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BREAKING: 🇪🇺🇨🇳 EU airlines saying they’re going to start buying Chinese COMAC planes instead of American Boeings in response to the tariffs- RCE This was announced by the Irish Ryanair. Reuters reports that US lawmakers immediately began threatening the company. …
BREAKING ⚠️ English FA announces it will ban transgender players from women's football after Supreme Court ruling Read more ➡️ https://t.co/v4WHiNVx2v pic.twitter.com/7sf95cvkG9 — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) May 1, 2025 Transgender women will no longer be able to play in women’s …
$MSFT – In Q1 2022, despite a 1% contraction in GDP, Microsoft posted its strongest earnings growth ever for the quarter and even issued an upbeat outlook for the following quarters. Yet, it failed to deliver in the subsequent reports. …
It was raining money in Illinois after the back door of an armored truck accidentally opened and dropped almost $300,000 in cash. The security truck, operated by Brinks Home Security Company, was traveling southbound on Austin Boulevard in Oak Park, …
Musk was appointed as an unpaid special government employee under DOGE and is still working with the agency remotely Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is starting to transition from his role with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and …
Amal Clooney is a British human rights lawyer who is involved in the International Criminal Court’s case against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu George Clooney’s wife of 11 years could find herself barred from entering the United States in the future …
The law, which was approved by parliament last December and came in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, gives Swiss authorities “the necessary tools to take action against Hamas activities or support for the organization …
The mega cap Tech stocks (MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, META, NVDA) have made an existential bet on Artificial Intelligence hardware capacity that will be a huge bust. The solution side is not keeping up with the hardware arms race. There is …
BREAKING: 44.4% of home sellers gave concessions to buyers in March, near the highest share on record. The percentage has increased by ~10 points since July 2024 and has DOUBLED since June 2022. In Seattle, 71.3% of sellers gave concessions, …
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for …
A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji last week had to be saved a second time just four days later, local authorities have said. The 27-year-old climber made an emergency call on 22 April after getting altitude …
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With foreign central bank appetite for US Treasuries in retreat, what will replace the current system? I don't think anyone knows. The chart below suggests we go back to substantial central bank gold holdings. Maybe. IMHO, fragmentation and a broad …
BREAKING NEWS: Pete Hegseth just FIRED Susan Rice from her DoD advisory position. Winning! pic.twitter.com/QuhFr01aD5 — Mila Joy (@Milajoy) April 25, 2025 View post on imgur.com Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Pentagon advisory committee members after another ousted top official …
🇨🇳🇺🇸CHINA PREPS FOR “EXTERNAL SHOCKS” AS TRADE WAR ESCALATES Xi’s Politburo is scrambling emergency plans and new monetary tools as Trump’s 145% tariffs slam the world’s number 2 economy. Beijing says it's done talking until the U.S ditches all unilateral …
• Xi has called Trump; active China talks underway • Claims “200 tariff deals” done — formal announcements in 3–4 weeks • Says he “owns the store” on tariffs, will set ‘fair prices’ for each country • Says keeping tariffs …
Warren Buffett is making $12,600,000,000 PER YEAR in interest from his treasury bills. Insane! pic.twitter.com/KHzd0BqmMh — Anthony Pompliano 🌪 (@APompliano) April 24, 2025
The IMF projects the overall U.S. federal deficit will dip to 6.5% of gross domestic product this year, down from 7.3% in 2024 The multinational fund cited increased tariff revenues for the decline The IMF highlighted uncertainty surrounding the rollout …
TRUMP: IF WE DON'T REACH A DEAL WITH COUNTRIES, THEN IN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 WEEKS, WE WILL SET TARIFFS FOR THEM, INCLUDING CHINA DEALZ — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) April 23, 2025 🇺🇸 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP JUST SAID: – IF …
China has made significant changes to its divorce laws, aimed at making marriage registration simpler and divorce harder. A new 30-day cooling-off period has been introduced, requiring couples to wait before finalizing their divorce. This period gives couples a chance …
by confoundedinterest17 Fed Chair Jerome Powell is apparently waiting for the tariff “war” to settle down before he pushes for interest rate cuts. Meanwhile, rising mortgage rates are hurting consumers and the mortgage industry. Mortgage applications decreased 12.7 percent from …
The United States has presented Ukraine with a so-called “final” peace proposal, which involves recognising Crimea as part of Russia and unofficially acknowledging Russian control over almost all territories occupied since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022. Source: …
🇹🇷 AFTERSHOCKS RATTLE ISTANBUL, PEOPLE FILL THE STREETS Kandilli Observatory reports a 5.2 aftershock in the Sea of Marmara, shortly after the initial 6.2 quake. No injuries or major damage reported yet, but the jolts were enough to send crowds …
Tesla's Net Income fell 71% over the past year to $409 million. This was the first sub-$1 billion quarter for Tesla's bottom line in 4 years. $TSLAhttps://t.co/l5IYmkeySJ pic.twitter.com/ecd8oAiHYk — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) April 22, 2025 BREAKING: Elon Musk announces he’ll …
In 2008, the Fed came to the rescue of the Wall Street banks that caused the 2008 crash by transferring $2.7 trillion in toxic-waste Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) from the banksters to the public ledgers. Now it can’t offload these …
The Food and Drug Administration will remove industry representatives from advisory committees and replace them with patients and caregivers, Commissioner Marty Makary announced Thursday. It’s the latest effort by Makary and his boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to …
“It normally takes 18 months on average for the US to negotiate a trade deal, see chart below. Why does it take so long? Because trade negotiations involve going through what is imported into each country line by line and …
The Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in …
A government watchdog agency this week confirmed that all diversity, equity and inclusion positions inside the Pentagon have been eliminated. The move marks a major milestone in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign against an undue focus on race and gender …
