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  • Is China In A Better Position To Win The Rare Earth Mineral War

    ZeroHedge - Dec 16th 2025 4:15am EST

    Is China In A Better Position To Win The Rare Earth Mineral War During an October swing through Southeast Asia, US President Donald Trump struck same-day agreements with Malaysia and Thailand to deepen cooperation on critical minerals and rare earths, underscoring Washington’s push to diversify supply chains away from China, according to SCMP.  According to […]

  • Privacy For The Powerful, Surveillance For The Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far

    ZeroHedge - Dec 16th 2025 3:30am EST

    Privacy For The Powerful, Surveillance For The Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far Authored by Elen Irazabal Arana and Nikolai G. Wenzel via TheDailyEconomy.org, Last month, we lamented California’s Frontier AI Act of 2025. The Act favors compliance over risk management, while shielding bureaucrats and lawmakers from responsibility. Mostly, it imposes top-down regulatory norms, instead […]

  • Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, And Revolution

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 11:25pm EST

    Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, And Revolution Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, All human societies have informal social classes or formal social castes that separate groups of people within the same community.  Generally speaking, notions of aristocracy and hereditary nobility started on the battlefield.  Warrior chiefs of clans became minor kings after killing more rivals without dying themselves.  Rather than […]

  • “Offensive To Decency”: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 8:55pm EST

    “Offensive To Decency”: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away a Tennessee woman’s appeal of her state rejecting a personalized license plate for her car. The court rejected the petition in Gilliam v. Gerregano on Dec. 8 […]

  • China Blasts ‘Premeditated’ Provocations Of US-Allied Philippines At Disputed Shoal

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 7:40pm EST

    China Blasts ‘Premeditated’ Provocations Of US-Allied Philippines At Disputed Shoal China continues to squabble and get in maritime incidents with US allies in regional waters of the Western Pacific. Lately it has been locked in a heightening dispute with Japan over Tokyo’s pro-Taiwan stance, but there’s been a new recent incident with The Philippines. Beijing […]

  • Owners Of Inherited IRAs Face Dec 31 Deadline To Start Taking Withdrawals

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 6:25pm EST

    Owners Of Inherited IRAs Face Dec 31 Deadline To Start Taking Withdrawals If you inherited an IRA in 2020 or later, you could be facing a Dec 31 deadline to start taking required minimum distributions from the account, under threat of IRS penalties.  The new rules spring from the December 2019 SECURE Act, which attacked […]

  • 10 Major Laws Taking Effect In California In 2026

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 5:40pm EST

    10 Major Laws Taking Effect In California In 2026 Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, The new year is right around the corner, which means a new batch of laws will soon take effect. From banning masks for law enforcement officers and requiring gender-neutral restrooms in schools, to enhancing artificial intelligence regulations and […]

  • Free And Fair?

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 4:20pm EST

    Free And Fair? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win her release from state prison.” – The NY Times “Election denier” is a curious term. It implies that anyone who even questions the […]

  • Population Collapse, Fiat Money, And The Future Of The Global Economy

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 3:05pm EST

    Population Collapse, Fiat Money, And The Future Of The Global Economy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The fundamental problems of our society can largely be traced back to the collapse of reproduction rates. These are a symptom of dysfunction in the machinery of the social factory. People are losing faith in the future. The dramatic decline […]

  • Wealthy U.S. Investors Embrace AI Tools… But Don’t Let Them Run Their Retirement Accounts

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 2:05pm EST

    Wealthy U.S. Investors Embrace AI Tools… But Don’t Let Them Run Their Retirement Accounts Despite the rapid expansion of AI-powered investing tools in 2025, most affluent American investors remain reluctant to hand over control of their retirement savings to chatbots. A new survey from InvestorsObserver shows that even as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in […]

  • The Wealth Gap Widens: Survey Shows Rich Now Means $2.3 Million Net Worth

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 1:05pm EST

    The Wealth Gap Widens: Survey Shows Rich Now Means $2.3 Million Net Worth Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, The benchmark for wealth in America has undergone a dramatic transformation. According to a report by Fortune, Americans now place the threshold for being considered wealthy at an average of $2.3 million – a 21 percent surge since 2021 […]

  • Enthusiasm For AI Stocks Is Finally Being Replaced By Questions

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 11:45am EST

    Enthusiasm For AI Stocks Is Finally Being Replaced By Questions By Jane Foley Senior FX Strategist at Rabobank Perhaps inevitably, the enthusiasm for AI related stocks in the past few years is now being replaced by questions regarding the returns on investment and specifically whether the costs of developing the technology will be matched in terms […]

  • Aussie PM Invokes ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ After Islamic Terrorist Attack, Vows Crackdown On Guns

