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One big landlord dumping 10 percent of portfolio means trouble ahead. They bought high and now sell low with cuts. More corporate owners will follow if market turns. Regular buyers might get deals but watch for bigger wave. VineBrook now has almost 2000 homes listed for sale. That equals 300 million dollars and nearly 10 …
Something changed this week. First came reports that OpenAI is in early discussions about giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake, which could be worth roughly $42 billion based on the company’s latest valuation. According to reports, the idea is to let the public share in AI’s upside while strengthening ties between America’s biggest …
Yum Brands just sold Pizza Hut for 2.7 billion. The giants are dumping assets that cannot keep up with their endless demand for scale. Private equity firms are circling the carcass now. They do not care about quality or legacy. They only care about strip mining the brand for every remaining cent of profit. Look …
AI cash loop running dry fast Oracle already deep negative on free cash flow The hype machine needs fresh debt to keep spinning 🚨 BREAKING #NVIDIA TAKING ON $20 BILLION…. BECAUSE DEMAND'S INSANE? TELL ME YOUR BOOKS ARE CROOKED WITHOUT ACTUALLY SAYING IT ANOTHER #AI Ponzi company burned through all its cash and taking on …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to hype up the Google I/O 2026 keynote by posting a stylized, glitchy, AI-animated video of himself walking down theater steps on X. The attempt to look cutting-edge completely backfired as users pointed out how unsettling and robotic the processing made a basic human activity look. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/ceo-sundar-pichai-shares-clip-ahead-of-google-i/o-2026-the-quiet-before-/articleshow/131202414.cms People are relentlessly …
CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Fox News Media VP Jason Hermes Brags About Charging ‘$4,000 Strip Club Bills’ to Fox Corporate Cards, Admits to a Stranger, “We Would Just…Lie on the [Fox] Expense Reports—No One’s Gonna F***ing Say a Word to Me,” in Direct Violation of Fox Corporate’s… pic.twitter.com/NwKIzO6pnX — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 28, 2026
by dominiond66 Just look at the financial facts. Last year Corporate America had RECORD Profits. Total of $3.4 Trillion! So much profit, they did not know what to do with it, so they bought back their stock at RECORD levels. $1.2 Trillion last year! Clearly, they got so much money from paying low wages/benefits to …
by juvan If there are some world events where you really want to have a better guarantee of knowing where things are at you may consider looking at the various pay per collect services where regular people sign up and get paid $3-100 for each task which even operate in unstable regions of the world, …
Germany's Corporate Tax Collapse Signals Economic Crisis https://t.co/P5MebM5cf1 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 4, 2026 A recalibration of the welfare state to match economic realities will soon be unavoidable. Until then, the illusion of prosperity is kept alive by credit. What is to be expected now? The state will increasingly draw on citizens’ resources to close …
The situation gets even tighter as we approach the March 15 corporate tax deadline. Historically, this triggers another massive spike in the TGA as cash moves from private bank accounts (reserves) into the Treasury’s vault. If you think a -$74B net drain is bearish, wait until the corporate tax receipts start hitting the ledger mid-month. …
9 large companies filed for bankruptcy in the US last week. This brings the 3-week average to 6, the highest rate since the 2020 pandemic byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Mega bankruptcies becoming more common among large firms There’s an ongoing surge in mega bankruptcies (large companies with significant assets) across the U.S., driven by rising interest rates, …
“Just spoke with a couple of MDs at a large institutional private equity fund They still believe that Claude is a fad and it will take decades before any real companies adopt them Currently only subscribed to a ChatGPT corporate account at work Mentioned multiple times that absolutely nothing has changed about their workflow since …
Layoffs over the last year: • UPS: 48,000 • Amazon: 32000 • Intel: 27,159 • Microsoft: 15,387 • Nestle: 16000 • Verizon: 15000 • Google: 12000 • Chevron: 8000 • Paramount: 7000 • Walmart: 7000 • Procter & Gamble: 7000 • Estée Lauder: 7000 • Citigroup: 6500 • Disney: 5500 • Salesforce: 5000 • HP: …
Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming about 30,000 corporate workers, according to two people familiar with the matter. The company in October cut about 14,000 white-collar jobs, about half of the 30,000 target first reported by Reuters. The total this time is …
