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Plus, Susie Wiles breaks cover, a new name in the frame for the Federal Reserve and Hegseth says the Pentagon won’t release the Sept. 2 boat strike video Good morning. New data released Tuesday showed that the unemployment rate has risen from 4% when President Trump took office to 4.6% in November. A sizable drift …
The gap between survival and wealth has never looked this brutal. Americans are sacrificing small joys like vacations and eating out, selling their belongings, and skipping meals to afford housing. Meanwhile, billionaire wealth rose by $33 trillion in the last ten years. These two things are related. pic.twitter.com/clny0mRqsF — Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) October 17, 2025 …
The American dream isn’t fading away. It is being sold off piece by piece. Not from bombs or depression, but from a housing market so warped that basic life markers like marriage, kids, a house, even adopting a dog are being shoved into the future or abandoned completely. This is not just about prices. It …
The U.S. Treasury just tried to borrow $42 billion in a 10-year auction. The auction tailed. Demand was soft. Foreign banks didn’t show. The bonds cleared at 4.255%, nearly 0.01% above trader expectations. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-08-06-2025/card/treasury-yields-extend-rise-after-lackluster-10-year-note-auction-HTBkouvfXmDCyCkNft6O 🚨The U.S. just tried to borrow $42B in a 10-year auction. The auction tailed, demand tanked, and even foreign banks stepped …
Gage is a new app that keeps a public social credit score on your work habits. “Gagework has introduced what is essentially a social credit score for employees.”https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/tech-startup-introduces-social-credit Users say it feels like “Yelp for humans.” Managers can rate your teamwork, energy, or even mood during a huddle. You might lose points for not giving …
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses, but former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will be there. Laura Bush …
Train Conductors in Thuringia, Germany, have been given permission to stop checking the tickets of migrant passengers in an effort to prevent them from becoming violent. The South Thuringian Railway implemented the policy in Spring after seeing a rise in aggressive behavior toward staff. After noticing an uptick in threatening situations involving “newcomers” and train …
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1669070435399487492 Fed cutting interest rates has been bearish for equities It implies that something has broken in the system pic.twitter.com/6X7Kg9cQK4 — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) June 14, 2023 👀 Reminder … the govt CPI is fake data. They massage the data so it is lower so that cost of living adjustments for social security are reduced …
by B3stAuD1t0rofA11tiME I’m sick of this shit If the goal is 2% inflation and we are at 5% per the imaginary numbers they report you don’t just skip a rate hike Especially when true inflation is 20%+ Just look at the price increase of a Big Mac pre-pandemic and today I trust that more as …