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$VIX Weekly looks ominous. Brace for unbearable volatility. pic.twitter.com/UUZFkwocMp — The Great Martis (@great_martis) March 31, 2025 So here we are with two days to go and we just learned that Trump plans a $600 billion tax increase on the U.S. working class and a global financial crisis: https://t.co/NK2zin9W1G Ok, I think Wall Street got …
This is insane. 50% of Gen Z and Millennials are still on their parent’s payroll. The average person is getting $18,000 from mom and dad 🤯 pic.twitter.com/3NPvSrorpu — Anthony Pompliano 🌪 (@APompliano) March 31, 2025 62% of Americans could come up with $2,000 in case of an emergency, the lowest on record, per Bloomberg. pic.twitter.com/0rpUYZxK9J …
They were put in a cell for eight hours by Hertfordshire police after sending emails to their primary school and making criticisms of the leadership on WhatsApp They were questioned on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications The police are the enemy of the people. This is not policing by consent. This is China. It’s …
If your mortgage payment is over $3,000 a month, odds are you can’t actually afford the house. Yeah, you can fake it for a few years: stretch the budget, shift some expenses, maybe dip into savings when things get tight. But the walls close in eventually. The pressure builds. The monthly payment becomes a looming …
Sherry Walker has been a commercial airline pilot for almost 35 years. She says DEI has so completely undermined safety standards that pilots are sometimes afraid to leave the cockpit for fear of what their co-pilots will do unattended. (0:00) Why Are All These Planes Crashing?… pic.twitter.com/Fl5SNtRlmB — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 24, 2025
Copper is hitting record levels again, just like gold. While some investors argue these metals behave differently, the reality is they are strongly interconnected in the long term. In my view, we are likely in a profoundly constructive macro environment for metals. Silver,… pic.twitter.com/lwD0j1rBFQ — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) March 26, 2025 It is fascinating to me that …
The latest data show that Americans are taking an increasingly grim view of the U.S. economy and their own financial outlooks as uncertainty from the Trump administration’s tariff hikes and other policy changes drags on. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index fell for the fourth consecutive month, dropping 7.2 points to a reading of 92.9 …
They're working overtime, exploiting Community Notes to target conservatives through their large Discord groups. pic.twitter.com/FIxkVb7DHx — Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) March 24, 2025 How much more do we have to see from this loudmouth lowlife before Pam Bondi arrests her? https://t.co/OTklyWWKuW — Catturd ™ (@catturd2) March 24, 2025
The deputy’s passing marks the fourth suicide in just six weeks among current and former Harris County deputies, raising concerns about the mental health toll on law enforcement of
April 2nd …⏩ pic.twitter.com/o1y6e8Fvr9 — The Great Martis (@great_martis) March 21, 2025 Magnificent 7 stocks are more exposed to global growth risks than S&P 493 pic.twitter.com/Kk5oEocRsS — Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) March 20, 2025 S&P 500 Dow Jones Both rejected resistance, both showing weakness below the undercarriage. This not good.This very bad. pic.twitter.com/QvB8qjdeL3 …
PM Mark Carney said that all trade conversations are off unless Trump stops fantasizing aloud about the 51st state. Meanwhile, #CanadianBoycotts continue to gain steam. pic.twitter.com/lPJbfBoscd — Pouseé 🦫🇨🇦🦫Comitata (@epaldelta) March 19, 2025 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrote on X: “My meeting with the Council on Canada-U.S. Relations was focused on keeping Canada’s economy …
With a debt-to-GDP ratio over 200%, rolling over that debt at higher rates is a financial death sentence. Worse, the Bank of Japan holds 70% of their bonds — meaning if the market crumbles, the central bank collapses too. Japan’s experiment of perpetual debt-funded growth is unraveling fast. Once confidence breaks, their economy could implode …
The paper, “Superintelligence Strategy,” posits that rapid advances in AI are poised to reshape nearly every aspect of society, but that governments see them as a means to military dominance, which will drive a “bitter race” to maximize AI capabilities. The paper claims that the development of a “superintelligent” AI surpassing humans in nearly every …
Who in the world was the overpaid Democrat strategist who came up with this dumbass idea? View post on imgur.com Democrats holding their signs at the state of the union speech pic.twitter.com/RhwKWRFYm0 — Pamlico Prepper (@PamlicoPrepper) March 5, 2025 Democrats are embarrassing themselves. Here what their signs are really saying! pic.twitter.com/lvMd1kJgnp — Penny Guerrero (@pennyguerrero) …
