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Over 20,000 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized By US Coast Guard More than 20,000 pounds of cocaine were seized by the crew of USCGC Cutter Munro, the “largest at-sea interdiction in 18+ years,” the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said in a Dec. 5 post on X. “Through #OperationPacificViper, @USCG has accelerated counter-narcotics operations across the Eastern Pacific and delivered historic results in the fight against narco-terrorists,” the post stated. “Our maritime fighting force is leading America’s drug interdiction operations, protecting the Homeland, and keeping deadly drugs […]

AI Illiteracy Authored by Mark Bauerlein via The Epoch Times, In the old days, English class meant two things: one, reading Shakespeare, Tennyson et al., and two, learning to write. The classics plus grammar and punctuation—they made English a serious subject respected for its content and skills. Of course, it’s not like that any longer. The traditional literary canon is ever less central to the field, which now spends lots of time on “media literacy,” critical thinking, “informational texts,” and other topics unrelated to literary history. Those changes have come […]

Mapping US Income Inequality By State The wealth of America’s top 1% sits around $52 trillion today, rising by $4 trillion over the year. Overall, the top 1% of U.S. earners need to make around $800,000 or more in salary per household. Meanwhile, about 30% of American households earned less than $50,000 last year, highlighting clear divides in wage distribution across the country. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows income inequality by state, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Spectrum of Income Inequality in America In 2024, the […]

America's New National Security Strategy: A Surprise Departure On China Policy Authored by Arnaud Bertrand via The Ron Paul Institute In a big development, the final US National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the US's number one priority, saying that the US will now "assert and enforce a 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine." In terms of military presence, they write that this means "a readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent […]

China Successfully Operates World's First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice.com An experimental Chinese nuclear plant reportedly just crossed a historic threshold, successfully operating the world’s first thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR). The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has broken a major scientific barrier by successfully converting thorium to uranium in a historic first. The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reports that the breakthrough, which took place at an experimental reactor out in the […]

China & Japan Narrowly Avoid Live Fire Conflict After F-15 Radar Lock Incident A major and very dangerous incident occurred over waters off Japan's southern islands on Saturday, but has only been publicly revealed Sunday. Chinese PLA military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, at a moment Japan-China relations have deteriorated to their worst in many years Japan and Australia are urging calm in the wake of the aerial encounter, with contrasting accounts and accusations from each side that the other is acting dangerously. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said […]

ChatGPT Accused Of Encouraging Alleged Serial Stalker In Latest OpenAI Controversy Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing how ChatGPT is accused of encouraging the suicide of various individuals as well as the defamation of other individuals. Various lawsuits have been filed against the company, but now federal prosecutors have indicated that ChatGPT may have played a role in enabling or encouraging an accused criminal stalker. The New York Post is reporting that federal prosecutors are alleging that ChatGPT served as the “therapist” and “best […]

Freshly Pardoned Cuellar Says Biden DOJ Tried To Entrap Him; Trump Lashes Out Over 'Lack Of Loyalty' As many of you know, President Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) after he fell under investigation for alleged bribery after criticizing Biden's open border policies. As Trump put it on Truth Social, “For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them,” writing that Cueller had “bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the Biden Border ‘Catastrophe.’” Cuellar accused the […]

Russia Stands "Shoulder To Shoulder" With Venezuela, Blasts US War Footing Russia on Sunday issued new statements voicing deep concern over the US force posture in the southern Caribbean, warning against any possible slide toward direct military action. The fresh Kremlin statement said Moscow is standing shoulder to shoulder with Caracas, with a fresh appeal for the Trump administration to avoid exacerbating tensions which could lead to open and unnecessary conflict. Prior file image: Kremlin.ru Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov criticized Washington's desire to […]

Oversupply Warning Jolts India's Solar Buildout By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com, India’s solar sector has hit that awkward stage of adolescence where ambition seems to be outpacing demand. And now the adults in the room are issuing critical warnings. A new letter from the clean-energy ministry, quietly circulated to the finance ministry, urges lenders to think twice before showering cash on yet another wave of standalone module factories. When a government that spent the last three years cheerleading capacity expansion suddenly says “maybe don’t,” you can assume […]

Mainstream Media Jumps On Bogus Narrative That J6 Pipe Bomber Was A Trump Supporter The arrest of Brian Cole Jr. on Thursday for planting pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, has exposed yet another case of media malpractice. The Trump administration quickly noted that all the information needed to catch the suspect had been available to the Biden administration for four years, and yet nothing happened.  Rather than examine why it took so long to crack the case, the legacy media immediately pivoted to protect the Biden administration. The following […]

