“It is imperative that the Federal government puts the physical and economic wellbeing of the American people first,” the text of the order read. It was further stated that the policies of the previous administration have negatively impacted the US energy industry and national security. “The United States’ ability to remain at the forefront of technological innovation depends on a reliable supply of energy and the integrity of our Nation’s electrical grid,” it said.

President Donald Trump is dismantling Biden admin energy policies to focus on boosting oil and gas production and exports, seeking energy dominance on a global scale. In his first day in office, the president withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, just as he had done during his first term, and reversed Biden’s ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in parts of the U.S. continental shelf. Instead, Trump said, “America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth.” The U.S. obviously has quite substantial reserves of both hydrocarbons and Trump has repeatedly stated he intends to make the best of these.

“We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world,” he said of his plans for the energy sector.

United States President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Elise Stefanik (pictured) responded on Tuesday affirmatively to the question if she believed Israel had a biblical right to the entire West Bank. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Stefanik did not clearly disclose if she supported a two-state solution for Palestine. She insisted that “I support human rights for all” while explaining that both she and Trump backed halting the funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and switching to another aid channel. Asked about billionaire entrepreneur and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Administrator Elon Musk’s alleged Sieg Heil salute while he spoke at Trump’s inauguration, Stefanik claimed that he “did not do those salutes. I was not at the rally … that is simply not the case.” NN:  here is a women whose head is screwed on right and a hairy set of balls

The Trump administration removed on Tuesday Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead a US military service, from her role as commandant of the Coast Guard. The announcement, made by interim Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman, provided no explanation for the decision but marked the first important shift in military leadership under President Donald Trump. Fagan’s removal follows Trump’s campaign promises to replace military leaders who promote diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Retired Adm. Paul Zukunft called the move “shocking” and linked it to Trump’s stance on such initiatives. NN: Time to take out the garbage. fight wars not diversity and the fagat agenda.

The prices of oil futures tumbled on Tuesday following United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration. After officially returning to the White House, the US head of state vowed to increase the production of oil and gas in the country. In order to achieve his “Drill, baby, drill” goals, Trump imposed a national energy emergency. West Texas Intermediate for March deliveries declined going for $76.40 per barrel. Brent for the same month’s settlements fell selling at $79.18 a barrel.

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will sign an executive order declaring a national energy emergency to increase US oil and gas production and reduce consumer costs. “Drill, baby, drill,” Trump added during his inaugural address, emphasizing the importance of energy independence to drive down costs and strengthen the US. Additionally, Trump plans to utilize natural resources in Alaska and protect gas appliances from federal regulations, fulfilling campaign promises.

President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to sign a host of executive orders related to energy in the first hours after his inauguration. Bloomberg reported that Trump plans to declare a national energy emergency right after he’s sworn in as part of his plan to boost oil and gas production. According to a Wall Street Journal report, in addition to energy, Trump will target immigration and government hiring policies with his first executive orders. The planned changes include declaring a national emergency on the border between the United States and Mexico, redirecting funding to border infrastructure, reversing the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies of the previous administration, and canceling the federal land and offshore oil and gas drilling bans that President Biden signed while he was in office. As for the emergency that Trump is reportedly preparing to declare, Bloomberg wrote that it was unclear yet what it would be used to do specifically. The publication noted, however, that with such a declaration a president can “unlock special powers over the transportation of crude and use authorities to direct shifts in how electricity is generated and transmitted.” “We’re going to be using our emergency powers to allow countries and entrepreneurs and people with a lot of money build big plants, AI plants,” Trump said on the campaign trail. “We need double the energy that we already have, and it’s going to end up being more than that.” Another direction of Trump’s energy policies is cutting off funding for transition technologies, including EV subsidies, the Wall Street Journal noted in its report. The president-elect has also threatened to ban offshore wind on his first day in office. Trump has called wind power “an economic and environmental disaster.” However, he would be limited in his efforts to stop new wind turbine construction to federal lands.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday that it fined the investment management advisor The Vanguard Group, Inc. with $106.41 million to settle its charges related to “misleading statements related to capital gains distributions and tax consequences for retail investors who held Vanguard Investor Target Retirement Funds (Investor TRFs) in taxable accounts.” The SEC stated that Vanguard reduced the minimum investment requirement for its Institutional Target Retirement Funds (Institutional TRFs) in 2020, which triggered redemptions as Vanguard clients transitioned from Investor TRFs to institutional versions. The SEC’s order found the redemptions resulted in taxable distributions for certain remaining shareholders, which Vanguard reportedly did not adequately disclose. “Materially accurate information about capital gains and tax implications is critical to investors saving for their retirements,” Chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit, Corey Schuster, said. “Firms must ensure that they are accurately describing to investors the potential risks and consequences associated with their investments,” he added.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed its latest West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spot price forecasts in its January short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released recently. In that STEO, the EIA projected that the WTI spot price will average $70.31 per barrel in 2025 and $62.46 per barrel in 2026. The EIA’s previous STEO, which was released in December, forecast that the 2025 WTI spot price would average $69.12 per barrel. That STEO did not include a WTI spot price forecast for 2026. A quarterly breakdown included in the latest STEO showed that the EIA expects the WTI spot price to come in at $72.34 per barrel in the first quarter of this year, $71 per barrel in the second quarter, $70 per barrel in the third quarter, $68 per barrel in the fourth quarter, $64.97 per barrel in the fifth quarter of 2026, $63.33 per barrel in the second quarter, $61.68 per barrel in the third quarter, and $60 per barrel in the fourth quarter of next year.

