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Collectively, we all know fast-food isn’t the healthiest choice. And with rising prices, it often isn’t even the cheapest choice either, with the average McDonald’s meal costing $9.29. But darn it if those fast-food chains don’t have a way of calling our name! The call is especially loud when stress takes over, time is of…
Candy-Maker Says It Removed Additive Targeted By RFK Jr. From Skittles Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Skittles no longer contains titanium dioxide, a chemical identified as potentially problematic by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s commission in a recent report, the candy’s manufacturer said on May 27. Skittles on a store…
Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Swarm Attack On Russian Airfields, Trump “Not Notified In Advance” Update (1240ET): On Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued an official statement that a coordinated Ukrainian drone swarm attack targeted and damaged military aircraft across several airbases located deep within Russian territory. Affected airfields reportedly include: Murmansk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast Ivanovo…
Why California Gas Prices Are the Highest in America By Vance Ginn, The Daily Economy, May 23, 2025. Excerpt: According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), gasoline prices are generally shaped by five components: crude oil prices, refining costs, distribution and marketing, taxes, and regulations. In California, taxes and regulatory costs alone account…
Zelensky Calls Meetings With Putin ‘Meaningless’ And Asks For More Military Aid Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a three-way summit with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, likely in response to Russia’s accelerated gains on the eastern front as well as the mass missile and drone attacks on Kyiv. “If Putin is…
One of the most important personal finance questions anyone can ask themselves is exactly how much money they need on hand at any given time. Whether it’s emergency money for a home, a potential job loss, or just having some cash available for any reason at all, it’s a long-debated number. Key Points This Redditor…
Key Points Most experts recommend keeping housing costs to 30% or less of your income. A Reddit user is thinking about buying a house that would eat up 40% of his take-home pay. While there are risks to devoting so much money to housing, the poster can do a test run to see if he…
Trump Admin Targets Tech Contracts With Feds To Streamline Bloated Gov’t A new report cites an internal memo from the General Services Administration informing ‘Big Tech’ that the Trump administration is expanding its cost-cutting review of federal contractors beyond consulting firms to include now technology providers—specifically value-added resellers (VARs) like Dell and CDW. The letter, obtained…
The IRS uses required minimum distributions to ensure people take money out of their traditional retirement accounts as they get older. The agency has to collect tax revenue, but beyond that reason, withdrawing from your traditional 401(k) or IRA now can make it less of a headache for your heirs, who would have to pay…
In the US, national security has been cited by proponents of protectionism for a wide variety of products, ranging from computer chips to automobiles to shipbuilding. But when it comes to foreign countries, our protectionists often have a blind spot. They cannot even imagine that any other country might also have good reasons for national…
From Taxation To Confiscation: Europe’s Wealth Exodus & The Coming Asset Seizure Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.cm, Incoming… Theft, that is. Consider that the deindustrialisation of the communist union of Europe continues apace and with it the acceleration of the bankruptcy. Of course, the blow dried TV robots won’t tell you this, but… The…
The crippled Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has traded between $9.35 and $10.80 during the last month. At $10.38, its forward dividend is 7.23%%. Even Dividend King Altria’s (NYSE: MO) figure is lower, at 6.73%. Ford’s financial circumstances may not allow it to keep its dividend at current levels. Key Points Ford’s Dividend Is Extremely…
Key Points A Reddit poster is concerned that he made a mistake in retiring at 56. While he has the money to be retired, he’s feeling weird about being out of the workforce so young. He’s also not sure how he should be spending his days, or what can give him purpose. Are you ahead,…
With so much uncertainty surrounding Social Security and its solvency over the next 10 years, there is ongoing discussion about what, if any, steps should be taken. Short of a quick, bipartisan resolution that addresses all underlying issues, another question that has come up is whether Social Security benefits should be taxed at all. Key…
Nvidia CEO Tells Bloomberg What He Really Thinks About Biden-Era Open Borders Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who recently concluded a roadshow alongside President Trump, secured chip deals across the Gulf States and expressed support for Trump’s tariffs and “Make America First” agenda, spoke to Bloomberg about his views on the Biden-era open southern border policies….
