The West African Pipeline Is Inherently Geopolitical

AI CapEx And Earnings: What Happens When Growth Slows Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, AI capex and earnings are now so tightly tied that spending doesn't have to fall to hurt profits. It only has to stop accelerating. Almost half of the S&P 500's earnings growth this year traces back to one activity: companies buying chips, servers, power gear, and concrete to build artificial intelligence. That's the estimate Goldman Sachs published on September 23. It's also the clearest statement yet of how tightly AI capex and earnings are now linked.1 Most...

Kid Rock Tells Bill Maher What He Thinks Of El-Sayed - Compares To 'Pieces Of Sh*t' 9/11 Hijackers Kid Rock used a Friday night appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show to go after Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan's Senate race, comparing a candidate he called "well-spoken, even a good-looking guy" to the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center just days before Tuesday's election. Kid Rock just TORE APART Abdul El-Sayed's backstory right to Bill Maher's face...and his audience was forced to listen to every word.Maher was...

France's Debt Spiral: Tax Hikes Mask A Looming Crisis Submitted by Thomas Kolbe On both sides of the Franco-German border, the same problem persists: overburdened and reform-averse politicians struggle against a rapidly accelerating debt spiral. Their preferred tool: higher levies. Last week, France’s Finance Minister Roland Lescure reported a revision of the projected budget deficit for the current year. Initial estimates for 2026 had suggested a deficit well above five percent. Yet numerous fiscal measures brought last year’s deficit down to 5.1%. For 2026, the Finance Ministry expects it to stabilize at around...