The only thing that managed to get them on their feet was cheering for Ukraine, not for America. Isn’t that telling? They’re so blinded by their obsession with Trump that they can’t even show respect for their own country. It’s like they’ve completely forgotten what it means to put America first. Karoline Leavitt just ripped …
AI can distort the passage of time within the human conscious mind. You could be plugged into AI while your corpus lays in a pod for 5 minutes to serve a 100-year sentence; inside the mind matrix your perception of time is distorted by AI that those five minutes feel like 100 years. Society would …
Steak ‘n Shake is handing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. one of his first big wins as US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The fast food chain is officially switching from vegetable oil to beef tallow for cooking fries in all of their restaurants nationwide. The brand, known for their steakburgers and hand-scooped milkshakes, …
NEW YORK (AP) — The ubiquitous food delivery app DoorDash will pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, rather than letting drivers keep the tips on top of their guaranteed pay, Attorney General Letitia James said Monday. James …
This NATO ally will ‘buy, buy, buy’ more weapons as quickly as possible after intelligence report says Russia may start a war in Europe in a few years Denmark will spend 70% more on defense over the next two years, bringing its outlays to 3.2% of GDP, as President Donald Trump has called on NATO …
Apple will no longer offer its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) tool to UK customers following a data privacy row with the UK government. ADP is a tool offered to Apple customers that means only account holders can see things like photos or documents that they have stored online. Apple itself does not have access to …
Rep. Garcia, Sen. Schumer, and other Democrat leaders—the same ones who preach about accountability—are now facing serious legal trouble. .@RepRobertGarcia is now under investigation by the DOJ for threatening Elon Musk with violence. Garcia should be censured and then expelled from Congress. He should also be deported since he originally came to the US illegally. …
The dots are connecting, and it looks like they’ve been playing a dangerous game. Democrats are terrified of @elonmusk and @doge because all of the graft comes back to Washington, D.C. when you follow the paper trail. They've been stealing, funding themselves along with our enemies, and now they've been caught.@ShawnRyan762@realLegendAfg pic.twitter.com/76Aw0KZZin — Rep. Tim …
Congress and @doge should obliterate grants that claim to combat "mis-," "dis-," or "malinformation." These Orwellian terms identify government censorship. Americans shouldn’t be funding government efforts to deprive them of their own right to speak freely. pic.twitter.com/Z3TpXY5MaW — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 15, 2025 It’s time to defend our voices, not let bureaucrats redefine reality …
WASHINGTON—In a bid to get ahead of what could be drastic cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, some parts of the military are preparing lists of weapons they have long wanted to cancel but couldn’t get past lawmakers seeking to protect spending in their districts. DOGE members are expected at the Defense Department …
The gold-to-oil ratio just hit its highest level—something that would have sounded like pure fantasy just a few years ago. Mining companies are the ones raking it in right now, and they’re in the driver’s seat as gold prices climb. Gold has surged almost $1,000 an ounce over the last year, while production costs barely …
$SMCI business update: 💩Miss on both EPS and revenue (unaudited)💩Confirms receipt of both DOJ and SEC subpoenas💩Still no 10K or 10Q 💩Cut forward guidance 💩$700M of dilution💩Fourteen days away from delisting💩Swears they'll file 10K (which was due last August) by Feb… pic.twitter.com/oY0RJJSbOz — Nobody Special (@JG_Nuke) February 11, 2025 SMCI filed another roll of toilet …
China is opposed to US “smearing and sabotage” of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Panama through “pressure and coercion”, its foreign ministry said yesterday, after the South American nation decided to exit the programme. At a regular press briefing, a ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, said China deeply regretted Panama’s decision. “We hope that …
These patterns don’t just appear for fun. They’re often a sign that sentiment is shifting, and the easy gains might be over. If history repeats, the next move won’t be straight up. According to @sentimentrader, the S&P 500’s one-year #Sharpe ratio has peaked, which historically leads to periods of volatile/moderate returns.@SoberLook pic.twitter.com/pczWEMCacA — Lance Roberts …
