Pfizer mRNA Influenza Vaccine ‘Failed’ In Clinical Trial Among Seniors: FDA Commissioner Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pfizer’s experimental influenza vaccine will not receive approval absent new data proving that it protects seniors against the flu, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration suggested in a new interview. A woman wears a facemask as she walks by the Pfizer world […]

Former EU Foreign Policy Chief Arrested In Fraud Investigation, Homes & Offices Raided Former European Commission vice-president and ex-head of the EU’s foreign service, Federica Mogherini, has been detained as Belgian authorities investigate alleged misuse of European Union funds, Belgian and French media reports have revealed Tuesday. Homes and offices are reportedly being raided in connection, though no formal charges were […]

House Republicans Officially Confirm “Operation Choke Point 2.0” Targeted Bitcoin And Crypto Firms Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have released a 50-page report detailing what they describe as a systematic debanking effort by Biden-era regulators, dubbed “Operation Chokepoint 2.0.”  While many of the findings — such as the Fed, FDIC, and OCC […]

DHS: Nearly 7000 Predatory Migrants Set Free From NYC Jails Since January The Department of Homeland Security has released a statement admonishing NYC officials after cataloging nearly 7000 illegal migrants that have been released from holding facilities instead of retaining them for ICE arrest.   New York’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of 6,947 criminal illegal aliens since January 20th. The […]

Sam Altman Declares ‘Code Red’ For ChatGPT As Rivals Catch Up; Will Scale Back Advertising Plans OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” on Monday, telling employees that ChatGPT needs serious improvement in terms of user experience – including personalization features, speed, reliability, and allowing it to answer a wider range of questions. In a companywide memo, Altman also said that OpenAI would be pushing back work on […]

Putin Says ‘Ready For War’ Against Europe If Attacks On Russian Tankers, Energy Continue US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law and unofficial diplomat Jared Kushner have been at the Kremlin on Tuesday for high-level talks with President Vladimir Putin. The Americans are presenting Trump’s Ukraine peace plan in its current form after the high stakes Miami meeting with the Ukrainian delegation, which focused on ceding […]

No “Unmoved Mover”, All Part Of A Now Systemic Metacrisis By Michael Every of Rabobank “The unmoved mover” is ancient philosophy from Aristotle interpreted to mean ‘the divine’. For modern Mammon, it means a finance industry with siloed sector coverage grudgingly agreeing that the US is primus inter pares. But not always. Yesterday, markets moved a lot: crypto crumbled, again; stocks were down; and bond yields were up, as were […]

Welcome To Hotel California: Democrats Push Retroactive Billionaire Tax Authored by Jonathan Turley, California was once known as the destination for anyone seeking a fortune, from the Gold Rush to Hollywood. The image of a line of wagon trains heading West has now been replaced by a line of U-Hauls heading anywhere but California. Unable to stem the exodus, California is again toying with retroactive taxes — targeting the […]

Michael Burry Is (Once Again) Going To Try And Short Tesla Michael Burry is once again taking aim at Tesla — a reminder of his high-profile 2021 short, when he bet against the stock just before it nearly doubled before dropping from its peak.  In a new Substack post, the “Big Short” investor called Tesla “ridiculously overvalued” and argued that shareholder dilution will only worsen under Elon Musk’s newly approved $1 […]

US NatGas Hits Three-Year High As Forecasts Point To “Long, Cold Winter” U.S. natural gas futures spiked to their highest levels in nearly three years as models now show a frigid first half of December across the Lower 48. Several forecasters are also warning of a potential polar-vortex-driven Arctic blast event later this month, which could drive temperatures even lower.  Let’s begin with an unusual sight (for this time of […]

“I Love Dell” – President Praises Tech Billionaire’s Massive Donation To Fund ‘Trump Accounts’ For Kids President Trump dropped one of his briefest and most succinct posts on his TruthSocial feed this morning. Just three little words:  “I LOVE DELL” Trump’s praise comes after Michael and Susan Dell announced Tuesday that they have committed $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children. The […]

Chinese, Japanese Boats In Tense Standoff Near Disputed Islands As Taiwan-Related Feud Escalates The severe diplomatic standoff which was triggered by last month’s words of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wherein she suggested Japan would militarily aid in Taiwan’s defense in the event of a Chinese invasion is increasingly becoming a potential military standoff. We earlier detailed that Japan has even deployed medium-range […]

