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Beef now so expensive, it married pork byu/Round-Guarantee4948 ininflation Beef got so expensive people now buy it married to pork in the same package. Everyone is mixing the blend into meatballs, meatloaf, stuffed peppers, and chili to stretch their money. The adaptation feels normal now but highlights how food costs keep forcing changes in basic …
The women on The View completely lost it over Trump’s drug price plan and acted like lowering prescription costs would somehow kill people. People in the comments were ripping them apart for turning every single thing into hysterical doom while normal families are getting crushed by basic bills and medication costs. Nothing much between the …
They keep pushing the no inflation narrative while the actual numbers on food and fuel quietly scream the other direction. Kevin Warsh, the new Fed Chair, just made it clear why rates are going lower: “AI is going to make almost everything cost less.We’re at the front end of a productivity boom.Economic growth won’t be …
Midas @midascabal Here is why the AI bubble will implode. China is using a totally different approach to AI: – open source, mass scale, cheap The West approach to AI? – close source, private, profit driven China will mass produce AI and export it everywhere, like their products. This will be a race to the …
There’s a correlation to the size of the homes. On avg they’re also getting smaller. h/t RobertBartus
Weak buyer demand, weakening home prices and overall uncertainty in the economy are combining to make home sellers change their minds and step out of the market. Close to 85,000 U.S. sellers took their homes off the market in September, up 28% from September 2024 and the highest level for that month in eight years, …
I am introducing a bill to END the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B program. Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people. Americans are the most talented people in the world, and I have full faith …
Chinese are building out 33 next gen nuclear power plants at much cheaper costs than us and we’re debating bathroom rights… Anyone know a good mandarin language tutor? https://t.co/E1mnVPnUL0 pic.twitter.com/nCyJCtQhRn — Kris Patel 🇺🇸 (@KrisPatel99) November 11, 2025 China Aims for Nuclear Expansion with Approval of 10 New Reactors Approval aligns with China’s climate goals …
US Rents were down 0.9% over the last year, the 29th consecutive month with a YoY decline. Renting a home is cheaper than paying a mortgage in all 50 of the largest metros in the US. byu/Boo_Randy_II inHouseBuyers
Scamath is back at it.Another top signal. https://t.co/eyKhfWeOZD pic.twitter.com/x4BrRBZZ4Q — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 30, 2025 Cramer might’ve been right — during the dot-com bubble traders only lost their pants. But in the AI bubble, they’ll end up losing even their underwear! pic.twitter.com/VI13nPWPzf — optionGeek (@StockShark16) September 30, 2025 Translated: nobody is using Sora and OpenAI …
Quinas Technology unveils UltraRAM memory, offering DRAM-like speed, 4,000 times the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years. BREAKING: Quinas Technology says UltraRAM memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for production. In-memory computing is …
EVs Are Now Cheaper Than Gas Cars in China byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
BREAKING: Sam Altman just revealed who GPT-5 is really built for: > India is our 2nd largest market > It may become our LARGEST > We’ve taken a lot of feedback from users in india what they’d like from us… > more affordable access > and we’ve put that in GPT-5 Now it all makes …
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are now the center of a federal crackdown. The FDA has begun seizing counterfeit semaglutide and tirzepatide products from the U.S. supply chain. Some vials contained bacterial contamination. Others were mislabeled or chemically altered. The agency confirmed more than 500 adverse event reports tied to compounded versions. Poison control centers logged nearly …
The latest housing data paints a sharp divide. In 2025, renting is now significantly cheaper than buying in every major metro. Bankrate clocked the gap at 38% nationwide. That spread is the widest recorded in the past two decades. Mortgage payments on a median-priced home run $2,768 a month, including taxes and insurance. The average …
TESLA ROBOTAXIS AREN’T JUST CARS – THEY’RE A CIVILIZATION UPGRADE While Uber drivers check their phones, Elon’s Full Self-Driving tech is quietly rewriting the rules of transportation. No car? No problem. Robotaxis crush the cost of owning a vehicle, giving working-class… https://t.co/rCv9LZlBrI pic.twitter.com/Jg1HYHQRlq — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 11, 2025 Tesla has by far the …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The real world isn’t digital, and it’s unforgiving. Since generative AI is adept at manipulating digital text, voice and images, many assume this automatically infers it will be adept at the entirety of human endeavor and work. But this is false logic. The same false logic leads many to assume …
SAM ALTMAN PROMISED TO SHARE AGI WITH THE WORLD—NOW HE’S CASHING IN 5 years ago, Sam Altman told investors OpenAI wouldn’t chase profit. No business model. Just build AGI, ask it how to make money, and take 0.001% of the value while sharing the rest with humanity. Now? OpenAI is a for-profit powerhouse, with closed …
from Reddit: Why YSK: TurboTax has been scamming the American public for years, including me. They overcharge for basic tax filing services and pressure users to pay when they don’t need to. They utilize dark patterns in their software and lobby to stop the IRS from building its own public filing system for citizens to …
“Why do home buyers keep taking out 30-year fixed loans if they’re no longer a good deal? And arguably even a bad deal at this point. The 30-year fixed is now close to its 50-year average of ~7.75%. If folks don’t expect to keep these loans for more than a few years, why are we …
This is a legit apple customer support message exchange h/t ansolo00
When adjusted for inflation, the price of silver is indeed lower now than it was 40 years ago. In 1984, the average price of silver was around $6.53 per ounce. Today, the price is approximately $30.23 per ounce. However, when considering inflation, the real value of silver is lower now than it was back then. …
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions generally incur an average fee of around $6.95, translating to approximately 0.07% of the transaction value. However, this fee can rise significantly during periods of high network congestion, making it variable. In comparison, credit card transaction fees for merchants usually range from 1.5% to 3.5%, with an average fee of about …
According to a recent study from market watch, they are saying that grocery prices relative to income today in 2024 are now cheaper than they were in 2019. I would say that is true for almost no one, except for people that have seen their incomes increased substantially over the last five years. Everybody else …
BREAKING: Google, $GOOGL, has started to layoff hundreds of ‘core’ employees and has started hiring for the same roles in cheaper countries like India and Mexico, per CNBC — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 1, 2024 Just ahead of its blowout first-quarter earnings report on April 25, Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” …
by Michael Would you eat Cheerios for dinner? What about Lucky Charms? Many years ago when I was a college student, I would often eat cereal instead of a normal meal in the evening. Needless to say, that wasn’t good for my health at all. But now “cereal for dinner” has become quite trendy. Food …
Shoppers have become all but too familiar with Shrinkflation – when brands and supermarkets reduce the size of products while charging the same amount for them. But with the soaring cost of raw materials, there’s a subtle new tweak manufacturers are making behind the scenes, and shopping are starting to notice. Customers. already battling with …
One of Seattle’s most expensive homes has been relisted on the market with a $15 million price cut – illustrating how even the most lavish homes are not immune from the cooling housing market. The five-bedroom mansion in Hunts Point, a town on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, went on the market in spring …