The EIA’s December STEO projected that the WTI  spot price would average $69.67 per barrel in the first quarter of 2025, $69.83 per barrel in the second quarter, $69.50 per barrel in the third quarter, and $67.50 per barrel in the fourth quarter. The EIA’s January STEO put the 2024 WTI spot price average at $76.60 per barrel. Its December STEO had it at $76.51 per barrel.

JPM Commodities Research team on Monday revealed that J.P. Morgan expects the WTI crude price to average $69 per barrel in 2025, and $57 per barrel in 2026. The company sees the WTI crude price coming in at $70 per barrel in the first quarter of this year, $73 per barrel in the second quarter, $69 per barrel in the third quarter, $65 per barrel in the fourth quarter, $60 per barrel in the first quarter of next year, $59 per barrel in the second quarter, $55 per barrel in the third quarter, and $53 per barrel in the fourth quarter of 2026, according to the research note. The research note put the 2024 WTI price average at $77 per barrel.

 Standard Chartered Bank Commodities Research Head Paul Horsnell this week showed that Standard Chartered expects the NYMEX WTI Basis nearby future crude oil price to average $79 per barrel in the first quarter of 2025, $81 per barrel in the second quarter, $86 per barrel in the third quarter, $90 per barrel in the fourth quarter, $88 per barrel in the first quarter of 2026, and $90 per barrel in the second quarter.

BMI report  by the Fitch Group last month showed that BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, projected that the WTI crude front month price would average $77 per barrel in 2024 and $73 per barrel in 2025.

Macquarie team on strategists noted that “both WTI and Brent speculative (MM + Other) net length grew over the past week”. “WTI net length increased by 37.9K while Brent rose by 22.3K. WTI spec net length gained as new long interest was over five greater than added shorts,” the strategists highlighted in that report.

XS.com,   Senior Market Analyst  Antonio Di Giacomo,   highlighted that the price of WTI crude oil had “experienced a notable increase, surpassing $80 per barrel”.

Oil prices have stopped rallying as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas could lead to the end of the Houthi bombardments of the Red Sea, but prices are still set to end the week with a gain. The recent relentless oil price rally that saw Brent break $82 appears to have slowed, but backwardation continues to expand in both Dubai and Brent futures. A potential de-escalation between Israel and Hamas, leading to the Houthis ending their maritime warfare in the Red Sea, could bring flat prices lower from next week onwards.

It’s when powerful new quantum computers finally break Bitcoin’s encryption code and rip off every last cent. It’s been all over the financial news, and analysts around the world are scared to death. Your Bitcoins will be stolen before you even know it. Worst of all, there may be nothing anybody can do to stop it.

