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None are making major profits on AI; none has a technical moat; a massive price war is inevitable. And few of their customers are seeing major returns on investment. Greatest capital misallocation in history.

Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project *every single month*. More than 12x the Manhattan Project every year. And what they have got to show for it? None are making major profits on AI; none has a… pic.twitter.com/1XeMRxDcQX — Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) April 29, 2026 well …

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Elon Musk: SPLC got better returns than Nancy Pelosi and inverse Cramer combined!

And that's pretty bad pic.twitter.com/FKMzKHTxES — Tina ✨ (@Tina22_2) April 25, 2026 AN ANALYSIS:  The Southern Poverty Law Center indictment.  It looks like deserved karma for race-huckstering grifters, but is it a legitimate fraud case? A federal grand jury in Alabama last week handed up an 11 count fraud indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. …

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Company losing 14B a year guaranteeing 17.5% returns?

Reuters: OpenAI sweetens private equity pitch amid enterprise turf war with Anthropic, sources say NEW YORK, March 23 (Reuters) – ChatGPT maker OpenAI is offering private-equity firms a sweeter deal than rival Anthropic as both artificial ​intelligence companies court buyout firms to form joint ventures aimed at raising fresh capital and accelerating adoption of enterprise …

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DEI Returns – Financial Aid Race-Based Distribution

by Martin Armstrong California lawmakers are now advancing a measure that would allow race-based preferences in financial aid, which is remarkable when you consider that the state constitution has explicitly prohibited such practices since 1996. Proposition 209 banned the state from granting “preferential treatment” based on race in public education, employment, and contracting, yet once again, we …

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Gold standard debate returns

“The entire global trading system until Richard Nixon took us off was tied to gold.” – Scott Bessent United States Secretary of the Treasury The departure from gold by Richard Nixon was supposed to be temporary. That was 55 years ago. “The entire global trading system until Richard Nixon took us off was tied to …

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck returns to the View — Ana Navarro wishes she hadn’t.

Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox “The View” guest co-host SHUTS DOWN panel’s hysteria over Trump’s strategic strike on Iran. Ana Navarro suggested Trump was starting a war to distract from the Epstein Files. The conservative co-host answered with three points that tore her narrative to shreds. 1. “We have 47 million Iranian women who now have …

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The Dutch parliament has approved a new tax system that applies a 36% rate to crypto and investment returns, including unrealized gains, per CB

The Dutch House of Representatives on Thursday voted to pass the Actual Return in Box 3 Act (Wet werkelijk rendement box 3), a reform that will tax residents at a flat rate of 36% on the actual returns they earn from savings and investments, effective January 1, 2028. The bill replaces a system that taxed …

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Wall Street’s AI darlings hit funding wall after lenders tighten and long term yields surge. Eerie repeat of 2000 and 2007 as consumer discretionary stocks sink for months while S&P hits new highs classic pre crash setup returns

Mag 7 cutting buybacks and borrowing while private credit guys talk about heavy drawdowns and yields keep grinding higher is not “AI strength,” it’s stress showing through the paint. Money isn’t cheap anymore, lenders are pulling back, and somehow people still act like companies can burn billions a quarter forever. Then you look at the …

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Nancy Pelosi’s net worth surged from $785,000 to $133 million while her returns reportedly beat Buffett and the S&P 500 by 400%

Nancy Pelosi’s net worth before Congress: $785,000 Nancy Pelosi’s net worth after Congress: $133,000,000 She beat the market by 17,000%.. lol pic.twitter.com/lR7RGVvEnW — Thrilla the Gorilla (@ThrillaRilla369) December 17, 2025 This is what Corruption looks like on a chart! pic.twitter.com/jvFNb4u8nO — MauiTony 🌺 (@maui_tony) December 17, 2025

Apollo casually predicting ZERO returns for the S&P 500 over the coming DECADE.

have fun staying poor Apollo casually predicting ZERO returns for the S&P 500 over the coming DECADE. pic.twitter.com/2XGjshRVLf — Compound248 💰 (@compound248) December 11, 2025 $apo Private credit is moving capital from an over-priced market, concentrated around seven stocks to first lien risk at long-term equity returns. pic.twitter.com/y2o2pFLZnY — 3:10 Value (@310Value) December 10, 2025

AI giants are burning billions just to stay in the race, and Wall Street is starting to wonder if the payoff ever comes. OpenAI is already trying to line up a government bailout before they need it.

And now they want a bailout already… pic.twitter.com/tB6DtpKj74 — Curtis Lemay (@CurtisLemay) November 5, 2025 Securing government backed bailout before they actually need them, you can't make this up. — blake (@blakestonks) November 6, 2025 A top market analyst’s warning in late October about a looming “prisoner’s dilemma” and an “AI wobble” in the stock …

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The Big Short returns: Michael Burry is betting against the AI boom, loading 66% of Scion into Palantir puts and 14% into Nvidia puts… UPDATE: Palantir ($PLTR) drops 5% after Q3 earnings, wiping out all gains.

