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The view from China: “The US is not getting ripped off by anybody” “The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. It consumes more than it produces. It has outsourced its manufacturing and borrowed money in order to have a higher standard of living than it’s… — Amena Bakr (@Amena__Bakr) …
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
BREAKING: Putin agrees to the ceasefire but insists it must lead to lasting peace and the reversal of the original causes of the crisis. pic.twitter.com/zWmwRRL4Ud — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2025 This is completely backwards. He categorically does not agree with the US/Ukrainian proposals for a ceasefire; he's making his own proposal that …
A Chinese startup rocked the U.S. tech sector with a cutting-edge AI (which they shouldn’t be able to build) at a much lower cost. Suddenly, the global dominance of the American tech sector can no longer be assumed. Today we ask, what does this tell us about the future? By Peter Reagan China has been …
Stock futures were down sharply on Monday on concern about an artificial intelligence stock bubble popping because of the emergence of Chinese startup DeepSeek that possibly made a competitive AI model for a fraction of the cost. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 430 points, or 1%, while S&P futures shed 2.3%. …
We are on the same rate-cut path as 2007. Remember what happened in 2008? — Steven Van Metre – AI 👑 (@MetreSteven) December 18, 2024 https://twitter.com/Logisticsexpert/status/1869522799389454585 Maybe he is finally starting to see the stagflation? — David Sommers (@dgsommersmkts) December 18, 2024 Rates will rise until it collapses the stock market bubble Collapsing stock market …
Interest rates worldwide are hanging at the edge of a cliff. It may not seem like it from the current focus on the Fed and the possible pause in its rate cutting. This doesn’t mean other central bank rate cuts, either. Instead, two very critical signals have absolutely plunged just in the past few days. …
Overwhelming illness there, a little bit of sickness here. Kids are being turned into human punching bags. https://t.co/HPK1RbWoR3 — Jammer (@acrossthemersey) December 10, 2024 School district closes for a week due to 'overwhelming illness.' Ah, the new normal—where 'returning to normal' means redefining normal entirely. — Rooted_In_Reality (@realonesknow87) December 10, 2024 Several school districts in …
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 …
Trump: “Kamala Is Just A Vessel; We Are Running Against Something Far More Powerful” “She means nothing…” During a historic rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, president Trump urged that Kamala Harris is purely “a vessel” and in reality the MAGA movement is fighting against “something far more powerful.” Trump told the crowd, “We are …
China’s wealthiest citizens are resorting to dubiously legal methods to get their money out of the country as economic turmoil and a failing property market loom over the nation, according to the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. The richest in the country are using various methods to circumvent the $50,000 foreign exchange limit, such as buying …
6 cuts means credit event has already occurred — Nixon Gill 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@Nixon_Gill) October 7, 2024 “Did a credit event trigger on Monday [5th August]?” As you can see in this chart pulled from my latest article, large US banks started bleeding cash EXACTLY from that day ⚠️ Narrator: they won’t be able to hide …
and election officials – San Francisco Appoints First Noncitizen to Serve on Elections Commissionhttps://t.co/rlOw9CdHUv — SaltyPretzel 🇺🇸 (@SaltyPretzel_xo) September 28, 2024
This is an excellent video on the massive fiat debasement that is waiting for us around the corner. — Marius Kjærstad (marius.eth) 🐬🦇🔊 (@MKjrstad) September 19, 2024
Chances of 50 bps rate cut increase to 47% Bets on the size of the Fed’s cut have been volatile and were roughly even by late Friday. Expectations for a 50 basis point cut jumped to 49% from 28% on Thursday, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool, which showed a 51% probability for a 25 basis …
by Mike Shedlock ADP data shows year-over-year payroll growth is negative 88,000 for small corporations sized 20-49. Trends are negative in all but very large corporations. Data from ADP, chart by Mish I created some new charts today from a download of the ADP National Employment Report for July. Year-Over-Year Payroll Growth Key Points Trends are very …
Being wrong now and too bearish means having to work longer to retire. Being wrong now and too bullish means never retiring. pic.twitter.com/nvAXtoXl5u — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 29, 2024 The last two times China's economy imploded – 2015, 2020, global stocks imploded. This time, global stocks are inversely correlated to China implosion. For now. pic.twitter.com/MUSNZWdUny …
Something that bothers me is the ‘Democrat’ party members continue to screech that anybody who opposes them is going to ‘destroy democracy’. So they mean to say that you’re an enemy of democracy if you… don’t do what they tell you? If you vote how you choose to, as opposed to what they tell you …
Big tech is desperate to keep the flywheel going even if it means trying to sell us things we don't want or need or diluting the product with more advertising. — ShortSemisDoggie (@TexDoggie) July 19, 2024
Lithuanian Foreign Minister confirms Lithuanian military WILL BE SENT TO UKRAINE! This is a NATO country! They are pushing for a war. 🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Lithuanian Foreign Minister confirms Lithuanian military WILL BE SENT TO UKRAINE! This is a NATO country! They are pushing for a war. pic.twitter.com/RRl28IDNy7 — UNN (@UnityNewsNet) May 24, 2024 Here’s what …
The Canadian Press Fri, April 19, 2024 at 7:07 a.m. EDT·6 min read NEW YORK (AP) — Sometime in the next few days or even hours, the “miners” who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are going to take a 50% pay cut — effectively slicing new production of the world’s largest cryptocurrency in half. …
Woke means calling everything you want to control "oppression" until you control it. https://t.co/3WbHF2kqVx — James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) April 18, 2024
The Fed might have to self-induce a recession if it wants to reach its target inflation rate, a BMO strategist said. Ian Lyngen told Bloomberg TV that the Fed might find its current monetary policy to not be restrictive enough. Markets have given up hope for a rate cut in June following the recent CPI …
Oh, you thought “higher for longer” was referring to interest rates? We were actually referring to inflation pic.twitter.com/qf9fCDQwGM — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) March 25, 2024 Globally coordinated inflation control via currency pairs. Headlines keep us entertained https://t.co/6krD7t0NOx — Silverbark #fixourmoney #silversqueeze (@Silverbark3) March 25, 2024
Guess what, everybody: When the state forced the Indian Point nuclear power plant to shutter in 2021, it caused New York City’s carbon emissions to go up! Wow, who could ever have imagined that closing down an emissions-free power source would force people to rely on other, less-green sources to satisfy Gotham’s vast energy demand? Only anyone who …
Accenture to cut 19,000 jobs in a major escalation of downsizing by consulting firms Accenture Plc said it will cut 19,000 jobs — or about 2.5% of its workforce — over the next 18 months, one of the largest rounds of dismissals in a consultancy sector facing strong economic headwinds. The shares surged. The company …
From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group There are so many signals that point to the possibility of entering a near-term recession, they are hard to ignore. Unless you choose to follow Paul Krugman’s lead and stick your head in the sand. But let’s look at the economic situation in this country from another perspective: What if the United …
This “hate speech” narrative is created by those who want to silence speech they disagree with. Not just in the U.S. & Canada, but all over the world. — Mayor (@Mayoralpodcast) February 21, 2024
