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New data shows Californians who leave the state are typically saving hundreds of dollars per month on housing. Many are heading to more affordable regions as costs in California remain extremely high. This continues the ongoing domestic migration trend driven by housing affordability. The savings are significant enough to change …
UK-based staff demand union recognition to block military AI integration… Internal letter blasts the “capricious Iran war” and US government partnerships… The ethical firewall in the AI labs is starting to crumble under state pressure… The engineers who built the code don’t want to see it on the front lines. …
Central banks in China Russia stack gold while Western money printing hits the wall. Adam Creighton calls out coming sudden reallocation as governments inflate away obligations. War on cash CBDCs and emissions targets all tools to crush personal economic freedomAdam just spelled out the quiet math that’s about to bite …
95-year-old Buffett parks $380 billion in cash while flat-out warning the dollar could collapse. Market is now a church with a casino bolted on and the casino has never been more packed. Avis rental car gets GameStop-style meme-squeezed while Buffett calls one-day options pure gambling. Oracle admits he no longer …
Internal “dogfooding” project designed to act on a user’s behalf across all life… Silicon Valley buzz calls it the “Altman Killer,” deep integration into Gmail and Docs… The “AI Agent” era is here, and it knows what you want before you do… The server room is becoming your personal Chief …
Advanced Micro Devices reported first-quarter earnings Tuesday that topped expectations, while the company’s revenue forecast also exceeded estimates as demand soars for chips to power artificial intelligence workloads. The stock ripped 20% higher in premarket trading on Wednesday. Here’s how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the quarter ended …
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s video this evening, calling it “creepy and weird.” He said the mayor’s spotlight on his $238 million penthouse has made him feel unsafe and has led him to expand Citadel’s footprint in Miami. The move is expected to …
Axios is reporting that Washington and Tehran are on the verge of signing a one-page, 14-point memorandum of understanding (MoU) to officially end the hostilities that began in February. This isn’t a final treaty, but a “30-day framework” designed to hold a ceasefire while the technical teams hammer out the …
by Michael Decades of economic decline have brought this country to a breaking point. The vast majority of the population is barely scraping by from month to month as prices continue to rise, thousands of stores and restaurants close, foreclosures spike to alarming levels and the middle class continues to …
TikTok is still wigging out over food prices. I can’t believe how expensive certain things are in this video: pic.twitter.com/zFw0I2mKaC — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 5, 2026
Europe already canceling flights and gutting schedules as jet fuel turns very very tight. US next in line because record American exports leave domestic refiners fighting the same barrels. The CEO of Chevron just said it out loud. "We're starting to see risks of supply outages in some of these …
🚨Honda is CANCELING it's $15B EV plant in Canada. The Honda plant was part of the failed $52B Liberal plan to shower manufacturers with subsidies to develop the industry here. Honda will make EVs and hybrids it needs in Ohio instead where it can do so on one production line. …
Delta Air Lines canceled dozens of flights out of Atlanta this evening due to unexpected crew shortages. The airline cited a combination of weather delays earlier in the day and crew fatigue. Passengers are facing major rebooking issues at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Delta is offering hotel vouchers and meal credits where …
City leaders pitch “local business” and “environment” while pushing tighter travel and zoning rules. They wreck economies then lecture the little guy about flying too much. Foreign tourism has fallen off a cliff. This is a $100B domestic industry largely concentrated in NYC, southern Florida, southern California, and Las Vegas. …
Ram this through and watch the next rug pull leave retail holding bags while executives already cashed out in the dark. Awesome. Even less transparency for markets. All this does is incentivize investors to take on even more risk despite knowing even less about how a company is performing. This …
$480k home with 10 percent down hits $3,400 monthly mortgage while he clears just $5,800 take home via PurpleRecognition216 I max my 401k, I have an emergency fund, no credit card debt, no car payment and no student loans. Grew up in Austin. My parents bought their house in …
A group of publishers filed a lawsuit against Meta this evening accusing the company of using their books without permission to train AI models. The suit claims Meta violated copyright laws in the process. This is the latest in a series of legal challenges against big tech over AI training …
Then how do you explain people calling it a housing bubble in 2006 and people calling it a tech bubble in 2000.Just because everyone is standing on the beach filming the tide go out doesn't mean there isn't a tsunami coming.Humans love to ignore reality.— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) May 5, 2026 …
FedEx and UPS in freefall, double digit losses in a single session… Bezos building a moat around the entire planet’s shipping… The legacy players looking like ghosts, old models dying in real time… The death of the middleman, one prime truck at a time. Investors dumping transport like it’s a …
Market melting up on sheer momentum… Tech giants crushing earnings, sucking all air out of the room… VIX cooling to 17, shorts getting incinerated… Unreal, purely algorithmic at this point. Nobody wants to sell the top, everyone afraid to miss the moon. The higher it goes, the harder the snap …
Just 25% of U.S. non-homeowners expect to buy within five years, the lowest on record. pic.twitter.com/RpZFcUsxX3 — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) May 4, 2026
By Peter Reagan Image CC BY 2.0 via Web Summit Your News to Know rounds up the most important stories about precious metals and the overall economy. This week, we’ll cover: Ray Dalio: 15% gold allocation is the new normal Why is Tether buying so much gold bullion it’s practically a …
The European Central Bank held rates at 2.00% today but Christine Lagarde is already prepping the markets for a “Summer Hammer” in June… Euro-area GDP grew a dismal 0.1% in Q1, while energy-driven costs are pushing corporate selling price expectations to a staggering 3.5%… Central bankers are trapped by a …
via Careful-Caramel-9409 Every listing says the same thing -updated kitchen, fresh paint, move-in ready -and every time you show up it’s the same story The “updated kitchen” is IKEA cabinets installed crooked over original 1987 plumbing, the “fresh paint” is hiding drywall cracks that shouldn’t exist in a house this …
Drywall prices going up so fast, home Depot just slaps a sticker over the old price. byu/fart400 ininflation
via Genzinvestor16180339 The average drink is now $7–$9. When people can make it at home for ~50 cents. Q2 FY2026 already showed demand comes back at current prices. US transactions were up 4.4% while ticket still grew 2.6%. So this isn’t a “no demand” problem. But it also doesn’t mean …
Advance estimates show March sales hit $752.1 billion, but the growth is almost entirely captured by “Non-store” retailers, up 10.1% year-over-year… Food services and drinking places saw a tepid 2.4% gain, failing to keep pace with the 3.3% CPI, meaning “real” restaurant traffic is actually down… Consumers are spending 5.1% …
“Apple Inc. has held exploratory discussions about using Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. to produce the main processors for its devices, a move that would offer a secondary option beyond longtime partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/apple-explores-using-intel-and-samsung-to-build-main-device-chips-in-the-us
It’s on the website. He doesn't understand your question, CNBC byu/HesiPullup inwallstreetbets
free refills were the last thing in america you could take without asking permission. pic.twitter.com/ruUrzGtb7d — SLEPE (@SlepeOnBase) May 4, 2026