December 2025

Stocks Slides After Bitcoin Tumbles On Hawkish BOJ Fears After a torrid meltup last week to end the month of November on a euphoria, if extremely illiquid note, futures are once again sinking as we start the final month of the year, in a swoon that was again catalyzed by a plunge in bitcoin which […]

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

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

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,

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

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

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

‘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

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

“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