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Intel is out with its latest quarterly earnings report. For Q3 2025, the tech company reported a beat on both EPS and revenue expectations. The stock received a decent bump as a result. Intel’s Q3 2025 earnings report was published at the close of markets today. Intel reported $13.7 billion in revenue for the quarter, …
Donald Trump is building a ballroom twice the size of the White House. He says it’s “his money,” but it’s really from companies chasing favors. Meanwhile, farmers can’t sell soybeans and the government’s shut down. This isn’t what Americans voted for. pic.twitter.com/2pjpraDPfN — Jessica Tarlov (@JessicaTarlov) October 22, 2025 https://twittercom/WUTangKids/status/1981125568461746548 The Republican president and top …
The entire economy runs on credit, and when it seizes up, this whole economy goes caput. Banks warning about private credit quality while funding its growth: Wells Fargo: $60B lent to private creditBofA: $33BPNC: $30BJPM: $22BTotal: Nearly $300B Can’t raise alarms about cockroaches when you’re the one feeding them pic.twitter.com/avZSHXZkR4 — junkbondinvestor (@junkbondinvest) October 22, …
Public broadcasters just dropped a bombshell: nearly half of all automated news responses are wrong and the companies behind them are still pushing these systems into classrooms, search engines, and government portals without friction, disclaimers, or oversight. This isn’t a tech hiccup. It’s a systemic failure, coordinated across platforms and languages, where fabricated quotes, misdated …
China may have built 162 square miles of solar, but they also – built 95GW of coal in the same time – 33 nuclear plants under construction – 70GW of natural gas under construction Your paltry 15GWs (really, is actually only 3GW due to CF) of added power is basically a rounding error to china’s …
LOS ANGELES — Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter gained a reputation on Capitol Hill for grilling corporate executives at House hearings, white board in hand. But it was Porter – now a candidate for California governor – who found herself growing edgy under questioning by a TV reporter, and even threatening to walk out. A …
Russian Ruble has gained nearly 40% against the U.S. Dollar this year byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts h/t RobertBartus
What the chart really conveys is the scale of economic drag gun violence imposes. Converting each firearm homicide into lost economic value using the government’s own VSL benchmark, the burden routinely matches or exceeds what the US spends annually on critical categories like research, infrastructure, or social safety nets. When that ratio sits near 1% …
DEA Arrests 670, Seizes Nearly 77,000 Kilograms Of Drugs In Operation Targeting Notorious Cartel https://t.co/MgtnNrQzXJ — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 1, 2025 WASHINGTON—The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested 670 individuals and seized nearly 77,000 kilograms of narcotics during a five-day operation targeting a Mexican drug trafficking organization, according to an agency statement on Sept. 29. Agents …
OMB Director Russ Vought just canceled $8 billion in climate funding for CA, NY, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, OR, VT, and WA. He also froze $18 BILLION for NYC infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.”… pic.twitter.com/PBn65y4aOU — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) …
Gold has soared in 2025, rising more than 40% this year alone, the strongest annual performance since 1979. By late September, gold futures were trading around $3,750 per ounce, while spot prices held above $3,700. The past two years show an even sharper climb. In June 2023, gold was at $1,953.14 per ounce. By June …
https://www.itpro.com/software/development/developers-arent-quite-ready-to-place-their-trust-in-ai-nearly-half-say-they-dont-trust-the-accuracy-of-outputs-and-end-up-wasting-time-debugging-code Software developers are using AI at record levels, new research shows, but they’re hesitant to place too much faith in the technology. Findings from Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey show the use of technology in the software industry has surged over the last 12 months, spurred on by the emergence of AI coding tools and, most …
Violence getting worse. Anyone stand against system, they in danger. People not safe. Speak out, you can get hurt. Politics and ideas make people attack each other. Media protect the ones start it. No one take real responsibility. Ordinary people live in fear, don’t know who can talk, who survive. Danger is not far, it …
Intuit…. Models are flashing a 90% chance of corporate bloodbath in October. Bring rain gear. More to come. — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) September 10, 2025 J.P. Morgan Warns S&P 500 Could Drop Nearly 8% — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) September 10, 2025 The overnight repo market is supposed to be the smoothest corner of the plumbing: …
Heavy truck sales are rolling over. This is a leading indicator of a pending economic downturn.
