Hammer Drops On Clintons: Appear For Epstein Depositions Or Face Contempt Of Congress Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, House Oversight Chairman James Comer is done playing games with Bill and Hillary Clinton, warning them that their endless delays in the Epstein probe will lead straight to contempt charges if they don’t comply. With subpoenas issued months ago and the Clintons dodging every step, Comer’s latest […]

Rob Reiner And Wife Allegedly Killed By Their ‘Troubled’ Son, Report Says Legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon. RIP Rob Reiner. No one deserves what happened to him! I’m sure he wanted me dead, but I am grateful to him anyway, for these gifts: 1984 – This Is Spinal Tap 1985 – The Sure Thing 1986 – Stand by Me 1987 […]

Chile Turns Hard To The Right: Tough-On-Crime, Anti-Immigration Candidate Easily Wins Presidency In an election where the decisive themes echoed mounting concerns in the Americas and Europe, a conservative who’s vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and crime trounced his Communist opponent in Sunday’s presidential election in Chile. The result confirms a major political current that now has many Latin American countries […]

Here’s How Markets Have Performed Since The Start Of America’s MAGA Experiment By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management MAGA: I remember 2017 well. It brought me to one knee. Trump had won the election in late 2016. The world braced itself for the chaos that was to come. Of course, we should all have known better. That’s not how markets work. Only rarely does an Artificial Superintelligence give investors extraordinary […]

Xi Blasts “Reckless” Projects Exaggerating Growth After China Reveals Dismal Macro Data For November China’s economic momentum slowed broadly in November, with a marked weakening in consumer spending, adding pressure on Beijing to stabilize household and business demand in the world’s second-largest economy. Industrial production (IP) growth edged down in year-on-year terms despite the notable improvement in export growth, […]

US Futures Recover Most Of Friday’s Dump As “Bad News Is Again Good News” Stocks are set to recoup some of Friday’s tech-driven losses, with a big week of data releases ahead, as the last full week of 2025 comes witgh a bang. Still, sentiment seems a little shaky, with rising signs of skepticism over AI and debate about the extent of rate cuts next year. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 contracts both rose […]

iRobot Crashes After Filing For Bankruptcy, Chinese Owner Emerges Some of us may be old enough to remember when iRobot released its first robot vacuum, the Roomba, in 2002. Nearly 25 years later, the company has ceased to exist, collapsing into bankruptcy, with its remaining assets and intellectual property set to be acquired by a Chinese competitor. How did iRobot implode, only for a Chinese company to end up cleaning American […]

Hanukkah Security Ramped Up Across West After Sydney Terror Attack Shocks World Major cities across the Western world are ramping up security around Hanukkah events after a terrorist attack killed 16 people and wounded 38 at a Jewish celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach over the weekend. The attack was one of the deadliest terror incidents in Australia in decades and came just days after a Trump administration official warned that […]

Over 10,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Los Angeles In Last 6 Months: DHS Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 10,000 illegal immigrants living in Los Angeles since June, the Department of Homeland Security said on Dec. 11. Law enforcement officers shoot non-lethal munitions, as people march as part of the ongoing protests against Immigration and […]

Interactive Brokers Now Accepts Stablecoins In Bid To Remain Competitive Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk.com, Interactive Brokers will now allow retail investors to fund individual brokerage accounts with stablecoins, a step aimed at keeping pace with the increasingly competitive retail trading market, Bloomberg reported Friday. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based brokerage firm competes with rivals including Robinhood […]

‘Targeted, Antisemitism’: 16 Dead, 38 Injured After Father & Son Terrorists Attack Sydney Jewish Celebration Live feed of terror attack:  Shooting during a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach Two gunmen opened fire, discharging dozens of rounds The two shooters are father and son A bystander intervened and disarmed one attacker 16 people confirmed dead including a 10-year-old kid (New South Wales Minister says […]

