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Current AI chatbots "hallucinate", make up false information, at least 30% of the time. So one third of the time, the AI confidently feeds you rubbish. — StokPix (@StokPix) February 15, 2026
by Michael Would having your brain connected to the Internet 24 hours a day be heaven, or would it be hell? Today, a very large portion of the population is seemingly glued to their phones or their computers much of the time. But soon implantable brain-computer interfaces will allow those people to stay connected to …
April to June 2008: There was a brief dip in expectations as some believed the worst might have passed and markets slightly stabilized. — Citizen Watch Report (@Citizenwatchrep) May 13, 2025 Once again, the #recession never came. Economists and markets spent much of the past year bracing for a downturn—citing rate #hikes, inverted #yield curves, …
The U.S. accounts for 42-45% of global pharmaceutical sales, not 74% – but the core truth remains: Americans pay 3x more for drugs than other nations. While we develop 43.7% of new medicines, Big Pharma's price-gouging turns life-saving treatments into luxury goods. The real… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) May 12, 2025
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New York Post — More than 200 alleged child sex predators have been arrested in the past week under a new joint operation, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday. The 205 arrests, made as part of “Operation Restore Justice,” saw 115 children rescued across the US as part of the “historic” and “unprecedented” joint Justice …
“If the U.S. wishes to resolve issues through negotiation, it must face up to the severe negative impacts of its unilateral tariff measures on itself and the world, acknowledge international economic and trade rules, fairness and justice, and the rational voices of all sectors, demonstrate sincerity in negotiations, correct its wrongdoings, and work with China …
About 764,000 wallets that purchased President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP meme coin have lost money on the investment, according to fresh data shared with CNBC by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Most of the wallets that lost money held smaller amounts of the token, according to the firm’s on-chain analysis. Crypto wallets are accounts that store the …
“For me, it’s pretty clear. You have Trump who’s locked in on tariffs. You have the Fed who’s locked in on not cutting rates. That’s not good for the stock market,” 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/4q3f48LSmT — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) May 6, 2025 “We’ll probably go down to new lows, even when Trump dials back China to …
Donald Trump’s worldwide tariff initiative has sparked more controversy than perhaps any other program from the administration’s first 100 days. Critics claim the tariffs are already collapsing the U.S. economy while supporters believe the tariffs will lead to a dramatic resurgence of American manufacturing and the middle class. One Trump supporter, Silicon Valley investor David …
Port update This is crazy. pic.twitter.com/BRyEEES67z — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) April 30, 2025 CHINA EXPORTS PLUNGE IMPENDING SHORTAGES WEST COAST PORTS BRACE
According to Polymarket, recession odds have climbed back near their April 9th peak. GDP Leaked? pic.twitter.com/3O5XkEYKyU — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 29, 2025 $2,900 tariff on a $2,100 purchase from Hong Kong. You can kiss the global economy goodbye. Unavoidable now. Even if we stopped all of this tomorrow. Will take a very long time to …
S&P 500 earnings revisions have hit extremely negative levels pic.twitter.com/6cbNSE4GHa — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) April 29, 2025 Is this all just a bear market rally? Time will tell. The average bear market rally lasts 44 days and yields a 14.1% return (before new lows are made). pic.twitter.com/pSaXPNSMj4 — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) April 29, …
Yields are more likely to crash in the coming months, not the opposite. pic.twitter.com/QNo5b0NzIb — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) April 25, 2025 Hardship 401k withdrawals running 15-20% above norms pic.twitter.com/C4VOxqXuNB — Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) (@SpecialSitsNews) April 25, 2025 This is stunning: 44% of Americans now believe they will be WORSE OFF financially in …
A NEW ERA IN CALIFORNIA: Now that Prop. 36 passed, police have started to arrest and jail all shoplifters regardless of how much they stole. pic.twitter.com/wXIA6t60oF — Carter Hughes (@itscarterhughes) April 24, 2025 Shoplifters actually threaten to call police after store won't let them steal. Emboldened pic.twitter.com/LbprfABxcg — TaraBull (@TaraBull) April 24, 2025
Foreigners no longer coming to America……US Southwest border encounters have collapsed pic.twitter.com/gXcpDRu7SM — Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) April 25, 2025
BREAKING: 🇮🇳🇵🇰 It has began! Indian and Pakistani forces have clashed in Leepa Valley, Kashmir. pic.twitter.com/8z31Wou0vJ — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) April 25, 2025 Pakistan’s defence minister has told Sky News that a row over a mass shooting in Kashmir could lead to an “all-out war” between his country and India. Speaking to The World with Yalda …
It’s not just low income folks struggling anymore. Even the rich are falling behind on making their debt payments these days. In fact, the delinquency rate for prime borrowers on auto loans is skyrocketing right now especially when you compare it to just one year ago. On top of that student loan borrowers who have …
🚨 #BREAKING: FBI have now ARRESTED NM Judge Juan Cano and his wife, who were caught harboring an illegal Tren de Aragua gang member in their home THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE! MORE OF THIS! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/8rh1gWfbtD — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 24, 2025
President Donald Trump says he believes “very strongly” that both Russia and Ukraine want peace and an end to the conflict and that eventually, a deal will be reached. But he says he has his “own deadline” for that to happen. Read more: https://bit.ly/3YGRDgP
The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet. Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down. It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA. 45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train. 55 to New York by sea. …
Meet the new WEF chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former CEO of Nestle, who famously stated in 2017: “Humans have no right to access free water.” byu/External-Noise-4832 inconspiracy DW — The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, resigned on Monday as chairman of the forum’s board. “Following my recent announcement, and as I enter …
🚨 RFK JR: “An American teenager today has less testosterone than a 68 year old man … because testosterone levels have dropped 50% from historic levels. That is a problem and it's an existential problem.” pic.twitter.com/jgojEwaTuU — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 23, 2025 That’s when the man himself, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the …
The pressure is not just building. It is bursting through the seams. More than 5,300,000 student borrowers are now in default. Another 4,000,000 are about to be hunted down when federal collections resume on May 5. These are not small figures. They represent lives unraveling under debt that was never meant to be repaid in …
2/ The Fed had been on an unprecedented hiking cycle Taking rates from near 0% to 5.5% in just 1.5 years Ensuring tight monetary policy in the process pic.twitter.com/s8OvQS8I6C — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) April 21, 2025 4/ During the recent hiking cycle, 30-year mortgage rates broke out a key downtrend line It rose from 2.65% …
The tariff war not only has a significant impact on people’s livelihoods but also delivers a fatal blow to industries that rely heavily on international trade and exports. On April 17, a worker from a factory in Dongguan said the biggest losers of the tariff war might be their own factory.
60 of the nation’s 300 largest metro area housing markets had falling year-over-year home prices between March 2024 to March 2025 Last month, that count was 42 markets Two months ago, that count was 31 markets Analysis via @ResidentialClub pic.twitter.com/vADre6uTh4 — Lance Lambert (@NewsLambert) April 18, 2025
GATES: “My two granddaughters … don't have as many rights right now as I did growing up” 🤔 pic.twitter.com/XiFhkHVGG5 — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 16, 2025
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Monday introduced legislation that would sell off millions of dollars of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) firearms to pay for the national debt. As America approaches Tax Day on Tuesday, Ernst introduced the Why Does the IRS Needs Guns Act to reform how the agency handles firearms. The Iowa senator …
