OpenAI Hit With 7 Lawsuits Alleging ChatGPT Coached Users To Suicide Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its founder, Sam Altman, are facing seven lawsuits alleging that the AI chatbot was psychologically manipulative and drove multiple people to commit suicide. The lawsuits, filed in state courts in San Francisco and Los Angeles on Nov. 6 by Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law […]

“This Time Really Is Different”: Ray Dalio Warns Fed Is ‘Stimulating The Economy Into A Bubble’ The US Federal Reserve’s decision to ease monetary policy is inflating an economic bubble that could drive up the prices of hard assets, but also marks the final phase of a 75-year economic cycle, according to former hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. Typically, as CoinTelegraph’s Vince Quill reports, the Federal Reserve typically eases […]

Norway Urged To Tap €1.8 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund To Help Ukraine By Jacob Wulff Wold of Euractiv Calls are mounting for Norway to use its €1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund to help move forward the EU’s stalled €140 billion loan for Ukraine, after a Danish newspaper revived a once far-fetched idea during last month’s EU leaders’ meeting. Five Norwegian political parties, including three backing Labour Prime […]

Trump Targets Foreign-Owned Meatpacking Cartel To Arrest Beef Prices, Defend Small Ranchers President Trump has directed the Justice Department to investigate the meatpacking cartel – JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef – for potential collusion, price-fixing, and price manipulation. The four companies, two of which are foreign-owned, now control 85% of the U.S. beef processing market, up from just 36% in 1980. “I have […]

Germany’s Hydrogen Dream Becomes A $9 Billion Yearly Black Hole Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The German Federal Audit Office (Bundesrechnungshof) has dismantled the government’s hydrogen strategy. Neither on the supply side nor on the demand side do the results even remotely align with the ambitious political targets. Germany faces yet another subsidy ruin. Berlin is in a state of hangover. The ongoing economic crisis is […]

UPS, FedEx Ground All MD-11 Air Freighters After Horrific Louisville Crash Boeing advised operators of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 air freighter to ground the aircraft after UPS flight 2976 crashed shortly after takeoff from the Muhammad Ali airport in Louisville on Tuesday evening. By late week, the crash resulted in 14 fatalities, including crew members and individuals on the ground.  Bloomberg quoted UPS as saying the […]

EU Commission Mulls Joint Debt, Bilateral Grants To Plug Ukraine Funding Gap By Thomas Moller-Nielsen of Euractiv, The European Commission is considering plugging Ukraine’s colossal funding gap with cash raised from common EU debt and bilateral member state grants, according to three people familiar with the matter. These two possibilities – which will be set out in a Commission “options paper” for Kyiv due to be […]

Bhutan Is The Hardest-Working Nation On Earth This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks over 150 countries by the typical number of hours worked per week in 2025. While global labor averages hover around 38.7 hours per week, the gap between the hardest- and lightest-working nations stretches nearly 30 hours. The data for this visualization comes from the World Population Review. It compiles national […]

Berlin’s 560,000-Tree Gamble: Climate Idealism Vs Economic Reality Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The Berlin Senate has passed the Climate Adaptation Act. It obliges the city to plant 560,000 trees by 2040. After Hamburg’s referendum on an earlier entry into climate neutrality, this marks the second plebiscitary victory for the climate movement. Now, Berlin’s drivers are in the crosshairs. Beyond rising car taxes and CO₂ fees, […]

Sam Altman Denies OpenAI Needs A Government Bailout: He Just Wants Massive Government Subsidies About one month ago, when the Mag 7 stocks were screaming higher every day without a care in the world, and before the masses had even considered who would fund the trillions in future capex needs once the organic cash flow topped out – something we had just discussed in “AI Is Now A Debt Bubble Too, Quietly Surpassing All Banks To Become […]

Lavrov Exposed Washington’s Double Standards Towards Resolving The Levantine & Ukrainian Conflicts Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an informative interview to Kommersant in mid-October. Russian international media mostly focused on his remarks about ties with the US, concerns about its potential transfer of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, and the special operation, […]

Eggs, Gas, & Women’s Clothing Prices Down; Beef, Smokes, & Electricity Up In 2025 Even as headline inflation stabilizes, the cost of everyday items and services in the U.S. continues to shift unevenly across categories. For example, while beef has gotten more expensive, eggs have gotten cheaper. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu breaks down inflation by product type, revealing where Americans are seeing the […]

