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The Epstein files were under seal during the Biden adminnistration due to Ghislane Maxwell’s trial. No one had access to them and anyone with any information about what is in them would be putting that trial in jeopardy and risking a mistrial. If people understood how our system of justice actually works they could save …
Section 8 has turned into a fucking scam to ensure people are reliant and vote for Dems pic.twitter.com/QMsdYe85P2 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) May 10, 2025
A 1% annual investment fee will lower your portfolio by ~25.8% over 30 years. A 0.10% annual investment fee will lower it by only ~3% over 30 years. That 22 percentage point difference could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fees compound. pic.twitter.com/iv3zY0jQVh — The Money Cruncher, CPA (@money_cruncher) May 8, 2025 Most people …
https://twitter.com/_/status/1919804695515742250 https://twitter.com/_/status/1920065729786736942 They were checking I-9 forms, not raiding them. WASHINGTON – Some D.C. residents are on edge following reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at restaurants in popular neighborhoods. What we know: ICE agents went into Chef Geoff’s Restaurant Tuesday morning and asked to see the staff’s I-9 forms, sending workers into a …
Air India turns its plane around to return home, although already in Jordanian airspace, Air Europa flight on Madrid runway awaiting take off to Tel Aviv, cancelled; Cyprus president delays arrival on state visit after flight held back International airlines have announced cancellations of flights to Israel after a ballistic missile strike targeted the Ben-Gurion …
Retail buying the dip with record flows into triple leveraged ETFs while Buffett dumps more stocks and builds a record cash pile… wonder who’s on the right side of the trade here? https://t.co/1Cd2Sl9eCP — Ross Hendricks (@Ross__Hendricks) May 3, 2025 This is the clue you need to discern where we are in the business cycle. …
by David Haggith The moves are not big yet, but there are good reasons for that, and they are all in the wrong direction. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real GDP just went from a positive 2.4% annual growth rate to -0.3%. It will, of course, take two consecutive quarters of the “growth” rate …
Lab-grown “UnReal Milk” is being developed by Brown Foods using mammalian cells in bioreactors. It’s marketed as environmentally friendly despite lacking comprehensive safety testing Other companies like Perfect Day are creating synthetic dairy alternatives that also lack long-term safety data while making questionable environmental claims Raw milk from grass fed cows contains essential nutrients like …
DEI: Chicago’s teachers insisted that higher pay would unlock student success. The city obliged, hiking per-student spending by 70 percent and boosting average teacher salaries to $100,000. The result? Failure on a grander scale. Today, just 11 percent of black students in Chicago are proficient in reading — a tragic monument to the bankrupt promises …
Investors are rushing into Bitcoin: US-listed Bitcoin ETFs recorded $936 million in net inflows on Tuesday, the third-highest this year. In just 3 days, investors poured into Bitcoin ETFs a whopping $1.4 billion. Since the April 7 low, Bitcoin prices have surged over 25% and… pic.twitter.com/TCHbvJ88i4 — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 26, 2025
Three eyewitnesses described what they saw after the driver of a car struck revellers at a street festival in Canada, killing at least nine people. The three eyewitness, who all have links to the Filipino community and are Vancouver residents, said they were in the shopping area at the end of the all-day Lapu Lapu …
#PahalgamTerrorAttack | "India Will Identify, Track And Punish Every Terrorist": PM Modi On Pahalgam https://t.co/NhWhrYR7D7@maryashakil @shivaroor pic.twitter.com/4V1YqYktMc — NDTV (@ndtv) April 24, 2025 Prime Minister Modi said the terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam attack and those who plotted it would “get a punishment they cannot imagine”. “The time has come to raze whatever is …
We’ve been promised a future where technology works for us, not the other way around. Cars that earn money while we sleep, fridges that automatically reorder our food, phones that know our heartbeat before we do. It sounds like a dream, right? A world where convenience rules, and every detail of our lives is optimized …
Global trade outlook is deteriorating: The World Trade Organization expects world merchandise trade to fall -0.2% in 2025, down from +2.7% growth expected at the beginning of the year. This would follow the +2.9% growth recorded in 2024. North American trade is set to be hit… pic.twitter.com/c6h7dlUv4h — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 23, 2025 …
