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BREAKING: 4,000 federal workers were just laid off. pic.twitter.com/6I7VE2XlQV — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 13, 2025 The Office of Management and Budget confirmed that more than 4,000 federal employees received Reduction in Force (RIF) notices beginning Friday, October 11, 2025. These layoffs are not furloughs. They are terminations. Unlike previous …
by confoundedinterest17 US home prices are downshifting to a lower gear. Home prices across the top 20 cities in the US fell by 0.07% MoM (less than the 0.2% decline expected) – the fifth straight monthly drop in prices. This pulled the YoY price appreciation down to 1.82%, the lowest since July …
by Michael I was recently reminded that as we were getting ready to enter September I described it as a “pivotal” month. I got to thinking about that, and I decided to look up the definition of “pivot”. According to Vocabulary.com, to pivot “is to turn or rotate, like a hinge”. I …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, The ISM report for August reads like mild stagflation. ISM chart and excerpts below by permission from the Institute for Supply Management® ISM® Please consider the August 2025 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® by Susan Spence, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management®. “In August, U.S. manufacturing …
by Michael I kept warning about what would happen to our economy if we stayed on the path that we were on. For decades, our leaders have been making unbelievably bad decisions, and now the consequences are really starting to catch up with us. The cost of living has become incredibly painful, …
by Michael This has been a crazy year for earthquakes. At one point this summer, we witnessed a total of 494 earthquakes of at least magnitude 5.0 within a 30 day period. That was about four times as many magnitude 5.0 earthquakes as we normally see during a 30 day period. Unfortunately, …
During election campaign Mark Carney warned: while Americans go to war against WOKE Canada will become the wokest country on Earth. NOW Mark Carney announced: PRIDE MONTH is GONE. Replaced with PERMANENT PRIDE 365 WOKEY = BROKEY. During election campaign Mark Carney warned: while Americans go to war against WOKE …
BTC peaks before stocks. QQQ soon will follow. $BTC is trading near 2 month lows currently. Diverging from the $QQQ lately. Last time BTC was trading this low, Q’s were about 4% lower than current levels. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/ALwrZMOLm9 — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) September 1, 2025 XRP The rare, majestic broadening top …
We Cannot Afford A Recession There has been ongoing debate as to whether the U.S. economy can weather some of the headwinds we’re currently facing. However, if the past two recessions are any indication, we simply cannot afford a recession—not fiscally, not politically, and certainly not mathematically. The core issue …
#NASDAQ100 $QQQ $NDX #NQ_F 📉 👀https://t.co/4emZtssBxP — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) August 26, 2025 Jerome Powell revealed the jobs market is suffering from a “much larger” slowdown than initially reported. https://newrepublic.com/post/199467/federal-reserve-jerome-powell-economy-worse
by Michael September is shaping up to be such a pivotal month, and right now major powers all over the globe are positioning themselves for what is to come. Just when we thought that global peace may be breaking out, it appears that a lot more war is on the …
by Michael You may be quite shocked by the numbers that I am going to reveal in this article. So many people are bitterly complaining about the rising cost of living, and so I decided to do some investigating. What does it really cost for a family of four to live …
HOURS AFTER TRUMP–ZELENSKY MEETING, RUSSIA UNLEASHES MASSIVE ATTACK ON UKRAINE While the U.S. and EU were talking about security guarantees, Moscow responded with one of its biggest airstrikes this month. 270 drones and 10 missiles were launched overnight. Ukraine shot down or suppressed 236, but hits still landed, including on …
Tom Lee, Fundstrat co-founder and managing partner, Fundstrat Capital CIO and BitMine chairman, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the latest market trends, state of the economy, the Fed’s inflation fight, latest developments at BitMine, and more. Transcript
Housing slump widens as home prices fall in one-third of top markets, from 31 to 110 in six months and no bottom yet 6 months ago, I said on @Todd_Sachs' show that my analysis suggested that we'd see the count rise to around 150 (among these 300) negative year-over-year for …
