Middle class Americans are finally speaking out about the cost of living crisis — and what they’re saying reveals just how difficult life has become. From groceries and housing to everyday bills and basic necessities, more Americans are questioning how long they can keep up with rising costs.
Big tech AI builders sold huge piles of bonds this year. Amazon Alphabet Meta Oracle already did about 194 billion through early July. Goldman sees the five big ones hitting 250 billion total in 2026. Longer bonds got hit hardest. SpaceX 30-year yield rose to 7.3 percent. Oracle long notes climbed near 7.8 percent. Some … Read more
Nothing says confidence in clean government quite like giving someone a pardon before they’re even charged with a crime. Think about what a preemptive pardon actually says. “You are free for whatever you may have done in the past, and the federal government can’t prosecute you for it.” That used to be an extraordinary constitutional … Read more
Snap’s earnings this week may end up answering a much bigger question than whether the company beat estimates. Can social media still grow when AI is changing the way people search, create content, and discover information? For more than a decade, the formula was simple. Get more users. Keep them scrolling longer. Sell more ads. … Read more
Link to the committee report for this bill containing the favorable language for Morocco with respect to the territory controlled by Spain:https://t.co/SIcFaQYkIK pic.twitter.com/gFuy1nWo9X — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 1, 2026 Massie posts that two weeks ago House passed bill greenlighting Spanish territory transfer to Morocco. Every Republican except him voted yes. Now same people act … Read more
They gave him the Zo-ld shoulder. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was snubbed from eulogizing Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad at the fallen soldier’s Queens funeral Friday — and the embarrassing scene unfolded in real time as he fumed while waiting in vain to give his speech, sources revealed. Mamdani, who was relegated to the fourth row … Read more
Private sector labor costs rose 0.9 percent in second quarter 2026. Slightly higher than the 0.8 percent Wall Street expected. Yearly wage growth slowed to 3.1 percent for private sector, smallest since early 2021. Real wages after inflation dropped 0.3 to 0.4 percent. Wall Street still freaks out when regular workers get paid more. US … Read more
The CHEAT CODE almost no USD investor knows exists. Swiss stocks returned 7.7% a year over the last 100 years. Pictet has tracked it since 1926: the most defensive, quality-heavy market on earth. Nestlé, Roche, the compounders of record. Now the trick. The SNB’s rate is 0%. The Fed’s is above 4%. When a USD … Read more
A notepad in front of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent reads “To Do Buy Japanese Yen $5-10 bil” as he participates in a cabinet meeting at Camp David, Maryland, U.S., July 31, 2026. The note, photographed at 1:33 EDT, came after Reuters earlier reported the Treasury had put banks on alert fora possible … Read more
The interesting part about Netflix falling isn’t that people suddenly hate Netflix. It’s that for the first time in years, customers are starting to question whether the deal still makes sense. That is a much bigger problem. For a long time, Netflix had one of the strongest pricing machines in the world. Raise prices. Crack … Read more
I’d like to see her to name just one. 🚨 KAMALA JUST PULLED A NUMBER OUT OF THIN AIR AGAIN She claims Elon + Rubio’s DOGE cuts to USAID “killed” 600,000–700,000 people. That’s not a statistic. That’s fan fiction. DOGE didn’t kill anybody. All they do is lie. pic.twitter.com/8np50Ksmco — Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 31, … Read more
Man passes out on jet ski and hits dock full speed pic.twitter.com/3QecunXdIM — Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) July 31, 2026
The next Windows Update you do on a Dell computer… could be your last.
ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges Madison began using ChatGPT in December 2024. Her initial interactions with the system were mundane, but then turned dark, the complaint alleges. “ChatGPT destroyed Christian’s mental stability and grasp on reality,” the lawsuit says. “ChatGPT convinced Christian that it … Read more
Project officially opened by President Sisi in May 2026 during the wheat harvest on the new land. Goal is to turn about 2.2 million feddans (roughly 9,000–9,200 square kilometres) of Western Desert into farmland — an area the size of Cyprus. Main water source is treated agricultural drainage water that used to flow into the … Read more
Former Navy SEAL and Discovery Channel host Joel Lambert says Americans preparing for an emergency should forget the Hollywood fantasy of grabbing a backpack and disappearing into the wilderness. Instead, they should start by making sure they can survive inside their own homes. Lambert, author of “A Navy SEAL’s Bug-In Guide: How to Turn Your … Read more
For almost 30 years, Google worked the same way. Websites created the content. Google indexed it. Users clicked the links. Everyone benefited. That deal is starting to fall apart. Google still controls roughly 90% of global search. Now it puts AI answers at the top of the page. Most people never need to scroll. They … Read more
The timing almost sounds fictional. Leopold Aschenbrenner was reportedly in Carmel, California, preparing for a multi-day wedding celebration, complete with a pre-wedding colloquium on big ideas, just as his AI-focused hedge fund was unraveling. The 24-year-old had built a firm that at one point managed roughly $45 billion, riding the AI boom with heavily leveraged … Read more
50k to 60k crossed into Ceuta. Most young men. 57-67 dead. Nearly all returned fast. Videos and intel reports show trucks, buses, police pointing the way. Spanish warnings ignored. Coordination claims match the footage and history of Morocco using migration as pressure. earth's cancer There is so much misinformation being spread about what’s actually happening … Read more
“even with “140,000 troops on the ground… on top of 350,000 Afghan troops,” we “could not stop crossborder traffic in that one province.” Yet Washington claims we can… We could not "quarantine" South Vietnam, not even with unlimited B-52 carpet bombing, 5,000 combat aircraft, and 500,000 American troops on the ground. Right in South Vietnam. … Read more