Futures Rebound As Bitcoin Halts Plunge After Monday’s dismal start to December, US equity futures are higher (if only for the time being), although lacking conviction with few major catalysts on deck today. As of 8:15am, S&P 500 futures are up 0.3% and Nasdaq 100 contracts add 0.4%. Pre-market, Mag 7 are mostly higher led by META (+0.6%) and AMZN (+0.4%). Bond yields are unchanged and the USD is flat. Commodities are mostly […]

Costco Sues For Refunds Before Supreme Court Rules On Tariff Legality Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, Retail giant Costco Wholesale Corporation filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on Nov. 28 in an effort to lay the groundwork for refunds of tariffs collected since President Donald Trump enacted global tariff policies under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The complaint filed in the U.S. […]

Copper Hits Record High; Goldman Warns A “Circular Melt-Up” Is Now Driving Global Market Copper futures on the London Metal Exchange broke out of the post-Thanksgiving trading range and into record-high territory on a massive tariff-driven scramble for supply. Copper jumped nearly 1% on the LME to $11,294.50/ton, while Comex futures surged 1.6%, blowing out the US-London spread as traders scramble to rush metal into the U.S. ahead […]

The US Manufacturing Sector Wins While Net Zero Destroys Industry Elsewhere Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The US manufacturing sector clearly outperforms all its G7 peers, especially Germany, France, and the UK. The main reason is that the United States never implemented the aggressive net zero emissions policy that has destroyed the industry by giving the reins of industrial policy to activists. In the latest S&P […]

Three Years On, How Accurate Are AI Chatbots? Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, the official release of ChatGPT marked a turning point in artificial intelligence, propelling AI chatbots (or large language models) into the mainstream. Since then, progress has been undeniable: LLMs’ ability to process complex queries, summarize vast amounts of information and even assist in coding has improved considerably. Yet, as […]

Tether CEO Slams S&P Ratings Agency And Influencers Spreading USDt FUD Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and market analysts pushed back against S&P Global’s downgraded rating of USDt’s ability to maintain its US dollar peg, saying that the ratings agency did not account for all of Tether’s assets and revenues. The Tether Group’s total assets at the end of Q3 2025 totaled […]

Another Russian Shadow-Fleet Tanker Hit By Drones A fourth Russia-linked tanker was attacked in less than a week, marking a sharp escalation in strikes on commercial vessels tied to Moscow as the war in Eastern Europe nears its fourth year. ⚡️Photos from the Russian tanker MIDVOLGA-2, which was hit by a drone this morning near the Turkish coast Preliminary reports suggest the strike was carried out by a fixed-wing drone, […]

Visualizing The Declining Purchasing Power Of The US Dollar The U.S. dollar has steadily lost value over the past century. According to Federal Reserve data, the purchasing power of one dollar today is equal to just a few cents in 1913 (the year the Fed was created). In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu tracks the decline in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since the early 1900s, illustrating how inflation has […]

How A Generation of Women Was Misled About Hormone Therapy Authored by Jingduan Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “Was I misled?” That’s the question I hear most from my patients lately—asked with anger, exhaustion, and the quiet devastation of women who wonder if they lost years of their lives to menopause symptoms they were told were untreatable. Getty image/MoMo Productions The answer came earlier this month […]

Which Countries Prescribe The Most & Least Antibiotics? World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week ended last week. Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infectious diseases. These can be used on humans, animals and plants and come in the forms of antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics. Although resistance to these medicines occurs naturally, due to genetic changes in pathogens over […]

Britain Is Lost Authored by T.L.Davis,  A recent interview Tucker Carlson had with George Galloway, a long-time member of the British Parliament and with a show himself in Britain, who was recently detained at the border under terrorism charges for, apparently, the opinions broadcast on his show. No nation has fallen quicker or more completely than Britain into the totalitarian mindset. It’s why we highlighted this aspect of […]

Visualizing The World’s Total Supply Of Gold Gold is on a hot streak, up more than 50% to-date despite retreating from October’s record highs of $4,380 per troy ounce. Driving global demand is the mixture of geopolitical tensions, a weaker U.S. dollar, and sticky inflation. In Q3 2025, central bank purchases were up 28% over the quarter, while inflows of gold-backed ETFs hit $26 billion. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

Putin Increasingly Depends On Beijing For His Growing Arsenal Of Military Drones Via Remix News, While Russia is routinely portrayed as a serious military power, as the war drags on, Russia is becoming more and more reliant on Chinese drone components to survive. Now, China’s drone component supplier Wang Dinhua has just purchased a 5 percent stake in Russia’s Rustakt, a top drone manufacturer in Russia. Rustakt is subject […]