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Hail the size of grapefruit fell in Illinois Wednesday night, and that may qualify as a new state record, if it can be officially confirmed. Widespread severe storms on Tuesday produced massive hail across parts of Illinois, Texas and Missouri, including a new contender for a state record. AccuWeather Meteorologist and Storm Chaser Tony Laubach …
The percentage of voters with significant levels of confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to its lowest point since NBC News began polling on the question in 2000, according to the most recent survey. The latest NBC News poll shows that 22% of registered voters nationally said they have a “great deal” or “quite …
RECORD 401(k) WITHDRAWALS SIGNAL FINANCIAL STRAIN A record share of Americans are tapping retirement savings as financial pressure rises. In 2025, 6% of workers with plans run by Vanguard Group made hardship withdrawals—up from 4.8% in 2024 and about 2% pre-pandemic. The main… — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) March 4, 2026 COLUMBUS, Wis., March 04, 2026 …
🚨 Put protection just hit an all-time record. This can only mean one thing… pic.twitter.com/1Ucpqoe5P2 — NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) March 4, 2026 Downside put demand has been through the roof as you'd expect in the last week. The fixed strike vol on 5-delta puts are up around 5 vols relative to 5-delta calls unchanged. SPX is …
Israel is burning through their defense ammunition at a record pace because Iran's missiles now have warheads that split apart into smaller rockets. Completely overwhelming air defenses. https://t.co/PbPSYfIv1V pic.twitter.com/Z2ut4BLwoZ — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) March 3, 2026 Factcheck: The claim holds up based on current reporting. IDF officials stated Iran has fired missiles with cluster warheads that …
OpenAI said it raised $110 billion in its latest funding round. Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia invested $30 billion and SoftBank invested $30 billion in the round, OpenAI said Friday. OpenAI continues to grow at a rapid pace, but the AI giant faces intensifying competition from Anthropic and Google. OpenAI has closed a $110 billion …
In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict …
Gold has overtaken the U.S. Dollar as the largest Global Reserve Asset 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/IM2ataEtgZ — Barchart (@Barchart) January 24, 2026 Gold is clocking ~200$/o per monthSilver is clocking ~10$/o per monthin the tariff-era capital flows re-direction since last summer. There is healthy episodic push back from pussybanksters but resistance remains futile because the East has …
The percentage of unemployed Americans with four-year college degrees hit a record in January, at 36.6% of those 25 and older. (Bloomberg News reported in November that those with college degrees “now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment,” which was correct—and in January this measure hit 27%—but involved dividing unemployed workers 25 or older …
".. lenders have stopped pretending .. .. The delinquency rate for office loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities climbed to a record 12.34% in January, the highest level since .. 2000." 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/d3N92Hr4YR — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) February 17, 2026 Lenders to commercial real-estate owners are reaching the breaking point, calling in tens of billions …
A new survey found that a record number of young women are interested in fleeing the U.S. and moving abroad permanently. Gallup recently found for the second year in a row that approximately one in five Americans say they would like to leave the U.S. and move to another country permanently. However, a growing number …
Q4 2025 student loans transitioning to 90+ days delinquent surged to +14%, a level never seen before in history. pic.twitter.com/OIBZin9gx1 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) February 10, 2026 CREDIT CARD STRESS IS SURGING: 12.7% OF CREDIT CARD LOANS ARE NOW 90+ DAYS DELINQUENT, THE SECOND-HIGHEST LEVEL EVER, SURPASSED ONLY DURING THE AFTERMATH OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS …
President Trump has reshaped the country’s economic policies, but the outlook for the budget remains dire. In the first year of his second term, President Trump has tried to radically reshape America’s economy. He has slashed taxes, raised tariffs to their highest levels in almost a century, unilaterally canceled federal spending, pushed down immigration and …
Swalwell: "Will you resign from ICE?" Lyons: "No" Swalwell: "Why not?" Lyons: "Because that child that you're showing right there, the men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him and ran from law enforcement." pic.twitter.com/H7Rx8pZqRk — Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 10, 2026 Every time they bring out this AI …
🚨BREAKING: Japan just went full sweep: illegal immigrants are being tracked down, rolled up, and shipped out at record speed. They’re literally calling it “sushi rapping deportations.” (It sounds like a joke, it really isn’t). The Japanese people reject globalism. pic.twitter.com/nA9XDpkSXO — The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) February 9, 2026 Right wing victory in Japanese elections …
