Category: Gadgets

Puerto Rico Faces Blackout Threat After New Fortress Halts LNG Shipment Weeks after New Fortress Energy rallied on news of a temporary contract extension for LNG supply to Puerto Rico, Bloomberg now reports the island has idled temporary power plants after the company abruptly halted a critical gas shipment, raising the risk of power outages at…

The Systematic Unraveling Of The Administrative State Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, In 1883, when the Pendleton Act was passed, creating the US civil service, it must have seemed like no big deal. The forgotten Chester A. Arthur was the president. The fear of being assassinated like his predecessor James Garfield convinced him to…

Summer Storms Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “It’s dark on the Left now. They’ve reached that predictable moment where inflicting pain is all they have left.“ – Sasha Stone Theories on the Epstein mess fly around like a murmuration of starlings wheeling across an angry summer sky. The birds are just birds. They are not…

Why AI’s Siren Song Is So Hard To Resist Authored by J.Peder Zane via AmericanGreatness.com, Should we say please and thank you to Siri and Alexa? Sure, it sounds a little nutty to extend courtesy to machines. We don’t say job well done to our dishwashers, robot vacuums, sprinklers, and all the other gadgets that…

What Seinfeld Teaches Us About Memecoins Authored by Omid Malekan, The 90s TV show Seinfeld — which is widely considered one of the greatest comedies of all time — was famously “a show about nothing.” Unlike most other sitcoms of that era, there was no overarching story across 9 seasons. It wasn’t about friendship or love or…

The Pentagon Just Took An Equity Stake In A Goldman Idea Dinner “Consensus Short” Not that long ago, when looking at the stock most likely to benefit from the US government’s transition to realpolitik statecraft, we listed two companies as most likely to be on the receiving end of Trump admin’s generosity, largely due to…

Inflection Time? Authored by Russell Clark via Capital Flows & Asset Markets, A well spent youth travelling around the world in my early 20s meant that I was very old to join UBS as a graduate trainee at the age of 25. I was even older to start as a fund management research analyst at…

Pounce! Democrats Suddenly Care About Epstein Files, Move To Force Disclosure And just like that, Democrats suddenly care about the Jeffrey Epstein… with House reps. preparing to introduce measures this week aimed at mandating the release of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The effort follows a recent Department…

Will John Brennan Ever Tell The Truth? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me…

Relative Returns Or Absolute. What’s More Important? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A couple of years ago, I wrote about absolute versus relative returns. Given the latest market run, I am getting a lot of questions about chasing returns, and individuals comparing themselves to the S&P 500 index. Historically, trying to beat a benchmark…