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This is exactly how enforcement should work—crush the incentives for hiring illegals. Employers who cut corners by exploiting cheap, undocumented labor are complicit in the chaos. The Florida crash proves why Trump’s Self Deportation app and ICE partnerships are critical: they… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) August 21, 2025
again https://t.co/9fWlkp43o3 — Benn Eifert 🥷🏴☠️ (@bennpeifert) August 20, 2025 OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN CONCEDES GPT-5 WAS A MISFIRE, BETS ON GPT-6 — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) August 20, 2025 Dot-com Bubble 2.0 https://t.co/n1zf8oBAxI — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 20, 2025 Nasdaq $QQQ 🚨 We Have a Problem 🤯👀 pic.twitter.com/rGZnMRQqm4 — Barchart (@Barchart) August 20, 2025
“If the common shares drop too much we’ll dump on preferreds to pump it back” …so why would anybody want to holdthe preferreds after that? He’s literally screaming it’s a Ponzi scheme. 😂 https://t.co/7TJdsALkpL — Rho Rider (@RhoRider) August 15, 2025
Strategic bitcoin reserve turns out to be more like a digital paperweight. TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT SAYS THE U.S. WILL **NOT** BE BUYING ANY BITCOIN THEY WILL HOLD THE $15-$20 BILLION IN BITCOIN THEY ALREADY HAVE AND CONFISCATE MORE WEIRD, BECAUSE I WAS PROMISED A STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE MAKES SENSE WHY BO HINES RESIGNED NOW, …
This relates to one of my earlier posts, maybe an hour ago: Retail, your job is to hold the bag while the big guys exit, and then they will tell you things have gone to shit. https://t.co/6ZpXYzyiNT — Uncle Milty’s Ghost (@his_eminence_j) August 11, 2025 Hedge Funds have now built the largest short position in …
NEW: Three young Astronauts — two in pajamas — caught stealing and threatening workers at Dallas Walgreens after employees lock doors to trap them inside pic.twitter.com/ducpyMX2Q9 — Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) August 3, 2025
U.S. firms are carrying most of the tariff cost for now, holding prices steady and shrinking margins. “American businesses have been absorbing Trump’s tariffs so far, but eventually the burden will be shifted on to American consumers” — Fed Chair Powell It looks like Trump made a mistake https://t.co/P25q5bjEba — sandile swana (@sandileswana) July 31, …
Bank of America just dropped a massive warning that U.S. growth stocks hover in a bubble bigger than the dot‑com crash. A recent note shows about 37 % of the S&P 500 is tied up in ten firms alone, near the highest level ever recorded and edging into record territory. The average P/E for those top names clocks …
Trump released a statement slamming Jerome Powell after the Fed held rates steady for the fifth consecutive time. The former president called Powell “too late, too angry, too stup*d, and too political.” No further context. Just that. Markets barely reacted. Bond yields stayed elevated. The Fed’s statement cited “uncertain conditions” and stuck to the “higher …
Powell avoided the rate topic entirely. No hints. No guidance. Instead, he opened the Fed’s capital rule review on July 22 with a blunt message: big banks need stronger capital buffers, and they need freedom to compete. The speech dropped at 10:04 AM Eastern. No policy lines. Just structure. Fed is reviewing how it calculates …
via Stephen Green GRIFTING WILL WAIT: CA Bill creating LA fire rebuilding agency on hold over backlash. A controversial California bill that would have created a powerful “Resilient Rebuilding Authority” for the Los Angeles fires was put on temporary hold by state Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, in response to widespread community concerns. “I appreciate the …
They say inflation is cooling. The market claps. Yields dip. And just as quickly, they climb right back up. Over and over again. It is not confusion. It is the new reality. And many still do not get it. Soft inflation used to mean celebration. It meant the Fed could cut, the economy was easing …
by Michael Israel is about to “conquer” Gaza and “flatten” any buildings that remain, the U.S. bombing campaign against the Houthis has already hit more than 1,000 targets, the IDF just bombed the second largest port in Yemen, President Trump is demanding total dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program, and the Iranians are threatening to launch missiles …
The Fed has wrecked our financial markets: secured overnight financing is now almost triple where it was pre-pandemic and this essentially must keep increasing or things will start to break; the Fed is barely able to hold its house of cards together… pic.twitter.com/5q1AFbyxIu — E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) May 6, 2025
