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Just when you think AI investing cannot get any bigger, another door opens. SK Hynix is launching a $28 billion US listing, giving global investors another way to pile into one of the biggest winners of the AI memory boom. The timing is hard to ignore. HBM memory demand is now being described as structural …
NFIB small business optimism index rose 0.1 points in April to 95.9, holding below the 52-year average of 98.0. Labor quality emerged as the top problem for owners with a record 34 percent reporting unfilled job openings. Nearly 46 percent of firms trying to hire found few or no qualified applicants in the latest survey. …
New psychology research pinpoints a key factor separating liberal and conservative morality A new study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that liberals and conservatives actually share a common foundation for morality based on preventing harm. The research indicates that political disagreements arise because people on the left and right hold different “assumptions …
Ron DeSantis: We’re finding things in Baby Formula like LEAD “at levels that are not good for human consumption” • 16 out of 24 formulas contained elevated levels of one or more heavy metals exceeding federal benchmarks • The heavy metals tested for and detected included arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium. —— Mercury was noted …
When did disagreeing with federal health policy become grounds for punishment? Federal judge orders reinstatement of AAP funding that supports child health programs A federal court has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restore nearly $12 million in AAP grants while the Academy’s case against the government proceeds. The AAP …
I’ve been seeing a massive uptick in ads and articles lately pitching Private Equity and Private Credit to everyday retail investors. The narrative is always the same: the brokers claim they want to give us access to the same high returns that endowments and the ultra-wealthy have enjoyed for years. But I’ve been digging into …
Texas Woman Sees a Parachute Above Her Farm, Ends Up Finding Missing NASA Equipment https://t.co/xU4oUcFDwW — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 20, 2025 Everybody knows (or is) the one person in the friend group who could generously be described as an unreliable narrator. You know the type; tall tales, stories that never quite match up, …
Came here to ask this. If the DC Public Works department is so efficient, how is the National Guard finding so much trash? https://t.co/HWrAZYqbmt — Amy Suzanne Martin MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) September 2, 2025
Conservatives boycott, Democrats destroy—Tesla attacks highlight leftist violence Man causes $3000 worth of damage to a Tesla Model Y after smashing it with a suitcase. The incident happened at the Ontario Airport Parking Lot in Ontario, California. "Although it’s dark, we have lots of detail here, including his suitcase, the logo on his shirt and …
Canada spent $216 million searching for graves that were never there. The media fueled hysteria, politicians poured in taxpayer dollars, and now? Nothing. Not a single body. Millions wasted. History rewritten. And no one will apologize. Canada’s $216M Search for Indigenous Graves Ends with No Bodies! The Investigation into Indigenous Graves in Canada: A Summary …
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that found President-elect Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and later defaming magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rebuked-appeals-court-e-jean-carroll-case-2007465 BREAKING: A federal court has rejected Trump’s appeal of the E. Jean …
Five years ago, I made some money from Bitcoin and other shitcoin. Exiting was pure pain, and I lost a significant % to convert to CHF. I recalled my parents entering a Ponzi scheme years ago. The pattern was the same: very easy to get in, but an absolute nightmare to get out. That was …
by confoundedinterest17 It is a brave new world as the US attempts an Argentina-like shift from an over-regulated, corrupt economy to a more free economy. While Argentina has Javier Milei, the US is stuck with greedy Democrats and RINOs and their bloated spending sinking any attempt to cut wasteful spending. So as we transition from woefully …
A study conducted by US Army Intelligence has suggested that reincarnation is real because consciousness ‘never dies.’ Entitled ‘Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process,’ the 29-page report was drafted by US Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M McDonnell in 1983 and declassified by the CIA in 2003. The research has resurfaced on social media, with …
Here’s how many Americans are having sex to save on heating bills amid surging utility costs. “Though electricity costs dropped more than 20% in 2023, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, they’re still up 29% from January 2020. Northeastern households that use natural gas were expected to spend about $760 on …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, What’s valuable is flexible, entrepreneurial, experiential-based skills that can be applied to a variety of problems–including those that have yet to arise. Finding or creating a job with real upside–and keeping it–has been increasingly challenging for a long time. Globalization exposed the economy and workforce to unprecedented cost-cutting competition, and …
Don’t waste your money on a stupid WORTHLESS college degree! It is POINTLESS to go into debt 80K for a WORTHLESS piece of paper that will get you nowhere in life. The ONLY LEGIT degrees you will be guaranteed to earn a 6 figure income is a Doctors degree (MD) or a Laywer Degree. Anything …
The Mainstream Media Is NOT SHOWING YOU The HORROR The Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii Fires Victims Went Through 🚨 Why?“People are finding whole families in cars that are just charcoaled & fried. They find the car & they find mom and dad in the front seat & the three kids in the back”… pic.twitter.com/8RvcmLRL9J — Wall …
Colleague of mine moving out of Dallas because they can't afford their 3400 sq ft house anymore. Listed it for RENT for $6500/month 3 months ago. Zero interest. Seriously, who is going to pay $6.5k/month when you can buy a new build for $4k/month? 🤡😂🤡😂 — AKM (@akm515) July 20, 2023 Rental market right now: …
A Mexican woman flew into a rage and stabbed her husband when she found what she thought were snaps of him on his phone having sex with another woman — who happened to be her when they were dating years ago. Police responded last week to reports of a domestic dispute at the couple’s home …