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Nearly $9 billion in private funds have been blocked due to sanctions Some Swiss financial institutions have begun charging their Russian clients fees on frozen accounts; these sometimes accrue interest payments years…

The Markets Are Front-Running The First Rate-Cut Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In October, the markets were down 10% from the July high, bond yields were touching 5%, and talk of…

Ethiopia has reportedly missed a deadline for paying a $33 million bond coupon Ethiopia will hold a call with its international bondholders later this week after the African nation failed to pay…

New Delhi’s pitch to host COP33 in 2028 is instrumental in giving the world’s most populous country leverage in the international fight to save the planet Addressing the first day of the…

SuperCore CPI Jumps Back Above 4.00%; Used-Cars & Shelter Dominate Price-Rises Having slowed to unch MoM in October, November’s headline CPI was also expected to be flat MoM, but it printed modestly…

Google Loses On Every Count In Play Store Antitrust Case With Epic Games Authored by Matt Stoller via The BigNewsletter.com, Google just lost its first antitrust trial, as a San Francisco jury…

Futures Rise Ahead Of Last Inflation Report Of 2023 S&P 500 futures were little changed as markets enter the first of the two last big days of 2023, with CPI on deck…

Pretoria has expressed confidence that selecting Gazprombank as an investor will not trigger Western sanctions South African national oil company PetroSA has chosen Russia’s Gazprombank as its preferred investment partner to revive…

The carrier says it made the decision after Kiev branded the Swiss corporation a “war sponsor” Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has removed the popular Nesquik chocolate drink from its in-flight menus after its…

The Indian prime minister lauded the decision to uphold the removal of special status for the troubled state Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed Monday’s ruling by the country’s Supreme Court,…

Montreal suburb’s Jewish head Jeremy Levi said the IDF’s campaign in Gaza is a battle between “good and evil” The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Hampstead Jeremy Levi has said that,…

Have Reports Of Oil’s Death Been Greatly Exaggerated? Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The International Energy Agency predicts a terminal decline for coal, oil, and gas by 2030, challenging dominant climate…

India’s coaching hubs, like small-city Kota, have become big business, but as students face pressure to perform, suicide is now a pressing public health issue Rahul is an 18-year-old engineering aspirant from…

Nearly a thousand Burundian soldiers have left DR Congo after their mission was terminated by Kinshasa A regional military force has removed almost a thousand Burundian soldiers from from DR Congo as part…

Kiev says it will instead focus on preventing Russian athletes from appearing at the 2024 Paris Games Ukraine has backtracked on its threat to boycott the 2024 Olympic Games, having previously claimed…

Chaos Christmas Travel? AAA Expects Record Number Of Americans At Airports  The latest report from the American Automobile Association forecasts a record number of Americans will be flying during the upcoming 10-day…

Social scientist and left-wing activist Boris Kagarlitsky has been fined and banned from administering websites Russian sociologist and prominent left-wing activist Boris Kagarlitsky was released from custody by a Moscow court on…

An African bloc mediating the conflict said the Sudanese Army chief and his paramilitary rival had accepted a ceasefire proposal The Sudanese rival groups engaged in deadly fighting since mid-April have agreed…

Brussels has reportedly softened restrictions amid concerns raised by Mediterranean members EU states remain divided about the possibility of selling oil tankers to Russia, Reuters reported on Monday. The bloc’s diplomats are seeking to…

Biden Administration Destabilized Middle-East Peace Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearPolitics.com, In the fog of war, it can be easy to lose sight of the most fundamental question any country must ask…

With Hungary poised to veto $54 billion in proposed funding, willing donors are considering other options, the newspaper says Kiev’s main backers in the EU may overcome Hungarian opposition to the proposed…

The military said it had foiled another “attempted terrorist attack” Russian air-defense systems have downed a Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile over the southwestern Belgorod Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported…

Christopher Wray is discussing the Khalistan row with the heads of India’s intelligence and crime agencies during a three-day visit to the country FBI Director Christopher Wray met his Indian counterpart in…

Canadian Human Rights Commission Labels Christmas Celebration “Discrimination Grounded In Colonialism” The cancerous spread of woke ideology into every facet of society and government is more obvious in some places compared to…

