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Unlike the 2008 crash, where lies were exposed, today’s central bankers pump liquidity to fake prosperity, propping up stocks while economy craters. Politicians nod along, ignoring the rot as markets dance on borrowed time. The system’s not clueless, it’s complicit. Just hit a new cycle high of 39% probability pic.twitter.com/NpGRRoQ4FG …
The system’s crumbling, gold’s at $3500, a dead canary in a coal mine. Central banks cut rates as inflation hits 3%, pure sabotage dressed up as policy. Yields at 30-year peaks shout panic, not control. They’re pumping a bubble to dodge the collapse. This isn’t economics, it’s a knife in …
The collapse isn’t theoretical. It’s procedural. Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than a year. The company emerged from its last restructuring in March. By August, it was back in court. Again. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/spirit-airlines-chapter-11-bankruptcy.html “Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for …
Two Nvidia customers made up 39% of Nvidia’s revenue in its July quarter, the company revealed in a financial filing on Wednesday, raising concerns about the concentration of the chipmaker’s clientele. “Customer A” made up 23% of total revenue, and “Customer B” comprised 16% of total revenue, according to the …
Yup. Basically pic.twitter.com/mKedOV6P44 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 31, 2025 The Federal Reserve is facing pressure on two fronts as inflation picks up and the labor market shows signs of slipping. Sevens Report Research founder Tom Essaye joins Opening Bid to explain why this puts the central bank in a …
CHINA'S BYD OUTSELLS $TSLA IN EUROPE FOR 2ND TIME THIS YEAR BYD crushed Tesla again in July with European 🇪🇺 sales more than tripling to 13,503 vehicles versus Tesla's 6,600 registrations that dropped over 42% from last year. This marks the second time BYD has outsold Tesla in… pic.twitter.com/PwvTJrpD3W — …
Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. “Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports” than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice …
Chabely Rodriguez takes money seriously. She strategically chose an affordable college and lucrative career path that has set her up to live comfortably at 30 years old. Rodriguez is a certified anesthesiologist assistant, and in 2024, she switched from a salaried role to working as a traveling CAA in contract …
Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia “I am the city’s accountant, auditor, and paymaster” overseeing $35 billion in spending 🚨 He says if he performs an audit to provide transparency and California Democrats don’t like his findings, they cut his staff. Last year they cut his staff by 27 positions …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Truck sales plunge amidst tariff concerns and uncertainty. Class 8 Truck Orders Hit 15-Year Low CJC reports Class 8 Truck Orders Hit 15-Year Low FTR Transportation Intelligence marked declines of 25% month-over-month and 36% year-over-year, with 8,900 units booked last month. While June typically sees …
Zohran Mamdani wants to wipe every misdemeanor off New York’s map. Not just petty theft. Not just drug possession. DUI, unarmed assault, prostitution, fare evasion. All gone. “Police have a critical role to play but right now we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety …
“A homebuyer must earn $114,627 to afford the median-priced U.S. home, up 15% from a year ago and more than 50% since the start of the pandemic… That’s the highest annual income necessary to afford a home on record” https://investors.redfin.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/987/redfin-reports-that-homebuyers-must-earn-115000-to-afford “Buyers now need to earn 70% more than they did …
Interest payments on the national debt hit $1.049 trillion in the first 10 months of FY2025, up 30% from the same period last year. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/12/interest-payments-on-the-national-debt-top-1-trillion-as-deficit-swells.html The Treasury confirms the government is on track to spend $1.2 trillion on interest payments for the full fiscal year ending October 2025. https://www.investopedia.com/why-interest-payments-are-blowing-up-the-federal-budget-8712197 The …
Alarming graph of housing demand implosion to lowest point in 30 years is at 18 seconds of video. -2.7% Latest News Existing-home sales decreased by 2.7% in June. Month-over-month sales declined in the Northeast, Midwest, and South, and rose modestly in the West. Year-over-year, sales fell in the Northeast and …
