Are Central Bankers Willing To Truly Upset Markets So Trump Backs Off? By Michael Every of Rabobank Officially it’s 2,000, but reportedly as many as 12,000 Iranian protestors could have been killed by their own government over the past few days. While the West has seen none of the mass protests that the last two-plus years have been full of, President Trump told those on Iran’s streets to keep going and that “Help is […]

FBI Raids WaPo Reporter’s Home In Classified Docs Case The FBI executed a search warrant on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of a probe into “a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials,” the paper announced Wednesday.  Natanson, was at her Virginia home when the agency showed up with a warrant. According to the outlet, “law enforcement was investigating […]

“Defining Moment”: Saks Global Files For Bankruptcy After Botched Neiman Marcus Takeover Luxury department store conglomerate Saks Global filed for bankruptcy protection late Tuesday night, in one of the largest US retail collapses since the Covid era and, among other things, what appears to be a casualty of the menacing K-shaped economy. Saks Global has been weighed down by heavy debt following its $2.7 billion, debt-fuelled […]

How Independent Is The Federal Reserve? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into cost overruns in the Federal Reserve’s renovation project, with particular focus on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his testimony to Congress in June 2025. The question is whether he perjured himself concerning what he knew and when. Powell responded with a highly unusual video […]

Trump To Speak At Globalist WEF Forum Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump is set to crash the World Economic Forum in Davos, bringing his America First agenda straight into the heart of the globalist elite’s annual gathering. As the multilateralism devotees scramble to maintain their facade of openness Trump’s presence signals a direct challenge to their open borders and free trade obsessions that have […]

US Producer Prices Come In Hot On Heels Of Mysterious Energy Cost Surge US wholesale inflation picked up slightly in November from a month earlier on a jump in energy costs, even as prices for services were unchanged. The producer price index rose 0.2% after climbing 0.1% in the prior month, according to much-heralded BLS. Source: Bloomberg PPI Final demand goods: The index for final demand goods advanced 0.9 percent in […]

‘Anything Less’ Than US Control Of Greenland Is ‘Unacceptable’: Trump As Ministers Hosted At WH President Trump said early Wednesday on Truth Social that anything less than full American control of Greenland would be “unacceptable” – and even cited its necessity in erecting the new Golden Dome missile defense system. “The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we […]

US Retail Sales Shrug Off ‘K-Shaped’ Economy With Upside Surprise In November Having noted yesterday that holiday retail spending (December) was up significantly (via the NRF), today we get the official (US Census Bureau) look at Retail Sales from November… so don’t get too excited. But, amid the growing specter of the ‘k-shaped’ economy, expectations were for a sizable 0.5% MoM jump in retail sales (after October’s 0.0% […]

Bank of America Slides Despite Top, Bottom Line Beat As Underwriting, FICC Miss After some rather soggy earnings from JPM yesterday, in which the largest US bank disappointed with declining underwriting fees, and spooked markets with a jump in loan loss reserves on its Apple credit card deal as well as downbeat commentary from Jamie Dimon on what a credit card cap would mean for the bank, moments ago Bank of America reported Q4 […]

DOGE Cancels Or ‘Descopes’ Contracts Worth $1.5 Billion Over A 5-Day Period The demise of DOGE has been greatly exaggerated.  The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website is displayed on a phone, in this photo illustration. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times Over the weekend, the Department of Government Efficiency announced that agencies have terminated and descoped ’42 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.5B […]

US Military Opens New Air Defense Coordination Cell In Qatar Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), on Jan. 13, announced the launch of a new air defense coordination cell in Qatar. A U.S. soldier assigned to the 1-62 Delta Battery Air Defense Artillery Regiment Patriot at a Patriot launcher at at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, on March 4, 2015. Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman/U.S. Air […]

“Rude Awakening” For Travelers: Cancun Drowns In Seaweed Cancun’s busiest travel period is underway (late Dec.-March), and travelers expecting crystal-clear Caribbean waters have been shocked over the past week as seaweed piled up to shin-high levels in some of the prime hotel and resort areas. “Travelers who booked a January 2026 trip to the Riviera Maya expecting guaranteed crystal-clear water were hit with a rude awakening […]

