Amid Nike’s Worst Drawdown Since late 70s, UBS Flags Emerging Bullish Signals Nike was thrust into the news flow earlier this week after Apple CEO Tim Cook placed a buy order for 50,000 Class B shares at a weighted average price of $58.97. The stock has been locked in a four-year bear market, as recent earnings data point to softer demand in China and mixed channel trends in North America. Looking past all the gloom, UBS analyst […]

Why Christmas Is The Most Stressful Week For The Diesel Market Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Holiday logistics lock in diesel demand regardless of price, draining already thin inventories. Europe’s post-Russia diesel dependence makes year-end disruptions especially risky. Christmas reveals structural fragility in distillate markets before crude prices reflect it. Santa runs on diesel. Every year, the […]

Poland Intercepts Russian Recon Plane Near Its Airspace On Christmas Poland said it scrambled fighter jets on Thursday to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying near its airspace over the Baltic Sea, and reported that dozens of objects crossed into the country from Belarus overnight, with some officials saying these are intentional provocations timed during a holiday period. The Polish military said that jets […]

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Deporting ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Activist Under Visa Ban Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, A federal judge granted a temporary injunction on Dec. 25 to block the Trump administration from detaining and deporting Imran Ahmed, an activist among those recently subjected to visa restrictions by the State Department for alleged censorship. Ahmed, CEO of U.S.-based Center for Countering […]

The $16 Billion Question Haunting Mark Zuckerberg A new study finds Facebook hosts the vast majority of social media scams, and critics argue it is because Meta prioritizes profit over protecting users, according to the New York Post. Internal documents obtained by Reuters show Meta projected $16 billion — about 10% of revenue — from scam ads last year. Experts say the company only bans advertisers when its systems detect a 95% […]

Bitcoin Market Fundamentals “Couldn’t Be Better”, Says Strategy CEO Authored by Ciaran Lyons via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin’s market fundamentals have stayed strong in 2025, despite the asset’s price and sentiment declining toward the end of the year, says Strategy CEO Phong Le. “The fundamentals of the market this year for Bitcoin couldn’t be better,” Le told the “Coin Stories” podcast on Tuesday, emphasizing that […]

Joe Biden’s Family Christmas Photo Is So Awkward And Wrong Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Yet another Biden family photo has become a punch line on social media, and trust me, this one is a doozy. Biden shared the image around 9 p.m. on December 24, accompanied by a fairly boilerplate message: “Wishing you a peaceful and joyful Christmas Eve filled with love. The strange part? You kinda had to play a game of […]

US Launches Strikes Against “Terrorist Scum” In Nigeria President Trump telegraphed the move last month, warning that US military intervention in West Africa was certaintly on the table after what he described as the mass killing of Christians by Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. Now, the president says the US military forces carried out powerful strikes against ISIS targets, framing the operation as a direct response to militants […]

Peace Deal On Horizon? Trump & Zelensky To Meet Sunday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with US President Donald Trump on Sunday in Mar-a-Lago to talk peace with Russia, Zelensky’s top officials have confirmed. Ukraine is touting that a deal is close – and yet outside observers might easily note that huge hurdles remain. Zelensky also stated on Telegram that “Many things can be decided before the new year.” And […]

S&P Futures Trade At Record High As Precious Metal Surge Accelerates US equity futures are little changed in thin trading with most traders away from the screens, while the bulk of overnight actions was once again in gold and silver as precious metals soared to a new record high driven by feverish Chinese demand. As of 8:15am, S&P futures were flat after closing Wednesday’s session at a new record high, while Nasdaq 100 futs […]

China Sanctions 20 US Defense Firms, Issues ‘Red Line’ Warning Over Record Taiwan Arms Deal After sounding the constant warning that Washington is “playing with fire” in continually arming and supporting self-ruled Taiwan, China’s foreign ministry announced Friday new sanctions on ten individuals and 20 American defense companies, mostly notably among them Boeing, specifically in response to American arms sales to Taiwan. The […]

Gold Surges As Central Banks Brace For Global Debt Storm Submitted By Thomas Kolbe The gold price is racing from one all-time high to the next. That’s good news for friends of the precious metal and bad news for anyone still hoping for a stabilization of global debt dynamics.  Assuming the markets close out the year without major volatility, gold holders can look forward to an approximate 70 percent increase in value within a […]