The euro area’s economy has now registered two consecutive quarters of contraction, the outlet says The 20-nation euro currency bloc will slip into its first recession since the pandemic in the final…

The Pentagon is advising Kiev on a new strategy after the failed summer counteroffensive, according to the newspaper Lackluster results from Kiev’s summer counteroffensive against Russia and problems faced by the White…

US-Made Munitions Used In Israel’s White Phosphorous Attacks On Lebanon; WaPo Via The Cradle, The Israeli army used US-manufactured white phosphorous shells in a brutal attack on south Lebanon in October, the Washington Post reported…

A majority of teachers, however, back the restrictions, according to a survey Some 54% of Russian parents oppose a possible ban on the use of cellphones in the country’s schools, the Vedomosti newspaper…

German Mayor Slams Der Spiegel’s Call For Mainstream Parties To Cut Off AfD For The Sake Of Democracy Via ReMix News, German news outlet Der Spiegel is “losing touch with reality” after…

The former secretary of state has reportedly emerged as an influential surrogate for the president The US Democratic Party establishment believes that figures like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could help President…

Prices have reportedly more than doubled for the EU country since 2021 Germany has halved imports of natural gas since 2021 but is essentially paying the same costs for supplies, according to…

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has repeatedly vowed to strike any vessel it believes to be aiding Israel amid ongoing fighting in Gaza The French military has successfully repelled an attack on one…

The bloc has been seeking to include supplies of the metal in its new package of restrictions The EU has been debating its new round of sanctions against Moscow amid growing calls…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

Finland shut down its last crossing point with Russia following an influx of migrants, which Helsinki claims was a “hybrid attack” launched by Moscow The Council of Europe has voiced concerns over…

Kiev’s ruling party is preventing members from quitting despite cancelled elections and the extension of martial law Many Ukrainian MPs who want to resign are being prevented from doing so as the…

For those confused. There are two bills to modify the FISA702 reauthorization in the House.  (1) HR 6611 from the House Intel Committee and (2) HR 6570 from the House Judiciary Committee. …

Niall Ferguson: The Treason Of The Intellectuals Authored by Niall Ferguson via The Free Press, In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the…

End Of Western Dominance And Rise Of A Polycentric World, Lavrov Declares At Doha Forum Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, outlined a potential scenario in which a “polycentric order” emerges, characterized by…

The Purges Are Ongoing Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, peaceful and otherwise uneventful. Out of nowhere, the following people appeared on “Spaces,” an…

After years of assembling datapoints around the potential for the Supreme Court to be compromised, it was the discovery of Mary McCord’s husband Sheldon Snook deep in the office of Chief Justice…

Mother Of Doomed Fetus Flees Texas For Abortion As State Supremes Rule Against Her A pregnant woman in Texas whose child has a terminal birth defect has fled the state after a…

Ford’s “Test For EV Adoption” Fails: Carmaker Slashes Production Plans For Electric F-150 In Half Less than a week after Elon Musk unveiled his apocalypse-surviving, Porsche-out-accelerating, bulletproof CyberTruck, Ford’s EV effort is…

It’s Not Too Early To Name The Decade Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, The New Yorker is running a contest. What should we call our era? Some possible candidates: Terrible Twenties, the…

Raytheon’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Defeats Ballistic Missile in Test Over Pacific Raytheon has successfully tested its “Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle,” designed to defend the US by intercepting and neutralizing long-range ballistic missiles in low-Earth orbit. …

What In The World Has Happened To Our System Of Education? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Our kids can’t really read very well. And it turns out that they aren’t very…

Shocking Video Reveals Democrats Stuffed Nearly 3,000 Illegals Into Chicago Warehouse  A new video has surfaced on X showing the location of a warehouse in the Chicago metro area where nearly 3,000…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been an advocate for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine to solve the conflict.  This puts PM Orban in opposition to NATO and the larger EU…

What Strong Consumer: Hasbro Lays Off 20% Of Company On Plunging Toy Sales There is the myth that the US consumer is strong (strip away inflation and you are at pre 2019-levels)……

