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Category: HOMEPAGE
SYSTEMIC MELTDOWN: MORE DEBT, MORE DEATH, WILL PUSH THE STOCK MARKET HIGHER
NO OTHER HUMAN ENDEAVOR ON EARTH CREATES A GREATER NEED FOR MORE BORROWED DOLLARS THAN WAR…
TOP TREND, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: PENSION FUND DUMPS OFFICE
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPIB) was one of the earliest pension funds to put money into commercial real estate, inspiring others around the world to do the same.
BOTH SIDES OF THE GEN AI BIAS COIN
The past two weeks have seen posts and reports from quite a few journalists, pundits and personalities, astounded at the biases displayed by Google’s Gemini AI, and other generative AI platforms.
ISRAELI FOOD CONVOY MASSACRE
Nearly 120 Palestinians were killed and almost 800 seriously wounded last Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians, on the verge of starvation, were gathering around food trucks that had just been brought in to help feed them.
BLIMPITES: THE WORLD IS FATTENING UP
A new study found that nearly 1 billion people—or about one-eighth of the global population—are now considered obese worldwide and researchers say there is an “urgent need” for governments to step in with policies to correct the issue.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
While The Street is still on an equity market high, thanks mostly to so-called “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks that spiked, and continue to spike, with the new AI juice they are gobbling up, it is a different world on Main Street.
THE SYSTEM IS HYPERINFLATING
The world economy is not just grinding to a halt, it’s essentially dead. With that, global debt is surging higher at its fastest pace on record.
GETTING HUNGRY: FOOD COSTS KEEP CLIMBING
In January, the cost of groceries in the U.S. was 1.2 percent higher than a year earlier and menu prices at restaurants jumped 1.2 percent, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department.
OPENAI SORA AI SYNTHETIC VIDEO CREATOR ALREADY COSTING HUMAN JOBS—AND TELEGRAPHING AGI
Sora AI, OpenAI’s sophisticated text-to-video AI generator, is showing all the signs of making as big a sensation as its ChatGPT text generating AI did about a year ago.