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Day laborer organizers in California are lining up at Home Depot to buy a single 17-cent scraper, return it, and repeat the process in an effort to slow sales and protest the store’s cooperation with ICE operations. Day laborer organizers in California are lining up at Home Depot to buy a single 17-cent scraper, return …
Eli Lilly reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on Friday, the first health-care company in the world to join the exclusive club dominated by tech firms. The Indianapolis-based company’s stock has been riding the skyrocketing popularity of its weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes treatment Mounjaro. The two drugs have driven eye-popping sales growth for …
Nothing is going to stop this. In the case of a deeper slowdown, T-bill issuance will accelerate even further. — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) November 18, 2025 We are borrowing so much because Social Security and Medicare are driving huge deficits We need to cut back on these programs or the deficits are going to …
Crazy to think that money supply is expanding this aggressively even as global central bank balance sheets have been contracting. We’ve seen a $10T increase in global money supply in just the past 12 months. Now imagine what happens once central banks inevitably need to expand their balance sheets again — which, in my view, …
INTERNET SUFFERS ANOTHER MASS OUTAGE CLOUDFARE DOWN HACK? Cloudflare had a huge outage today, and it took a big chunk of the internet down with it. Sites that normally never go dark all started breaking at once. X had thousands of outage reports, AIPAC’s site and Track AIPAC went down, and even stuff like Spotify, …
Sweeping Mamdani Agenda Hits Landlords https://t.co/Q935k6FALY 1/The Kommunist from Kampala clearly intends to bring all economic activity under the control of the state, and the inevitable economic collapse and social disorder that this will require that all activities of all — miles e drake (@medrakemd) November 15, 2025 How about that billionaire Alex Soros donating …
If we get a rally here it won’t be because things feel healthy, it’ll be because the drop has gotten heavy enough that buyers smell a quick flip. pic.twitter.com/53GwRJs8XJ — Sir Meemsalot (@Meme0rable) November 14, 2025 Crypto markets have now erased -$1.1 trillion since October 6th. pic.twitter.com/mTgpK8ExbO — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 14, 2025 …
https://t.co/WB4W0amlqs — Kalshi (@Kalshi) November 12, 2025 Trump is upside down on every issue: -Epstein: -39-Foreign Policy: -8-Trade/Tariffs: -17-Economy: -18-Immigration: -5 pic.twitter.com/ybW4uKqHUb — Maine (@TheMaineWonk) November 13, 2025 🚨BREAKING: There is now an 85% CHANCE that the government shuts down AGAIN in just 2 months. pic.twitter.com/sRHoS93oGy — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) November 13, 2025 President Trump …
NEWS: Elon Musk’s 2025 CEO Performance Award shares have officially been issued — split into 12 tranches (423.7 million total shares), according to a new SEC filing. Each tranche can only be earned if Tesla hits strict performance goals. Earned shares vest in 2033 or 2035, are held in Musk’s revocable trust, and are voted …
by confoundedinterest17 Redfin’s Housing Turnover Report, Q1–Q3 2025 Just 2.8 homes out of every 1,000 changed owners in the first nine months of 2025—the lowest turnover rate in at least three decades. This marks a 38% plunge from the 2021 frenzy, when 44 per 1,000 homes sold, and is 44% below the pre-pandemic 2019 pace of 40 …
A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring over 300. The quake’s epicentre was near Khulm, affecting Balkh, Samangan, and Baghlan provinces. Rescue teams have reached the affected areas, while Taliban officials expressed grief and launched relief operations. The UN said it’s assessing needs and providing …
@ksatnews here is video of a train colliding with a stalled rig with trailer w/cars. happened at 10:10 in schertz on FM78 pic.twitter.com/oLHeK2XvYn — CAM (@TMCSCamCol) November 2, 2025
Nvidia just crossed $5 trillion, and the world barely looked up. It’s the kind of number that should freeze you for a second. A single company now holds more paper value than the entire economy of Germany. It’s larger than Japan, India, the U.K., and every other country on Earth except the United States and …
A large 6.5M Earthquake has struck in the Eastern Caribbean. There seems to be on going earthquake swarming in this area. The epicenter is east of Guadeloupe. This is the EXACT Area where US Military has staged a plethora of Assets. They have a submarine lurking at the heart of this EXACT Area. The military …