775,037 signatures. Not noise. Not protest. A coordinated rupture. The petition demands an immediate general election. Threshold passed. Debate now legally required. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/727309?sfnsn=scwspmo Government response? “Mandate of change.” “Fixing foundations.” Translation: stall tactics. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2094908/general-election-petition-labour This is no fringe movement. Clacton: +1,900 signatures. Holborn & St Pancras, Starmer’s own seat: +418. …
The average American scrolls 86 miles a year. Not metaphorically. Thumb to glass. That is more than three marathons. Oddly, it is six miles more than we walk. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/forget-walking-americans-scroll-86-miles-a-year-on-phones-and-the-number-keeps-rising-are-you-guilty-too/articleshow/123337096.cms Arizona tops the list. 8 hours and 50 minutes of screen time daily. 115.37 miles of scrolling each year. Distance from …
$UNH has filed for 26% increase in ACA rates for the next year. Even $OSCR filed for 21% increase. Healthcare companies are set to see a V-shaped margin recovery next year. It’s currently the cheapest S&P 500 sector at 16 times earnings.$UNH $ELV $OSCR $CNC $CI pic.twitter.com/TNVe6EpqqU — Oguz Erkan …
Prediction: Q2 was the best GDP print we see this year. We spent that quarter front loading inventory ahead of the tariffs. We will see what the tariffed economy really looks like in the second half of the year. Expecting a slowdown. — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 13, 2025 what …
The year of AI pic.twitter.com/bQ2CnKkEF5 — THE SHORT BEAR (@TheShortBear) August 9, 2025 The Mag 7 is currently ~35% of the SPX. For those who say Big Tech can’t possibly get any bigger… Railroads were 63% of the U.S. Stock Market in 1881.$NVDA $MSFT $META $GOOG $AAPL $TSLA $AMZN pic.twitter.com/mshtySwW9D …
CNN lost 42 percent of total viewers in July, with a 55 percent drop in the key demographic. “CNN declined by 42 percent in total viewers and 55 percent in-demo viewers compared to July 2024.” https://barrettmedia.com/2025/08/01/ratings-roundup-cnn-sees-40-year-over-year-decline-in-july/ MSNBC fell 27 percent in total primetime viewers and 40 percent in the primetime …
The school year ended and ChatGPT usage fell right off a cliff. pic.twitter.com/2iU3aa4iA6 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) August 7, 2025
It’s clear the economy is slowing down badly and yet the market continues to hit new highs daily. Such a bizarre world. pic.twitter.com/0YaCw6mAGQ — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 6, 2025 The U.S. economy is experiencing a noticeable slowdown in mid-2025, with sluggish domestic demand growth, muted job gains, and new …
NEW: San Diego pastor busted by @peoplevpreds for allegedly messaging who he thought were 14 and 15-year-old boys on Grindr. Reverend Roger Haenke, with St. John's Episcopal Church, was seen emerging from his home with his husband after being confronted. The San Diego pastor… pic.twitter.com/LZou0KZsP2 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August …
A 25-year-old man collapsed while playing badminton at Hyderabad’s Nagole Stadium. He was rushed to the hospital but declared dead on arrival due to cardiac arrest.
by Michael Have the official employment numbers finally achieved peak fakeness? We just got another perfect example of why so many of us have completely lost faith in the fake figures that government bureaucrats have been feeding us. For months we were told that employment was booming, but now we are being told …
Meta and Microsoft just blew out earnings. But look past the headlines. Meta posted $47.5B in Q2 revenue, up 36%, and beat EPS by over $1.25. Microsoft hit $76.4B, up 18%, with a 24% profit beat. Cloud is booming. Azure grew 34%. AI is the story. But the bill is …
In 2008 and again in 2020, similar steep drops in credit were quickly followed by aggressive Fed rate cuts and liquidity injections. This time, we’re seeing the same kind of credit contraction, but the Fed is still holding rates high, and there’s no sign of emergency fiscal support coming either. …
Supply chain jitters deepen with sustained trucking decline. US trucking volumes are down 14% YoY. The diversion in the direction freight market started in earnest around early February, around the start of some of the chaotic messaging around tariffs began. pic.twitter.com/FB8PDZCLhx — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) July 21, 2025 Here …
Nearly 90,000 phantom jobs per month go unexplained. What is happening here? The BLS just said the number of jobs reported for the 9 months ending December 2024 was likely overstated by ~800,000. This comes as the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data, covering 97% of employers, showed …