Zelenskyy Says He Had 'Long And Substantive' Phone Call With Witkoff, Kushner As Peace Talks Continue Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he had a “long and substantive phone call” with his national security secretary Rustem Umerov, Ukrainian negotiator Andrii Hnatov, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who were gathered in South Florida. “I am grateful for a very focused, constructive discussion,” Zelenskyy said on X. “We covered many aspects and went through key points that could ensure an […]

'Twas The Night Before Fed Day... By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Maybe it was being in Europe, with a particular shout-out to Zurich for putting me in a holiday mood. Academy also has our holiday party this week, which I’m looking forward to, though I’m not sure why I thought guest hosting Bloomberg TV at 6am the next morning would be a good idea. Or maybe it was the daunting task of needing to write about something that I didn’t feel passionate writing about (knowing that it would be about one out of a thousand Fed write-ups hitting your inbox in the next 48 hours […]

Barclays Asks: Netflix-Warner Bros Deal - Holy Grail... Or Poisoned Chalice? Senators, including Mike Lee, quickly flagged antitrust concerns after Netflix unveiled its $72 billion bid for Warner Bros. (film and TV studios, HBO, and HBO Max), signaling a high likelihood of congressional hearings in the near future. Hollywood insiders were sharply divided, while Wall Street analysts questioned the marriage of a digital disruptor with one of legacy media's most prominent studios.  Shortly after the Netflix-WBD deal was announced, Hollywood quickly descended into full-blown […]

'Fourth Reich': Musk Strikes Back At EU 'Tyrants' After X Fine Update (1300ET): Elon Musk is not taking the outrageous fine from Brussels bureaucrats lying down, lashing out at EU officialdom for taking on Nazi characteristics and oppressing their own citizens’ best interests... The tyrannical, unelected bureaucracy oppressing the people of Europe are in the second picture https://t.co/j6CFFbajJa — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2025 As Catherine Salgado reports for PJMedia.com, Musk also re-shared a post about Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was jailed for refusing to […]

Biden, Who Swore He Was Fit For Another Term, Butchers America's Name Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former President Joe Biden resurfaced on Friday and stumbled through his remarks once again, months after insisting he was fit to serve another term and not too long after announcing he had stage IV cancer.  The 83-year-old former president mangled the country’s name as “Amerigotit” while delivering a 20-minute speech at a conference hosted by the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute.  The gaffe occurred specifically as Biden claimed that the Democrats could […]

Russian Forces Advance As Ukraine Hit By More Than 600 Drone Strikes Overnight Russian forces made advances in Ukraine as U.S. and Ukrainian officials prepared for a third day of peace talks in Miami. Russia unleashed 51 missiles and 623 drone strikes on Dec. 6, which was observed as Armed Forces Day in Ukraine. Ukraine shot down 30 missiles and neutralized 585 drones in the attack, which targeted residential buildings, energy facilities, and railways in 29 locations. At least eight people were wounded in Saturday’s strikes, including three in the Kyiv region, according […]

California Agency Approves Water Management Plan Increasing Output Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has approved a revised plan for managing California’s Central Valley Project (CVP), with the goal of sending more water to farmers in the state An aerial view shows Friant Dam, which holds back Millerton Lake in Friant, Calif., on March 7, 2025. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo The revised operation, called Action 5, aligns with directives from Executive Order 14181, signed on Jan. 24 by President Donald Trump, which orders […]

Denmark Cuts Ukraine Aid Nearly In Half Amid Corruption Scandal Denmark plans to scale back its military assistance to Ukraine next year, and the amount cut is being widely reported as a huge amount - up to almost half of what's it's been since 2022. According to Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the tiny northern European country has long stood out for its exceptionally high contributions that it made earlier in the conflict, but now the Danish government wants other countries should shoulder more of the burden. Via Reuters The country's Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen […]

As The Year Ends, What Does 2026 Hold Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Markets opened in December with a surge in optimism as retail investors regained their “bullish spirit.” That improvement continues to build on the bullish case we discussed last week: “Seasonality, positioning, and trend still lean in favor of the bulls. December is historically one of the stronger months for equities, particularly when the market is already up by double digits year-to-date. Expectations for a December Fed rate cut, and a gradual cooling of inflation, […]

Goldman Reveals Housing "Affordability Illusion" When Factoring Other Costs Affordability has surged into the news cycle and is almost certain to dominate the coming midterm election cycle. And when voters talk about "affordability," they're most concerned about the basic cost of living. Beyond food and healthcare, nothing hits harder than housing costs.  Goldman analysts led by Arun Manohar have some bad news on the housing affordability front: even with lower mortgage rates and slower home-price growth, it's largely an "illusion of affordability" once other ownership costs, […]

Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On Authored by Gary Abernathy of The Empowerment Alliance, It’s been an interesting few weeks on the climate hysteria front. Organizations associated with climate alarmism have recently found themselves engulfed in turmoil. Bill Gates has recanted earlier predictions of gloom and doom. But the Father of Climate Panic, former Vice President Al Gore, remains steadfast, if increasingly marginalized. Let’s start with probably the best-known environmental organization in the world, the Sierra Club. According […]

Trump's 3 Choices In Ukraine (A Win-Win-Win For Russia) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, With the War in Ukraine now approaching its fifth year and possibly reaching a climatic stage, it’s timely to offer an overview of the situation. This overview has three vectors – the situation on the battlefield, the corruption scandal rocking Kyiv, and the prospects for the success of the Trump peace plan. The thread that connects these three vectors is the role of the Russian Federation and specter of Vladimir Putin. Let’s look at these vectors separately and […]

Iran's Executions Reach Decade High Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people between January and September 2025, the highest number of yearly death penalties conducted in Iran that Amnesty International has recorded in at least 15 years. As Statista's Tristan Gaudiat shows in the chart below, within less than nine months, the number of people executed by the regime has already surpassed last year’s grim total of 972 executions. You will find more infographics at Statista These figures are likely low estimates due to the Iranian authorities not publishing […]

French Government Plan To 'Label' News Outlets Backfires Spectacularly Via Remix News, A few weeks back, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new “media labeling” system, while also assuring citizens that this “media accreditation” will not include any sort of state-backed labeling.  Suffice it to say, these assurances have only stoked fears of an authoritarian creep into the media sphere.  Back in November, Macron had told La Voix du Nord that “a labeling process carried out by professionals” was in the works to highlight those media outlets that […]

Today the short squeeze in the silver market continued with shortages of physical metal being seen across the world.

Institutions are turning increasingly bullish on gold, with many forecasting prices above $5,000 by 2026. Driven by record central bank buying, rising geopolitical tensions, and persistent inflation, the 2026 gold price prediction reflects powerful structural forces reshaping the market. Is your portfolio positioned for what comes next?

Yes, gold, silver, copper, but look at this metal...

Markets are holding their breath ahead of today's delayed PCE inflation report—the Fed's preferred gauge and final data point before next week's rate decision. Gold is consolidating near $4,235 while silver holds near record highs after hitting $58.98 this week. Meanwhile, Treasury bonds are suffering their worst week since June...

Look at who has lost control, plus another gold and silver bull catalyst.

As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies told King World News that this man's predictions for the world are absolutely terrifying.

Silver pulled back from an all-time high of $58.98 while gold consolidated near $4,200 as traders await next week's Federal Reserve meeting. Markets are pricing in an 89% chance of a rate cut, while mixed labor data and plunging oil prices signal both resilience and caution in the global economy.

Silver just hit all-time highs — but according to Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard, the real move is still ahead. With a 7-year supply deficit, a historic 45-year technical breakout, and a collapsing gold-to-silver ratio, the fundamentals point to dramatically higher prices. Here's why it's not too late to buy...

Expect 2026 to be a year of market interventions and a scorched economy.

Most investors lose money because they never learned how to choose investments in the first place. In 2026, you don't need more complexity—you need clarity. Alan Hibbard's 3-question framework cuts through market noise so you can evaluate any asset based on fundamentals, not emotions.

Bank of America's investment team says the dollar's dominance is over—gold is in. Central banks are accumulating at record pace, the Fed is cutting rates, and jobs data is weakening. Silver just doubled in 2025. For precious metals investors watching the macro shift unfold, the message is clear.

We are headed toward crisis and the destruction of fiat currencies.

Besides silver, take a look at this metal.

Copper just joined gold and silver in record territory for the first time in decades — a powerful signal that investors are rotating into real, tangible assets. With supply tightening, central banks ramping up gold purchases, and global PMI data flashing slowdown, hard assets are emerging as the preferred hedge...

Today the price of silver futures traded as high as $59.36 as the price of silver remains in the early stages of a move that will take the price well above $100. And look at what is happening with gold, copper and oil.

Designing the perfect money reveals a simple truth: you can’t escape the Perfect Money Trilemma. Gold, silver, and Bitcoin endure because they choose security and decentralization over scalability—unlike most cryptocurrencies that only appear decentralized. This episode breaks down why real value always circles back to sound, Layer 1 money.

