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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 pulled the fire alarm: she’s privately warning that the $600 billion compute bill is coming …
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 as it hung over the holiday season in Lexington, Neb. “Suddenly they tell us that …
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 our view, we are in another such period, with participants eagerly riding the wave of …
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 frightful and economic jitters are in the air, leading some buyers to leave sellers in …
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 control or just a devastated economy — skizznit (@skizznit) October 9, 2025 In 2026, you …
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, 2025 “The economy is good—except for young people” A common refrain these days. It means …
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 not living the American Dream, and more people are falling out of the middle class …
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 better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or …
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 up with us. The cost of living has become incredibly painful, a larger housing bubble than …
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 over year in July. The vacancy rate just hit an all-time high as the 2023 …
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 Americans can no longer afford even a minimal quality of life. Forget luxury. Forget comfort. …
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 to stitch together a reverse stock split just to stay alive. On June 11, Opendoor …
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 faces 30 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/Fl8UgQMvGi — Jason Forrest (@thejasonforrest) May 8, 2025 13+ homeowners …
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 MBSs without imploding the housing bubble. Thanks to the Keynesian fraudsters at the Fed turning …
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 office. pic.twitter.com/xF1T2dhX2N — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2024 KAMALA: "I talked with somebody …
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 sharp line dividing the adult populace: there are those of us who are old enough to …
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 said that they searched for a job over the past 4 weeks, the highest share …
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 U.S. adults shows a stark gap between people’s wishes and their expectations. The trend was …
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 in those guilds. This tended to be true even from ancient times before Rome became …
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 is generating large-scale, enduring economic, social and political consequences. In a nutshell, older generations who bought …
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 remains relatively niche, making up an estimated 7.9% of all single-family housing starts in 2023. …
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 the past four years. Though an America where some have more money than others is …
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. Key Points Americans are abandoning traditional saving goals due to perceived unattainability. Aspirational goals such …
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. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 17, 2024 About 42% of those with household income of more …