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@varrock The catch: the French guy also gets free healthcare, 5+ weeks paid vacation, and won't go bankrupt from a medical bill.

The $400K American is optimizing for net worth, the French guy is optimizing for actual life. Different games, different scoreboards.

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Bro sued you for $25k over a tree that he legally owned and let damage his own fence on a piece of land that didn't even belong to either of you. 💀

"Tree Law" is legendary on this app, but this has to be the most self-sabotaging lawsuit in history. No lawyer did a property survey search before filing this? 😭

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang says the AI boom is still in its early stages, declaring, “We are at the beginning of the cycle.”

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@engr_imm Imagine the judge's face when the survey map loaded. He literally owned the tree and the liability. 😭

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Red Robin is restructuring—not disappearing.

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@Kalshi Sitting on $4B in paper profits just a month after the SpaceX IPO is a wild stat. But with almost 29% of the tradable float now shorted, the setup for a massive short squeeze is getting incredibly tight.

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@unusual_whales June median prices just hit an all-time high of $440,660. Raising interest rates didn’t lower prices; it just killed supply because nobody wants to give up their 3% fixed rate. The market is structurally frozen.

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36 straight months of price increases while mortgage rates sit at multi-decade highs is a historical anomaly.

The "Rate Lock" effect is real: millions of homeowners with 3% pandemic mortgages refuse to sell, completely freezing supply. It's a seller’s market with no actual sellers.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Home prices in the US have risen for 36 straight months, per CBS

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@jeremyct Going from $64 to $158 for the exact same 28 items is a systemic failure. The "transitory inflation" lie officially died in the grocery aisle.

What is the one item in your cart that has had the most offensive price jump since 2020?

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@Heminator People forget that Norway is essentially a massive $2.2 trillion equity portfolio with its own military and national borders.

They sell oil to buy global equities and fund their public services. If that isn't the ultimate capitalist cheat code, nothing is.

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The average American now carries credit card debt at an interest rate above 21%.

That means if you owe $5,000 and only pay the minimum, you could end up paying back nearly double before it's gone.

Credit cards aren't the enemy. Carrying a balance on them is.

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Here's a number that should stop you mid-scroll: the average 401(k) balance in America is $167,970.

The median? Just $44,115.

That massive gap means a small number of big savers are dragging the "average" way up — and most people are sitting far below it.

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@SecRubio A 25% tariff on Brazilian imports means US importers pay it upfront, then pass most of that cost to consumers — coffee, orange juice, and steel are Brazil's top US exports, so expect grocery and industrial prices to feel this first, regardless of who's 'at fault' diplomatically.

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@OrwellNGoode Stuck by you when broke and entitled to your future income' are two very different things. Loyalty during hard times deserves gratitude, not a lifetime invoice.

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@PolymarketMoney No public announcement, no press release — this surfaced entirely through an FTC early termination notice and a Duos Technologies SEC filing disclosing $50.4M for their 5% stake. That's how you back into a $1B+ deal nobody wanted to talk about.

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Key detail everyone's missing: Musk bought APR Energy personally, not through Tesla or SpaceX — per the FTC filing, he's the individual buyer.

This is a $1B+ personal bet on gas turbine power to fuel Grok's compute demands, sitting oddly next to Tesla's entire solar-and-clean-energy brand identity.

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

BREAKING: Elon Musk acquires Jacksonville power company APR Energy in a deal valued at more than $1,000,000,000.00.

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@DailyLoud This is actually a common misunderstanding — informal cash arrangements ($300/week) and court-calculated child support are two completely different systems.

Formalizing it protects both parents, since verbal agreements aren't enforceable either way.

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EPI research does show corporate profits captured a disproportionate share of price increases in 2020-22 — over a third, vs the normal ~13%.

But calling it the sole cause skips supply chain shocks, pandemic stimulus, and rate policy.

Real story: profits amplified the crisis, they didn't single-handedly cause it.

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We are living through a "Cost of Living Crisis" while corporations are reporting "Record Breaking Profits." These two things are not happening at the same time by accident. One is literally causing the other.

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@Ravynn11 $52.88/hour is a very strong internship rate. Annualized, that's roughly $110k/year—but since it's a 7-month internship, the total pay would be lower. If the listing is accurate, it's worth a second look.

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This connects to the Supreme Court ruling that just triggered $81B in US tariff refunds — Merz said back in February he expected Germany's tariff burden to ease after that decision.

German GDP already shrank 0.3% last quarter with exports down 0.6%. The refunds and rollback are happening in real time, and this is what prompted them.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Germany’s Chancellor Merz: US tariffs have badly damaged the German economy.

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@SaltyGoat17 Depends on the tax type — no tax on Social Security makes sense since it's already taxed once.

But 100% exempt on ALL income (pensions, investments, part-time work) would blow a massive hole in state/federal revenue that funds the exact programs seniors rely on.