In a meteoric gymnastics career filled with Olympic and World Champion triumphs, Simone Biles has rapidly shattered records to become the indisputable best female gymnast of all time. In addition to her unprecedented domination in a sport historically associated with Eastern European or Chinese dominance, Biles also has the distinction of overcoming another obstacle: being raised…
Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attacks Hit Russian Long-Range Bombers Open-source footage circulating on X depicts a coordinated Ukrainian drone swarm targeting Russian long-range strategic bombers—aircraft capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear payloads—deep within Russian territory. The scale, precision, and depth of the drone swarm attack on multiple Russian airfields have led some military observers to describe the…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock is down 20% this year. It was the company with the top market capitalization at the start of the year. At $3 trillion today, it is now behind Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Soon, it could fall behind Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Several factors have contributed to the decline in…
Key Points Medicare Part B increases can eat away at Social Security COLAs. Initial projections call for a modest Social Security increase in 2026. If Medicare’s increase is only moderate, seniors might come out okay. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset’s free tool can match you with a financial advisor in minutes to help you…
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German Police Outraged As Berlin Supermarket Sells Machetes Despite 79 Daily Knife Crimes Via Remix News, There is growing outrage after a discount retailer in Berlin, Norma, launched a sale on machetes, marketing the blades as low as €9.90 per machete despite a surge in knife crimes reported throughout the city and the country. The…
Key Points A Reddit poster has hurt his credit score by using a BNPL service. The poster also has very little savings to his name, which has him concerned. Since he is young, he has time to change course and improve his future. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset’s free tool can match…
Authorities Find 11 Dead Bodies In Abandoned Boat Near St. Vincent And The Grenadines Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are investigating the grim discovery of an abandoned boat with 11 decomposing bodies found near Little Bay on Canouan Island on May 26, 2025, according to ABC. The 45-foot vessel reportedly carried passports indicating…
Punitive Politics And Economic Self-Harm – Germany Plans Special Tax On U.S. Tech Giants Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, Germany is planning to introduce a 10% special tax targeting U.S. tech giants. At least now we know what the German government needs a “Minister of State for Culture and Media” for: to invent new taxes. If…
Key Points in This Article: The stock market could enter a bear market in 2025 due to inflation, tight monetary policies, and global uncertainties, but historical data shows stocks always recover and go on to new highs. Dividend stocks mitigate bear market declines by providing steady income, with reinvested dividends compounding at 9.2% annually while…
Not everyone wants to deal with managing their estate. Instead, they prefer to find a reliable financial advisor who can stay on top of the assets and grow them over time. A high-net-worth individual with a $5 million portfolio is looking for this type of solution and is choosing between two financial advisors. One of…
One of the biggest questions anyone in the FIRE world can ask themselves is what number they need to achieve to walk away from the workforce for good. For some people, it’s $1 million, and for others, the number is closer to $5 or $10 million. Still, there is always a number that makes the…
High-yielding dividend stocks may not be the ticket to superior returns, but they can rank pretty high on the list of nice-to-haves for investors in retirement or those who could use a bit of extra financial flexibility at the end of any given month. In this piece, we’ll check out a pair of dividend stocks…
Used Rolex Demand Soars On Tariff Uncertainty Trade war uncertainty has sparked a surge in buying in the secondary watch market, driven by a sharp increase in demand in April amid a multi-year downturn. Luxury timepiece prices, which peaked in early 2022, have since been halved, making the recent surge all the more notable, and hope that the…
Dividend stocks are a favorite among investors for good reason. They provide a steady stream of passive income and offer a promising avenue for total return. Total return, a comprehensive measure of investment performance, encompasses interest, capital gains, dividends, and distributions realized over time. For example, if you buy a stock at $20 that pays…
Dave Ramsey is an amusing guy to listen to, and I tend to agree more often than not with his takes on various calls. That said, some of his views stand against conventional wisdom. Whether we’re talking about the “snowball method” of debt repayment (that entails paying the smaller ones first for those small “wins”…
The Taliban Is Back In The International Spotlight Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Al Jazeera recently published a detailed piece about how India, Pakistan, and Iran are all nowadays wooing the Taliban, which is true, but they left out how Russia and China are as well while also making no mention of the newfound pressure that…
