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Goldman: Fast Food's 'Bang For The Buck' Gains As Casual Dining Appeal Craters
Goldman: Fast Food's 'Bang For The Buck' Gains As Casual Dining Appeal Craters
Goldman analyst Christine Cho has published her latest quarterly survey of 2,000 consumers for 1Q26, pointing to a softer restaurant environment. Muted demand backdrop suggests that the K-shaped economy continues to fester, with working-poor consumers still facing the greatest downward pressure.
Respondents expect their visits to limited-service restaurants (LSRs), restaurants where customers generally order and pay at a counter, kiosk, drive-thru, or app, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Chipotle, CAVA, Sweetgreen, Panera, and others, to hold steady...
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Apr 7, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Cyber Crimes Costing Americans Nearly $21 Billion: FBI
Cyber Crimes Costing Americans Nearly $21 Billion: FBI
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
The FBI released its 2025 Internet Crime Report, revealing that Americans were being defrauded to the tune of nearly $21 billion, with artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency crimes behind some of the massive losses.
“Americans who submitted complaints involving cryptocurrency reported the highest losses, with 181,565 complaints totaling more than $11 billion,” the agency said in an April 6 statement.
Roughly 70 million American adults, around 30 percent of the country’s adult population, own a cryptocurrency, with...
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Mar 27, 2026 / Lucas M. Engelhardt
What Rothbard can Teach the Public about Inequality
Drawing on Rothbard's essay on inequality and the division of labor, Dr. Lucas Engelhardt argues that human diversity is the very foundation of comparative advantage and prosperity, and that billionaires arise either by serving large numbers of people through the market or by extracting wealth through political connections.
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Feb 28, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Ayatollah Killed After Strikes On Iran, Israel Claims
Ayatollah Killed After Strikes On Iran, Israel Claims
Summary: Currently, the biggest question is where's the Ayatollah? Iran state TV teased an imminent speech to address the nation after the major US-Israeli attack, and in the wake of Iran's retaliation on US regional bases - and the Gulf countries hosting them. There were earlier rumors that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed, but nothing is verifiable. He could be deep in a hidden underground bunker, at a command post, known only by his closest IRGC associates. There are also unverified reports that...
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