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Syrian Leader With $10M Bounty On His Head Meets With Delegation From Country That Put The $10M Bounty On His Head On Friday for the first time top Biden administration envoys met with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani in Damascus. Ironically the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader, who has reverted to going by his birth name of Ahmad al-Sharaa,…

Trump Effect? China’s 1Y Yield Crashes Below 1% For First Time Since GFC For the first time since the Great Financial Crisis (2008/9), short-dated Chinese bond yields have plunged back below 1%. In fact they are now at record lows… Source: Bloomberg As we head into the end of the year, impatient investors are left…

Car Rams Into German Christmas Market, 60 To 80 Injured; Shocking Video Released Watch Live German News Watch Live UK News *   *   * Update (1556ET): AFP News reports that 60 to 80 people were injured when a car rammed through a Christmas market in Germany. There is no official word regarding fatalities. Reportedly the…

Striking Amazon Workers Hold Christmas Hostage To Demand Labor Contract From “Greedy Executives”  Workers at seven Amazon warehouses and other facilities went on strike Thursday morning in a nationwide labor action after the e-commerce giant refused to negotiate a labor contract with the union earlier this week. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Amazon workers…

Dronomania Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases. Terrified thousands demand to know what these drones are doing and to whom they belong. In response,…

US Looking At ‘Getting People On The Ground In Syria’ To Engage HTS: Blinken That didn’t take long at all… the Biden White House is already thinking about normalizing relations with al-Qaeda splinter faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who still has a $10 million US bounty on his head for…

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear TikTok Appeal By Catherine Yang of Epoch Times The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 18 agreed to hear TikTok’s case challenging a law requiring its China-based parent company to divest of the app by Jan. 19, 2025. The court will hear oral arguments on Jan. 10, 2025. TikTok had challenged…

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell Explains Why He Cut Rates Again As Inflation Data Surges This should be good… How is Fed Chair Powell going to explain why The Fed just cut rates AGAIN, despite inflation and growth (hard data) surprising dramatically to the upside? (with one dissent seeing sense and urging no cuts). …and…

Hawkish Fed Cut Rates As Expected; Signals Dramatically Less Aggressive Rate-Cut Cycle Tl;dr: The Fed has clearly decided that Trump’s policies will be inflationary – ignoring for a moment the forced-hand of a rate-cut today, they hiked their inflation and interest rate forecasts dramatically, with the latter catching up to the hawkish market’s perception. But…

Biden-Harris Supplies Record $15 Billion Low-Interest Loan To PG&E For Combating “Climate Change”  The Biden-Harris administration has provided a low-interest loan commitment to California utility giant PG&E to tackle “climate change” and bolster its power grid. The move reflects the administration’s broader push over the first term: out-of-control compulsion to spend taxpayer funds like a…

2025’s Best (And Worst) US States For Sound Money Authored by Jp Cortez via The Mises Institute, The newly-released 2025 Sound Money Index has identified Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alaska as the states with the most favorable policies toward constitutional sound money, while Vermont, Maine, and California take the most hostile stances. Released annually by the Sound Money…

Trump Might Reverse ‘Very Stupid’ Long-Range Strikes On Russia Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President-elect Donald Trump suggested at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday that he could reverse President Biden’s decision to support long-range missile strikes on Russian territory. Trump said it was a “big mistake” for the Biden administration to greenlight the escalation…

How Will Apple Compete With $168 AI Smartphones From China? Chinese brands are targeting Apple iPhone users with low-cost, AI-equipped smartphones in the world’s largest handset market. Apple’s delayed rollout of “Apple Intelligence” has resulted in a very uninspiring launch of the iPhone 16 in China, while domestic brands are ramping up new low-cost AI-powered smartphones to seize market…

Intrinsic Value Of Crypto: What Is It & How To Calculate It Authored by Onkar Singh via CoinTelegraph.com, Key takeaways Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin gain value from factors like scarcity, utility and security, not physical backing. Common methods to calculate intrinsic worth of a cryptocurrency include Metcalfe’s Law, cost of production and discounted utility models. Estimating…

Trudeau Considering Quitting After Canadian FinMin Freeland Unexpectedly Resigns: Report Update (2:30pm ET): Canada’s CTV News reports that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering interrupting Parliament (prorogation) or resignation according to unnamed sources. The sources say he has spoken to his cabinet and plans to address Parliament later on Monday. This comes after finance minister…

CNN “Discovers” Syrian Prisoner Left Behind In Gulag – Skeptics Claim Incident Was Staged Has the establishment media lost their touch when it comes to theatrical propaganda, or is the public becoming more savvy?  CNN’s reputation for accuracy has been extensively damaged over the past several years; their vitriol over Donald Trump and their defense…

Is Google’s Willow Processor A Threat To Bitcoin? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Just a couple of days ago I wrote a piece reminding readers that, despite looking at bitcoin more favorably the last year or so, it still remains an unprecedented and opaque area of markets where risk could rear its head quickly, unexpectedly, and before…

Georgia’s New President, An Ex-Soccer Player, Solidifies Anti-EU Leadership The Republic of Georgia has a new president, and he is a former professional footballer for Manchester City: 53-year old Mikheil Kavelashvili of Georgian Dream party. He emerged victorious on Saturday, but was the only candidate, after 224 out of 225 members of Georgia’s electoral college…

Sigh… Gen Z Interns Are Still Tweeting About Project 2025 From Biden’s X Account Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump won the election over a month ago. Yet ‘Joe Biden’ sent out a post on X Friday saying that he’s “praying” Trump will not implement “Project 2025”. They just can’t stop with this…

“Watch Credit Spreads” For Crash Signals – Insights From Pento & Roberts On 2025 Positioning Are markets headed for a cliff? Most analysts flipped bullish following the Trump win with promises of peace, lower taxes, and business-friendly regulation. But one strategist, Michael Pento, is calling for a major crash as severe as 50% off the…

“We’re Kinda Worried…” – Judicial Watch Helps Unearth 911 Call Made By Trump Shooter’s Dad Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Thanks to the help of the non-profit transparency group Judicial Watch, Headline USA has obtained a recording of the 911 call Thomas Crooks’s father made on the day his son allegedly tried assassinating Donald Trump during…

Texas Lawmaker Proposes Bill To Establish Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, A lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives has drafted legislation to create a Bitcoin reserve as part of the state’s treasury. In a bill tentatively named the “Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act” filed with the state government on Dec.…