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UBS quietly nuked every rate cut fantasy while the suits still scream everything is fine. https://x.com/sayonarashorts/status/2052106342840815922 Oil at $100 for months quietly wrecks the global economy without ever needing to hit $200. Here’s the reality. Oil doesn’t need to go to $130, $150 or $200. It just needs to stay around $100 a barrel for …
Ten thousand contracts print instant $125 million profit as oil crashes twelve percent on the planted leak. Iran flips the script with Persian Gulf Strait Authority and oil rips back eight percent after the shorts already cashed. BREAKING: According to our analysis, ~$920 million worth of crude oil shorts were taken 70 minutes before an …
🚨BREAKING: Trump’s ballroom will now cost $1 billion dollars and be fully taxpayer funded. pic.twitter.com/vgql9fiqMu — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 5, 2026 Republicans in the Senate just slipped $1 billion in taxpayer funding into a big reconciliation package for “security adjustments and upgrades” tied to Trump’s new White House ballroom (the East Wing modernization project). …
Iran, US still in touch after failed talks in Islamabad – CBS Engagement between Tehran and Washington has continued since the failure of the first round of Islamabad talks over the weekend, CBS News reported on Monday citing officials. There is “forward motion on trying to get to an agreement,” the report added citing one …
"Consensus estimates from Bloomberg now project GDP at 2.28% and headline CPI inflation at 3% to end the year."@_JoshSchafer pic.twitter.com/iYvnlVhrO1 — Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook) April 8, 2026 🔴 Fed Minutes: Many participants saw risk of inflation remaining elevated for longer than expected amid persistent oil price increase, which could call for rate hikes. — FinancialJuice …
The sector rotation is screaming recession louder than any headline.$XLY down 5.6% in a month. Financials down 6.1%. Healthcare down 6.8%. Meanwhile energy ripped 7.6% higher. That's a 13 point spread between energy and consumer discretionary. Costs rising while demand falls.… — TraderHC (@traderhc) March 20, 2026 Ok wtf even is this pic.twitter.com/qw3FF8W77l — Andrew …
Factcheck: The Daily Mail headline makes it sound like the CIA sat on some miracle cancer cure for 60 years, but that’s really not what the document is. When you actually look at what was declassified, it’s just a Cold War–era translation of a Soviet scientist’s speculative idea that parasites might play a role in …
To summarize: Carnegie Mellon took over $1 billion from Qatar and gave the Qatar Foundation a say in the hiring of their VP of DEI, and now the school is being sued by a Jewish student who says the VP of DEI discouraged her from filing a formal antisemitism complaint…yikes. https://t.co/71v1xgAVvv — Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) …
ADP National Employment Report And What the Headline Misses About Today’s Labor Market ADP says private employers added 41,000 jobs in December, framing it as a rebound. But when you slow down and look at where those jobs came from, the picture changes. Nearly all of the net… pic.twitter.com/D1zs99G6CR — EndGame Macro (@onechancefreedm) January 27, …
Karoline Leavitt revealed that the New York Times reporter who just said Trump “might not be fit for the job” also pushed a headline years ago that said Biden is doing “100% fine” after tripping while boarding Air Force One. byu/optionhome inwalkaway
If the boom was as impressive as they claim, why have BI rinse and repeat this headline every 5 days? — bigdipenergy (@bigdipenergy) October 16, 2025 "Meta, $META, OpenAI, and Oracle, $ORCL, have collectively announced plans to spend more than $1 trillion on data centers in the next several years," per BI. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) …
Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi says the U.S. is “on the precipice” of a damaging contraction. Job losses are mounting in states tied to manufacturing, farming, and transport, while high-cost states like Georgia are now seeing population pullbacks. Even California and New… — Simon Ree (@simon_ree) October 6, 2025 “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased …
by confoundedinterest17 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), headline inflation rose 0.4% MoM and 2.9% YoY in August. Shelter (housing) is up 3.6% YoY. Gimme (expensive) shelter! Of course, Federal government spending is the source of inflation. Notice the lag between Covid spending and resulting inflation. Prayers for Charlie Kirk and his family. I hope …
Tin foil hat: This would be the time to come out with a negative headline pic.twitter.com/TZo3FRSBKS — Kang (@thuhkang) August 12, 2025 🚨OH MY LORD: NVIDIA and Microsoft now account for 15.4% of the S&P 500's market cap, an all-time high. Never in the modern history of financial markets have two companies had such a …
