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Texas A&M’s BOLT program successfully ends a decade-long quest to tame ultra-fast flight… Over 400 sensors on a rocket lab captured rare data on air turbulence at extreme speeds… The findings allow engineers to design lighter, more efficient hypersonic vehicles… Researchers claim they can now “predict the transition” from smooth to turbulent flow… Breakthrough paves …
This collapse is just getting started. Kids can’t get jobs and fast food giants scramble as broke Americans pull back hard. Labor Force participation is collapsing at a pace only seen during the 2020 crisis. Participation always drops before the official unemployment numbers skyrocket. Of-course that's only if you assume the BLS unemployment numbers are …
Wall Street quietly rotates out while Main Street FOMOs into the exact top hedge funds are fleeing. This is the exact handoff that turns yesterday’s heroes into tomorrow’s bagholders when the music finally stops. Burry bought more puts again yesterday, added to $SOXX $NVDA and $QQQ short position. 😬😬😬 — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) May 7, 2026 …
Leveraged ETFs amplify daily moves so heavy volume usually signals aggressive short term speculation. Retail investors are piling into leveraged semiconductor ETFs at an unprecedented pace: Combined daily trading volume in the 3x leveraged short semiconductor ETF, $SOXS, and the 3x leveraged long semiconductor ETF, $SOXL, has surged to ~330 million shares, the highest in …
It is just taxpayer money being stolen with no repercussions. If the donks do manage to build some small amount of actual track, no train will ever run on it as thieves will destroy it for scrap metal before that ever happens. The cost of High-Speed Rail is now estimated at $231 billion. Our country …
Asia runs on imported energy and if that flow even looks shaky, investors do not stick around to debate it, they pull first and ask questions later. This is how pressure shows up before the real economic damage hits. Investors from overseas have sold -$52 billion of Asian emerging-market equities excluding China so far in …
The "power elite" could use an oil crisis as an excuse to force more people to use digital IDs. For example, so called key workers would have to show these IDs to get extra petrol or diesel rations. Later they may be used to ration food. https://t.co/1nClC5PVL4 — Richard Wellings (@RichardWellings) March 21, 2026 Plans …
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces he would like to lower the speed limit to just 20mph on ALL STREETS in New York City A 20 mph speed limit would make it much easier to ticket everyone who drives a car all the time to pay for his socialist agenda Yes, this is real pic.twitter.com/71PJVp6dsA — Wall …
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces he would like to lower the speed limit to just 20mph on ALL STREETS in New York City A 20 mph speed limit would make it much easier to ticket everyone who drives a car all the time to pay for his socialist agenda Yes, this is real pic.twitter.com/71PJVp6dsA — Wall …
🚨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 …
Trump on radio this morning: “We have no inflation. Prices are down on just about everything. Prices are way down on energy.” pic.twitter.com/eUcQxwvrIL — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 9, 2025 🚨 *TRUMP: POWELL MUST LOWER THE RATE, BIG, RIGHT NOW — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) September 10, 2025 LOWER INCOME CONSUMERS ARE ‘LIVING ON THE EDGE’ …
Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across …
NEW YORK — Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that’s resulted in critical information, like warning lights and vehicle speed, not showing up on the dashboard. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall covers certain …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning has opened with a couple of my themes in play so please put on your seat belts. We can start with the more minor one and we see something I have warned about for a while. WIESBADEN – Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2025 …
EPA’s Solar for All cancellation is a textbook example of DOGE’s efficiency playbook in action. Zeldin axed $7B in Biden-era slush funds disguised as “green grants” – money that would’ve padded contractor margins, not lowered energy bills. The EPA ranks on DOGE’s inefficiency… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) August 19, 2025