Despite the worst start ever to a fiscal year, several key metrics have really turned around w/ Jun tax receipts up 12.9% and outlays down 7.0%, resulting in a surplus; last month was the first time this fiscal year that federal gov’t spending was below $500B: N.B.: Those are year-over-year …
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1937972153577566585 Gold Beautiful ascending triangle in play, downside either complete or nearly complete. *A breach of the bottom trendline voids the pattern formation. Hope this helps. pic.twitter.com/gEBooFQk44 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) June 25, 2025
by Michael Historic volcanic eruptions and enormous earthquakes are happening on an almost daily basis now, but they have become so common that most of them barely even make a blip in the news cycle. The natural disasters that do tend to make a lot of headlines are the ones …
🚨🇨🇳 UNSTOPPABLE: China can produce 500,000 FPV drones every month — and scale up to 700,000 in wartime. The PLA has already run 3 full-scale war drills using this drone swarm power. No one matches this speed, scale, and strategy.The future of warfare is Made in China. pic.twitter.com/g1Nspsk7za — Defence …
-Building Permits Dropped 4.7% (April to May)Building permits are a leading indicator of future construction. A 4.7% decline suggests homebuilders are pulling back due to weak demand, rising financing costs, or economic uncertainty. This is the sharpest drop in months and hints that builders are less confident about near-term sales. …
I received my tax notice from the City of Edmonton. My property taxes are now $1,342 per month for a three-bedroom, two-bath bungalow, a one-year increase of $230 per month. We are seniors, living near the river valley and I’m retired. This increase is criminal and needs… — June Marie …
Inflation starting to creep up to multi month highs according to Truflation… pic.twitter.com/48e7Q8x6Cb — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) May 19, 2025 Trump imposing tariffs then demanding that retailers not pass on the cost of tariffs to their customers by raising prices would be like the Fed raising the Fed Funds rate but …
DXY has given back all of its gains following China trade news. pic.twitter.com/W9c8dZTGs9 — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) May 14, 2025 BREAKING NEWS THAILAND'S RICHEST MAN IS WARNING THAT THE UNITED STATES RISKS LOSING ITS GLOBAL LEADERSHIP POSITION IF COUNTRIES PULL BACK FROM INVESTING IN US TREASURIES Many powerful people …
US executives are getting more concerned about the economy: The share of S&P 500 companies mentioning “recession” during their Q1 2025 earnings calls spiked to 23%, the highest since 2022. This percentage has surpassed levels recorded in all years between 2008 and 2020, except for 2010. Additionally, 62% of US …
SHAKE SHACK IS GIVING OUT FREE BURGERS — IT’S NATIONAL BURGER MONTH, NOT A DRILL Shake Shack is celebrating National Burger Month by doing what other burger joints should be doing: giving you free meat. From May 1 to June 1, you can score a different free burger each week …
honestly, this is like February 2020 with absolutely no public awareness of what would hit within weeks (bonus – full thread starting Feb 2, 2020 for those who have any interest in watching a profoundly mishandled slow-motion trainwreck day by day: https://t.co/bewiFY9GSg) https://t.co/mbjjD8xGiz pic.twitter.com/OICJraFzlv — John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (@hussmanjp) …
Seattle Pride is confronting a substantial funding shortfall of nearly $350,000 for its Pride Month events, attributed to recent rollbacks in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and political challenges facing the LGBTQIA2S+ community. https://t.co/N6G7WiSqcG — KOMO News (@komonews) April 27, 2025 MS-13 Added To LGBTQ Acronym https://t.co/v0qNg60VZu pic.twitter.com/O81L8q7lYP — The …
2/ The Fed had been on an unprecedented hiking cycle Taking rates from near 0% to 5.5% in just 1.5 years Ensuring tight monetary policy in the process pic.twitter.com/s8OvQS8I6C — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) April 21, 2025 4/ During the recent hiking cycle, 30-year mortgage rates broke out a key downtrend …
The Minister of Finance, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, today announced new measures for Canadian businesses and entities affected by the tariff dispute between Canada and the United States. These measures include the remission of some of the countermeasure tariffs announced by Canada in response to unjustified tariffs imposed by the …
