Population Collapse, Fiat Money, And The Future Of The Global Economy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The fundamental problems of our society can largely be traced back to the collapse of reproduction rates. These are a symptom of dysfunction in the machinery of the social factory. People are losing faith in the future. The dramatic decline in birth rates is no longer exclusively a Western phenomenon. China, long the epitome of […]

US Gov’t Foils Terror Plot By Far-Left Group Plotting New Year’s Eve Bomb Attack Our warning that the radical left protest industrial complex is not peaceful, but instead amounts to “civil terrorism,” was on full display during the Los Angeles riots this past summer. Now, Marxist-aligned NGOs, funded by leftist billionaires and some receiving foreign support, wage continuous color revolutions against President Trump, attempt to […]

D.C. Appeals Court Pauses Boasberg’s Contempt Hearings On Trump Deportations Via American Greatness, A federal appeals court has granted an emergency motion sought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to halt contempt hearings scheduled to start this week over the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg had scheduled contempt hearings for Dec. 15 and 16, over the Trump […]

Wealthy U.S. Investors Embrace AI Tools… But Don’t Let Them Run Their Retirement Accounts Despite the rapid expansion of AI-powered investing tools in 2025, most affluent American investors remain reluctant to hand over control of their retirement savings to chatbots. A new survey from InvestorsObserver shows that even as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in portfolio analysis, market research, and trading platforms, […]

Mexico Bends The Knee, Agrees To Fulfill US Water Treaty Commitments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The United States and Mexico reached an understanding in which Mexico will meet its obligations under the 1944 Water Treaty and provide water to American farmers and ranchers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a statement on Dec. 12. “Under the 1944 Water Treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver […]

The Wealth Gap Widens: Survey Shows Rich Now Means $2.3 Million Net Worth Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, The benchmark for wealth in America has undergone a dramatic transformation. According to a report by Fortune, Americans now place the threshold for being considered wealthy at an average of $2.3 million – a 21 percent surge since 2021 that underscores how inflation and escalating expenses have fundamentally […]

“It’s Outrageous”: US Military Plane Nearly Collides With JetBlue Flight Off Venezuela A US military aircraft narrowly avoided a collision with a JetBlue passenger jet in skies near Venezuela after crossing into the commercial plane’s flight path without activating its transponder, according to air traffic control audio reviewed by The NY Times and others. The JetBlue flight had departed from Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island […]

Bull Market Genius Is A Dangerous Thing Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, During extended upward-trending markets that reward risk-takers and punish caution, everyone is a “bull market genius.” That dynamic flips investor psychology and, over time, creates a false sense of control. As the market continues to climb, risk appears to vanish, and investors believe that nothing can go wrong, leading them to […]

Warsh Overtakes Hassett As Fed Chair Favorite “I think the two Kevins are great,” said Trump on Friday, but this weekend has prompted a rather violent shift from one Kevin (Hassett) to the other Kevn (Warsh) who has now become the prediction market’s favorite to replace Powell… Source: Polymarket CNBC reports that Kevin Hassett’s candidacy for the Federal Reserve chair, once seen by the market as almost a sure thing, has […]

Enthusiasm For AI Stocks Is Finally Being Replaced By Questions By Jane Foley Senior FX Strategist at Rabobank Perhaps inevitably, the enthusiasm for AI related stocks in the past few years is now being replaced by questions regarding the returns on investment and specifically whether the costs of developing the technology will be matched in terms of the productivity growth it can create [ZH: actually, no: those questions emerged […]

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas Explores SpaceX IPO, Emerging Orbital Data Center Race Let’s recap what’s unfolded over the past few weeks as America’s space industry prepares to gain momentum: Elon Musk confirms SpaceX is going public, with space-based data centers secured. Orbital data centers are set to bypass Earth-based infrastructure constraints. As we declared at the time: The orbital data center space race has […]

Rob Reiner’s Son Nick Taken Into Custody On Homicide Suspicion, Records Show Update (1123ET): Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old troubled son of filmmaker Rob Reiner, has been arrested in connection with the deaths of his parents, according to NBC News, citing two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead Sunday afternoon with stab wounds at […]

Aussie PM Invokes ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ After Islamic Terrorist Attack, Vows Crackdown On Guns In the wake of a Sunday mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than two dozen injured, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country’s gun laws. The massacre, which occurred during a Hanukkah event, was reportedly carried out by a father-son pair, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24 […]

Key Events This Very Busy Week: Jobs, Payrolls, CPI. Retail Sales And Central Banks Galore With just days left in 2025, it’s an extremely busy week for global markets, with a dense calendar of economic releases and major central bank decisions, including from the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, which as DB’s Jim Reid writes, all have a chance to be Scrooges or Santas in their meetings this week. […]

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 […]

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 […]