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Germany's Merz Secures Pensions Bill, Ending Embarrassing Internal Rebellion Germany's Bundestag on Friday finally approved a contentious pension reform package which was subject of weeks of internal revolt within Chancellor Friedrich Merz's own Christian Democratic Union party. But this brings to an effective end yet another challenge in his turbulent first seven months in office. The lower house passed the legislation, which rolls out a reform locking the state pension level at 48% of average wages through 2031, by a vote of 319 to 225, with 53 lawmakers abstaining. Source: […]

Just How Dystopian Could Starmer's Britain Become? Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, Scaling back trial by jury, further attacks on lawful speech, the nationwide deployment of deeply flawed facial recognition systems… The list just keeps growing longer.  We first asked this question — Just How Dystopian Could Starmer’s Britain Become? — just over a year ago. At that point in time, with the  government just four months in office, all we could offer as an answer was: how long is a piece of string? Now, 13 months later, it is clear that said string […]

"Widespread Misconduct": Trump Admin Orders All Beneficiaries Of Nation's Largest DEI Program To Surrender Financial Records The Daily Wire has learned that the Small Business Administration has ordered all 4,300 firms in its 8(a) "socially disadvantaged" program, which receive no-bid federal contracts, to turn over their financial records, including general ledgers, bank statements, payroll files, subcontracting agreements, and other internal documents, by January 5 or face removal from the program. SBA's crackdown on one of Washington's oldest DEI initiatives follows […]

Escobar: How The BRICS+ 'Unit' Can Save Global Trade Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Unit project, first revealed by Sputnik in 2024, is emerging as the most viable option for breaking the US dollar’s stranglehold on global trade and investment. In his book co-written with top economist Sergey Bodrunov, Regulations of the Noonomy (international edition published this year by Sandro Teti Editore in Rome), leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev stresses the need to “ensure a full-fledged switch to national currencies in mutual trade and investment within the EAEU and the […]

NY Times Sues Department Of War Over New Media Rules The New York Times on Friday sued the Department of War over new rules for media outlets which restrict reporters' movements around the Pentagon, require ID badges, and restrict the solicitation of "criminal acts" (encouraging someone to leak).  The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, on March 3, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters "The policy, in violation of the First Amendment, seeks to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done—ask questions of government employees and gather information to […]

Health Department Investigating School That Vaccinated Child Without Parental Consent Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Dec. 3 that it has launched an investigation into a school that officials said illegally vaccinated a child without parental consent. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington on Dec. 2, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images HHS did not name the school. The department said it is in the Midwest and acted illegally in part because it ignored a […]

Trump's New National Security Strategy Stuns Mainstream In Saying Europe Faces "Civilizational Erasure" Within 20 Years The Trump administration's just published new National Security Strategy has generated a lot of 'shock' and discussion since it appeared online early Friday. One of its more 'controversial' elements is the stark contrast in outlook on Europe in comparison with prior years' national security strategy documents. It warns that some of America's oldest allies in Europe face "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" as a result of unchecked […]

China's Teapot Refiners Boost Crude Buying After New Import Quotas By Michael Kern of Oilprice.com Helped by the newly-issued crude import quotas, China’s independent refiners are buying sanctioned Iranian crude again and raising their processing rates, making room for Iran’s oil to move out of floating and bonded storage and potentially easing the year-end glut on the market.  Chinese teapot refiner The independent refiners in China’s Shandong province, the so-called teapots, have been buying cheap Iranian oil from onshore storage in China, including bonded storage, […]

FBI Pipe Bomber Breakthrough Exposes Biden Era Failures After Four Years More than four years after pipe bombs appeared outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, and less than a month after The Blaze fingered a former Capitol Police officer in a now-retracted report (that their sources still stand by), the Trump administration announced the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on Thursday. Cole has been charged under 18 U.S.C. § 844 for deploying an explosive device.  During a press conference the day of the arrest, Attorney General Pam […]

Major Climate Crisis Study Retracted Over "Inaccuracies" As Doom Narrative Collapses A widely hyped climate-doom study published in Nature in April 2024, and then amplified by left-wing corporate media outlets (CNN, Bloomberg, you name it), desperate to push the "green" narrative and weirdly obsessed with driving Americans into a state of severe climate shock, has now been embarrassingly retracted. On Wednesday, Nature retracted the study titled "The economic commitment of climate change" after economists discovered that flawed data from Uzbekistan had heavily skewed the […]

FDA Appoints Doctor Who Led COVID-19 Vaccine Death Investigation As Top Drug Regulator Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The doctor who led an investigation into deaths following COVID-19 vaccination is now the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top drug regulator, the agency announced on Dec. 3. Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg during a meeting in Atlanta, Ga., in a file image. Megan Varner/Reuters Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, who had been a senior adviser to FDA leadership, has been appointed acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research […]

The Average Wait For A Doctor's Appointment Is 31 Days - How To Get Seen Sooner Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It starts with a call. A sore knee, a lingering cough, a changing mole - nothing urgent - but not quite ignorable. The receptionist is polite, but the first available appointment is three weeks away. For millions of Americans, health care begins with a wait. For many, walk-in clinics have replaced family medicine. “People have started to accept that,” Dr. Dorothy Serna, a primary care physician who left traditional practice for a […]

USA Or China: Goldman Breaks Down Who Will Win The AI War Even after the latest US-China trade truce, the superpower race for technological dominance remains red hot - and will only intensify through the end of the decade. The battle is over who controls the technologies that will dominate the 2030s: AI chatbots, advanced chips, drones, humanoid robots, clean tech, EVs, satellites, reusable space rockets, hypersonic weapons, next-gen grid power generation, and the critical minerals that make all of it possible. The latest comments from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer […]

