The Challenge For 2026 Markets Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It’s that time of year when Wall Street polishes up its crystal balls and begins predicting returns for 2026. Since Wall Street never predicts a down year, which would be unwise for fee-based product revenues, these forecasts are often inaccurate and sometimes significantly wrong. Let’s review some previous years. For example, on December […]

President Unveils ‘Trump Class’ Of Warships, Huntington Ingalls Shares Jump Shares of warship builder Huntington Ingalls Industries rose in premarket trading and are on track for the largest annual gain in 12 years, driven by news of President Trump’s continued push to rebuild the U.S. Navy. HII gained 5% on Monday and another 5% in premarket trading early Tuesday after President Trump announced a plan on Monday evening to build […]

“Much-Needed Win”: Novo Shares Jump Most In Nearly Two Years After US Approval Of Wegovy Obesity Pill Novo Nordisk shares in Europe jumped the most in nearly two years after the U.S. FDA approved the Wegovy pill, a once-daily 25 mg oral semaglutide, for long-term weight loss, weight maintenance, and reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events. The approval marks a much-needed win for the struggling Danish pharmaceutical […]

The Box Office Crisis Is Worse Than It Looks Prior to the release of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” in the week before Christmas, 2025 was another disappointing year at the box office. Statista’s Felix Richer details below that, according to industry tracker The Numbers, this year’s domestic box office gross will be roughly in line with last year’s result, which fell short of the 2023 total, not to mention coming anywhere close to […]

DHS Offering $3,000 To Illegal Aliens To Self-Deport As Part Of Holiday Deal Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering triple the amount of cash to illegal immigrants who willingly leave the United States through a smartphone app as part of a “holiday deal.” In this photo illustration, a phone displays the CBP Home App, on May 5, 2025. Oleksii […]

Journo Freaks Out After Bari Weiss Spikes ’60 Minutes’ Segment On El Salvador Prison CBS News’ new editor in chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned “60 Minutes” segment on an El Salvador maximum-security prison where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants – apparently because the journalist behind the piece failed to obtain comment from the Trump administration.  Bari Weiss backstage at The Theatre at the […]

Zurich Has The World’s Most Expensive Cappuccino, Amsterdam The Cheapest Coffee is a daily ritual for millions of people around the world. Yet the price of a simple cappuccino can vary dramatically depending on where you order it. Local wages, rents, taxes, and currency strength all shape what consumers ultimately pay for their caffeine fix. This visualization ranks the most expensive cappuccinos among the 69 major cities covered […]

Germany’s Debt-Fueled Illusions: Merz Humiliated, Economy In Freefall Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The year 2025 ends for the slap-prone German Chancellor with a resounding smack in Brussels. After the failed raid on Russian assets at Euroclear, Berlin now turns its gaze to the hoped-for comeback of the German economy. Yet here too awaits the next bitter realization for naïve statisticians: wealth cannot be printed with debt. […]

Non-US Citizens More Likely To Have Devices Checked Tourists heading to the United States could soon have to disclose the past five years of their social media activities to authorities during the ESTA process. Where providing such information was previously only mandatory for longer-term visas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection have now submitted a new regulatory proposal to make it an essential part of short-term tourists and […]

New NATO Hub To Open In Romania, Doubling Weapons Deliveries To Ukraine Via Remix News, Starting in January 2026, a second NATO hub will begin operating in Romania, doubling the transit of weapons to Ukraine, including through the PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List) mechanism. Right after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a similar hub was opened in Jasionka, Poland, to serve as a key logistics center for all […]

US Mulls Sanctions On Spanish-Flagged Vessels Lately headlines have been filled with developments of the United States targeting Venezuelan-linked tankers, or sanctioning Russia’s so-called Shadow Fleet, or else intercepts of Iranian oil shipments on the high seas. Such country names on the receiving end of Washington’s punitive measures have become commonplace, but it is surprising to see the EU country of Spain pop up as […]

UK Govt Minister Steps In To Defend Met Office As Fake Temperature Scandal Escalates Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, In a couple of weeks’ time, the Met Office is likely to announce another ‘hottest year evah’ in the UK. The message will be broadcast faithfully by trusted messengers in mainstream media, keen to prop up the fading Net Zero fantasy, but greeted with howls of derision across social media. […]

