Zero Hedge | Someone decided that Friday after Thanksgiving would be the perfect time to dump over 18,000 contracts.

Zero Hedge | When you have a billion people willing to work instead of expecting free “stuff”, anything’s possible…

London Telegraph | Jean-Claude Juncker issues bleakest assessment yet of state of Schengen free-travel zone.

Zero Hedge | Make no mistake, federal intervention is likely to be anything but “swift.”

The Daily Sheeple | Someday in the near future, the process of buying a precious metal asset is going to look very different than it does today.

CNS News | The number and percentage of children in households on food stamps held relatively steady from 2013 to 2014, according to the Census surveys.

Sputnik | High uncertainty in future oil prices has suggested that over the course 2016, oil prices could as much as double, or halve.

Zero Hedge | Expect mass confusion to be the norm for a long, long time.

Reuters | The oversupply in the oil market is absolutely killing prices and it’s only set to get worse in 2016.

Michael Snyder | The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America.

Mac Slavo | The price of oil has long been a key indicator of economic health and stability. And that index is tanking fast.

Charles Hugh Smith | Currencies are in the midst of multi-year revaluations that will destabilize the tottering towers of debt.

Zero Hedge | “You have to go after the oil, and you have to do it in a serious way, and we’ve just begun to do that now,”

Michael Snyder | I was absolutely stunned to learn that the Baltic Dry Shipping Index had plummeted to a new all-time record low of 504 at one point on Thursday.