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I had to read that twice. Around 56,000 people, roughly the top 0.001%, now control three times more wealth than the poorest 4 billion people. That is such a tiny group you could fit them into one large football stadium. Meanwhile, billionaire wealth has climbed to a record $18.3 trillion. The global economy keeps growing. …
Elon Musk is expected to surpass 1 trillion dollars in net worth on Friday when SpaceX, his private aerospace company, goes public, according to a new analysis by Oxfam Novib. The milestone would make him the first trillionaire in history, with a fortune exceeding 1 trillion dollars—a 1 followed by 12 zeros. Oxfam says Musk …
And that's pretty bad pic.twitter.com/FKMzKHTxES — Tina ✨ (@Tina22_2) April 25, 2026 AN ANALYSIS: The Southern Poverty Law Center indictment. It looks like deserved karma for race-huckstering grifters, but is it a legitimate fraud case? A federal grand jury in Alabama last week handed up an 11 count fraud indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. …
The size of the Chinese strategic petroleum reserve is mind blowing: larger than US + Japan + the whole of Western Europe COMBINED byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
LONDON, April 7 – European and Asian refiners are paying record high prices of near $150 a barrel for some crude oil grades, far exceeding prices for paper futures, highlighting the worsening supply crisis from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. The Iran war has forced the shutdown of at least 12 million barrels per day …
by confoundedinterest17 Global uncertainty hits an ALL-TIME HIGH. Higher than Covid, the 2008 financial crisis, and the dot-com crash COMBINED. You know what that means!
Institutional investors have rarely ever been this bearish on the US Dollar: US Dollar net exposure by global fund managers is down to -35 points, the lowest in at least 14 years byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented. …
Washington is considering a 9.9% tax on income above $1M. With this proposal, for people making $1M+ the state and local marginal tax rate could be 18% in Seattle. Highest ever. Add 37% federal tax, plus payroll taxes, and more than 50% is gone to taxes. Wild. — The Money Cruncher, CPA (@money_cruncher) January 25, …
$14 TRILLION NGO EMPIRE: TAX EXEMPT, VOTER PROOF An essay citing Federal Reserve Financial Accounts says U.S. NGOs held $14.12 trillion in assets as of Q2 2025, which is bigger than the combined 2025 GDP of Japan, Germany, and India by roughly 5%. If your brain just tried to file “NGO” under soup kitchens and …
$1.33 trillion in credit card debt. That is not strength. That is panic. The average family owes $10,668. You can feel it in the lines at the grocery store, in the gas pump, in the monthly bills that never stop. Yellen says it shows “a strong consumer.” Families call it desperation. First Brands just collapsed. …
We are watching power bend in real time. Trump is signing executive orders at a pace no modern president has ever attempted, and the claim now is that he is doing it faster than every one of his predecessors combined. That kind of statement sounds like hype, but even if the numbers are inflated, the …
They are printing billions in tether and it’s seeping into $BTC and $ETH. Tether(@Tether_to) just minted another 1B $USDT! In the past 3 days alone, #Tether and #Circle have minted a combined $4B in stablecoins.https://t.co/Ptsy2BsPoEhttps://t.co/6dITkpO0hm pic.twitter.com/nad7EQ7baI — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) August 30, 2025 https://twitter.com/3e3dev/status/1961958208609931344 Bitcoin Reminder: Each time Bitcoin hits the ceiling , an 80%+ drop …
Meta and Microsoft just blew out earnings. But look past the headlines. Meta posted $47.5B in Q2 revenue, up 36%, and beat EPS by over $1.25. Microsoft hit $76.4B, up 18%, with a 24% profit beat. Cloud is booming. Azure grew 34%. AI is the story. But the bill is coming due. Microsoft spent $24.2B …
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Democrats laundered SO MUCH MONEY before Donald Trump took office In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 billion was sent from the DOE, who GAVE IT AWAY WITH NO OVERSIGHT, TO ENTITIES WITH NO FINANCIALS “The 76-day period you're… pic.twitter.com/onZaRkPNRn — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May …
