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US Judge Plans To Block Hundreds Of Trump Admin Layoffs Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston stated during a court hearing that she would block the departments of State and Education from moving forward with approximately 250 and 150 layoffs, respectively. The decision comes after a lawsuit filed in October by unions challenging the Trump administration’s plans to shrink the federal workforce. Illston also noted she would require the rehiring of about 300 employees laid off amid the 43-day shutdown that began on Oct. 1 at the […]

EU Will Look 'Weak' If It Doesn't Confiscate Russian Funds, Zelensky Tells Crunch Summit "We have to find a solution today," said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "We won't leave the European Council without a solution for the funding for Ukraine for the next two years." The 27 leaders of the European Union are gathered in Brussels Thursday, trying to figure out a way forward on raising at least €90 billion to meet Ukraine's financial and military needs for the next two years. Central to this is an expected decision on confiscating Russian assets, but major […]

Trump Media To Merge With Nuclear Fusion Company TAE In $6 Billion Deal Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), said on Dec. 18 that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with nuclear fusion firm TAE Technologies in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion, an ambitious tie-up the companies said was a bid to help “power America’s technology revolution.” In a joint statement, TMTG—owner of Truth Social—and TAE said the deal seeks to create one of the […]

It's Crunch Time For Europe Which Decides Whether To Confiscate Russian Assets By Elwin de Groot and Bas van Geffen, strategists at Rabobank Is today crunch-time for the EU? That is the billion dollar question. European leaders are meeting in Brussels for a two‑day European Council summit. Their agenda covers a range of topics, including a ‘strategic debate’ on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028-2034, EU enlargement, migration, the Mercosur deal that risks being delayed (or cancelled?) again, preparation of the European defence roadmap, and geo-economic […]

Watch: Presidential 'Wall Of Fame' Gets A Savage Upgrade... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump has seemingly taken his trolling to new heights by installing brutal plaques beneath key presidential portraits at the White House, exposing the failures of his leftist predecessors. The inscriptions lay waste to the deep state’s darlings—detailing Obama’s foreign policy debacles, Clinton’s globalist sellouts, and Biden’s total mental collapse—while also celebrating Reagan’s conservative triumphs that paved the way for Trump’s landslide […]

Daily News Nuggets | Today’s top stories for gold and silver investors  December 18th, 2025  Inflation Cools More Than Expected in November  Consumer prices rose 2.7% year-over-year in November, coming in below the 3.1% economists had forecast and up only slightly from October’s 2.6%. Core inflation (excluding food and energy) also surprised to the downside at 2.6%...

Bessent Forecasts 'Substantial' Tax Refunds, Real Wage Increases Next Year Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Confirming President Trump's triumphant comments last night, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week that an increase in Americans’ tax refunds would enable the United States to “go back to the kind of economy that we had.” While speaking to Fox Business, Bessent said that “substantial refunds” are coming to Americans after they submit their taxes in the first quarter. “They will get an increase in real incomes. So I am very optimistic […]

Could silver outperform gold by 7x? Mike Maloney explains why a shrinking gold/silver ratio, rising industrial demand, and a multi-year supply deficit could set silver up for dramatic outperformance.

Activist Investor Elliott Builds Billion Dollar Stake In Lululemon Shares of Lululemon are higher in premarket trading after a report that activist investor Elliott Investment Management has built a $1 billion stake in the company and is pushing for a turnaround at the struggling athletic apparel brand. The Wall Street Journal cites sources familiar with Elliott's move to build a billion-dollar position, making it one of the company's largest shareholders. Elliott is seeking a new CEO to replace Calvin McDonald, who will step down in January. Elliott has been working with […]

Scott Adams Reveals Scary Health Update Amid Cancer Battle Dilbert creator Scott Adams revealed over the weekend that he is “paralyzed below the waist” as he continues battling advanced prostate cancer. “I can’t move any muscles,” Adams told his YouTube audience on Saturday. “I do have feeling, I just can’t move any muscles.” Adams said he is pursuing radiation therapy to address a tumor near his spine as part of his treatment to limit further damage, while potentially restoring some strength. “They’re gonna try to radiate that pesky tumor that’s around […]

