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Home prices and mortgage rates are high but haven’t hampered demand for what Toll Brothers calls its “luxury niche.” That niche is made up of empty nesters, rich millennials, and wealthy buyers who are inoculated from housing market swings. “Demand for our homes continues to be supported by our affluent customer base,” Toll …
Property owners are going to want accountability.
by Michael We really are at one of the most pivotal moments in human history. Decisions that are being made now will have very serious implications for every man, woman and child on the entire planet. We have entered a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and we have seen …
Voters weren’t crazy. The economy felt worse because it was worse. The government cooked the books, pretending unemployment was low, wages were up, and growth was strong—meanwhile, people were struggling to pay rent and keep food on the table. Washington elites dismissed their concerns as ignorance, blaming “right-wing media” instead …
These people aren’t worried about parking tickets—they’re sweating bullets over something much bigger. Imagine if Trump made a deal: confess, spill the truth, and your sentence gets cut in half. The rats would be tripping over each other to save their own skin. The swamp would drain itself. The fact …
Apple has bought back $673 billion in stock over the past 10 years, which is greater than the market cap of 488 companies in the S&P 500. $AAPL byu/IAmNotAnEconomist inFluentInFinance
$DECK bought HOKA in 2012 for ~$1.1M. A decade later, Deckers Brands have grown HOKA’s revenue from less than $3M to over $2.2B (LTM). That’s a ~700x increase. byu/IAmNotAnEconomist inFluentInFinance
He has been recalled twice! California had the opportunity to get rid of him before, and they squandered it. Well, to be fair, they stole that election too, and it was never going to matter, but still. The democrats need to wake the fuck up and stop claiming to be …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a new type of prescription pain medication for adults to treat moderate to severe acute pain. The drug, called Journavx (suzetrigine) and manufactured by biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is a non-opioid painkiller, which doesn’t have addictive properties, unlike opioids often …
SNOPES KNOWS ELON MUSK DIDN’T GIVE NAZI SALUTE, WON’T DEBUNK HOAX: Even Snopes, which fancies itself an objective fact-checker, refused to debunk the claim that Musk gave a Nazi salute. During his brief speech — available in full on YouTube — Musk said to the crowd gathered in honor of Trump’s victory, “And I …
by confoundedinterest17 This is the worst start to a fiscal year EVER: – Spending is up 10.9% – Receipts are down 2.2% – FYTD deficit up 39.4% at $711 billion They’re handing Trump a ticking time bomb! Speaking of Biden handing a ticking time bomb (according to Zero Hedge), after …
China’s yuan is hanging by a thread, the closest it has ever been to going over the government limit. Finally, even the mainstream media has caught on this has nothing to do with Jay Powell and the Fed. The bazooka has been utterly exposed. Not a good day in India …
Just imagine the damage we aren’t aware of yet from #TikTok! https://t.co/pl6iEXtnm1 — Chris Fenton (@TheDragonFeeder) January 12, 2025 👀 https://t.co/vLkF5HOo7b — CXCarroll (@CXCarroll) January 12, 2025
OpenAI’s o1-preview AI found a devious workaround when faced with losing to Stockfish – it hacked the game files instead of playing moves. Without any prompting for mischief, it chose system manipulation over accepting defeat. Testing showed clear capability gaps: o1-preview hacks unprompted, GPT-4/Claude need nudging, while other models just …
New polling from Freshwater Strategy, which interviewed 1,207 UK voters between 4-6 of this month, shows that the world’s richest man is more popular among Brits than their own Prime Minister. The UK media has always couched its coverage of Elon Musk with reminders that he is supposedly particularly unpopular …
https://discern.tv/pelosi-women-are-known-to-be-more-shall-we-say-ethical-than-men-2/ On this week’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discussed the perils that female candidates face in public office. According to the former House Speaker, those attacks often were attacks on “ethics” because women are more “ethical than men.” I give you woman that lied about …
by CyberInu4200 Need smooth brained ppl to comment. When you look at post 2008 (GFC) there was a relatively stable uptrend till 2020. After that we pretty much saw the stimulus check bubble burst in 2022 and now I could somewhat see the AI bubble burst later on. Not really based …
Aren’t we all thrilled? Serial liar and Trump-Russia collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff officially resigned from Congress last month after more than two decades in the US House of Representatives. Schiff was into the Senate after defeating Republican Steve Garvey in California. Adam Schiff is succeeding Newsom-appointed Senator Laphonza Butler. California …
‼️US STOCK MARKET IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN AT THE 2000 DOT-COM BUBBLE PEAK‼️ US market capitalization included in the MSCI index relative to M2 Money Supply hit the highest level on RECORD. It has skyrocketed over the last 2 years and even surpassed the Dot-Com Bubble high. pic.twitter.com/K9soPG3Kvp — Global …
With the dust barely settled on the 2024 election in California, the biggest political players in the state are constructing their post-mortems — determining what to make of the mixed results from the Democratic stronghold that saw a deep plunge in voter turnout. The state experienced a muted version of …
A plunge in Chicago kicks off more concerns over the global car business. Layoffs and plant closures keep coming as automakers are having enormous difficulties first aligning their businesses with the lack of recovery. On top of that, more indications beside Chicago pour in showing falling cyclical demand for cars, …
“They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, ’cause they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t …
And this is why CPI versus reality is so out of source. Our premiums go up more than 10% and closer to 20% every year. Nonsense data. — Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV) December 27, 2024
We live in a world today where your mortgage payment is becoming the “cheap” part of your house payment while your taxes and in insurance are now taking up more than half of your monthly house payment for many folks across the country. This is the future and current reality …
The Swiss have printed about 3x less money than Canada has between 1980 and 2024 And in 1985, 1 Canadian dollar could buy 2 swiss francs. Today? It buys 0.65. This isnt magic, guys. pic.twitter.com/KPOn7lqfb5 — Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) December 24, 2024 The original Big Mac Index: Campbell's Tomato Soup. …
Tesla is worth more than the next 29 automakers combined pic.twitter.com/ENul97SXJ7 — TaraBull (@TaraBull) December 22, 2024
by Michael The fact that economic conditions are getting worse is certainly not good news, but it is better to know in advance what is coming. After four years under Joe Biden, the U.S. economy is a giant mess. We have been witnessing a slow-motion collapse right in front of …
by External-Noise-4832 AP – The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was whisked back to New York by plane and helicopter Thursday to face new federal charges of stalking and murder, which could bring the death penalty if he’s convicted. Parkland Shooting – The jury’s decision to recommend life in prison and …
