Walmart, McDonald’s and other corporate giants are making huge profits while their employees’ food and healthcare needs are being subsidized by US taxpayers. Happy Holidays, 12 million people are about to lose their jobless benefits on Christmas Day. Economist and author Richard Wolff discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the holiday season and the future of student loan debt.

The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca report positive late-stage results from their Covid-19 vaccine. Early data showed the vaccine produced a strong immune response in older adults, but the growing surge in coronavirus cases is weighing down investor sentiment. Plus, people are turning to gold loans to fulfill their financial needs during the pandemic. We bring you a panel to break it down. And Canada resumes its extradition trial for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.

Global institutions are ringing the alarm over the ticking time bomb that is climate change. But President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center Bjorn Lomborg, who is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a skeptical environmentalist, believes the panic is unnecessary, or even groundless.

What can we expect from a Biden administration when it comes to Russia? As things stand today, relations are at rock bottom. Biden’s orbit is replete with hardliners and neocons with a long record of foreign policy failure. Could relations continue to get worse?

CrossTalking with Michael O'Hanlon, Brian Becker, and Maxim Suchkov.

The Alex Salmond Show examines the glowing embers of the most hotly contested American presidential election in history, from both sides of a polarized debate – with Keneshia Grant, professor at Howard University and president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, and Ed Martin, co-author of The Conservative Case for Trump. Alex is also joined by the world's leading anthropologist, Wade Davis, who takes a longer-term view of the underlying changes in American society and discusses whether these point to continued division and trauma – or to an American recovery?

In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at Citibank coming out with ‘moonmath’ on bitcoin with a hugely bullish price target of $318,000 by December 2021. In the second half, Max interviews Lorena Ortiz of the Bitcoin Embassy Bar in Mexico City about how bitcoin has been a lifeboat for her company during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

Now the LA Kings president Luc Robitaille reveals how he feels being traded from the team he spent 14 years of his NHL career playing for.

The Department of Defense fails its annual audit once again even as President Trump seeks to end long running wars.

China and 14 Asian Pacific countries have signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, leaving the US out of the world's largest trade deal. The RCEP deal is putting pressure on Europe and the incoming Biden administration to act and is heralded as a blow to US geopolitical power. Meanwhile, stocks are falling from their surge at positive Covid-19 vaccine trial data. This comes as uncertainty regarding a potential stimulus remains high. Meanwhile, the FAA is ungrounding the troubled Boeing 737 MAX jet after nearly two years. But some airlines say it will still be months before we’ll see it scheduled for regular flights.

Millions of Americans continue to suffer due to congressional gridlock over issuing additional Covid stimulus checks. Plus, Charles Koch is pledging to turn over a new leaf after decades of using his wealth to foment political division. Also, construction giant Skanska faces a litany of lawsuits related to its Pensacola Bay Bridge which was put out of commission by Hurricane Sally. RT correspondent Brigida Santos discusses Trump’s firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper. What does this mean for US foreign policy moving forward, and who else will be on the president’s chopping block during his final months in office? Media analyst David Lamb explains how pre-election polls abysmally underestimated voter turnout for Trump, as many of Biden’s double-digit leads shrank to the slimmest of margins on Election Day.