‘Disappointed’ Trump Raps Zelensky Who ‘Hasn’t Yet Read’ Peace Proposal President Trump has continued to speak frankly about Zelensky and the Ukrainian government, at a moment of a sense of stalled frustration on the peace plan with Russia unveiled last month. His frustration with Keiv continues to show, especially after high hopes for his 28-point peace plan were dashed by yet more roadblocks which saw his Thanksgiving deadline […]

Magnitude 7.2 Quake Strikes Off Japan, Triggers Tsunami Alert A powerful earthquake struck offshore along Japan’s northern coast near Aomori and Hokkaido just moments ago. Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami alert, warning that water surges could reach up to 3 meters (about 10 feet) along parts of the northeastern coast. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters that citizens in the affected areas must […]

Key Events This Busy Week: Fed, JOLTs, Central Banks Galore; Oracle & Broadcom Earnings It’s a busy week for both economic news and central banks, with all roads pointing to Wednesday’s FOMC, where overwhelming consensus is for the Fed to deliver a final and third 25bps rate cut for 2025, making it 6 cuts and 175bps in this easing cycle since September 2024 (there was a very painful path to get here with several communication […]

Paramount Unveils “Superior Alternative” Offer For Warner Bros As Bidding War With Netflix Accelerates Update (0950ET): The bidding war between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros.’ film and television studios, including HBO and HBO Max, is intensifying heading into the US cash session on Monday morning. Paramount has raised its bid with a $30-per-share, all-cash tender offer for all of Warner Bros. Discovery, stating in a press […]

Trump Expected To Roll Out $12 Billion Farm Aid Program Today The Trump administration on Monday is planning to roll out a $12 billion farm aid package to help producers hurt by the trade war, which will include up to $11 billion in one-time payments to crop farmers under the Department of Agriculture’s newly designed Farmer Bridge Assistance program. The rest of the aid will go to crops not covered by the FBA, Bloomberg reports, […]

Tesla Shares Slip After Morgan Stanley Downgrades To Equal-Weight From Overweight Tesla shares slipped about 1.5% in early trading on Monday after Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the stock to Equal-weight from Overweight, even as the firm raised its price target to $425 from $410. With Tesla changing hands around $455 into the move, the new target implies modest downside and a more balanced risk-reward profile in the eyes of the […]

“The Days Of Censoring Americans Online Are Over”: Senior US Diplomats Slam EU’s “Attack” On American Tech Platform X Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and several other senior U.S. officials have criticized the internet policies of the European Union (EU), likening them to censorship, after the governing bloc last week levied Elon Musk’s social media platform X with a $140 million […]

Trump Readies “One-Rule” Executive Order Aimed At Centralizing AI Regulation President Trump continues to argue that a single, national set of rules, otherwise known as a “One Rulebook,” governing the artificial intelligence industry is essential, rather than a patchwork of state-by-state regulations that would slow development amid a superpower race with China. This comes as Trump’s national strategy to build out data centers, […]

Confluent Shares Erupt After Report Of $11 Billion IBM Takeover Bid Confluent shares skyrocketed in premarket trading in New York after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that IBM is in talks to buy the data infrastructure company for $11 billion. The deal could be announced as soon as today. *IBM acquiring Confluent in $11 billion all-cash deal *IBM: Confluent Deal Represents Enterprise Value of $11 Billion — zerohedge […]

Futures Rise For 10th Day In Past 11 With Fed Rate Cut Looming With just 17 trading sessions left in 2025, stock futures edge higher again and are on pace for 10 gains in the past 11 days. S&P 500 futures were up 0.2% as of 5:32 a.m. in New York, with Nasdaq 100 contracts +0.3%. Pre-market, Mag 7 are mostly unchanged except for a -1.3% decline in TSLA on a downgrade from Morgan Stanley. Most Asian markets clock firm start to the […]

Oil Reclaims Key Levels, Forcing Shorts To Blink WTI moved back above its 50-day moving average Friday and is fighting to hold above $60 this morning.  A market that spent weeks obsessing over punishing oversupply is now being forced to respect a technical line that encourages short covering rather than fresh selling. As Bloomberg macro strategist, Michael Ball writes, a return to a war premium is warranted as a genuine peace […]

The Stages Of A Color Revolution… And Where America Is Right Now Authored by Kevin Finn via AmericanThinker.com, A “color revolution” (sometimes called a “soft coup” or “regime-change operation by non-kinetic means”) is a modern form of orchestrated political upheaval designed to replace an existing government without traditional military invasion or civil war. The term arose from events in the early 2000s, such […]

