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Con los bancos empezando a fallar, hay algunas cosas fáciles y específicas que usted puede hacer para fortalecer la capacidad de su comunidad local para sobrevivir a un colapso bancario o a una devaluación del dólar. Use efectivo físico ¡Por qué deberíamos pagar con efectivo en todos los lugares que podamos con billetes en lugar de una tarjeta de crédito! — Adaptado de la publicación viral en “Fedbook” de Wren Hope Rose
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by Jeremy Kohler Another Trump Pardon: Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President Donald Trump pardoned him just three months into a three-year prison term. A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump. Devastated Families: The families of some patients in Schwartz’s nursing homes have been awarded millions of dollars from lawsuits. But they haven’t been able to collect from him. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Continue reading... |
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by Frank Shostak• Mises Wire According to much popular thinking, “monopolies” are seen as undermining individuals’ economic well-being. For instance, monopolies are often blamed for increases in the prices of goods and services, often called inflation. Also, monopolies undermine the efficient functioning of the market economy by their ability to influence the prices and the quantity of goods and services. According to this thinking, monopolies cause deviations in the market conditions from the ideal state as depicted by the “perfect competition” model. It is held that, to bring the market conditions in line with the “perfect competition” model, the enforcement of the government regulation against monopolies are necessary. In the world of perfect competition, the following features characterize a market: There are many buyers and sellers in the market; Continue reading... |
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by Iswardi Ishak Gas prices have surged dramatically worldwide, led by Myanmar (+101%). Southeast Asia dominates the rankings, with 5 of the top 10 largest increases. Major economies like the U.S. have also seen sharp rises, with prices up 35%. Fuel price spikes are beginning to push up fertilizer and food costs globally. Continue reading... |
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by Martin Armstrong What we are witnessing across the United States is not just people relocating. It is the migration of income itself, and the numbers now confirm the scale. According to the latest IRS data, California lost $11.9 billion in adjusted gross income in a single year, while New York lost $9.9 billion. At the same time, Florida gained $20.6 billion, Texas gained $5.5 billion, and states like South Carolina and North Carolina each gained roughly $4 billion. This is not theoretical. This is measurable capital movement, and it is accelerating. The critical point is that the IRS is not tracking opinions or surveys. It is tracking tax returns. These figures represent actual households, actual income, and actual wealth moving from one jurisdiction to another. The data is based on year-to-year address changes on filed tax returns, capturing both the number of households and the total income they take with them. When billions in adjusted gross income leave a state, that is not just population loss. That is a direct hit to the tax base. Continue reading... |
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by Tyler Durden The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced a sweeping enforcement action targeting suspected pandemic-era loan fraud, referring more than 562,000 borrowers tied to $22.2 billion in delinquent loans to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for collection, according to the Small Business Association. The move marks the largest referral package in the agency’s history and signals a major escalation in federal efforts to recover funds distributed through COVID-19 relief programs. The loans in question stem from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) initiatives, which were designed to support small businesses during the pandemic. According to the SBA, these loans had already been flagged for potential fraud in prior years but were not previously sent for collection or investigation. Continue reading... |
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by News18, President Trump, James Li, Shaun Ryan, Joe Rogan and ZeroHedge Cole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California, is suspected of opening fire at officers during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on April 25, 2026. Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. Although there were no injuries, one uniformed division officer was reportedly struck in his bulletproof vest. He has no criminal record. Trump said that Allen was a ‘lone wolf’ shooter. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering and has a Master’s degree in Computer Science. He was associated with Caltech’s robotic vehicle design in 2016. He participated in a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has led to descriptions of him as a “NASA fellow” in some reports. Social media profiles indicate that he is a mechanical engineer, computer scientist, indie game developer, and part-time teacher based in Los Angeles. Allen contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records. Continue reading... |
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by Tyler Durden Late Friday afternoon, as most people were checking out for the weekend after nearly two months of U.S.-Iran war fatigue, Anthropic quietly released a note titled “Project Deal.” The company built a closed marketplace where AI agents negotiated prices, struck deals, and completed real transactions with money changing hands. “We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf,” Anthropic wrote on X. The results: Claude agents made 186 deals across more than 500 listed items on a Slack-based marketplace, totaling just over $4,000 in transaction value. Anthropic’s point is that AI-to-AI commerce offers an early look at the coming agentic economy, where AI bots negotiate with other bots in a marketplace to strike the best deal. Continue reading... |
