US Tests Mach-5 Hypersonic Missile In Joint Army-Navy Launch

Chinese Refiners Pay Record Premiums For Russian ESPO Crude Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Chinese refiners are paying a hefty premium for Russia's ESPO crude to replace Iranian crude that independent refiners were importing before the U.S. installed its naval blockade on the country. East Siberia-Pacific Ocean crude, or ESPO, for delivery in November is trading at a premium of over $7 per barrel, with offers reaching as high as $10 per barrel over Brent crude, Bloomberg reported today, citing traders. The blend is loaded from Russia's Far East coast and...

Will AI Make Us Wonderfully Prosperous? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, “Any given government program will become the opposite of its name,” Elon Musk said recently. The rule seems correct. Think of the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Control Act, the CARES Act, the War on Poverty, and countless others. They all resulted in the very inverse of how they are named. That’s some wisdom right there. Musk holds many libertarian views along these lines and has been a vocal champion of capitalism as an economic system. He famously set out to...

Trump Says Admin Investigating Deaths, Disappearances Of US Scientists Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to look into reports of multiple U.S. scientists who have either died or gone missing in recent months. “I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” he told reporters, adding that “I just left a meeting on that subject.” The reports, he added, are serious, because “some of them were very important people, and we’re going to look at it over the...