The Bank of Japan is shrinking its balance sheet at a record pace: The Bank of Japan’s bond holdings dropped by -6.2 trillion Yen in Q1 2025, the most on record. Over the last 5 quarters, the BoJ's holdings have now declined by -14.2 trillion Yen. As a result, the BoJ's… pic.twitter.com/JJjLSzhyka — The Kobeissi …
.@POTUS: "I love construction… I know it better than anybody. When I see a railroad going from San Francisco to L.A., I think it's a hundred times over budget — one of the most incompetent things… We're not going to fund that anymore, it's out of control." pic.twitter.com/ACEM04pc24 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 18, …
The speed of these things is impressive. I think they are sending older models upfront and then the newer model hits in blink of an eye. Am hearing they have barely used 5% of their stock pic.twitter.com/fWXL8AxWKr — tic toc (@TicTocTick) June 15, 2025
by Mike Shedlock Daniel Lacalle says the US has the advantage and talks should be easy. Fast Track Talk Background Last week Trump threatened 50 percent tariffs on the EU starting June. On Sunday evening, Trump rolled back until July 9, a 50 percent tariff after a request from European Commission President Ursula von der …
And now, it is showing up in the hard data. Credit card transactions began falling in a highly unseasonal manner in the last week of April. Spending slows down, layoffs speed up. It’s just that simple. pic.twitter.com/I7zBVDie5u — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 5, 2025 Bonds are setting up the ultimate catch-up trade. All the hard …
A class action lawsuit recently filed in California alleges that the odometers in Tesla vehicles are inaccurate. Since the brand uses warranties tied to mileage, these inaccuracies could lead cars to fall out of warranty sooner than they would with a typical odometer reading that would fall within an expected range of accuracy. A complaint …
Researchers from TU Wien and China discovered that electrons don’t just instantly connect as we once thought. Instead, they form common properties in measurable waves, triggered by intense laser bursts. Prof. Joachim Burgdörfer put it best: particles don’t just connect—they transform in ways that are faster than our minds can even process. This breakthrough has …
Google just went full dystopian. They’ve ripped up their own promises and are now openly saying they’ll build AI for war, surveillance, and whatever else they want. The same company that controls global information flow is now positioning itself as a defense contractor with zero ethical restraints. This isn’t just corporate greed—it’s a direct threat …
Gavin Newsom’s 24 Billion Dollar homeless solution meets Gavin Newsom’s 128 Billion dollar high speed rail. pic.twitter.com/hHsD9hXCwL — Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) December 11, 2024 Every day it’s worse. Every day you think this will be the tipping point. See you tomorrow — Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) December 11, 2024
AMAZON’S $25 FLIGHTS: HOLIDAY MAGIC OR FASTEST FINGER WINS? If you’re 18-24 and need a cheap ticket home, Amazon and StudentUniverse are offering 5,000 one-way flights for $25—because even Santa knows flights are ridiculous right now. Starting Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. PST, Amazon will drop 1,000 tickets daily through Dec. 13. Travel anytime between …
NVIDIA and Elon Musk’s xAI are ramping up their colossal supercomputer, Colossus, to an unprecedented 200,000 Hopper GPUs—doubling the current 100,000 GPU setup in a scale never before seen. Leveraging NVIDIA’s advanced Spectrum-X Ethernet networking for seamless data throughput and zero packet loss, Colossus has already set records, becoming operational in just 122 days. As xAI’s …
Hundreds of people from 63 countries packed into a Riverside theater last week to take the oath of citizenship. American flags lined the stage as messages conveying the immigrants’ new power played on a large screen: “Today, I am an American. Today, I am a citizen of the country I serve. Today, I can register …
Back to the slowing of the economy. The speed in which inflation is collapsing is astounding. I think you’re going to see a dovish Powell on Friday. The market has been telling us this the past 6 trading days. The honeymoon of falling inflation won’t last long though. https://t.co/9R1GXzHMLe — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 21, …
by Mike Shedlock Might I suggest it’s time for some fact checks? Let’s start with a fact check on the White House Internet program “Fact Sheet”. White House Fact Sheet Let’s discuss the June 26, 2023 White House Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $40 Billion to Connect Everyone in America to Affordable, Reliable, High-Speed Internet …
