Canada trade tensions not slowing down yet

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TRUMP: – DIRECTING THE USTR TO BEGIN REMOVING CANADIAN ORIGIN PRODUCTS FROM US GOV PROCUREMENT PROGRAMS – CANADA HAS ALREADY BANNED US FROM SELLING INTO THE GOV, WE SHOULD DO THE SAME – NO RECIPROCITY, NO ACCESS Canada trade tensions not slowing down yet. pic.twitter.com/bvKdFlxcEo — amit (@amitisinvesting) September 8, 2026

The next CPI report could look better even while inflation risks are getting worse

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U.S. CORE CPI SEEN COOLING TO 2.4% Analyst estimates ahead of Friday’s CPI report point to core inflation rising 0.22% month-over-month in August, matching July’s pace. Core CPI is expected to ease to 2.4% year-over-year, potentially the lowest since early 2021. Headline CPI is seen accelerating to around 0.39% monthly, largely due to higher energy … Read more

Miss Austria Lucia Sisic dies at 22; country will not participate at Miss Universe 2026

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Key takeaways Early Life & Health Struggles: Born with a congenital heart valve defect, Lucia underwent seven heart procedures, including a critical surgery in 2017 that required resuscitation, and openly shared her journey to inspire others. Pageant Achievements: Crowned Miss Vienna 2024 and later Miss Austria 2024, she remained the reigning titleholder at her passing; … Read more

NBC reports female jurors resorted to ‘name-calling’ as the lone male juror continued to hold out against them in the Lindsay Clancy trial

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BREAKING: NBC reports female jurors resorted to ‘name-calling’ as the lone male juror continued to hold out against them in the Lindsay Clancy trial pic.twitter.com/3jiXXeZLvR — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) September 9, 2026 Same interview. Confirmed they were on the jury. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74k13kpv2noNew York Times Eleven agreed. One said no. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/jurors-lindsay-clancy-trial.htmlNewsweek Holdout still unnamed. https://www.newsweek.com/lindsay-clancy-trial-what-we-know-about-mysterious-holdout-juror-12419285

Price hikes, layoffs and killing low margin products all at once… feels like INTC is optimizing for survival, not growth

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$INTC is Reportedly Planning Another 10% PC CPU Price Hike in October – Digitimes The increase is aimed at improving gross margins rather than gaining market share, according to DIGITIMES, as global PC shipments are expected to fall to roughly 250M units in 2027. Intel is also reportedly considering discontinuing its low-margin Small Core lineup, … Read more

The USA getting awfully close to Kharg Island. Multiple sources are reporting this.

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Things are heating up again 🔥🔥🔥 The USA getting awfully close to Kharg Island. Multiple sources are reporting this. https://t.co/tzxQ8fZLzH — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 8, 2026 The U.S. has already struck a tanker near Kharg Island. CENTCOM says one of the five tankers destroyed Tuesday was the Derya, located near Kharg. Iranian state media … Read more

BESSENT: “I am the house.”… TEN YEAR BOND: “No, look at me, I am the house.”

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The six-month bill is over 4%. pic.twitter.com/85wXV1VWOX — Bob Bishop – Muckraker (@RealBobBishop) September 9, 2026 BREAKING: The US Treasury announces a new $6B bond buyback in longer dated debt. What did yields do once this was announced? The opposite of what they were supposed to do: they spiked. The exact dollar amount of the … Read more

Did the government just pass on the AI bailout in favor of quantum?

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D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Quantinuum each finalized definitive agreements with the U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday for $100 million apiece in CHIPS and Science Act funding, with the federal government taking a minority, non-controlling equity stake in each company as a condition of the grants. The three deals total $300 million and are … Read more

Adobe might have a ChatGPT problem.

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And I don’t think the problem is that ChatGPT suddenly makes Photoshop obsolete. It’s that people may stop needing to open Photoshop in the first place. Think about how image editing normally works. You open Photoshop. You find the right tool. You learn how to use it. You edit. You export. Now you can just … Read more

People love saying families used to live comfortably on one income, they leave out what “comfortably” meant.

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A family might have one bathroom. The kids shared bedrooms. The same furniture stayed in the house for decades. Clothes were repaired instead of replaced. Dinner was whatever was in the kitchen. Going out to eat was an occasion. A vacation might mean driving somewhere nearby. The family car stayed until it was falling apart. … Read more

Nike had the brand. Management blew it.

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What a mess… Thanks, ladies. pic.twitter.com/F9MPjWInBT — Women Being Awful (@WomenBeingAwful) September 8, 2026 For years, Nike had something most companies would kill for. People wanted the shoes. Athletes wanted the products. Retailers wanted to sell them. And the brand could make people pay more just because of the swoosh. Then management started changing the … Read more

Ukraine figured out how to hurt Russia. Hit the refineries.

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Ukraine figured out how to hurt Russia. Hit the refineries. Russian refinery runs fell to 3.8 million barrels a day in August, down from 5 million a year earlier. Gasoline and diesel prices inside Russia are up about 19% this year. Destroyed supply spikes prices. Every barrel… pic.twitter.com/qPUsAPPB2c — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) September … Read more

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warning the company is racing toward superintelligence that “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

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via wbaltv “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” That blunt admission from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made waves Tuesday, as the just-quit 27-year-old AI researcher spilled the beans on his way out the door in a resignation thread on X. As alarming and serious … Read more

White male labor force participation? All-time low. White male suicide rate? Near all-time highs.

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White male labor force participation? All-time low. White male suicide rate? Near all-time highs. Makes you think. https://t.co/SPv2eucLEo pic.twitter.com/cQjIVWJRsb — LayoffHedge (@LayoffAI) September 8, 2026 Young men’s labor-force participation has fallen from 69% in 2000 to about 56% now, and roughly 12% of Gen Z men are classified as NEET, meaning they’re neither working nor … Read more

Are we in a full blown war again?

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Are we in a full blown war again? This looks like Star Wars in the Middle East. https://t.co/8w3xjdcn0Y — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 9, 2026 • Beef at an all-time high• Copper at an all-time high• Diesel fuel at an all-time high• Insurance costs at all-time high• Electricity rates at an all-time high• Consumer debt … Read more