Job cuts hit 71,894, rising year/year, with January surge expected

Job cuts remain elevated to end the year at 71,894 – up year/year and highlighting firms desire to continue shedding jobs into 2025. Expect job cuts to surge in January as firms rightsize & continue outsourcing – especially in white collar areas. Final # avail 1/5.… pic.twitter.com/skKNRNj0gX — MacroEdge (@MacroEdgeRes) December 30, 2024 Las Vegas’ …

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Bank employees are selling your identity to ‘theft rings.’

The new staffer was supposed to help Toronto-Dominion Bank spot money laundering from an outpost in New York. She instead used her access to bank data to distribute customer details to a criminal network on Telegram, according to prosecutors in Manhattan. Local detectives who searched her phone allegedly found images of 255 checks belonging to …

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Israeli forces arrest hospital director and staff after raiding the last functioning hospital in Gaza.

CNN – Israel arrested a hospital director in a raid that closed the last major functioning health facility in northern Gaza, with its forces also accused of ordering patients to strip in the streets. Kamal Adwan Hospital is “now empty” after the remaining patients – some of them critically ill – along with caregivers and health workers …

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Three boys, one as young as twelve, shot after Christmas home robbery goes wrong

Police are saying that an alleged Christmas Day attempted robbery resulted in three of the potential suspects needing medical attention. The armed children allegedly approached a 25-year-old man and his girlfriend, trying to rob them at gunpoint at a Houston, Texas apartment complex. The suspects looked so young, in fact, that the victim assumed it …

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Cooking Oils Used By Millions Linked To Cancer In Second Study In A Week

Cooking Oils Used By Millions Linked To Cancer In Second Study In A Week https://t.co/3OnaWyNgpL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 29, 2024 Imagine if something as common as the oil in your kitchen could be silently contributing to cancer. For millions around the world, this unsettling possibility has moved from speculation to science. Two studies, released …

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Another big pharma miracle? Longevity pills for dogs could help humans live longer too

Early next year, the U.S. biotech start-up Loyal anticipates the release of LOY-002, a daily pill designed to give dogs at least one extra year of healthy life. This San Francisco-based enterprise has secured a staggering $125 million in funding from companies that were previously hesitant to invest in human longevity projects due to their …

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Colorado man attacks news reporter, invoking Trump.

A Colorado man tackled and strangled a television reporter in a potentially racially motivated attack, according to police. Patrick Egan, 38, has been accused of following and attacking KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex on December 18 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Alex told police that he believes Egan targeted him because he is Pacific Islander. Egan physically …

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Team Trump Accelerates Social Security Insolvency, Where’s DOGE?

by Mike Shedlock Republicans expand Social Security at a cost of $196 billion. Guess who benefits. Senate Votes to Expand Social Security The Wall Street Journal reports Donald Trump is Whistling Past Social Security’s Insolvency. Neither political party is serious about spending restraint, and the latest evidence is the Social Security Fairness Act that the Senate …

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Imagine being this stupid.

'Organized' shoplifting to blame for Walgreens store closures pic.twitter.com/tIwrubREq8 — 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) December 29, 2024 @RepPressley is RACIST!! — 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) December 29, 2024

EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMY COMPETITIVENESS HAS BEEN A DISASTER

EU is a failed experiment. It is controlled by the left ideologists, and they are engaging self culture and society destruction. European people need to take the matter in their own hands, and take their sovereign back, and fire those idiots. — Quantumized Qubits (@U01000001) December 30, 2024

China’s economy is in awful shape.

🇨🇳 Just In: China’s central government urges local governments to give cash handouts for New Year. China's economy is in awful shape. pic.twitter.com/P9j7kKJGHy — Jesse Cohen (@JesseCohenInv) December 30, 2024 Link: BBG/Xinhua News pic.twitter.com/9VDeDO22rR — Jesse Cohen (@JesseCohenInv) December 30, 2024 https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1873654789571231973 🇨🇳TIL: The number of births in China in 2023 were the lowest since …

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Zuckerberg is raising world class beef cattle on beer and macadamia nuts.

Mark Zuckerberg denies building 5K-square-foot ‘Doomsday bunker’ under $270M Hawaii compound, saying it’s ‘like a basement’ Mark Zuckerberg dismissed reports that he is building a 5,000-square-foot “Doomsday bunker” underneath a $270 million compound in Hawaii — insisting instead that it’s just a “little shelter.” The 40-year-old tech tycoon was asked during a Dec. 19 interview …

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United Healthcare set to report record profits after CEO murder.

Even for an Executive Used to Crises, Andrew Witty Is Being Tested at UnitedHealth Andrew Witty seeks to calm employees and keep the company growing while facing public outrage over health-insurer practices Since the assassination of his top lieutenant Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, Andrew Witty has been keeping long, difficult hours at the Minnesota …

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China faces Catch 22 in tariff war with Trump.

China Has Limited Firepower to Counter U.S. Tariffs While Beijing has already brandished the ways it could hit back at Trump’s levies, such retaliation risks boomeranging SINGAPORE—In the weeks since the election, China has flaunted the ways in which it could hit back at the U.S. in the event of a new trade war with …

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(It’s Started) Banks ARE TAKING HOUSES!

We are starting to see a surge in Foreclosures hit the U.S. housing market due to years of moratoriums and banks not legally being allowed to foreclose. Now all that is over with and the ugly truth of just how many people are behind and haven’t been paying the mortgage is starting to surface. Only …

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The rise of prejudice-related terms in academic abstracts reflects left-wing influence.

The Woke Mind Virus in our Universities. Frequency of Terms Denoting Prejudice in 175 million Scholarly Abstracts … it has increased dramatically over time. This is being driven by the far left in academia. Woke is communism rebranded and repackaged. Remember when the woke professor admitted it in a campus speech titled, “How to use …

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How the Dollar is Sparking a Hidden Global Crisis

The biggest surprise of 2024 wasn’t any election results nor was it the fact central banks worldwide are more desperately accelerating rate cuts as the year draws to close. Or that other governments and officials are resorting to increasing panicky measures to calm markets in their areas. What caught everyone so off guard about ’24 …

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