Benchmarking Your Portfolio May Have More Risk Than You Think
Benchmarking Your Portfolio May Have More Risk Than You Think Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentdvice.com, During ripping bull markets, investors often start benchmarking. That is comparing their portfolio’s performance against a major index—most often, the S&P 500 index. While that activity is heavily encouraged by Wall Street and the media, funded by Wall Street, […]
ChatGPT Suspends Scarlett Johansson Voice Clone After She Lawyers Up
ChatGPT Suspends Scarlett Johansson Voice Clone After She Lawyers Up OpenAI, which is losing key execs at a rapid pace – has made the choice to “pause” its new ChatGPT voice after actress Scarlett Johansson lawyered up and threatened legal action, alleging that the AI start-up copied her voice after she refused to license it […]
Taiwan’s New President Sworn In, Calls On Chinese Regime To Stop Intimidation
Taiwan’s New President Sworn In, Calls On Chinese Regime To Stop Intimidation By Frank Fang of Epoch Times Taiwan’s new president has been sworn into office, calling on the Chinese regime to stop its military and political intimidations in a speech unlikely to deter the communist regime’s ambition to seize control of the self-ruling island. […]
Over 80,000 Crypto Shorts Liquidated For Over $290 Million In 24 Hours As Ethereum Erupts
Over 80,000 Crypto Shorts Liquidated For Over $290 Million In 24 Hours As Ethereum Erupts As the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices exploded toward new all-time highs, the recently piled-on shorts have suffered the brunt of the liquidations. In the last day alone, over $360 million was liquidated from the crypto market with the majority hitting […]
Economist Warns of Imminent Recession as 19 States Show Rising Unemployment
A recession appears imminent, with 19 states already showing signs of economic distress, warns economist Nancy Lazar. These states, which contribute 40% of the US GDP, have seen a 0.5 percentage point rise in unemployment over three months, historically a precursor to nationwide recessions. Lazar points to the delayed effects of Federal Reserve rate hikes […]
Precious Metals Surge: Gold and Silver Hit Record Levels
Gold and silver prices continue to hover near record highs amid rising geopolitical tensions. Both gold and silver futures reached record levels last week and remain strong as global uncertainty persists. Yahoo Finance Senior Markets Reporter Jared Blikre discusses these movements and their implications for the commodity market.
People No Longer Buy The Lies
People No Longer Buy The Lies Authored by James Howard Kunstler via DailyReckoning.com, People Have Woken Up… The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst media meme – that a […]
Mainstream Finally Gets It… The AI Investment Play Isn’t Tech, It’s Energy
Mainstream Finally Gets It… The AI Investment Play Isn’t Tech, It’s Energy Almost two months ago, we highlighted what we called at the time ‘The Next AI Trade‘ – that in fact it is not the tech itself, but the electrical power required to run the tech that is the limiting factor on the growth […]
How Private Equity “Adds Value” In A Fiat-Financed World
How Private Equity “Adds Value” In A Fiat-Financed World Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, This past weekend I was at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference in Montreal, where I moderated a panel on Bitcoin As A Treasury Asset For Corporations. At the time I disclosed that 100% of easyDNS‘ retained earnings are in Bitcoin – and that the mark-to-market […]
Ayatollah Sets Presidential Election Date As High-Stakes Power Struggle Begins
Ayatollah Sets Presidential Election Date As High-Stakes Power Struggle Begins Two days following the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and several of his top officials in a helicopter crash in the country’s northeast, Tehran has announced the date of presidential elections: June 28. State-run IRNA announced an official election campaign window of June 12-27, […]