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More guilty pleas continue rolling out from the Feeding Our Future scandal in Minnesota. Investigators trace funds to real estate and overseas accounts. Public calls grow louder for deportation of all convicted fraudsters and full accountability from state officials who enabled it. Meet Fahima Mahamud:– Operated the largest government funded Learing Center in Minnesota, received …
This rule was supposed to change healthcare. It didn’t. Back in January 2021, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule went into effect. The idea was simple: Hospitals had to show their prices upfront. That included negotiated insurance rates, cash prices, and costs for common “shoppable” services before patients received care. Sounds obvious. So why are people …
via cookingboy “We all remember how the U.S. tech stocks took a dump last year when DeepSeek R1 was released. Looking back we all realized it was a gross over reaction. And the fear that AI tech stack will move away from U.S. companies seems to be unfounded. DeepSeek was trained on Nvidia GPUs and …
“The Fed published a research note in March 2025 that almost nobody read. It found that life insurers’ exposure to below-investment-grade debt now exceeds the industry’s exposure to subprime mortgage-backed securities in late 2007. Let that land. The same financial system that nearly collapsed from subprime has quietly built a larger position in an asset …
🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨 Credit card companies have completley ignored and disregarded Trump’s suggestion to lower interest rates. No one respects him! pic.twitter.com/IiGLsXMvKY — The Green Dragon Tavern (@greendragonhq) January 20, 2026 That’s a good thing. Many people are unable to consume and are poor because they can’t manage their budget properly, so a 10% interest rate cap …
What Ultra Tight Credit Spreads Are Really Telling You Corporate bond spreads are sitting near their tightest levels since 2007, which on the surface reads as confidence..low defaults, steady growth, plenty of liquidity. Credit markets are basically saying, “We’re comfortable here.” But that comfort is exactly what should make you pause. Credit spreads are the …
So let me get this straight. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Robert Mueller, James Comey, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith all supposedly knew that Donald Trump raped a woman and later murdered her. No investigations. No indictments. No arrests. No charges. And now I’m supposed to believe that Donald Trump’s own DOJ just released …
David Ellison-run Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer. Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn’t plan to buy WBD’s TV networks. Paramount has repeatedly argued …
Housing markets "freeze" before they crash. Why? Because its an illiquid market primarily owned by broke morons who can't do basic math. https://t.co/5DlojhK7My pic.twitter.com/rjnEclAoap — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) October 8, 2025 Homebuyers Are Canceling Deals at a Record Rate. Here’s Why. Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on the ‘wrong track’ and it’s …
People felt safe while the danger grew quietly beneath their feet and nobody saw it coming until it hit like a storm. If we ignore warnings again the next crash could be even uglier and hit faster than anyone dares imagine. Just to give you an idea, Alan Greenspan (Former Fed Chair) first uttered his …
I won't celebrate Jimmy Kimmel being fired, but I will say this sends a strong message to media personalities on both sides that lying about the truth to divide us is no longer tolerated. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 17, 2025 Kimmel said a MAGA person shot Charlie and Trump supporters are doing everything they can …
Boasberg tried to prosecute Trump officials. They kept deporting migrants after his order to stop. He called it “willful disregard.” The appeals court called it overreach. “The order forces a coequal branch to choose between capitulating to an unlawful judicial order and subjecting its officials to a dubious prosecution.” — Judge Neomi Rao https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/appeals-court-scraps-boasberg-s-contempt-order-against-trump-officials/ar-AA1KawAI Trump …
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 breach wasn’t sudden. It was slow, silent, and entirely preventable. In February 2025, Chinese state-backed hackers gained full access to Canada’s telecommunications infrastructure. Not a single firewall tripped. Not one alert sounded. The door had been left wide open since October 2023. Cisco had flagged the issue early. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20198, carried …
