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Employers only lay off as a last resort after trying everything else. Rehiring happens slowly, if at all, when jobs are gone, it's hard to come back.with 25 or 50bps cuts, employers will not hire back these people they just let go simply because laying off people usually is the last option they do after …
For all those wondering: Ladies and Gentlemen, the video you see there is a clip from May 17, 2025 incident. The Mexican Navy training ship named ARM Cuauhtémoc was seen colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge while undocking from South Street Seaport in New York. Reports have it that… — ToluTosin | 𝗔𝗻𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗠𝗮𝗻 ✪ (@olutosintolu) September …
If Bitcoin is digital gold, why can’t it keep up with the real thing? Gold all-time high, Bitcoin 13% below record, hype and government support can’t close the gap. Bitcoin is basically the lazy response to everything wrong in the world. Ok you're making up bullshit monopoly money, I'll make my own. Not solve real …
by Michael Home prices are falling all over the nation. Should we be cheering or should we be concerned? In this article, I am going to discuss two distinct scenarios. In one scenario, lower housing prices could be a really good thing for our economy. But if another scenario plays out, we could potentially be looking …
You realize how misguided some people really are in this game or risk/reward. — Chris (@StonkChris) August 21, 2025 Oops! 👇🏼$QQQ $NDX pic.twitter.com/JkSXMLJ1c7 — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) August 21, 2025 *META FREEZES AI HIRING Well at least I warned you. https://t.co/o058ZHJp4Q — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) August 21, 2025
https://twitter.com/TodRevolution/status/1957426113665503736 Bingo! Programs like HMH, Amplify, DreamBox, Panorama, Class Dojo, Khan Academy…All backed by Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Thiel- They aren’t just “educational tools.”They’re surveillance systems. — Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 (@VoicesUnheard) August 18, 2025
Starter homes should not cost $400,000. byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance
>Be Microsoft>Layoff 15,000 employees>Hire “Director of Culture Activation” pic.twitter.com/moWyeDBWFW — GBR (@GayBearRes) August 10, 2025
by Michael Why are social media platforms filled with videos of Americans complaining about grocery prices right now? Needless to say, those videos must be striking a chord, because some of them are receiving millions of views. Government bureaucrats are telling us that the cost of food is only going up a few percentage points …
The Fed is about to cut rates while everything else hits all-time highs. Stocks, homes, rents, bitcoin, gold, household wealth — all at records. Unemployment sits at 4.2%. Inflation stays high. J.P. Morgan expects four rate cuts to bring the policy rate to 3.5%. https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-08-08/j-p-morgan-sees-fed-cutting-rates-at-each-of-its-next-four-meetings But Americans are struggling. Fast food sales dropped hard last …
Gold prices smash records above $3,500 after doubling in three years amid deficits inflation and a weakening labor market. Only one asset class has told a consistent story: Gold. Gold prices have been rising in a straight-line higher since 2022. The commodity is now up +43% in 12 months and +100% in 3 years. Today, …
by Michael The mainstream media mostly ignored what occurred at the UN this week, but it is a monster story. We are literally witnessing the biggest international push for recognition of a Palestinian state that we have ever witnessed. The “International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of …
In 2008, Foreigners owned 57% of U.S. Treasuries 🚨Today, they only own 32% 👀 pic.twitter.com/xgviRLrCvm — Barchart (@Barchart) July 21, 2025
LMFAO. Golden Age? While people still have to submit to authoritarian security theater? They really are 100% clowns. https://t.co/ClOmCgDuuB — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) July 9, 2025
by Michael All of a sudden, everyone is watching Japan. Could it be possible that the hundreds of earthquakes that we have been witnessing are leading up to a very destructive seismic event? Prior to the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that caused an absolutely devastating tsunami to slam into Japan in 2011, there were a number …
If ur a democrat, you are really relying on these people to get you a win in 2026. It’s not gonna happen, you need to change leadership. pic.twitter.com/OlsJc5zggr — tic toc (@TicTocTick) July 3, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: Left wing protestors are screaming at the top of their lungs outside a courthouse in New York City …
🚨 The Dollar Menu is officially extinct. In 2014, a McChicken cost $1. Today? $2.99 — up 199%. A Quarter Pounder Meal? $5.39 to $11.99 — a 122% jump. Wages haven’t doubled. Productivity hasn’t doubled. But prices? In some cases, they’ve tripled. This is why financial… pic.twitter.com/RhLeJiqdIa — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) June 23, …
At least he's admitting what the Iraq War was really about… — George Galloway (@georgegalloway) June 17, 2025
Trump’s back on the war path, blaming Fed Chair Jerome Powell for lackluster job growth. Powell says the economy needs more time, and lower tariffs. But the deeper forces dragging on the economy aren’t obvious. Here’s what most people are overlooking… By Peter Reagan Donald Trump has a track record of announcing policies on social …
Lutnick: "You're gonna see over the next couple weeks, really first-class deals for the American worker." (The administration promised "90 deals in 90 days" two months ago … ) pic.twitter.com/bBhNYuxeeD — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 1, 2025
Pledditor remembers pic.twitter.com/wd78W5tUaf — Pledditor (@Pledditor) May 20, 2025 Funny you say that, because Metaplanet recently got Eric Trump to join on its board 🥴🥴https://t.co/6FXKWYQSwL — Pledditor (@Pledditor) May 21, 2025 Do you not see the problematic trends? Our mempools are empty. The class of 2025 isn't being onboarded to bitcoin, they are being onboarded …
by Michael Are you ready to pay 80 percent more for a USB-C cord? Unfortunately, Walmart, Target and other major retailers have decided to start dramatically raising the prices of thousands of imported products. Of course our paychecks are not going up dramatically as well, and so our standard of living is going to go down. …
Canada, the Euro Area, and Mexico account for over 15% each of 2024 imports, while China’s at 7.5%, leaving the U.S. heavily reliant on a handful of partners. If a trade war sparks, these concentrated trade ties could snap, disrupting everything from goods to prices, and the U.S. might be caught flat-footed with few alternatives …
by Michael Over the last several decades, the global economy has become more interconnected than ever, but now everything is changing. The flow of goods between the number one economic power on the planet and the number two economic power on the planet is absolutely imploding, and that is going to have enormous implications on …
mf really launched 21 tokens and rugged them all 😭 pic.twitter.com/tSrMtH5yOS — Sweep (@0xSweep) May 4, 2025
We’ve been promised a future where technology works for us, not the other way around. Cars that earn money while we sleep, fridges that automatically reorder our food, phones that know our heartbeat before we do. It sounds like a dream, right? A world where convenience rules, and every detail of our lives is optimized …
from Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network In a bold declaration, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. has officially ended government-sponsored censorship through the State Department. In this episode, Robert Ian of ConquerChange.com breaks down Rubio’s April 17th, 2025 interview where he claims the Global Engagement Center—the controversial censorship arm of the State Department—was shut down in late 2024. …
