“Market’s Pick?” – President Trump Confirms Kevin Warsh As Next Fed Chair Nominee Update (0700ET): As was apparently leaked last night – for a big win on Polymarket – President Trump has just confirmed he is nominating Kevin Warsh to become the next Fed Chair: “I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.” Trump praises Warsh’s background: […]

“Ready For De-Escalation”: Zelensky Ready To Accept Energy Ceasefire If Putin Will Shortly after President Donald Trump said Thursday afternoon that Russia had agreed to pause strikes on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities for a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight that Ukraine is prepared to halt drone and missile attacks on Russia’s critical energy infrastructure, provided Putin honors a weeklong truce and […]

Saudi Arabia Presses Royal Families To Bankroll Faltering Megaprojects Via The Cradle Saudi Arabia has begun pressing the kingdom’s wealthiest families to inject more capital into domestic ventures as flagship Vision 2030 megaprojects are scaled back or shelved, Bloomberg reported this week. The report said the Public Investment Fund (PIF), alongside the Ministry of Investment and other state bodies, convened a closed-door […]

“Doomsday Clock” Ticks Closer To Midnight The hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock now stand at 85 seconds to midnight – closer to global catastrophe than ever before. The Doomsday Clock, or the Nuclear War Clock, represents how close we are veering towards global disaster at the hands of humans. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the decision to move the clock forward from 89 to […]

Germany’s PMI “Recovery” Is Built On Layoffs, Price Inflation, And State Expansion Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Economic indicators suggest a stabilization in Germany’s services sector. Yet the apparent improvement in the corresponding index follows massive staff reductions and efficiency measures undertaken by companies responding to a political structural crisis. In Berlin, the great tremor has begun. For almost exactly seven […]

Births Plummet In China As Population Growth Stalls The number of new babies born in China dropped to 7.9 million in 2025, the lowest number in more than seven decades. This marked a 17 percent decline from one year before, when it was 9.5 million. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the National Statistics Bureau of China (NBS), the country’s birth rate fell to 5.63 per 1,000 people in 2025. This is the lowest […]

Tensions Between Kiev & Budapest Ramp Up As Ambassadors Summoned Over Election Interference Claims Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Hungary and Ukraine have summoned each other’s ambassadors amid a sharp escalation in diplomatic tensions, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accusing Kyiv of attempting to interfere in Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections and Ukraine […]

What’s Worrying Billionaires The Most In 2026? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights the factors most likely to negatively impact the global market environment over the next 12 months, based on responses from billionaires across regions. The data for this visualization comes from the UBS Billionaire Survey 2025. Trade and Geopolitics Dominate Concerns Tariffs rank as the top concern overall, […]

Berlin’s Real Estate Market: Socialism On The Rise Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany’s debt crisis continues to tighten the political leeway of the Federal Republic. The latest push by Berlin’s SPD for stricter real estate regulation clearly signals the direction ahead: Parties at the brink are choosing state-controlled economics over a market-driven turnaround. The German capital, Berlin, functions as a political testing […]

Davos 2026: Acknowledging The End Of Pax Americana Authored by Ret. Admiral Cem Gürdeniz via Michel Chossudovsky’s substack, The end of the Pax Americana established after 1945 was officially acknowledged by both the leaders of finance capital and the elected leaders in Davos 26. The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026 in Davos, which has served as the vision and doctrine center of global capitalism for half a century, was held […]

Maine Is The ‘Oldest’ State, Utah The ‘Youngest’ Across the U.S., age profiles vary widely by region. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, highlights those differences using the most recent nationwide estimates. The data for this visualization comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 1-Year Estimates. It reports the median age for each state and the District of Columbia. The […]

Chinese Contract At Panama Canal Ruled Unconstitutional In Win For Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Another massive defeat for China’s interests in the Western Hemisphere, and another ‘win’ for Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine”… The Supreme Court of Panama has just issued a final decision to void the contract renewal for Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison’s subsidiary to operate two Panama Canal ports, in a much anticipated landmark case driven by […]

Isaac Newton’s Lost Papers – And His Search For God’s Divine Plan Authored by Duncan Burch via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Few have had as profound an effect on modern scientific understanding as Sir Isaac Newton. A drawing by Isaac Newton of his telescope contained in a book of his letters is displayed next to a statue of him at the Royal Society on November 24, 2009 in London. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Many people are […]

