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AI TRIED TO RUN A COMPANY… AND FAILED SPECTACULARLY A team of researchers built a fake tech company, staffed entirely by AI workers from Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic. The result? Total chaos. The best AI agent barely finished 24% of its tasks, needed nearly 30 steps, and cost $6 per assignment just to get …
🇺🇸TRUMP HITS RECORD-HIGH APPROVAL — EVEN AFTER TARIFF TURMOIL Tariffs up, tariffs down — doesn’t matter. Even after last week’s whiplash on Liberation Day tariffs, voters aren’t punishing him. In fact, they’re rewarding him for moving fast and shaking things up, with a 54%… https://t.co/CyxBd06TJw pic.twitter.com/hmrdsKfkOZ — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 15, 2025 The EU …
Is hidden funding crisis unraveling? If Trump’s announcement today of a 90-day tariff pause was truly bullish and risk-on, why did we see 10Y yields spike to 4.50%+, SOFR swap spreads collapse to -40.62, gold rip $107 intraday, junk bond yields hit 8.51%, and TLT get liquidated on record volume all while equities… pic.twitter.com/PVa9L4FA2b — …
They’re going to bundle the loans into securities and sell the tranches by food type “Crunchy Wrap Supreme is BBB debt rated with 10 year maturity at 6% coupon. The instruments are non-callable with warrants attached as a sweetener.” https://t.co/TSApyPQItI pic.twitter.com/rO5EYfKcXZ — Roberto Rios (@peruvian_bull) March 21, 2025
FedEx shares fell 5.3% to $232.29 in after-hours trade, while rival United Parcel Service stock shed 1.1%. Those companies are seen as barometers for the global economy since their business touches so many types of businesses. Both companies have been slashing costs as less lucrative e-commerce delivery demand from companies like Temu and Shein outperforms …
Breaking News: 🚨 The European Union has FAILED to reach a deal for Ukraine, as “emergency meeting” ends with NO funding or rearmament, per NYPost pic.twitter.com/9gIRZsirCh — Graham Banks (@1GrahamDaily) March 7, 2025 JUST IN – Trump is considering pulling some 35,000 U.S. troops from Germany and redeploying them to Eastern Europe — Telegraph — …
James O’Keefe has just released their latest video, this one on the devastation left behind in the mountains of North Carolina by Hurricane Helene. O’Keefe interviews residents who say FEMA has failed to deliver any aid to them at all, while others say FEMA did pay for a hotel room but it’s running out and …
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra cannot answer why he placed unaccompanied children with sponsors whose address was a strip club. He also cannot explain why he allowed them to be pimped out by individuals with no family ties to them. This is a sickening failure of oversight. pic.twitter.com/ozD8JBBaoB — Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) November 20, 2024 …
When the cheating fails, they know America is fed up — TaraBull (@TaraBull) November 12, 2024
US Vice President Kamala Harris has silenced a crowd of supporters following a chant as social media users mocked the “awkward” moment. Harris appeared at a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where her supporters began chanting “Ka-Ma-La”. Instead of using the moment to galvanise her voters, Harris attempted to start her own chant of “Let’s …
https://twitter.com/RJRCapital/status/1836734007062470665 US 30 Yr minus the 3-month pic.twitter.com/f1UqwiYV2Z — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) September 19, 2024 https://twitter.com/RJRCapital/status/1836735432463102043 hedge funds starting to hedge with short bonds ETFs Macro furus long bonds in shambles — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) September 19, 2024 Cuts ✂️ & Returns 📉 📈 pic.twitter.com/x4wS2qdlNp — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) September 19, 2024
From Australia, he/she did manage to receive many memes. 🇦🇺🇫🇷AUSTRALIA'S OLYMPIC CONTENDER HAS PhD IN BREAKDANCE … LITERALLY Raygun, the 36-year-old lecturer, known more for her expertise in "the cultural politics of breakdancing" than for actual breakdancing, managed to showcase a routine that resembled a toddler's but with a PhD… pic.twitter.com/pL2AuHfKHF — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) …
🚨The House vote to hold Merrick Garland in Inherent Contempt just FAILED Here are the 4 backstabbing RINOs who supported the Deep State and voted No: 1. Tom McClintock (CA-5) – (202) 225-2511 2. John Duarte (CA-13) – (202) 225-1947 3. David Joyce (OH-14) – (202) 225-5731… pic.twitter.com/t0l17hFxSI — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 11, 2024
This has been going on for a very long time. The early of social media led to Americans starting to break the legacy media’s monopoly on The Narrative. But like most periods of technological innovation that lead to free speech for the masses, the elites mobilized to restore… — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 5, 2024 …
