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GDP grew 1.4%, deflator 3.6% — most of the “growth” is inflation. Productivity is terrible. Forget shutdown excuses. PCE spikes, GDP crashes 68% sequentially — stagflation alert

February 20, 2026 4:00 pm

For those arguing the GDP data "isn't that bad" due to the gov't shutdown, the ACTUAL data DISAGREES. The GDP Deflator came in at 3.6% – meaning most of the 1.4% GDP was inflation, NOT real growth. Forget the shutdown excuse. The weakness is real, and productivity is terrible. https://t.co/W13nd3nZAh pic.twitter.com/f88eUhdNRX — Gordon Johnson (@GordonJohnson19) …

Keep On Printing? National House Price Index Up 1.4% year-over-year in November As M2 Money Growth Slows

January 29, 2026 10:52 am

via confoundedinterest17 Keep on printing money. It seems that home price growth requires The Fed to keep printing money. S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for November (“November” is a 3-month average of September, October and November closing prices). September closing prices include some contracts signed in July, so there is a significant lag to this data. …

And yet $NVDA is up 1.4% currently on the day

January 7, 2026 10:01 pm

The AI world has started crumbling.But $NVDA is chill. 😃 pic.twitter.com/tXLrJ3CfA3 — #🆖 (Nitin) (@NG_Exhales) January 7, 2026

The truth about AI: Company burns $1.4 million a year on Microsoft Copilot, only 47 employees click it, executives call it a success anyway

December 14, 2025 6:57 amDecember 13, 2025 8:14 pm

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it “digital transformation.” The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would “10x productivity.” That’s not a real …

The age of pretending to use AI is over and the reckoning is already here. Burry is spot on. How can anyone look at these numbers and believe OpenAI has any hope to meet $1.4 trillion in spending commitments?

November 10, 2025 12:33 pm

How can anyone look at these numbers and believe OpenAI has any hope to meet $1.4 trillion in spending commitments? https://t.co/gUcRNs11BI — Ross Hendricks (@Ross__Hendricks) November 10, 2025 Big Tech needs a staggering $1.5 trillion to fund the AI boom. This is the complex playbook it’s using to get it. Inside the financial engineering of …

Diverging Trade Paths: U.S. Deficit Hits $1.4 Trillion as China’s Surplus Climbs to $1.1 Trillion (LTM Q1 2025)

May 13, 2025 9:08 pm

📈 Diverging Trade Paths: U.S. Deficit Hits $1.4 Trillion as China’s Surplus Climbs to $1.1 Trillion (LTM Q1 2025) byu/EconomySoltani inInfographics In the twelve months ending March 2025, the U.S. trade deficit widened to $1.4 trillion, a 30.3% increase from the prior year. Meanwhile, China’s trade surplus rose 30.9% to $1.08 trillion. Since the onset …

Northrop Grumman Secures $1.4 Billion in Contracts to Modernize Global Air and Missile Defense with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

February 13, 2025 9:48 pm

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Feb. 12, 2025 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) secures two significant contracts totaling $1.4 billion to advance air and missile defense capabilities for the U.S. Army and Poland. These awards reinforce Northrop Grumman’s position as a leader in advanced integrated battle management solutions, driving innovation through artificial intelligence and model-based systems engineering …

A Comet That Appears Every 160,000 Years, A ‘Glowing Ring Of Metal’ That Just Fell Out Of The Sky, And A Giant Coronal Hole Spanning 1/4 Of The Circumference Of The Sun

January 14, 2025 7:17 am

by Michael 2025 has been quite a chaotic year already. On New Year’s Eve lightning struck four of the most iconic buildings in our entire country, on New Year’s Day we had terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, Justin Trudeau stepped down just a few days later, and now we are in the midst of the …