Trump-Brokered Ceasefire Falters As Thailand Launches F-16 Airstrikes On Cambodia Thailand launched fighter-jet bombing raids against Cambodian positions along their highly contested border, risking a complete unraveling of the ceasefire brokered by President Trump. Reuters cites Thai officials who claim Cambodian troops first opened fire across several border positions with machine-guns and heavy weapons, killing two Thai soldiers […]

Hedge Fund CIO: “Trump’s NSS Report Reads Like A Cold War Playbook. Deploy Capital Accordingly” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “What are America’s core foreign policy interests? What do we want in and from the world?” wrote the authors of the newly released ‘National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.’ The NSS is the kind of report I like to read. Because sometimes, policy people […]

‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine Update (1300ET): Elon Musk is not taking the outrageous fine from Brussels bureaucrats lying down, lashing out at EU officialdom for taking on Nazi characteristics and oppressing their own citizens’ best interests… The tyrannical, unelected bureaucracy oppressing the people of Europe are in the second picture https://t.co/j6CFFbajJa — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) […]

Once Again, London Has The Most Pathetic Christmas Tree On The Planet Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, This weekend, London officially turned on it’s Christmas tree lights… Revealing once again the most tired looking pathetic tree and decorations on the planet. The London Mayor Sadiq Khan was there, pretending to be impressed by a display into which less effort has gone than than your Dad’s half baked effort in […]

US Issues NATO’s European Members New Self-Defense Deadline European members of NATO have been warned by Washington that they must assume greater responsibility for the alliance’s intelligence operations and missile production – which will require significantly more defense spending by 2027, Reuters has reported. Reuters in its exclusive Friday report said that the United States “wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO’s […]

Europe’s Innovation Is Drowned In A Sea Of Government Intervention Authored by Mihai Macovei via The Mises Institute, Europe became prosperous through a burst of innovation and capital accumulation during the eighteenth-century industrial revolution that allowed individual freedom to replace feudalistic rents and privileges. A new industrial revolution based on digitalization, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and automation […]

Can Europe Keep Ukraine Armed With Limited US Aid? Over the past two years, Western support for Ukraine has undergone a drastic change, marked by a surge in European commitments and a notable retreat in U.S. engagement. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy’s Ukraine Support Tracker, European countries have become the leading providers of government aid to Ukraine, allocating almost €50 billion from January to […]

How Resilient Is BRICS In The Storm Of Geopolitics? Authored by Peter Hanseler / René Zittlau via ForumGeopolitica.com, BRICS is a huge power factor whose members, partners, and candidates are currently undergoing a severe test. Today, we look to the future. Introduction In the first part of this series, we looked at the facts about BRICS and the major economic trends that can currently be observed. The second part dealt […]

The Key To Understanding The Cult Of Globalism’s War On The West Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The culture war in the western world is currently hitting a crescendo. At first the media said it was all “conspiracy theory” being amplified by a “fringe minority” of radical right wingers. Then, they admitted the conflict was real but claimed that conservatives were monsters trying to “dismantle democracy”. […]

Over 20,000 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized By US Coast Guard More than 20,000 pounds of cocaine were seized by the crew of USCGC Cutter Munro, the “largest at-sea interdiction in 18+ years,” the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said in a Dec. 5 post on X. “Through #OperationPacificViper, @USCG has accelerated counter-narcotics operations across the Eastern Pacific and delivered historic results in the fight against narco-terrorists,” the […]

AI Illiteracy Authored by Mark Bauerlein via The Epoch Times, In the old days, English class meant two things: one, reading Shakespeare, Tennyson et al., and two, learning to write. The classics plus grammar and punctuation—they made English a serious subject respected for its content and skills. Of course, it’s not like that any longer. The traditional literary canon is ever less central to the field, which now spends lots […]

Mapping US Income Inequality By State The wealth of America’s top 1% sits around $52 trillion today, rising by $4 trillion over the year. Overall, the top 1% of U.S. earners need to make around $800,000 or more in salary per household. Meanwhile, about 30% of American households earned less than $50,000 last year, highlighting clear divides in wage distribution across the country. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

America’s New National Security Strategy: A Surprise Departure On China Policy Authored by Arnaud Bertrand via The Ron Paul Institute In a big development, the final US National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the US’s number one priority, saying that the US will now “assert and enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to […]