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by Kit Knightly arlier today, Iranian state media channels published a video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commandos seizing a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. I think we should talk about it. It can teach us a lot. Just watch it. Reuters describes it thus… Continue reading... |
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By David Szondy California-based aerospace company Airhart Aeronautics recently completed test flights of its new cockpit avionics suite for small planes at the company’s Long Beach facility. We sat down with Airhart President Nate Thuli to learn more. The test flights carried out on April 12, 2026 focused on the company’s Airhart Sling, which is a heavily modified South African Sling TSi that had been gutted and the interior and control systems replaced. The objective is to create a new avionics suite that could “democratize” flying small private planes by making the controls safer, more intuitive, and much simpler. This would be achieved by making the flying experience less like an airplane and more like an automobile, including replacing mechanical control linkages with fly-by-wire systems, even removing the traditional rudder pedals. To learn more about the technology behind this, we reached out to Airhart President Nate Thuli, an aerospace executive with extensive experience in defense modernization. Continue reading... |
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by Morgan June 12 to June 24, 2025, global media staged a nonstop spectacle, breathlessly narrating the scripted “12-day war” between Israel and Iran as if it were an unfolding geopolitical cataclysm. According to the standard timeline, Israel opened hostilities with “Operation Red Wedding,” targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities and senior IRGC leadership in what officials framed as a preemptive act of self-defence- (because that makes sense). Iran responded with multiple waves of ballistic missiles, claiming to hit critical infrastructure from Ben Gurion Airport and Tel Aviv to Haifa, Bat Yam, and Beersheba. Death tolls, bizarre rescue footage, and endless maps of “key strikes” fed a rolling sense of crisis. Al Jazeera’s interactive map catalogued these impact zones in detail. The press described entire neighbourhoods as “devastated,” thousands displaced, infrastructure crippled, and the state teetering on the edge. Continue reading... |
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by Allaire Conte The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines childcare as affordable if it costs 7% or less of a family’s income. Yet, in every single state, the typical family far exceeds that threshold, qualifying them as “cost-burdened” by this essential service. The timing couldn’t be worse as 1 in 3 homeowners and 1 in 2 renters are currently considered cost-burdened by housing—putting the two biggest and most essential costs of a family budget into direct competition. “Families with young kids are facing this double whammy,” explains Yuliya Panfil, director of the Future of Land and Housing Program at New America, a think tank. “If they don’t pay for child care, then they can’t work, and if they can’t work, then they can’t pay rent. So it’s this vicious cycle.” And it’s a dire assessment of the reality families face today. As a shortage of 4.03 million homes collides with a shortage of 4.2 million childcare slots, advocates argue these crises are now inextricably intertwined. Continue reading... |
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by SimpliciusLet us begin with an update on the position of US carrier groups, as it informs us a bit as to the US’s current posture toward Iran. We happen to have gotten two new satellite geolocations. First, of the USS Gerald R Ford, which had been taken out of action due to a “laundry fire”, but has now returned to the Red Sea. It was reportedly seen pulling a hard and fast u-turn at geolocation 25.275, 35.964: Which puts it about here: Additional Arleigh Burke destroyers nearby, one conducting underway replenishment with a supply ship: Continue reading... |
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To understand why the organized crime system creates “high-status monkeys” (Celebrities) to steer the youth into toxic drugs and self-destructive behavior or cultural debasement (Looksmaxxing). by Anthony Colpo As I noted in my previous post, Braden Peters, more famously known as “Clavicular”, exploded out of nowhere last year to become one of the world’s most famous influencers. Literally within the space of a month, Peters went from relative unknown to viral social media sensation. Clavicular’s message was two-fold: 1) Physical appearance is the most important determinant of your happiness and wealth, and 2) the best way to improve your appearance is via “looksmaxxing”, which radically escalates personal grooming to include “bone-smashing”, limb-lengthening surgery, anabolic drugs, hanging weighted bags from your doodle and, perhaps most controversially, crystal meth for appetite suppression and fat loss. Continue reading... |
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by Christopher Cook I’ve had these first two videos gathering dust for a while, so I figure I ought to make a #FreedomShorts post. The third one is newer, but all three are entirely worth it. This one is so good. It nukes just about every aspect of the West’s “response” to Covid (whatever Covid actually was). Don’t even get me started on the absurdity and wickedness of “climate change.” Attacking carbon monoxide is one thing. Blaming carbon dioxide for anything is an attack on life itself. And indeed, that is the point. They are criminalizing your existence—the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the energy you use. And they are stealing billions of dollars from you in the process. Continue reading... |
