As everyone marvels at the performance of the U.S. stock market, just remember that in CAD, Aussie Dollar and Yen terms, the S&P 500 is barely up more than 1% for the year; flat against the Kiwi and Sterling; and down 3% in peso terms, down 5% in euro terms and down 6% in Swedish

It turns out Ukrianes now Ex Defence Minister Umerov, who lorded over forced mobilisation and suicide missions of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Ukrainians, was refused as Ambassador to the US because, wait for it.. He is a US Citizen.

Mohamed A. El-Erian

U.S. homeowners have $34 trillion in equity. That's almost triple the levels in the 2006 bubble. As a % of GDP, it's the most housing wealth homeowners in the U.S. have ever had.

This is absolutely insane. There’s now a $1.5 TRILLION gap between what investors (like pension funds) put into private equity & what private equity has paid back to those investors — and now Trump may let private equity firms use Americans’ 401k savings to bail themselves out!

China has rejected 300,000 tons of soybeans labeled as from Argentina. Customs tests found pesticide residues and DNA showing they actually came from the US. China is cracking down on US farmers who try to sell their crops to China by faking the country of origin.

LADIES & GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO 2025…

Been living with the new Lexus GX550 since trading in our cursed Tahoe for a few months now. Takeaway: American automakers have a big problem on their hands. The Lexus is faster. Better looking. Smoother ride. More capable off-road. Better sound system. Better tech. Better

An incredibly well written column that connects 1) how we have constructed suburbs; 2) pedestrian deaths; 3) the criminalization of parenting; and 4) the isolating manner in which kids are raised.

This is a mechanic

Why is Trump sending troops to DC to fight crime during the recess? All the criminals went home to their districts. #sassywithmassie

Russian national TV: "let's go to our correspondent who is on the ground now in Anchorage" the correspondent: *at a Party City parking lot* 🤣 I'm wheezing

And thankfully Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush ignored them - for the betterment of the U.S. and humanity.

🚨RARE: Epstein & Maxwell Hidden Documentary (American Girls in Paris, 1988) This was 37 years ago folks...

Someone got their hands on the security footage of the recruiter randomly ejecting out of their F15 incentive flight while the plane was still taxiing

Seems about right.

Hey Grok, my sarcastic physicist colleagues are lecturing me again. Maybe I’m a big dumb-dumb, but I seem to remember something about John Aristotle Phillips’ undergraduate work under Freeman Dyson in 1976 at Princeton. Was physics secrecy really confined to the 1940s & 1950s?

🇮🇳🇪🇺🇺🇸 “They accuse India of profiting from (Russian) oil” India’s Foreign Minister: “They are accusing us of doing business. There’s a simple solution, don’t buy it” LMAO … yap

Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton in 2019: ‘Our sanctions on Venezuela have frozen $7 billion in PDVSA’s assets and will cost Venezuela🇻🇪 $11 billion of lost revenue in the next year’ Socialism didn’t destroy Venezuela, US sanctions did. Now the US has