Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
I was hoping someone got this😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/C7MjJ6ktee — Kira (@Kiradavis) May 7, 2026 LA Mayor Karen Bass blurts fire f**ks on live TV in jaw-dropping Freudian slip.
Advance estimates show March sales hit $752.1 billion, but the growth is almost entirely captured by “Non-store” retailers, up 10.1% year-over-year… Food services and drinking places saw a tepid 2.4% gain, failing to keep pace with the 3.3% CPI, meaning “real” restaurant traffic is actually down… Consumers are spending 5.1% more than last year, but …
Researchers successfully cloned a single mouse and then repeatedly cloned its descendants for 58 generations over two decades, producing more than 1,200 animals from one original donor. Yet the experiment ultimately ended in failure when the entire lineage collapsed due to accumulating genetic damage. This visual powerfully captures the central message of the study — …
A new accuser of Rep. Eric Swalwell on Tuesday tearfully said she believed the fallen Democratic lawmaker from California had drugged her before choking and raping her in a hotel room in that state in 2018. The woman, Lonna Drewes, spoke at a press conference in Los Angeles, where her high-powered attorney, Lisa Bloom, said …
Eating out in America isn’t as enjoyable as it used to be, and people are starting to talk about it more openly than ever. Prices are way too high, and the whole experience feels different now. The food isn’t as good. The portions are smaller. The hidden fees keep piling up. And a growing number …
Proportion of adults ages 18 to 54 who died of severe first heart attack rose 57% between 2011 and 2022, new study finds The last thing someone in their 30s or 40s should worry about is dying of a heart attack. But new research shows more are. The proportion of adults ages 18 to 54 …
FTC issues COPPA policy statement to incentivize the use of age verification technologies to protect children online: https://t.co/dHEycROeEK /1 — FTC (@FTC) February 25, 2026 The Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement today announcing that the Commission will not bring an enforcement action under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) against certain …
Intimacy should be freer and easier than ever, whether for procreation or recreation. Yet at every age the data is stark In two weeks’ time, the first quarter of this century will be over. Twenty-five years during which every aspect of culture, identity and human progress seemed to hurtle forwards at double speed. From this …
It’s not just $CMG dropping. Even fast food is dropping Wendy’s has been smashed and they probably have the best food of them all. It all comes back to the consumer pic.twitter.com/wCURBOAS19 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 1, 2025 🚨MORGAN STANLEY: THE BULL MARKET IS ABOUT TO END. Andrew Slimmon says we’re in the late …
When the people who shape the news begin losing control of their own words, a civilization begins to go blind. For decades the American media operated like a single nervous system, one pulse of messaging, one rhythm of outrage. But this week, a series of quiet stories revealed just how fractured that system has become. …
Stop lying. Priscilla is dying and the track doesn't take it within a 1,000 miles of Arizona. pic.twitter.com/UkIpbLbC9X — @CharlesleeTX1911 (@Charles07788205) October 14, 2025 Based on the severity of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Priscilla’s remnants, there is no clear justification for Speaker Mike Johnson to be contacted or to intervene directly. Here’s why: …
Another major central bank panicked today into a 50 bps rate cut, just as markets have been predicting. Not only that, officials at that bank said they’re ready for more as ultra-low rates are back within reach already. The Pringles can is far from empty even though central banks around the world would like you …
by confoundedinterest17 Under The Federal Reserve, the purchasing power of the US Dollar has declined -97% since the establishment of The Federal Reserve in 1913. It is the House of the Dying Dollar. Under The Federal Reserve, the purchasing power of the US Dollar has declined -97% since the establishment of The Federal Reserve in 1913. …
Disney way too expensive for normal hard working Americans. Finally the greed is coming to its final destination..Just like Vegas, Disney has become extremely greedy.. fleecing their customers . Remember the food bills people shared from Disney… Crazy . — JarvisFlow (@JarvisFlow) September 2, 2025
