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Global Decline in Birth Rates: 1950-2024 1. 🇰🇷 South Korea: 88%2. 🇨🇳 China: 83%3. 🇹🇭 Thailand: 81%4. 🇯🇵 Japan: 80%5. 🇮🇷 Iran: 75%6. 🇧🇷 Brazil: 74%7. 🇨🇴 Colombia: 72%8. 🇲🇽 Mexico: 72%9. 🇵🇱 Poland: 71%10. 🇹🇷 Turkey: 70%11. 🇷🇺 Russia: 69%12. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 69%13. 🇲🇾… pic.twitter.com/uzih4Ry86I — The Data of Everything (@TheDataHubX) May 2, …
Here's a random excerpt from 1984 btw pic.twitter.com/zlFJ1XwGQA — Taki (@TakiVan1) April 14, 2026
While everyone is watching missiles flying across the Middle East and oil prices surging toward $100 a barrel, something extremely troubling is happening inside the financial system that directly affects retirement savings across the United States. A $33 billion private credit fund managed by Cliffwater just told investors they could not withdraw their money. Investors …
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Iraq cut oil out by 6.7 million barrels per day. That’s roughly 33% of their combined output and about 6% of global oil production. The reason is simple: They’re running out of storage. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, Gulf producers are struggling to ship oil to global markets. …
The US tested a doomsday ballistic missile off the California coast Tuesday night — as war raged in the Middle East. The Minuteman III ballistic missile — which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara …
UCLA professor was sending Jeffrey Epstein emails advising him how to get babies to "suck harder on pacifiers" by playing recordings of their mother’s voice. You know exactly why he wanted this information, this is pure evil. pic.twitter.com/0f1JXTV4qH — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 14, 2026 TW: infanticide, cannibalism So the cream cheese being talked about …
MrBeast could be the final social-media megastar. MrBeast’s former manager says the age of social-media superstars is fading Reed Duchscher, MrBeast’s former manager, says we won’t see another MrBeast-scale creator soon. As social algorithms focus on individual interests, it’s harder for creators to achieve a broad reach. Influencers who stick to a niche are well-positioned …
If this AI debt bubble ever pops, it won’t be just the Silicon Valley taking the first hit, it’ll be your pension and retirement funds. Why? Because the AI buildout has gotten so capital intensive that companies are relying heavily on debt rather than equity. Around $800 billion in private credit is needed for these …
Republicans finally got their “big, beautiful bill” across the finish line. Now they’re turning to their next urgent tasks: codifying billions in spending cuts and avoiding a government shutdown. The Senate plans to vote no earlier than next week on President Donald Trump’s request for lawmakers to scrap $9.4 billion in previously approved funding for …
The UK’s National Health Service is showing signs of structural rot. Not just in funding, but in function. The latest Darzi investigation, commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, laid it out in plain terms: the NHS is in “critical condition.” Waiting lists have ballooned from 2.4 million in 2010 to over 7 …
The sirens wailed. The sky lit up. And then came the silence. Not from the streets, but from the officials. While Israeli media trickled out reports of “a few dead,” the reality on the ground told a different story. Iran’s latest missile barrage didn’t just rattle windows. It cracked the narrative. In Haifa, the power …
From a macro perspective the tariff policy outcome is far more important than the nuances of the big beautiful bill. Even with the China "deal" a couple weeks ago rates are still quite elevated, with the question ahead of whether further relief comes or we revert back. pic.twitter.com/96CKCNBmFm — Bob Elliott (@BobEUnlimited) May 22, 2025 …
Every market drawdown comes with whispers of opportunity. Talk of discounts. Bargains. Bottom-fishing. But few pause to do the math. Losses compound against you just as powerfully as gains work for you. And the deeper the hole, the harder the climb. This isn’t just theory. It’s arithmetic. A 10 percent drop requires an 11 percent …
Are you ready for retirement? Probably not – and the younger you are, the less ready you are. That’s to be expected, of course – the younger you are, the more time you have to prepare. Unfortunately, there’s an often-overlooked complication that makes retirement much more challenging than you might think… By Peter Reagan “Are …
Team Biden admits to The Washington Post they waged lawfare and election interference against Trump. “In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people …
In his stated effort to uphold election integrity in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that more than one million people have been removed from the state’s voter rolls. As part of the announcement, Abbott provided a chart that shows over 1.1 million voters in various categories are flagged as “removed,” including over 457,000 deceased individuals and over …
The Department of Housing and Urban Development exists to boost affordable housing for Americans, yet under President Biden , HUD is issuing a new “energy-saving” rule that will instead increase the cost of building homes for federally assisted buyers, despite already sky-high prices and a nationwide housing shortage. That HUD enacted this rule to celebrate …
From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group One thing is certain in these strange times: The rate of Bidenflation just doesn’t seem to be cooling off by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it’s likely to outlast Biden’s entire four-year presidential term. Keeping an eye on the latest inflation rate is important because any lost purchasing power …
“Today, more than 85% would vote for a qualified woman—the same goes for someone who is Black, female, Hispanic, Catholic or Jewish. Of the groups Gallup has inquired about over time and updated recently, only one, a socialist, still faces majority opposition, but it is a bare 51%.” As we do every four years, Americans …
via Marie Hawthorne: Elon Musk is known for bemoaning the declining birthrate. He’s doing his part to remedy that situation, having fathered eleven children himself. But, as usual, he’s not fitting in with the other billionaires who are very interested in ways to reduce birthrates. The other billionaires aren’t so keen on babymaking. Most of the billionaire class seems convinced …
Oil markets are undersupplied with demand levels that are shockingly strong. As OPEC implements production cuts and shipping rates rise, inflation is being fueled. Supply-side inflation remains a major issue. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 17, 2023 The New Hoovervilles? RV Villages And Make-Shift …
Obtaining credit will be “much harder” pic.twitter.com/Pd2gXm5mn3 — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) October 11, 2023 Rapid rate hikes have helped fuel an increase in company failures this year—and there’s probably more pain to come. Bed Bath & Beyond is one of the more well-known brands to implode this year under the weight of, among other …
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Businesses' ability to pay back credit has been getting worse Global credit downgrades have gone up while banks have been making it harder to get loans pic.twitter.com/HHO0eNTsva — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) August 1, 2023 Beware: Interest rates are now at levels seen during the peak of the 2007/2008 Financial Crisis pic.twitter.com/MPaduAwnRX — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) …