Hunter Biden Files To Dismiss Gun Charges, Arguing “Vindictive Prosecution” In 1 Of 4 Motions Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, filed four…

“We’re Raising A Generation Of Complete F**king Pu$$ies” – Kid Rock & Carlson Crush Cancel Culture & Corporate America’s Political Correctness Kid Rock has morphed over the past few years from a…

Universities Better Get Ahead Of Surging Anti-Woke Backlash… Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, Universities better get ahead of surging anti-woke backlash. The University of Illinois should go first. The dam has…

In preparation for 2024 CTH now has a strong source arsenal of very specific contacts.  I can say with certainty that Tucker Carlson publicly expresses significant support for Elon Musk and his…

Despite Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley spending massive amounts of time and resources in Iowa, President Trump is pulling away according to the latest polling. [SOURCE] IOWA – Donald Trump’s support now tops…

In this short clip {direct Rumble link here} former AG Eric Holder is asked about the potential for a President (Trump) to target his political opposition using the DOJ. Not coincidentally, nor…

Watch Live: Matt Taibbi Fact-Checks Newsguard, Talks Burisma, Virality Project, And “Trump-Vermin” Switcheroo Matt Taibbi of Racket News has a new format he’s experimenting with top “get a lot of news out…

1-In-5 Young Americans Say Holocaust Was A Myth, Twice As Many Democrats As Republicans A new poll sheds light on why so many college-aged Americans aren’t worried about expressing antisemitism: Twenty percent…

David Stockman On Washington’s Entrenched War Machine Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years…

Tucker Carlson Launches Streaming Subscription Service Tucker Carlson has launched a new streaming service, the Tucker Carlson Network, which costs $9 per month (with a $6/month introductory price to become a ‘founding…

It is “possible” to stage a presidential election in the four formerly Ukrainian territories, Russia’s electoral authority says Holding March 2024 presidential elections in Russia’s new regions is “possible,” the country’s Central…

The White House found the report “concerning,” while Amnesty International has called the incident a potential war crime Israel used controversial US-provided white phosphorus munitions to attack Dheira, a small village in…

It’s Dark, But Breadth Says It’s Not Quite Dawn For China Stocks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, After another dismal set of China inflation data, sentiment for Chinese stocks feels…

Hamas & Hezbollah “Easily” Obtain Weapons Through Ukraine’s Black Market, Iran FM Boasts Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has issued some surprising remarks claiming that Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Gaza-based Hamas can…

A commission run by the Republicans and the Democrats gatekeeps third-party and independent runners from the public eye With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the running as an independent candidate in the…

What Just Happened? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “All these idiots whose ‘identity’ is literally a ‘protected class’ are not protesting anything. Their whole victim act is sponsored, enabled &…

Bitcoin, Big-Tech, & Bullion Dumped Ahead Of CPI Today’s calm – before the storm of event-risk-catalysts this week – was anything but. Bitcoin was clubbed like a baby seal, Black Gold dumped…

Houthis Redirect Ship Sailing To Israel By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Yemen’s Houthis have forced a ship bound for Israel to change direction a day after they declared that they would be…

Kerry Stokes, to avoid handing over incriminating emails and messages, has been forced to agree to pay over $16 million to Nine Entertainment for the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case. But paying the…

The Price Of Rent Surged 27 Straight Months. Is Relief Finally Coming? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The CPI report is on Tuesday. Reports suggest rent concessions from landlords. We’ve heard…

The proposed reductions will not apply to the 100,000 Ukrainian refugees already in Ireland The Irish government is set to drastically reduce welfare payments to future Ukrainian refugees, in a move designed…

Donald Tusk has regained the PM post nearly a decade after his departure Veteran pro-EU politician Donald Tusk on Monday became Poland’s new prime minister, after the country’s parliament ousted now-former PM…

Turley: With Hunter’s Indictment, Democrats Face A Moment Of Maddening Truth Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the expected formal vote this week on the impeachment…

The meeting is set to take place against a backdrop of Republican ire at Washington’s continued financial aid to Kiev Allies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will hold talks this week…

Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court To Immediately Weigh In On Trump Presidential Immunity Defense Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to immediately weigh in on former President Trump’s federal…