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by JImmy Dore and RT Jimmy Dore did a recap of the curious attempted shooting of President Trump and noted that security was lacking, JD Vance was escorted off the stage first, the alleged shooter was far away from the President and was not a danger, John Hinckley shot President Reagan at the same Hilton hotel in 1981, a chorus of right wing independent reporters and Fox News are calling for the building of the ballroom, and a random Twitter/ X account belonging to Henry Martinez tweeted out the name Cole Allen in 2023. Recently, a judge shut down the $400 million construction of Trump’s ballroom, saying that Congress must approve it, unless there is a security reason to build it. The shooting threat by Cole Tomas Allen is being used as the security threat justification for building Trump’s ballroom that many have compared to Solomon’s Temple. This is the first time Trump attended a White House Correspondence Dinner (WHCD). A TikTok content creator, disciple_derek, said the the ballroom’s architecture looks like Solomon’s Temple. Trump fired McCrery Architects and hired architectural firm Shalom Baranes Associates that is known for synagogue renovations. Trump quoted a Bible passage, 2 Chronicles, chapter 7: 11-22, about the Lord appearing to Solomon after he built the temple, suggesting the ballroom is designed to resemble Solomon’s Temple. The building of Solomon’s Third Temple is part of a religious prophecy. Continue reading... |
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by JustDonVlogs and Lifesite News Ford Motor company has filed multiple patents related to driver monitoring systems that typically use cameras, sensors, and AI to track driver attention, drowsiness/fatigue, distraction and facial expressions. The technology can track facial expressions, analyze emotions, and it is trained to read lips. Ford patent no. 0104469 “doesn’t just watch you,” it “puts drivers in jail.” This system reportedly measures a driver’s biometric data — face, iris, fingerprints — and runs the collected info through a law enforcement criminal database in real time. Technology meant to trigger a “kill switch” if a car judges a driver to be drunk might also stop someone imperiled by a threat or extreme emergency from starting their car or truck. Congressman Thomas Massie, who tried to stop the ‘kill switch’ mandate, said, “Federal law says new cars after 2026 must monitor drivers and shut down if the car disapproves. Your dashboard should not be judge, jury, and executioner.” Continue reading... |
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by Dan Thorp-Lancaster More companies are integrating AI agents into their workflows, and it’s beginning to reveal cracks in the rapid pace of AI development. Jer Crane, the founder of PocketOS, a SaaS company whose software is used by car rental companies, recently experienced this firsthand. This past week, a mix of Claude Opus 4.6 and the Cursor coding agent deleted his company’s production database — and its backups — in seconds. Crane told the story in a lengthy social media post on X, noting that Cursor was performing a routine task when it opted to fix a credential mismatch on its own. In the process, Cursor gained broad access to permissions by finding an API token from PocketOS’s cloud infrastructure provider, Railway. It then decided, without any prompting for input from the PocketOS team, to delete the production database volume. “It took 9 seconds,” Crane said. To make matters worse, all of PocketOS’s recent backups were also deleted because Railway stores them on the same volume. Crane says the most recent recoverable volume the company had access to was three months old. As if the actions Cursor took weren’t bad enough, it responded with a rundown of all the safeguards it had ignored when Crane asked why it did it. Continue reading... |
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by Robert Aro • Mises Institute The U.S. Government sells debt on a revolving door basis, yet most people aren’t aware of the mechanism by which this is done. Luckily, ZeroHedge covers the debt auction results, which allows us to articulate one of the structural problems in the Federal Reserve system. As reported last week: The week’s lone coupon auction priced at 1pm when the Treasury sold $13 BN in 20Y paper, in a solid if not stellar auction. Deciphering the trader talk in the article, the Treasury took on an additional $13 billion in debt that is repayable in 20 years, paying an annual interest rate of 4.883% (approximately $635 million a year). A 2.68 bid-to-cover ratio means that for every $1 of debt issued, there were $2.68 in bids, suggesting a healthy market appetite. Only so many entities can lend billions of dollars at a time; here are the three who took the auction: Continue reading... |
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by Kristina Byas You may be the victim of surveillance pricing without even knowing it. But what does that even mean? Surveillance pricing is the increasingly popular practice where some online retailers adjust prices for individuals based on data collected about that person, including browsing history, location, purchase history, and more. They often use third-party intermediaries to adjust those prices. According to a preliminary report released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in early 2025, these third-party intermediaries can even track your mouse movements. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do about it.1 The FTC found that companies collect personal information about online shoppers and use it to tweak the prices they pay for products. Continue reading... |
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by Joe Sommerlad The U.S. national debt is now larger than the economy as a whole, hitting levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II, new data has revealed. Figures released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Thursday place the total debt held by the American public at $31.27 trillion as of March 31. Meanwhile, the country’s nominal gross domestic product was estimated at $31.22 trillion, meaning the national debt as a percentage of GDP stands at 100.2 percent, putting it on course to challenge the historic 106 percent recorded in 1946 during demobilization. The debt stood at 99.5 percent of GDP at the end of the 2025 fiscal year in September, revealing how quickly it has climbed. Continue reading... |
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by Mike Shedlock The BEA reports Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March). In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent. Real First-Quarter GDP and GDI Real GDP: 2.0% Real Final Sales: 1.6% Continue reading... |
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