From Tax-Cuts To Tariff-Stability: US Economy Poised For Solid Growth In 2026 Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The turbulence that defined the U.S. economy in 2025 is expected to ease next year… Following President Donald Trump’s unveiling of his sweeping global tariffs plan, the consensus on Wall Street was that the United States would potentially face a downturn or, at the very least, a stagflation-type […]

Citizen Journalist Descends On Ohio, Immediately Finds ‘First Signs Of Potentially Massive Somali Fraud’ The “Nick Shirley Effect” has begun, with Muckraker founder Anthony Rubin on the ground in Columbus, Ohio, home to the second-largest Somali community in the U.S., investigating daycare centers. This development comes less than a day after Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke said federal investigators are examining allegations that […]

RFK Jr. Drops 2026 MAHA Agenda To Banish Toxic Food Dyes And Kill Off Processed Poison Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a game-changing move that’s set to shake up the corrupt food industry, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled his 2026 MAHA agenda – a no-holds-barred assault on the chemicals and loopholes poisoning the health of America. The agenda, highlighted during a Fox News broadcast, targets […]

Zelensky Claims Trump Is Considering US Boots On The Ground In Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has newly claimed that US President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of deploying American troops to Ukraine as negotiations toward peace with Moscow stall. This is presumably connected with promises of future ‘security guarantees’. This is somewhat of a surprise, as the White House has made no indication of this […]

Everyone’s A Lender Now: Shadow Banking USA Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, How much private credit has been put in place but isn’t in the official credit total is unknown and very likely unknowable. That means total systemic risk is also unknowable. Everyone wants to lend us money now, even though they’re not banks: the insurance company Progressive offered us a loan, PayPal offers us a business loan every […]

New Pattern Suggests Two “Sizable” Snow Events For US Northeast Meteorologist Mike Masco has identified what he says could be a very active storm pattern for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic from around New Year’s Day into mid-January. “I’ve been deconstructing the pattern this morning, and there are three key features that support an active stretch across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, including the potential for at least two […]

Silver Coins: Memories Of Sound Money Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The financial press reports that people are swarming the coin shops these days, grabbing as much as possible. This is exactly what one would expect given the wild and parabolic increases in the silver price over the last month, moving from $30 to $75 in the period of one year. Such increases tend to focus the mind and incentivize regular people […]

FOMC Minutes Confirm ‘Most’ Fed Officials Expect More Rate-Cuts, Divisions Remain Since the last FOMC meeting on Dec 10th (which resulted in a more-dovish-than-expected 25bps rate cut along with 3 dissents), precious metals have been the biggest gainers (as the dollar weakened) while crude oil has been a laggard. Stocks small bid, bonds unch… Source: Bloomberg Crypto has notably decoupled from gold and stocks… Source: […]

Trump Admin Launches $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration plans to distribute between $147 million and $281 million to each U.S. state in 2026 through a widespread rural health program designed to provide better access to medical care in rural areas. The effort, which is one aspect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, earmarks $50 billion across […]

“Massive Abuse”: HUD Audit Flags $5B In Improper Housing Assistance During Biden’s Term A new report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has found that more than $5 billion in federal rental assistance during fiscal year 2024 went to potentially ineligible recipients, including nearly 30,000 deceased individuals and thousands of non-citizens, according to MSN and the NY Post. The audit, conducted by HUD’s […]

What Do The Top Search Trends Of 2025 Say About The Current State Of Our Society? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, What do our Google searches tell us about ourselves?  I think that many of you will be quite surprised by what I have to share in this article.  “Google’s Year in Search” for 2025 has been released, and it is a doozy.  The past 12 months have been so crazy, and the top search trends […]

DOJ Grants Antitrust Immunity To Nuclear Fuel Companies The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently authorized antitrust immunity to companies involved in the domestic nuclear fuel chain.  Today the DOJ Antitrust Division helped deliver on the critical need to expand energy infrastructure to help America win the AI race. The Division has approved a framework to encourage industry and government collaboration to […]

US Coast Guard Awards Contracts To Build 6 Arctic Icebreakers Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) awarded two contracts to construct up to six Arctic Security Cutter (ASC) icebreakers to increase regional mobility and assert dominance, the agency said in a Dec. 29 statement. “The Arctic Security Cutters will defend U.S. sovereignty, secure critical shipping lanes, protect energy and […]