This week could become a storm of unprecedented volatility, with over 30% of $QQQ components reporting earnings while investors wrestle with record-high margin leverage and frenzied options activity. AI-driven layoffs threaten to ripple across industries in ways rarely seen before, potentially crippling discretionary demand in tech-adjacent sectors like cloud infrastructure, software subscriptions, and digital media. …
One person has died and 10 were injured after a “mini tornado” knocked down three construction cranes in the north of Paris on Monday, authorities said. A 23-year-old construction worker died on a building site and 10 others were injured, with four left in critical condition, regional prosecutor Guirec Le Bras said. The head of …
Leverage often appears as innovation before it collapses into contagion. https://twitter.com/TruthInTesting/status/1980017309537140799 No need to call tops. Just wait for price to show you the way, you don't need to be the first seller. Follow structure. The next couple of days will be key to decide the fate of the market. We got a potential change …
NEW: Section 8 payments to be PAUSED due to Democrats keeping the government shutdown Landlord has just received a letter from the Housing Authority saying after mid November, payments will be paused “October is funded, partial of November is funded. After that, if the shutdown continues, we will not be getting paid our rent” Sad …
I have said multiple times, that we would see EUPHORIA at the peak of the Bubble Top. This is an example of that – and it is going to get worse – as BTC soars into the last massive top. But …. this kind of talk – is EXACTLY what you hear into massive tops. …
Anyone buying gold calls right now, slow down. Gold’s been up for 9 weeks straight. Nine. It has never made it ten in a row. Every single time it hit this streak, the next two months tanked. Not slightly. Every single time, 100% negative returns. On average, gold lost about 3.5% in those two months …
CHICAGO — Officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that the agency is investigating a series of bounties that have allegedly been placed on ICE agents in Chicago by criminal organizations in Mexico. Officials from DHS said they have obtained “credible intelligence” indicating that targeted bounties on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
by Michael It is exciting to see the price of gold soar to unprecedented levels, but we should also be horrified by what is happening to the U.S. dollar. For years, many of us warned that debasing our currency was a really bad idea. There are two primary ways that our leaders have done this. Firstly, …
Folks have no idea how bad it’s about to get—and we’re past the point of no return. Wildest records right now: – Canadians moving abroad – Gov borrowing most since pandemic – Capital flight – 🇨🇦’s gold imports—investors are preparing for a major risk event. Don't look at GDP. pic.twitter.com/IHxtZHb35R — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 8, …
Rewinding the chart back to 1970 shows this can result in either a long-term top (1980), or a strong continuation (1972 – 73). Let price action dictate. pic.twitter.com/feDPOUNxBk — Christopher Aaron (@iGlobalGold) September 30, 2025
JUST IN 🚨: Japan 10-Year Bond Yield hits highest level since the Global Financial Crisis 🤯👀 pic.twitter.com/tYCu25ZL7R — Barchart (@Barchart) September 26, 2025 Bitcoin Major trend breach. This not good.This very bad. pic.twitter.com/zdp0u6thRk — The Great Martis (@great_martis) September 26, 2025
PCE 0.3% MoM, Exp. 0.3% PCE 2.7% YoY, Exp. 2.7% PCE Core 0.2% MoM, Exp. 0.2% PCE Core 2.9% YoY, Exp. 2.9% But the trend is one – inflation goes UP pic.twitter.com/TmrXCFoc3C — Data Driven Stocks (@stockdatamarket) September 26, 2025 The Fed has to keep cutting rates. The cost of borrowing is far too high …
via deadline: Just as Jimmy Kimmel jokingly predicted, his late-night show saw quite an audience boost upon his return to ABC on Tuesday night after the network “indefinitely” preempted him last week. Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26 million viewers on Tuesday night, per early live + same-day Nielsen data. Consider that JKL averaged about 1.77M …
Under a pale morning sky in Dallas, a sniper climbed onto a roof and opened fire on a federal facility. The target was clear. The timing was deliberate. The method was tactical. This was no random act. This was a direct strike on one of the most politically charged institutions in America: Immigration and Customs …
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: “If you close that border and you have negative net migration — and there’s been reports thus far that 1.5 million migrants have left the US just in the first half of the year — that’s gonna have a very disinflationary effect. And so I’m expecting quite a lot of disinflation.” …