I just read the 13F and Burry isn’t actually 66% short $PLTR since it’s notional value and not real capital so he’s paying a small premium to control big exposure. But symbolically it still matters since he’s betting against the two names that define the AI era. pic.twitter.com/cUeTTJjGWk — Shay Boloor (@StockSavvyShay) November 4, 2025 …

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Burry returns after 2 year hiatus to call a market bubble

Sometimes, we see bubbles.Sometimes, there is something to do about it.Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play. pic.twitter.com/xNBSvjGgvs — Cassandra Unchained (@michaeljburry) October 31, 2025 23M gov employees + 40M SNAP EBT begin pulling liquidity out of the banking system November 1. The government shutdown was orchestrated to cause a regional banking crisis. …

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Intel surges 6% on Q3 beat. Trump administration’s stake nearly doubles. Big returns on Capitol Hill.

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, …

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JPM: 75% of S&P 500 returns tied to AI stocks since ChatGPT; 95% of firms seeing zero return. Everyone else pays the bill.

Mind blowing that investors still can’t see it. The market keeps getting bid up to unrealistic levels on rumors and empty hype. Greenspan once called this irrational exuberance. It always ends the same way badly. "AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth and 90% of capital spending …

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns with California Governor Gavin Newsom as first guest… NEXSTAR and Sinclair refuse to air the show

BREAKING FOX NEWS: Jimmy Kimmel announces that Gavin Newsom @GovPressOffice will be tomorrow nights return to the air guest. pic.twitter.com/nr2UsfNdly — Staff Sergeant Johnson (@Colonel_Myway) September 22, 2025 “BREAKING FOX NEWS: Jimmy Kimmel announces that Gavin Newsom @GovPressOffice will be tomorrow night’s return to the air guest.” Source: https://www.thepoke.com/2025/09/23/jimmy-kimmel-live-suspension-overturned-by-disney/ 🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Now, NEXSTAR is …

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As Baby Boomers retire and liquidate 401Ks, the market faces a structural drag that could suppress returns for decades

The question is urgent and deceptively simple: will the market face a persistent drag as Baby Boomers begin liquidating 401Ks in retirement, and the answer might be more unsettling than most people realize. Historically, the S&P has returned about eight percent annually, a figure so often cited that it feels like gospel, but the reality …

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AI spending frenzy: Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pour $400 billion into projects producing no profit as enterprises report zero returns

The illusion is unraveling. The AI boom isn’t growth. It’s a public hemorrhage disguised as inevitability, a silent collapse dressed in corporate slogans. Every headline about funding, every press release about partnerships, every glossy demo conceals a truth the spreadsheets cannot hide. The titans are burning cash to keep the lights on, and the fire …

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Alarm in California: Covid levels spike in sewage and hospitals as state quietly returns to pandemic mode

The wave is rising. Quietly. Relentlessly. California isn’t screaming about it yet. The hospitals aren’t overflowing. Not yet. But the signals are screaming. Wastewater is saturated. Emergency rooms are ticking upward. The machinery of public health is pivoting back to pandemic posture. No press conference. No alarm bells. Just masks. Quietly reappearing. “California currently has …

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Screwworm returns to US, Maryland patient infected, Texas faces $1.8 billion livestock threat. First US human case of New World screwworm confirmed

The parasite didn’t sneak in. It flew. It burrowed. It ate. On August 4, 2025, the CDC confirmed the first human case of New World screwworm in the United States. A Maryland resident returning from El Salvador carried it in their flesh. “This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm myiasis from …

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Whistleblower says Meta inflated ad returns, hid discounts, and counted shipping as revenue

Meta’s ad math now comes with creative accounting and a side of shipping fees. Nice A whistleblower alleges that Meta (META) artificially inflated return on ad spend by counting shipping fees as revenue, subsidizing bids in ad auctions, and applying undisclosed discounts, according to Ad Week – Source — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) August 20, 2025 Seems …

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95% of AI projects are failing while Wall Street rakes in profits and businesses see zero returns

95% of organizations that are pouring money into generative AI have little or nothing to show for it. That isn’t rumor. That’s MIT’s own conclusion. They say the machines can’t retain data. They can’t adapt. They can’t learn over time. So let’s stop pretending. They are not intelligent. Not artificial. Not anything. But Wall Street …

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Mastering macro timing crushes market returns by 700%. Wall Street dividend drought echoes peak mania of dot-com era

Understanding cycles lets you rotate before the herd… Why is Macro important? Because you will beat the market by 700% If you understand Business Cycles – and allocate your Funds so that you are invested in Risk Assets when Business Cycles are bottoming, strengthening or strong – and in TLT when Business Cycles roll over …

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Is this market too good to be true?

It’s raising serious questions about whether today’s booming market is real, or if we’re heading for a shocking crash. This could be the biggest warning sign yet that something is deeply wrong. This chart looks like Madoff’s funds returns https://t.co/w6wr9a5HUR — JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) July 5, 2025 Nasdaq 10% correction before final culminating top OR …

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