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Jet fuel crisis from Middle East chaos slashes thousands more flights to Spain and Portugal. Brits face ruined summer holidays as airlines axe routes and warn of mass cancellations. EU admits very likely disruptions with sky-high ticket prices while contingency plans get dusted off. Budget carriers already gutting schedules as the perfect storm hits peak …
Druckenmiller begs Soros to dump all tech at 104 times earnings in January 2000. He steps aside watching his gunslingers print 3 percent a day while Quantum Fund crawls. Emotional FOMO hits hard, he piles back into $6 billion of tech stocks right at the top. Loses $3 billion in six weeks and admits he …
Buyers finally get a breather as the everything bubble in housing starts to leak air. Meanwhile, the home price-to-income ratio is still very, very high. pic.twitter.com/kafzqXrATR — 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙠 (@sortovak) May 6, 2026 The Fed/BLS have a CPI Shelter measurement problem. Rents have been rolling over for years too. pic.twitter.com/81bbHx7RsX — remi (@remi427707) May 6, 2026 …
Ten thousand contracts print instant $125 million profit as oil crashes twelve percent on the planted leak. Iran flips the script with Persian Gulf Strait Authority and oil rips back eight percent after the shorts already cashed. BREAKING: According to our analysis, ~$920 million worth of crude oil shorts were taken 70 minutes before an …
Musk ‘was going to hit me,’ OpenAI executive says at trial OpenAI President Greg Brockman told a California jury Tuesday that Elon Musk physically threatened him during a 2017 confrontation, testifying that the billionaire stormed out after he was refused absolute control of the artificial intelligence company. “I actually thought he was going to hit …
When will the takers finally stop riding the makers and start pulling their own damn weight. These numbers just nuked the entire victimhood script in one brutal chart. When will the poor start paying their fair share? The top 1% pay 38% of all the taxes The bottom 50% pay only 3% pic.twitter.com/VErCvueYxI — Joseph …
Tech concentration turns the stock market into a violent algo casino with sky-high peaks and razor-sharp drops. Ninety percent of trading now runs on machines so fundamentals got tossed out the window. AI supercharges every headline and earnings beat into instant bloodbaths or moonshots. WELCOME TO THE NEW STOCK MARKET As the market continues to …
Budget carriers pin their collapse on skyrocketing fuel tied straight to Middle East conflict. JetBlue is now formally warning us of a potential bankruptcy as fuel costs continue to skyrocket due to the Trump war. One analysis put their odds of filing for bankruptcy at 75%. Frontier is also on Bankruptcy watch with the same …
A hantavirus-hit cruise ship has been anchored off Cape Verde and is now preparing to head to Spain rather than remain there. Spanish authorities said Tuesday the vessel would be received in the Canary Islands within three to four days. The MV Hondius has been moored for two days after a hantavirus outbreak was detected …
OpenAI just birthed a $10 billion Deployment Company whose sole mission is forcing AI into businesses at gunpoint. Guarantees private equity giants 17.5 percent annual returns so they shove OpenAI tools into 2,000 captive portfolio companies. Palantir-style engineer teams embedded whether the companies want it or need it while OpenAI foots the bill. Anthropic copies …
SPLC funneled $160k to KKK Grand Wizard while screaming hate at everyone else. Attorney General Uthmeier demands documents on deceptive fundraising and fake hate map grift. Southern Poverty Law Center’s donor cash machine now under civil investigation in Florida. Finally someone’s cracking open this decades-long hate-for-profit scam. Exposed? Florida targets SPLC for allegedly ‘manufacturing’ racism …
New data shows renters in many major US cities are now spending more than 40 percent of their income on housing. This is well above the recommended 30 percent threshold and is squeezing household budgets hard. In some cities the figure is approaching 50 percent for lower-income households. This trend is pushing more people to …
The “Supercommuter Squeeze” is officially the primary friction point in the 2026 economy. We are seeing a direct collision between the 2022-2024 “Drive ’til you qualify” housing strategy and the $105 oil reality of May 2026. For a supercommuter defined as those with a one-way trek of 90 minutes or more, the math has turned …
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 lifestyles for many families. Saving …
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. A server-room mutiny at the …
Beijing “deeply distressed” by the US-Iran war, pushing for immediate peace… Oil at 100 dollars per barrel as the market bets on a diplomatic cooling… Trump heading to Beijing May 14, the most consequential summit of the century… The dragon is tired of paying the war tax on its energy. Washington and Beijing find a …
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 the West hard. Man the …
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 understands most businesses and sees …
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 of Staff. Privacy is the …
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 in March: EPS: $1.37 vs. $1.29 …
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 impact jobs and tax revenue …
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 fine print in Islamabad or …
MV Hondius passengers being evacuated to the Netherlands in hazmat suits… Dutch, British, and German citizens among those hit by the rare viral cluster… Canary Islands slamming the door, refusing to let the “plague ship” dock… Five-star luxury turned into a floating biohazard unit. Panic in the staterooms as the global health risk remains “low” …
Strait of Hormuz escort mission paused after Monday’s naval bloodbath… White House citing “tremendous military success” and “great progress” on a final settlement… Hundreds of tankers still bottled up, blockade of Iranian ports stays in force… The guns are quiet for now, but the fuse is still burning. A 48-hour window to see if Tehran …
President Dan urges calm after Ilie Bolojan’s cabinet ousted in parliament… Far-right AUR party celebrating in the streets, polling at record highs… No snap elections yet, but the political vacuum is pulling the country right… The pro-EU dream hitting a wall of nationalist momentum. A technocrat government might be the only thing stopping a total …
👀👀 https://t.co/KihBRZeAzi pic.twitter.com/zChlueAYec — The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 5, 2026 The White House and DHS are posting graphics and straight-up saying ‘ICE is NICE.’ Trump jumped on the idea when a conservative influencer suggested it so the media would have to say ‘NICE agents’ every day. Still needs Congress to make the full legal …
by Michael We live at a time when deception is running rampant. Iran is not telling the truth about what is going on in the Strait of Hormuz. Neither is the Pentagon. On Monday, a few commercial vessels were able to get through the Strait. On Tuesday, that number dropped to zero. That isn’t progress. …
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 shrink. Now the crisis in …
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 economies." Europe is already there. …