Executives At Bankrupt Subprime Auto Lender Tricolor Charged With Fraud Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, The former CEO and chief operating officer of subprime auto dealer and financier Tricolor Holdings were formally charged on Dec. 16 with bank and wire fraud for their alleged roles in what officials say was a years-long scheme to defraud banks and private credit lenders of hundreds of millions of dollars. Tricolor […]

AI Won’t End Marketing, It Will Elevate It To Its Full Potential Authored by Mark Penn via RealClearMarkets, For decades, marketers have been chasing the holy grail of marketing – the perfect ability to get the right ad to the right person at the right time in an effortless fashion. Before AI, this was never really possible. We moved from radio advertising to linear TV to digital, each  time getting closer to the holy grail but […]

Uniformed Armed Guards Spotted On Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Vessels Off Europe Russia is upping the ante at a moment the US and some European countries are threatening action and new sanctions on vessels transporting Russian oil and gas to global markets, in defiance of Western sanctions. Sweden’s navy announced Wednesday it has spotted armed personnel in uniform providing security for vessels linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow […]

Vance Fires Back At Media Smear: “I Only Believe In The Conspiracy Theories That Are True” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a brazen attempt by legacy media to sow discord within the Trump administration, Vanity Fair dropped a so-called “exclusive” interview with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, cherry-picking her words to paint Vice President JD Vance as some wild-eyed “conspiracy theorist.” But Vance […]

Where Did Global Warming Go? US East Sees Snowiest Start In Nearly Two Decades The so-called “climate crisis” narrative was built on a house of cards and has been unraveling ever since Bill Gates acknowledged the risks were overstated, and a major study long used to project climate catastrophe was recently retracted. In reality, the narrative became a vehicle for globalist Democrats to raid the U.S. Treasury and push de-growth […]

It’s Affordability, Stupid? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The recent Democratic cry of “affordability” is ironic in many ways. The left-wing narrative of Trump hyperinflation was one of desperation and came only after previous memes had failed to resonate. The 2025 generic “dictator,” “fascist,” and “Nazi” smear points never helped the left much. Nor did the nihilist government shutdown […]

Wall Street’s $4 Quadrillion Backbone To Roll-Out Tokenized US Treasuries Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation said it is set to bring tokenized US Treasurys onchain, and plans to expand to a “broad spectrum” of assets in the future. The DTCC said on Wednesday that it plans to “enable a subset of US Treasury securities” custodied at its subsidiary, the Depository […]

DOD Flirting With Aviation Disaster: 2nd Near-Collision With USAF Tanker Off Venezuela Just one day after almost killing everyone aboard a passenger jet, the US Air Force narrowly dodged another near-disaster off the coast of Venezuela — this time with a business jet. For many, the two frightening incidents intensify a perception that the administration’s militarism against Venezuela is as reckless as it is unwarranted and […]

Gavin Newsom Singles Out CZ, Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes As Trump’s “Criminal Cronies” Authored by Vismaya V via Decrypt.co, California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a website tracking what he calls President Donald Trump’s “criminal cronies,” a list that includes Trump himself alongside convicted drug lords, January 6 insurrectionists, and several prominent crypto figures who have received presidential pardons. […]

Ford To Lay Off 1,600 Workers As Kentucky EV Battery Plant Pivots To Data Center Storage Ford will lay off all 1,600 workers at its newly built electric-vehicle battery plant in Glendale, Kentucky, as it pivots away from EV production and converts the facility to make battery-storage systems for data centers, utilities, and renewable-energy developers, according to WDRB. The company said Monday it plans to begin shipping battery […]

Trump Admin Demands Tim Walz’s Resignation After Another Fraud Discovery Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Education Secretary Linda McMahon demanded on Monday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz step down over allegations that his administration allowed millions in taxpayer money to be stolen by “ghost students.”  Tim Walz / IMAGE: @AlphaNews via X McMahon’s scathing letter, published on X, came after the Education […]

Shell Oil Sued Over “Causing Typhoon” In Philippines In Major Test Case Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, A massive ‘lawfare’ claim backed by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth has been filed in the UK’s Royal Courts of Justice claiming that Shell Oil played a part in a devastating typhoon in the Philippines in 2021. At the centre of the case is a Green Blob-funded weather ‘attribution’ study that claims […]

