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November 17, 2025
Economist

👺 We Try to Interpret the Cover of the New “The Economist”, the Magazine of the Big Bosses! (Part 1)

On the evening of November 12, 2025, an epic event occurred in the world of media and conspiracy theories, which happens once every 365 days: The Economist magazine published yet another amazing cover, titled “The World Ahead 2026,” hinting at what the world will be like next year.

As we can see, there is a lot of fiction painted on the picture there, and conspiracy theorists on YouTube will be trying to interpret it for several months. Of course, nothing will come of what is symbolized there, but by the time “ The World Ahead 2027” comes out , everyone will have forgotten about it, and the conspiracy theorists will start trying to interpret it again.

However, some things in the picture are quite obvious and will definitely come true.

What are these things?

1) The cake with the number “250” which represents the inevitable 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence in 2026. It is located in the center of the image and this indicates that it will be at the center of the attention of the entire world.

2) Rockets, robots, and syringes are literally scattered throughout the image. Most likely, people will soon calculate how many of each and where – the numbers are certainly symbolic and indicate dates.

3) Pills – there are plenty of them. Actually, they are not pills, but capsules, half red and half blue/white. This could be a reference to The Matrix, or maybe the pills are just part of the overall color scheme of red and blue, suggesting the political divisions of the entire society.

4) A huge container ship in the Pacific Ocean, which is attacked by satellite and opens fire with hidden cannons against the US. This could indicate problems with the supply chain in the Pacific Ocean, a false flag attack involving a similar ship, and more.

5) The broken dollar sign undoubtedly indicates problems with the economy, but these problems are obvious even without the hints of The Economist magazine.

Then follow episodes, the meaning of which is controversial & unclear:

1) The crossed swords, which can symbolize many things, from Elon Musk and his Twitter X, to the number 24 (X is the 24th letter of the English alphabet).

2) The printer running at full power may symbolize the uncontrolled issuance of paper money, but it may not be a printer, but a device for counting ballots. The cracked dollar indicates problems with the currency in question.

3) The hand in handcuffs can symbolize total control, a police state, the dispersal of protests, and the like. However, the raised fist is also a communist/socialist fighting symbol, so it could mean that Donald Trump will handcuff the communists and they will, at least for a while, stop making people's lives miserable.

4) A red cup – it can symbolize both spilled blood, but also a whole range of other things – a whole monograph could be written about the symbolism of the cup. But the cup can also be considered in combination with the crossed swords as a symbol of some playing card. In this case, we need to look for two more symbols from the deck.

5) Brains implanted with chips and connected to a game console certainly symbolize the impending mind control & brain chipping, metahumanism, the convergence of machine & human. But in what context?

Finally, the third group of symbols is completely unclear & incomprehensible as to what they symbolize. The artist of The Economist magazine paints slightly worse than Monet and Picasso, but a little better than Ostap Ibrahimovich Bender, who was commissioned to paint the sower, which is why the people are indistinguishable. Trump, Xi, Modi and Zelensky are quite distinct & recognizable, but it is not clear who these guys are standing next to Comrade Xi.

One of them is believed to be Lula da Silva , the leader of Brazil, while others see him as Netanyahu. But the identity of the third person is unknown, just as the woman with the white hair is unclear.

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🇺🇸 #Oklahoma high school principal (Kirk Moore) seen charging at and disarming a school shooter.

The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.

When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.

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For those who don’t know, Trump recently endorsed Maria Salazar for re-election (February, 2026) after she publicly called on him to provide mass amnesty for illegals more than 8 months ago.

But please keep telling me how Thomas Massie is the one who needs to go.

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Oil reserves

🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?

Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.

China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.

Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.

Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.

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Rising Oil

🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise

🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.

🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.

🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.

🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...

OIL INVENTORY

🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:

Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.

Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.

Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.

Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.

As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.

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