Here’s Morningstar’s Safe-Withdrawal Rate For 2026 Retirees Factoring in projected rates for asset-class returns and inflation, Morningstar analysts say the highest “safe” starting withdrawal rate for people retiring in 2026 is 3.9% of portfolio assets. By “safe,” Morningstar means this is the highest rate that has a 90% chance of having some money at the end of a 30-year retirement. Depending on the scheme you use for subsequent […]

Harvard-Backed Program Drops ‘Students Of Color’ Requirement After Legal Complaint Authored by Anna Poff via The College Fix, A Harvard-backed summer scholarship program accused of racial discrimination quietly revised its eligibility language after a legal complaint, but critics told The College Fix the change came too late. The Union Scholars summer scholarship program is headed by the American Federation of State, County, […]

‘My Colon Literally Blew Up’: Thousands Sue Over GLP-1 Weight Loss Drug Side Effects A growing wave of lawsuits is challenging the safety warnings accompanying blockbuster weight-loss drugs that have rapidly reshaped American medicine and culture, raising questions about whether patients were adequately informed of the risks tied to medications now used by tens of millions of people. Todd Engel is one of several plaintiffs in a […]

Waste Of The Day: How The Grinch Stole $30,000 Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The Grinch did not successfully steal Christmas this season, but he did use up $30,493 in taxpayer money. A viral Grinch-themed house in Dallas drew crowds so large that the city needed extra police personnel hours, vehicles and barricades to control the nightly crowd of visitors, WFAA-TV reported. Key facts: The […]

Trump Reopens Airspace Over Venezuela, Restores Direct US Flights After 5+ Years Venezuela had already long been an embargoed country, akin to Cuba in many aspects. For example, direct commercial passenger and cargo flights between the US and Venezuela have been impossible, going back to a May 2019 suspension ordered during the first Trump administration. But after the US military ouster of Maduro, President Trump said […]

About FACE: Trump Administration Using Abortion-Focused Law To Defend Believers Authored by Benjamin Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations, Instead of the word of the Lord, worshippers at the Jan. 18 Sunday prayer service at Cities Church in St. Paul were met with chants such as “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.” But that’s not all. Families in the pews were harangued as “pretend Christians” and “comfortable […]

Inside The Booming, Dangerous World Of Pokémon Cards The skyrocketing value of rare Pokémon trading cards has turned what was once a childhood pastime into a target for increasingly bold criminals, with armed robberies and burglaries hitting collectors and specialty stores across the U.S. in recent months, The New York Post reports. Pokémon heist! The Poke Court / Instagram In one of the most recent high-profile cases, three […]

New Footage Appears To Show Alex Pretti Spit At ICE, Break SUV Tail Light In Prior Minneapolis Confrontation The killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday sparked national outrage – particularly when it comes to the 2nd Amendment and his right to carry while protesting. The incident resulted in two federal agents involved in the shooting being placed on leave, and the ouster of US border patrol chief Gregory […]

Education Department Warns California To Halt Secret Gender Transitions Of Kids Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, The U.S. Education Department (ED) is warning California to stop hiding gender transitions of students from parents in public schools or face federal consequences. ED’s Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) investigated dangerous and shocking violations of parental rights in California public schools, […]

“Do It Now”: Industry Insiders Urge Consumers To Front-Run PC, TV, Smartphone Purchases As ‘Memory Crunch’ Will Intensify A global shortage of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has emerged in recent months, and some of the first casualties of the “great memory crunch” were flagged by Goldman in December, starting with consumer electronics companies such as Nintendo. The list of victims has continued to expand. Last week, we noted that […]

Tucker Carlson Accuses Tim Walz And Jacob Frey Of Orchestrating A ‘Color Revolution’ And Civil War Via VigilantFox.com, Tucker Carlson warns that Tim Walz and Mayor Frey are deliberately fueling chaos to spark a “color revolution.” He asks: “Why would a state refuse to protect American citizens from murder, refuse to give the names or whereabouts of murderers and child molesters, and refuse to use its own cops to keep […]

“Bananas And Rice” Woman Arrested By DHS For Rioting In Minneapolis In an effort to crack down on violent rioters in Minneapolis, MN, federal authorities have arrested 16 people identified as alleged participants who assaulted ICE agents in order to obstruct them from carrying out deportation arrests.   One of the suspects is Nasra Ahmed, 23, of Minnesota, who rose to national notoriety after remarks she made during a Jan. 21 […]