Stan Druckenmiller blasted Janet Yellen “I literally think if you go back to Alexander Hamilton, it was the biggest blunder in the history of the Treasury. I have no idea why she has not been called out on this. She has no right to still be in that job”pic.twitter.com/1yPivRbGjJ — Gold Telegraph ⚡ (@GoldTelegraph_) June …
The British government has finally agreed to launch a full national inquiry into the grooming gang scandals that have haunted towns across England for over two decades. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, after months of resistance and public backlash, confirmed the decision on June 14, 2025, following the release of a damning audit by Baroness Louise …
🚨 #BREAKING: U.S. intelligence suggests Israel is preparing to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, U.S. officials tell CNN This would be a BETRAYAL of President Trump’s negotiations, and America needs to stay FAR AWAY from it. THIS is how World War III starts. pic.twitter.com/FbaSlXMuRH — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 20, 2025 New intelligence reports indicate that …
The mess doesn’t happen all at once. It builds in inches. A spoon left in the sink. A jacket tossed over a chair. A reply you meant to send but didn’t. A receipt you meant to file, a call you meant to return. It’s not laziness. It’s not even forgetfulness. It’s accumulation. One tiny delay …
The Wall Street Journal claimed Tesla’s board was quietly searching for Elon Musk’s replacement, but board chair Robyn Denholm says that’s completely false and WSJ knew it before publishing. Denholm directly denied the story, reaffirming Musk remains CEO and the board has full confidence in him. The article cited anonymous sources but admitted it wasn’t …
NY Times — Two seconds after the controller’s cut out instruction about passing behind the jet, Warrant Officer Eaves replied, affirming for the second time that the Black Hawk saw the traffic. “PAT two-five has the aircraft in sight. Request visual separation,” he said. “Vis sep approved,” the controller replied. It was their last communication. The …
Gold’s warning signals are clear: a recession is imminent, regardless of the election outcome. With the unemployment chart showing concerning trends and the gold-to-silver ratio suggesting a pivotal moment for precious metals. Gold warned the cattle in 2007 and now it warns once again . Pay attention . pic.twitter.com/VhBnbkKIUv — The Great Martis (@great_martis) October …
BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle. He was ignored. https://t.co/Cvfb7znZtZ — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 13, 2024 Secret Service snipers were facing the direction of the shooter at the time of the shooting. pic.twitter.com/6seYdtRiTm — Dylan Hayward (@DylanHayward) July 14, 2024 …
by mark000 To believe in a global soft landing requires a mind to have “recency bias”, “confirmation bias”, “optimism bias” and “normalcy bias” knobs cranked up to 11. The backdrop right now is war: bad and getting worse, global financial system (banks and plumbing) with problems poised to burst, and a global economy on the …
Can’t wait to hear how the NAFO vermin will spin this one: “The deadly Hamas attack on Israel could have been prevented if an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit made up of women and tasked with monitoring Gaza had been listened to, an unnamed soldier has told the newspaper Haaretz. She cited sexism as the …
Russia… https://t.co/0yGdwuKw1l — EndGameWW3 🇺🇸 (@EndGameWW3) October 22, 2023
by Martin Armstrong A leaked memo from June 2022 reveals that Canada’s Justin Trudeau was warned that the mass influx of immigrants would exacerbate the housing crisis. “There is broad agreement among experts that homebuilding has been insufficient in comparison with housing demand in recent years, particularly with the increase in immigration since 2015,” the …
WATCH: Biden Corruption Witness ‘May Have to Live on the Run’ for the Rest of His Life “The video of his testimony already has been obtained by the New York Post and posted on its website. Post columnist Miranda Devine explained Luft is the “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation. She explained the …
Criminals grab a shopping cart, put whatever they want in it, and then just roll right out the front door! This is Joe Biden’s America! Manager pushed out of the way trying to stop 2 suspects stealing from Gwinnett Bass Pro Shop Criminals (mostly of the same type) grab a shopping cart, put whatever they …
The media are full of news about UK mortgage rates going higher. But when we get to the cost of living and inflation they ignore its impact over the past year.CPI 0%CPIH 0%RPI 55.1% Give the RPI the credit for telling the real story.https://t.co/7Dm3FbbX7I — Shaun Richards (@notayesmansecon) June 21, 2023 That is an absolutely …
