8 Ton Truck Terrifies Drivers on Missouri Highway — Police Scramble to Stop It

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An 8-ton Freightliner was weaving across I-55 as 911 calls poured in from concerned drivers. When Missouri State Highway Patrol caught up, stopping this massive truck would prove to be anything but simple. What followed was a dangerous pursuit through Jefferson and Ste. Genevieve counties, with the Freightliner continuing down the highway even after spike … Read more

Bessent doubles Treasury buybacks but long yields keep climbing. Economist fears U.S. Treasury debt spiral. ‘There will be difficult choices.’

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30-year yield remains near its highest level since 2007 after the buyback news faded. Bessent signaled possible further increases beyond $4 billion and upcoming fiscal consolidation talk. Dollar weakness continues with DXY under the 200-day average for the first time in months. Analysts call the buyback size a small signal relative to total debt outstanding. … Read more

Iran hackers hit UK power plant , Israel eyes Turkish forces in Syria

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Oh boy. Now they’re hitting Europe. https://t.co/mZGg4SXIBB — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 22, 2026 FFS 🤦‍♂️. Wen WW3? https://t.co/QDV4czEVf7 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 22, 2026 Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days in July Attack hit a small-scale generator with no risk to the national energy system UK government … Read more

Warren Buffett in the retirement home watching Berkshire Hathaway gamble the $400B cash pile he spent the last 3 years building

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Warren Buffett in the retirement home watching Berkshire Hathaway gamble the $400B cash pile he spent the last 3 years building byu/Kervandos inwallstreetbets Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says Salesforce partners say they have yet to see any meaningful revenue from Agentforce, two years after the CRM giant launched … Read more

30-year bond yield hits highest weekly close since 2007. The Fed’s brakes stopped working, and this is why.

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When rate hikes began in 2022, office construction rolled over as usual, sliding about a third. Data-center construction did the opposite, roughly quadrupling and overtaking office construction for the first time, because AI capex does not care what money costs. The biggest swing factor in construction is now immune to interest rates. The Fed must … Read more

The AI bubble may not burst where everyone is looking

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Everyone keeps watching Nvidia. That’s probably not where I’d look first. The more interesting question is where the money financing the AI buildout comes from. Because the AI boom has become much more than companies spending their own cash on servers. It’s turning into a financing chain. Hyperscalers borrow. AI companies raise money. Private credit … Read more

‘This is an Active Threat’: US Gov Warns Hackers Are Attacking Vulnerable Water Systems with AI Help

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Amidst a spate of ongoing cyberattacks targeting water systems across the country, the U.S. government’s security agencies are warning that hackers are actively breaking into Siemens devices used in critical infrastructure. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency, among others, said on Wednesday that hackers are targeting “all” Siemens S7 programmable … Read more

ICE pulls injured mother and daughter from hospital bed

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ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. byu/andmario_com inPublicFreakout Factcheck: Video and family accounts match. ICE agents took Grace Calero and her 19-year-old daughter out of the hospital ER while they were still being treated after a serious car crash. Mother still in hospital gown. … Read more

Argentine Wizards Protest Peter Thiel’s Palantir Surveillance Empire.

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A gang of Argentinian Gandalfs protest against Palantir in front of Peter Thiel's house in Buenos Aires They unfurled a banner that reads 'YOU SHALL NOT PASS, YOU MOTHERF*CKER' pic.twitter.com/iZFTFafM0h — RT Intl (@RT_on_X) August 18, 2026 Translated from Spanish A squadron of Gandalfs went to protest at Peter Thiel’s residence in Buenos Aires and … Read more

The US consumer is flashing red flags all over the place

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When the US consumer is weakening, Walmart is usually one of the last dominoes to fall. When economic conditions get tough, low-income shoppers rely on it even more. It’s also become a destination for higher-income consumers looking to cut costs. That’s what made Walmart’s first comparable-sales loss in six years particularly hard to swallow on … Read more

China spent years building a 1.2 billion barrel oil stockpile. Now it is using it to take control of the oil price.

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“During the worst oil crisis in years, the world’s top crude buyer cut imports by 40%, from 11.6 million barrels a day in 2025 to around 7 million by June. Its economy still grew 4.3% last quarter, so weak demand cannot explain it. This was deliberate. Traders now call China the OPEC of oil demand. … Read more

Now why would they do a thing like that

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Now why would they do a thing like that byu/w1ndyshr1mp inconspiracy The DOJ Press Release contains carefully crafted verbiage that is a wonder to behold: United States Attorney’s Office – District of Maryland – August 18, 2026 Former Senior NIAID Official Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic Excerpt (Bold and brackets added): Additionally, … Read more

Walmart may be a great company at exactly the wrong price

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Walmart just gave investors a strange combination of numbers. U.S. comparable sales grew only 2.6% in the latest quarter. That’s the company’s weakest U.S. comparable-sales growth in more than six years. Transactions grew just 1.5%. And investors hated it. The stock dropped sharply after the report. But then you look underneath the headline and things … Read more

Bond market going to burst stock bubble? The bond market is sending the same warning it sent in 1873

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via MarketWatch: When it comes to stock-market downturns, listen to the Bible. Even if one is coming, “of that day and that hour knoweth no man,” not even “the angels which are in heaven.” But one is surely coming, and the unraveling of the long-term bond market is raising the chances that one is imminent. … Read more