These Are The US States With The Most Low-Wage Workers Low-wage work remains widespread across the United States. Even as the labor market continues to expand, wage gains have been uneven, leaving millions of workers earning less than $20 per hour, which is roughly $41,600 annually before taxes for full-time work. This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, ranks U.S. states by the share of low-wage workers earning […]

Nigeria’s Christians Are Caught in A Tide Of Jihadi Violence Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, Nuhu Dauda was on a missionary trip, about 125 miles away from his home in Plateau state, Nigeria, when he got a panicked call from his younger brother. “He said jihadists had surrounded my home and were chanting that they would kill everyone inside,” Dauda, a 67-year-old Christian evangelist, told The Epoch […]

Visualizing The Complete History Of European Colonization Europe’s colonial empires have shaped the world’s political and economic systems for over 500 years. From Portugal’s early ventures in the 1400s, to Britain’s massive empire in the early 20th century, European nations have competed for control of territory and trade across nearly every continent. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu traces the history of […]

A Collapse In Germany’s Chemical Sector Is A Bad Omen Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, Historically, the chemical industry has proven to be an excellent early indicator of severe economic downturns. Its present condition should serve as a warning: the climate-policy regime is at the beginning of its collapse. And Berlin’s fiscal bazooka—loaded with yet more debt—won’t change a thing. Some readers will remember the bursting of […]

Cocaine: Local Cultivation, Global Consumption Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to figures by UNODC, Colombia was responsible for almost two thirds of the total coca cultivation area in 2023 at 253,000 hectares. Peru came in second with 93,000 […]

Why Is Europe Feverishly Preparing For World War III? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, If there is going to be peace, why are we witnessing the largest military buildup in Europe since the end of the Cold War?  When it comes to the major players on the geopolitical stage, it is far more important to watch what they do than it is to listen to what they say.  And right now the actions that the […]

Brown University Shooting: Person Of Interest Released, Gunman Still At Large ​Update (1227ET):  Rhode Island authorities have announced that the person of interest in the shooting in the Brown University shooting has been released and the gunman is still at large.   🚨#BREAKING: At this time, law enforcement says the person of interest, Benjamin Warren Erickson, who was previously detained, who they thought was in the […]

When You’re In A Hole, Stop Digging Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, President Trump was onto something when he replaced Joe Biden’s White House portrait with a mocking picture of an autopen. Given our recent history of failed leadership, why stop there? To truly capture the impact of this century’s presidents, let’s replace George W. Bush’s photo with a picture of a small hole and a shovel. Instead of […]

National Trust Sues Trump Admin Over White House Ballroom Project The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and federal agencies on Dec. 12 over the ballroom construction project at the White House. Construction on the project, which involves demolishing part of the executive mansion and building a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, began in September. The project is expected to cost […]

A New Republican Vision For Health Care Authored by Monique Yohanan via RealClearHealth, The shutdown dispute offered a clear view into a problem that has shaped federal health policy for more than a decade. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs subsidies to insurance companies rather than to individual Americans. Democrats portrayed their position as a defense of middle-class families, but the system of subsidies they have created […]

DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher Wray’s FBI Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, It’s a tale of two investigations. In one version – based on past comments by former FBI Director Christopher Wray – the arrest last week of Brian Cole Jr. as the individual who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National […]

ICE Announces Arrest Of 400 Illegal Immigrants In Minnesota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 400 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of Operation Metro Surge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Dec. 12. Federal agents move away protestors in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

Santa Vs The Grinch, Diets, & QE By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Santa vs The Grinch, Diets, & qe The week ended with a bang. At Academy’s Holiday Party, the Marines pulled out all the stops to win the annual “service song” contest (they actually brought out instruments, with Dakota leading the charge on the trumpet). We rolled (like the Army’s rolling along song), straight into Bloomberg TV Friday morning, […]

We’re “At The Beginning Of The Credit Destruction Cycle”; Ed Dowd Warns Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com warned in September we were at the “Beginning of Panic Rate Cut Cycle.”  Since that prediction, the Fed has cut interest rates three times.  Looks like Dowd called it correctly.   So, when does the panic kick in?  Dowd […]