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The object now known as 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to enter our solar system. It’s clocking 37 miles per second, older than the Sun, and possibly 7 billion years old. Initial size estimates were off. It’s not 1 mile wide. It’s closer to 7. Some say 12. Others say 20. The Vera …
“Japan’s passenger car export prices to the US declined by a cumulative 20% or so in April-June. This implies that, for the time being, the Japanese auto industry is absorbing more than half of the 25 pp additional tariff on passenger cars, thereby mitigating the rise in US selling prices. If this trend were to …
Each American family could face $425k in federal debt load. In 10 years, the US government will be $55-60 trillion in debt (which will be 7-7.5 times government revenue) because there will be $25-30 trillion of additional borrowing. That amounts to about $425,000 of debt per American family. When I calculate the supply and demand …
Canada needs skilled professionals in engineering, medicine, quantum computing, chip design, space, IT, and other high-tech sectors to drive innovation, fill labour gaps, and strengthen the economy , not just cheap labour. — Make Ontario 4Trillion Economy (@Ontario2050) July 15, 2025
BREAKING: Former Trump aide Steve Bannon warns that the GOP could lose 35–40 House seats if they don’t fully release the Epstein files. — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) July 12, 2025 Former White House aide Steve Bannon suggested Friday that the GOP could lose dozens of House seats in the 2026 midterms over the Trump administration’s …
BREAKING: Stephen Miller says, “there are likely hundreds of THOUSANDS of children in California who are being exploited for their labor or s*xually exploited as part of s*x trafficking.” “This administration is liberating these children and helping reunify them with their parents back in their home country. ” “I don’t know of anybody except the …
President Donald Trump made a series of pointed remarks during a July 9 cabinet meeting, touching on monetary policy, trade negotiations, and media priorities. The most direct statement concerned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump said should “resign immediately.” The comment follows weeks of criticism over Powell’s handling of interest rates and the $2.5 …
The White House is now considering federal oversight in two high-profile cities: Washington, D.C. and New York City. During a Cabinet briefing on July 8, President Trump made a sharp statement: “We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to.” That declaration has sparked fresh speculation about a shift …
Trump threatened tariffs. BRICS leaders fired back. Brazil’s president says there’s “no going back” on de-dollarization. Here’s why the summit’s quiet strategy just got louder, and what that means for the future of the dollar… By Peter Reagan For months, I expected the Rio Reset to unfold quietly: a slow, strategic rollout of an alternative …
Could just be my imagination, but I think on-line retailers have started charging more for shipping, including upping the minimum purchase for free shipping. Companies are expected to pass on 70% of the direct cost of tariffs to consumers through higher prices, warns Goldman Sachs byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts h/t Capital_Historian685
NATO chief warns Xi could urge Putin to attack Europe if China invades Taiwan, as Russian ammo output now triples NATO’s yearly production. JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺🇪🇺 If China attacks Taiwan, Xi will try to drag Russia into a war with NATO – NATO Secretary General Rutte said. "If Xi Jinping attacked Taiwan, he would first …
Homan fires back at ban threat. That's what gets me. The fact that an incoming mayor believes that he has more authority than the President of the United States. I completely agree with Tom. I would recruit 100,000 more ice agents to go door-to-door through New York searching every single dark alley. All in the… …
As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around. As of now, there is NO "agreement" on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no… — Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 24, 2025
Radar evasion useless in AI battlefield… 🚨 ELON: STEALTH PLANES AREN’T INVISIBLE… AI CAN SEE THEM CLEARLY Elon says stealth planes like the F-117 and B-2 may look high-tech, but they’re easy targets for today’s AI-guided weapons. "These planes are cool, but extremely vulnerable to AI-guided missiles that use pure… https://t.co/2fqxzFUpMO pic.twitter.com/oJ0WjK2b1j — Mario Nawfal …
