Why would a country do that to itself?
It's easy to answer… millions of low-grade/no-grade immigrants are killing the GDP per head. pic.twitter.com/hgOYZdfEA7 — Ramon Agusta (@ramonagusta) March 26, 2026
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It's easy to answer… millions of low-grade/no-grade immigrants are killing the GDP per head. pic.twitter.com/hgOYZdfEA7 — Ramon Agusta (@ramonagusta) March 26, 2026
This is so much worse than you think. > Amazon laid off 30,000 engineers. Then told the ones who survived that their bonuses depend on how much they use AI to write code. So engineers started using AI to push changes faster, because their paycheck literally depends on it. > And then the site went …
It’s astonishing that the public believes a Japanese man in a basement created an algorithm that was accepted and listed for mass speculation. The elite devised a covert method to transfer substantial amounts of money unscrupulously, tainted amongst the chaos.. Consequently, the SEC was compelled to remain silent. S.A.T.O.S.H.I: Secure Autonomous Transaction-Oriented System Hyperledger Innovation. …
Congrats! pic.twitter.com/Wur50Gov4l — Tesla (@Tesla) June 28, 2025
The U.S. Navy has now positioned five ballistic missile defense destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea, all equipped to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles using Standard Missile-3 systems. These include the USS Arleigh Burke, USS Thomas Hudner, USS The Sullivans, USS Paul Ignatius, and USS Oscar Austin. Three of them were already operating in the Eastern Mediterranean. …
A federal appeals court has handed Trump a major victory, ruling that the United States can continue using tariffs to protect itself from foreign trade practices. The decision reverses a lower court ruling that had blocked Trump’s sweeping tariff policies, allowing his administration to maintain duties on imports from China, Canada, Mexico, and other nations. …
China has launched a new AI-powered website builder that can generate full websites and apps from a single prompt. The tool, known as Qwen 3, allows users to describe their idea, and the AI builds the site live—without requiring any coding skills2. The platform is reportedly free and unlimited, making it accessible to a wide …
Private Equity Firms are DESTROYING American Businesses they same way they bankrupted Toys "R" Us and put them out of business Here’s how they did it – After signing for Toys "R" Us, they sold all of the land under every store they own in the United States– Private Equity sold… pic.twitter.com/YrNtSvlwnw — Wall Street …
China has spent 7 yrs making “bad economic choices” to prepare itself for decoupling it has anticipated since 2018. It has diversified trade partners byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts China 🇨🇳 may be the world’s biggest exporter, but its economy isn’t nearly as export-dependent as most people think. In 2024, exports made up just 19.7% of GDP—down sharply …
Buckle up. The market might not be as stable as it looks. **SPY/TLT (MY BAD)!!😬 — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) February 26, 2025 Maybe it's just coincidence, but this chart seems too significant to ignore. The consumer discretionary-to-staples ratio just formed a near-perfect double top, revisiting late-2021 levels. In my view, this is likely the beginning of a …
Study: If You Want More Babies, Make Mortgages Affordable For Young People A new NBER working paper (Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the U.S. Baby Boom? by Lisa J. Dettling & Melissa Schettini Kearney) reveals an unexpected (well, actually expected) catalyst behind America’s famous baby boom: government-backed mortgages that transformed homeownership and …
In 1999, his convertible bonds triggered a catastrophic dilution, wiping out shareholders. Now, with Bitcoin, the same signs are flashing red. The hype is fading, order books are thinning, and there are whispers of manipulation. Pushing for a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve is nothing short of financial lunacy—a bigger ripoff than USAID ever was. Bitcoin was …
Press Outlets Accuse Pete Hegseth of Domestic Abuse, but His Ex-Wife Nukes Them. On the surface, this seems serious. After all, there’s an on-record source making the claim, which is a step up from most press allegations these days. Surely, this is going to sink Hegseth’s nomination, right? There’s just one problem: Hegseth’s second wife, …
by AggieDem Stocks just did something they haven’t done in nearly three decades published December 31. The article states that “US stocks are about to achieve a feat so rare that it’s only ever happened a handful of times. The S&P 500 is set to gain more than 24% this year after rising 24% in 2023. …
We do not live in anything resembling the nation that was envisioned by our Founders, and for the first time in modern American history, we seem to have reached a consensus in recognizing that fact. This was just dramatically evidenced in a presidential election, in which a broad coalition of voters from the political left …
Waves of restaurants across United States are closing down. Restaurants that used to be American icons and relatively affordable dining establishment. But inflation has changed all of that and these restaurants are no longer. The value they once were and customers simply are choosing higher value options or eating at home. At the same time, …
"Real Estate Déjà Vu" History repeats itself? In 1974, the real estate market crumbled under soaring interest rates and plummeting home sales….. A pattern we're seeing again in 2024. pic.twitter.com/MW3cIneneT — Shazi (@ShaziGoalie) October 31, 2024
I find that hard to believe some programmer is updating the code and they’re pretending it’s the software. The next generation of artificial intelligence systems will be able to perform tasks on their own without human input, and they are being enabled by models like OpenAI’s new o1, according to the company CEO, Sam Altman. …
Ohio Governor is now sending State Troopers and millions in funding to Springfield, Ohio to deal with the illegal alien crisis The media coverup just imploded on itself https://t.co/WbMvP0WpUJ — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 11, 2024 HEARTBREAKING: Springfield woman sobs after her mother-in-law was killed by a Haitian migrant. "Everyone is talking about the death of …
This a real example of how socialism embeds itself across an economy. I doubt the small and family farms can adapt to her vision. — Jay (@BigJTA) September 4, 2024
As Aatish Bhatia writes for The New York Times, a growing pile of research shows that training generative AI models on AI-generated content causes models to erode. In short, training on AI content causes a flattening cycle similar to inbreeding; the AI researcher Jathan Sadowski last year dubbed the phenomenon as “Habsburg AI,” a reference …
Hopefully this will get those remaining sane people on the woke left to question the world view of the group they’ve associated with. The woke movement may have just KO’d itself. — George Gammon (@GeorgeGammon) August 1, 2024
Secretary of State of Missouri candidate Valentina Gomez: "These f*ggots should get their own f*ggot category, because before, if a man hit a woman, it used to land him in jail." "There's no such thing as a chick with a d*ck."pic.twitter.com/VmHsroTg4U — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 1, 2024 IOC got itself in a real mess. — …
via notayesmanseconomics: The calling of an election in France has already caused some questioning of what some regarded as economic certainties. One is the trope represented by the French finance ministry yesterday. France’s finance minister has warned that the country could face a debt crisis akin to the UK’s gilt market turmoil under former prime …
#BREAKING NEWS CHINA IS CONSIDERING A PROPOSAL TO HAVE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY BUY MILLIONS OF UNSOLD HOMES Here we go… Read: https://t.co/AkA4BX1Jt7 — Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) May 15, 2024 China finds itself in a precarious position, caught between a rock and a hard place. To prevent further pressure on the Yuan, authorities have …
The above video is an Oxford debate Pelosi attended. At a few points she gets involved. The guy is the usual pompous brit but makes excellent points. h/t Guest