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Lie pic.twitter.com/8ml52QJnBQ — geek en vogue (@geekenvogue) July 7, 2026 Expanding discounts helps working families but shifts costs elsewhere. Free or heavily subsidized transit sounds good until revenue gaps appear.
Market price climb 34% this month despite massive share dilution and erratic energy cost Company report show $150 million in new debt for data center hardware purchase Institutional holder dump 12 million share since January while retail buyer FOMO trigger rally Mining margin shrink fast due to high hash rate difficulty and rising electricity fee …
The Conference Board’s latest index dropped to 93.1 in May, a clear sign that shoppers are feeling the pinch. Consumers cited soaring prices at the gas pump and grocery checkout as the primary drivers of their sour mood. Mentions of war and geopolitics in the survey hit new highs, signaling deep anxiety over the Middle …
FedEx and UPS in freefall, double digit losses in a single session… Bezos building a moat around the entire planet’s shipping… The legacy players looking like ghosts, old models dying in real time… The death of the middleman, one prime truck at a time. Investors dumping transport like it’s a toxic asset. Monopoly power has …
Whitney Webb just broke down exactly how the globalists are rolling out digital IDs as the backbone of Agenda 2030, and it’s straight-up dystopian control. She explained: “CBDCs and digital IDs are meant to go together… Without digital IDs, the CBDC digital finance system cannot exist.” “They have to know who you are. And so …
Housing markets don't all of a sudden crash. First they freeze. No one buying, more and more sellers slowly piling up. Why does this take place? Because home owners are broke morons with 90% of their net worth in something they didn't earn, didn't "invest" in….. They… pic.twitter.com/7lLefputWI — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 24, 2026 …
BREAKING: Listen to this. Reporter: "Your husband bought stock in Elon Musk's xAI days before the Pentagon expanded its role. Can you assure us it wasn’t based on inside info?” Representative Lisa McClain: “100%. If it was, we would've bought a heck of a lot more." pic.twitter.com/0LmdjP9Keu — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 15, 2026
Woman loses her home in fire. She asks insurance to rebuild the same home — no upgrades, no expansion. Insurance says NO. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance
KYIV — The White House is pressuring Ukraine to sign on to its new peace proposal by Thanksgiving or lose U.S. support to the country, according to two officials familiar with the talks, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomatic discussions. U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on …
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-not-agree-50-50-002030899.html Taiwan will not agree to a deal with the United States for half of all semiconductor production to take place in the country, the island’s top tariff negotiator said on Wednesday after returning home. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told U.S. television network News Nation over the weekend that Washington’s pitch to Taiwan …
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-closes-google-antitrust-probe-as-trade-talks-with-us-advance-125091800526_1.html China has decided to end its antitrust investigation into Google, coinciding with renewed trade discussions with Washington over TikTok and Nvidia, The Financial Times reported on Thursday. The move indicates a tactical recalibration by Beijing, shifting its regulatory scrutiny towards Nvidia as a bargaining tool in US-China trade negotiations, while signalling flexibility by dropping …
Trump promised nuclear energy expansion, yet no progress has been made in that regard. — Prince “Heat” Inferno (@PrinceHeat44402) August 13, 2025
No fluff here. ICE just landed a massive budget increase. Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill on July 4. DHS now gets $28 billion every year. That money fuels detention, deportation, and a hiring spree unlike anything ICE’s seen before. Goal is 10,000 new agents by 2029. First batch is 2,500. That number’s baked …
So far the new admin has done little to reign in spending despite all the discussion about DOGE in the first few months. Not all that surprising given congress extended '25 spending at current law. pic.twitter.com/QRX5ejWpES — Bob Elliott (@BobEUnlimited) May 12, 2025 They promised discipline, then threw it out the window. While headlines screamed …
This doesn’t sound good. Secret Police Microphones hidden all over America WIRED investigations of leaked data reveals 25,580 hidden microphones across America. “12 million Americans live in a neighborhood with at least one microphone” “9 U.S. cities actually have more than 500… pic.twitter.com/BSiIYB7nCG — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 2, 2025