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 10:45am EST

    Aussie PM Invokes ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ After Islamic Terrorist Attack, Vows Crackdown On Guns In the wake of a Sunday mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than two dozen injured, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country’s gun laws. The massacre, which occurred during a Hanukkah event, was reportedly […]

  • Hammer Drops On Clintons: Appear For Epstein Depositions Or Face Contempt Of Congress

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 10:05am EST

    Hammer Drops On Clintons: Appear For Epstein Depositions Or Face Contempt Of Congress Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, House Oversight Chairman James Comer is done playing games with Bill and Hillary Clinton, warning them that their endless delays in the Epstein probe will lead straight to contempt charges if they don’t comply. With subpoenas […]

  • US Futures Recover Most Of Friday’s Dump As “Bad News Is Again Good News”

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 8:32am EST

    US Futures Recover Most Of Friday’s Dump As “Bad News Is Again Good News” Stocks are set to recoup some of Friday’s tech-driven losses, with a big week of data releases ahead, as the last full week of 2025 comes witgh a bang. Still, sentiment seems a little shaky, with rising signs of skepticism over AI and debate about […]

  • Interactive Brokers Now Accepts Stablecoins In Bid To Remain Competitive

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 6:30am EST

    Interactive Brokers Now Accepts Stablecoins In Bid To Remain Competitive Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk.com, Interactive Brokers will now allow retail investors to fund individual brokerage accounts with stablecoins, a step aimed at keeping pace with the increasingly competitive retail trading market, Bloomberg reported Friday. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based brokerage firm competes with rivals including Robinhood Markets […]

  • These Are The US States With The Most Low-Wage Workers

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 5:45am EST

    These Are The US States With The Most Low-Wage Workers Low-wage work remains widespread across the United States. Even as the labor market continues to expand, wage gains have been uneven, leaving millions of workers earning less than $20 per hour, which is roughly $41,600 annually before taxes for full-time work. This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

  • Visualizing The Complete History Of European Colonization

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 4:15am EST

    Visualizing The Complete History Of European Colonization Europe’s colonial empires have shaped the world’s political and economic systems for over 500 years. From Portugal’s early ventures in the 1400s, to Britain’s massive empire in the early 20th century, European nations have competed for control of territory and trade across nearly every continent. In this graphic, […]

  • A Collapse In Germany’s Chemical Sector Is A Bad Omen

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 3:30am EST

    A Collapse In Germany’s Chemical Sector Is A Bad Omen Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, Historically, the chemical industry has proven to be an excellent early indicator of severe economic downturns. Its present condition should serve as a warning: the climate-policy regime is at the beginning of its collapse. And Berlin’s fiscal bazooka—loaded with yet more […]

  • Cocaine: Local Cultivation, Global Consumption

    ZeroHedge - Dec 15th 2025 2:45am EST

    Cocaine: Local Cultivation, Global Consumption Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to figures by UNODC, Colombia was responsible for almost two thirds of the total coca cultivation area in 2023 […]

  • When You’re In A Hole, Stop Digging

    ZeroHedge - Dec 14th 2025 11:20pm EST

    When You’re In A Hole, Stop Digging Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, President Trump was onto something when he replaced Joe Biden’s White House portrait with a mocking picture of an autopen. Given our recent history of failed leadership, why stop there? To truly capture the impact of this century’s presidents, let’s replace […]

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  • A New Republican Vision For Health Care

    ZeroHedge - Dec 14th 2025 10:10pm EST

    A New Republican Vision For Health Care Authored by Monique Yohanan via RealClearHealth, The shutdown dispute offered a clear view into a problem that has shaped federal health policy for more than a decade. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs subsidies to insurance companies rather than to individual Americans. Democrats portrayed their position as a […]

  • DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher Wray’s FBI

    ZeroHedge - Dec 14th 2025 9:00pm EST

    DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher Wray’s FBI Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, It’s a tale of two investigations. In one version – based on past comments by former FBI Director Christopher Wray – the arrest last week of Brian Cole Jr. as the individual who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the […]

  • ICE Announces Arrest Of 400 Illegal Immigrants In Minnesota

    ZeroHedge - Dec 14th 2025 7:50pm EST

    ICE Announces Arrest Of 400 Illegal Immigrants In Minnesota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 400 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of Operation Metro Surge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Dec. 12. Federal […]

  • Santa Vs The Grinch, Diets, & QE

    ZeroHedge - Dec 14th 2025 6:25pm EST

    Santa Vs The Grinch, Diets, & QE By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Santa vs The Grinch, Diets, & qe The week ended with a bang. At Academy’s Holiday Party, the Marines pulled out all the stops to win the annual “service song” contest (they actually brought out instruments, with Dakota leading the charge on […]