US Reaches 30th Strike In Boat Bombing Campaign Ahead Of New Year As the world gets ready to usher in a new year, the US military campaign against Venezuela has reached another grim milestone. American forces carried out their latest airstrike on a vessel accused of drug trafficking in Latin American waters on Monday. The operation announced by US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) represents the 30th strike since the campaign began on […]

Ron Paul Praises Trump Taking A Step Toward Liberty Authored by Ron Paul, President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana’s Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III. Schedule I is supposed to include especially dangerous drugs that are likely to be abused and have no medical purpose. Whatever one thinks of the wisdom and morality of using marijuana, the fact is it is less […]

Gas Prices Drop For 5th Consecutive Week; Lowest NYE Level Since COVID Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, Gas prices continued their sharp downward trend throughout December, falling by nearly 23 cents over the month to a national average of $2.75 per gallon on Dec. 29—the lowest level recorded since 2021, according to a report by fuel price comparison app GasBuddy. The national average price of diesel fuel, meanwhile, […]

IRS CEO Says 94% Of Middle-Class Taxpayers Will See Tax Relief Next Year Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The CEO of the IRS said during an interview on Dec. 23 that 94 percent of middle-class Americans will see some form of tax relief next year. The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File “You’re going to look at probably 94 percent-plus […]

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Just Played On Russia’s Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station X users are reporting that a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal, nicknamed “The Buzzer” and informally known as the “doomsday radio station,” that has been continuously broadcasting since the late 1970s, has just transmitted the classical piece Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. UVB-76 is transmitted on 4625 kHz and is occasionally […]

Jennings: “Until Somebody In Power Goes To Jail”, Blue State Fraud Won’t Stop Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a heated CNN clash, conservative commentator Scott Jennings called out the lack of real accountability in Democrat-run states, demanding elected officials face consequences for enabling billion-dollar scams. Jennings addressed the rot in blue states where massive fraud schemes have flourished under lax […]

CIA Drone Carried Out First Known Land Strike On Venezuela  The CIA is reported to have carried out a bombing operation within Venezuelan territory, CNN and The New York Times report in follow-up to President Trump touting that the US had knocked out “a big facility”. CNN while citing unnamed sources, reports that the CIA conducted a drone strike on a remote dock along Venezuela’s coastline, after the US suspected the site was […]

Trump Says Netanyahu Pardon “On Its Way”, Israeli President Says Otherwise Authored by Travis Gilmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Dec. 29 that Israeli President Isaac Herzog told him a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “on its way.” That assertion, however, was disputed by Herzog’s office. “He’s a wartime prime minister who’s a hero. How do you not give a pardon?” Trump, while […]

“Stark Reversal” From Pandemic: US Home Price Growth Slowest Since Q2 2023 Home prices in America’s largest 20 cities surged 0.32% MoM in October (far higher than the +0.1% MoM move expected) but for context, this is the weakest annual home price growth since the March through July 2023 period, when the market was absorbing the initial shock of the Fed’s rapid rate hikes Source: Bloomberg “October’s data show the housing […]

Meta “Joining Forces” With China-Founded Manus AI In $2 Billion Deal Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively repositioning Meta Platforms’ focus and spending toward artificial intelligence, particularly to achieve “personal superintelligence” that enhances existing apps like Facebook and Instagram and, of course, boosts revenue. Put simply, the pivot to AI looks like a far better venture than Zuckerberg’s absolutely horrendous bet on […]

Futures Flat, Precious Metals Rebound On Last Full Trading Session Of 2025 Stock struggled to find direction amid a year-end lack of catalysts and the traditional lull in trading in the final trading days of the year. After suffering one of the biggest one-day drops on record, silver and gold regained their footing after sliding from all-time highs. As of 8:15am, the S&P 500 was set to open flat, while Nasdaq futures […]

Tesla Publishes Downbeat Wall Street Estimates For Vehicle Sales Tesla has compiled vehicle delivery forecasts from a broad group of Wall Street firms, including Daiwa, DB, Wedbush, Canaccord, Baird, Wolfe, Exane, GS, RBC, Evercore ISI, Barclays, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Jefferies, Needham, HSBC, Cantor Fitzgerald, and William Blair. The overall sell-side analyst consensus implies Q4 deliveries of roughly 422,850 vehicles, […]