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Gold will continue to climb and if Japan sells bonds real slow in the hopes that no one will notice … … … will not help. — K. (@Kayteetav) October 6, 2025 America is Insolvent. The Dollar is Worthless. pic.twitter.com/uIwQxBp2dz — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 6, 2025 Facts: business demand is way down. Prices are …
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BREAKING: Donald Trump has a Stage 5 freakout and threatens to sue over Jimmy Kimmel's triumphant return to late night in a deranged late night Truth Social post. We all knew that the nuclear meltdown was coming… "I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.… pic.twitter.com/ssCCoKKOY6 — Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) September …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, China is hurtling towards a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. China Floods the World With Exports Bloomberg reports China Floods the World With Cheap Exports After Trump’s Tariffs With access to the US curtailed, Chinese manufacturers have shown they aren’t backing down: Indian purchases hit an all-time high in August, …
The second the U.S. went off the Gold Standard, workers have gotten their wealth stolen from them via suppressed wage growth byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Home prices need to fall -40% or incomes need to rise +60% just to return the housing market to 2019 levels. Generational crisis. pic.twitter.com/wFkvoKjUhL — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 22, 2025
ABC reporter gets ROASTED like no other reporter has ever been roasted. This is one for the ages. pic.twitter.com/RSi10FJe3n — Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) September 19, 2025 WTF?! Some leftist reporter is SCREAMING OVER President Trump while he’s attempting to speak. “You are REALLY obnoxious. QUIET! I’m not talking to you…” These people have NO BUSINESS …
The chart below shows that labor’s share and capacity utilization often move in opposite directions because higher utilization today tends to amplify capital’s pricing power rather than labor’s bargaining leverage. In the late 1990s, utilization pushed above 83% while labor’s share drifted down, as globalization and lean supply chains let businesses capture demand without raising …
Even a minority stake held by ByteDance now represents a potential pressure point, and the slightest misstep could expose user data or algorithmic insights. Engineers replicating recommendation engines on U.S. servers may create sovereignty, but they also open a new frontier of control over what millions see and share. 🚨 BREAKING: TikTok US Deal Finalized …
The only way fiat goes to zero is complete collapse of government. Even in this scenario, no laborer will accept the BTC maxis as the new aristocrats. There is no need or incentive for anyone to ever adopt BTC for anything. BTC is nothing. https://t.co/Hi4dZNMNZO — Dr_Gingerballs (@Dr_Gingerballs) September 14, 2025 What's it called when …
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-great-firewall-springs-huge-leak Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system. The files appear to …
BREAKING: Russian monitoring channels report Ukraine may have launched its largest drone attack on Russia ever. At least 150+ have already entered Russian airspace, more launches are expected. 🚨 BREAKING: Up to 150 Ukrainian drones are striking Russia’s Bryansk region in waves, monitoring channels report.Drones continue to enter airspace, making this one of the largest …
by Michael I am sitting here trying to process everything that just happened. I was doing research for this article, and then I got the news that Charlie Kirk had just been shot. I am going to try to find the words to express what I am feeling at this moment, and I will be …
Both parties cheat in their own way but this is truly next level. @JoeBiden and @TheDemocrats rigged the jobs data for all of the Biden years. Disgraceful. Build Back Better was Built on Lies. — Sold At The Top (@soldatthetop) September 9, 2025
Wait times for rides at all time low. Translation: Nobody is f**king there. They deserve what they’re getting! It’s not just Disney. Vegas is also seeing a decline in tourism. People are finally fed up with the price gouging. h/t Kingzzor Sr.
Delinquency rates are now ~1.5 percentage points above the 2008 Financial Crisis peak. At the same time, prime auto loan delinquencies rose to their highest in 15 years. Meanwhile, the total value of auto loans in the US jumped $13 billion, to a record $1.66 trillion in Q2 2025. An auto debt crisis is brewing. …
According to President Donald Trump, the world is full of unprecedented things, and he loves claiming something has never been seen before. (AP Video: Mike Pesoli).
This is a warning that citizens can no longer rely on authorities to keep them safe. Advising locals to leave car keys at the front door to avoid thieves…. Florida Sheriff: “If someone is breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot. We prefer that you do that, actually. We have a gun …
On Sunday, a 1,585 foot high megatsunami struck a portion of Alaska, leading to widespread devastation which greatly changed the landscape. Thankfully, no one was harmed because the second tallest tsunami ever recorded thankfully had its worst extents confined to a remote fjord. It was only reported on a local site https://alaskapublic.org/news/environment/2025-08-12/pure-chaos-out-of-nowhere-mega-landslide-and-tsunami-rip-through-tracy-arm-south-of-juneau ‘Pure chaos out …
🚨 BIGGEST OUTFLOW IN HISTORY 🚨 Capital is leaving Canada faster than ever—like it just got a hard elbow to the head. 🏃💨💸” pic.twitter.com/eoS6LmpRzR — Market Mania 🏴☠️ (@MarketManiaCa) August 28, 2025 Canada printes two consecutive quarters of negative annualized GDP growth pic.twitter.com/cxRUGbVJ3r — Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) August 29, 2025 Foreign investors …
$PLTR might be the most overvalued stock of all times, says The Economist. It doesn’t get to be a genius to see this.$PLTR Free Cash Flow: $1.7 billion$PLTR Market Cap: $412 billion$UNH Free Cash Flow: $25 billion$UNH Market Cap: $280 billion That says something. pic.twitter.com/1vNsb13lEL — Oguz Erkan (@oguzerkan) August 19, 2025 1/ Howard Marks …
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Hey that's not fair, Europe also regulates things that they do make! pic.twitter.com/6jxnihzY2m — Josh Harvey (@joshmh) August 13, 2025
Alcohol usage by U.S. Adults hits LOWEST ever. This is a week after Las Vegas reporting tourism is sinking down 11.3% year over year in June. Very interesting patterns. pic.twitter.com/SD05lMNMPW — Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) August 14, 2025 U.S. ADULT DRINKING HITS RECORD LOW, GALLUP FINDS Alcohol consumption among U.S. adults has fallen to its lowest …
via notayesmanseconomics: This morning has brought news that in many ways I consider to be welcome. Scottish wind farms were paid not to produce 37 per cent of their planned output during the first half of this year, as the electricity could not be used locally or moved to where it was needed. ( Financial …
Bessent acknowledges that tariffs *might* cause inflation for the first time ever. pic.twitter.com/j3SkWXhDQ0 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) August 7, 2025
A migrant mother in Boston received $30,000 through Governor Maura Healey’s HomeBASE program. She used it in under 10 months. The program was designed to last two years. She’s now asking for more help https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14969147/migrant-mom-complains-taxpayer-housing-handout-massachusetts.html The program requires families to pay 30% of income toward rent. Nadine lost her job. Her boyfriend left. Her share …
2x the amount of student loans are delinquent as they were in 2020 – right before the repayment pause went into place. How does this end in anything but economic disaster? pic.twitter.com/rJiyZcQI74 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) August 5, 2025
Father of the year 😂 pic.twitter.com/urbx9NA1D1 — made me smile (@mademe__smile) July 30, 2025
by Michael Our society is more addicted to the Internet than ever. So how has that affected us? Are we happier than we once were, or are we less happy? Are we more mentally healthy than we once were, or are we less mentally healthy? I don’t have to give you the answers to those …
