Energy Drinks Become Latest Casualty As Fuel Shock Shifts Consumer Behavior

Apple Deepens Push For Conflict-Free US Titanium For Foldable iPhone Apple's move to ramp up US supply chains for critical materials and components will send a clear signal to other manufacturers seeking secure, conflict-free supplies of metals and rare earths. The move aligns with the Trump administration's push to get Western manufacturers to break their dependence on China and limit Beijing's ability to weaponize these supply chains to gain leverage in trade negotiations. Apple released a statement Tuesday saying it is committing up to $100 million to a Pennsylvania titanium producer...

Are El-Sayed's Wheels Coming Off? Authored by J.R. Dunn via American Thinker, The past week has been a rough one for Abdul Muhammed El-Sayed... El-Sayed, as we all know, is the Great Muslim Hope for the Democrats. He debuted as just about the perfect candidate for the Senate - photogenic, a professional, just radical enough for the youth vote, and with no obvious baggage to excuse. But his campaign wrongfooted itself at the very outset by attempting to cozy up to Hasan Piker, the would-be Goebbels to any movement that will have him....

Remember: In A Crisis, Everyone Will Consider Themselves 'The Good Guys' Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via substack, The state has two monopolies it must protect whatever the cost: the monopoly on decreeing what is legal tender and on force. We’re entering an era in which push comes to shove will lead to immovable objects encountering irresistible forces. All sorts of verities and vanities will be bulldozed as kicking the can down the road descends into desperation to stave off collapse, a desperation that unleashes second order effects the desperate did not anticipate. The only responses at this...