BREAKING 🚨: Germany Germany throws in the towel on 2024 and gives up any hope for economic expansion this year – ouch! pic.twitter.com/rwCWHz1iTL — Barchart (@Barchart) September 30, 2024 The Consumer Price Index in Germany decreased 0 percent in September of 2024 over the previous month.https://t.co/vifgXJRTvJ pic.twitter.com/pSZeAvP4Js — TRADING ECONOMICS (@tEconomics) September 30, 2024 Germany …
Only need it to contract another $4-5 trillion so we can afford things again. pic.twitter.com/SPu4jtzqGy — Tim Cronin (@Brenin8787) September 23, 2024
🇨🇳☢️China Greenlights Record-Breaking Nuclear Expansion – Oilprice pic.twitter.com/BY0Rqn1NQ9 — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) August 20, 2024 Meanwhile in Germany not only they shut them down, but to make sure future governments don’t turn them back on they also demolish them https://t.co/pRzrecNKZQ — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) August 20, 2024
There are signs of exhaustion in margin expansion, prompting investors to seek more clarity about the earnings impact from heavy capital expenditures (capex) on AI. This trend has been noted by analysts, such as Konstantinos Venetis from TS Lombard, who highlighted that the pressure on margins is prompting investors to look closely at how significant …
Japan's Jul flash composite PMI shows return to expansion though manufacturing remains in contraction; they are so laden w/ unbelievable debt loads that any attempts to prop up their currency are crushing their economy – this is where the US is headed, so take heed… pic.twitter.com/fsmz1z7Dif — E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) July 25, 2024 Lower …
The US-based chip giant Intel Corp is halting a $25 billion chip manufacturing project in Israel, Calcalist reported on 10 June. The Israeli news agency writes that Intel’s decision to stop the building of the multibillion-dollar factory after “Intel’s suppliers received in recent days notice of the cancellation of contracts for the supply of equipment …
Oh, big surprise! Zero students proficient in reading and math at the Chicago Teachers Union’s poster child school? Talk about setting the bar low! But hey, why aim for excellence when you can aim for mediocrity, right? And now they want 180 more of these “sustainable community schools” that consistently underperform? Wow, what a brilliant …
via Mike Shedlock Based on QCEW data, the BLS may have overstated 2023 end of year jobs by 800,000. Nonfarm payrolls and Employment Level from the BLS, QCEW data from the Philadelphia Fed. QCEW stands for Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. It is far more accurate but less timely than nonfarm payrolls from the BLS …
(Bloomberg) — The US will award Intel Corp. $8.5 billion in grants and as much as $11 billion in loans to help fund an expansion of its semiconductor factories, marking the largest award from a program designed to reinvigorate the domestic chip industry. The package will support more than $100 billion in US investments from …
Why are they talking about anything other than real GDP in a time of large and uncertain inflation? If we have 20% inflation, we would have ~20% dollar growth cooked in. Or perhaps more interesting is if we have 10% inflation reported by current metrics, but the real number is 20%, then there’s an extra …
by Mike Shedlock More of This for More of That The GOP House Ways and Means Committee supports expanding child tax credits and an affordable housing expansion. In return, Democrats will allows the GOP to extend immediate 100% depreciation of specified investments. As an added bonus (I wonder who fought for this one), there are …
BRICS+ coming soon ! https://t.co/Cz0yMpENEM — T ⛩ てぃ (@TeongH_SR) December 26, 2023
In just the last 48 hours, the national debt has surged by a staggering $47 billion, equivalent to $1 billion in new debt accumulating every single hour. This trajectory means that the U.S. government’s debt will increase by $5.2 billion every day for the next decade, a truly concerning financial trend. Furthermore, the Federal Reserve …
It’s officially admitted that NATO initiated this war, particularly the US. Here is the coldest cold warrior of them all and the architect of the post-war policy of Soviet containment, George Kennan, on NATO expansion. pic.twitter.com/MwmAT7tjyY — Peter Schmidt (The 92ers) (@The92ers) September 11, 2023 via Caitlin Johnstone: During a speech at the E.U. Parliament’s foreign affairs …
House Republicans have slipped a massive foreign worker expansion into their Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill, a blow to the GOP’s promise to protect the nation’s working class from powerful special interests. After markups and hearings, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee approved the DHS spending bill which would blow the lid off …