Clintons Refuse To Testify About Jeffrey Epstein; Comer To Begin Contempt Proceedings President Trump isn’t the only one clamming up over Jeffrey Epstein – as Bill and Hillary Clinton are both refusing to testify in front of Congressional investigators over their relationship with the dead sex-trafficking pedophile, escalating a monthslong battle with House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY).  The Clintons […]

Watch: US Vows To Unleash Full Arsenal Of Tools Against UK PM Starmer’s War On Free Speech Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As Keir Starmer’s Labour regime tightens the noose on online freedom, the United States has issued a blistering warning: nothing is off the table to defend free speech in Britain. With government appointed regulator Ofcom now formally investigating Elon Musk’s X over Grok-generated images, […]

Where Going To The Gym Is Most (Un)Popular Exercising more is again one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions in the United States. Yet where data shows that January tends to see a higher number of gym sign ups than other months, it also reveals that the goal falls by the wayside for many not long after. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to Statista data, only 15 percent of U.S. adults had paid for a gym […]

Ukraine Blocks Polymarket, Classifies Prediction Markets As Gambling Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Ukraine has blocked access to the prediction market platform Polymarket, classifying its activities as unlicensed gambling under national law. The decision was issued by the National Commission for the Regulation of Electronic Communications (NCEC) on Dec. 10, 2025, under Resolution No. 695. The ruling […]

“Spy Center”: China Plans Secret Room Near Sensitive Cables In London Mega Embassy Chinese officials plan to construct a concealed underground chamber adjacent to some of Britain’s most sensitive communications infrastructure as part of their proposed new “super embassy” in London, according to planning documents reviewed by The Telegraph. Illustration via The Telegraph The chamber forms part of an extensive subterranean complex […]

West Africa Under Jihadist Threat: Sahel States Surrendering Sovereignty To Islamic Terrorist Groups Authored by Lawrence Franklin vi The Gatestone Institute, Al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa’s Sahel region has been laying siege to Mali’s capital city, as well as other areas of the country. The Algerian-based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its affiliated Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and […]

Venezuela Begins Gradual Release Of Imprisoned Americans Post-Maduro After US forces on January 3rd helicoptered into Caracas as Navy warships and aircraft bombed Venezuelan territory, and seemingly effortlessly nabbed President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, one wonders what took so long? “The Venezuela government has started releasing prisoners with US citizenship, people with knowledge of the situation said,” Bloomberg reports […]

In 2025, Germany Saw Bankruptcies Hit 20-Year High Via Remix News, The latest economic figures for Berlin are dramatic, revealing that 2025 saw more companies file for bankruptcy than at any point in the last two decades, all despite a promised economic turnaround from the Christian Democrat (CDU) government. The wave of insolvencies grew significantly toward the end of the year, affecting the lives of thousands of employees. […]

The Forgotten Man Authored by Be Water, The 2008 Crisis Never Ended Do you wish to know [when] that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that [commerce is conducted], not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in […]

Surrounding Cities Move In As Seattle Pulls Back On Drug Enforcement A policy shift inside the Seattle Police Department is already generating unintended consequences — and they’re not the ones city leaders were hoping for, Jason Rantz of Seattle 770AM said in a new op-ed this week. After Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes told officers that most drug possession and use cases will once again be diverted away from prosecution and […]

Genes Are Not Your Destiny. How To Modify Your Epigenetics For Longevity Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We’ve been told that our genetic destiny is written in our DNA. However, research is gradually dismantling this fatalistic view. Artur Plawgo/Getty Images Genetics may influence approximately 25 percent to 30 percent of how we age. The remaining portion is influenced by factors entirely within […]

Did Anyone Even Notice PBS News Weekend Signed Off Permanently… “PBS News Weekend” signed off permanently on Sunday after 12 years on air. Did anyone actually notice? The answer, quite frankly, is no, and this comes after Congress cut $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting over the Trump administration’s view that the public broadcasting outlet was spewing left-wing propaganda. “Due to federal budget cuts, PBS […]

Waste Of The Day: Questions Arise Over $5.8 Billion In Rental Assistance Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The federal government is unable to verify that $5.8 billion in rental assistance paid to more than 204,000 recipients in 2024 was not fraudulent, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s latest annual report. Key facts: HUD spent $15.2 billion on project-based rental […]