While families feasted, the Malthusian-Orwellian European Council quietly cemented its stance on the digital euro on December 23, 2025—paving the way for talks with Parliament and confirming an offline payment mode, a nod to privacy in a world increasingly surveilled.

The ECB has triumphantly finished all the “technical prep work” for the digital euro, and Christine Lagarde assures us that all that’s left is for the ever-efficient political machinery to wave it through. On December 23, 2025, the Council finally adopted its official negotiating stance—setting the thrilling stage for a potential rollout by 2029, assuming the regulators remember to pass the rules by 2026. The digital euro will feature online and offline payments, because nothing says “progress” like peer-to-peer transfers between certified devices that are almost as private as actual cash… for low-value purchases, of course.

Naturally, the ECB insists the digital euro isn’t here to banish cash—fear not, you can still hoard your coins and paper bills. And don’t worry, it’s all perfectly “safe”: holding limits and fancy safeguards are in place to stop anyone from actually moving big piles of money out of commercial banks. Stability guaranteed… or so they say.

https://cryptonews.com/news/eu-digital-euro-offline-digital-euro-payments/

In a nutshell, while Europeans were feasting, the ECB and Council quietly greenlit the digital euro’s “offline privacy mode” and set the stage for a 2029 rollout of its CBDC.

While Wall Street diligently rehearsed its favorite bedtime story about “vanquished inflation”—right on cue with Donald Copperfield’s mid-term spin—the New York Fed governor quietly let the mask slip, admitting what anyone fluent in ‘CPLie’-speak already knew: the November numbers were pure statistical fiction.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/ny-fed-president-williams-says-some-technical-factors-distorted-novembers-cpi-reading-downward.html

Everyone with even a passing acquaintance with finance knows government numbers are about as trustworthy as a politician’s forecast—yet they remain the sacred inputs for monetary policy.

Despite openly admitting the data may be flawed, Williams still voted for a December rate cut, while reassuring us there’s no “urgent need” to keep easing.

In other words, monetary authorities are flying blind, proudly steering an economy they can’t properly measure, juggling a softening labor market against inflation figures they quietly concede might be wrong. The perfect recipe for the upcoming inflationary bust which will be remembered as the ‘Trump Stagflation’

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