No Death Penalty For Luigi Mangine, Biden Judge Rules A federal district judge in New York has ruled that Luigi Mangione, 27, will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024.  Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 18, 2025 (Curtis Means / Pool / Getty Images) The ruling by Judge Margaret Garnett (Biden) is a loss for federal prosecutors, who were […]

The Market Is Responding To Warsh’s Nomination, But Nothing Has Changed By Bas van Geffen, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank When the Fed decided to hold rates unchanged last Wednesday, Waller was one of the two dissenters in favour of another rate cut. Waller’s dissenting vote may have kept him on President Trump’s list of potential Fed chairs, but it now seems that it did not get him to the top of that list. Reportedly, […]

Iran Ready To Resume Nuclear Talks With US, Prepared For ‘War Or Diplomacy’ At the Thursday night world premier for “Melania,” President Trump told reporters on the red carpet in response to an Iran question: “We have a lot of very big, very powerful ships sailing to Iran right now. And it would be great if we didn’t have to use them. I told them two things; Number one no nuclear. And number two stop killing protesters. … They’re […]

Ilhan Omar Brutally Mocked For Response When Asked About ‘Staged’ Skirmish Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Extremist Somali Democrat Ilhan Omar faced relentless mockery Thursday after being asked why she reacted so oddly when she was sprayed with an unknown substance by a weirdo at a town hall event earlier this week. Omar was spewing her usual anti-American nonsense when she glanced up at a fidgety creepy guy […]

Don Lemon Arrested By Federal Authorities Over Minnesota Church Protest Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal authorities late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law when he entered the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota and shoved a microphone in people’s faces to livestream reactions after activists stormed the church on Jan. 18.  The protesters, chanting “ICE Out!” – interrupted services […]

“Ready For De-Escalation”: Zelensky Ready To Accept Energy Ceasefire If Putin Will Shortly after President Donald Trump said Thursday afternoon that Russia had agreed to pause strikes on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities for a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight that Ukraine is prepared to halt drone and missile attacks on Russia’s critical energy infrastructure, provided Putin honors a weeklong truce and […]

US Producer Prices Unexpectedly Surged In December Following the cooler than expected Consumer Price Inflation, Producer Prices came in considerably hotter than expected at the headline level in December. PPI rose 0.5% MoM (vs +0.2% MoM exp), lifting headline PPI to +3.0% YoY. Source: Bloomberg Services costs dominated the rise in the headline PPI (not Goods – which would be affected by tariffs). Source: Bloomberg Final […]

Stocks Slide, Gold And Bitcoin Tumble After Trump Taps Warsh As Next Fed Chair US futures slumped, the dollar rallied sharply, the Treasury curve steepened with 10Y yield rising as high as 4.28% and gold and bitcoin tumbled on what was at first speculation and then confirmation, that President Trump is nominating Kevin Warsh – widely viewed as the most hawkish of the handful of candidates – as the next Fed chair. As of 8:00am ET, […]

Straight From “Central Casting”: President Trump Confirms Kevin Warsh As Next Fed Chair Nominee Update (0700ET): As was apparently leaked last night – for a big win on Polymarket – President Trump has just confirmed he is nominating Kevin Warsh to become the next Fed Chair: “I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.” Trump praises […]

Nvidia Aided DeepSeek AI Breakthrough With “Extensive Technical Support,” House China Chair Warns Congressman John Moolenaar (R-MI), chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, penned a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that Nvidia provided extensive technical support to DeepSeek, enabling the startup to achieve chatbot performance breakthroughs despite US export controls on advanced AI chips to China to mitigate […]

Chinese Contract At Panama Canal Ruled Unconstitutional In Win For Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Another massive defeat for China’s interests in the Western Hemisphere, and another ‘win’ for Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine”… The Supreme Court of Panama has just issued a final decision to void the contract renewal for Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison’s subsidiary to operate two Panama Canal ports, in a much anticipated landmark case driven by […]

Trump And Senate Dems Strike Shutdown Deal Update (0950ET): President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats struck a deal to avert a prolonged shutdown for most of the federal government.  The deal will fund all of the government except DHS until September. DHS, meanwhile, will receive funding for two weeks while lawmakers negotiate changes following public outrage over two shootings in Minneapolis by ICE agents. “If Republicans […]

