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New reporting reveals the Class of 2026 will graduate into the worst job market seen since the first year of the COVID pandemic. pic.twitter.com/YU0GJdZ80S — FactPost (@factpostnews) November 14, 2025 Companies Predict 2026 Will Be the Worst College Grad Job Market in Five Years Hires from the Class of 2026 will stay largely flat, employers …
If the banking system is stable, why is the Fed already bailing it out again? Something very serious is happening in America’s financial system and almost nobody is talking about it. Across the country, ordinary people are waking up to find their bank accounts completely wiped out. Paychecks, savings, gone overnight. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve …
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Scam texts are flooding our phones and costing some dearly. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the texts scammed Americans out of nearly half a billion dollars last year alone. So where are all those texts coming from? It turns out, millions may be coming from Southern California. Been Coon with …
by Michael We are less than two weeks into the month of November, and the mainstream media is telling us that millions of Americans are “starving”. If our society is this vulnerable to a temporary disruption in food stamp benefits, what is it going to be like when global events really start hitting the fan and there …
Our kids are being targeted by AI chatbots on a massive scale, and most parents have no idea that this is happening. When you are young and impressionable, having someone tell you exactly what you want to hear can be highly appealing. AI chatbots have become extremely sophisticated, and millions of America’s teens are developing very …
by Michael Millions of Americans are discovering that at some point the money runs out and the party is over. Vehicles are being repossessed at the fastest pace since the global financial crisis, foreclosure filings are up 18 percent compared to last year, and student loan delinquencies have soared into unprecedented territory. Nobody can deny …
by Michael Our kids are being targeted by AI chatbots on a massive scale, and most parents have no idea that this is happening. When you are young and impressionable, having someone tell you exactly what you want to hear can be highly appealing. AI chatbots have become extremely sophisticated, and millions of America’s teens are …
The government could be shut down until Thanksgiving. Millions of federal workers aren’t getting paid. 2,000,000 directly affected. 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 more indirectly, including contractors and suppliers. Every day this continues, the economy loses $5 billion to $7 billion. That money just stops moving. Families can’t pay bills, small businesses can’t get contracts fulfilled, restaurants …
https://downdetector.com/ You don’t say … 🤔 https://t.co/9oLKZGyec5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2025 THE INTERNET JUST FACEPLANTED – AND AMAZON’S HOLDING THE CORD Snapchat’s dead. Roblox won’t load. Canva’s crying. Even Alexa’s pretending she didn’t hear you. It’s not you – it’s AWS, the invisible backbone of half the web, choking in its own …
The criminals stole eight pieces of historic jewellery belonging to Napoleon and Joséphine A CHAINSAW-wielding gang has pulled off one of the most daring raids in living memory after they stormed the Louvre in Paris and stole tens of millions worth of jewellery. The seven-minute smash-and-grab heist saw “highly organised” thieves scale the side of …
Now this is VERY interesting: Pritzker is saying the winnings are from BlackJack in Vegas To win this much you have a big bet size and credit line at a casino with a proven record of massive losses. He did not report any previously but it now appears he is a absolute degen https://t.co/9SiQpuTIbJ — …
Regulators have approved a new bank backed by high-profile tech billionaires connected to the Trump administration. Erebor Bank, founded by Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale with early backing from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Haun Ventures, is targeting businesses in cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, defense, and manufacturing. “According to its banking charter application, Erebor’s target market …
by Martin Armstrong The people of the United Kingdom are fighting back against the government’s plan to roll out a digital ID system. The petition to counter the legislation quickly became the fastest-growing online petition in UK history, with over two million people signing in less than 48 hours. “We demand that the UK Government immediately …
People felt safe while the danger grew quietly beneath their feet and nobody saw it coming until it hit like a storm. If we ignore warnings again the next crash could be even uglier and hit faster than anyone dares imagine. Just to give you an idea, Alan Greenspan (Former Fed Chair) first uttered his …
