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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s largest protests in three years erupted Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to a record low against the U.S. dollar, and the head of the Central Bank resigned. State TV reported the resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin, while traders and shopkeepers rallied in Saadi Street in downtown Tehran as well …
BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Treasury Market 10-Year Treasuries suffered their largest delivery fail rate in 8 years 🤯📉 pic.twitter.com/xph8wivnfc — Barchart (@Barchart) December 28, 2025 $30.5 billion worth of trades in the most recently issued 10‑year Treasury note failed to settle during the week ending December 10. This is the highest level of delivery fails since …
A number of cities around the world are cancelling their New Year’s Eve celebration amid credible threats of terrorist attacks. It comes after the FBI says it foiled a alleged planned bombing attack in Los Angeles planned for New Year’s Eve. The four suspects were arrested earlier this month in the Mojave Desert east of …
🚨 BOOM! JD Vance never misses! MARGARET: "This is a country founded by immigrants!" JD: "Just because we were 'founded by immigrants' doesn't mean that 240 years later we have to have the DUMBEST immigration policy in the WORLD!" That's 48 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WWBCErWR1r — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 25, 2025
So let me get this straight. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Robert Mueller, James Comey, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith all supposedly knew that Donald Trump raped a woman and later murdered her. No investigations. No indictments. No arrests. No charges. And now I’m supposed to believe that Donald Trump’s own DOJ just released …
"As seen in PNC’s Christmas Price Index, which tracks the cost of each gift in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” prices rose by 4.5% in 2025, down from 2024’s 5.4% gain." -JPMorgan AM pic.twitter.com/AKmUtyNVSf — Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) December 24, 2025
When silver and platinum explode together, you’re watching the quiet part of the market finally roar. *SPOT PLATINUM JUMPS 2% TO HIT NEW RECORD HIGH OF $2,332.95/OZ pic.twitter.com/QrXQRbcVQo — Investing.com (@Investingcom) December 24, 2025 #Silver surges above long-term channel resistance. Momentum is accelerating as the price enters a new zone after years of compression. If …
Digital takeover marches forward. Denmark’s streets will lose those bright red mailboxes that felt like a heartbeat of daily life, replaced by packages and screens. Denmark’s Postal Service Is About to Stop Delivering Physical Letters After 400 Years As the volume of letters plummets, PostNord, the government-owned postal service of Denmark and Sweden, will stop …
This is the nightmare scenario for Japan. Rates up, yen weaker, and the one lever they pulled just made it worse. Once the 10 year breaks levels like this, control turns into theater. There really is no clean exit left. 🚨 Japanese inflation is now above US inflation for the first time since 1979. pic.twitter.com/pACaUFHHfi …
If the BOJ missteps even a little, yields move fast and nothing stays local anymore. This is one of those quiet moments that only feels boring until it isn’t. Japan's🇯🇵 bond market is displaying consolidating flag patterns across the board , poised to react sharply if the BOJ makes any major policy error. We await. …
THE RECKONING Wall Street’s oldest warning system just triggered. The Shiller PE ratio crossed 40.16 this week. In 154 years of recorded market history, this threshold has been breached only three times. The first was December 1999. The second was November 2021. The third is now. What followed the first: a 49% collapse. What followed …
Thousands of people queued Tuesday at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens, a day after officials announced that its popular twin pandas will return to their homeland in China next month. Their departure will leave Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century. (AP video by Ayaka McGill)
NEW YORK — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for his role in a massive fraud that saw roughly $50 billion wiped from the crypto ecosystem over the course of just three days in May 2022. The sentence, handed down by District Judge Paul Engelmeyer of the …
pic.twitter.com/NSn8Oqi4rJ — Annie (@ZeroWarningShot) December 11, 2025 BREAKING: US rent prices declined -0.2% MoM in November, to $1,706, recording the largest November drop in at least 15 years. This also marks the 5th consecutive month of flat or negative rent changes. Annual rent growth slowed to +0.7%, down from +1.5% in Q1 2025. This comes… …
