December 2025

QUESTION: You have said you disagree with Trump about lower interest rates because he has been a borrower and not a lender. There was dissent at the Fed about Powell’s third cut. You have also said that the ECB has been trying to support the euro because of the pending war and that interest rates […]

The latest agreement between the European Union and Canada to collaborate on mutually recognized digital IDs is simply another step in what I have been warning about for years. Whenever government confidence collapses, the political class tightens control. Digital ID is not about convenience; it is about tracking capital and controlling movement as the global

The private debt crisis, coupled with a consumer-based economy, is a recipe for disaster. Americans followed the age-old thinking of “buy now if it will cost more tomorrow” during Black Friday and Cyber Mondy sales, leading to the strongest year of sales on record. The problem is that a large percentage of buyers opted to

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 453.98 points or -0.90% to 50,148.82 • Shanghai decreased 27.178 points or -0.70% to 3,873.318 • Hang Seng decreased 10.27 points or -0.04% to 25,530.51 • ASX 200 increased 12.60 points or 0.15% to 8,592.00 • SENSEX increased 426.86 points

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The Federal Reserve was divided this December; hawkish members of the FOMC were outnumbered, and the central bank approved its third consecutive cut of 2025. “We’re in the high end of the range of neutral,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell added. “It″s so happened that we’ve cut three times. We have we haven’t made any

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) put forth the Dual Citizenship Disclosure Act (H.R. 7484) to call for transparency from elected US officials carrying dual nationality. His plan would have required members of Congress to disclose their status to an ethics committee, which would review their case within 90 days of taking office. H.R. 2356 (Dual Loyalty

Governments never suspend economic data because things are going well. When a government stops publishing the very numbers it insists are the foundation of policy—GDP, CPI, PPI, employment—you are looking at the final stage of the collapse in confidence. The US government would be eager to publish this data despite the shutdown if the figures

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 52.30 points or -0.10% to 50,602.80 • Shanghai decreased 9.026 points or -0.23% to 3,900.496 • Hang Seng increased 106.55 points or 0.42% to 25,540.78 • ASX 200 decreased 6.50 points or -0.08% to 8,579.40 • SENSEX decreased 275.01 points