DOA: Republicans Reject Democrats’ One-Year ACA Extension To End Shutdown Update (1508ET): That didn’t take long… * And now Thune, who says the Democrat proposal ‘not close’ to what needs to be done.  30 minutes after Democrats offered to reopen the government if Republicans agree to extend pandemic-era (temporary) Obamacare enhancements, Republicans rejected it outright – with one senior Senate GOP aide saying it’s ‘dead on […]

Lessons From The Longest-Living Among Us Authored by Amy Denney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Sister Pacis Bao spent 31 years longing for revenge against the communists who murdered her family—then made a decision at age 79 that may have added 25 years to her life. The 104-year-old nun turned from hatred to forgiveness, which put her mind and body at ease. Sister Pacis Bao embodies many traits of a “superager,” keeping her […]

New Mexico Is The State Most Dependent On Food Stamps The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest federal food assistance initiative in the U.S., supporting roughly one in eight Americans. The program helps low-income households purchase groceries, with monthly benefits averaging around $180 per person nationwide. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights the states most […]

Trump’s Unpredictability Keeps Beijing Off Balance: Analysts Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Since day one in office, President Donald Trump has taken Beijing on a roller coaster ride of tariffs and export controls. For a regime that is already struggling with a stagnant economy and an international market increasingly wary of Chinese dumping, Trump’s actions have added an extra layer of uncertainty. […]

Nearly One In Five Americans Still Work From Home Regularly Many companies, particularly among the finance and tech sectors, have started calling employees back to the office. Firms such as Microsoft have announced expectations for workers to spend more time on-site, while Amazon has gone further, requiring employees to return to the office five days a week. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to data from […]

Americans Are Increasingly Alone, But Are They Really Lonely? Authored by Christopher J. Ferguson via RealClearInvestigations, In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a bombshell report, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” that painted a bleak picture of citizens feeling “isolated, invisible, and insignificant.” Most provocatively, it stated that perhaps half of Americans face a personal crisis of […]

North Dakota & Texas Saw The Greatest GDP Growth Of US States Over The Past 35 Years, Louisiana The Least The 1990s were a different time. Dial-up internet, gas costing a dollar, and many states still leaning on manufacturing. Even then, new tech clusters and improved drilling methods were starting to reshape the map, setting up today’s energy-rich and tech-focused states for the strongest economies. The visualization, via […]

Cheap Power Is The Secret To Winning The Global AI Race Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly stated that China is positioned to win the global AI race due to its significantly lower energy costs and less stringent regulation compared to the United States and Europe. The pursuit of net-zero ambitions has led to high electricity costs in the UK and EU, which directly threatens their plans […]

Arctic Blast To Plunge U.S. East Temperatures To Nuuk, Greenland Levels By early next week, much of the eastern United States “will be about as cold as Nuuk, Greenland,” warned meteorologist Ben Noll, adding, “It will be warmer in St. John’s, Newfoundland, than in parts of northern Florida.”  On Tuesday morning, parts of the Southeast U.S. will be about as cold as Nuuk, Greenland — near the edge of the Arctic Circle. It will be […]

The Democrats’ Man Problem Authored by Kurt Schlichter via Townhall, It’s a challenge when you want to be a major political party and you can’t seem to avoid alienating about 90 percent of 50 percent of the population, but that’s the challenge the Democrats have accepted. People with penises who identify as men, I have some bad news for you. They don’t like you. Not at all. And their solution to this problem – and it’s […]

UN Bends The Knee, Revokes Sanctions On Syrian Leaders Ahead Of Trump Meeting The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to end terrorism-related sanctions on Syria’s interim president and interior minister, acknowledging the country’s change after Bashar al-Assad was deposed in early December 2024. The resolution, sponsored by the United States, was adopted via 14 votes in favor and an abstention by China. It removes Ahmed […]

America’s Future: Food Stamp Riots And Communism? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us There’s a lot of black-pilling Republicans out there this week after a handful of elections in the northeastern US led to “sweeping” Democrat victories in New York, New Jersey and Virginia. As is always the case whenever Republicans lose any race no matter how insignificant to the bigger picture, suddenly the sky is falling and […]

Maduro Open To ‘Managed Exit’ If Trump Provides Amnesty; Putin On Standby With Military Aid Last week, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reached out to Russia, China and Iran for possible military aid, after US President Donald Trump mulled a military attack amid a massive buildup of American forces in the region. “The requests to Moscow were made in the form of a letter meant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and was […]