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Exelon’s CEO warns the U.S. could face widespread blackouts by 2027, arguing utilities need permission to build new power plants as investment has failed to keep pace with future demand. Competitive electricity markets discourage investment by offering insufficient returns, leaving utilities underinvesting despite rising power needs and grid reliability concerns. Fixing the grid will require …
The Federal Reserve – and new chair Kevin Warsh – may have just marked the end of an era for the U.S. housing market and financial markets in 2026. For more than twenty years, investors became accustomed to the Federal Reserve stepping in whenever markets weakened. The early 2000s, the post-2008 recovery, and the pandemic …
NEW YORK, July 8 (Reuters) – U.S. diesel futures were set for their biggest daily gains in four years on Wednesday after Russia announced a ban on exports of the industrial fuel, supercharging supply concerns in a market grappling with uncertainty about Middle Eastern oil flows. The ultra-low sulfur diesel futures benchmark on the New …
Timing of big buys right before market moving policy looks too perfect. Late disclosure and family gains show power used for personal profit. Public sees pattern of advantage that normal rules ignore for him. Family tied to major deals like Kazakhstan tungsten. Crypto ventures hit billions. More disclosures fuel fresh outrage on 250th anniversary weekend. …
High prices and rates finally bite hard in Australia housing. Sellers who waited too long now face real losses. Australian property market drops: Sydney and Melbourne house prices fall after Albanese government budget tax changes House prices are falling in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra as the market confronts the perfect storm of rising interest rates …
One headline by itself doesn’t mean much. But when several independent signals start pointing in the same direction, it’s worth paying attention. Last week, Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage reported hedge funds sold U.S. information technology stocks at an extreme pace, with positioning reaching roughly a minus 4 Z score. That’s the kind of reading you …
New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments beginning this October. Supporters say it will give tenants relief from rising living costs. But the vote does nothing to solve the basic problem that created today’s housing crisis. New York still does not have enough homes. Freezing …
China’s largest banks are closing the door on retail precious metals trading after one of gold’s sharpest reversals in years. Starting July 24, major banks including ICBC, the world’s largest bank with roughly $7.6 trillion in assets, will stop individual clients from opening new precious metals positions linked to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Customers will …
25k fake accounts ran millions of queries to copy the model. Distillation attack exposed. Anthropic caught Alibaba using 25,000 fraudulent accounts. 28.8 million conversations extracted Claude capabilities. Attack ran from April 22 to June 5 2026. Method called distillation. Train your model on answers from rival model. DeepSeek Moonshot AI and MiniMax also involved. Anthropic …
Prime Day spending crashes and factory jobs slashed while investors still bet on soft or no landing economy. Ngl this might be the biggest recession indicator of all-time. https://t.co/C2hlqUawrr — Just a Dude Who Invests (@DudeWhoInvests) June 24, 2026 Every corporation in America is running the same experiment right now. How much will we pay …
The House approved the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act by a vote of 358 to 32. The Senate passed it 85 to 5 the day before. Now it heads to President Trump, who is expected to sign it. The bill focuses on two problems that have dominated the housing market for years: Not enough …
A viral claim about California’s diversity program is making the rounds. 🇺🇸 California now requires companies to prove they’re gay to get government contracts, including letters from personal contacts confirming their sexuality. What is happening in California?! The DOJ is already investigating this madness. Writer: Claudiopic.twitter.com/DmZSNXrHUz — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 22, 2026 The claim …