New York Taxpayers are about to be DESTROYED – The proposed NY State budget will be OVER $250 BILLION this year– This is larger than Texas and Florida's budgets combined– New York has 33 million LESS people pic.twitter.com/aVCdy9ozJg — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 24, 2025
TESLA DIDN’T JUST WIN Q1—IT WIPED THE FLOOR WITH THE COMPETITION – 128,100 EVs sold—more than the next 10 brands combined. That’s not a lead, that’s a flex. – Model Y and Model 3 still sitting comfortably at the top. Everyone else? Still trying to figure it out. -Nearly 300K… https://t.co/qXmca9eQJj pic.twitter.com/6oVT6NA8Lo — Mario Nawfal …
Just imagine the damage we aren’t aware of yet from #TikTok! https://t.co/pl6iEXtnm1 — Chris Fenton (@TheDragonFeeder) January 12, 2025 👀 https://t.co/vLkF5HOo7b — CXCarroll (@CXCarroll) January 12, 2025
Tesla is worth more than the next 29 automakers combined pic.twitter.com/ENul97SXJ7 — TaraBull (@TaraBull) December 22, 2024
https://twitter.com/RealDinoCapital/status/1858928503061725599 This is wild: A whopping ~$504 billion worth of Nvidia’s, $NVDA, options have been traded year-to-date, the most for any single stock. This is ~$200 billion more than Tesla, $TSLA, the second-hottest stock in the market this year. This is also more than Meta, $META, Apple,… pic.twitter.com/82LXt3vy97 — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 19, …
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 3, 2024 ~ The Office of Financial Research (OFR), the federal agency created after the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street to defog the lenses of federal regulators to prevent a replay of that disaster, has posted frightening graphs on its website as part of its “Hedge Fund …
Tesla, Citigroup, and Dell have collectively cut 50,000 jobs, while trucking giant Yellow, with 12,000 trucks, has collapsed. This trend suggests a significant deterioration in employment, as historically, whenever unemployment rates exceed the 2-year moving average, a rapid increase in unemployment follows. Tesla has cut 15000 jobs, Citigroup cuts 20,000 jobs, Dell Computers cut 15000 …
A coal-fired power plant in China's Dai city. China now emits more CO2 each year than the entire developed world combined—completely cancelling out all the sacrifices you are being forced to make in the farcical pursuit of Net Zero.pic.twitter.com/AbPB0TIprw — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) April 25, 2024 Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined …
AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined. https://t.co/RO3g2OCk9x — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 13, 2024
Tucker Carlson said that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwGO2EFjImQ AC
It's in the nature of the monetary system for these ratios to go exponential. In the short term, something might give way, but in a few years, we'll be repeating this conversation as the debt level has surged exponentially. pic.twitter.com/mS05NNJ3UJ — Phoenix Capital (@PhoenixCapitalH) February 15, 2024 70% of largest U.S. cities lack funds to …
Insane https://t.co/QNSDIRtcZ7 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2024 Insane, but true.We have a regime hell bent on flooding our county with illegals.Funny thing…it's seems the EU has the same issue at the same time? pic.twitter.com/9jRs3xllJD — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) January 7, 2024 Biden told us this would happen in 2015. pic.twitter.com/JtZpGaIxV7 — Carry (@boatgirl3) January …
NYC is spending more money on illegal migrants than "sanitation, parks, and the fire department combined." $5 billion for the fiscal year. Adams is on TV this morning begging for more money and taking no responsibility for encouraging the crisis. pic.twitter.com/n8aLWAB1DU — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 10, 2023
by Dismal-Jellyfish SEC Order – Wedbush Securities Inc SEC Order – Houlihan Lokey Capital Inc. SEC Order – SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. SEC Order – SG Americas Securities LLC Moelis & Company LLC Wells Fargo Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Clearing Services LLC, and Wells Fargo … Mizuho Securities USA LLC BMO Capital Markets Corp. …
Interest costs are a quarter of the deficit, leading to unsustainable debt. Latest US Treasury data show we're on unsustainable path: interest on the debt was a whopping $61 billion in May, more than was spent on veterans benefits and services, education, and transportation COMBINED; interest costs were a quarter of the deficit last month: …
