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1. Margins Expand in 2025

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2. Strong Retail Demand for Gold

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3. Stock Based Compensation of AI Companies

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4. NYT Stock-NY Times vs. S&P 500 from Trump I Election to Today….NYT +588% vs. S&P 500 +278%.

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5. Tesla Historical Deliveries

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6. Comparing AI Rally

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7. MSTR Shares Since It Began Buying Bitcoin

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8. DOJ seeks to enlist 400 attorneys to review more than 5M pages of Epstein records: Sources

Via ABC News: The review of the documents is expected to take much of January, sources said. 

By Katherine Faulders and Alexander Mallin

The Department of Justice is asking for help reviewing 5.2 million pages of unreviewed documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, seeking to enlist 400 lawyers total from its criminal and national security divisions along with the U.S. attorneys' offices in Florida and New York, according to people familiar with the matter. 

As Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas in an interview earlier this month, the DOJ already had nearly 200 lawyers working to review the files.But in recent days, department leadership has made clear to the workforce that more help is needed.

The New York Times was first to report the development.  The review of the documents is expected to take much of January, the sources said.  The reorienting of resources from both the criminal and national security divisions has already raised concerns among current and former DOJ officials given the department has already diverted many of those resources towards immigration enforcement, according to sources familiar with the matter. 

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9. Executions in Iran estimated to have doubled in 2025, report says

Via BBC News: Sebastian Usher Middle East analyst

The number of executions in Iran in 2025 is estimated to have more than doubled compared to the number that took place across the country in 2024.

Norwegian-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group told the BBC it had verified at least 1,500 executions up until the start of December, adding that many more have taken place since.

Last year, IHR was able to verify 975 executions - although the exact number is never completely clear as Iranian authorities do not give official figures.

However, the analysis shows another significant annual rise, and the figures chime with those provided by other monitoring groups.

Iran's government has previously defended its use of the death penalty, saying it is limited to only "the most severe crimes".

Execution figures were already on the rise before mass demonstrations broke out across the country in 2022 following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly".

That protest movement represented the biggest challenge to the legitimacy of Iran's theocratic leadership for many years.

In response, authorities intensified the rate of executions from around 520 in 2022 to 832 the following year - according to the figures verified by IHR.

There have been some executions for protesters or alleged spies - but 99% of those executed have been for murder or drug offences - a ratio which has remained constant.

Activists have said that the rate of executions in Iran increases when the regime feels under threat and that the aim is to forestall internal opposition by instilling fear in the population.

It seems to be borne out by the fact that since the 12-day war with Israel in June, as well as major setbacks for Iran's proxy forces across the region, there's been another big surge.

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10. Rage Bait-Dr. Hyman

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