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'Soft' Data Soars To 2-Year Highs As Chicago PMI Smashes Expectations
'Soft' Data Soars To 2-Year Highs As Chicago PMI Smashes Expectations
Market News International's Chicago Business Barometer smashed expectations this morning, print 57.7 - the highest since May 2022 - and above the highest analysts' expectation.
This is the second straight month above 50 (signaling expansion) with new orders and employment surging (but prices also rising)...
Prices paid rose at a faster pace; signaling expansion
New orders rose at a faster pace; signaling expansion
Employment rose and the direction reversed; signaling expansion
Inventories fell and the direction reversed; signaling contraction
Supplier deliveries rose at a faster...
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Feb 27, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Are You Being Watched By Smart Glasses? Here's How To Check
Are You Being Watched By Smart Glasses? Here's How To Check
Meta's Ray-Bans are seeing growing adoption among everyday consumers, highlighting an affordability sweet spot for AI-powered wearables as Apple is expected to enter the space with its own smart glasses following its failed Vision Pro launch. Yet, as AI-powered glasses gain popularity, they introduce new privacy and security concerns, with one smartphone app emerging as an early countermeasure.
As first reported by tech blog 404 Media, the new smartphone app Nearby Glasses scans the Bluetooth signature emitted by smart glasses...
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Mar 4, 2026 / Tyler Durden
NY AG James Orders Hospital To Resume Gender-Transition Treatment For Minors
NY AG James Orders Hospital To Resume Gender-Transition Treatment For Minors
Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org,
In a rare and controversial move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth. NYU Langone had discontinued such treatments after funding threats from the Trump administration. It is now caught between the proverbial rock (HHS) and a hard place (NYAG).
Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” seeking to restrict gender-transition treatment for...
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Apr 18, 2026 / Tyler Durden
An Overheating Feedback Loop
An Overheating Feedback Loop
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
Congratulations, you made it through the panic…and now the market has decided none of it ever mattered and things are 5% better than they’ve ever been in history. Prices have not only recovered from the Iran war scare, they’ve pushed comfortably beyond where they were before it even started.
The NASDAQ is logging a batshit insane 13-day winning streak, marking its longest consecutive green run since July 2009.
That’s impressive, if your definition of impressive includes a complete disregard for unresolved risk and/or any type of...
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