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Source:https://t.co/ffBUUXEt8t — Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MaryBowdenMD) June 23, 2025 Good catch — Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MaryBowdenMD) June 23, 2025 The American College of Cardiology just released new guidance that flips the old playbook. For years, patients were told to try diet and exercise first, then consider medication if that failed. That sequence is …
Something quiet and corrosive has taken hold. Focus is vanishing. Attention span is collapsing. Not because of exhaustion or complexity, but because of something more subtle. Every few minutes the hand reaches for the phone. It is not a conscious decision. It just happens. The brain no longer knows how to sit still. This is …
First, what happened? The BOJ (Bank of Japan) holds a mountain of Japanese government bonds (JGBs). For years, it’s been buying them aggressively as part of its monetary easing program, a fancy way of saying it’s pumped money into the economy by purchasing bonds and keeping… — StockMarket.News (@_Investinq) June 2, 2025 BUT there’s a …
This isn’t some random financial blip. These unrealized losses are on DOMESTIC GOVERNMENT BONDS, long considered ultra-safe. Now Japan's largest insurers including Nippon Life, Dai-ichi, Sumitomo, and Meiji Yasuda — are sitting on record-breaking paper losses. But WHY? — StockMarket.News (@_Investinq) May 27, 2025 So what caused the bond prices to crash? One word: Interest …
Democrats in Colorado are preparing to permanently end farming in the state “This would be the end of farming and ranching and private (farm) land ownership in Colorado” “There’s something happening in Colorado which is not so good. The corridor of people that don’t understand the rural lifestyle that live in all the cities in …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-04-24/norway-s-sovereign-wealth-fund-reports-tech-driven-loss-video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/norway-1-7-trillion-wealth-fund-reports-tech-stock-driven-loss?embedded-checkout=true World’s largest sovereign wealth fund reports $40 billion loss in first quarter on tech downturn Norges Bank Investment Management — the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world — on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of 415 billion kroner ($40 billion), citing weakness in the tech sector. “The quarter has been impacted by …
TRUMP: IF WE DON'T REACH A DEAL WITH COUNTRIES, THEN IN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 WEEKS, WE WILL SET TARIFFS FOR THEM, INCLUDING CHINA DEALZ — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) April 23, 2025 🇺🇸 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP JUST SAID: – IF WE DON'T MAKE A DEAL WITH CHINA 🇨🇳, IT'S OK — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) April 23, …
FOX News gets a devastating update on their Smartmatic lawsuit when a judge rules against them.
🇺🇸 PETER NAVARRO: CHINA’S NOT JUST KILLING AMERICANS — THEY’RE KILLING OUR ECONOMY “From our perspective, China’s killed over a million Americans with deadly fentanyl and related drugs, and it simply refuses to do anything about that. Many of these people are prime age workers,… https://t.co/BLil8KCeaN pic.twitter.com/ae4YsT5Ix8 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 11, 2025
$MSTR 8-K FILING : We may be required to sell bitcoin to satisfy our financial obligations, and we may be required to make such sales at prices below our cost basis or that are otherwise unfavorable. pic.twitter.com/2Cu7VYcwTm — Magoo PhD (@HodlMagoo) April 7, 2025 MicroStrategy, $MSTR, saus unrealized loss on digital assets for 1q $5.91 …
https://www.cnbc.com/2009/09/14/the-financial-crisis-this-dayone-year-ago-sept-15-2008.html HOLY FUCK. This is worse than the nuclear option:https://t.co/bYpi0vI8Zl The good news is that I think the Fed will be cutting rates by next week when markets go into Trump Lehman mode this week. EM currency crisis on deck. pic.twitter.com/4eEtlOoUJh — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) April 2, 2025 The tariff announcement is already pushing #markets to …
“Pharma stocks tumbled today after Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for authorizing vaccines, resigned under pressure from his new boss, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden …
Gazprom’s losses averaged $251 million per week, $35 million per day, or $1.4 million per hour. While the company’s total revenue increased by 11% and its gas revenue by 14%, it still ended the year with a sales loss of 192 billion rubles ($2.3 billion). The company’s financial troubles were compounded by falling share prices …