Saudi Arabia Presses Royal Families To Bankroll Faltering Megaprojects Via The Cradle Saudi Arabia has begun pressing the kingdom’s wealthiest families to inject more capital into domestic ventures as flagship Vision 2030 megaprojects are scaled back or shelved, Bloomberg reported this week. The report said the Public Investment Fund (PIF), alongside the Ministry of Investment and other state bodies, convened a closed-door […]

“Doomsday Clock” Ticks Closer To Midnight The hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock now stand at 85 seconds to midnight – closer to global catastrophe than ever before. The Doomsday Clock, or the Nuclear War Clock, represents how close we are veering towards global disaster at the hands of humans. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the decision to move the clock forward from 89 to […]

Germany’s PMI “Recovery” Is Built On Layoffs, Price Inflation, And State Expansion Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Economic indicators suggest a stabilization in Germany’s services sector. Yet the apparent improvement in the corresponding index follows massive staff reductions and efficiency measures undertaken by companies responding to a political structural crisis. In Berlin, the great tremor has begun. For almost exactly seven […]

Births Plummet In China As Population Growth Stalls The number of new babies born in China dropped to 7.9 million in 2025, the lowest number in more than seven decades. This marked a 17 percent decline from one year before, when it was 9.5 million. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the National Statistics Bureau of China (NBS), the country’s birth rate fell to 5.63 per 1,000 people in 2025. This is the lowest […]

Tensions Between Kiev & Budapest Ramp Up As Ambassadors Summoned Over Election Interference Claims Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Hungary and Ukraine have summoned each other’s ambassadors amid a sharp escalation in diplomatic tensions, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accusing Kyiv of attempting to interfere in Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections and Ukraine […]

What’s Worrying Billionaires The Most In 2026? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights the factors most likely to negatively impact the global market environment over the next 12 months, based on responses from billionaires across regions. The data for this visualization comes from the UBS Billionaire Survey 2025. Trade and Geopolitics Dominate Concerns Tariffs rank as the top concern overall, […]

Berlin’s Real Estate Market: Socialism On The Rise Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany’s debt crisis continues to tighten the political leeway of the Federal Republic. The latest push by Berlin’s SPD for stricter real estate regulation clearly signals the direction ahead: Parties at the brink are choosing state-controlled economics over a market-driven turnaround. The German capital, Berlin, functions as a political testing […]

Davos 2026: Acknowledging The End Of Pax Americana Authored by Ret. Admiral Cem Gürdeniz via Michel Chossudovsky’s substack, The end of the Pax Americana established after 1945 was officially acknowledged by both the leaders of finance capital and the elected leaders in Davos 26. The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026 in Davos, which has served as the vision and doctrine center of global capitalism for half a century, was held […]

Maine Is The ‘Oldest’ State, Utah The ‘Youngest’ Across the U.S., age profiles vary widely by region. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, highlights those differences using the most recent nationwide estimates. The data for this visualization comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 1-Year Estimates. It reports the median age for each state and the District of Columbia. The […]

Isaac Newton’s Lost Papers – And His Search For God’s Divine Plan Authored by Duncan Burch via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Few have had as profound an effect on modern scientific understanding as Sir Isaac Newton. A drawing by Isaac Newton of his telescope contained in a book of his letters is displayed next to a statue of him at the Royal Society on November 24, 2009 in London. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Many people are […]

Here’s Morningstar’s Safe-Withdrawal Rate For 2026 Retirees Factoring in projected rates for asset-class returns and inflation, Morningstar analysts say the highest “safe” starting withdrawal rate for people retiring in 2026 is 3.9% of portfolio assets. By “safe,” Morningstar means this is the highest rate that has a 90% chance of having some money at the end of a 30-year retirement. Depending on the scheme you use for subsequent […]

Harvard-Backed Program Drops ‘Students Of Color’ Requirement After Legal Complaint Authored by Anna Poff via The College Fix, A Harvard-backed summer scholarship program accused of racial discrimination quietly revised its eligibility language after a legal complaint, but critics told The College Fix the change came too late. The Union Scholars summer scholarship program is headed by the American Federation of State, County, […]

‘My Colon Literally Blew Up’: Thousands Sue Over GLP-1 Weight Loss Drug Side Effects A growing wave of lawsuits is challenging the safety warnings accompanying blockbuster weight-loss drugs that have rapidly reshaped American medicine and culture, raising questions about whether patients were adequately informed of the risks tied to medications now used by tens of millions of people. Todd Engel is one of several plaintiffs in a […]