Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
Route density plus landfill control creates boring but unbreakable local dominance that lets these companies raise prices year after year without losing volume. The whole sector compounds quietly while everyone chases the next AI narrative and ignores the fact that garbage never goes away. Owning the landfill is owning the toll road on waste and …
He is right about that. ๐จ HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just OBLITERATED NATO, basically calling them freeloaders who barely deserve his presence if it weren't for Turkey "ITALY turned us down. GERMANY turned us down. FRANCE turned us down." "We WEREN'T TREATED WELL." "I was VERY disappointed withโฆ pic.twitter.com/cESu8wIrw3 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 7, …
The numbers keep getting bigger. President Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures and related business deals show the Trump family’s crypto ventures generated an estimated $1.2 billion to $2.3 billion in value through meme coins, token sales, stablecoin ventures, and other digital asset businesses. BREAKING: President Trump earned over $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoin-related …
New York elected Mamdani. Price controls. Rent freeze. $30 minimum wage. Business saw the handwriting on the wallโฆ.and left. Canada. California. New York. Same policy. Same result. — Chuck Flint (@ChuckAFlint) June 28, 2026
Report shows Jennifer Aniston and dozens of other celebs listed one business suite as residence. Address is 9200 Sunset Boulevard Suite 600 in West Hollywood. This is a financial manager office not any home. California law requires voters to register at actual residence. Business address can only serve as mailing spot. They signed affidavit swearing …
via schiffsovereign On New Yearโs Day in the year 1829, a 29-year-old young lady from Washington DC named Peggy Timberlake married John Eatonโ a powerful senator from Tennessee. Eaton was also close friends with the incoming president Andrew Jackson. Peggy, on the other hand, was rumored to be somewhat of a harlot. She was openly …
The Ink Business Preferred gives 100,000 points if you spend 8,000 dollars in 90 days. It costs 95 dollars a year. The Ink Business Cash and Unlimited give 750 dollars cash back if you spend 6,000 dollars in 90 days. These have no annual fee. The trap is the spending requirement. If you do not …
Me: You wonโt convince me theyโre just a product of their environment. I grew up in the same place and didnโt turn out like that. I genuinely believe that, under the right circumstances, demons can be born into our world. That said, if you open a business in these communities, you should understand the risks …
The “official” labor market numbers are a fraud, and today, small business owners just provided the smoking gun. While the mainstream media continues to push the narrative of a “strong” economy, the latest NFIB Small Business Optimism report paints a terrifyingly different picture. Today, Iโm breaking down the data they don’t want you to seeโfrom …
High propensity applications drop to 30 percent of total and only one in three ever hire anyone. America is forming businesses at a record pace, but almost none of them are creating jobs byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts America is forming businesses at a record pace, but almost none of them are creating jobs: US monthly business applications …
This NYC mayor loves pounding a company that actually delivers jobs and packages yet ignores the policies chasing everyone out. Socialist mayor flexes on a company that delivers JOBS, TAXES, and packages to New Yorkers while your failing city hemorrhages businesses, residents, and billions on migrant hotels and crime. Amazon trucks arenโt the problem, YOUR …
An IIM Bodh Gaya MBA graduate went viral after revealing she spent over โน75,000 out of her own pocket to relocate to Delhi for a confirmed corporate job, only to show up at the office address on her start date and find an empty, abandoned building. The company completely ghosted her phone calls for hours, …
US Treasuries dump hard, yields smash 2007 highs and climb toward 5 percent… Bond vigilantes force inflation forecast straight to 5 percent nightmare… Fed cornered into July rate hike or lose total control of the debt disaster… Just getting started ๐ฅ Weโre going much higher ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ https://t.co/QOecLbynC9 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 18, 2026 ๐จ …
NFIB small business optimism index rose 0.1 points in April to 95.9, holding below the 52-year average of 98.0. Labor quality emerged as the top problem for owners with a record 34 percent reporting unfilled job openings. Nearly 46 percent of firms trying to hire found few or no qualified applicants in the latest survey. …
