The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community this year.
Category: 23 December 2025
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
As AI continues to take over human jobs, 55,000 layoffs in the U.S. this year were attributed to AI, according to job placement and consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
FCC DELETES ANY MENTION OF ITS INDEPENDENCE ON WEBSITE AFTER CARR’S TESTIMONY
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week scrubbed its website of any reference to the agency being “independent” after Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, testified in front of a Senate committee that “formally speaking, the FCC isn’t independent.”
DOT COM BUST 2.0
On 28 January 2025, The Trends Journal alerted subscribers about this little-known Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, that sent a bolt across the AI-driven stock market’s bow when it announced that it trained a free AI assistant for $6 million instead of the $100-million-plus that Open AI and other Western tech companies had to spend on their products.
CBS NEWS’S BARI WEISS CRITICIZED FOR HOLDING DEPORTATION STORY, CALLED ‘POLITICAL’ BY REPORTER
Bari Weiss, the newly appointed head of CBS News, faced criticism on Sunday after it was revealed that she told “60 Minutes” not to run a story about the abuses that deportees have faced during the Trump administration after the piece’s reporter said the decision was based on “politics.”
‘PEACE’ PRESIDENT TRUMP AGREES TO PROVIDE TAIWAN WITH MASSIVE ARMS PACKAGE
President Donald Trump approved an $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan last week, which was embraced by the China hawks in Washington who see it as evidence that the administration will maintain the U.S.’s longstanding tradition of provoking Beijing in its sphere of influence.
HEGSETH SAYS HE WILL NOT BE RELEASING VIDEO OF SECOND BOAT STRIKE
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, announced last week that his department will not be releasing the video of a 2 September boat strike on survivors who had been reportedly clinging to the side of the wreckage—which critics called the textbook definition of a war crime. Hegseth met with senators last week and told reporters......
FASCISM: TRUMP’S SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY ANNOUNCES MERGER WITH NUCLEAR FUSION FIRM
Trump Media & Technology Group announced last week that it agreed to a merger with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion power company, drawing new attention to how President Donald Trump intends to enrich himself and his family during his presidency.
MAN OF PEACE FRAUD TRUMP KEEPS BOMBING SOMALIA. SOME 116 AIRSTRIKES SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE
The Trump administration continues to ramp up its attacks inside Somalia and last week carried out an additional four airstrikes inside the country, bringing the total to at least 116 since the start of the year.
TRUMP GANG SEIZES VENEZUELA TANKER
The U.S. took its second action against oil tankers hauling Venezuelan crude on Saturday when members of the Coast Guard boarded a ship that was headed to Asia, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed officials.









