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Shrinkflation is the physical act of reducing quantity while keeping the price stable, a tactic widely observed in cereal boxes, detergent bottles, and snack bags where the unit volume is quietly shaved down to avoid triggering consumer sticker shock. Skimpflation is the qualitative act of gutting the product from the inside, often by swapping premium …
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/0JLkB0tOXv — Physics & Astronomy Zone (@zone_astronomy) April 7, 2026
Thousands of men with prostate cancer are being denied 'a quality of life-preserving' treatment by the NHS https://t.co/7AaDQWcsWV — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) February 23, 2026 Thousands of men suffering with prostate cancer are being denied access to a ‘quality of life-preserving’ treatment by the NHS. Focal therapy, a non-invasive treatment which targets cancerous cells while …
9 large companies filed for bankruptcy in the US last week. This brings the 3-week average to 6, the highest rate since the 2020 pandemic byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Mega bankruptcies becoming more common among large firms There’s an ongoing surge in mega bankruptcies (large companies with significant assets) across the U.S., driven by rising interest rates, …
Gundlach says Fed will launch QE if yields hit 6%. Jeff Gundlach: "I believe at 6%, the Fed will announce QE (aka buying long term bonds) and when they do, you will have to be very quick, and buy as much as you possibly could, because it'll be just like when they announced buying corporate …
Oracle slashes 3,000 jobs while their “backlog” ramps up 300%. Make it make sense. Correct After the crash, business schools will start teaching Earnings Quality again It was a super popular class after the https://t.co/4y5lv9vF2o fiasco, but has been replaced with classes including "how to become a social media influencer" and "when in doubt, buy …
Residents of Alaska’s largest town are ‘getting ready for a volcanic eruption’, after a scientist warned that it could be ‘explosive’. Scientists are warning those who live in Anchorage, home to nearly 300,000 people, that a volcano that sits just 81 miles away is due to erupt over the course of the next few weeks. …
My personal policy (family of 4 at the time) went from $305 per month, and a $1,500 deductible the year before ACA to $960/m with $6,500. Today, just wife and I, are at $1,600/m with $9,500 out of pocket. Yeah, thanks for ‘free health care’ — Mike Kole (@kolemichael) March 24, 2025 It also destroyed …
These graphs are going viral. Is YOUR overall quality of life better than it was 3 years ago? If yes, why? If no, why not? pic.twitter.com/h72tKMIHW4 — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) March 18, 2025 Real retail sales, continues to be an 'enough said…' pic.twitter.com/6ornEftzJQ — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) March 19, 2025
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Every product now has an “extended warranty” admission of the collapse of quality and durability. There’s a great uplifting hope swirling around the potential to fix what’s broken, and so here’s my question: how do we fix the collapse of quality and durability that we now take for granted? What …
The one thing Europe gets right with regulations is food quality. The lower bound on food quality in US is absolutely abysmal. Not just additives in processed food but the average quality of a tomato in a grocery store. https://t.co/7v5il8Wvib pic.twitter.com/lQXHAhJcE8 — Andrew Côté (@Andercot) November 7, 2024
BREAKING: BioLab in Conyers, Georgia is currently on fire. Residents have been told to leavepic.twitter.com/mKTn4wcZ9D — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 29, 2024 A catastrophic fire at the BioLab chemical plant in Conyers, Georgia, has unleashed a massive plume of smoke into the sky, raising immediate concerns for public safety. The blaze erupted due to a malfunctioning …
Researchers have succeeded in conducting an almost perfect quantum teleportation despite the presence of noise that usually disrupts the transfer of quantum state. The results have been published in the journal Science Advances. In teleportation, the state of a quantum particle, or qubit, is transferred from one location to another without sending the particle itself. …
briefly looked at my mom’s facebook and it’s all AI, like every single post, and she has no idea, it’s a complete wasteland pic.twitter.com/4XJ0nNHuFV — Chris Oldman (@AlsikkanTV) March 19, 2024 So-called social media has been ANTISOCIAL since its inception. AC
MrBeast is suing his food-delivery-service partner. On Monday, the content creator and philanthropist, 25, filed a lawsuit against Virtual Dining Concepts alleging “inedible” and “low quality” food, court documents obtained by PEOPLE show. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, claims the company, which he partnered with in 2020 to launch MrBeast Burger, has damaged …
