarde cautioned that U.S. President Donald Trump is attempting to seize control over the Federal […]

Novo Shares Gain As Wegovy Shows Big Edge Over Lilly’s Tirzepatide In Heart Study   Novo Nordisk shares rose in Copenhagen trading on Monday after the pharmaceutical giant reported on Sunday that its weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke, or death by 57% compared with tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Zepbound. The new findings come from a STEER real-world study, which […]

Mohammed Becomes Most Common Name Among Welfare Benefit Recipients In Germany Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, New figures released by Germany’s federal government have reshaped the rankings of citizen’s allowance recipients in the country, placing Mohammed and its many spelling variants at the top of the list. A recent government response to an Alternative for Germany (AfD) inquiry originally suggested that […]

Houthis Target Israeli-Owned Tanker As Retaliation For Slain Prime Minister In apparent retaliation for massive Israeli strikes which killed the Yemeni Houthi prime minister, Ahmed al-Rahawi, last week – who was the most senior Houthi official to have been slain in the ongoing conflict thus far, among other high ranking officials and commanders – the Houthi military has claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a tanker in […]

China Is Unlikely To Play A Major Role In The Ukrainian Endgame Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The most that China is expected to do is deploy peacekeepers together with other countries per a potentially forthcoming UNSC Resolution that would likely see these forces jointly patrol whatever the “Line of Contact” may be and monitor each side’s compliance with the ceasefire or peace treaty. Axios reported that […]

Canadian Hikers Get The COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment Authored by Jim Bovard Canadian politicians are creating one bonfire after another of freedom and individual rights. COVID crackdowns established persecution precedents that politicians in some provinces refuse to allow to gather dust. Politicians are claiming the right to financially cripple anyone who makes a single misstep in violation of the latest idiotic decrees. On […]

Europe Advancing ‘Precise’ Plans For Troops In Ukraine, Backstopped By US European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the Financial Times that European nations are developing detailed plans to potentially send troops to Ukraine as part of a future peace agreement, despite it being obvious to all the world that Moscow would never agree to this as a basis of peace or ceasefire. Hawkish European leaders continue to claim […]

Labored Daze Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, In the labored daze of AI hype and GDP “growth,” few seem to notice the workforce is tired of being exploited as an uncomplaining resource. “Great Powers” claim their greatness on prestige technologies and military force, but how do they measure up if we change the metrics to how they treat their workforces. How great are they then? China and the U.S. claim the […]

Electromagnetic Weapon Destroys Drone Swarm In Seconds: ‘Singularity Event’ Drones have quickly become all the rage among military leaders and Silicon Valley investors, but new weaponry could threaten the nascent technology’s swift rise. Last Tuesday, defense contractor Epirus quietly tested its latest electromagnetic weapon, Leonidas, against a swarm of 49 quadcopters, neutralizing them in seconds at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, […]

US To Deploy Controversial Typhon Missile System To Japan For First Time Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com, Russia and China strongly condemned the deployment of the Typhon, which would have been banned by the now-defunct INF Treaty… The US Army announced on Friday that it will be deploying the controversial Typhon missile system to Japan for drills in September, a move strongly condemned by Russia and China. The […]

AI & The New Frontier Of Torts: ChatGPT Faces Claims Of Suicide, Defamation, & Even Murder Authored by Jonathan Turley, “I know what you’re asking, and I won’t look away from it.” Those final words to a California teenager about to commit suicide were not from some manipulative friend in high school or sadistic voyeur on the Internet.  Adam Raine, 16, was speaking to ChatGPT, an AI system that has replaced human […]

Ukraine War To Drag On With No End In Sight: Germany’s Merz Hawkish European leaders continue to speak in terms of Cold War-era domino theory nonsense, with the assumption that Russia aims to take over European countries one by one. This is exactly how German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sounded in telling German public broadcaster ZDF on Sunday that Ukraine has to be defended, and not compromise, or else Germany could be next to be […]

Why ‘Eating The Rich’ Undermines Everyone’s Prosperity Authored by David Hebert via TheDailyEconomy.org, A recent report from The Heritage Foundation argues that “the wealthy” are not “idle idols” but are instead owners and investors of wealth-creating ventures. Through their ownership of productive assets, they are the driving force behind overall wealth creation in the country and, in some cases, the world.  The […]

Isolation, They Said: Xi Embraces Putin & Modi In Major China Summit – Trump Responds The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, held from August 31 to September 1, was clearly an economic ‘show of force’ aimed at the West, which included the typical formal greetings and speeches, and group photos – but also with some not so subtle messaging. Amid the chummy atmosphere which saw Presidents Xi, Modi, and […]

The Progressive Pantheon Of Pathetic Heroes Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, American left-wing heroes are proving to be a creepy bunch. So what do some of the most renowned “resistance” left-wing heroes have in common other than shared hatred of conservative America? They are either criminals, pathological liars, or self-described performance-art victims. Take Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the current face […]