6.5M sidelined want work participation rate keeps falling… 1. Sector BreakdownJune job gains were led by gov’t, healthcare, and hospitality—low-wage, service-heavy sectors. Meanwhile, business services, manufacturing, and tech were flat or shrinking. This isn’t strength—it’s a shift toward unproductive labor. pic.twitter.com/STzuNl5NM8 — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) July 3, 2025 3. People Not in Labor Force …
https://www.drudgereport.com/ Trump gives Iran ‘two-week’ reprieve as his inner circle quietly seeks exit route For all the president’s hostile rhetoric, his advisers are increasingly wary of threats to American troops — and Steve Witkoff is in constant talks with Tehran https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-exit-ramp-from-war-iran-news-t83c72r2l
Most of what you see in the headlines is not life itself. It’s a lens trained on the rarest of moments, zoomed in and sharpened for emotional effect. The world you live in, the one where you make breakfast, walk the dog, or wait in traffic—that is reality. The news, by design, mostly isn’t. Every …
Three weeks ago a Chinese Chatbot called "Deepseek" caused a global markets crash and the biggest one day loss in company market cap in history i.e. Nvidia. Barron's thinks that a three week rally to offset a one day loss is bullish.https://t.co/cJ0B6Z9wDc How dumb do you have… pic.twitter.com/nQI4ESlZHq — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) February 18, 2025 The …
ECON DATA: JOBS As the headline jobs added to the economy gets the attention, the real story is that we are near record highs for Americans working 2 jobs. •Americans working a Full time Job & a part time job near record highs. ECON DATA: JOBS As the headline jobs added to the economy gets …
Couldnt believe this was the real headline to what should be a neutral coverage. Turns out it was. — Brainroτ Capiτal (@brainrot_cap) November 6, 2024
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Donald Trump could turn America’s spy services into weapons of “retribution” against domestic political opponents, skew intelligence findings in favor of authoritarian leaders and undermine information sharing with U.S. allies if he wins a second term, more than a dozen former intelligence officers, Western officials and lawmakers tell NBC News. Given Trump’s track record during …
We really don't hate the media enough pic.twitter.com/Ho0gqZJ0ro — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 3, 2024 Police officer stabbed during attack at far-right rally dies Read more🔗https://t.co/VWLRYDYRzc — Sky News (@SkyNews) June 3, 2024
Now that Donald Trump is a convicted felon, his list of countries to visit has gotten much shorter. Trump was found guilty on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying records in an effort to keep adult film star Stormy Daniels quiet about an affair that occurred in the 2000s. That means certain freedoms Mr Trump once enjoyed …
Drudge Report is still showing this garbage 22 hours later. Drudge has lost 60% of his daily traffic in the last 6 years. pic.twitter.com/sVwzZjUf7Y — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 31, 2024
Republicans panic about post-Mike Johnson meltdown Threats to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are struggling to gain traction as his Republican colleagues fear the oblivion that would follow. Why it matters: House Republicans are vocal about not wanting to repeat last fall’s chaotic, protracted speaker vacancy, with many acknowledging there may be no alternative to the current speaker. One …
Cash bonuses are down across Wall Street. But not for some top execs. Cash bonuses fell across Wall Street during a challenging 2023, according to a new report, but some bosses were able to buck that trend. Cash payouts for New York City securities employees dropped by an average of 2% to $176,500, according to …
by Simon Black In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be humorous and …
Inflation in essential areas, including car insurance, car repair, transportation, rent, homeowner costs, and food away from home, far exceeds the 3.2% CPI headline rate, challenging the notion of a broader decline in prices and signaling an ongoing affordability crisis for consumers. While CPI inflation is at 3.2%, inflation is much higher in many basic …
American cities ordered to give over $68 million to Antifa, BLM agitators after 2020 riots caused $2 BILLION in damage Major cities across the country saw over $2 billion in damages in the wake of 2020’s Antifa and BLM George Floyd riots. Property was damaged, officers attacked, and at least 30 people lost their lives. …