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Los Angeles County saw the largest decline of any county in the United States in 2025, according to new census data published on March 26. Nearly 54,000 people moved out of L.A. County between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025, U.S. Census data shows. The decline is part of an ongoing trend. In 2020 …
via Phoenix Capital Research Stocks are bouncing this morning because things do not appear to have worsened geopolitically over the weekend. The lack of escalation in the War with Iran combined with the fact that stocks are oversold has induced traders to play for a bounce. However, in the big picture, the situation in Iran will not …
NEW: 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 Politico from a White House source: "The Trump administration sees that oil prices will not become a political problem before 4 weeks The US administration has not thought of changing its military strategy to confront the rise in oil prices The US administration… pic.twitter.com/rt2oAMdBjB — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) March 11, 2026 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BELIEVES …
*VANCE: WE SEE EVIDENCE THAT IRAN IS TRYING TO REBUILD NUCLEAR WEAPON — Investing.com (@Investingcom) February 26, 2026 “The principle is very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Vance tells reporters, a day ahead of talks in Geneva between US and Iranian delegations. “If they try to rebuild a nuclear weapon, that causes problems …
IDMerit kept an unsecured database of over three billion records Experts find database and manage to get it locked down Personal info exposed, but affected users may be low in number Experts have revealed IDMerit, an AI-powered digital identity verification solutions provider, kept an enormous database filled with sensitive customer information unlocked and easily accessible …
STOCKHOLM, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Swedish “buy now, pay later” services provider and online bank Klarna swung to a net loss in the fourth quarter and gave weaker-than-expected guidance for 2026 as fast growth also hiked costs, sending the U.S.-listed group’s shares down 23% in early trade on Thursday. Klarna’s net loss for the October …
https://downdetector.com/status/google/ YouTube, you good bro? Sounds like a global outage right now. pic.twitter.com/LFEiw6BEwP — Dave Sousa (@dave_sousa) February 18, 2026 https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouTubeDOWN?src=hashtag_click 🚨 YOUTUBE DOWN UPDATE: YouTube says they do not yet have a fix for massive outage just yet. https://t.co/WYDc5ay1nz pic.twitter.com/1dxRlTUf7X — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 18, 2026 Guys, YouTube DEAD for anyone else? 😭'Something went …
Woman Motorist sees cop in trouble and stops to help. Hero! pic.twitter.com/NsWxgZXW1F — Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 10, 2026 Per Grok: The woman assisting the officer is Kylie Sutton, a 31-year-old from Rogers, Arkansas. In July 2024, she she helped Trooper Alexandria Duncan subdue a suspect during a struggle on I-49 after he grabbed the …
https://twitter.com/yuriymatso/status/2017010382452510896 Tariffs have made it harder to make things in America. https://t.co/EFv2JprkwK — Erica York (@ericadyork) January 29, 2026
He’s right. Ironically when Japan announced their first QE the Fed arrogantly laughed at the idea in the 1990’s before doing the exact same thing following 2008. Now here we are again: pic.twitter.com/wEx5TcvCtC — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) January 22, 2026 The BOJ's failure to act will have dire consequences for its own economy and severe …
Spain sees fourth train crash in five days https://t.co/ZaMBbE2dRD — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 22, 2026 A commuter train has crashed into a construction crane in southeastern Spain, the fourth rail incident in the space of a week. Emergency services in the Murcia region said four people suffered minor injuries as a result of the …
Same person https://t.co/q3okgoRfs5 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 20, 2026 Obamas agents were followed for a day by CNN. They removed illegals the same as now. They arrested a citizen who was released after verifying their identity. The only difference between then and now, liberals didn't act like animals in the streets because the tv …
via notayesmanseconomics 2026 has started in economic terms at quite a pace. Today’s adventure can be looked at via something I have followed for several decades now. It involves which is sometimes called the Great British Peso and here is what I posted on social media yesterday morning, A new multi-year high for the UK …
The ‘super flu’ is exploding across the US, with some states seeing more cases than ever before. The latest CDC data for the week ending December 20 shows positive flu tests are up 53 percent compared to the week prior. Positive tests are up nearly 75 percent from this time last year. During the week …
JPMorgan now sees gold pushing beyond $5,000 and the bull run lasting into 2027. Silver is breaking away all by itself. These aren’t isolated headlines – they’re signals of a world quietly repricing money, risk and sovereignty itself… By Peter Reagan Your News to Know rounds up the most important developments in precious metals and …
