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🚨 SOCIALIST SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good! 🔥 👉 After 25 years and serving over 7 million bagels, Blazing Bagels — Seattle’s iconic local chain with 5 locations — has collapsed. Employees were stunned when they received a sudden email Thursday night: effective immediately, all locations closed, no …
Social Security is barreling toward a 24% across-the-board benefit cut in 2032 that would slash roughly $500 a month from the average retiree’s check — a hit that totals about $345 billion a year nationwide, according to a first-of-its-kind report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a Washington fiscal watchdog. The CRFB warns …
Stocks sit broadly expensive speculative activity is rising and gains concentrate in fewer and fewer names. This is the precise froth that always precedes the brutal unwind. Goldman claims the 2026 World Cup will inject 40 thousand temporary jobs into US payrolls in June from hospitality retail and transport. Retail sales GDP and inflation get …
Legendary investor Doug Casey has identified a sector that the market has almost completely forgotten. Oil stocks trade at valuations that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago, yet they come with solid cash flows and attractive yields. With political tensions in the Middle East refusing to cool, this forgotten corner of the …
Jensen is out here saying stocks are “very cheap” which is literally the oldest trick in the book How many CEOs will say this during the next sell off? — Peter Ward (@4WardPeter) June 8, 2026 Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang just called Friday's sell-off a "buying opportunity" "Everyone has the chance to buy shares …
Trump: I call all the shots. NethanYahu : Cool story. We are Sovereign Nation we make our own decisions. Nobody can dictate our decisions 😂🍿 — Tom Fordy 🇺🇸 (@PromoterBoxing) June 8, 2026 folks we got a new ceasefire and that’s why premarkets are green 😂 pic.twitter.com/66nOJMo1gt — amit (@amitisinvesting) June 8, 2026 Israel did …
“Our AI is shit, so we make more money renting out the GPUs to other companies to recoup some of our expenses.” h/t tke248
264 billion gallons of water evaporated for data centers in 2025 alone That is 550 million gallons every single day just to keep servers cool Nearly 63% of the U.S. is currently suffering through a major drought Big Tech is outbidding thirsty communities for water rights in parched states We are prioritizing bot traffic and …
Tehran and Tel Aviv ended their exchange of fire early Monday morning. Israel launched warplanes into Iran after an 11-missile barrage from the IRGC. Trump claims he ordered Netanyahu to stop the strikes to save a “deal.” Damage to Iranian radar sites and a petrochemical complex in Mahshahr confirmed. Both sides are signaling a tactical …
by Michael Gigantic underground aquifers are being rapidly depleted all over the world, and once that water is gone it will take a very long time for it to come back. In fact, in some areas of the United States the recharge rate is less than an inch per year. That is a major problem, …
By Peter Reagan Most Americans don’t spend their evenings reading bank regulation testimony. I don’t blame them. Between work, family, bills and everything else life throws at us, very few people have the time or patience to track the fine print of financial regulation. The trouble is, those boring rules can become very important very …
Saylor sold Bitcoin for the first time, Stretch hit $90, and the self-perpetuating death spiral I’ve been warning about just started. Blackstone just issued one of the biggest warnings yet on the U.S. economy. The world’s largest alternative asset manager is now restricting withdrawals from a flagship private credit fund after investor redemption requests surged …
Washington found its counter to Iran’s $24 billion demand: spend the frozen money on the countries Iran keeps hitting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has ordered officials to tally the damage Gulf partners have suffered from Iranian attacks and price out repair and recovery costs, as the administration weighs using frozen Iranian assets to compensate for …
Weird… pic.twitter.com/mdImia5G0O — PanthersAlerts (@distinctalerts) June 8, 2026 first Trump now Jensen Guy is getting a bit obsessed with stock prices – $MRVL now this What happened to talking quietly and carry a big stick? Like he has done in the past. $NVDA actually struggled this whole past 2 months of rally — Fund.Drone.DefenseTech.Photonics $LPTH …
Disruptions in the Strait and Mediterranean are ripple-effecting through global supply chains. Shipping costs for finished goods are up 15% compared to the start of the year. Large retailers are reporting inventory lags on seasonal imports. Insurance firms are quietly raising the ‘risk premium’ on all vessels in the region. The cost of this instability …
