Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
It’s amazing what can be revealed when you go to the source. 1. No one knows who the owner is2. Everyone hired in the past month3. Impossible to bill for 8,000 patients 100% fraud — Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) July 11, 2026 The $9.4 million caught my attention. Then the employee list did. Palace Daycare billed …
by Michael For most people, the price of gasoline is the most obvious consequence of the war in the Middle East. As I write this article, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $4.56. Of course in some parts of the country consumers are paying much more than that. This …
NYC dumping record $43B into public schools – at whopping $44K per pupil – despite plummeting enrollment, poor test results https://t.co/RCrJi5xffH pic.twitter.com/wimekawfPD — New York Post (@nypost) May 12, 2026 The numbers don’t add up! New York City is already dumping a record $43 billion into its public schools while spending heaps more per-student than …
by Michael So much can change in a single day. In just the last 24 hours, the ceasefire with Iran has ended, fighting has erupted once again in the Strait of Hormuz, six Iranian fast attack boats have been sunk, and one of the most important oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates has been …
Trump: "We’re leading everybody in everything. This is the greatest period of anything that we've ever seen." pic.twitter.com/qfzXbn8UcT — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 16, 2026
Jennifer Welch: “l just think it’s really important to remind everybody all the time that Elon Musk is a fucking immigrant that doesn’t pay taxes who is a parasite off the American taxpayer” pic.twitter.com/BNhirAph69 — Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) December 9, 2025 Grok factcheck: Elon Musk is a naturalized US citizen (2002) who immigrated from South …
Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee – vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation. Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees pic.twitter.com/NOrj49Acwn — Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 30, 2025 Senators from both sides of the political …
Millions of families barely holding on while the system pretends everything is fine. Everybody is broke pic.twitter.com/lcsv6CXQvF — 🏴☠️ (@calvinfroedge) September 10, 2025 ⚠️THERE WE GO: The US economy has now more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021. Job openings fell -176,000 in July, to 7.12 million, the 2nd-lowest …
“China has to give us magnets. If they don't, we charge a 200% tariff or something. Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago let’s all do magnets." – Trump ????? pic.twitter.com/hI91SCnwjd — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) August 25, 2025
According to Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, these powerful new machine learning programs will replace everyone doing mundane intellectual labor jobs over the next few years. Its also been warned that unemployment rates could skyrocket past 20% at this rate of AI adoption.
Citing the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act as an achievement tells you everything you need to know. I’m surprised they didn’t praise the Afghanistan bugout while they were at it. h/t King_in_a_castle_84
We are hair’s breadth away from a GenAI bubble collapse – and at last everybody knows it. Brutal, correct observation today @BusinessInsider by @_hasanc: “Jensen Huang faces a monumental task as he takes center stage at a Goldman Sachs event on Wednesday: getting AI investors… pic.twitter.com/MmJUjwLkGH — Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) September 11, 2024 $NVDA 72 …
IT was like this since 2016, I’ve been using this site since 2011. h/t dinosaurninja
by Michael The past couple of weeks have truly been historic. Take a moment and just consider some of the major events that we have witnessed. Donald Trump got shot, Joe Biden dropped out of the race for president, and Kamala Harris quickly became the new presumptive nominee. It is hard to remember a time when so much has happened …
Good on the Post for bringing the obvious. The wealthy are doing just fine. It’s everybody else who is screwed. pic.twitter.com/N5iDBVTGwm — Uncle Milty’s Ghost (@his_eminence_j) July 10, 2024 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck in 2024, up 6% from last year As living expenses in the U.S. continue to rise and wages struggle …
They just made a massive mistake !! America is mad … 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/ugbuQQi36o — TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) May 30, 2024 h/t JADR+
"You want to know how you can tell everybody is going POOR right now?" "Look" "$10" "$10" "$10" "Folks out here struggling" ⛽️ ⛽️ ⛽️ pic.twitter.com/eihjWU7Ffi — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) May 3, 2024
via Mike Shedlock The Biden administration just issued a new directive. If 25 percent of a school is low income, then everybody gets a free lunch. Free Lunch for Everybody The Wall Street Journal comments on Biden’s Free Lunch for Rich Kids There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but the Biden administration insists otherwise. …
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has posited, during the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, that granting Ukraine membership into NATO, while engaged in a war with Russia, is “dangerous for everybody,” explaining that “for a full member of NATO this would mean World War III.” However, Tajani asserted that NATO is “working on having Ukraine …
🚨🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson At World Government Summit “Joe Biden is senile – everybody knows it – it’s now been confirmed this week” pic.twitter.com/54CF1WrMja — Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) February 13, 2024 Watch the whole interview, it’s excellent
“The median stock is down 36%, this is one of the worst bear markets in history, and everybody is talking about it as if it is a bull market” Check out the first half of my convo with @profplum99 here https://t.co/gTm6RwEkVPorwatch the full video on Eurodollar University… pic.twitter.com/p7GexJeTNN — Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_EDU) November 13, …
Open defiance of the old consensus.https://t.co/4hU3vJzaSi — wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 25, 2023
by Michael You have probably noticed that cultural issues are bitterly dividing our nation right now. Bud Light, Target and other companies that have taken controversial stands on cultural issues have been dominating the headlines for weeks, and now the month of June is here. An entire month is set aside to celebrate “Pride”, and …