Escobar: Europe’s Elites Pay For The Privilege Of Losing Conflict Authored by Pepe Escobar, When in doubt, Europeans should always re-read Tacitus. As a true Roman, he considered that sacrifice was only worthy if conducted at the service of the motherland. In his time, the Roman Empire. In our time, that would be civilization-state Italy. Tacitus was a keen student of Resistance – reflecting on the worthiness of the heroic […]

Man Vs AI: A Year-End Poetry Slam As Deutsche Bank’s Adrian Cox writes in his year-end DB Research Institute report, generative AI has come a long way in the past three years. But how well does it compare against a 20-watt organic brain in the classic sellside research exercise of a humorous end-of-year poem? Cox put it to the test: he wrote a year-end poem, then got ChatGPT, running OpenAI’s new GPT 5.2 large language model, to […]

Intensifying Shortage: This Is What A Run On The London Silver Market Looks Like Authored by David Jensen via Substack, Dutch trading specialist Karel Mercx posted the following commentary where the opposite (multiply by -1) of the silver swap rate minus US interest rates can be used as a proxy for the implied silver lease rate to determine physical shortage in the London silver market.: “The 1-year silver swap minus the US […]

Watch: Pro-Natalist’s Head Explodes After Lefty Journo Denies Basic Science A hilarious clip is currently going viral in which far-left journalist Paola Ramos (daughter of Trump foe and Univision reporter Jorge Ramos) attempts a “gotcha” during an interview with Simone and Malcolm Collins – Silicon Valley investors-turned Pennsylvania pronatalists, who the left, of course, has been trying to cancel.  In her attempt to paint the […]

Stunner: DOJ Finds A Million More Epstein Documents – Will Take ‘Weeks’ To Review In a stunning development, the embattled Department of Justice chose Christmas Eve to announce it had discovered more than a million more documents with potential links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Already in violation of a legislatively-mandated Dec 19 deadline to release all such files — and facing demands for an audit of its handling […]

FCC Bans New Models Of China’s DJI Drones, Citing Security Risks Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it will ban all new models of foreign-made drones due to national security concerns, a move that will shut out Chinese drone manufacturers DJI and Autel from the U.S. market. A drone in flight at a DJI store in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, […]

Murders In The USA Set For Largest One-Year Drop On Record The number of murders in the US is on track for its largest one-year drop on record, according to an analysis by noted crime stats expert, Jeff Asher. Using the Real-Time Crime Index that compares data from 570 law enforcement agencies, Asher reports a nearly 20% decline in murders in 2025 vs. the same period in 2024. The database excludes manslaughter, self-defense, […]

Pax Germanica Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week decried the end of Pax Americana and declared that Germany will fill the void: “The decades of Pax Americana for Europe and Germany are largely over for us. It no longer exists as we knew it. Nostalgia will not help us, and I would be the last person to give in to this nostalgia. This is a reality! The Americans are […]

World War And The Plan To Control Or Kill Young Western Men Written by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us When I think of the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk I see the event as symbolic of the death of civil discourse in the west. The timeline split at that moment leaving two distinct groups: The conservatives and centrists who cling to the fantasy that progress through traditional politics is still possible, and the patriots who […]

Number Of Centenarians Skyrockets In The US Between the 2010 and the 2020 Census, the number of centenarians in the United States grew by 50 percent to more than 80,000 as the realities of aging populations are catching up to a country that had previously outdone its peer when it came to fertility and demographic development. As Statista’s Katharins Buchholz reports, the recently published Census Bureau report on […]

Is A Paleoconservative ‘New America First’ Committee The Answer? Authored by J.D. Hester via AntiWar.com With paleoconservatism currently ascendant in the United States, the slogan “America First” has risen to prominence in public discourse. However, this is not the first time that the phrase has been commonplace in American politics. While America First is currently associated with the right, the bipartisan America First Committee […]

US Northeast Set For Post-Christmas Winter Storm A post-Christmas Day winter blast is expected for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast for the end of the week, with some of the heaviest snowfall expected in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the New York City area. Meteorologist Steven DiMartino of private forecaster NY NJ PA Weather wrote in a new report Thursday that the winter storm will dump accumulating snow across the […]

All We Want For Christmas Is A Return To Civility Authored by William Brooks via The Epoch Times, For many folks raised in the northern United States and Canada, the Christmas season evokes vivid childhood memories: fresh snowfalls, frosted windowpanes, the scent of a pine tree in a warm living room, and neighbourhoods aglow with coloured lights against the early evening darkness. We recall midnight carol services followed by […]