Swalwell Announces Run For California Governor Amid Probe Into Alleged Mortgage Fraud Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced Thursday night that he will run for California governor in 2026, joining an already-packed field of Democratic candidates vying to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom when his term ends.  California Rep. Eric Swalwell speaks during a House Judiciary Committee in September. | Win McNamee/Getty Images Appearing on “Jimmy […]

Trump To Meet With Mamdani At The White House Authored by Arjun Singh and Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump will meet New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House today. “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st,” Trump announced on Truth Social. Mamdani, […]

UMich Consumer Expectations Hit A Record (48 Year) Low The weakness from the preliminary UMich data for November has been confirmed with the final sentiment print confirmed the so-called ‘K-shaped’ economy as sentiment slumps with stocks near record highs. However, the small silver lining with today’s UMich data was an improvement intra-month from 50.3 to 51.0 for the headline (but still at its lowest since June 2022). After the […]

Don’t Fight The Fed… But Is China Worth A Shot? By Daniel Moss, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter  The idea of taking out insurance against worst-case scenarios, mostly by cutting interest rates, became a popular choice among the world’s big central banks over the past quarter century. Beijing has shunned this doctrine lately. It may come with a price. The People’s Bank of China recently downplayed concerns that the world’s […]

‘Soft’ Survey Data Shows Services Strong, Manufacturing Weak In Nov As official US macro ‘hard’ data starts to creep out from Washington, we get more private ‘soft’ survey data this morning (for preliminary November period) and it is ‘mixed’ for want of a better word. S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI fell from 52.5 to 51.9 (worse than the 52.0 expected) – 4 month low S&P Global US Services PMI rose from 54.8 to 55.0 […]

Regime Change In Kyiv? US Peace Plan Demands Ukraine Hold Rapid Elections After Signing Russia says it has yet to receive anything official from the United States regarding the new draft Trump-backed plan for ending the war in Ukraine. And already several media headlines say Ukraine and European leaders are signaling their rejection of it, as it presents too much of a compromise. We’ve examined the widely leaked US plan for peace […]

Amazon Sending $1.5 Billion In Automatic Refunds To Customers: 4 Things To Know Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amazon has started sending emails and paying out up to $1.5 billion in automatic refunds to Prime customers who may be impacted by a recent settlement, according to an update from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday. Amazon packages are transported by conveyor belts inside of an […]

Ukraine & Europe Reject Trump’s Russia Peace Plan, Prepare Emergency Call By all estimates, this is the first ever US-proposed peace plan which actually demands major concessions from Ukraine, but it also seeks to provide assurances for Kiev’s future protection modelled on NATO article five, according to Axios. Among President Zelensky’s top objectives has long been to obtain a robust US and European security guarantee, and […]

Stocks Rebound As Fed’s Williams Sparks Surge In Rate-Cut Odds After an ugly overnight session, US equity futures are back in the green this morning following dovish comments from NYFed Governor Williams… In the text of a speech he delivered Friday in Santiago, Chile, Williams said downside risks to employment have increased while upside risks to inflation have eased. “I view monetary policy as being modestly restrictive, […]

Stratospheric Warming Sparks Goldman Warning Of Looming U.S. Polar Vortex We began this week by publishing a weather note on the latest weather models, warning of an incoming winter cold blast that will sweep across parts of the Lower 48 during the holiday Thanksgiving week. You might have noticed that the term “polar vortex” has been popping up across the news cycle in recent days, with headline volume (via Bloomberg data) […]

US & Qatar Force EU Climate Policy U-Turn – End of the ESG Era? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe While former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock calls for a fight against climate-driven global apocalypse at COP30, Brussels is being forced into political restraint by pressure from the US and Qatar. On the horizon, the end of the EU’s grand climate machinations is becoming visible. November 13, 2025, could mark a turning […]

Futures Slide As Bitcoin Flash Crashes To April Low Ahead Of $3.1 Trillion Opex 10 Things You Shouldn’t Miss This AM… 1) Japan on Friday escalated its warning of currency intervention and the central bank governor signaled the chance of a near-term interest rate hike, as authorities sought to combat unwelcome yen falls blamed for pushing up the cost of living. RTRS 2) Japan’s inflation ticked higher and exports rose. […]

