Despite Headwinds: Airlines On Track For A Record Year The global airline industry is on track to hit new revenue and profit records in 2025 and 2026. As Statista’s Felix Richter details below, according to the latest industry outlook from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), commercial airlines, including passenger and cargo airlines, are expected to surpass $1 trillion in revenue for the first time this year, […]

Instacart Scraps Variable-Pricing Experiment After Consumer Groups Warned Of Inflated Grocery Bills Authored byh Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Instacart said it is ending a pricing experiment that allowed different customers to see different prices for identical grocery items after consumer advocates said the practice could inflate grocery bills at a time when households are already struggling with high food […]

Malicious Actors Impersonating Senior US Officials, FBI Warns Malicious actors are impersonating government officials to secure sensitive information and steal funds, the FBI said in an alert on Dec. 19. “Activity dating back to 2023 reveals malicious actors have impersonated senior U.S. state government, White House, and Cabinet-level officials, as well as members of Congress to target individuals, including officials’ family […]

Military Jet Performs ‘Headbutt’ On Plane Intruding Into Mar-a-Lago Airspace Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft that violated restricted airspace over President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 21, military officials said. An F-15 fighter jet from the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing intercepted a simulated […]

Holy Awakening Gains Momentum As Biblical ‘David’ Film Soars At Box Office A revival appears to be taking shape in the US, with a noticeable resurgence of religious interest among young men and women that emerged during President Trump’s “America First” campaign and intensified following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In our “Is A Holy Awakening Unfolding Across America” report in mid-October, we cited numerous research firms […]

Judge Green-Lights Secret Service Agent’s Retaliation Case Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A federal judge has allowed most claims in a senior Secret Service agent’s lawsuit alleging a hostile workplace, retaliation, and discrimination to move forward despite Department of Homeland Security opposition, according to court documents.   Rashid Ellis, a 14-year veteran of the agency with expertise in drone […]

MSM Belatedly Details Syrian ‘Prisons Filling Up Again, Torture’ Under Jolani Regime More than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow, and some mainstream media outlets are finally taking a critical eye to the new Sharaa/Jolani regime and its human rights abuses, religious oppression, and war crimes. While the West and Gulf countries celebrated Assad fleeting the country for Russia in December 2024, with the al-Qaeda linked Hayat […]

State Department Recalls 29 Biden-Appointed Ambassadors Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States has recalled almost 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial roles. A sign for the State Department on the outside of the Harry S. Truman Federal Building in Washington on July 11, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images All of the ambassadors were appointed under President Joe Biden and are senior […]

Japan To Resume Operations At World’s Largest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Japan is set to resume operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, marking a key development in the country’s return to nuclear energy almost 15 years after the Fukushima disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, […]

Mapping The Chances Of A White Christmas A white Christmas is one of those holiday experiences that feels universal—until you look at the weather history and actual odds of snowfall on Christmas Day across the United States. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows the historic probability across the U.S. of seeing at least one inch of snow on the ground on December 25, using data from the NOAA National Centers for […]

Watch Live: Trump Makes Announcement At Mar-A-Lago With Secretary Of War Pete Hegseth President Trump is scheduled to make a public announcement at 4:30 p.m. EST at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. *TRUMP’S 4:30PM ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY IS ON SHIPBUILDING: OFFICIAL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 22, 2025 No details have been released about the […]

“Power That Goes Unpunished Only Learns One Lesson: It Can Do Whatever It Wants…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Seeing Is Believing (Not) “…power that goes unpunished only learns one lesson: it can do whatever it wants.” – Roger Stone Has it occurred to you that the video footage of the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell that shows nobody coming or going around the hour that he “killed himself” could […]

Maduro Must Go, DHS Secretary Noem Says, Vows More Tanker Intercepts Washington is making clear – in case there was still lingering confusion in anyone’s mind – that we have entered the “Maduro must go” phase of looming regime change operations targeting Venezuela. A fresh Monday statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem makes clear that “We’re not just interdicting these ships, but we’re also sending a message […]