UK Man Jailed For 18 Months For 2 Tweets Viewed Just 33 Times Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, In the latest insane case of free speech being utterly dead in the UK, a socially isolated man has been slapped with an 18-month prison sentence for two anti-immigration tweets that barely anyone saw—viewed a pathetic 33 times combined. Luke Yarwood, 36, let loose on X after a deadly car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, last December. His posts called to burn migrant hotels and take to the streets in force - ugly stuff, sure, but in a free society, […]

Initial Jobless Claims Show No Signs Of Labor Market Distress After the Thanksgiving Week debacle, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time remains back in the same - very low - range it has been in for the last four years at 224k... Source: Bloomberg After the shutdown, we have seen an uptick in initial jobless claims in the 'Deep TriState'... Source: Bloomberg Continuing jobless claims bounced back a little from the big Thanksgiving week plunge but remain well off recent highs... Source: Bloomberg So despite the uptick in the […]

"It's Unbelievable": Taxpayers' Money Still Flowing To Indicted Fraud Suspect: Minnesota Lawmaker Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Minnesota lawmaker alleged on Dec. 17 that a man awaiting trial on federal charges that he laundered $1.1 million in taxpayer dollars and his wife continue to collect payments from other government programs, a state lawmaker said Dec. 17. The Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul, Minn., on May 11, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times That’s concerning, state Rep. Kristin Robbins told the fraud-fighting committee […]

Fed Inflation Target Nears As US CPI Tumbles More Than Expected In November 'A grain of salt' is how many have described their position on this morning's government shutdown-delayed release of October and November Consumer Price Inflation data. Headline CPI slowed to 2.7% YoY in November (dramatically below the 3.1% YoY expected) Core CPI fell to 2.6% YoY in November (well below the 3.0% YoY expected) and the lowest since March 2021... The Core CPI print was five standard deviations below consensus... There is very little additional data for now with Core Goods and […]

Pentagon Escalates Probe Of Sen. Mark Kelly Over 'Illegal Orders' Video Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a former astronaut and captain in the U.S. Navy, is now facing a “command investigation” into his conduct by the Department of War. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times A “command investigation” is a procedure by which a commanding officer conducts an official inquiry into allegations of serious misconduct by a […]

Instacart Shares Slide As FTC Reportedly Investigates AI Pricing Tool Instacart shares fell in premarket trading in New York after an overnight report said the Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into the online grocery delivery and pickup platform. Reuters reported that the FTC's investigation is focused on Instacart's AI-driven pricing tool and whether it led shoppers to be charged different prices for identical goods. The scrutiny comes as the Trump administration places renewed emphasis on lowering consumer prices after four years of failed Bidenomics. […]

How Social Security Has Evolved Authored by Tom Margenau via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), I continually remind my readers that they shouldn’t worry too much when they read or hear reports of Social Security’s imminent collapse. Once Congress works up the nerve to deal with the issue (and once the American people accept the fact that the program needs reform), they will get around to passing amendments to the Social Security laws that will keep the program solvent for generations to come. (If you want to learn more about possible reforms to Social Security, spend 15 bucks […]

Futures Rise After 4-Days Of Declines Ahead Of CPI, Central Bank Bonanza Stocks rebounded from Wednesday's tech-led rout after an upbeat forecast from Micron helped put the brakes on a tech-driven selloff on a busy day for data and central bank meetings. As of 7:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq  futures rose 0.6% following four down days. In premarket trading, Micron shares soared 11% after reporting blowout earnings. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index rose 0.2%, while Asian shares slid. The tech slide, combined with dovish comments from a Federal Reserve official, helped boost […]