There Are Over 8,500 Toxic Shipwrecks Across The Globe There are over 8,500 potentially polluting wrecks (PPWs) across the world’s ocean. These shipwrecks may hold as much as 20.4 million metric tons of oil and toxic substances, according to estimates. This graphic, produced by Visual Capitalist’s Cody Good in partnership with Lloyd’s Register Foundation, shows the global density of World War II wrecks. It uses data from Paul […]

Trump Deal Highlights Intensifying Global Competition For Fusion Energy Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NYSE:DJT) have surged nearly 70% after the company agreed to merge with fusion startup TAE Technologies in a $6 billion deal. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders of each company will own roughly half of the combined entity on a fully diluted equity basis. […]

Rocking Around The Plastic Tree For some families, the search for the right Christmas tree is an annual event. For large shares of Americans and Brits though, this search may have ended a long time ago – the perfect tree already sitting safely in the attic or garage, ready for its glorious but fleeting return to the living room. As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, a new survey from Statista Consumer Insights shows, it’s a […]

Vance: “You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Vice President JD Vance announced Sunday the Trump administration’s decisive victory over the woke scourge of DEI, banishing it to where it belongs—the trash heap of failed ideas. Speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, Vance made it crystal clear: America is back to rewarding merit and hard work, not pandering to identity […]

MSM Stays Silent As Horrific Video Emerges Of Attack On 75-Year-Old Woman In Seattle Outside of local reporting in Seattle, corporate media outlets at the national level have entirely ignored the brutal attack on a 75-year-old woman by a repeat offender. The silence is telling and underscores how progressive criminal justice reforms continue to backfire spectacularly, enabling a revolving-door chaotic environment that releases […]

Despite Headwinds: Airlines On Track For A Record Year The global airline industry is on track to hit new revenue and profit records in 2025 and 2026. As Statista’s Felix Richter details below, according to the latest industry outlook from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), commercial airlines, including passenger and cargo airlines, are expected to surpass $1 trillion in revenue for the first time this year, […]

Instacart Scraps Variable-Pricing Experiment After Consumer Groups Warned Of Inflated Grocery Bills Authored byh Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Instacart said it is ending a pricing experiment that allowed different customers to see different prices for identical grocery items after consumer advocates said the practice could inflate grocery bills at a time when households are already struggling with high food […]

Malicious Actors Impersonating Senior US Officials, FBI Warns Malicious actors are impersonating government officials to secure sensitive information and steal funds, the FBI said in an alert on Dec. 19. “Activity dating back to 2023 reveals malicious actors have impersonated senior U.S. state government, White House, and Cabinet-level officials, as well as members of Congress to target individuals, including officials’ family […]

Military Jet Performs ‘Headbutt’ On Plane Intruding Into Mar-a-Lago Airspace Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft that violated restricted airspace over President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 21, military officials said. An F-15 fighter jet from the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing intercepted a simulated […]

Holy Awakening Gains Momentum As Biblical ‘David’ Film Soars At Box Office A revival appears to be taking shape in the US, with a noticeable resurgence of religious interest among young men and women that emerged during President Trump’s “America First” campaign and intensified following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In our “Is A Holy Awakening Unfolding Across America” report in mid-October, we cited numerous research firms […]

Judge Green-Lights Secret Service Agent’s Retaliation Case Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A federal judge has allowed most claims in a senior Secret Service agent’s lawsuit alleging a hostile workplace, retaliation, and discrimination to move forward despite Department of Homeland Security opposition, according to court documents.   Rashid Ellis, a 14-year veteran of the agency with expertise in drone […]

MSM Belatedly Details Syrian ‘Prisons Filling Up Again, Torture’ Under Jolani Regime More than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow, and some mainstream media outlets are finally taking a critical eye to the new Sharaa/Jolani regime and its human rights abuses, religious oppression, and war crimes. While the West and Gulf countries celebrated Assad fleeting the country for Russia in December 2024, with the al-Qaeda linked Hayat […]

State Department Recalls 29 Biden-Appointed Ambassadors Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States has recalled almost 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial roles. A sign for the State Department on the outside of the Harry S. Truman Federal Building in Washington on July 11, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images All of the ambassadors were appointed under President Joe Biden and are senior […]