US Seizes Another Oil Tanker In Caribbean As ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Steams Ahead The foreign policy move to dismantle the so-called “dark fleet” of crude oil tankers moving Venezuela’s oil around the world, through President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy to secure the Western Hemisphere, was once again on full display on Friday morning. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Coast Guard forces boarded a fifth oil tanker, Olina, as […]

Futures Muted Ahead Of Two Key Events Stock futures are muted, with traders awaiting two major catalysts: A possible Supreme Court ruling on whether Trump’s tariffs are legal and December payrolls — a key datapoint for the trajectory of interest rates. As of 8:00amm, S&P 500 futures are up 0.1%, with Nasdaq 100 contracts +0.2% with Mag 7 stocks mixed premarket. Mortgage stocks jump after President Donald Trump said on […]

Atlanta Fed Nearly Doubles Q4 Growth Estimate To 5.4% After Strong Data Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, U.S. economic growth prospects received a fresh boost this week as the Atlanta Federal Reserve nearly doubled its estimate for fourth-quarter output after a raft of strong data, while Fitch Ratings lifted its projections for full-year 2025 and 2026 growth after delayed government releases showed firmer economic […]

Six Global Energy Trends Shaping The Middle East In 2026 Via Rystad Energy, Middle Eastern national oil companies (NOCs) reinforced their role as a critical buffer in the global energy system through a consistent strategy of capacity expansion and cost reduction, planning to grow investment to about $110 billion in 2026. OPEC+ successfully transitioned from reactive production cuts to a sophisticated strategy of controlled […]

Lenders & Homebuilders Jump After Trump Unveils QE-Style $200B Mortgage Bond Buying Plan To Unfreeze Housing Market Upate (0710ET): Shares of LoanDepot, Rocket Companies, and Opendoor Technologies surged in premarket trading after President Trump signaled plans to push Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, a move aimed at driving down mortgage rates and improving affordability ahead […]

Did Gen-Z Just Get A Taste For Fancy Used-Watches The Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index, which tracks prices for the 50 most-traded watches by value on the secondary market, bottomed one year ago and has been rising ever since. Prices in the secondary market are up 2.1% over the last 24 months and nearly 9% over the last 12 months. Prices remain well below the peaks seen during the Covid-era free-money period. Bloomberg’s Allegra […]

Wife Jailed After Caging, Starving & Boiling Husband With 60 Chihuahuas As Belgian Court Rejects Menopause Excuse Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A Belgian court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to seven years in prison after rejecting claims that early menopause, stress, and a household overrun by 60 chihuahuas explained months of sadistic abuse that resulted in her husband being locked up and tortured for weeks on […]

Four Investment Themes For 2026 Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Let me get to the punch line of my view on the financial markets for 2026. The remarkable equity bull run of the past couple of years is unlikely to stall, at least not in the first half of 2026. Corrections are inevitable, and we are indeed likely in an asset bubble. But in the coming months, the benefits of President Donald Trump’s policy […]

White House Mulls Payments Up To $100,000 Per Greenlander To Join US The Trump administration has mulled sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders of up to $100,000 in exchange for their vote to secede from Denmark and join the United States, Reuters reports, citing four sources familiar with the matter. Nuuk, Greenland The exact dollar figure and logistics of any payments are unclear, however US officials, including White […]

Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report Update (1858): The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE “warrior” and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to “document and resist” ICE operations in Minnesota.   Key details from the NYPost report: Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her […]

“Appalling”: Debanking Explodes To Record High In Britain An estimated 453,230 accounts were shut down in the United Kingdom in the last year, a stunning figure that has drawn outrage from the country’s leading conservative lawmaker. Nigel Farage Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called the shocking figure “appalling” and slammed European rules that he believes “makes it cheaper for banks to close accounts over unusual […]

Stolen Soil And Corporate Welfare: The Global Scam Of ‘Feeding The World’ Authored by Colin Todhunter via Off-Guardian.org, Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread micronutrient deficiency, ecological collapse and rural precarity. This is the outcome of an agricultural model […]