This Weibo account is from CCTV and is usually very accurate in predicting Chinese govt actions and information “This account learned from sources that recently, the United States has taken the initiative to contact China through various channels, hoping to negotiate with China on tariff issues. International economic and trade negotiation experts and this account …
A day after Canada’s Liberals won a fourth consecutive mandate, Alberta’s government has introduced a bill that would make it easier to start a referendum – including one on separating from Canada. “We were going to introduce it regardless of what the outcome was,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. “It just so happens that this …
via Gail Heriot: *Assembly Bill 7 would allow state colleges and universities to give preferential treatment in admissions to the descendants of American slavery. *Assembly Bill 57 would make possible “home purchase assistance” for the descendants of American slaves (if at some point a Bureau for the Descendants of American Slavery is established (see Senate Bill 518), which …
‼️Central banks rate decisions scheduled for the next week: The European Central Bank is expected to cut rates by another 25 basis points down to 2.25% as the economy rapidly slowed. The Bank of Canada is likely to hold at 2.75% unless inflation significantly jumps on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/XmTNpUBzCZ — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) April 13, …
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon put on hold an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would have required the Department of Education to reinstate more than $65 million in grants that it terminated in February because they funded programs that included diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In an unsigned three-page opinion, a …
Some of the top Justice Department officials who were recently terminated are expected to testify publicly at a congressional meeting Monday. Liz Oyer, who was fired as U.S. pardon attorney last month, and Ryan Crosswell, who left the department’s public integrity section during the controversy surrounding its decision to drop the criminal corruption case against …
Thomas Massie has introduced a bill requiring elected officials to reveal whether they hold dual citizenship. He argues that if dual citizens can run for federal office, voters deserve full transparency about their foreign ties. h/t External-Noise-4832
April 2nd …⏩ pic.twitter.com/o1y6e8Fvr9 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) March 21, 2025 Magnificent 7 stocks are more exposed to global growth risks than S&P 493 pic.twitter.com/Kk5oEocRsS — Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) March 20, 2025 S&P 500 Dow Jones Both rejected resistance, both showing weakness below the undercarriage. This not good.This very bad. pic.twitter.com/QvB8qjdeL3 …
NASA, SpaceX launches mission to International Space Station to retrieve Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore. “NASA and SpaceX launched NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts to the International Space Station on Friday night in a mission that will also aim to return Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. In a clear night sky, the launch went off as planned …
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President Donald Trump and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in Washington. The Israeli prime minister is the first foreign leader to visit the White House in Trump’s second term.
https://twitter.com/Cointelegraph/status/1884300583357628598 Lmao, all the braindead maxis thought the 10AM announcement was about a BTC Strategic Reserve, but it’s just you telling everyone you joined some powerless nonsense subcommittee. I love it! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/wvU0w3M0nZ — Jacob King (@JacobKinge) January 23, 2025
H-1B: Indian Migrants Want Elon Musk to Help Them Win Green Cards A lobby group for Indian H-1B contract workers is trying to use the GOP’s planned 2025 reconciliation bill to get fast-track green cards for roughly 1.2 million Indian citizens living in the United States. The lobbying effort is built on the hope that President Donald …
2/ Over the last 15 years, the inflation-adjusted return of the stock market have reached 295% pic.twitter.com/hGctiBmoAP — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) May 20, 2024 4/ Both instances ended in a sharp drawdown But that wasn’t until the market first climbed higher pic.twitter.com/C3spwNinKN — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) May 20, 2024