TRUMP MAY CUT CHINA TARIFFS TO EASE TENSIONS The Trump administration is weighing major tariff cuts on Chinese imports—possibly by over 50%—to reduce trade tensions, sources say. No final decision has been made, and options remain open. One idea is a tiered system: 🔸 35% tariffs on non-strategic items 🔸 100%+ tariffs on goods tied …
Goldman Sachs just sent up the flare. CTAs are primed to inject a jaw-dropping $90 billion into global stocks, with nearly half of it coming straight to U.S. equities. This isn’t some distant forecast. This isn’t a “maybe” situation. This is happening right now, regardless of what the market does. Let’s be clear: Commodity Trading …
time to lean into Energy (XLE), Real Estate (VNQ), and Infrastructure (IGF) — CAMBREON (@CambreonVC) April 20, 2025 Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Directs Repeal of Regulations That Are Unlawful Under 10 Recent Supreme Court Decisions REPEALING UNLAWFUL REGULATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum requiring agencies to rescind regulations that are …
The last trip to Fort Knox that showed the gold was over 50 years ago. Rumors have been swirling for years that they shipped all the gold out of Fort Knox. Hopefully will find out soon. President Donald Trump plans to travel to Fort Knox, Kentucky, to ensure that the stockpile of gold that …
Anthony Fauci has been criminally referred by private legal advocacy groups to attorneys general in seven U.S. states, urging investigations into him and other officials over alleged misconduct during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19 https://t.co/zbof8zxa2x — tom jones (@tomjone51881897) April 18, 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ h/t External-Noise-4832
by David Haggith A new supply-chain crises is storming around us, and shipping is worse than when we were as many days into the Covid lockdowns as we are now into the Trump Tariffs. The stock market has returned to crashing due to dark clouds already thundering all around us because of the Trump Tariffs: …
by Michael Americans watch more television than anyone else in the world, and as we watch television we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from pharmaceutical companies. As I discussed in a previous article, pharmaceutical companies spend more than 15 billion dollars on television advertising each year. The reason they do this is because it works. We …
You can feel it in the bond markets. You can see it in the headlines. But most of all, you can sense it in the way central bankers speak now. No longer with the confidence of engineers controlling a machine. Now with the anxiety of firefighters trying to contain a blaze. Global debt has crossed …
There is no revival coming for the old U.S.-China trade relationship. What once propped up the illusion of mutual benefit has deteriorated into a shadow of itself. Tariff diplomacy is now just a mask for strategic disengagement. The golden era of globalization with China as its engine is finished. Beijing has quietly sold off previous …
SpinLaunch, a California-based startup, is poised to revolutionize the satellite industry by launching hundreds of pancake-like microsatellites into low-Earth orbit using a giant centrifugal cannon, promising a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional rocket launches. In a groundbreaking move that could forever change the landscape of space exploration, SpinLaunch, a California-based startup, is set …
BREAKING: The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting a national security investigation into imports of semiconductor technology and related downstream product, per CNBC. As part of the probe, the Commerce Department will investigate the “feasibility of increasing domestic… — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 15, 2025 According to a document to be published in the Federal Register on …
The Federal Election Commission opened an investigation into firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, regarding donations to her 2024 campaign made through ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising powerhouse organization. The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, made the FEC complaint on March 26, as first reported by The Daily Signal. On April 2, the FEC notified the …
🚨🇺🇸TRUMP'S PROSECUTOR JUST LAUNCHED A CRIMINAL PROBE INTO NJ’S DEM GOVERNOR FOR BLOCKING ICE Yep, it’s getting real in New Jersey. Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, now the top federal prosecutor in the state, says Gov. Phil Murphy and his AG told state cops to ignore ICE and let… https://t.co/n4bkDyV9lZ pic.twitter.com/DaH5A9YzFT — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April …
by Mike Maharrey Significant amounts of gold flowed into gold ETFs for the fourth straight month in March, driving assets under management (AUM) to a new month-end record. Funds in every region reported inflows of gold, with North American ETFs leading the way. Globally, gold-backed funds added 92 tonnes of gold to their reserves last …
