Economy & Finance

Visualizing All Of The World’s Silver Reserves By Country Silver prices surged to new all-time highs in December, extending a powerful end-of-year rally supported by geopolitical uncertainty and a weaker U.S. dollar. Silver futures briefly touched around $80, marking an unprecedented 160% rally in 2025 that outpaced even gold. Against this backdrop, Visual Capitalists Bruno Venditti notes […]

Congressional Budget Office Projects Lower Than Expected US Population Growth Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Jan. 7 that the U.S. population will likely grow by only 15 million people in the next 30 years, a decline from its last estimate. The office projects 364 million

Even Google’s Founders Have Had Enough Of California, And Are Saying Adios Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin quietly began unwinding portions of their financial empires in California in the days leading up to Christmas, according to corporate filings reviewed by The New York Times, as progressive lawmakers consider a proposed billionaire wealth tax.

Meritocracy Vs. Credentialocracy Authored by Steven Kritz via the Brownstone Institute, It is generally acknowledged that the Baby Boom generation (of which I am a member) has been the most successful, socioeconomically speaking, in the history of this planet, and the prospects for the generations following to match or surpass us are not looking good.

Venezuela’s Methane Problem Looms Over Trump’s Oil Revival Plan President Trump’s push to revive Venezuela’s oil sector is colliding with a major technical obstacle: vast methane leaks from crumbling infrastructure that could scare off large international investors, according to Bloomberg. Satellite monitoring shows huge plumes of methane rising from abandoned rigs, corroded pipelines and aging

Three Takeaways From Trump’s Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic Authored by Andrew Korybko, The overarching trend is that the US is militarily reasserting its historical “sphere of influence” over the Americas, and enforcing the maritime component of “Fortress America” is so important for Trump 2.0 that it’s willing to rubbish the “rules-based

Watch: Conservative Honduran Lawmaker Narrowly Survives Bomb Hurled At Her In National Congress A shocking scene played out in a Latin American country Thursday, but this time it’s not Venezuela, but nearby Honduras. A Honduran legislator from the country’s conservative National Party of president-elect Nasry Asfura was speaking to the press within the halls of

Prosecutor Calls Newsom ‘King Of Fraud’ For Oversight Failures Authored by Dave Mason via The Center Square, U.S. First Assistant Attorney Bill Essayli Thursday called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “the king of fraud,” accusing him of a lack of oversight on spending to address homelessness. FILE – California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press

Residential Electricity Prices Are Surging Even More We have been warning about this for months… In one year, this will be the most popular chart on this site pic.twitter.com/h93gWXMoNL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 11, 2025 … and months…. between exploding electricity bills and lack of jobs for grads, a new luddite revolution is coming –

“The Giant Sucking Sound”: Exodus From California Continues For Taxpayers & Businesses Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again,