Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
Credit is way too easy to get. Rolling over car loans should be severely restricted. Banks playing with fire — CAB (@BuxJackets) January 4, 2025
h/t No_Consideration4594
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, In a functional economy with real competition and transparency, every one of these cartel-corporations would be driven out of business by their ‘too big to care’ incompetence. We’ve all heard of Too Big to Fail, a description of the consequences of consolidating capital and power in a few corporate entities, …
by Michael 2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced. During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election, and he was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Nobody has ever had a year quite …
Funny you should ask, I’ve been investigating the fraud in the F-1 Student Visa system too. It’s just as big of a rabbit hole as the H-1B stuff and the two are very interconnected. Buckle up because this one is something. Here’s the game. Students from India fake their undergraduate degrees and just apply straight …
Immigration Tests Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech A clash between President-elect Donald Trump’s coalition factions has tested X owner Elon Musk’s commitment to online free speech. The fight began around Christmas and focused on H1-B visas. The tech sector is widely reported to be one of the largest users of the visa program, and critics …
Early next year, the U.S. biotech start-up Loyal anticipates the release of LOY-002, a daily pill designed to give dogs at least one extra year of healthy life. This San Francisco-based enterprise has secured a staggering $125 million in funding from companies that were previously hesitant to invest in human longevity projects due to their …
After reading about guards beating an inmate, I went to check the reviews of the Madison County Jail. When a regular business is brigaded, Google just removes some reviews. When a part of the system is exposed, Google removes all the reviews and the score. Good timing, holy shit: Last year, and in the first …
Police discovered dozens of Amazon packages dumped in woods in Massachusetts by a driver who said she was too stressed. Amazon said the orders have been reprocessed and are being redelivered. WBTS’s Michael Rosenfield reports.
Agree 💯 $AAPL is too expensive now. The company has failed to show an improvement in it's sales and I'm just wondering why it's trading at these levels. — Stoic Investor (@Stoic_investr) December 24, 2024
We've never seen the S&P 500 at all time highs with breadth this negative. Let's do this. pic.twitter.com/3GuAVcn1l7 — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) December 13, 2024 Linkhttps://t.co/A9JxrqvurY pic.twitter.com/8qaDVxDPM3 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) December 13, 2024 ⚠️CENTRAL BANKS ARE CUTTING RATES AS IF GLOBAL RECESSION IS HERE⚠️ Bank of Canada cut rates by 0.50% on Wednesday for the …
by confoundedinterest17 We didn’t start the fire … The Fed and Biden/Harris did. And it is still burning. October STICKY core inflation is still up 4% YoY (year-over-year) Core CPI rose 0.3% MoM (as expected) which pushed it up 3.3% YoY (not even close to the 2% mandate)… Source: Bloomberg There has not been a single …
Remember that time everybody dogpiled @tedcruz for pointing out that New York City has dog shit values? https://t.co/usfraOqDn3 — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 7, 2024 h/t Glenn
The Federal Reserve’s unchecked power and fiat currency system are under fire as Ron Paul, former U.S. Congressman and Host of @RonPaulLibertyReport calls for major reforms. Paul argues that the Fed’s authority is unconstitutional, contributing to spiraling national debt, rising inflation, and systemic economic instability. He highlights how the Fed’s influence, under Jerome Powell, operates …
https://twitter.com/AntiWokeMemes/status/1850262847751614676 Wikipedia Bias for Left Leaning vs Right Leaning figures pic.twitter.com/OQ5A0M6xNY — The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) October 26, 2024
Doesnt it make more sense to just make the next assignments harder? I’ve never seen this kind of policy anywhere. h/t ybaemarb
“I’ve been the single mother (for years) and even during my marriage, I did most of the work. Raising three wonderful children, part-time work, yard work, carpentry, cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc, etc, etc.. It’s part of the reason that I got a divorce…” 0:00 “I Don’t Want To Work” 0:50 “I regret being strong and …
Migrants at the Clonea Strand Hotel in Ireland caused damage to the property in protest of the food being “too spicy.” https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1767698960599421183
HERE WE GO AGAIN? ‘Bidenflation II: Fiscal Boogaloo’ Another Sequel Nobody Asked For. Just when wages were finally starting to catch up with Biden’s first round of inflation, too. If there’s any good news to be found in this mess — and you really have to squint to see it — it’s that the job market …
South African farms deemed “too white” will no longer be able to export their produce to the UK and the EU.. Under the rules, farmers must meet specific Black economic empowerment targets to continuing obtaining export permits South Africa will soon be like Zimbabwe https://t.co/7frtFRQYFd pic.twitter.com/OiNspkWN6i — Tess Summers 🏴🇮🇪 (@tesssummers98) November 14, 2023 If …
by Chris Black The entirety of Western civilization is now based on lunatic attempts to solve non-existent problems, and it’s all going to end very badly. When South Africa collapses, it’s going to be a lot worse than Zimbabwe. Because the white farmers in South Africa don’t feed just South Africa, but also all the …
Too many conservatives fail to see that the crime is the point. It's not a side effect of leftist governance: it's an essential feature. Sam Francis called it "anarcho-tyranny": a descent into managed lawlessness. Crime is a tool to impose a particular kind of social order. In… https://t.co/JIH2KUSmEE pic.twitter.com/lUAG21QFkr — RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) August …
Too much is happening too fast in the world. This “polycrisis,” chiefly caused by the rise of AI, climate change, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is endangering democracies worldwide. Leaders must step up to respond. https://t.co/S0EExaPWfG — George Soros (@georgesoros) June 6, 2023
