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DURHAM, N.C. — Kenneth Nicholson is very involved in the cryptocurrency world. He even has a YouTube channel breaking down ways to invest. “I started to create videos about cryptocurrency and launch my own exchange on cryptocurrency,” the Durham, North Carolina, resident said. Nicholson says it’s not unusual for him to be contacted by people …
In France, pensioners earn more money than people who work. byu/PlastDuck inEconomyCharts While boomers in the U.S. and UK are being forced to go back to work because they can’t afford to retire in the current climate, pensioners in France are not just kicking up their feet—they’re even out-earning those with jobs. French retirees over …
One person has died and 10 were injured after a “mini tornado” knocked down three construction cranes in the north of Paris on Monday, authorities said. A 23-year-old construction worker died on a building site and 10 others were injured, with four left in critical condition, regional prosecutor Guirec Le Bras said. The head of …
New Generation Of Industries Emerges In Texas As Rare Earths Race Ignites https://t.co/smU839P6Om — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 21, 2025 Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for oil. This time, they’re after lithium for batteries and other rare elements. Chevron and Halliburton announced East Texas projects this summer. Exxon has acreage …
*GREER: CHINA TRYING TO DETER U.S. INVESTMENT 🇺🇸🇨🇳 — Investing.com (@Investingcom) October 21, 2025 BREAKING: The Trump administration warned China not to retaliate against foreign companies helping the US to develop critical industries, per Bloomberg — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 21, 2025 Greer, a senior U.S. trade official, claims that China is using economic coercion to …
The president even placed himself as a king inside a fighter jet to make it clear where he is headed, after also posting something like 90,000 more years of Trump! by David Haggith Trump video of his next mission. The Peace President today posted an AI video of himself as “King Trump,” flying over crowds …
See he agreed. 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/nx1b0Jw2U6 — C3 (@C_3C_3) October 20, 2025 BREAKING 🚨 U.S. Appeals court allows Trump to send troops to Portland, Oregon — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 20, 2025
Donald Trump is tearing down the East Wing of the White House to build his $250M ballroom for his rich friendspic.twitter.com/tjEG8iE5yN — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 20, 2025 Excavator currently tearing down the east wing of the White House. byu/Orangutan inconspiracy
Southern California home sales fell to their lowest level for an August on record as stubbornly elevated prices and mortgage rates – plus economic uncertainty – scared off house hunters. The six-county region had 14,476 sales in the month, according to Attom’s tracking of closed transactions involving houses and condos, both existing and newly constructed. …
France is facing a full-blown credit crisis. S&P Global Ratings just downgraded the country’s credit rating from AA- to A+, marking the third downgrade in barely a month. The move reflects both political chaos and growing debt problems in Europe’s second-largest economy. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu barely survived two no-confidence votes and was forced to …
Call me old fashioned but I bet they would do a lot better if they told the truth for once https://t.co/h9OubpOibf — Zero HP Lovecraft (@0x49fa98) October 19, 2025 Other good points in the comments to explain the fall in news website traffic are the increase in paywalls and/or intrusive ads on news sites. Also, …
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Guys it’s official After this recent issue from AWS… And the two previous times that $HOOD disabled buying and selling I will be transferring all my assets into $SOFI as well as cutting up my $HOOD Gold card and throwing it away pic.twitter.com/9KrJDHKkyA — The Wheelie Investor (@WheelieInvestor) October 20, 2025
Why is copper-to-gold so ugly and thoroughly deflationary? What’s happening right now inside China is one key part of it. After a small artificial rebound earlier this – where have we heard that before – Chinese bank lending has fallen even more sharply this summer adding yet another layer to the tremendous deceleration we keep …
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Kristi Noem is now under congressional investigation over reports that 170 AMERICAN CITIZENS have been wrongly detained by ICE. Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal say Americans were taken with no warrants, no lawyers, no charges. Hold her accountable! pic.twitter.com/kvTVATB8cN — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) October 20, 2025 Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass …
SHUTDOWN MIGHT END THIS WEEK… OR GET WORSE Top Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett says the shutdown might “end sometime this week.” But if Democrats don’t budge, the White House could ramp things up with “stronger measures” to force a deal. He claims Dems are dodging a vote until after the weekend’s anti-Trump “No Kings” …
An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), which took out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the company offered an update on the cause of the issue and said it was working to restore services. At 6:01 PM ET, Amazon said …
Keep in mind, the Q3 average gold price was not much different from Q2. I am actually hoping they sell off after a disappointing earnings quarter, only to absolutely explode on Q4 earnings. — Doc (@EmmettBrownMD) October 20, 2025 The Fed is pissed about gold moving higher — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) October 20, 2025
Warner Bros. Discovery said Tuesday it’s expanding its strategic review of the business and is open to a sale, sending shares of the company 8% higher in premarket trading. Earlier this year, WBD announced plans to split into two separate entities, a streaming and studios business and a global networks business. It’s also been fielding …
by silverunknown78 I tried explaining to my family members but any political discussion that is brought up with “extremes” – like illegal immigration, they just stay naive and basically ignore what i say. Last year i thought it was funny seeing the guys cut down the ULEZ poles, but now i realize why they do …
Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country’s first female prime minister. Takaichi, 64, is also the first woman to lead the Liberal Democratic Party that has dominated Japan’s postwar politics almost without interruption.
‘It’s surprising that one thing affected their network, because usually there’s backup, and redundant systems all running at the same time. One particular system going down is very, very surprising.’ Knight admitted he was puzzled by the outage which, he noted, will have cost Amazon hundreds of millions of dollars. It began at 3:11am ET. …
Ian Harris, CEO of Copper Giant, explains why his stock surged 77% and argues that soaring copper demand from AI data centers and infrastructure will drive a decade-long bull market for copper mining companies.
In Roman times, if soldiers weren’t paid, emperors died.
TRUMP: IF CHINA DON’T DO BUSINESS WITH US, THEY’RE IN BIG TROUBLE “And if they don’t do business with us, I think China is in big trouble. I’ll be honest with you. I think China is… I don’t know that they even make it. I believe that they’re in big trouble. But we have to …
In just 12 days, NOTHING will be the same between China and the United States. November 1st marks the historic Trump–Xi Summit, a moment that could reshape the global order forever — from the collapse of the U.S. dollar’s dominance to the rise of gold-backed systems across Asia.
$200 Billion in frozen russian assets may finally reach Ukraine. The EU is preparing a creative plan: issue a “reparations loan” to Ukraine. Kyiv would only need to repay the loan once Moscow pays war reparations. Of course, everyone knows russia will never do that. But… pic.twitter.com/U95OY38bLD — Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@rshereme) October 2, 2025 …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the continued bombing of Gaza as Israel claims the ceasefire still holds. Apparently, bombing the people you have a ceasefire with doesn’t go against the ceasefire. This comes after Israel claims Hamas was killing Israelis. It turns out, it was an unexploded Israeli ordnance that went off when an Israeli bulldozer …
In an hysterical rant over the weekend, President Trump has blasted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as a couple of “wackos” who refuse to vote with the Republican Party. Meanwhile, President Trump has just announced that his first in-person fundraiser of the election cycle will be for…Lindsey Graham! Also today, Israel …