WallStreetBets has seen some brutal losses, but this one hurts in a different way. A trader posted that he has the “anti Midas touch” because almost every AI stock he touched turned into a losing trade. The painful part? He was often right about the companies. He just couldn’t survive the volatility. He bought Nvidia …
What if it is land prices? I always get skeptical when people claim they know exactly when a crash will happen. Then I look at the list of warning signs piling up. The 18.6 year real estate cycle theory says markets typically spend about 14 years climbing and about 4 years falling apart. The last …
Ukraine send many drones to Moscow area. They hit Moscow Oil Refinery (Kapotnya, big fuel supplier for city) second time this week. Fire and black smoke visible. Russian say they shoot down almost 200 drones near Moscow, total 555 across country. But some get through and damage refinery. This cause air traffic disruption — all …
This is reality. Inflation is a real struggle right now. pic.twitter.com/2XrW7guwjE — Abounding Wealth (@AboundWealth) June 13, 2026 It means regular people are buying less stuff once you factor in higher prices. May saw the biggest drop in real (inflation-adjusted) retail spending in years, with 7 declines in the last 9 months. This usually happens …
Either there is a global rebalancing taking place or the Saudi’s are taking a hit https://x.com/jackprandelli/status/2065002066091622441 h/t Emeraldlight
This is on point. If the cost goes up 2x its fine. 5x it hurts. 10x is a sidekick to the face. In all 3 scenarios it's still worth it though. All the metrics point to a down turn, overcorrection, then the applications start hitting the real world and the market will sky rocket — …
TicTocTick and texasrunnerDFW lay out the brutal numbers… Half of all claims get zero payout or straight denial… File one and your insurer cancels you then blacklists you everywhere… Texas and Florida homeowners shell out 500 dollars monthly for this coin toss… Rates spike 20 to 80 percent even with zero claims on record… Companies …
Amazon trucks take the full 9 million dollar hit while taxis Ubers and other delivery fleets get a free pass… This is straight up selective punishment… So not all taxis, delivery, Ubers and others. Just the rich guy that wipes his ass with million dollar bills? Commies are idiots. Amazon should pull all of Amazon …
Kyle Busch wins 8.5 million dollar insurance settlement just two months earlier… Insurance industry and officials duck full investigation demands while suspicious timing gets buried… he looked healthy and just raced but now everyone wonders what really happened behind closed doors… Kyle Busch exposed one of the biggest insurance scams of all time! He went …
PPI surges to 6 percent year over year, algorithms blind to inflation torching Treasuries at 19-year highs… 30-year yield blasts 5.12 percent as traders sell gold on the most bullish setup ever… Oil at 105 bucks, AI crypto bubble one shock from popping, Schiff loads the truck on metals… Fed easing bias meets runaway producer …
Russia has removed Kazakh crude oil from its May delivery schedule through the Druzhba pipeline, directly threatening supplies to Germany’s PCK Schwedt refinery — a facility located 100 kilometres from Berlin that provides approximately 90 percent of fuel to the German capital and its northeastern region. Moscow cited reduced technical capacity following Ukrainian drone strikes …
Defense Production Act, April 20th 2026. 3 massive Presidential Determinations. All Signed simultaneously. ⛽ Petroleum & large scale energy infrastructure 🔥 Natural gas, LNG transmission, processing & storage 🪨 Coal supply chains & baseload power generation What this actually unlocks: 💰 Federal money pumped directly into fossil fuel supply chains 📋 Priority government contracting, overnight …
JP Morgan Q1 results beat on record trading revenue, yet Dimon is issuing quiet warnings on “unprecedented” tail risks and structural inflation persistence. They are selling their “record” performance to the crowd before the credit cycle turns. $JPM closed lower Tuesday despite beating earnings estimates across the board, and the culprit is net interest income …
🇺🇸 JAMIE DIMON, CEO OF JP MORGAN, GOES ON NATIONAL TV AND SAID: "CRYPTO IS BETTER THAN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL SYSTEM!" THE "EXPERIMENT" PHASE IS OVER. WILD 🔥 pic.twitter.com/gqnvvfXW7B — Documenting Saylor (@saylordocs) April 12, 2026 JPMORGAN CHASE WILL NOW ACCEPT BITCOIN AS COLLATERAL 🔥 FROM “WORTHLESS” TO BANK-GRADE COLLATERAL. YOU ARE NOT BULLISH ENOUGH …
