Happy Holidays | Group Chat News 983
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
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Group Chat News is back with the biggest stories of the week including more information on the "freeport" loophole story from the last pod, President Trump says anyone who disagrees with him will "never" be Fed Chairman, Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he will cover IVF costs for women under 37 who want to use his donated sperm, and has promised his offspring a share of his fortune, Saks Global doesn't rule out bankruptcy, the Honest company to halt DTC sales, shutter mobile app, Steven Spielberg refused to work with Ben Affleck because of pool fight on a family vacation, filmmaker claims, consumers power strongest U.S. economic growth in two years, the Chiefs' new stadium in Kansas, and everyones favorite WINNERS LOSERS CONTENT
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Kathy's, you guys are lucky. Four episodes in a row, like every few days, one right |
| 0:06.4 | before the big birthday. Big birthday. Jesus Christ. Christmas episode, we, you know, the elves are |
| 0:16.9 | working. So we're going to work. Elves are working. Batman is packing up his presents. Yeah. So we're, to work. Ravs are working. Batman is packing up his presence. |
| 0:23.5 | So, yeah, we're getting ready to go, getting ready to the holidays. |
| 0:28.7 | You had a topic around free ports? |
| 0:31.9 | Yeah. So, Nebiel, who's been on our pod as kind of the foreign policy expert. Yeah. He knows way more about this than |
| 0:40.3 | honestly anyone I know. Yeah. And he gave some great insight. I know Zach brought it up, |
| 0:46.1 | but we didn't get a chance to kind of dive in on how, because I was trying to understand the |
| 0:50.9 | mechanism, how you make money from a free port. Yeah. So you explained me in detail how it works. |
| 0:56.0 | So basically, like we discussed last episode, there are ports around the world that either |
| 1:03.0 | the Swiss government or random, you know, tax-saving governments have bought where you're not |
| 1:10.0 | domiciled in a country, So you're not like taxed by |
| 1:12.6 | any region. It took a bonded warehouse. So then I was like, okay, fine. You have this art or whatever |
| 1:17.9 | you have stored in here. I get it. It's not taxable. So how do you make money on it? So what happens |
| 1:23.8 | is the goods. There's two ways these things happen from what I understand from |
| 1:27.6 | Nabil. One, so let's call it the Da Vinci art or you name your $500 million painting |
| 1:34.1 | that's sitting in the art. It's basically being transacted by different parties through |
| 1:41.6 | offshore tax havens and the art never leaves. |
| 1:45.9 | So one person, you know, brings it into the Freeport. |
| 1:50.1 | He sells it for $400 million to someone else. |
| 1:53.1 | That person keeps in the freeport. |
| 1:55.1 | He gets the $400 million tax haven. |
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