Two Cities, Two Crime Strategies: What I Learned Living In Both Authored by Don Tracy via RealClearPolitics, I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem. As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the daily grind by writing a great American novel. A fellow named John Grisham beat me to it, writing a book called “The Firm,” which was loosely based on my then-Memphis law firm, Baker Donelson. I […]

Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama administration - and who still holds a security clearance - was indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) - which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in February of this year. Paul Campo, who oversaw the FBI's money laundering operations and resigned in January 2016 ahead of Trump's […]

India Steps Up Purchases Of Sanctions-Free Russian Crude By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com India’s Bharat Petroleum Corp. and India Oil Corp. have bought Russian crude from non-sanctioned companies, with Bharat Petroleum ordering a cargo of 2 million barrels of Urals crude for January delivery, from companies other than Rosneft and Lukoil, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed trader sources. The price tag for the cargo featured a discount of $6-$7 to Brent crude, the sources told Reuters. This is actually slimmer than the futures market difference between Urals and Brent. Brent […]

SpaceX Trademark Filing Signals "Starlink Mobile" May Soon Take Aim At AT&T, Verizon SpaceX has taken one step toward becoming a direct competitor to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Its Starlink subsidiary quietly filed to register the "Starlink Mobile" trademark on Oct. 16, signaling plans to enter the wireless carrier business. For context, Elon Musk spoke at the All-In Summit in early September and made it clear he wants to morph Starlink into a global mobile wireless carrier that leverages both satellites and ground-based spectrum. All-In's Chamath Palihapitiya asked […]

The War On Pete Hegseth Authored by 'Cynical Publius' via American Greatness, I have had enough. I can no longer sit still while the Deep State does its very best to smear Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and have him removed from his post via lies, rumors, propaganda, and innuendo. It feels exactly like version 2.0 of the “Trump/Russia Collusion” disinformation campaign, and it needs to be called out for what it is. Enough. I am here to defend the best Secretary of War/Defense since Caspar Weinberger. What we have seen in the last few weeks is clearly an orchestrated, […]

World Risks 'Disintegration Of The International Order' As Macron Fails To Woo Xi Into Pressuring Putin "We are facing the risk of the disintegration of the international order that brought peace to the world for decades, and in this context, the dialogue between China and France is even more essential than ever," Macron said on Thursday while on a tour of China. It was his fourth state visit, and part of a renewed effort to woo Chinese President Xi Jinping to the West's side on stepping up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I hope that China will join our call, our […]

Watch: Biden Called For Strike Force To Crush Drug Cartels In 1989! Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrats are melting down over Trump’s targeted strikes on narco-terrorists, yet a freshly resurfaced clip shows Joe Biden demanding the same aggressive action decades ago, proving their opposition is pure partisan sabotage as cartel poison floods America unchecked. A 1989 C-SPAN clip of then-Senator Joe Biden has gone viral amid the Trump administration’s boat strikes on drug runners, highlighting the glaring double standard from Democrats who now baselessly […]

Was The J6 "Insurrection" A Government-Sponsored Seditious Conspiracy? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Cold Case Heats Up "[The current FBI] was competent at cracking the case; [Christopher Wray's] was competent at corruption and obstructing it." - Mike Benz Do you have any idea what tapestry of corruption and crime is attached to the little thread of the J6 / DNC / RNC pipe bomber suspect arrested yesterday by the FBI? Consider this: suspect Brian Cole, Jr., is alive and probably talking, unlike, say, Jeffrey Epstein and Thomas Matthew Crooks in other matters of public […]

Full Metal Retard: Walz Rolls Out Taxpayer-Funded Paid Leave For Illegals Less than one week after the NY Times (of all rags) torched Minnesota governor Tim Walz over a massive and sprawling fraud scandal involving Somalians that federal prosecutors say siphoned over $1 billion from the state's social safety net programs, Walz is opening yet another avenue for fraud - giving taxpayer-funded leave illegal immigrants. Under the Minnesota Paid Family and Medical Leave Program which Walz signed into law ahead of its Jan. 1 start date, "undocumented workers" will receive […]

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

Consumer Credit Below Expectations On Slowdown In Student, Auto Loans; Credit Card APRs Back To All Time High After several months of wild swings, moments ago the Fed published the latest consumer credit report (G.19) and it was quite tame by recent volatile trends. Total consumer credit rose by $9.178BN in October (which is more contemporaneous than more other data points we have received in recent weeks thanks to the govt shutdown), which was down from a downward revised $11.0BN in Sept ($13.09BN pre-revision), and below the $10.48BN median estimate. The latest monthly […]

Biggest NatGas Quarterly Spike In Decades As Deep Freeze Slams U.S. East U.S. natural gas futures spiked nearly 7% by late morning, hitting their highest level in almost three years as traders braced for another blast of deep cold across the eastern U.S. through the midpoint of the month. From the $2.70 per MMBtu low in August to the $5.41 per MMBtu high around lunchtime in New York, prices have doubled and are now on track for their highest level since December 2022. Colder-than-normal forecasts for the Lower 48 have pushed the quarterly gain to 62.5%, marking the strongest […]

Supreme Court Will Hear Trump Birthright Citizenship Case Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Dec. 5 to review whether President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is constitutional. The Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 20, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The court’s decision took the form of an unsigned order without comment. No justices dissented. The case is known as Trump v. Barbara. Trump’s Executive Order 14160, signed on Jan. 20, states that “the Fourteenth Amendment […]

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.