ZeroHedge Black Friday Sale Is Almost Over! After launching ZeroHedge store a year ago, we’ve been humbled by the overwhelming response. Between die-hard fans of IQ Biologix supplements, ZeroHedge gear, Rancher-Direct clean meats, hand-made knives, and more – your support is greatly appreciated.  So since everyone else on the planet is doing a Black Friday / Cyber Monday promotion, we did one too. Until Monday at […]

Trump Rejects Maduro Request For Amnesty In Newly Disclosed Phone Call President Donald Trump has reportedly rejected Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s request for broad amnesty during a newly disclosed phone conversation last week, telling Maduro and his top advisers to drop their demands and swiftly exit Venezuela as US military pressure intensifies, which has lately included an order to halt all flights in the country’s […]

The Santa Rally Recipe: Fed Put In Full Force By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The market figured out a holiday recipe that works well: A Healthy Dose of Fed Puts. A Dash of Trade Hopes. A Smidge more Fed Puts because you can never have enough Fed Puts. In the past 5 trading days (including Friday November 21st): The Nasdaq 100 is up 5.7% (outpacing the “rotation” trade of the S&P 500 Equal Weight […]

NYT Torches Tim Walz After Somalians Scam Woke Minnesota For $1 Billion ‘On His Watch’ The NY Times has thrown Minnesota governor Tim Walz under the bus over a massive and sprawling fraud scandal that federal prosecutors say siphoned over $1 billion from the state’s social safety net programs – more than the entire state spends annually to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) The […]

Watch: Chevy Proves Woke Is Dead With New Ad Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Chevrolet’s new Christmas commercial “Memory Lane” has taken the internet by storm, racking up millions of views and an avalanche of praise for its simple, heartfelt storytelling that celebrates a traditional American family. There are no lectures, no forced diversity, just a mom and dad driving their 1987 Suburban to a snowy cabin […]

Kazakhstan Angrily Calls On Ukraine To Stop Black Sea Oil Terminal Attacks Kazakhstan is angrily denouncing and protesting the “deliberate attack” on critical energy transport infrastructure of the international Caspian Pipeline Consortium in the waters of Russia’s port city of Novorossiysk, after on Saturday a naval drone sent by Ukraine severely damaged one of its three loading points. Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry said on […]

Watch: TikToker Hands Out Vodka, Machetes To Mentally Ill And Homeless TikTok influencers push boundaries to stay visible and relevant in feeds. Some of the stunts have become so outrageous that these clout-chasing fools will do anything for views – even if it means jeopardizing public safety. The latest absurdity comes from TikToker PovWolfy, who in recent weeks has been handing out machetes and vodka bottles to the homeless […]

Rubio, Witkoff Meet With Ukraine Negotiators In Miami To Discuss Plans To End War Three key Trump administration officials are meeting with Ukrainian negotiators in Miami, Florida this weekend in a push to broker an end to the war Russia began with its 2022 invasion, while setting the stage for talks between Washington and Moscow planned later this week. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and U.S. […]

DC Terror Ambush Forces U.S. To Reckon With $14 Billion Afghan Evacuation Program That Imported Chaos The ex-CIA-linked Afghan national who gunned down one National Guard soldier and critically injured another (an ambush terror attack) blocks from the White House has finally forced a long-overdue reckoning over reckless immigration policies.  Afghans arrived in the U.S. through Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) and related […]

Race To The Bottom: White House Launches ‘Media Offenders’ Leaderboard Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump White House unveiled a scathing new website Friday, “Media Offenders,” complete with a “race to the bottom” leaderboard ranking outlets like The Washington Post as the worst for “false and misleading stories”—flagging everything from exaggerated Trump “sedition” claims to immigrant horror […]

VW Aims To Cut Development Costs In Half With New “Made In China” Car Volkswagen says it can build an electric car entirely in China at roughly half the cost of producing one in Germany, helped by quicker development, lower labor expenses, easier battery sourcing and a more efficient supply chain, according to FT. After heavy investment in its new R&D base in Hefei, which includes more than 100 labs for software, hardware and […]

Ron Paul’s ‘Real’ Ukraine Peace Plan Authored by Ron Paul, Last week’s surprise release of a draft Ukraine war peace plan has raised hopes that the nearly three-year bloody conflict may finally come to an end. Ukraine has suffered horrible losses that may change the demographics of that country for decades to come. If this peace plan can be negotiated in a way that satisfies all sides and the guns finally go silent, I will be […]