More reports of metals shortages plus a look at the road to $10,000 gold.

Silver touched a record high of $57.86 per ounce Monday, surging nearly 90% year-over-year as physical supply tightens and traders price in a December Fed rate cut. Gold also climbed to a six-week high of $4,241, with major banks including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs now projecting prices could surpass $5,000...

55-year market veteran, James Turk, spoke with King World News about Friday's Comex shutdown and the wild trading in the silver market after it reopened.

Silver’s rally didn’t break — the CME did. As trading halted across major markets, silver kept surging, breaking out above prior highs despite margin hikes. With confidence in fiat eroding and price signals returning, this move mirrors the explosive setup of the late 1970s. Silver may be leading the next...

For more than a century, the London Gold Fixing—now the LBMA Gold Price—has set the benchmark that guides global gold transactions. Today’s transparent, twice-daily electronic auctions reflect real-time supply and demand, shaped by central bank policies, inflation, currency movements, geopolitics, and physical market fundamentals. Understanding these forces helps investors interpret...

Is gold truly expensive at $4,000—or is the real price being held down? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard reveal the LBMA gold suppression chart, the structural silver deficit, and why both metals may be headed much higher.

Gold pushed higher overnight as traders priced in faster Fed easing and Treasury yields retreated. But the bigger story: with Jerome Powell's term ending in early 2026, uncertainty over Fed leadership is mounting. From Kevin Hassett's pitch to a shortlist of five candidates, the race to lead the Federal Reserve...

Is socialism really “on the way,” or has the U.S. already crossed the line? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard break down the systems, incentives, and policies that reveal how deeply government control is embedded in everyday American life — and why it matters for anyone protecting their financial future.

Trump's $21 trillion investment claim shrinks to $3 trillion under scrutiny, while delayed GDP reports and disappointing retail sales raise questions about data integrity and economic strength. With consumers tapped out from years of rising costs and producer prices jumping again, the economic picture is murkier than ever. Meanwhile, China's...

Most cryptocurrencies claim decentralization, but few truly achieve it. Alan Hibbard breaks down why most networks remain centrally controlled—and why only systems governed by math or physics, like Bitcoin and gold, avoid the risks investors overlook.

Gold held near $4,080 Monday as December Fed rate cut expectations surged, but a strong dollar and divided Fed officials kept gains modest. Treasury Secretary Bessent claimed tariffs don't drive inflation—contradicting CPI data showing a jump from 2.3% to 3.0% since April. UBS sees silver's pullback as a buying opportunity...

Mike just stepped off stage at the world’s oldest investment conference — and if you weren’t there, you missed something.  The New Orleans Investment Conference just wrapped with a record crowd. “We were bursting at the seams,” producer Brien Lundin told Mike.  But these weren’t casual observers. These were investors...

Gold investors face whiplash as conflicting signals roil precious metals markets. While New York Fed President Williams opened the door to December rate cuts, stronger-than-expected jobs data has traders second-guessing the Fed's next move. Meanwhile, gold demand is cooling across Asia amid price volatility, job openings continue their post-ChatGPT slide,...

The Fed's December decision just became a coin flip. September jobs beat expectations with 119,000 positions added, but traders slashed rate cut odds to 50% after Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack warned that easing now could "prolong elevated inflation." Her concerns mirror Main Street, where 70% of small businesses cite...

In The Physics of Money, Alan Hibbard reveals how entropy—the universal force of disorder—quietly erodes wealth. By viewing money through the lens of physics, he explains why real money like gold, silver, and Bitcoin excels at resisting this decay, while fiat currencies accelerate it. This episode reframes value, work, and...

Gold treads water near $4,100 as traders await key Fed minutes and delayed jobs data, while China rapidly closes the "gold gap" with the U.S. in a strategic de-dollarization push. Meanwhile, Americans are tightening belts this holiday season with spending down from last year's record highs. President Trump floats a...

After weeks of data blackout, the picture isn't pretty. Jobless claims show a cooling labor market while consumer sentiment crashes to near-record lows. Credit card delinquencies just hit 15-year highs with Americans carrying $1.2 trillion in debt. The S&P 500 faces its longest losing streak since August. Meanwhile, wealthy investors...

Mike Maloney warns that the 2025 economic crisis may be far worse than past downturns, with both the stock and real estate markets in historic bubbles and key indicators already flashing red before the real crash begins.

Inflation quietly erodes the value of your dollars, making the gold vs cash debate more important than ever. Learn why gold preserves purchasing power while cash loses it — and how this affects long-term wealth.