pic.twitter.com/r4RKCZl7hA — QUACK (@RichQuack) January 18, 2024
This frustration is a common sentiment. While official statistics report a modest 5% increase in food outside the home, many consumers, like this individual, perceive a more significant rise, possibly around 20%. It’s not just about the cost; there’s concern about diminishing quality in both food and service. The gap between official figures and lived …
by Chris Black Recent IPSOS polling (https://www.euronews.com/business/2023/11/26/one-in-four-europeans-say-their-financial-condition-is-precarious) found several concerning trends among the populations of Europe 30% of Europeans can no longer afford a “surprise expense” 47% of Europeans have had to turn down the heat in their homes and go cold, due to energy prices 37% of Europeans have had problems affording health treatment …
Ford spokesman Marty Gunsberg confirmed that the electric pickups are being returned to Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center for “additional quality checks.” “As a result, we have canceled some dealer stock orders not submitted as pre-sold” for model year 2023,” Gunsberg confirmed to Freep. The company is reassuring the public that none of this is …
via geofinancialnews: Declining credit quality metrics in Commercial real estate lending pushed several banks to reduce their exposures to the sector by offloading loans related to the asset class, particularly office loans, in the second quarter. US banks’ commercial real estate loan portfolios showed signs of increasing stress During the second quarter, the net charge-off …
by bobtowne What happened to journalism also happened to the entertainment industry in general. The corporate globalist power order began to unveil itself and journalism and entertainment were tasked with creating propaganda to support it. Sincere artists aren’t necessarily suited for, or inclined towards, propaganda creation and so opportunities were created for those willing to …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Table 1 (PDF) | Table 2 (PDF) | Charts (PDF) Wut Mean?: Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Lending: Banks tightened standards for C&I loans to businesses of all sizes. All loan terms for C&I loans, like rate spreads, premiums on riskier loans, credit line costs, and many others, were tightened. Both large and other banks tightened C&I lending …
Unhealthy air in the U.S. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is blanketing Chicago and much of the Great Lakes region, creating unhealthy air quality conditions. Chicago and Detroit have the worst air quality in the world Tuesday, according to IQAir.com, a tracking service. The National Weather Service has issued air quality alerts for northeastern Illinois, northwestern …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2023/34-97773.pdf TLDRS: In 2020/2021 there were 860 SPAC IPOs. Over 400 of these audited by Marcum. The SEC has charged audit firm Marcum LLP with significant quality control failures and audit standard violations in audits of hundreds of SPAC clients since 2020. This misconduct resulted from Marcum tripling its public company clients, mainly …
via zerohedge: Nearly 100 million people across 18 states, from New Hampshire to South Carolina, are under air quality alerts Wednesday morning, according to NBC News. A low-pressure system stuck off Nova Scotia is sending smoke from Canadian wildfires into the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast. According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fires Centre, more than 400 …
Canadian wildfires continue to spread, setting off health alerts in New York and Ottawa. Current air quality levels in NY are 10 times higher than the WHO guidelines. Take a look at NY's sunrise today:pic.twitter.com/QC0rJv6tVq — Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) June 7, 2023 New York City has the worst air quality of any major city in …
“airnow” shows all of the northeast in the red and from western to central NY in the purple (AirQualityIndex of 203, BAD)—> The primary pollutant being fine particulate matter with a width of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). This is unprecedented in this region. Anyone else experiencing the dense haze and the orange sun? The …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/bcreg20230601a1.pdf Under the proposed rule, the agencies would require institutions that engage in covered transactions to adopt policies, practices, procedures, and control systems to ensure that AVMs adhere to quality control standards designed to ensure the credibility and integrity of valuations. The proposed standards are designed to ensure a high level of confidence …