Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said over the weekend that it found that the Small Business Administration (SBA) allegedly granted thousands of loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars to individuals who had an age listed as 11 years old or younger. Elon Musk […]

Republicans Have to Keep Pushing on Energy Policy: Here’s How President Trump unleashed a flood of pro-energy executive orders on his first day in office. With a few signatures, he immediately rescinded President Biden’s ill-advised bans on liquified natural gas exports and gas and oil leasing on federal lands and waters. At the same time, […]

from the fix-your-own-shit dept State laws attempting to make it cheaper and easier to repair your own tech continue to gain steam. With the recent introduction of a new “right to repair” law in Wisconsin, U.S. PIRG notes that all 50 U.S. states have now at least introduced such bills: “This is more than a […]

US equity futures continue their relentless grind lower, as they trade just off session lows, down more than 1% as the “Trump Dump” selloff continues amid growing concerns about the health of the US economy. As JPM notes this morning “today there is a global de-risking but let’s see if Int’l Eqys outperform on the […]

Whether this is posturing or principles, Germany’s €500 billion spending bazooka is on the ropes this morning after Germany’s Green party rejected the draft debt-financed package, potentially leaving chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz without a supermajority needed to pass the legislation. In the new Bundestag, the far-right Alternative for Germany and anti-capitalist Left party will hold enough votes to block […]