Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Japan: Nikkei Declines Most Since Black Monday in 1987
August 2nd, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average on Friday recorded the second biggest daily drop in its history, as stocks extended losses following a sell-off in New York overnight. The index plunged to 35,909.70, down 2,216.63 points, or 5.81%, marking its lowest close since Jan. 26. Friday’s decline was the second largest in the index’s […]
Intel Is Laying Off Over 15,000 Employees
August 1st, 2024Update: Intel’s, “Worst Day Ever” Wrecked. Via: USA Today: Intel shares sank nearly 28% on Friday and were set for their worst day ever after the company suspended dividend and slashed workforce to fund a costly turnaround for its chip-making business. The company was set to lose about $35 billion in market value as its […]
The U.S. National Debt Just Passed $35 Trillion
August 1st, 2024Via: Yahoo Finance: The US national debt topped a psychologically important milestone of $35 trillion in recent days and has risen by $1 trillion since January — mounting by nearly $5 billion every day so far in 2025. This latest barrier was formally pierced last Friday. That’s when a daily Treasury Department tabulation, which was […]
Surveillance Capitalism and PsyWar
July 28th, 2024Via: Dr. Robert Malone: Surveillance capitalism is a novel economic system that has emerged in the digital era. It is characterized by the unilateral claim of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. In this version of capitalism, predicting and influencing behavior (political and economic) rather than producing goods and […]
Trump and Larry Fink
July 22nd, 2024Via: New York Post: According to the old cliché, opposites attract. And there may be no greater example of ?this than the odd, interesting, and for the country beneficial relationship between Larry Fink and Donald Trump. Yes, you read that right. Fink and Trump.
“Anybody who tells you they know what is going to happen is a liar.”
July 21st, 2024My guess is that the same machinery that killed JFK will do anything to widen the conflict with Russia. Trump might get in the way of that. With trillions of dollars on the line for the perpetrators, trying to guess what’s about to happen isn’t easy, but I think many of us can agree on […]
CrowdStrike Update that Caused Global Outage Likely Skipped Checks
July 20th, 2024Wow, you don’t say… Maybe normal procedures weren’t followed that day because management relocated the quality assurance department to a sloped roof. Via: Reuters: Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it […]
Error with CrowdStrike Update Caused Massive Microsoft System Failures
July 19th, 2024Test run? Via: Reuters: A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected technologies. A software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike appeared to have triggered systems problems that grounded flights, forced […]
California: Children, Parents and Gavin Newsom’s Maniac Transgender Agenda
July 16th, 2024On this news, Musk announced he is pulling both SpaceX and X Out of California: Elon Musk is moving both SpaceX and X headquarters out of California and into Texas over the liberal state’s new gender identity laws. The 52-year-old billionaire announced the major move on Tuesday, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of a law […]
Trump Announces Ohio Sen JD Vance as His 2024 Running Mate
July 15th, 2024Update: Brief Commentary When this announcement came out, I didn’t know anything about JD Vance at all. I looked briefly and saw that he’s closely associated with Thiel and Vance’s wife was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Thiel is the special sauce behind Vance’s rise (financial backing) and his making amends with Trump. Vance used to […]
