McMaken on Stossel: Meet the Austrians

Something Big? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Icelanders voted “no” to reopening EU membership talks in a referendum over the weekend, albeit by the fairly narrow margin of 2.8 percentage points. Against a backdrop of uncertainty over global trade and geopolitical ructions – including the Greenland crisis at the turn of the year – one intriguing conclusion is that the vote appears to have been driven by economic interests rather than security concerns. Iceland has no military and relies on its NATO allies for defense. Yet...

Air Force Extends Use Of Iran Attack Plane A-10 'Warthog' To 2030 Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Air Force said on April 20 that it would extend the life of the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft—commonly referred to as the “Warthog”—for another four years beyond its previously stated retirement deadline of 2026. Air Force Secretary Troy ​Meink wrote on X that following consultation with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the Air Force “will EXTEND the A-10 ‘Warthog’ platform to 2030,” adding that this decision “preserves combat power...

Worth Every Dollar (Until It Isn't) Authored by Bryan Lutz via DollarCollapse.com, Jamie Dimon just gave the trillion-dollar AI capex boom his blessing. Standing next to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in New York on Tuesday, the JPMorgan chief told Wall Street that the buildout is “worth the trillion-dollar investment”… a sentence that would have been a punchline two years ago. Now it feels like even the mainstream media disagrees with the consensus. Here’s the problem... BofA Global Research charted every market concentration peak of the last sixty years on a single line: Four bubbles. Four peaks....