Strong Buyside Demand For 10Y Auction Despite Big Tail In today’s second Treasury auction (as a reminder, thanks to the FOMC we are on a very truncated issuance schedule this week), and…

Oakland Teachers Hold Unauthorized “Teach-In” In Support Of Palestine Authored by Micaela Ricaforte via The Epoch Times, A group of Oakland, California teachers gave pro-Palestine lessons to their students Dec. 6 as…

As Zelensky Again Goes To Washington, Almost Half Of US Voters Think Biden Spending Too Much On Ukraine With $60 billion in stalled aid on the line, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is…

Year-Ahead Inflation Expectations Tumble To Lowest Since April 2021 In Latest NY Fed Survey After two months of late summer increases in the 1-Year inflation expectation as tracked by the NY Fed’s…

UN Climate Karens Melt Down After COP28 Summit Ditches Fossil Fuel ‘Phase-Out’ Language Last week, Sultan al Jaber, the president of the UN’s COP28 climate summit, insisted that there is “no science”…

US NatGas Prices Tumble 10% On Mild Weather Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The benchmark U.S. natural gas prices slumped by more than 10% early on Monday amid high inventories and…

Ugly, Tailing 3Y Auction Sees Lowest Foreign Demand Since June 2022 The week’s accelerated auction schedule kicked off at 11:30am this morning with a 3Y auction (the 10Y benchmark auction will follow…

The Lithuanian foreign minister has accused Hungary of opposing everything the bloc stands for Hungary’s stance on Ukraine suggests that it is opposed to European values, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis claimed…

For The Market To Be Right, Every Member Of The FOMC Has To Be Wrong By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at Rabobank For Lease Navidad Following a softish ADP jobs figure…

Israeli Troop Deaths Surpass 100 in Gaza, Thousands Wounded As Hospitals Deal With ‘Tsunami Of Trauma’ Shortly after weekend reports of Israeli tanks having reached the center of the southern Gaza city…

Gold Strength Is Fiat Money Weakness Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The year is ending with a significant level of optimism among investors, focusing on an expected string of rate cuts from the Fed…

Key Events In This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, SNB, BOE, CPI, Retail Sales, Treasury Auctions, China Data Dump Usually the week after US payrolls is pretty quiet on the news and events…

An agreement was signed with Angola to send medical vehicles, as well as provide spare parts and maintenance training Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a resolution on Friday that will commit…

Americans Are Being Scammed In More Sophisticated Ways Than Ever Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A woman receives a phone call saying her nephew has been arrested…

Abdel Fatah el-Sisi is running against three opposition candidates in the presidential elections President of Egypt Abdel Fatah el-Sisi is seeking a third term in office, in an election being held while…

An industry group expects the sector to be hit by a drop in prices, sanctions and Western import duties Russia’s Aluminium Association has issued a grim warning for the industry as it…

The Ukrainian president is seen as a potential barrier to peace negotiations, Moscow’s intelligence chief has claimed Western officials are discussing the potential removal of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky from power, the…

The result spells the end of Mateusz Morawiecki’s government and his six-year rule The Polish parliament on Monday successfully passed a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Of the…

The regional authority has threatened to impose harsher sanctions on Niamey if diplomatic efforts fail The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced on Sunday a decision to resume talks with…

Washington has called on the Jewish state to speed up its operations as international condemnation over its offensive rises Israel must wrap up its war against Hamas by the end of this…

Businessman Oleg Deripaska has appealed against Australia’s decision to the country’s federal court Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has filed a lawsuit in an Australian court to challenge his inclusion in the country’s…

Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says Kiev has fulfilled all preconditions for joining the bloc and urged Brussels to “play fairly” Ukraine is willing to perform a musical number for the EU if…

Official Kiev has been talking about an alleged “genocide of Ukrainians by Russia” for more than 30 years. What’s wrong with this myth? At the end of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims…

Over 550 requests to travel and fight have reportedly been filed with the Czech Republic’s president though the majority were rejected More than 150 Czechs have received official approval from their country’s…

Could America Have A French-Style Revolution? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Combine all these factors and the result is a potentially volatile mixture awaiting a catalyst. In the past,…