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 […]

Solid 20Y Auction Stops Through After Jump In Foreign Demand With stocks selling off again, and with capital – especially tech capital – scrambling for a flight to safety, it should hardly surprise anyone that today’s 20Y auction was strong.  Pricing at a high yield of 4.798%, this was almost 10bps higher than the 4.71% stop in November (when the auction tailed by 0.2bps), and stopped through today’s When Issued 4.799% by 0.1bps, […]

California Allows Tesla To Continue Sales In State… For Now Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has placed on hold an order suspending Tesla’s car sales in the state, granting the electric vehicle maker additional time to respond to allegations of misleading marketing and overstated self-driving capabilities. Teslas fill the charging stations at a […]

Fani Gets Frothy In Epic Meltdown Over Payments To Lover Fulton County DA Fani Willis – who botched her 2020 election case against President Trump and others after it emerged that she was paying her lover, Nathan Wade, to help prosecute the case – had a complete meltdown on Wednesday in an appearance before a special Georgia Senate committee examining her prosecution of President Trump.  When presented with documents showing […]

Fellow Judge Delivers Blow To The Defense Of Hannah Dugan Authored by Jonathan Turley, The trial of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan began this week. Yesterday, the defense was delivered a blow from the testimony of the judge, who Dugan enlisted to confront ICE officers seeking to arrest an illegal alien in the courthouse. Judge Kristela Cervera testified that she was pulled into the dispute by Dugan, who she said admitted […]

Putin Dismisses EU Leaders As ‘European Swine’ Who’ve Failed To Collapse Russia President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that European leaders have continued stoking and hyping fears that Russia seeks expansion and that it is prepared even to go to war with EU and NATO countries. He went so far as to call EU officials “European swine” for their role in fueling the proxy war. He again emphasized that Moscow is in no way seeking […]

FBI Arrested A Fifth Trantifa Militant In NYE Bomb Plot Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The FBI arrested a fifth suspect in a New Year’s Eve mass bombing plot tied to the communist “decolonization” outfit known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front. This time, it’s an ex-Marine and former cop who ditched sanity for Trantifa extremism, underscoring how transgender ideology keeps fueling these deranged attacks on […]

House Advances GOP Healthcare Bill With No Enhanced ACA Extension (Updated 1153ET): The House has advanced the GOP healthcare bill in a 213-209 vote, which does not include Obamacare extensions. The move came despite moderate Republicans signing a Democratic discharge petition to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies in an act of defiance against leadership.  Moderate Republicans had been sounding the alarm for weeks that failing […]

ASPI Jumps After Clearing Hurdle To Acquire Renergen ASPI, which we have discussed extensively both here in our premium section, has finally received all required approvals for the acquisition of South African LNG and helium production company, Renergen. Temporary – and recurring – delays in obtaining regulatory approval for the acquisition in South Africa were starting to create doubts that the transaction would never close. But […]

Warner Bros. Board Urges Shareholders To Reject Paramount Hostile Takeover Bid Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Warner Bros. Discovery’s board of directors said on Dec. 17 that it is advising shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid and support Netflix’s offer. Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery logos are seen in this illustration created on Dec. 5, 2025. Dado […]

“He’ll Be Lucky To Have A Bookmobile”: The Future Of Joe Biden’s Presidential Library In Doubt As Donations Fail To Come In Former President Joe Biden’s planned monument to his presidency is becoming a brutal reality check on his legacy.  In September, the Biden camp announced plans to build his presidential library in Delaware – assembling a team of former aides, friends, and political allies to oversee the project, which is […]

The EU’s New Policy Towards Russia’s Seized Assets Isn’t About Helping Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia condemned the EU’s recent decision to indefinitely immobilize its seized assets, the special procedure for which scandalously circumvented member states’ veto power in an effort to prevent Hungary and Slovakia from stopping them. This move might precede the bloc either confiscating some of these […]

WTI Holds ‘Venezuela Blockade’ Gains After Small Crude Draw, Record US Production Oil prices surged overnight, jumping off multi-year lows after President Trump ordered a “total and complete blockade” of oil tankers into and out of Venezuela. That was amid hopes of a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, among other factors including record domestic production and weakening demand in China. But as one geopolitical risk looks set […]