John Deere Calls “Large Ag Cycle” Bottom Next Year – Just As China Ramps Up U.S. Soybean Buying Economic conditions for American farmers have been brutal this year, as China shifted much of its soybean and other commodity purchases to South America. But the new Trump-Xi trade deal has sparked hope, with Beijing ramping up U.S. crop purchases once again. If sustained, this could signal that the worst of the farm-sector downturn […]

Initial Jobless Claims Tumble To 7 Month Lows The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time tumbled to just 216k last week – the lowest since April Source: Bloomberg Since the shutdown was lifted, jobless claims among workers in the ‘Deep Tristate’ have tumbled… Source: Bloomberg Continuing jobless claims ticked higher – remaining above the 1.9 million level, near its highest since Nov 2021 […]

Political Fallout Is Biggest Risk For Market After ‘Botched’ UK Budget “Markets have had to catch up pretty quickly” The astonishing early reveal of the UK budget’s main measures is causing chaos, with volatile moves in bonds and the pound… Rachel Reeves’ Budget raises taxes by £26bn, taking the burden to an all-time high of 38 per cent of GDP by the end of the parliament, according to an accidentally released […]

The Middle Class Is Cracking Authored by Charles Hugh Smioth via OfTwoMinds blog, Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security. The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic, it’s the culmination of observations logged over the past 15 years about these critical measures of what it takes to qualify […]

Medicare Secures 71% Price Cut On Novo’s Anti-Obesity Drug As Part Of Broad Affordability Push The Trump administration is laser-focused on “Operation Affordability,” aiming to drive down the cost of food and healthcare ahead of the midterm election cycle. On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a savings of 44%, or $12 billion, from last year’s negotiated Medicare spending on 15 drugs used to […]

Homebuyers See Record Discounts In October: Report Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Retailers aren’t the only ones offering huge discounts for Black Friday. A Nov. 24 press release from Zillow indicates that the average home listing experienced record-breaking cumulative discounts of up to $25,000 in October. A for sale sign is posted in front of a home on in San Anselmo, Calif., on March 22, 2023. […]

Trump’s Approval Rating Has Not Changed Among Republicans Recent online squabbles and upheavals among MAGA related influencers and politicians might lead a person to believe that the conservative base was beginning to crack.  In fact, in less than a year of Trump’s return to the White House an army of web personalities have taken to social media to declare MAGA “dead.” The latest feud between Trump and libertarian favorite […]

Retirement Deadlines You Can’t Miss By December 31 Authored by John Rampton via The Epoch Times, As the year winds down, many people are thinking about holiday plans, family gatherings, and completing work projects. However, for retirees and those planning for retirement, financial deadlines carry a special urgency. Tax bills, retirement accounts, and even healthcare costs can be affected by some of these cutoffs. By missing them, […]

These Are The Largest Bodies Of Water In Our Solar System From the icy crusts of distant moons to the oceans beneath their surfaces, the solar system is teeming with hidden water. This visualization from Made Visual Daily, via Visual Capitalist, compares all known and estimated bodies of water in our solar system, including those beneath the surface, on a volumetric scale. The data comes from sources including USGS, NASA’s […]

UK Schools Locked Down In Secret “Pegasus” Pandemic Drills Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a eerie redux of 2020’s chaos, UK schools are being thrust into unannounced lockdown simulations under the guise of “pandemic preparedness drills”—with children herded into classrooms, doors barricaded, and parents left in the dark, sparking whispers of social engineering rehearsals for the next big scare. The […]

Economists’ Warning: Germany’s Costly Pension Package Must Be Scrapped Immediately Submitted By Thomas Kolbe Germany’s public pension system is under mounting pressure. Amid a deepening economic crisis, uncontrolled poverty migration, and a rapidly aging population, a shrinking workforce is being forced to shoulder an ever-growing burden. Meanwhile, the number of pension recipients continues to rise and has now smashed through […]

Foreigners Commit 44% Of Sexual Violence Cases In Italy, Half Of Gang-Rapes, While Only Representing 9% Of Population Via Remix News, Data from Italy’s Interior Ministry for 2024 shows that foreigners commit nearly half of all rapes, while only representing 9 percent of the country’s resident population. Specifically, the graph shows they are arrested in 44 percent of cases. Sexual Violence cases, Italy, 2024 […]

