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Mention AI on any stock, and it rallies. We’re clearly in a bubble. WALMART $WMT ANNOUNCES A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH OPENAI OWNER OF CHATGPT… – It will allow customers and members to soon shop Walmart through ChatGPT using Instant Checkout. Seems OpenAI is partnering with EVERYONE. 😅 pic.twitter.com/qb9xz6ajDg — Just a Dude Who Invests (@DudeWhoInvests) …
PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST PUT OUT AN ESSAY ON CHINA. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 THE STOCK MARKET IS GOING LOWER OFF OF THIS POST… pic.twitter.com/w1xWNCWJf3 — Just a Dude Who Invests (@DudeWhoInvests) October 10, 2025 TRUMP: – THINKING OF INCREASING TARIFFS ON CHINA – CHINA IS BEING VERY HOSTILE TO US AND OTHER COUNTRIES ON RARE EARTH MINERALS …
Politicians celebrate GDP gains as proof of a strong economy. But if “growth” just means paying more for groceries, gas, and utilities, are we really better off? Here’s why GDP is a mirage – and why what happens to “the economy” may not apply to you… By Peter Reagan Growing up, illusions were a wonderful …
Oracle slashes 3,000 jobs while their “backlog” ramps up 300%. Make it make sense. Correct After the crash, business schools will start teaching Earnings Quality again It was a super popular class after the https://t.co/4y5lv9vF2o fiasco, but has been replaced with classes including "how to become a social media influencer" and "when in doubt, buy …
Mortgage rate buy downs were the preferred method of home builders to offer incentives and discounts on properties over the past few years to get them sold without actually lowering the price. However, fast-forward to today, not only are home builders offering mortgage rate buy downs, but they’re also offering price reductions and people who …
🚨 OMG…President Trump just put a reporter in her place. REPORTER: Are you ready to go to war with Chicago? TRUMP: When you say that, darling, that's fake news. Listen. Be QUIET. Listen. You don't listen, you never listen. That's why you're second rate. We're not going to… pic.twitter.com/miqrJaUQZQ — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 7, …
This is the kind of data that forces central banks to panic cut. Weak jobs + currency trouble = a world sprinting toward gold, not dollars. The yen is toast. Debt-to-GDP is the worst in the developed world. Gold is now ¥527,000 an ounce in Japan. The yen is cooked and debt-to-GDP is the worst …
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook “did not ever commit mortgage fraud,” her attorney wrote. The lawyer, Abbe Lowell, asked a judge to temporarily block President Donald Trump from firing her from the central bank’s board. Nearly 600 economists signed an open letter backing Cook and defending the Fed’s independence. Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook …
Beazer Homes is bleeding. A $754 million builder dangling mortgage rate buydowns like meat in a trap. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the pitch is this: “Enjoy 2.99 percent 1st Year* 3.99 percent 2nd Year and 4.99 percent Fixed, Years 3 plus on Select Quick Move-In Homes with Beazer’s Buydown. Hurry. Offer Ends Sunday, August 25” source …
The dollar is losing its grip. Not gradually. Not quietly. It is hemorrhaging trust and authority before our eyes. In Q3 2025, the U.S. dollar’s share of global reserves fell to 42.01 percent — the lowest in recorded history. The decline is not a drift. It is a collapse accelerating with every headline. IMF financial …
Interest rates are stuck. Inventory is swelling. Buyers are gone. More than half of all homes now sell below asking. It’s the weakest housing market since 2012. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-market-craters-56-homes-123114860.html Rents are falling, vacancies hitting records. National apartment rents dropped 0.8% year over year in July. The vacancy rate just hit an all-time high as the 2023 …
“My view is that buying and holding real estate is not an effective investment strategy in our current economic environment, for a few reasons. 1) Real estate is more interest rate sensitive than it is inflation sensitive, so given our current circumstances it is likely to go down in real terms 2) It is a …
