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BREAKING 🚨: Iran has officially countered Donald Trump 🇺🇸 Trump at 9 PM ET –– “Iran is begging for deal. Their missile capacity is finished” Just after 6 hours 🔥 🇮🇷 Iran at 3 AM ET –– “You know nothing of our vast and strategic capabilities” 🤯 “Do not count our missiles, drones, and strategic …
BREAKING: DDR5 memory prices crash up to 30% after Google unveiled TurboQuant. Google TurboQuant cuts AI memory usage to 1/6, raising concerns about memory demand. Memory prices are up 106% since 2024 lows, but are now falling. 32GB DDR5 on Amazon fell from about $490 to $379.99, while 16GB DDR5 fell from about $260 to …
🚨 COSTCO CEO JUST ATE HIS OWN PRODUCT ON CAMERA — THEN SAID SOMETHING NOBODY EXPECTED Costco’s CEO Ron Vachris just sat down and did the “CEO eats his own product” test… and went straight for the $1.50 hot dog combo. Then he says it: the price isn’t changing. No increase. No… pic.twitter.com/qKdZzGwUAA — HustleBitch …
NBC News Correspondents Richard Engel, Raf Sanchez, Christine Romans and Monica Alba discuss the latest escalations in the Middle East as oil prices surge and President Trump weighs options to lower the price of energy. Retired Colonel Steve Warren analyzes the next phase of the war in Iran and shifts in U.S. strategy.
🚨BREAKING: TRUMP SAYS HE STARTED THE IRAN WAR TO KEEP US OUT OF WAR WITH IRAN pic.twitter.com/V89L6lSdjB — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) March 11, 2026 Macron said the quiet part out loud after a G7 call yesterday: nobody can tell what Trump wants from this war. “It will be up to the president of the United …
House Republicans discussed plans for a second party-line megabill during their policy retreat in Florida this past week, and now GOP senators want in on the action. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), in her capacity as head of the Senate DOGE Caucus, sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) …
JUST IN – UK fines Reddit £14M for “failing to keep children safe,” including not checking the age of users accessing its platform — Sky — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 24, 2026 Reddit has been fined more than £14m by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failing to keep children safe. It is the largest fine ever …
Los Angeles | Mark Zuckerberg told a jury on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) that he overruled concerns about teen wellbeing from staff and 18 experts to lift a ban on Instagram beauty filters because he was concerned about “free expression”. The billionaire social media boss faced a grilling in a Los Angeles court as he battles …
PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES NEW GLOBAL TARIFF PLAN • 10% global tariff will be imposed for ~5 months on top of existing tariffs • Tariff refunds will be litigated and could take 2–5 years to resolve • Does not need Congressional approval to impose tariffs • Frames Supreme Court decision as not materially constraining presidential tariff …
The percentage of unemployed Americans with four-year college degrees hit a record in January, at 36.6% of those 25 and older. (Bloomberg News reported in November that those with college degrees “now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment,” which was correct—and in January this measure hit 27%—but involved dividing unemployed workers 25 or older …
They're hiding a job market collapse. Hiding the job market collapse keeps the stock market higher. Keeping the stock market higher lets the top 10% keep spending. What happens when the charade ends? https://t.co/cDYrPPyai7 pic.twitter.com/38KbSeVM7f — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 17, 2026 Cass Freight index plunges. Only weaker at the depths of the GFC. pic.twitter.com/lWKGk8TVcX …
People keep acting like stocks only go up because that’s all they’ve ever seen, but the bond market doesn’t care about your vibes. When yields climb, it’s basically gravity, and gravity always wins. Everyone talks AI, memes, whatever, meanwhile valuations are stretched to the moon and the government keeps spending like money is free. Concerning …
Amazon shares sunk more than 9% on Friday after the company’s hefty spending forecast surprised investors who were already wary that the artificial intelligence boom is at risk of becoming a bubble. The e-commerce company on Thursday was the latest tech giant to announce plans for a massive increase in capital expenditures, after Google parent …
via confoundedinterest17 Keep on printing money. It seems that home price growth requires The Fed to keep printing money. S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for November (“November” is a 3-month average of September, October and November closing prices). September closing prices include some contracts signed in July, so there is a significant lag to this data. …
Democrats in Virginia have introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies. pic.twitter.com/aJ4rgefbAs — Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) January 19, 2026 Every time I look back at what Virginia Democrats are now doing, it somehow gets …
✨Gold and silver will keep rising until something breaks. The dire warning is loud and clear, as was the lead-up to the global financial crisis. pic.twitter.com/PzVQBP0oHl — The Great Martis (@great_martis) January 15, 2026 December 2026 Fed Fund Futures going the wrong way… pic.twitter.com/H8HANlr0Zm — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) January 15, 2026 2/ 1 of …
CITI SAYS ITS BASE CASE 0-3 MONTH TARGET IS NOW $5,000/OZ FOR GOLD, AND $100/OZ FOR SILVER CITI SAYS SILVER TO CONTINUE TO OUTPERFORM GOLD — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) January 13, 2026 Jerome Powell is under criminal investigation. The DOJ served grand jury subpoenas on the Federal Reserve three days ago. In 8 days, the …
This is why people who don’t even like Trump still end up voting for him. Years of dems and media attacking law enforcement finally cash out in chaos, and the people paying for it are the ones who just want order. 42% chance the Insurrection Act is invoked this year. https://t.co/YUGKIoRNv2 — Pentagon Pizza Watch …
With the Fed hinting at cuts and Trump gearing up for a midterm narrative, you can hear the backroom consensus already: keep asset prices high even if Main Street is struggling. A market that only goes up when debt is soaring and growth is slowing stops being real. Trump will likely pull every lever possible …
The US launched a half-hour-long “special military operation” in Venezuela on Saturday morning that culminated in Delta Force’s capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Several military sites were bombed, US helicopters flew freely over Caracas in a surreal display of the US’ aerial supremacy, and there were reportedly no US casualties. The US’ “special military operation” …
2026 will be the year when US dollar dilution—the quiet erosion of its global dominance as countries trade and pay in alternatives—starts to build momentum. The more Washington uses the dollar as a weapon, the more the world builds ways to circumvent it. America’s share of global trade has fallen from one-third in 2000 to …
by confoundedinterest17 Well, tariffs didn’t turn out to be a lethal weapon as Democrats predicted. The US economy continues to grow! The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 3.5 percent on December 16, down from 3.6 percent on December 11. After this morning’s releases from the US Census …
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuela has led “elements within the Cuban regime” to reach out to the U.S. about what the region would look like without President Nicolas Maduro leading Venezuela, two sources familiar with the contacts said on Friday. The sources, who asked to remain anonymous to describe …
“Trump is more unpopular than ever…Any way you cut it, it is catastrophically bad.” “Rather than keep his promises, all this administration has done is enrich the people that are in it. There are rampant, criminal levels of corruption…The very people Trump brought in to drain the swamp, they are looting D.C. They’re taking everything …
Economy going to be so good but we gotta keep cutting rates https://t.co/Ah1mWdIOjh — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) December 5, 2025 Kevin Hassett, head of the National Economic Council, argues a wave of new factory construction and reshoring projects is building “massive momentum” for the U.S. economy into next year. He points to dozens of recent factory …
*USPS SUSPENDS RECEIVING MAIL FROM SOME COUNTRIES *USPS POSTS NOTICE SUSPENDING SERVICE FROM RUSSIA, VENEZUELA *USPS SUSPENSION ALSO INCLUDES AFGHANISTAN, HAITI AMONG OTHERS pic.twitter.com/qaKAV07YJf — Investing.com (@Investingcom) December 3, 2025 International Mail Service Suspensions Updated: Nov. 28, 2025 The Postal Service™ is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to inadequate transportation options …
Veronica Martinez woke up early one recent morning to make a fresh batch of cookies. She packed them in a box and headed to a community center in East Oakland, where a nonprofit called Trybe invites families to get the things they need — produce, milk, eggs and even diapers. Most of the families set …
$VIX down -44% in 5 days.Be fearful when others are greedy. — kpak (@kpak82) November 28, 2025 25% of the ~$3.2 trillion ($800bln) being financed via SOFR has been borrowed above the Fed’s upper bound …for almost three weeks now https://t.co/UisS8uif0j pic.twitter.com/nK5ZyNx9SI — Robert (infra 🏛️⌛️) (@infraa_) November 28, 2025 SOFR has now spent two …
BBC: “Transgender women’s milk is just as good for babies as breast milk” I have no idea why they keep promoting this BS. pic.twitter.com/Bk2ife5PQP — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 12, 2025 Grok Factcheck: Yes, the BBC has aired claims like this. In a February 2024 segment on “The Context,” they stated that transgender women’s …
The House will vote on reopening the federal government Wednesday after lawmakers’ funding bill survived a key hurdle earlier in the morning. The bipartisan deal to end the 42-day government shutdown advanced through the House Rules Committee overnight, with all Republicans supporting the measure and all Democrats against. It now moves to the full House …