McDonald’s CEO is catching heat for openly worrying about higher gas prices hurting their business while regular people are already getting crushed at the pump and on grocery bills. Worried about fuel costs:$MCD CEO: "Obviously, higher gas prices…are not going to be helpful, particularly for lower income consumers who are already, I think, under pressure" …
Small business owners across several states are reducing employee hours and in some cases staff numbers because of sharp increases in liability and health insurance premiums. Many report premiums jumping 20-40 percent in the past year. This is forcing difficult decisions to keep the doors open. Some owners say they are barely breaking even after …
Hims stock price growth 25% since the peptide meeting day is set KEY POINTS Investors are starting to focus on what will replace compounded GLP-1 as a growth driver for telehealth companies like Hims & Hers Health. Peptides are gaining attention as a potential new growth vector, despite clinical evidence for efficacy being limited. The …
Past periods of rising small business uncertainty led to hiring slowdowns and reduced capital spending due to weaker demand visibility and tighter credit conditions US small businesses are highly concerned about the economy: The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index dropped -3.0 points in March, to 95.8, the lowest since April 2025. This marks the 3rd …
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld/status/2029504807040426290
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, While the top 10% who manage the TINA Economy are fixated on their ballooning stock market wealth, the bottom 90% are melting away. Some day that might actually have consequences. Let’s start with a thought experiment focusing on soaring household expenses.ย Consider healthcare insurance, which has risen not just in …
Business expectations back to pre-pandemic levels. Real-time inflation? Already there: 0.90% CPI (below 1% since Feb). Expectations catching up to real-time reality. pic.twitter.com/mkNQS0DZJS — Truflation (@truflation) February 17, 2026
via triptoasturias Epstein didn’t climb his way to power. He was handed it by a sequence of people who gave him access, training, and protection at every stage. Here’s the timeline the media won’t walk you through. ๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ Epstein lands a job teaching math and physics at the Dalton School, one …
โPrivate credit exposure to AI disruption high, not priced in โ UBSโ No kidding. โโฆWe estimate that 25โ35% of private credit portfolios face elevated AI disruption risk. Using BDC portfolios as a proxy (AUM of ~$450 billion, $350 billion of which is public), exposure to high disruption risk subsectors is most acute in technology (~24% …
TRUMP’S SBA CHIEF FINDS 7,000 FAKE LOANS WORTH $430M IN MINNESOTA ALONE Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler says her team found 6,900 fraudulent small business loans in Minnesota that stole $430 million from taxpayers. It took them 2 days to find $3 million worth of fraud once they started looking. “It didn’t take long when …
Business owner: I have seen a constant increase of 25-50% in the cost of our equipment because of tariffs. Our most recent project, I received a $30,000 tariff bill. That cost was never forecasted and could have never been anticipated for. For a new small business, that kind ofโฆ pic.twitter.com/MaRaZ4qv2X — FactPost (@factpostnews) January 22, …
Acting Venezuela President Delcy Rodrรญguez: "Venezuela has the right to relations with China, Russia, Cuba, Iran and all the peoples of the world, and with the United States as well." pic.twitter.com/pBmC6qswyw — COMBATE |๐ต๐ท (@upholdreality) January 15, 2026 Factcheck: The quote from Delcy Rodrรญguez matches her speech in Venezuela’s National Assembly on Jan 15, 2026, …
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115884319075881590
Strong consumers do not flee bulk stores for bargain bins. Small business employment shrank again in December according to Paychex. We will get a clearer picture once we get the ADP and payroll data later this week. pic.twitter.com/KmzIqUJ6fG — Peter Berezin (@PeterBerezinBCA) January 6, 2026 Riddle me this. If the US consumer is so strong …
๐จWOW! Fox Business ADMITS we are in RECESSION. pic.twitter.com/nQ1JrcOdJc — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) January 5, 2026 Repo operations at the Fed on the last day of 2025 signal growing stress in the financial system, similar to the setup we saw in 2019. Banks and other financial institutions borrowed $74.6 billion from the New York Fedโs …
