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The CFO news is the absolute center of the storm this morning.. Where is the green? Nevermind we have a party pooper – OpenAI pic.twitter.com/nBfTrKsxi9 — Avg Gal | Stocks & Life 🌱 (@theaveragegal__) April 28, 2026 Sarah Friar just …
On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshipers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town. A pall hung over the room just …
via Jesse Felder Eric Cinnamond writes, “Whether it’s extrapolating unsustainable earnings growth, trusting the Fed will always come to the rescue, or refusing to mark asset prices to market, investors in late-cycle booms have a tendency to believe the unbelievable. In …
This is why there is literally “no bid” in housing unless you are wealthy and paying cash. https://t.co/p538tx6F5H — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 23, 2025 Sellers Are Getting Ghosted: 15% of Homebuying Contracts Were Canceled in September Housing costs are …
It seems like for every employee AI replaces, or robots for that matter there’s should be a tax or something that goes either to education or training or something. I don’t know but I can see it as leverage for …
Here’s a third graph that shows transfer of middle class wealth upward to the Top 1% since shortly after the H-1B program began. Illegal immigration also ramped up during this same period: pic.twitter.com/mMvKpES7Oy — Cats without Borders (@russ62960450) October 5, …
The WEF’s Jane Goodall suggests the world would be a much better place if the human population were reduced to the level of 500 years ago—roughly 500 million people, a 93% reduction from today’s population.
by Michael What in the world has happened to us? When I was growing up, it was assumed that pretty much everyone in my generation would be able to achieve the American Dream. But today most of the U.S. population is …
he American Dream has long symbolized the promise of opportunity, prosperity, and upward mobility. Coined in 1931 by writer James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America, the term described “that dream of a land in which life should be …
by Michael I kept warning about what would happen to our economy if we stayed on the path that we were on. For decades, our leaders have been making unbelievably bad decisions, and now the consequences are really starting to catch …
Every cat's dream: a timely, clean, and efficient subway system. — LeeGStringer (@Helpful_Shadow_) August 17, 2025
Interest rates are stuck. Inventory is swelling. Buyers are gone. More than half of all homes now sell below asking. It’s the weakest housing market since 2012. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-market-craters-56-homes-123114860.html Rents are falling, vacancies hitting records. National apartment rents dropped 0.8% year …
Checks out pic.twitter.com/XBdxO8IV5B — Mike Bitkunin (@bitkunin) August 3, 2025
Elon Musk didn’t mince words: “The dollar will be worth nothing if the US doesn’t do something about its national debt.” That wasn’t hyperbole. That was a warning. A new study confirms what many already feel in their bones. Most …
The Fed turned off the faucet. The tide rolled back. And now Opendoor is standing in the wreckage of its own hype. The company that once promised to reinvent real estate is now laying off staff, facing delisting, and scrambling …
Spencer Calvert built Pineapple Corporation into Florida's premier custom home builder. He became the go-to for wealthy clients, including TV star Captain Sandy Yawn. From 2019-2023, he left most of his 63 luxury homes as empty concrete slabs. Now he …
In 2008, the Fed came to the rescue of the Wall Street banks that caused the 2008 crash by transferring $2.7 trillion in toxic-waste Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) from the banksters to the public ledgers. Now it can’t offload these …
https://www.investopedia.com/cost-of-the-american-dream-2024-8705906 h/t Fun_Balance_1809
Kamala admits "what generations before call the 'American Dream'" is "out of reach for too many." FACT: Under Kamala, the cost of homeownership has reached its highest in three decades — with housing costs up nearly 50% since she took …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The younger generations expecting to inherit the immense wealth piled up by Boomers in home equity and stocks may be in for a shock. I’ve reached the point in life where I see a …
This is very understated on many fronts but especially for retirement. The devaluation of the dollar has pushed retirement needs well into $2M. h/t UnusualWhalesBot
Don’t have to worry about student loans, wedding, costs of raising kids, family insurance, and a big house if you’re a college dropout with cats… points at big brain MEANWHILE, AMERICANS STRUGGLE TO FIND A JOB In July, 28.4% of Americans …
Americans overwhelmingly desire all the traditional trappings of the American dream—owning a home, having a family, and looking forward to a comfortable retirement. But very few believe they can easily achieve it. A July Wall Street Journal/NORC poll of 1,502 …
By Martin Armstrong Before the evolution of the Industrial Revolution, Social Mobility truly did not exist. More often, one tended to follow in the footsteps of their family. Farmers remained on the farm just as those in the various skilled trades remained …
Where did the American dream go? byu/Fun_Balance_1809 ineconomicCollapse
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Following the conventional path is a deadend. It isn’t easy to carve a path outside the well-worn pathways of debt servitude, but it is possible. America has become a nation bifurcated into haves and have-nots, and this …
Story Summary Build-to-rent communities have taken off as more Americans find themselves unable to afford a down payment on a home. An estimated 97,000 residential homes built to rent were completed in 2023, up 45% from the year prior. Build-to-rent …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnO4O1MBdM The decline of our country is explicit. While 99% of our population is struggling to adapt to the rising cost of basic necessities, the top 1% of ultra rich Americans has seen their wealth increase by nearly 500% over …
Despite ongoing consumer pessimism, spending remains surprisingly robust. Economist Joanne Hsu, director of the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey, provided insights into this paradox, attributing it to a shift in consumer behavior driven by high prices and interest rates. …
In a land once brimming with promise, the American Dream now flickers like a distant star, obscured by the harsh realities of financial struggle and unattainable aspirations. $100,000 income no longer buys the American Dream in most places, per CNBC. …