Morgan Stanley: “We note that battery storage could experience significantly greater demand than we currently forecast stemming from the data center opportunity. DC developers have increasingly expressed a desire to use BESS in a variety of applications from backup, load following to getting online with the grid quicker. In its most recent earnings call, FLNC …
via notayesmanseconomics As we approach Christmas the pace has really picked up in economics and financial markets and let me start my look at the UK with an international perspective. TOKYO (Kyodo) — The yield on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond hit 2.020 percent on Friday, its highest level since August 1999, after the Bank …
“4 distressed office buildings in Los Angeles, California. Brookfield and its lenders (and receivers and special servicers) are peddling four active offerings that total about 4.9M SF of Class A office space in the Financial District, roughly 18% of the total inventory. EY Plaza: Colliers is marketing the $275M, non-preforming note tied to the property …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning has brought an update for my main economic theme for China. New home prices fell 0.4 per cent month on month on average across 70 cities, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday. The decline eased slightly from a 0.5 per cent fall in October, but …
China and Japan Are in a Showdown, With Trump in the Middle With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart. If anyone needed evidence that a critical moment is developing in Asia-Pacific …
not sure about that? pic.twitter.com/R1DilijKUf — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) November 23, 2025 US TSY SEC BESSENT REMARKS: “Interest rate sensitive sectors are in recession, but I’m confident about 2026 growth.” “Inflation is being driven by services rather than imported goods.” “We should see an announcement this week regarding health care costs.” “Prices are starting …
A potential collapse of AMOC could trigger a modern-day ice age, with winter temperatures across Northern Europe plummeting to new cold extremes, bringing far more snow and ice. The AMOC has collapsed in the past, notably before the last Ice Age that ended about 12,000 years ago. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-12/iceland-sees-security-risk-existential-threat-in-atlantic-ocean-currents-possible-collapse
Texas Woman Sees a Parachute Above Her Farm, Ends Up Finding Missing NASA Equipment https://t.co/xU4oUcFDwW — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 20, 2025 Everybody knows (or is) the one person in the friend group who could generously be described as an unreliable narrator. You know the type; tall tales, stories that never quite match up, …
Dominion Voting Systems just got bought by investors who openly support Trump. Think about that for a second. The company that runs voting machines in dozens of states is now controlled by people with a clear political agenda. That alone should make anyone pause. This isn’t happening in isolation. NBC and TikTok have also been …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, The battle is over inflation vs jobs, two vastly different opinions. Fed governor Stephen Miran was a senior White House adviser until his confirmation to the central bank board on September 15. Miran replaced Adriana Kugler as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors when she unexpectedly …
via notayesmanseconomics This week has opened with some sobering news for La Belle France as late on Friday we were told this. Fitch Ratings – Frankfurt am Main – 12 Sep 2025: FitchRatings has downgraded France’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘A+’ from ‘AA-‘. The Outlook is Stable. This is hardly a surprise …
The faint reassurance that the dollar still dominates is fleeting because the trend is compounding. Every deal settled in yuan, every gold warrant moved into reserves, every transaction bypassing the dollar erodes the assumption of American financial supremacy, and no press release or pundit can rewrite that reality. The question is unavoidable: who suffers first …
Joseph Schnitt, Deputy Chief at the DOJ’s Office of Enforcement Operations, was caught on hidden camera saying the agency plans to redact every Republican name from the Epstein files while leaving Democratic names intact. “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have …
via moneymetals In a recent Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey spoke with Jeff Clark, a veteran gold and silver analyst and founder of TheGoldAdvisor.com, about the state of the precious metals markets, mining stocks, and the forces shaping investor sentiment. Clark launched The Gold Advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic and is the author of Pay Dirt: How to Strike Pay …
Jobless claims just hit 1.974 million. That’s the highest since November 2021. Not a bump. Not seasonal noise. It’s been climbing for weeks. Up another 38,000 this time. That’s not recovery. That’s erosion. “Continuing Jobless Claims went up by 38K to 1.974M for the week ending July 26.” https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-initial-jobless-claims-rose-to-226k-last-week-202508071234 “Continuing claims soared by 38,000 to …