FT | Not one world power is optimistic and even in America, which should be cheering, the mood is sour.

London Guardian | Utrecht takes step towards paying people a salary whether they work or not.

NY Times | Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers.

Michael Krieger | BuzzFeed News has just published a hard-hitting, extremely sickening investigative report which shines further light on the shady and unethical practices of Warren Buffett.

Market Watch | Americans are living right on the edge — at least when it comes to financial planning.

Alt Market | There is one predominant reality that must be understood before a person can grasp the nature of the Federal Reserve.

Campus Reform | An economics professor at the University of California, Irvine estimates that state and local minimum wage increases have cost up to 200,000 jobs since the Great Recession.

Zero Hedge | Despite every effort by The Fed to convince the world that everything is awesome, it’s not.

Zero Hedge | The takeaway here is that the Saudi gambit failed to wrench market share away from the Russians.

New American | Each Christmas season, the American people showcase their generosity with incredible stories of charity and giving.

Charles Hugh-Smith | The injustice of central-bank enforced neofeudalism cannot be suppressed like interest rates.

Bloomberg | The average price of gasoline at the pump has dropped below $2 a gallon for the first time in more than six years as global oil supply continues to surge.

Reuters | Brent crude prices hit their lowest in over 11 years on Monday, hounded by a relentless rise in global supply that looks set to outpace demand again next year.

Michael Krieger | This represents a primary driver in the transformation of the American economy into a neo-feual wasteland of broke debt serfs.