NASA Debunks Rumors About Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, With the federal government shutdown over, NASA leadership was finally able to provide an update to the public about an interstellar object that was caught passing through the solar system in July. A press conference was livestreamed on Nov. 19, and it began with Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya confirming that the object […]

Bitcoin Flash-Crashes Below $82,000 As UBS Says A “Flush” Is Needed Before “Turning More Constructive”  As we joked earlier this week about the overnight Bitcoin dump – the “Korean Krypto Kamikazes” – the selling has continued with no clear catalyst. The largest crypto asset briefly plunged to $81,569 and is now on track for its worst month since 2022.  BTC dropped as much as 6% early Friday to $81,569, while Ether and smaller […]

“Rigging The News Is Heinous” – FCC Chair Carr Probes BBC ‘Corruption’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has launched a probe into the BBC “intentionally distorting” edit of President Trump’s January 6 2021 speech, demanding U.S. broadcasters NPR and PBS reveal if they aired the fake clip—escalating the scandal that forced BBC brass to quit as Trump threatens a $1 billion+ lawsuit. […]

Visualizing The Impact Of Terrorism Around The World According to the Global Guardian Terror Index 2026, countries in Africa, Asia and some in Latin America and the Middle East are being heavily affected by acts of terrorism. However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, in major economies in Europe, the terror threat also continued to be high. You will find more infographics at Statista Within Africa and Asia, […]

Germans Pay 4 Times More For Electricity Than Hungarians In Capital Cities Via Remix News, A report out of the International Energy Agency reveals that the Hungarian capital of Budapest had the lowest electricity prices in the EU in October. Meanwhile, the German capital of Berlin ranked as having the most expensive rate in Europe. German households paid more than four times higher electricity prices on average than Hungarian […]

Inflation Watch: Countries Losing The Most Purchasing Power In 2025 Imagine earning $100 in January, only to have it buy less than $80 worth of goods or services by December. That’s how fast inflation is eating away at purchasing power in some countries. This graphic, created by Visual Capitalist’s Jenna Ross in partnership with Plasma, highlights countries with the highest inflation rates and what $100 could be worth by the end […]

Netanyahu Visits Israeli Troops Inside Southern Syria In Provocative First Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Israeli soldiers in occupied Syria on Wednesday, where the faces of the troops were blurred out in photos and videos to protect them from the risk of legal action over allegations of involvement in war crimes. Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, […]

Putin In Military Fatigues Announces Another Key Ukrainian City Captured Kupiansk, an important rail junction in the northeastern Kharkiv region, has been taken by Russia’s military on Thursday, in another example of Moscow forces steadily, even if slowly, gobbling up territory along the front lines. President Putin was all business, showing up in military fatigues as commander-in-chief for a televised briefing from the defense […]

Japan Might Challenge China Sooner Than Expected Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It was recently assessed that “Japan Will Play A Much Greater Role In Advancing The American Agenda In Asia”, which its new ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has wasted no time in doing. Her first move in this direction was telling parliament that “If there are battleships and the use of force (by China against Taiwan), […]

China Prepares New Property Stimulus Package As Housing Crisis Enters Year Six The global stimmy train is about to leave the station.  With Japan – which is now in recession – set to announce a massive (for its GDP) $150BN fiscal stimulus any second, it’s (increasingly belligerent) neighbor to the west is also about to make it rain. China is considering new measures to turn around its zombified property market, about to enter its […]

America’s Real Crisis: The Collapse Of The Citizen Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, Across the free world, people are exhausted, institutions appear unresponsive, and leaders feel distant. Politics remains an endless quarrel. In this climate, a new idea is taking hold, that perhaps the machines can do better. Billionaire technologist and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has publicly cautioned against this temptation […]

Marc Andreessen: How America Can Beat China At “The Biggest Industry Ever Built” Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has grown impatient with what he regards as a dangerously misguided national conversation about manufacturing in the United States, one that continues to fixate on bringing back the factories and jobs that disappeared four decades ago, when the far more consequential opportunity lies in dominating the […]

Pennsylvania Bill – ‘Jetsons Act’ – Aims To Green-Light Flying Cars Weeks after we suggested that the next-generation Tesla Roadster could very well be the Alef “flying car,” we turn our attention to Pennsylvania, which is positioning itself to join several states preparing for a world of flying cars.  Fox News reports that State Sen. Marty Flynn, of the 22nd District, has reintroduced Senate Bill 1077, also known as the Jetsons […]