by Michael The terrorists that shoot people and blow things up aren’t the real threat. We can handle the small scale stuff. What we should really be concerned about are the terrorists that are thinking much bigger. If terrorists cook up a highly contagious disease in a lab and release it in multiple U.S. cities, …
Rent vs Wage Growth Data: “Since 2000, housing costs have been rising faster than median household income. Inflation-adjusted rents have grown steadily, to more than 20 percent above their 2000 level. Inflation-adjusted prices for single-family homes have grown even faster… In contrast, inflation-adjusted median household income barely rose over the whole time period.” Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/rent-house-prices-and-demographics …
You left off the part where Binance keeps sending Btc to market makers like Wintermite to sell at market in order to liquidate the over leveraged longs driving the price down as they wait to then use the proceeds to buy it back cheaper. Rinse and repeat because CZ is an… — Alex Boge (@alexboge) …
Bill O’Reilly has the numbers, “George Soros has donated $17 million to county races to get far-left progressives into the District Attorney’s office — These are county races. So that’s an enormous amount of money” – George Soros DA just released a man wanted for 2 murders in New York – Oakland, California, George Soros …
The fact that this is even a thing tells me we should not be paying taxes. If there is so much money to spend on shit like 10k for security, 500 million for NPR and free healthcare for illegals then our taxes should be zero — MichaelWinczuk (@winczuk96266) September 19, 2025 Shut it down. Who …
This is not a new trick. Charities, NGOs, even universities have long played the same game, crying poor to the public while hoarding endowments and spending lavishly behind the curtain , but Wikipedia’s case cuts deeper, because it built its reputation on the promise of openness, transparency, and public service. Instead, the foundation has quietly …
On August 27, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the sudden cancellation of the long-standing visa validity system, which had been in place for over 40 years. This abrupt policy shift caused a strong reaction among the overseas Chinese community. For many, this system was seen as the foundation of immigration status stability. Its …
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 …
The end of an era is arriving quietly but with consequences that will ripple across millions of households, leaving families, roommates, and casual users suddenly exposed to rising costs, fractured convenience, and a creeping erosion of the sharing culture Amazon once allowed. On October 1, 2025, Amazon will terminate the program that permitted Prime members …
It’s 2025 and the American middle class is dead. Completely gone. And we’re acting like this is fine. The country we grew up believing in doesn’t exist anymore. The promise that hard work gets rewarded? That’s over. Millions of Americans are living in conditions that would make third-world countries feel sorry for us. The average …
“The Fed can’t rescue this in its entirety. You’ve got 4M homes in Texas and 42M across the U.S. at risk of bankruptcy or losing the roof over their heads. That’s nearly 38% of households. The money to pay these bonds doesn’t exist. You can’t get blood out of a stone.” When… pic.twitter.com/dSuXD5SIPf — ITM …
BREAKING: Sam Altman just revealed who GPT-5 is really built for: > India is our 2nd largest market > It may become our LARGEST > We’ve taken a lot of feedback from users in india what they’d like from us… > more affordable access > and we’ve put that in GPT-5 Now it all makes …
$61.9 billion. That’s how much companies are spending on generative AI in 2025. IDC says investment jumped 94% this year. https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/genai-paradox-companies-pouring-billions-into-ai-it-has-yet-to-pay-off-125081302003_1.html The payoff? Still nowhere to be seen. McKinsey finds nearly 80% of firms use generative AI—but the same number say it hasn’t boosted the bottom line. https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2025/08/14/companies-are-pouring-billions-into-ai-it-has-yet-to-pay-off Pilot projects are collapsing fast. S&P Global …
Foreign influence spending in the US according to Open Secrets: China – $460.7 million Japan – $436.5 million Liberia – $353.2 million South Korea – $325.8 million Saudi Arabia – $311.5 million Marshall Islands – $285.1 million Qatar – $257.8 million United Arab Emirates –242.7 million Bahamas – $242.5 million Israel – $194.9 million Foreign influence spending in the US according to Open Secrets: China …
What happens to assets when AI eliminates half of the jobs? They stop performing. They deteriorate. Their value drops. “AI could eliminate up to 50 percent of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to between 10 and 20 percent in the next one to five years.” https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic Assets that rely on human hands—homes, cars, …