Hungary’s Orban Seeks More ‘Cheap’ Russian Oil & Gas In Warm Meeting With Putin At a moment many European and NATO leaders are pushing back against Trump’s peace plan for the Ukraine war, given it offers to cede large parts of the Donbass and Crimea to Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is in Moscow on a warm and cordial visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The focus of their discussions centered on […]

NATO’s Potential “Anschluss” With Austria Would Be For Purely Narrative Reasons Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This would be nothing but “another (faux) victory over Putin” that could be spun as having made the populace’s reduced living standards worthwhile after they dropped due to the anti-Russian sanctions. Former Russian President and incumbent Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev published […]

4 Dead, 10 Wounded After Mass Shooting At Stockton, California Banquet Hall Four people were killed and ten others wounded late Saturday in Stockton, California, after a gunman opened fire inside a banquet hall during a family birthday party. This is a shooting that authorities say appears to have been a “targeted” one. Mass Shooting in Stockton: 19 Shot, 4 Dead at Children’s Party. Location is banquet hall on Lucille and […]

The United States Of Delusion Authored by Buck Sexton via DailyReckoning.com, If I looked you in the eye and told you the Rocky Mountains don’t exist, you’d think I was crazy. But give me time, and I could make you believe it. I wouldn’t need threats or force. I wouldn’t really even need a good argument. All I’d need is steady, confident repetition. The kind that comes from the voices you already trust. Say, you lived […]

No Mercy For Repeat Offenders As “Iryna’s Law” Takes Effect In North Carolina The murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August 2025 drew national attention because of the random brutality caught on camera.  But beyond that, it brought into question the ongoing decline of America’s prosecution and punishment policies, especially within Democrat controlled cities. The trend […]

Does AI Lead To Socialism? Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, There’s an argument running through the commentariat that goes something like this: AI (artificial intelligence) has already rendered some jobs obsolete and will continue this trend until the human race is unemployed. Even now it surpasses the ability of most people to write an effective opinion essay because it can create logic-driven, elegant […]

Chaos In New York As Trained Activists Try To Block ICE Operations Multiple people were taken into custody by the NYPD during a protest in Chinatown Saturday afternoon after protesters gathered outside a parking garage at Centre Street and Howard Street where ICE agents were reportedly stationed in preparation for an immigration raid.  As with many of these incidents across the country in recent months, activists were somehow […]

Incidents Of Sexual Extortion For Money Targeting Youth Escalating: Financial Intelligence Agency Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Sexual extortion of children for profit is on the rise, Canada’s financial intelligence agency says, and a large portion of such activities are tied to organized crime. A person types on a computer keyboard on May 13, 2025, in this photo illustration. Oleksii […]

China Issues Rare Bubble Warning Forming In Humanoid Robotics China’s top economic-planning body, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), issued a rare warning earlier today about the emergence of bubble conditions in the country’s humanoid robotics industry. This warning comes just as Elon Musk is planning to scale production of the Tesla Optimus robot next year.  Bloomberg cites comments from NDRC spokeswoman Li […]

Obamacare’s Costly Illusion Of Affordability: From Subsidies To Serfdom Authored by Richard Menger via The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance premiums have steadily increased, as has healthcare’s proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP). In employer-sponsored insurance, escalating premiums are the primary driver for stagnant […]

Study Finds Tattoo Ink Accumulates In Lymph Nodes A new study shows tattoo ink drains into the lymphatic system and accumulates in lymph nodes, diminishing the effects of immune cells. This accumulation of ink pigment triggers both local and systemic inflammation that persists for months. A third of American adults, roughly 32% – or about 80 million people – have tattoos, and they should read this new study published in the […]

Bull Vs Bear: The Pain Trade Is “Likely To Be Higher” Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Rally Begins As Doves Emerge Markets surged into the Thanksgiving holiday, ending the week with substantial gains across all major U.S. indexes. The S&P 500 rose by approximately 3.7%, marking one of its strongest weeks in the past six months. The catalyst was a combination of falling bond yields and increasing […]

Democrats Sue After Trump Cuts SNAP Benefits For Alien Migrants It was one of the key debates that led to the longest government shutdown in US history:  The Trump Administration wanted to close the loopholes that allowed non-citizens access to government subsidies like ACA healthcare and free food through SNAP.  Democrats claimed that “illegal migrants” don’t have access to such programs.  Yet, the Democrats were willing to […]