Australian Counterterrorism Unit Rams Car, Arrests Five Men Suspected Of Planning Violence Four days after the Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia, a counterterrorism unit stopped what appeared to be a vehicle carrying five Middle Eastern men in Liverpool, Sydney, who were allegedly heading toward the Bondi Beach area. BREAKING: Australian police ram a car with 5 Islamists travelling to Bondi Beach. Seems like they had info that another attack might have been imminent. The West is full of dangerous Islamists. pic.twitter.com/jbUGtBaC53 — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December […]

AfD Says It Was Target Of Infiltration After Eichwald Admits 'Hitlerian' Speech Aimed To 'Warn' Voters Off Via Remix News, After a bizarre speech that mimicked much of the rhetorical style of Adolf Hitler at the founding congress of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) youth group, Alexander Eichwald has confessed that he joined the party as a form of provocation. In an interview with Junge Frieheit, Jean-Pascal Hohm, who serves as the chairman of the youth group, said that: “He deliberately infiltrated the AfD and its youth organization to harm it. The incident shows once […]

Why Coal Is Here To Stay, In One Chart Bloomberg Opinion columnist and chief energy correspondent Javier Blas posted a chart on X from the International Energy Agency's new global coal report showing that coal demand jumped to an all-time high this year, despite years of efforts by the green-industrial complex to end its very existence. "Global coal demand rose to an all-time high in 2025, up 0.5% y-on-y to 8,845 million tons (also, @IEA revised up 2024)," Blas wrote on X, adding, "Now, IEA says 2025 will mark a peak, with consumption dropping over the next 5 years. Time will […]

Four Days Later: Brown University Shooter Still At Large As Bizarre Anomalies Mount In Investigation Anger mounts as the investigation into the Brown University shooting runs into ongoing hurdles: no identifiable suspect, a series of dead-end leads involving so-called persons of interest, and bizarre anomalies as the probe enters its fourth day. The shooting at Brown occurred Saturday afternoon at the Barus and Holley Engineering Building. Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov were both killed. Importantly, Cook served as the vice president of the Ivy League school's College […]

Trump Claims There's 'Peace In The Middle East' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com President Trump had kicked off this week by saying that there is "legitimate peace in the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years," comments that came after three Americans, including two National Guard members and a civilian interpreter, were killed in Syria. The president made the remark when asked why the US has troops in Syria. "Because we’re trying to make sure that there’s going to be and remain peace in the Middle East, and Syria is a big part of it," he said. Getty […]

Russia Deploys Entire Fleet Of Nuclear Icebreakers To Arctic Russia has deployed all eight of its nuclear icebreakers simultaneously in an unprecedented move. The fleet is being used to keep critical winter shipping lanes in the Gulf of Ob and the Yenisei Gulf open, ensuring continued access to key export terminals. The deployment sends a clear signal to the West that Russia can sustain year-round Arctic shipping and maintain its natural resource export revenues. Ship tracking website MarineTraffic reported earlier this week: Russia deploys all eight nuclear icebreakers to […]

Cold, Green Europe: What Happens When Ideology Trumps Physics Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClearMarkets.com, Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition. Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons. They have constructed a narrative of the European Union as a shining city powered by the breeze and sun, modeling a net-zero utopia.  Yet, when the first real chill of winter settled over the continent this fall, that facade collapsed under the […]

Poland Ramps Up Program To Lay Anti-Personnel Mines On Eastern Border European allies have long been talking about implementing a 'drone wall' or shield to protect eastern and northern Europe, but now this protective shield could include land mines on the ground, in a dangerous development. "Poland has decided to start producing anti‑personnel mines for the first time since the Cold War and plans to deploy them along its eastern border and may export them to Ukraine, the deputy defense minister told Reuters," the publication reports Wednesday. Getty Images The same report […]

In Spain Foreigners Commit 5X More Rapes, 4X More Murders Than Spaniards; New Study Finds Via Remix News, A new study highlights the outsized role of foreigners in serious crimes in Spain, which has seen worrying growth in rapes, attempted murders, and other serious crimes in just the last five to six years. The CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” examines the evolution of crime across various demographic groups and geographical areas in the country, and the researchers are warning about “imported crime” due to mass […]

On a day when the price of silver futures vaulted to an all-time high of $67, and gold came within dollars of a record high, look at what is unfolding.