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"We are going to discover just like we did from the 2005-2008 time period, that this perception that there is an incredible shortage of housing is simply wrong." pic.twitter.com/BGlNAraweK — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 19, 2025 we know what's going on pic.twitter.com/3qd615gfqm — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 20, 2025 There are roughly 14.9 million vacant …
🚨 BREAKING: ANONYMOUS CLAIMS TO HOLD SECRET FILES EXPOSING A FALSE FLAG PLOT 🚨 🔐 The hacker collective says it has classified documents revealing a false flag operation designed to drag the West into full-scale war. 🗣️ “The playbook is ancient: stage the attack, blame the… pic.twitter.com/EjtJ5od28P — Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) June 17, 2025
Iran warns US, UK, and France of impending 'very large-scale attacks' on Israel — Mehr Threatens that countries aiding Israel will have their bases, ships in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea targeted Tehran signals readiness for regional escalation if West intervenes pic.twitter.com/NBIbHX3npD — RT (@RT_com) June 14, 2025 BREAKING: Iran issues a warning to …
Trump warns Iran that the next attacks will be even more brutal. He tells the Iranian leadership to “make a deal.” What does that mean? Just giving up the nuclear program or something like an unconditional surrender? What should Iran do? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/9xNZtfoAnD — S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) June 13, 2025 BREAKING – IRAN'S PRESIDENT, IN …
**I really don’t understand why everyone isn’t outraged about housing. If this keeps up, when my kid turns 22 (2047), they’ll need to make ~$843K/year just to buy a median-priced home. This is what happens when you rack up government debt and flood the system with handouts.… https://t.co/JbkFjMcv7T — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) June …
S&P 500 already trading back at peak 2025 multiples, only difference is that earnings estimates for this year are significantly lower. pic.twitter.com/vALbxftwDK — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) June 10, 2025 It looks like nobody is hedged pic.twitter.com/cBLSBJ1GdI — James Choi (@JC_Investment) June 10, 2025 JPMorgan CEO Dimon: There's a chance that real numbers will deteriorate …
A Bloomberg TV headline was warning that breadth is imploding on this rally. Why? Because hedge funds are piling back into mega cap Tech. Why? Because S&P momentum algos are manipulating the futures higher due to the collapsing VIX and mass complacency. Which I predict will… pic.twitter.com/6tdzLuAuVt — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) June 6, 2025 BofA’s Hartnett …
Brig. Gen. Doug Wickert delivered “a sobering assessment of China’s growing military capabilities” in a briefing to community leaders, according to an Air Force press release. Wickert, the 412th Test Wing commander, spoke at Antelope Valley College. Edwards Air Force Base is located in the Mojave desert about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Wickert …
“People think [weed] is going to help you sleep at night… decrease your anxiety… treat pain. None of that has been shown medically. It increases your anxiety. It doesn’t help you sleep. It doesn’t treat pain.” — @DrMarcSiegel pic.twitter.com/KPUhvXoCEz — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) June 6, 2025
by Michael The Russians and the Chinese have both been developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles that can cause such immense destruction that they make the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima look like a child’s toy. The U.S. has been working on a new intercontinental ballistic missile too, but it won’t be ready for quite a …
TRUMP JUST NOW: – I SPOKE TO PUTIN, HE TOLD ME HE WILL BE RESPONDING WITH FORCE TO UKRAINE’S RECENT ATTACK ON THEIR DOCKED AIRPLANES – GOOD CONVERSATION BUT PEACE IS NOT COMING SOON – PUTIN SAID HE’LL HELP WITH GETTING IRAN TO BACK OFF A NUCLEAR WEAPON markets may be asking… — amit (@amitisinvesting) …
JOE ROGAN: WHAT IF QUANTUM COMPUTING ENDS ENCRYPTION? “What is money essentially right now? It’s all ones and zeros, right? And what is the bottleneck? Well, the bottleneck is encryption, right? So that’s how you protect people from stealing your ones and zeros. But what if it gets to the point where we’re all using …
“Yesterday an insider told me Google had the opportunity to launch an LLM model like ChatGPT well before OpenAI did, as DeepMind had been working on AI for years. Then, why did they decide not to do it? Because it would have cannibalized Google Ads revenues and made Google Search engine obsolete in the same …
TRADE WAR: “China, the game you’re playing with Russia is about to change, if you keep buying cheap Russian oil, to fuel of Putin’s war machine, there will be a 500% tariff on all of your products” — Lindsey Graham threatens Xi from Kiev “Russia is a gas station with nuclear arms” — Senator Blumenthal …