Trump Ditches ‘The Weave’, Delivers Sales Pitch Susie Wiles Asked For Authored by Philip Wegmann via The RealClearPolitics, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles directed President Trump to the teleprompter to deliver specific and scripted remarks in prime-time – rather than the off-the-cuff kind he favors on the stump – about affordability, the accomplishments of his first term, and the challenges ahead. He delivered a […]

Iran Holds Surprise Missile Drills Near Cities Amid Fears Of New Israel War Iran on Monday is conducting live missiles drills across several areas and cities, with officials telling the world the military will remain steadfast in defending the country and that its missile program is strictly defensive. The semi-official Fars news agency confirmed that missile tests were observed in multiple locations, among them Tehran, Isfahan, […]

23 US States Are At High Risk Of (Or In) Recession Currently U.S. GDP is made up of many smaller, distinct state economies fueling national growth. In 2025, states responsible for about a third of U.S. GDP are in recession, or face high recession risk. Another third are expanding, including Florida and Utah, based on payrolls, employment, and other key economic data. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows […]

Insane Financial Imbalances And Social Revolution Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, A rebalancing of the economy and society will ultimately prove very positive, but first we must navigate the model collapse of insane financial extremes. I’ve endeavored to explain how self-referential models veer into hallucinations that are accepted as accurate reflections of the real world. Models are by definition synthetic […]

Dave Chappelle Says Charlie Kirk “Was No MLK” In New Netflix Special Sometimes comedians fall flat, especially when they write jokes about a recently murdered person without understanding the fundamental facts of their life.  Is it possible to make comedy about a recent assassination and be legitimately funny?  Probably.  However, Chappelle missed a golden opportunity to expose some truth and instead tried to play it safe and […]

Yields Hit Session Highs After Poor, Tailing 2Y Auction Sees Lowest Foreign Demand Since 2023 It’s the last treasury auction week of the year, and due to upcoming holidays, we are running on an accelerated scheduled which means the 2Y auction which usually takes placed on Tuesday, is Monday’s business instead. It was a subpar auction with modest demand; overall grade – not great, not terrible. The auction of $69BN in 2Y paper […]

A Christmas Carol For The Markets, 2025 Edition By Elwin de Groot, Head of Macro Strategy at Rabobank As the year draws to a close, Ebenezer “Macro” Scrooge looks back on an eventful 2025. Sitting alone in his glass-walled office on Christmas Eve, the city below twinkling like a Bloomberg terminal in night mode. His screens glowed with charts: yield curves steepening, equities hitting all-time highs, and a lonely alert […]

House Republicans Setting Up Early 2026 Vote On Stock Trading Ban House Republicans are teeing up a vote in early 2026 on legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading stock, however Democrats are insisting that it be expanded to cover the president, vice president, and their spouses.  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves a news conference as Republicans struggle with a plan to address growing health care […]

Silver Just Called The COMEX’s Bluff Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, December means many things: A year coming to an end, a time for reflection, a time for looking ahead. A time for family and friends, and of course, a time for holiday belly-expansion. However, what many may have missed this December is that it was the month the paper markets in silver had yet another near-death experience. Hiding in Plain […]

Atmospheric Rivers Pound US West Coast, Raising Bomb Cyclone Threat Ahead Of Christmas Powerful atmospheric rivers continue to hammer Washington and Northern California, extending into Central California, dumping inches of rain, with some low-elevation areas seeing double-digit totals, while higher elevations are getting buried under heavy snowfall. Here is this week’s forecast via The Weather Channel: Atmospheric rivers continue […]

Democratic Despotism: The American Left Moves From Censored To Compelled Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, More than five years ago, I wrote in these pages of a growing trend on the left toward compelled speech – the forcing of citizens to repeat approved views and values. It is an all-too-familiar pattern. Once a faction assumes power, it will often first seek to censor opposing views and then compel the endorsement of […]

Trump Admin Tests New Medicare Drug Pricing Pilot Programs Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two pilot programs on Dec. 19, as the Trump administration tests new ways to lower out-of-pocket drug costs for Americans on Medicare. An employee is seen at a Florida pharmacy in this file […]