The Impossible Two Percent: Why Central Banks Cannot Afford Price Stability Authored by Hamoon Soleimani via The Mises Institute, The Two percent inflation target—monetary policy’s sacred commandment for three decades—has become structurally impossible to achieve. Not because central bankers lack skill, but because every attempt to hit the target destroys the financial architecture that previous monetary expansion built. This […]

Black Friday Turnout Solid: Goldman, UBS Highlight Decent Start To Holiday Spending Season Heading into Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there were mounting concerns about consumers, especially lower-tier ones – a cohort we’ve repeatedly warned as facing tough times. But early shopping data from this past weekend from Goldman and UBS suggest that, in aggregate, consumers held up better than feared.  Goldman’s top sector […]

As Money Gets Tighter, More People Are Selling Gold and Silver Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times, For years, Jakob stacked silver coins and bullion, building his treasure and waiting for the perfect moment to let it go, if that moment ever came. With prices in late 2025 rapidly rising, money running low, and the holidays approaching, he decided to sell them on Nov. 18 at the spot market price of $50.13 per ounce. He […]

6,000 Airbus A320 Jets Receive Critical Update After “Intense Solar Radiation” Exposure Airbus announced early Monday that nearly all A320-family commercial jets have received a critical software update after “intense solar radiation” last month triggered a glitch that could affect flight controls. “Out of a total number of around 6,000 aircraft potentially impacted, the vast majority have now received the necessary […]

Watch: Somali Enclave Standoff; ‘No English, No Women On Camera’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a tense street encounter captured in Minneapolis’s Somali-dominated Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, filmmaker Nick Shirley attempted to interview residents about life as Muslims in America—only to face demands to delete footage, refusals to speak English, and claims that women can’t appear on camera, highlighting the […]

Visualizing The $19 Trillion Global Cost Of Conflict Last year, the economic impact of violence reached $19.1 trillion, or $717 billion higher than the previous year. This came as conflict deaths hit 25-year highs, and wars continued in the Ukraine and Gaza. In response to heightened geopolitical tensions, European nations have injected billions into defense spending. Even Japan plans to double its defense spending to 2% of GDP. […]

‘Surgical Removal Of An Organ’: Ukrainian Recruiter Arrested For Allegedly Beating Conscript’s Genitals In Heinous Attack Via Remix News, After a forced conscript was beaten in his groin area to the point that he lost an “organ” following emergency surgery, Ukrainian authorities have moved to arrest the recruitment center head. The staff of the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) arrested the head of one of the […]

Future Of Fertility Chronically Overestimated The newly released OECD Pensions at a Glance report shows how fertility projections have been wrong again and again over the years, grossly underestimating how much fertility would decline each time. As fertility rates and pension funds are intrinsically tied, this can cause problems down the line, when incoming payments from workers to pension funds are smaller than expected and […]

“Made For Germany” Is History: Covestro Caught In The Waves Of The Sell-Off Submitted By Thomas Kolbe Abu Dhabi’s state-owned energy giant ADNOC has acquired nearly all shares of German chemical powerhouse Covestro. Germany is gradually losing its strategic position in critical industrial sectors. The sell-off is accelerating. Remember the big media spectacle “MADE FOR GERMANY” this past July? Chancellor Friedrich Merz […]

The Dutch Are The Most Likely To ‘Borrow’ Their Neighbor’s WiFi According to data collected by Statista Consumer Insights, 16 percent of Dutch online respondents said that they mainly access their internet at home via their neighbor or landlord’s wireless connection. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, this is double the rate of people in neighboring Germany and France. You will find more infographics at […]

Over €325 Million In Fraudulent Welfare Benefits Support Illicit Gang Networks In Sweden; Report Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A Swedish government review has found that thousands of people linked to gangs in Sweden have been drawing income from the country’s benefits system for years, creating what authorities describe as a reliable, legal-looking revenue stream for criminal networks. According to findings […]

Alcohol Consumption In The US By The Numbers In the U.S., alcohol consumption remains widespread, with nearly half the population aged 12 or older reporting that they consumed alcohol within the past month. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, explores the scale of drinking behavior across America, including how many people drink, binge drink, or engage in heavier levels of alcohol use, using data from […]

Putin Might Soon Clinch A Large-Scale Labor Migration Deal With Modi Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin will visit India late next week to meet with Modi for their annual summit, the first time that the Russian leader will travel to India since the special operation began, his last one being in December 2021. Aleksei Zakharov, a Fellow at India’s esteemed Observer Research Foundation, published a detailed […]

