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Seasonal hiring down 25% from last year as layoffs rise and retailers stay cautious amid weak consumer spending

Note: “Weak consumer spending” refers to store expectations before the season started. Consumer spending ended up being high which is why Black Friday set a new record No paywall: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seasonal-hiring-offers-little-reprieve-for-labor-market-woes-110044972.html Plenty of Americans are expected to pour into stores and fill online carts this holiday shopping season. Fewer may be able to pick up seasonal work …

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Since The Federal Government Spending Spree Associated With Covid Ended, Median Household Income Has Declined, But So Have Home Prices

by confoundedinterest17 Roll out the barrel! As in Fed money printing. How can the current housing disaster be fixed? One answer is to build more homes (made difficult by local government zoning and building policies). Another is increase household income. But Fed money printing is the easiest way to increase home prices. Since the Federal government …

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Slowing Credit Card Spending Likely Reflects Growing Consumer Debt Stress

by Mike Maharrey After barely rising in August, consumer debt grew modestly in September, likely reflecting growing debt stress on American households. The U.S. economy depends on consumers buying stuff. Persistent price inflation forced Americans to blow through their savings and then turn to credit cards to make ends meet. Credit card spending has slowed …

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The age of pretending to use AI is over and the reckoning is already here. Burry is spot on. How can anyone look at these numbers and believe OpenAI has any hope to meet $1.4 trillion in spending commitments?

How can anyone look at these numbers and believe OpenAI has any hope to meet $1.4 trillion in spending commitments? https://t.co/gUcRNs11BI — Ross Hendricks (@Ross__Hendricks) November 10, 2025 Big Tech needs a staggering $1.5 trillion to fund the AI boom. This is the complex playbook it’s using to get it. Inside the financial engineering of …

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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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Repo crisis spreads nationwide, car loan delinquencies surge. The consumer is DEAD. The McDonald’s CEO is warning of a pullback in spending from low income diners

The economy is booming, if you are the tow truck driver. 00:00 Car Repos Explode to New Highs 07:17 Use Vehicle Sales Just Crashed By 25% 08:58 Real Life Viewer Inflation Story 11:55 Why the Dollar is Worthless Today 17:54 There’s No Way Out of the Mess The FED Created   Subprime car buyers are …

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Bifurcated Economy — The rich are spending big, while everyone else is watching every dollar. 50% of food stamp benefits will be paid. GOOLSBEE: Inflation ‘going wrong way’

Third-quarter earnings are indicating a divided economy With more consumer companies preparing to report third-quarter earnings this week, Wall Street will be watching for signs of a bifurcated or “K-shaped” economy as consumers diverge in their spending behaviors. There have been increasing signals that wealthier Americans are spending more while lower-income Americans are significantly paring …

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SNAP benefits being cut before major holidays, full-time teachers unable to afford living, and workers spending entire paychecks on utilities alone

America is experiencing a cost of living crisis that’s forcing families to make impossible choices between basic necessities. In this video we examine the collapse of economic stability through real stories: SNAP benefits being cut before major holidays, full-time teachers unable to afford living, and workers spending entire paychecks on utilities alone. We explore how …

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Nasdaq hits biggest earnings week of the quarter, Tesla and Netflix miss, analysts warn AI layoffs could shake consumer spending

This week could become a storm of unprecedented volatility, with over 30% of $QQQ components reporting earnings while investors wrestle with record-high margin leverage and frenzied options activity. AI-driven layoffs threaten to ripple across industries in ways rarely seen before, potentially crippling discretionary demand in tech-adjacent sectors like cloud infrastructure, software subscriptions, and digital media. …

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U.S. national debt surpasses 38 trillion, fueled by massive deficit spending. National Debt interest payments to hit $14 trillion over the next 10 years.