Chinese cyber group Salt Typhoon may have stolen data on nearly every American. The cyberespionage campaign was global, affecting over 80 countries. Stolen data could let Chinese intelligence track targets via telecom networks—politicians, spies, activists.… pic.twitter.com/NiRZHTHBgD — Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) September 5, 2025 The hackers reportedly hit major telecommunications firms, transportation systems, lodging networks, government …
Two Venezuelan fighter jets closed in on the USS Jason Dunham within 1,000 yards in international waters, a maneuver the Pentagon called highly provocative. That label masks the intent: a calculated message wrapped in speed and steel meant to elicit a response. The flyover was not a mistake; it was a signal of capability and …
The Federal Reserve has turned housing into its private playground, holding trillions in mortgage-backed securities with no legal authority to do so. Every dollar it pumps into the market inflates prices, erodes real ownership, and turns homes into instruments of policy rather than shelter. If this escalates into a “housing emergency,” the next step could …
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, a larger housing bubble than …
Breakdown of the Cuts: $679 million total rescinded by the Transportation Department $435 million of that was earmarked for a floating wind farm in Northern California Another $47 million was slashed from a Maryland-based project The largest single cut: Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind, which lost $427 million in federal support Official Justification: Transportation Secretary Sean …
Credit card delinquencies highest in 14 years, unpaid balances 90+ days, consumer spending under threat. Once the plastic is maxed, how do people buy anything? There's about to be a MASSIVE explosion, of all these people's student loan debt, credit card debt, and new BNPL debt hitting at once. I'm positioned pretty well in collections …
Failure wears the mask of governance. Karoline Leavitt did not hold a press briefing. She delivered a postmortem. “Your leaders are lying to you — and they have been failing you for decades.” link Chicago murders explode in numbers that shock the conscience. “In 2024, Chicago’s murder rate per capita was three times higher than …
RUSSIAN SUB BASES EMPTY AS FLEET SURGES INTO THE ARCTIC WATERS Satellite images show Russian Northern Fleet submarine pens nearly deserted, with cruise missile, ballistic missile and attack subs deployed at sea. Analysts suggest Moscow may be reacting to recent shifts in U.S. and NATO nuclear submarine posture. An unusually large portion of Russia’s undersea …
Link to article:https://t.co/PjjGEIgPNo — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) August 28, 2025
The economy is breaking. And no one’s ready. 806,000+ layoffs in 2025 so far. 48% of consumer credit applications denied over the past year. Refinance rejection rate: 41.8%… the highest in 12+ years. U3 Unemployment forecast: 4.5–5.0% by year-end, according to Apollo, Peterson. (If the BLS is left the same- but who knows at this …
“For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/08/20/elon-musks-self-driving-tesla-lies-are-finally-catching-up-to-him/ BREAKING: "For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas $TSLA can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami …
Trump’s meme coin hit $75 in January. It’s now $9, an 88% collapse. The April bump? A dinner invite for the top 220 holders at Trump’s Virginia golf club. That fizzled. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-melania-s-scammy-meme-coins-have-lost-almost-all-value/ar-AA1KTNGu Eric Trump rang the Nasdaq bell with WLFI and ALT5 executives. TRUMP coin jumped 9% on speculation alone. No fundamentals changed, just optics. …
In France, hiring is priced like a luxury good. To put €39,000 in a worker’s pocket, an employer may need to spend close to €95,000. That’s not a typo—it’s the weight of payroll charges that double the real cost of a job. iCalculator shows that a gross salary of €95,000 shrinks to about €48,000 net …
Water in my area has been totally cut off for nearly 24 hours. Panic buying of bottle water is spreading. No new reservoirs built in the UK for over 30 years. These type of things appear to be getting worse. — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 17, 2025
Nearly 40% of Russell 2000 companies are losing money, bringing back memories of the worst days of the 2008 crisis. This shows there is serious trouble brewing beneath the surface. By the second quarter of 2025, 42% of these firms reported negative earnings, way up from 14% twenty years ago. But it’s not just about …