SoFi Stadium workers voted 96% in favor of a strike this morning. The venue is the centerpiece for the upcoming FIFA World Cup games. The union, UNITE HERE Local 11, demands higher wages and job protections. Security fears regarding ICE presence at the games remain a central issue. DHS is being cagey about whether immigration …
Fed better ignore this one off spike or risk the real pain. Do the math. 🧮 Headline: 172K. Leisure & hospitality – World Cup staffing – was 70K of it, vs. a 14K normal pace. Back out just the abnormal ~56K and you’re at ~116K. Back out the whole sector and you’re at ~102K – …
US home sellers are retreating from the market: Delistings as a proportion of all US home listings rose to 5.8% in April, the highest since March 2020. Excluding the 2020 pandemic, delistings have never been this high. The absolute number of delistings rose +3.8% MoM, marking the 2nd consecutive monthly increase. Atlanta led among the …
There’s something really wrong about this. How do we fix it? Revolution? https://t.co/nQr0MIZfi4 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) June 7, 2026 Absolutely no conflicts of interest here, right? Who gets the next government bailout… I mean "investment" https://t.co/bgdxT4Bjcm — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 7, 2026 51% of the S&P 500's market cap is in stocks trading above …
The Iranian rial has lost nearly 90% of its value since 2018. Economic desperation is a core driver behind Tehran’s aggressive missile diplomacy. Officials are conditioning any ceasefire on the release of frozen foreign assets. Nuclear site inspections remain at a standstill due to lack of access. Internal protests are suppressed but the economic reality …
by David Haggith Large cracks showed up everywhere today, and a far worse landslide is already a done deal for late June, according to oil companies, due to critical oil shortages that can no longer be escaped. While the Dow soared a huge 900 points to another all-time high today, it didn’t do it for …
Blackstone’s flagship private credit fund just did something it had never done before. Investors tried to pull out about 10% of the fund’s shares. Blackstone finally and for the first time ever said, NO. The $79 billion Blackstone Private Credit Fund, known as B-CRED, told shareholders it would only allow 5% of shares to be …
via Independent-Act-6432 Ever since MicroStrategy, “we’re putting Bitcoin on the balance sheet” has been the hot pivot. I pulled every company that announced a bitcoin or digital-asset treasury in an SEC 8-K since 2024. There are 101 of them. Then I looked at what else they’d been filing. 85 of the 101 (84%) were already …
Trump team is fighting court order to return all $166 billion collected in tariffs: report “The Trump administration must return billions of dollars that importers paid under his sweeping tariff policy after the Supreme Court knocked down some of the duties The Trump administration has been fighting a court order to return all $166 billion …
CEO to staff: You’re not getting a raise. We’re spending on AI instead. “AI isn’t just coming for your job. It’s coming for your pay. As companies look for cash to fund their AI transformations, some are finding it by shrinking employee benefits and compensation packages. Teradata, a global cloud software company, told its 5,100 …
Goldman Sachs is circulating aggressive growth projections to drive interest in the upcoming SpaceX initial public offering. The bank claims revenue at the artificial intelligence division will jump 100-fold to 322 billion dollars by 2030. Total company revenue is projected to hit 474 billion dollars in that same window. This forecast serves as the primary …
KEY POINTS Quantinuum started trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday under the ticker QNT. The firm was founded from the merger of Honeywell’s quantum computing division and UK-based Cambridge Quantum. ANALYSIS U.S. CHIPS Act Collaboration: Signed a major Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce to fund R&D for fault-tolerant trapped-ion systems. Hardware Manufacturing …
The idea that markets are efficient is failing to explain why the S&P 500 continues to hit new highs while consumer confidence sits at record lows. Morgan Stanley reports that the economy is splitting, with a massive rally in tech and semiconductor stocks driven by artificial intelligence spending while households struggle with weakening purchasing power. …
Layoff announcements continued to climb last month as the tech sector culled positions, with planned job cuts reaching the highest total for May since 2020, the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a report on Thursday. Employers announced just over 97,000 job cuts, up slightly from the same month last year and …