Mustached War-Monger Muses On Trump’s Peace Efforts With Iran It’s no surprise at all that the mainstream media continues featuring as ‘experts’ discredited war hawks and neocons who’ve gotten every war of the last 20 wars dead wrong – from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Syria, and the list goes on. Former national security adviser John Bolton,…
DOE Cancels $3.7 Billion In Biden-Era Green Energy Awards Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The Department of Energy has canceled 24 clean energy demonstration projects worth nearly $3.7 billion, citing concerns over financial viability, insufficient return on taxpayer investment, and a failure to meet the energy needs of Americans. Energy Secretary Chris…
OPEC+ Hikes Output For Third Time By 411Kbpd, Despite Reservations From Russia Following days of frenzied speculation that OPEC+ may go so far as to start another global price war similar to the Saudi armada in March 2020 which eventually sent WTI crude prices to a negative $45, however briefly, today’s decision was positively tame:…
The Narratives Change; Markets Don’t… Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A Successful Test Last week, we discussed how this seems to be an “unstoppable” bull market. However, that doesn’t mean markets won’t pause before attempting to move higher. As we noted last week, the consolidation was expected. “Even with Bessent’s comments, that market remains overbought in the…
Israel Launches Major Airstrikes On Syria’s Coast For 1st Time In Nearly A Month Israel has attacked Syria for the first time in nearly a month. The last known airstrikes were May 3rd, but on Friday night major strikes rocked Syria’s coastal area. State news agency SANA says that one civilian was killed “as a…
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Megyn Kelly: Bongino & Patel “Looked Like Hostages” While Claiming Epstein Did Kill Himself Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly has called out the FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino for not being “fully transparent” when it comes to the Jeffrey Epstein case. Both have claimed that…
Diminishing Returns Threaten World Economic Stability Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World The world economy is facing a predicted contraction due to physical limits related to resource extraction and diminishing returns in various areas, including energy and minerals. Current economic indicators, such as high debt levels, falling oil and coal production, and rising inflation,…
Russia Launches Major Drone Attack On Border Town With NATO Member As the drone and aerial war between Russia and Ukraine continues heating up, there’s been another ‘close call’ which is being viewed as a possible direct threat by a NATO member country. Ukrainian officials said Friday that Russian forces sent drones on a Ukrainian town…
Trump Aims For 400 GW Of Nuclear By 2050, 10 Large Reactors Under Construction By 2030 By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive Executive Summary: The White House wants to deploy 300 GW of net new nuclear capacity by 2050 and have 10 large reactors under construction in the U.S. by 2030 while expanding domestic nuclear fuel…
Credit cards with travel rewards allow you to save money when you travel. Every purchase increases your travel points, which you can use for various rewards like airplane tickets and hotel reservations. However, not everyone is convinced that travel rewards cards are valuable. A Reddit post in the Personal Finance subreddit stirred up plenty of…
When times are good in the stock market, the impact on an investor’s portfolio can be profound. Witnessing account balances swell can be intoxicating, fostering a sense of invincibility. Combine this with the relentless pressure of the corporate rat race and the drive to climb the ladder, and it can be a recipe for disaster….
Saudi Women Held In ‘Hellish’ Rehab Centers For ‘Disobedience’ Via Middle East Eye Hundreds of Saudi women are being held in “hellish” conditions in secretive care homes, used to “rehabilitate” women banished by their families, according to a report in the Guardian. Over a period of six months, the Guardian collected testimonies about conditions in the care homes, known…
U2’s Bono Claims: “300,000 Dead After USAID Cuts” Left-wing activist and U2 frontman Paul David Hewson—better known as “Bono”—made the ridiculous claim that the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) decision to scale back funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in 300,000 deaths. “So, so just a recent report, it’s not…
Democrats And Men Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, Since last November, Democrats and their friends in the media have spent a great deal of time wondering what they can do to win back male voters. Now they’re prepared to spend a great deal of money to help them figure it out. The “gender gap” in…
US Is ‘Major’ Cause Of Ukraine War: Beijing Goes On Attack As Hegseth Tells Asia Allies China Threat Is ‘Imminent’ China is pushing back hard against new Western criticisms of its foreign policy, as French President Emmanuel Macron and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on the attack, hurling sharp criticisms at Beijing during the…
Having more than a handful of credit cards in your wallet may make managing them a bit more challenging. Not to mention that it can be easy to forget to pay off a certain bill at the end of the month. Either way, having a number of credit cards isn’t necessarily a terrible thing in…
Appeals Court Blocks Trump Admin’s Push For Mass Federal Firings Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A San Francisco-based federal appeals court on Friday denied the Trump administration’s bid to pause a lower court ruling that had blocked President Donald Trump’s directives for workforce reductions at federal agencies from taking effect. In a…