Something has to give. People can only hold on for so long before they start to crumble. It’s a miracle we aren’t in a recession with people feeling this gloomy. Over 60% of Americans are very worried about losing their jobs. Highest since 2008. H/t @porterstansb pic.twitter.com/YMITs3w9Lt — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 20, 2025 Fund …
Experts have sounded the alarm about blockbuster weight loss drugs like Ozempic leaving users blind. Several studies have linked the shots to conditions that cause inflammation and block blood flow to the eye, causing severe and sometimes permanent vision loss. Researchers have detailed nine new reports of US patients who went blind after taking semaglutide …
A Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. property fund for wealthy individuals recorded its second consecutive annual loss, but ended the year on a stronger note. Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust Inc. lost 0.45% in 2024 after positive returns from September onward weren’t enough to erase earlier losses, according to disclosures on the company’s website. In 2023, …
In a move that signals significant shifts in the real estate landscape, BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset managers, is reportedly scaling back its real estate investments by selling properties at a loss. This strategic retreat comes amidst whispers of an impending market collapse, with residential prices stagnating and an oversupply of unsold properties …
CNN – Jay-Z’s efforts to dismiss a case accusing him of raping a then-13-year-old girl in 2000 have been denied by a judge, who also granted the “Jane Doe” accuser the ability to proceed anonymously, despite efforts from the rap mogul’s legal team to have her reveal her identity publicly. Jay-Z, whose given name is Shawn Carter, has …
Michael Saylor is freaking out right now because when Bitcoin drops, non-recourse lenders are entitled to the collateral (Bitcoin). In this case, unless Saylor was able to massively dilute his shares to raise capital the lenders would simply take all of $MSTR's Bitcoin. https://t.co/d5Te7WktJZ pic.twitter.com/44WSSPgdSe — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) December 25, 2024 Yeah he's lying. Non-recourse …
Hey Bob – you're close. Get this, if MSTR does -50% in a day, then the MSTUMSTX 2x funds get wiped out. Completely. Everyone loses -100% of their money. ~10bn aum between the two leveraged funds on a stock with a 80bn market cap. — lowstrife (@lowstrife) December 19, 2024 Factchecked by Chatgpt: Leveraged Funds …
Whoopi Goldberg strongly disagreed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent criticism of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, defending both her own and others’ use of the medication on The View.
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Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank has indeed reported significant losses from its commercial real estate exposure. The bank posted a net loss of €143 million for Q2 2024, largely due to provisions for credit losses and a substantial litigation charge. Blackstone Mortgage REIT: Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT) has cut its dividend by 24% due to rising defaults …
THE world’s former fattest man has revealed he is still bedridden and may never walk again. Paul Mason weighed 70 stone – 444.5kg – at his peak and was the heaviest recorded person from the UK. The former postie’s battle with his weight hit breaking point after the coronavirus lockdown when he took an overdose …
Earlier this week, Xi spent nearly two hours on the phone with President Joe Biden, striking a markedly friendlier tone than before. This comes after November’s San Francisco summit, in which Xi promised all sorts of goodies to the US and left analysts wondering what on earth China got in return. Things aren’t happy at …
This is deeply concerning! New York Community Bank’s 40% stock drop, dividend cut, and unexpected loss signal potential trouble. Small banks remain vulnerable, especially with the looming Fed’s emergency loan program expiration. Many of these small banks hold tons of exposure to commercial real estate loans. 70% of all CRE loans in the US are …
Fed reports its largest loss in history: $114 billion in a single year. That would be the third largest bankruptcy in American history. And there's still another trillion plus in "unrealized" losses. Who'll pay for it? You. And your children. pic.twitter.com/xKfKWDcG4K — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) January 16, 2024 U.S. Banks are facing unrealized …
Russia believes it has “lost” $300 billion in assets frozen due to sanctions, an independent Russian news outlet has reported, as a lengthy legal fight looms over the money the Biden administration reportedly wants to seize to rebuild Ukraine. However, a market analyst has told Newsweek that such a confiscation of Russian assets could mean …
