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Dutch researchers now estimate the universe will end in 1 followed by 78 zeros, replacing the previous projection of 1 followed by 1100 zeros years. The revised timeline comes from new modeling of Hawking radiation and the eventual evaporation of white dwarf stars. Lead author Heino Falcke called it: “much sooner than expected.” Meanwhile, with …
by Michael What does a country that gives $792,200,000 to Planned Parenthood in a single year deserve? And what does a country that has killed more than 60,000,000 children since 1973 deserve? The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but then the number of abortions in the United States went up even higher. We have been …
The S&P 500 is now up more than 14% since 🇺🇸 President Trump said it was a great time to buy stocks on April 9th – Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/2OCbiEjNwc — Evan (@StockMKTNewz) May 12, 2025 Sentiment check: The last time US tariffs on China were this high, the S&P 500 was ~200 points lower, 4 Fed …
We live in a day and age where America has a cost-of-living crisis for every sector of the economy. Affording rent or buying a house? Too expensive. Having kids? Too expensive. Affording healthcare? Too expensive. It’s no wonder why so many people end up homeless and broke and in a ton of debt that they …
Epic shock, end of an era: The China car market of “growth and profits forever” has vanished for non-Chinese brands. Global automakers will sell 7 million fewer vehicles in China this year than they did in 2020. VW down a million cars. GM down a million cars. Jeep JV bankrupt. Suzuki out. Nissan deeply wounded. …
The headlines still dance around the truth, but anyone watching closely knows something is seriously wrong with real estate in 2025. Home prices are starting to slip. Inventory is rising. Buyers are backing away. And this time, consumers are more financially broken than ever before. In November 2007, home prices began to decline. One month …
US layoffs are skyrocketing: US employers announced 105,441 job cuts in April, the highest for any April in 5 years. Excluding 2020, this was the highest count for any April since 2009. Over the last 6 months, there have been 699,012 job cuts, the most since the 2020 pandemic. Job cuts have been particularly high …
Another major safe haven currency has exploded higher, not just in early April but here in early May. It’s gone so far already the local monetary authority has had to intervene. Over in Switzerland, the country report zero inflation for April. Along with the similar behavior of the franc, the Swiss central bank is looking …
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honestly, this is like February 2020 with absolutely no public awareness of what would hit within weeks (bonus – full thread starting Feb 2, 2020 for those who have any interest in watching a profoundly mishandled slow-motion trainwreck day by day: https://t.co/bewiFY9GSg) https://t.co/mbjjD8xGiz pic.twitter.com/OICJraFzlv — John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (@hussmanjp) May 4, 2025 (sigh)Tariffs went …
🇨🇦: Most people don’t realize that Alberta’s GDP per capita is ~40% higher than our avg. If they separated 🇨🇦 would drop by just over 6%. It would deliver a bigger blow than 🇺🇸 hitting us with max tariffs, and lead to the sharpest decline since WWII. https://t.co/aFyvJVPZbO — Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ (@StephenPunwasi) April 29, …
🚨 SCOTT BESSENT: The tax bill is moving forward. It will give permanence to the 2017 tax cuts. President Trump is adding things for working Americans – no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, making autopayments deductible. pic.twitter.com/vWhrE7r0Ws — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 29, 2025 Bessent just now: We …
by confoundedinterest17 DOGE is working: in Q1, US debt funding needs were $2BN less than the Treasury forecast in February, and in Q2 the Treasury is expected to need $53 billion less than it forecast 3 months ago. The result?