Insurance so pricey you might as well choose eviction over illness. Told ya. More and more Americans are going to either ditch health insurance or become homeless. This is what happens when the dollar is destroyed by endless fiat currency printing, which continues unabated under Trump. The American people are being impoverished. https://t.co/dM6c8VHuhm — HealthRanger …
Trump is losing his populist magic. Him getting booed at a WWE event is quite shocking. pic.twitter.com/125rGZf68N — S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) August 3, 2025
Booker’s public blowup isn’t just political theater; it signals a deeper breakdown in Democratic strategy. Fixating on Trump as the singular villain shows a party scrambling to define itself without a clear positive agenda. This obsession blinds them to growing voter fatigue and shifting priorities, especially among suburban and independent voters who want solutions, not …
Nearly 90% of economists doubt U.S. economic data. At the heart of every economic conversation, from rate cuts to retiree checks is one number: The Consumer Price Index (CPI). It tracks inflation by measuring how much prices change over time for things like rent, food, clothes, and transportation. It sounds simple but it’s not. — …
Man starring at his own lawyer for losing his case and receiving a lifetime sentence.. pic.twitter.com/BPLTp0UO2J — non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) June 26, 2025
You wanna make money trading ? Learn to draw lines. 😂 pic.twitter.com/SkNc8VqS9l — tic toc (@TicTocTick) June 19, 2025
via notayesmanseconomics It is time again to look East to Nihon to examine the news from the Bank of Japan.Plus an update on its hedge fund The Tokyo Whale. Let us start with what for us at least is the easy bit. The Bank will encourage the uncollateralized overnight call rate to remain at around …
Loan Balance by Borrower Status in the BILLIONS. pic.twitter.com/c9Gp8NZpwj — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) June 14, 2025
Watch about 5 minutes is all you need. Basically he talks about these big tech companies going all in on ai and then automating their employees out. Employees laid off and they don’t buy that companies products. So company lays off more employees, and the circle continues. They’re eating their own… h/t John Dutton
🚨BREAKING: Sources claim that Harvard is facing an "existential, perhaps untenable crisis" over losing federal contracts. pic.twitter.com/PAwvIutxgD — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) May 28, 2025
Fired Federal Attorney who wrongfully sent Jan 6 prisoners to prison cries about losing job. pic.twitter.com/xm9SipscLM — SonnyBoy🇺🇸 (@gotrice2024) May 27, 2025
Powell admitted that even though the markets are pricing in multiple rate cuts this year, Powell himself has no idea if the Fed will be cutting rates at all this year. The truth is the Fed should be hiking rates. Cutting rates instead would just compound the Fed's mistake. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) May 7, …
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire leftist Bill Gates’ nonprofit may be in danger of losing its tax-exempt status. The news surrounding the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also involves two other organizations facing accusations of breaking the law when it comes to their scholarship and career programs, the Times of Indiareported on Thursday. “The American Alliance …
Trump is returning education to the local level where parents have greater control—and Randi Weingarten is ANGRY about it! @DeAngelisCorey explains: “She makes over $500k a year fighting to trap other people’s kids in her failure factories that she likes to call public schools.” pic.twitter.com/mCxbtHCNqU — Rich Zeoli Show🇺🇸 (@Richzeoli) March 27, 2025
Apple’s (AAPL) streaming platform is losing a reported $1 billion a year as the company faces stiff competition and a more choosy consumer. According to a report in the Information, Apple — which just shed around $700 billion as a result of Wall Street’s latest tech rout — has consistently spent over $5 billion annually …
PM Mark Carney said that all trade conversations are off unless Trump stops fantasizing aloud about the 51st state. Meanwhile, #CanadianBoycotts continue to gain steam. pic.twitter.com/lPJbfBoscd — Pouseé 🦫🇨🇦🦫Comitata (@epaldelta) March 19, 2025 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrote on X: “My meeting with the Council on Canada-U.S. Relations was focused on keeping Canada’s economy …