German Prez Gets Schnitzel In A Twist, Says Trump Destroying World Order German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is absolutely freaked out about Donald Trump, and says the ‘world order’ is at risk of disintegrating into a “den of robbers” where the unscrupulous simply take what they want.  Wait, you mean:  – Like Ukrainian oligarchs busted embezzling $100M IN US taxpayer money (for starters)? – Like the Panama papers? – […]

Swedish Migration Board Employee Blows Whistle On Agency Run By Migrants Who Refuse To Integrate, And Serve Their Own Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Swedish Migration Board, the authority charged with deciding who may live in Sweden and under what conditions, has been described by internal sources as an organization largely staffed by personnel with a migration background who often speak their own languages and seek […]

Guyana: The Little Caribbean Country With A Big Role To Play In Trump’s Regional Shift Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, With the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in a bold Jan. 3 military raid and a large naval force still prowling the southern Caribbean to ensure that Maduro’s successors cooperate with the Trump administration, other subtle, but key, developments in the region can be overlooked. […]

Where People (Don’t) Reach For Alcohol-Free Alternatives 2026 has arrived, and like every year, many around the world will be using this new beginning to take New Year’s resolutions, often centered around health: exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, or maybe drinking less. Dry January, a month-long break from alcohol, was officially launched as a campaign in 2013 by Alcohol Change UK, a charity specialising in […]

Watch: NYC Protesters Chant “Kristi Noem will Hang!” and “Save a Life, Kill an ICE” The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis has sparked outrage, and, predictably, a wave of protests dominated by the far-left’s inflammatory rhetoric. While the incident itself remains under investigation, with federal authorities asserting that Good charged at agents with her […]

Monsanto Sues COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers, Alleging Copyright Infringement Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Bayer and its Monsanto division are suing COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, alleging they used technology Monsanto developed and patented in the 1980s in their vaccines. Bayer said in lawsuits that Pfizer, its partner BioNTech, and Moderna wrongly used technology Monsanto developed and used to make plants […]

US Control Of Venezuela Could Last For Years, Trump Says The White House issued two interesting, and somewhat perplexing new statements on Venezuela amid the post-Maduro ‘transition’. First, the White House said Wednesday that the US would be “dictating” future decisions made by the Venezuelan government – which is now officially headed up by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s VP since 2018, and is seen as a […]

Kimmel Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill Americans’ Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Talk show loser Jimmy Kimmel unleashed another unhinged rant against President Trump during a monologue Wednesday, peddling the absurd narrative that Trump is out to “kill” citizens through ICE operations.  Fresh off a justified self-defense shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Kimmel twisted the facts to fuel leftist outrage, […]

Doug Casey On The Death Of Privacy… And What Comes Next Via International Man International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered. Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits. Why are governments so intent on phasing out cash? What is really behind this coordinated effort? Doug Casey: Let me draw […]

Border Patrol Agents Shoot Two People In Sanctuary City Portland U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two individuals in the sanctuary city of Portland on Thursday evening, according to local media. The incident comes one day after the ICE-involved shooting of an “ICE Watch” left-wing activist in Minneapolis on Wednesday. While details surrounding the Portland shooting remain scarce, the risk of overnight protests or riots […]

Pilot Who Landed Plane After Panel Blew Out Sues Boeing, Claims Company Unfairly Blamed Him An Alaska Airlines pilot who was universally praised as a hero after safely landing a Boeing jet after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff is suing the company because he says the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew. The section of a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight […]

Trump Seeks $6 Million Legal Fee Reimbursement For Dismissed Georgia Election Case Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is asking the state of Georgia to reimburse $6.26 million in attorney fees and costs he incurred defending against his now-dismissed election interference case in the state. (Left) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at the Atlanta Police headquarters in Atlanta […]

NBC News Analysis Of ICE Shooting Video Opens Door To Self-Defense On Wednesday morning, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good accelerated towards an ICE agent with her car, and he responded with lethal force. Good was shot and killed. Democrats and media figures rushed to condemn the shooting as an unjustified murder.  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claimed to have watched the […]