New York Taxpayers are about to be DESTROYED – The proposed NY State budget will be OVER $250 BILLION this year– This is larger than Texas and Florida's budgets combined– New York has 33 million LESS people pic.twitter.com/aVCdy9ozJg — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 24, 2025
🚨 RFK JR: “An American teenager today has less testosterone than a 68 year old man … because testosterone levels have dropped 50% from historic levels. That is a problem and it's an existential problem.” pic.twitter.com/jgojEwaTuU — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 23, 2025 That’s when the man himself, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the …
by Michael Consumer sentiment is plummeting, delinquency rates are rising, and nearly three-quarters of all U.S. consumers admit that they are “financially stressed”. If U.S. consumers are experiencing this much pain now, what will things look like six months from today if there are empty shelves and widespread shortages? We witnessed a brief period of severe financial …
Why this housing cycle is worse than 2008: 1. More speculation 2. More fraud 3. More unaffordable 4. MUCH worse demographics 5. Structural inflation Reason its delayed: 1. Government keeping MILLIONS of homes off the market using taxpayer dollars. — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 19, 2025 https://twitter.com/PhilipSoos/status/1913804783745683479 This is exactly how the 2008 Financial Crisis …
This is a table from Canadian government statistics, specifically focusing on tax expenditures and their redistributive impacts. It highlights the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) under refundable credits, showing that recent immigrants receive a ratio of 2.56 compared to 0.84 for people born in Canada. This suggests that recent immigrants benefit significantly more from the CCB …
by Michael Americans watch more television than anyone else in the world, and as we watch television we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from pharmaceutical companies. As I discussed in a previous article, pharmaceutical companies spend more than 15 billion dollars on television advertising each year. The reason they do this is because it works. We …
U.S. Profit Outlook is now the most unfavorable since November 2007 🚨 Anything interesting happen in 2008? 🤔👀 pic.twitter.com/NadMu4F7ps — Barchart (@Barchart) April 16, 2025 Wow, that’s a worse print than during the 2001 and 2009 recessions. It’s getting really more and more difficult to imagine how we can avoid a recession right now. pic.twitter.com/ycRrqfEVge …
$DXY has now plunged more than 8% year-to-date, its worst start to the year since 1995. Got silver? Got gold? byu/Boo_Randy_II inWallstreetsilver
Most of what you see in the headlines is not life itself. It’s a lens trained on the rarest of moments, zoomed in and sharpened for emotional effect. The world you live in, the one where you make breakfast, walk the dog, or wait in traffic—that is reality. The news, by design, mostly isn’t. Every …
German Economy Ministry: Due to declining orders and US trade policy, a noticeable weakening in the industrial cycle is to be expected in the coming months — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) April 14, 2025 United States President Donald Trump’s trade policies are raising the chances that the next financial crisis will occur “sooner than expected,” Germany’s incoming …
NEW: RAY DALIO SAYS “I’M WORRIED ABOUT SOMETHING WORSE THAN A RECESSION… WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS MUCH MORE PROFOUND, WE HAVE A BREAKING DOWN OF THE MONETARY ORDER” pic.twitter.com/Yoquwol5UI — DEGEN NEWS (@DegenerateNews) April 13, 2025 Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said on Sunday that he is worried that the turmoil resulting from President Donald …
China choosing to escalate rather than deescalate. China has a near universal monopoly on rare earth minerals needed for essentially all modern manufacturing. This is a major problem. pic.twitter.com/qHeqtojax3 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) April 13, 2025 BREAKING: China suspends exports of certain rare earth minerals to the United States. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) April 13, 2025 …
“Maltodextrin has a glycemic index of 125, while table sugar is only around 60 to 65 — almost double!” “Well, maltodextrin literally sticks — it becomes thick and sticky when wet and forms a layer on the walls of your intestines. As shown in certain studies, this layer becomes a colony of bad bacteria.” “But …
Consumer Sentiment continues its slide. Meanwhile, consumers now expecting inflation to top 6.7% pic.twitter.com/8ZaheWURXq — Jack Jernigan (@JackJernigan1) April 11, 2025 Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading …
FHA delinquencies are skyrocketing, 15.11% of all FHA mortgage purchase loans are now DELINQUENT. This excludes the loans artificially brought current by placing the missed payments to the back of the loan. In 4Q2007 FHA overall delinquencies were LOWER at 13.05 percent (vs… pic.twitter.com/WYuCYOKSFq — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) April 8, 2025
Powell may pretend he doesn't need to get involved, but the market is about to drag him in kicking and screaming pic.twitter.com/izA4VUQmQN — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 8, 2025 Junk bond yields going parabola https://t.co/LGDN6xHOiq pic.twitter.com/ILja6xLDGY — The Great Martis (@great_martis) April 8, 2025 The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire …
