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Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Let’s discuss the latest e-commerce sales numbers. Please consider the E-Commerce Retail Sales Report for the second quarter of 2025. The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce …
via Reddit: Yes, I know this is obvious to most but there’s still enough questions about these sorts of services (and wanting to invest because they think diversifying away from stocks is good or they are attracted to the novelty …
“ Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been living inside a …
Heartbreaking. It’s a reminder that AI can feel real, but it’s not a substitute for human connection. — Jamal Amin (@JamalibnAmin) August 16, 2025 A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior died while trying to meet a flirtatious AI chatbot that …
James Comey just posted an emotional 5-minute video tribute to Taylor Swift. This man was the director of the FBI.pic.twitter.com/uBsJZgh2qM — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 17, 2025
If you were sitting in Powell’s chair right now, the choices are all bad. Rate cuts with inflation heating back up would be reckless, but blindly hiking or extending QT into a slowing economy risks detonating credit markets. The Fed …
Introduced in 2025, it bans ghost listings, forces salary transparency, and limits ads to 90 days. “The TJAAA establishes clear, enforceable standards to ensure that job listings represent genuine hiring intent.” https://www.issuewire.com/new-federal-legislation-proposed-to-end-ghost-jobs-and-restore-integrity-to-the-hiring-process-1836081656082620 The bite: Fines up to $200K per fake …
The Fed is back in the bond market. No cameras. No policy announcement. Just $43.6 billion in U.S. Treasuries scooped up in a single week. In May 2025, the Fed quietly bought $43.6 billion through its System Open Market Account …
“My view is that buying and holding real estate is not an effective investment strategy in our current economic environment, for a few reasons. 1) Real estate is more interest rate sensitive than it is inflation sensitive, so given our …
I’ve got bad news. The AI cycle is over—for now. I’ve been an unapologetic AI maximalist since the first time I tricked GPT-4 into writing a working Python back-test for a volatility strategy back in early 2023. I’m still convinced …
Texas metros see massive home inventory surge while southeast FHA mortgages flash warning signs. Housing foreclosures and housing distress remain low—but FHA mortgages in the Southeast are flashing a little yellow ResiClub PRO members can read my report here: https://t.co/OclST19mue …
Goldman Sachs says 55 cities will see home prices fall. That’s 15% of the 381 metros they track. But they also say 39% will decline. So why spotlight the softest wound? “Goldman Sachs expects home prices to fall in 55 …
The student loan debt crisis is exploding in 2025! In today’s deep-dive livestream, we expose the shocking truth behind a $40,922 student loan turning into a staggering $118,305 repayment nightmare. This isn’t just one story — millions of Americans are …
South Korea has made it clear: most of the $350 billion it pledged in U.S. investment will be loans and guarantees, not equity. Direct investment makes up less than 5 % of the total fund. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/korea-expects-less-than-5-of-350-billion-us-fund-as-investment Japan’s negotiator Akazawa added fuel to …
China’s real estate crash spirals: Builders fail, buyers flee, cities hollow out. Turns out concrete isn’t a liquid asset after all. “New home prices in 70 major cities fell for a 24th straight month in May, extending the longest losing …
by Michael If you have applied for hundreds of jobs and still find yourself out of work, you are certainly not alone. In many industries, it is absolutely brutal out there right now. U.S. employers have been laying off hundreds of thousands …
🇨🇳 Meanwhile in China Dancers using Tesla Coil Rods put on a show. Yes this is real. pic.twitter.com/9iX0q7KlD5 — Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) August 3, 2025
Jeanine Pirro was confirmed as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia with a 50 to 45 Senate vote on August 2, 2025.https://apnews.com/article/5a2c7c087e67fde1f8ac8ae4aa25d4e1 She has many years of experience as a lawyer and crime reporter, giving her a good …
Senator Chuck Schumer didn’t hold back. He said we’ve “never in our lifetimes” seen a president so openly use power to make himself and his friends rich. That’s a strong statement, but also a revealing one. It’s not just aimed …
Booker’s public blowup isn’t just political theater; it signals a deeper breakdown in Democratic strategy. Fixating on Trump as the singular villain shows a party scrambling to define itself without a clear positive agenda. This obsession blinds them to growing …
The whole global financial system leans on a promise backed by math that doesn’t add up. Pretending these bonds are safe while ignoring the ballooning off-balance-sheet debts is the biggest confidence trick ever sold. Eventually, reality crashes the party. $1.4B …
Retirement plans get cashed out, fast food becomes unaffordable, and “feeling financially free” now means half a million a year or bust. The working class is melting down in real time, but don’t worry, the White House says the economy …
Former government official Catherine Austin Fitts has alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was involved not only in sex-based blackmail operations but also in laundering massive sums of missing government funds—specifically $21 trillion from the Department of Defense and HUD. Fitts suggests …
Nearly 90% of economists doubt U.S. economic data. At the heart of every economic conversation, from rate cuts to retiree checks is one number: The Consumer Price Index (CPI). It tracks inflation by measuring how much prices change over time …
Prices climbed faster than paychecks again this quarter. Beef just broke $6.12. Social Security faces a mandatory 24% slash starting January 2033. And 40% of U.S. workers now earn less than the inflation-adjusted cost of living. Indeed’s real-pay tracker posted …
The cracks are showing. DR Horton booked $1.02 billion in net income for Q3 2025, a sharp drop from $1.35 billion a year ago. Revenue slid 7% to $9.2 billion. Closings fell to 23,160. The backlog shrank 16%. Order value …
Where there's smoke, there's fire. pic.twitter.com/Z0pR2xNLid — The Great Martis (@great_martis) July 19, 2025