If the best candidates your party can produce are Biden and Harris, that doesn’t mean you should vote Republican. It means you should BECOME Republican. Because whatever you’re doing now isn’t working. — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 3, 2024 NEW: California delegate Areva Martin says black women will "blow the party up" if Democrats choose …
NEW: House fails to pass border security bill with Remain in Mexico policy The GOP led House only managed to get 5 Democrats to join them The GOP-led House failed to pass a border security bill with a two-thirds majority vote on Saturday. The bill that would have reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” policy failed …
The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row. The latest test of the UK’s nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was seen by Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. The missile’s booster rockets failed and it landed in the sea close to the …
MORE – UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was on board HMS Vanguard to witness "the test." — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 20, 2024 A TRIDENT missile dramatically misfired and crashed into the ocean yards from the British nuclear submarine that launched it, The Sun can reveal. The second failed launch in a row – after a …
In a disheartening revelation, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) acknowledges a dismal performance in protecting migratory species, with nearly half of the 1,100 species covered by a U.N. treaty facing population declines. The inaugural State of the World’s Migratory Species report points to hunting, fishing, farming, and habitat loss as primary culprits, pushing 44% …
The HMS Prince of Wales has been unable to depart for the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War, the British Defense Ministry has said. This marks the second blunder involving a Royal Navy aircraft carrier within the space of one week. Its sister ship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, was initially slated to spearhead the …
By Martin Armstrong There is rising speculation over whether prosecutors in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Jack Smith, will attempt to have presiding Judge Aileen Cannon recused (removed) from the trial after she granted the defense access to certain unredacted classified papers. Smith wants to deny Trump any knowledge of who will testify against him. …
A Las Vegas swingers house appearing to be models after the Playboy Mansion is having difficulty selling despite a $12 million cut in its price tag. The famous ‘Las Vegas Underground House’ on 3970 Spencer Street became available to purchase for a second time in February 2023 for $6 million. The underground house also comes …
Anybody surprised that „GDP growth“ based on debt fueled construction of ghost cities, idle airports and vacant skyscrapers doesn’t translate into corporate profits? — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) January 1, 2024 The End Phase of High Levels of Chinese Growth. In the 1980s until about 2000, China led the world in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) …
CPI isn’t capturing reality for most people Homeowners getting hit with whopping insurance and property tax increases as we enter 2024 And raises are long gone https://t.co/vs38A2VEjz — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) December 27, 2023 As long as the banks continue to receive support through the not-so-hidden bailout program, there's little to worry about, except the …
Lawsuit to boot Trump off West Virginia ballots is dismissed because plaintiff lacks standing By Brad McElhinny | December 22, 2023 (metronews.com) – A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that aimed to keep former President Donald Trump off ballots in West Virginia. The court action never reached the point of examining a claim that …
The Iron Dome missile is malfunctioning. The system may have been hacked pic.twitter.com/XqfDOpWF8u — Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) November 5, 2023 This is extremely rare, I have never seen videos of Iron Dome missiles malfunctioning like this. pic.twitter.com/V4ZUng2geH — Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) November 5, 2023 Iron dome missile in Tel Aviv hits an Israeli home pic.twitter.com/UO8usOWvM5 …
Despite Germany’s substantial infusion of state aid into its economy, the nation continues to grapple with recession and experiences the slowest growth rate among its counterparts. https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1718624015755936251
via naturalnews: For Wolf Richter, publisher of finance and econ site Wolf Street, the long-term treasury market is finally waking up from its delusion that the Fed is going to gradually cool inflation to its target of two percent. It is also finally admitting it cannot normalize interest rates after having spent 18 months believing in the …