A few weeks ago, Google introduced a new quantum supercomputer called Willow, I call it the BEAST, that changes everything. Unlike ordinary classical computers, Willow runs on the principles of quantum mechanics. Instead of bits, it uses qubits which allows it to make trillions of calculations in nanoseconds.

In a mind-blowing feat, Willow’s 105-qubit chip completed a calculation that would’ve taken our fastest supercomputer a mind-boggling 10 septillion years (that’s 10 followed by 24 zeros) a mere 5 minutes.

Major tech companies and governments are all in the race to build AI Quantum computers, such as Musk’s xAI, IBM’s HERON, and Microsoft’s AZURE are leading the investments in quantum computing. Hostile state actors like China and Russia have quantum AI computers. Pictured below is the China (They are spending 15 times the money as the US) quantum computer the ZuchongzhiZ

Most of the world is cheering because it will revolutionize the development of new medicine, optimize energy grids, automotive design and materials, aerospace, and almost everything else you can think of.

Because they can break previous encryption codes that classical computers couldn’t. Even scarier, it has already started

A bank of quantum computers in China and Russia as we speak are working to break the cryptocurrency encryption, allowing thieves to steal at least $3.8 trillion in Bitcoin.

Just so you don’t think I’m an alarmist, exaggerating or lost my mind completely…expert financial analysts and respected publications are all terrified about Q-Day.

“Bitcoin is a timebomb ready to explode.”

– Wall Street Journal

“Quantum computers come for Bitcoin.”

– Forbes

“Reported on Kent Carlos Perez-Delgado, a researcher at the University of Kent:”

“If I had a large quantum computer right now, I would essentially take over All the Bitcoin.”

– Fortune

“Bitcoin contributors should start preparing for the quantum future.”

– AllianceBernstein

the co-founder of the prominent cryptocurrency Ethereum, admitted that advancing quantum computing tech has “consequences across the entire Ethereum roadmap.”

– Vitalik Buterin

5 minutes to steal all your bitcoin

“Q-Day might come in 2025, Tilo Kunz Executive Vice President of the Canadian cybersecurity firm Quantum Defense.”

– Tilo Kunz

The bottom line: It’s not a matter of if Bitcoin is hacked, but when.

• Since 2011, Bitcoin has been ripped-off to the tune of a staggering $138,202,386,000
• Etherium losses to hackers: $1,175,082
• TOTAL: $142,315,183,000 at current Bitcoin prices

And the ripple effect would send the world into an economic crisis that would make the Great Depression pale in comparison.

Important Points to Consider

Still, that’s chump-change compared to what will be stolen by quantum computers. And the ripple effect would send the world into an economic crisis that would make the Great Depression pale in comparison.

Stealing Bitcoin Is A Piece of Cake

So why is stealing Bitcoin so easy? As experts say, the new quantum computers make it a snap because they can run so many calculations so fast. While classical computers use binary 0s and 1s, quantum computers use Qubits that can be in two states — 0 and 1 — at the same time.

As such, analysts now realize that SHA-256 encryption, which serves as a security measure protecting Bitcoin, is no match for quantum computers.

• No reserve.
• No government guarantee.
• No central computer or authority.
• Most people have no insurance.
• And nobody has seen the source code and nobody knows who even invented Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s Quantum Weakness

Bitcoin is considered ultra-secure against classical computers, but particularly vulnerable to quantum computers. That’s because every time a transaction is made, a public key is available to everyone and a private key, visible only to the spenders, are generated.

This key combination is then digitally ‘written’ onto a ledger of monetary transactions (copy below) within the system – aka a blockchain.

But there’s a catch, a large gaping hole for hackers. The Bitcoin transaction is not fully secure until it has been integrated into the blockchain. There’s a vulnerability window that can be manipulated, not by regular computers but by quantum computers that once they had access, they would simply divert the funds to a different address.

As Fortune points out, Bitcoin’s decentralized nature could make pushing an encryption update an immense task. By the time they push out an update your money will be long gone.

THE COMING BITCOIN Q-DAY CRASH

1. Protect your Bitcoin so it won’t get stolen
2. Hedge your Bitcoin so you don’t lose your money when it crashes
3. Take your money out of the quantum computer hackers’ reach once and for all
4. Make millions from the coming collapse even as others get wiped out