China Deploys World’s First Commercial Supercritical CO2 Power Generator China has activated what the South China Morning Post describes as the world’s first commercial power unit using supercritical carbon dioxide, or sCO₂, marking a notable step forward in clean energy technology. Developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation, the generator replaces traditional steam with high-pressure CO₂ to turn waste heat from […]

Does Germany Poses A Significant Non-Military Threat To Polish Sovereignty? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Its continued hegemony over Central & Eastern Europe threatens to further erode Poland’s already limited sovereignty, but this can be shattered with US support, though at the cost of subordinating Poland to Trump 2.0’s envisaged “Pax Americana” that would also impose limits on its sovereignty. “The […]

Escobar: The European Matryoshka Of Irrelevance Authored by Pepe Escobar, The EU/NATO combo cannot but play the role of pathetic yapping chihuahuas. That’s the price you pay for a matrioshka of supreme stupidity. No one ever lost money betting on the politically suicidal instincts of post-Orwellian EU – that acronym for a virtual Europe. Call them juvenile bipolar psychos or a bunch of yapping chihuahuas: no Jupiterian or […]

CDC Shuts Down Monkey Labs Amid Tuberculosis “Time Bomb” Fears The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will end all nonhuman-primate research conducted at its own facilities, marking the first time since the National Institutes of Health retired its chimpanzees in 2015 that a major federal health agency has fully shuttered an in-house monkey program, Science reports. Scene from “Project X” The decision affects roughly […]

Brazilian Ex-President Bolsonaro Placed In 12-sq Meter Jail Cell To Begin Sentence  Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered by the country’s supreme court to start serving his 27-year sentence, even as what could be a very lengthy further appeals effort carries on. He was convicted in September for plotting a coup, based on allegations he also cooperated with foreign influence, for not accepting the election […]

Japan Launches DOGE-Like Initiative To Cut Government Waste Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Japan’s finance minister on Nov. 25 unveiled a plan to cut wasteful government spending, drawing parallels to the United States’ Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama arrives at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2025. Kim Kyung […]

Game Over DOGE: US Starts Fiscal 2025 With Record Budget Deficit, Shocking Interest Expense It was back in February, when we explained to Elon Musk why his strategy to shock the US government into spending “efficiency” through DOGE, while noble, is ultimately doomed to wit: “What Musk is doing in trying to streamline the govt is admirable but ultimately it will be Congress that decides the endgame. And there things are as status […]

Chinese Text-To-App ‘Vibe Coding’ Tool Went So Viral It Crashed Software engineers have been increasingly relying on AI to help with complex coding tasks, a practice known as “vibe-coding.” Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock While vibe-coding has been largely limited to helping with portions of a project, Chinese developers have created an AI tool that converts text into a complete app.  The app, […]

Dead Cows Don’t Fart? Countries Raise Concerns Over Methane-Reducing Additive For Bovines Authored by Jonathan Turley, Scandinavian countries are moving to suspend the mandated use of Bovaer, a methane-reducing additive designed to reduce bovine flatulence. A contributor to methane pollution, cow farts were supposed to be reduced by the additive to reduce climate-harming pollutant. However, there are widespread reports of collapse, […]

HUD Launches Hotline To Crack Down On Crime, Illegal Immigrants In Public Housing Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced the launch of a new national hotline that allows public housing residents to report on criminals and illegal immigrants in HUD-funded housing. The hotline, 1-800-347-3735, can be used by residents to call the HUD […]

Trump Snubs Zelensky’s Urgent Meeting Request – Will Host Only When Final Deal Is Agreed To Update(1640ET): Trump’s latest comments on Ukraine peace progress suggest a direct meeting with Zelensky may not happen after all. The Ukrainians are pushing a face-to-face by Thursday, or at least this week. But President Trump is not going to meet with Zelensky until a deal is agreed to. Thus it appears the US president is serious about […]

FBI To Interview Lawmakers In “Illegal Orders” Video FBI agents are seeking to interview lawmakers who appeared in a video telling members of the military not to obey illegal orders, the lawmakers said on Nov. 25. The FBI contacted the sergeants at arms for the House of Representatives and Senate, requesting interviews with the lawmakers, Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), and Chrissy […]

A Looming Mexican Coup? Authored by Kit Klarenberg, On November 15th, incendiary protests engulfed over 50 cities across Mexico. The Western media has universally adopted the narrative disaffected local “Gen Z” sought to vent their righteous rage against the government, over corruption, and the administration’s purported ties to drug cartels. Footage of law enforcement clashing with demonstrators spread like wildfire, […]