Former NASDAQ-Listed Exec Sentenced To Life In Prison Over Murder-For-Hire Plot The First Assistant U.S. Attorney for Vermont announced that on November 24, 2025, Chief Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Serhat Gumrukcu, 43, of Los Angeles—formerly the “scientific founder”, “inventor” and largest shareholder of publicly listed Enochian Biosciences, which eventually became Renovaro—to life in prison for the January 6, 2018, […]

ZeroHedge Black Friday Sale Is Almost Over! After launching ZeroHedge store a year ago, we’ve been humbled by the overwhelming response. Between die-hard fans of IQ Biologix supplements, ZeroHedge gear, Rancher-Direct clean meats, hand-made knives, and more – your support is greatly appreciated.  So since everyone else on the planet is doing a Black Friday / Cyber Monday promotion, we did one too. Until Monday at […]

Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken Authored by Peter Earle via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 and still fall further behind. The argument is devastatingly simple: the mathematical parameters defining “poverty” are built upon a […]

China Factory Activity Contracts In Longest Stretch On Record As Economy Sinks China’s factory activity staged a slight improvement in November, but once again printed below the median estimate and extended its streak of declines to a record as the country’s economic slowdown deepens.  The official manufacturing PMI rose to 49.2 from 49.0 in October but remained below the 50 mark that separates growth and contraction for an […]

OPEC+ Confirms Plan To Pause Output Hikes In Q1 OPEC+ agreed to pause production hikes and leave oil output levels unchanged for the first quarter of 2026 at its meetings on Sunday as the group slows down its push to regain market share amid fears of a looming supply glut. Eight OPEC+ members have paused oil output hikes for the first quarter of 2026 after releasing some 2.9 million barrels per day into the market since April 2025, […]

USPS Built Mail System On Foreign Truck Drivers, Now Expects Special Treatment From Law Submitted by American Truckers United, When the Department of Transportation’s September 29, 2025 emergency rule exposed 200,000 fraudulently issued non-domiciled CDLs—many held by individuals with no legal work authorization—most of the trucking industry braced for a painful but necessary correction. The U.S. Postal Service did something […]

Tariff Revenue Surges To Record High Of $31.4 Billion In October Tariff revenues surged to $31.4 billion in October, setting a new monthly record as the Trump administration’s trade policies continue to remake U.S. trade flows and reshape the federal government’s balance sheet, according to newly released Treasury Department data. The Monthly Treasury Statement for October, published on Nov. 25, shows net customs duties […]

The Illusion Of Progress & The Pursuit Of ‘More’ Authored by Anthony Deden via Forum Geopolitica, The Illusion of Progress This essay was born out of revulsion to an accidental summer reading that paraded progress as virtue and private equity as its high priest. Every paragraph spoke the same pious language of “sustainable improvement,” “societal benefit,” and “longterm value creation,” as though leverage, […]

FDA’s “Profound Revelation”: COVID Shots Killed At Least 10 Children, Stronger Vax Rules Coming The Food and Drug Administration’s top overseer of vaccine policy on Friday told employees that at least 10 American children died “after and because of receiving” a Covid-19 vaccine. In a 3,000-word memorandum first reported by PBS, Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s vaccine division, also committed to implementing changes to the […]

South Park Roasts Americans Taking Saudi Money In Thanksgiving Special Via Middle East Eye The makers of the popular satirical cartoon show South Park turned their sights on Saudi Arabia in their latest episode, attacking American media personalities, politicians and sporting events for taking money from the state. Titled Turkey Trot, the episode starts with Mayor McDaniels convening a meeting with local businesses trying to […]

“The Whole Model Is Broken”: ‘Tech Mafia Wife’ Admits ‘We Were Klaus Schwab’s Useful Idiots’ When someone who used to be the queen of elite progressive philanthropy says the entire system failed – and may have been hijacked for something much darker – the world needs to hear it. As ‘Camus’ writes in a post on X, Nicole Shanahan – ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally […]

Trump Pushes To Reopen California Coast To Offshore Drilling Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, A draft federal plan proposes six offshore lease sales along the California coast, reversing decades of restrictions introduced after the 1969 Santa Barbara spill. California Governor Gavin Newsom, coastal states, and environmental groups vow legal and political resistance, calling the plan dangerous and “dead on […]