Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
November 18th, 2025Via: BBC: Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationality” in the current AI boom. […]
Project Prometheus: Jeff Bezos Launching $6.2 Billion AI Startup He Will Co-Lead
November 17th, 2025Haha no way ? Copy ? https://t.co/TG8UMrWwQr — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2025 Via: Forbes: Jeff Bezos is set to serve as the co-CEO of Project Prometheus—a new artificial intelligence startup he is partially funding—the New York Times reported on Monday, the billionaire’s first significant executive role since he stepped down as Amazon’s CEO […]
Labor Demographer Issues Warning: College-Educated Oversupply Is Here
November 16th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: Goldman analysts led by Evan Tylenda published a note on emerging labor-market risks and how companies are adapting to aging demographics and shrinking labor pools. One section stood out in particular: the widening mismatch between an oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs. Tylenda and others […]
Yann LeCun Leaving Meta — Large Language Models Are a Dead End
November 16th, 2025Warning: Not investment advice. I provide ideas and analysis to a Cryptogon reader who is very active in equity investing. What follows is based on information that I’ve provided to this investor. Making money on long side trades in tech related stocks, and stocks in general, has been easy in recent months. This is due […]
Amazon’s Starlink Rival Is Called Leo
November 14th, 2025A few days ago, my (very rural) area in New Zealand became eligible for free hardware on Starlink. That’s extremely tempting… I’d get the Residential Lite service tier, which deprioritizes traffic in favor of users who pay for the full priced regular service. If you have Starlink’s Residential Lite service, what speeds do you get, […]
Dr. Suzanne Humphries: Deadly Secrets & Monkey Business
November 13th, 2025“What we saw in 2020 was not a new thing.” Via: Children’s Health Defense: Books: Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Dr. Suzanne Humphries Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker
Make America Great Again: Trump Organization’s Increasing Employment of Foreign Workers
November 13th, 2025Via: The Hill: The Trump Organization requested 184 foreign workers to work across various company properties, a record number that has increased over the years. The company sought to hire workers through H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and at Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, Va., according to data […]
Club of Rome: Giant Leaps
November 13th, 2025? THE “GIANT LEAP” — THE WEF’S MOST RADICAL BLUEPRINT YET The global elites have finally said the quiet part out loud: their so-called “Giant Leap” is not a proposal — it’s a plan to reshape society from the top down, whether the public agrees or not. In their own words, this… pic.twitter.com/OjgrqJTA5a — Jim […]
U.S. Has Stopped Minting Pennies
November 13th, 2025Via: USA Today: America’s last penny was struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, the end of a coin production that started in 1793 and ended Nov. 12. We’re already starting to miss them. Some stores have begun running short of pennies and have had to round cash transactions up or down to the nearest […]
Trump: Keep Useless Universities from Going Bankrupt by Importing Hundreds of Thousands Chinese Students
November 11th, 2025Besides the mostly useless grant swindling and fraud, there’s a massive amount of military and other government agency related research that happens at universities. It’s too hard to try to clean up the mess, so just maintain the status quo with more Chinese money. NOW – Trump says 600,000 Chinese students coming to the U.S. […]