Ladies and Gentlemens, the Shiller PE just hit its highest level in 25 years. The second most overvalued market in history. Back then rates were rising; now we're cutting. LOL Guess what happens next. pic.twitter.com/4LyzObR7Ca — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 10, 2025 Just In: The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates 25bps (as expected) to …
🚨⚡️The Cambodian army destroys a Thai military site with a lethal weapon for the first time appearing in battle💥 pic.twitter.com/HnPsRon4UW — RussiaNews 🇷🇺 (@mog_russEN) December 9, 2025 Conflict between Thailand and Cambodia continued to intensify and expand on 10 December on the third full day of renewed fighting between the two Southeast Asian neighbours. Official …
From video: California Oregon NY NJ Massachusetts RI Washington See short video for more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/these-7-states-plan-to-phase-out-gas-cars-in-the-next-5-years/vi-AA1RZHRS#details
TOURISTS entering America will have their social media histories checked at border control, if the latest Trump administration mandate is enforced. The proposed social media screening would apply to all tourists – including Brits – entering the US, regardless of whether they need a visa or not. The Federal Register notice states it would be …
pic.twitter.com/CwJY4atEwA — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 9, 2025 Under Biden, the U.S. experienced a year‑over‑year spike in inflation that reached around 9.1% in June 2022, the highest 12‑month increase in over four decades. https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/bidens-final-numbers/ Many of the inflation readings during 2021–2022 were, indeed, the steepest since the early 1980s. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/22/mike-gallagher/yes-inflation-40-year-high-and-rates-have-been-cli/
Total Put/Call Ratio fell to 0.70 on Friday, one of the lowest levels in the last 4 years 👀 pic.twitter.com/Wn7cFvbd9l — Barchart (@Barchart) December 9, 2025 Grok: The last notable low in the put/call ratio (similar to 0.70) was around May 2025. The S&P 500 rose 6.15% that month, followed by gains of ~5% in …
American man finances a $111,916 Dodge Ram and pays $1,898 a month. After 84 payments, the total hits $159,464 He pays $47,548 EXTRA in interest This isn’t “financing”, it’s usury pic.twitter.com/P0pD8c9PJr — redpillbot (@redpillb0t) December 7, 2025 Auto loan interest rates of 6–10% are common and usually legal under U.S. usury laws, which often exempt …
Tell me again how this is fine. This 10-day squeeze is among the biggest of the last few years. Source: Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/spGr4YK6rF — Connor Bates (@ConnorJBates_) December 4, 2025 During inflationary paradigms, midterm election years tend to be a time for the admin in charge to shift focus from keeping their donors bellies full to …
Natural Gas spikes to highest price in 3 years 📈📈 pic.twitter.com/hRlDg5Vxe9 — Barchart (@Barchart) December 4, 2025 U.S. natural gas futures spiked to their highest levels in nearly three years as models now show a frigid first half of December across the Lower 48. Several forecasters are also warning of a potential polar-vortex-driven Arctic blast …
Karoline Leavitt revealed that the New York Times reporter who just said Trump “might not be fit for the job” also pushed a headline years ago that said Biden is doing “100% fine” after tripping while boarding Air Force One. byu/optionhome inwalkaway
Malaysia’s transport ministry said Wednesday that the deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume Dec. 30, renewing hopes of finally locating the jet that vanished without a trace more than a decade ago. The Boeing 777 plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese …
Jim Zelter’s warning hit hard because he was not talking about a normal slowdown. He was describing the kind of break that wipes out entire business models and leaves companies with no way back. He spoke calmly, but the message underneath was anything but calm. “I think you’re going to get more secular distress than …
Homebuyers’ demand just dropped again in late 2025 – showing that the U.S. Housing Market downturn is getting worse. NAR’s pending sales index just dropped -1.2% from last year, and is down -27% from the long-term norm. Homebuyers are on strike, and the market has gotten so bad that sellers are now quitting. The …
“Liquiditists” should make note of the situation in Japan. You cannot print Wealth! This is the exact situation which Keynes avoided to answer: “What happens when you have stimulated the economy over and over and rates reach Zero?” His answer: “In the long run we are all dead”. Fact is… we will now see what …
CNN: "For the first time in 4.5 years, gas prices are averaging $3/gallon nationally." "We've got TWENTY states across the country where the average is actually less than $2.75/gallon." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/MzOvbMUfiG — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 1, 2025 Drivers are getting some relief at the pump, with the average price of a gallon of …