Barely two months after laying off 350 employees, including many locally, CarMax has just cut hundreds more jobs. The Goochland-based used-car giant announced Wednesday an additional mass layoff of 230 workers at its corporate offices, including 113 based in the Richmond area. “We have made the difficult decision to reduce Home Office and CarMax Auto …
BREAKING: Hilton statement to @FoxNews: "Hilton hotels serve as welcoming places for all. This hotel is independently owned and operated, and the actions referenced are not reflective of Hilton values. We are investigating this matter with this individual hotel, and can confirm… https://t.co/e9UHjL4L1m — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 5, 2026 The Department of Homeland Security …
Bitcoin stacking company Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), which has just rebranded from its former name of MicroStrategy, has reported a net loss of $670.8 million for the fourth quarter. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $120.7 million, a 3% year on year fall. Meanwhile it said it had bought an additional 218,887 Bitcoin, bringing its holdings …
THE IMPOSSIBLE JUST HAPPENED The world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder is now worth less than its Bitcoin. Stop and read that again. Strategy holds 650,000 Bitcoin. Worth $55.9 billion today. Its market cap: $45.7 billion. Wall Street is valuing the company at negative $10.2 billion. This is not a drill. This is the first sustained …
Why is crypto crashing? https://t.co/8eHuDd6Hsy — Dividend Hero (@HeroDividend) December 1, 2025 JUST IN: Strategy says they will sell their #Bitcoin if its stock falls below mNAV and fresh capital dries up. Remember when Saylor lied and said they would never sell? It’s not even been 6 months and they’re already prepping to sell as …
Corporate Insiders are dumping near all-time highs 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/8BmuyrgkZv — Barchart (@Barchart) November 14, 2025 BREAKING: 655 US large companies have gone bankrupt year-to-date, the highest number in 15 years. This has already surpassed all previous full-year totals since 2011, except for 2024. Since 2022, bankruptcies have risen nearly +100%. This comes as 68 companies …
First Brands BANKRUPTCY shakes credit markets: The collapse WIPED OUT $4 billion in leveraged loans held across ~80 CLOs from PGIM, Franklin Templeton, Blackstone, and others. The sudden failure is a major warning for the broader credit market and leveraged loan sector… More corporate failures to come? ⚠️First Brands BANKRUPTCY shakes credit markets: The collapse …
Corporate America has turned into a machine that exists only to feed itself. It is built on greed, layoffs, and fake values, and it is starting to eat itself alive. The serious question is how did it get this bad. How did corporate America become so openly repulsive. The formula is simple. Fire as many …
Intuit…. Models are flashing a 90% chance of corporate bloodbath in October. Bring rain gear. More to come. — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) September 10, 2025 J.P. Morgan Warns S&P 500 Could Drop Nearly 8% — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) September 10, 2025 The overnight repo market is supposed to be the smoothest corner of the plumbing: …
Corporate profits demand that suburban consumers subsidize the huge energy consumption of AI data centers byu/Boo_Randy_II ininflation
For those who struggle to understand what’s happening here, what the original “ AI cartel” $MSFT – $NVDA is trying to achieve is to attract Lenders so debt can be raised to purchase GPUs ( $NBIS will try to use this contract as a guarantee). I wonder whether they are finally… https://t.co/1zXQ9oQbZI — JustDario 🏊♂️ …
Key details from this reporting: Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020 and declared that the IT behemoth was entering the “most ambitious decade yet” in its climate action. “Today, I’m proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free — …
Private equity firms like BlackRock and Blackstone are acquiring U.S. electric utilities, raising concerns about monopolistic control and skyrocketing electricity rates. Historical examples, such as California’s 2000–2001 energy crisis, demonstrate how privatization can lead to price gouging, rolling blackouts, and market manipulation for profit. Critics warn that these acquisitions exploit political influence, labor allies, and …
via Mike Maharrey Corporate bankruptcies hit a 14-year high in 2024, and the pace continued through the first seven months of 2025. This should throw cold water on those who imagine the U.S. economy is booming, and it underscores the Catch-22 facing the Federal Reserve as it wrestles with interest rate policy to battle sticky price inflation. In …