The bull market in mining hasn't even begun as the XAU vs Gold remains trapped in the Devil's Box, but this will send gold and silver mining stocks screaming higher if it unfolds.

Gold posts its best year since 1979 with $5,000 targets ahead. Silver surges past $65, up 120% in 2025. Trump orders Venezuela oil blockade. UK inflation cools to 3.2%, paving the way for Bank of England rate cuts.

This sums up the situation in the silver market beautifully.

If you are wondering why the Fed just initiated QE5, the answer is the US economy is imploding as more than one million layoffs have already taken place in America.

November's delayed jobs report shows unemployment at 4.6%—the highest since 2021—while Morgan Stanley forecasts gold reaching $4,800/oz by late 2026. Ivory Coast miners cave to new taxes, Bitcoin posts its fourth annual loss, and silver faces headwinds from falling solar demand. Here's what matters for investors.

What it means to be rich has nothing to do with having millions. It’s about preserving the value of your work, avoiding inflation’s silent theft, and gaining true financial freedom.

This is all that needs to be said about the recent gold and silver trading action.

Selling gold and silver doesn’t have to be complicated. This guide shows you how to get the best price, avoid common pitfalls, and choose the safest, most transparent way to convert your metals into cash.

This is why the price of silver is poised to skyrocket.

Silver is charging toward $64 per ounce while gold climbs to $4,350 in a year-end rally fueled by softening yields and growing expectations for Fed rate cuts. Meanwhile, Wall Street braces for dual jobs reports Tuesday, and a Fed governor argues current policy remains too restrictive.

Michael Oliver, the man who is well known for his deadly accurate forecasts on stocks, bonds, and major markets, told King World News the historic upside breakouts that just took place are going to send gold and silver prices to levels that will shock the world!

Are gold mining stocks really a leveraged bet on gold—or a long-term trap? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard analyze 50 years of data and reveal why physical gold has massively outperformed even the best mining companies, exposing the hidden risks of dilution, volatility, and poor timing that most investors underestimate.

This has been a wild day of trading in the gold and silver markets.

Silver has doubled to $64.29 in eight months while gold holds near $4,275—yet American investors own almost none. Goldman Sachs found gold ETFs represent just 0.17% of US portfolios, creating what they call "large upside risk." Plus: oil tumbles on oversupply, Fed officials split on cuts.

The Federal Reserve delivered its third rate cut of 2025, but deep divisions on the committee signal uncertainty ahead. Silver surged to an all-time high of $62.89, capping a historic 113% gain this year. Meanwhile, the race to replace Jerome Powell is heating up.

The price of silver futures have surged above $63 as more QE sends metals prices higher.

The disconnect between paper silver and real-world demand is widening fast. In this episode, Mike and Alan reveal why a silver COMEX breakdown is becoming more likely — and what happens when industrial buyers need physical metal the futures market can no longer deliver.

Silver shattered records this week, topping $60 per ounce while central banks accelerated gold buying to the highest level of 2025. Meanwhile, Trump sets "immediate" rate cuts as his litmus test for the next Fed chair, and his $12 billion farm bailout reveals the true cost of his trade war.

Silver has shattered its psychological barrier, breaking past $60 per ounce for the first time in history. This milestone in the precious metals bull market signals fundamental shifts in industrial demand and monetary dynamics that could sustain higher prices for years. Discover the five key drivers behind this unprecedented surge...

Gold trades steady at $4,200 as the Fed prepares a hawkish rate cut Wednesday. Global central banks are pumping the brakes on easing, while persistent inflation keeps Americans struggling with soaring costs for food, housing, and childcare—fueling safe-haven demand.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is set to deliver another rate cut this week despite growing dissent among policymakers. Meanwhile, China's central bank extended its gold buying streak to 13 consecutive months, even as prices trade near record highs. State Street Global Advisors sees a potential path for gold to...

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?

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...