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  • Visualizing The Declining Purchasing Power Of The US Dollar

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 5:45am EST

    Visualizing The Declining Purchasing Power Of The US Dollar The U.S. dollar has steadily lost value over the past century. According to Federal Reserve data, the purchasing power of one dollar today is equal to just a few cents in 1913 (the year the Fed was created). In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu tracks […]

  • Which Countries Prescribe The Most & Least Antibiotics?

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 4:15am EST

    Which Countries Prescribe The Most & Least Antibiotics? World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week ended last week. Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infectious diseases. These can be used on humans, animals and plants and come in the forms of antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics. Although resistance to these medicines occurs naturally, due […]

  • Visualizing The World’s Total Supply Of Gold

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 2:45am EST

    Visualizing The World’s Total Supply Of Gold Gold is on a hot streak, up more than 50% to-date despite retreating from October’s record highs of $4,380 per troy ounce. Driving global demand is the mixture of geopolitical tensions, a weaker U.S. dollar, and sticky inflation. In Q3 2025, central bank purchases were up 28% over the quarter, […]

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  • America’s Poison Melting Pot And The Luxury Of Tolerance

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 11:25pm EST

    America’s Poison Melting Pot And The Luxury Of Tolerance Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Modern western culture is an absolute anomaly in the history of human civilization. If one studies the principles and doctrines of nearly every other society and empire around the world, you will not find one that allows mass immigration of foreigners […]

  • US Plans To Keep Troops In Caribbean Through 2028, Planning Docs Show

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 10:35pm EST

    US Plans To Keep Troops In Caribbean Through 2028, Planning Docs Show Via The Cradle  Department of War documents suggest the US military is planning to keep large numbers of troops in the Caribbean Sea for the next three years, The Intercept reported on Monday, in a further sign that a war on Venezuela is imminent. Defense Department […]

  • Trump Gave Maduro A Last Friday Deadline To Step Down As Venezuelan President

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 9:03pm EST

    Trump Gave Maduro A Last Friday Deadline To Step Down As Venezuelan President Update(2103ET): According to Reuters on Monday night, Maduro told Trump he was prepared to leave Venezuela in last week’s recently revealed phone call, but Trump rejected nearly all of his additional conditions – including a demand that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez lead a […]

  • Your Health Report Isn’t The Final Step – It’s A Warning You Can’t Ignore

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 8:05pm EST

    Your Health Report Isn’t The Final Step – It’s A Warning You Can’t Ignore Authored by JoJo Novaes & Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A 50-year-old man felt completely healthy—no chest pain, no fatigue, no warning signs. So when his routine health checkup revealed an LDL cholesterol level of 231 milligrams per […]

  • Musk Hints At ‘Galaxy Mind’ Venture To Deploy AI Satellites In Deep Space

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 6:50pm EST

    Musk Hints At ‘Galaxy Mind’ Venture To Deploy AI Satellites In Deep Space Elon Musk is hinting at a new venture that could unite his sprawling business empire under a single audacious goal of deploying solar-powered artificial intelligence satellites in deep space. In a recent interview with investor Nikhil Kamath, the billionaire entrepreneur suggested his […]

  • Trump Backs Hegseth In Rejecting WaPo Claim Of “Kill Everybody” Policy On Drug Boats

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 6:00pm EST

    Trump Backs Hegseth In Rejecting WaPo Claim Of “Kill Everybody” Policy On Drug Boats A big Washington Post report issued Friday detailed allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug boat in September. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation,” the […]

  • Appeals Court Rules Alina Habba Unlawfully Serving As US Attorney For New Jersey

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 4:40pm EST

    Appeals Court Rules Alina Habba Unlawfully Serving As US Attorney For New Jersey In the latest legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court on Monday ruled that Alina Habba is unlawfully serving as New Jersey’s top prosecutor.  A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit said in […]

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  • Iran Captures Another Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz For ‘Fuel Smuggling’

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 3:40pm EST

    Iran Captures Another Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz For ‘Fuel Smuggling’ Via Middle East Eye Iran has seized an Eswatini-flagged ship carrying “smuggled fuel”, according to state media. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said they intercepted the ship on Sunday, prompting criticism from the African country. “A vessel carrying 350,000 litres of smuggled fuel operating […]

  • Is A Bear Market A Good Thing?

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 2:40pm EST

    Is A Bear Market A Good Thing? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, One of my favorite writers for the WSJ is Spencer Jakab, who recently penned an article explaining why a bear market is not necessarily a bad thing. He starts with a quote from “The Godfather.” ““These things gotta happen every five years or […]

  • UK Girl Barred From School Over Imprisoned Mother’s ‘Racist’ Tweet

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 1:20pm EST

    UK Girl Barred From School Over Imprisoned Mother’s ‘Racist’ Tweet Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Lucy Connolly, the mother jailed for 31 months over a single anti-mass immigration tweet int 2024, has revealed that her 13-year-old daughter Edie has been blocked from starting at a new school after the headteacher discovered her mother’s identity […]

  • Retail Workers Currently Earning 51.6% Less Than Needed To Afford Rent: Report

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 12:20pm EST

    Retail Workers Currently Earning 51.6% Less Than Needed To Afford Rent: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An American retail worker earns 51.6 percent less than the amount required to afford a typical rental apartment, real estate brokerage Redfin said in a statement released on Nov. 26. A rent sign […]