Businesses are closed out in LA. store after store. “The scariest thing about living in LA. right now, doesn’t matter nice area or poor area…a lot of businesses are just out.” Store after store is just vacant. “So scary to see so many businesses go out. Feel like the city is dying.” Businesses are closed …
Too many babies are dying. Too many babies have already died. Too few are shouting that the collapse is not a coincidence. Mississippi is bleeding life before it even begins. Each number is a scream. Each statistic is a failure of a system that claims to protect the most vulnerable but leaves them to perish. …
If Bitcoin needs lies to rise, what does that make it worth? BREAKING: Michael Saylor violates promise to shareholders, dilutes MicroStrategy $MSTR with 875,301 new shares https://t.co/aOmYIOWpdn pic.twitter.com/jXqtw9ZDeR — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 25, 2025 As #Bitcoin demand dries up fast and the price tanks, watch the maximalists scramble to invent new fake narratives and rumors …
12 year old British girl sent home from school for wearing her Union Jack dress on Heritage and Diversity Day.https://t.co/GVr98JZXpW — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 15, 2025
https://twitter.com/GremlyCoin/status/1944702316788981903
by Michael Everybody agrees that the rich have been getting even richer in recent years. But what about all the rest of us? Unfortunately, it turns out that flooding the system with money was really good for the wealthy, but it has made things much worse for almost everyone else. Poverty is rapidly growing all …
Oil saying the economy is dying. Stocks saying the economy is just fine. Which one is right? pic.twitter.com/bWyhd4JwXA — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 1, 2025 “CEOs are leaving their posts at a record clip. Last year 373 public-company chiefs exited, 24% more than in 2023. Among U.S. businesses with at least 25 employees, 2,221 CEOs …
BREAKING: A deal has been reached between Russia and the U.S. over Ukraine. Putin will be meeting Trump in person. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) April 23, 2025 President Trump issued a stark warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, saying Kyiv’s leader was in a “dire” situation and “can have Peace or, he can fight …
A delay in warning alerts during the Los Angeles wildfires may have led to the deaths of more than a dozen people. Residents living in the west of Altadena, a neighborhood around 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles, only received evacuation orders eight hours after the deadly Eaton Fire began to rage on January 7, …
First, let's look at the global picture. The contrast between regions tells a stark story: • Africa: 4.3 children per woman• Middle East: 2.8• USA: 1.7• EU average: 1.5 This EU average of 1.5 children per woman falls far below the 2.1 needed for population stability. pic.twitter.com/lG4IIZ2S8p — Ole Lehmann (@itsolelehmann) November 28, 2024 Even …
Read the rest, free at https://t.co/xpM0MAiDZS “The collapse of left-wing media means we're about to get a tectonic shift in American politics towards populism, conservatism, and a less controlling government.' pic.twitter.com/zksMAB7CBf — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 22, 2024
It's not just the EU, it's pretty much the whole world. Every country in red has a fertility rate below replacement as of 2023. The numbers continue to fall fast around the world. pic.twitter.com/dNOICPtqz5 — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) November 17, 2024 You have to make it $$ easier for families to have children. It needs to …
Where are all the libs yammering about “being respected on the world stage again”? Crown Prince of Saudi wouldn’t meet @ airport, Xi bashed Biden, Hungarians & Poland said take a hike, even Guatemalans met Kamala at airport & told her to leave. pic.twitter.com/WYRZuOPv0O — Constitutional Insurgent (@valhalla__news) September 13, 2024
https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1833119696687599913 German 🇩🇪 Industrial Production MoM pic.twitter.com/oC57eGhuBN — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) September 9, 2024
Billionaire Bill Ackman has shared a host of wild claims on his X account including a suggestion that President Biden might be terminally-ill. The 58-year-old investor shared a litany of suggestions concerning the embattled commander-in-chief who announced he was standing down on Sunday afternoon. The claims shared by Ackman include concerns that Biden might be …
Texas farmers are suing a fertilizer company that uses human waste in products They claim the fertilizer spread and made their farmland ‘useless’ A group of Texas ranchers have claimed their animals are being killed by a toxic fertilizer that spread from a nearby farm – likening it to the Chernobyl disaster. The farmers from …