The numbers are not bad. They are grotesque. The national debt has exploded past $38 trillion, and nobody in Washington is even pretending to fix it. In just eight months, we’ve added $2 trillion more. That pace makes the 2008 bailout look like a bake sale. Meanwhile, the media obsesses over tariffs or shutdown drama …

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Dramatically Reduced Christmas Spending, Soaring Defaults And Empty Shelves: 14 Signs That The Condition Of The U.S. Economy Is Worse Than You Think

by Michael It feels like someone has pulled a plug, because the U.S. economy is suddenly caught in an extremely alarming downward spiral.  As I discussed at the end of last week, investors are flocking to gold and silver because they can see that a storm is coming.  We have reached a point where most of …

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Youth in Morocco protest against World Cup spending over schools, hospitals

Anti-government demonstrators in Morocco filled the streets for a fifth straight night Wednesday, with protests over public services spiraling into violence and destruction across multiple cities. At least two people have died in Moroccan Gen Z protests, also dubbed “GenZ212” or the “Gen Z Uprising”, in yet another flare-up of youth-led anger similar to movements …

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Businesses have completely stopped spending… Foreign investors are ALL-IN on US stocks… Stock bulls: “That’s bullish, right?”

Consumer spending is declining now and whatever there is, is being financed on credit cards. — Maverick (@SocomRaiders) September 29, 2025 Discretionary spending freeze 1st, which includes potential expansions. 2nd non-discretionary spending freeze. 3rd layoffs. 🚨Foreign investors are ALL-IN on US stocks: Overseas investors’ allocation to US equities hit a RECORD 61%. This share is …

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Trump policies reveal a left-leaning approach with high spending, bailouts, and interventions disguised as conservatism

Trump is not a conservative. He was a Democrat, he still acts like one, and anyone who believes otherwise is not looking closely enough. Look at the money first. He signed stimulus packages that added billions to the deficit while claiming victory for the economy. He expanded unemployment benefits beyond what any Republican before him …

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Imagine a billionaire spending millions to elect DAs who won’t jail violent criminals

Bill O’Reilly has the numbers, “George Soros has donated $17 million to county races to get far-left progressives into the District Attorney’s office — These are county races. So that’s an enormous amount of money” – George Soros DA just released a man wanted for 2 murders in New York – Oakland, California, George Soros …

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Trump Announces Crackdown On Drug Ads On TV, Potentially Disrupting Billions In Ad Spending

Trump Announces Crackdown On Drug Ads On TV, Potentially Disrupting Billions In Ad Spending https://t.co/Sn678w3tTp — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 10, 2025 President Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday that calls on federal health agencies to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose more side effects in their ads and enforce existing rules about misleading ads. The …

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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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Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow Q3 At 2.5%, Federal Government STILL Spending Like Crazy (Inflation Still Going On)

by confoundedinterest17 The Trump economy continues to boom. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow forecast model shows real GDP growing at 2.5%. The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 2.5 percent on August 7, unchanged from August 5 after rounding. After this morning’s wholesale trade report …

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Trump spending like covid

The U.S. government’s gross national debt has officially climbed past $37 trillion. In January 2020, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that gross federal debt would not surpass $37 trillion until after fiscal year 2030 Trump spending like covid pic.twitter.com/CtFdlbpwNp — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) August 14, 2025

Tariffs rake in $27.7B, but July spending wipes out the gains and burns $630B in 31 days. The US deficit is on pace to hit $3.5 trillion

US deficit hit $291B in July. That’s a $3.5 trillion yearly pace without a war or a recession. Just “normal” Washington spending. https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-08/61304-MBR.pdf Tariffs brought in $25B. Trump called it “incredible revenue.” The same month, the government spent $630B. That’s pocket change against a tidal wave. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariffs-are-generating-meaningful-new-revenue Social Security payouts jumped $108B. Medicare and Medicaid …

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Foreign influence spending in the US tops hundreds of millions from multiple countries

Foreign influence spending in the US according to Open Secrets: China – $460.7 million Japan – $436.5 million Liberia – $353.2 million South Korea – $325.8 million Saudi Arabia – $311.5 million Marshall Islands – $285.1 million Qatar – $257.8 million United Arab Emirates –242.7 million Bahamas – $242.5 million Israel – $194.9 million Foreign influence spending in the US according to Open Secrets: China …

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