  • Multiple Failures In Vetting Process Of Afghans, Says Tom Homan

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 10:45am EST

    Multiple Failures In Vetting Process Of Afghans, Says Tom Homan Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There has been a massive failure in the vetting process that allowed Afghan nationals to enter the United States under the Biden administration, border czar Tom Homan said in a Nov. 30 interview with Fox News. When […]

  • The Impossible Two Percent: Why Central Banks Cannot Afford Price Stability

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 8:05am EST

    The Impossible Two Percent: Why Central Banks Cannot Afford Price Stability Authored by Hamoon Soleimani via The Mises Institute, The Two percent inflation target—monetary policy’s sacred commandment for three decades—has become structurally impossible to achieve. Not because central bankers lack skill, but because every attempt to hit the target destroys the financial architecture that previous […]

  • 6,000 Airbus A320 Jets Receive Critical Update After “Intense Solar Radiation” Exposure

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 6:55am EST

    6,000 Airbus A320 Jets Receive Critical Update After “Intense Solar Radiation” Exposure Airbus announced early Monday that nearly all A320-family commercial jets have received a critical software update after “intense solar radiation” last month triggered a glitch that could affect flight controls. “Out of a total number of around 6,000 aircraft potentially impacted, the vast […]

  • Visualizing The $19 Trillion Global Cost Of Conflict

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 5:45am EST

    Visualizing The $19 Trillion Global Cost Of Conflict Last year, the economic impact of violence reached $19.1 trillion, or $717 billion higher than the previous year. This came as conflict deaths hit 25-year highs, and wars continued in the Ukraine and Gaza. In response to heightened geopolitical tensions, European nations have injected billions into defense […]

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  • ‘Surgical Removal Of An Organ’: Ukrainian Recruiter Arrested For Allegedly Beating Conscript’s Genitals In Heinous Attack

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 5:00am EST

    ‘Surgical Removal Of An Organ’: Ukrainian Recruiter Arrested For Allegedly Beating Conscript’s Genitals In Heinous Attack Via Remix News, After a forced conscript was beaten in his groin area to the point that he lost an “organ” following emergency surgery, Ukrainian authorities have moved to arrest the recruitment center head. The staff of the Ukrainian […]

  • “Made For Germany” Is History: Covestro Caught In The Waves Of The Sell-Off

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 3:30am EST

    “Made For Germany” Is History: Covestro Caught In The Waves Of The Sell-Off Submitted By Thomas Kolbe Abu Dhabi’s state-owned energy giant ADNOC has acquired nearly all shares of German chemical powerhouse Covestro. Germany is gradually losing its strategic position in critical industrial sectors. The sell-off is accelerating. Remember the big media spectacle “MADE FOR […]

  • Over €325 Million In Fraudulent Welfare Benefits Support Illicit Gang Networks In Sweden; Report

    ZeroHedge - Dec 1st 2025 2:00am EST

    Over €325 Million In Fraudulent Welfare Benefits Support Illicit Gang Networks In Sweden; Report Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A Swedish government review has found that thousands of people linked to gangs in Sweden have been drawing income from the country’s benefits system for years, creating what authorities describe as a reliable, legal-looking […]

  • Alcohol Consumption In The US By The Numbers

    ZeroHedge - Nov 30th 2025 10:45pm EST

    Alcohol Consumption In The US By The Numbers In the U.S., alcohol consumption remains widespread, with nearly half the population aged 12 or older reporting that they consumed alcohol within the past month. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, explores the scale of drinking behavior across America, including how many people drink, binge drink, […]

  • Former NASDAQ-Listed Exec Sentenced To Life In Prison Over Murder-For-Hire Plot

    ZeroHedge - Nov 30th 2025 9:35pm EST

    Former NASDAQ-Listed Exec Sentenced To Life In Prison Over Murder-For-Hire Plot The First Assistant U.S. Attorney for Vermont announced that on November 24, 2025, Chief Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Serhat Gumrukcu, 43, of Los Angeles—formerly the “scientific founder”, “inventor” and largest shareholder of publicly listed Enochian Biosciences, which eventually became Renovaro—to life in prison for the […]

  • The Illusion Of Progress & The Pursuit Of ‘More’

    ZeroHedge - Nov 30th 2025 6:40pm EST

    The Illusion Of Progress & The Pursuit Of ‘More’ Authored by Anthony Deden via Forum Geopolitica, The Illusion of Progress This essay was born out of revulsion to an accidental summer reading that paraded progress as virtue and private equity as its high priest. Every paragraph spoke the same pious language of “sustainable improvement,” “societal benefit,” […]

  • South Park Roasts Americans Taking Saudi Money In Thanksgiving Special

    ZeroHedge - Nov 30th 2025 5:30pm EST

    South Park Roasts Americans Taking Saudi Money In Thanksgiving Special Via Middle East Eye The makers of the popular satirical cartoon show South Park turned their sights on Saudi Arabia in their latest episode, attacking American media personalities, politicians and sporting events for taking money from the state. Titled Turkey Trot, the episode starts with Mayor McDaniels convening a meeting […]