The economy looks fine on paper while people struggle just to get by. As Statista’s Felix Richter reports below, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9.3 million Americans reported working multiple jobs in November 2025 – the highest number ever recorded since the BLS started tracking multiple jobholders in 1994. https://www.activistpost.com/9-3-million-americans-work-multiple-jobs-to-make-ends-meet/ https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620 FED'S …
Earlier this month, Russia’s far east Kamchatka region declared an emergency situation due to a massive snowstorm that left its major city partially paralysed. Russia’s capital Moscow has seen the largest snowfall in more than 200 years this month, Moscow State University meteorologists said on Thursday. Images from the city of around 13 million people …
Fund managers are holding the lowest cash levels on record (3.2%) byu/neda6117 inwallstreetbets US stock market concentration is at record levels: The S&P 500 Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is up to 195 points, near the highest on record. This metric measures how evenly market value is distributed across all 500 stocks in the index. A higher …
US student loan delinquencies are exploding: The number student loan borrowers that are severely delinquent is up to a record 3.62 million. The number of federal loan recipients 271+ days past due is now 8 TIMES higher than the pre-2020 average. This comes as the grace period… pic.twitter.com/kCliDUSadP — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) February 3, …
View post on imgur.com BREAKING: Silver officially enters bear market territory, down -22% from its record high byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts Silver: Parabolic + Thin Liquidity + Vol Panic = Tearshttps://t.co/sPnuELogbv — The Market Ear (@themarketear) January 30, 2026 Parabolic moves don’t fade, they always break. We warned in Silvergeddon earlier this week that silver was morphing …
Traders placing record bets on dollar collapse – Bloomberg The greenback’s plunge has been attributed to market turmoil created by US President Donald Trump’s policies Traders are betting big that the US dollar will continue to fall amid uncertainty about Washington’s political and economic policies, Bloomberg has reported. The dollar suffered its worst single-day decline …
Private credit firms sold a record amount of debt to themselves last year as the buyout sector’s slowdown pushed them to find new ways to generate cash from loans to companies owned by private equity. Private lenders struck so-called continuation deals worth $15bn globally in 2025, up from almost $4bn the previous year, according to …
A DANGEROUS ARCTIC BLAST is coming this weekend, with temperatures expected to fall to record-breaking levels, especially in the Southeast. This could lead to a winter storm along the East Coast. pic.twitter.com/QumvTPFYUV — Max Velocity (@MaxVelocityWX) January 27, 2026
Turns out printing confidence does not work forever. Gold just embarrassed every major currency at the same time. The Yen, Euro and US Dollar currencies all reached new all time record lows against Gold (real money) today. Gold is money.Everything else is just a currency. pic.twitter.com/TONvfyFZsp — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 27, 2026 News …
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@GC.1 https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@SI.1/ 🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The U.S. dollar records its largest daily drop since mid-December 2025, falling 0.7% after Trump’s threats to Europe over the future of Greenland triggered widespread selling of U.S. stocks and government bonds. pic.twitter.com/Tf12qxAduf — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) January 23, 2026 Silver hits record high above $100/oz as gold closes in …
Not just in China. US margin debt is rocketing too – this will end badly.https://t.co/CmZQAysuRy — Common Sense Investor (CSI) (@commonsenseplay) January 23, 2026
The tweet of 2026 so far. https://t.co/BfIxOpGfXL — SpaceWeatherNews (@SunWeatherMan) January 21, 2026 Forecasters warn of a ‘potentially catastrophic’ storm from Texas to the Carolinas ATLANTA (AP) — With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this …
Mark proves that fundamentals don’t always matter. pic.twitter.com/vcBbs38zX3 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) January 19, 2026 US fund inflows are skyrocketing: US equity ETFs have attracted a record +$400 billion over the last 3 months. Inflows have doubled since August 2025 and now exceed the April 2021 high by +$177 billion. January inflows into these …
Japan can’t print fast enough to save the party this time. BOJ Is Said to Start Selling ETF Holdings as Soon as January Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/m19QDzvpYS — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) January 16, 2026 JAPAN WILL CRASH THE MARKET IN 3 DAYS!! They’re currently sitting on $10 TRILLION in debt. Every Japanese government bond yield just hit …
