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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
Living In Any New York Borough Now Requires A Six Figure Income
Living In Any New York Borough Now Requires A Six Figure Income
Living in New York City without financial assistance now requires a six-figure income in every borough, according to Bloomberg.
The Fund for the City of New York’s latest “self-sufficiency standard” shows that in 2026, a family of four with two school-age children needs about $133,000 a year to cover basic expenses without outside help. Still, 46% of households fall short of that level.
A separate report from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office found that economic strain is even more widespread. In...
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Mar 31, 2026 / Tyler Durden
'Something Dark Is Going On': Nine Top-Level Scientists Die Or Go Missing In Past Year
'Something Dark Is Going On': Nine Top-Level Scientists Die Or Go Missing In Past Year
Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,
In the span of nine months, nine top-level scientists in the United States have died or vanished without a trace.
Seven of them were connected to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) or the institutions it directly funds.
AFRL develops and transitions the most sensitive aerospace technologies in the United States’ defense arsenal.
1) Monica Jacinto Reza vanished June 22, 2025 while hiking with friends in the Angeles National Forest in California.
She was last...
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May 5, 2026 / Tyler Durden
NIH Virologist Vincent Munster Caught Smuggling Deadly Viruses Into U.S., FBI Investigating
NIH Virologist Vincent Munster Caught Smuggling Deadly Viruses Into U.S., FBI Investigating
Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle,
Since the COVID pandemic landed on American shores in early 2020, virologists and allied science writers have engaged in a vociferous propaganda campaign to deny the dangers of virus experiments. When Nature Magazine published a 2021 article minimizing a Wuhan lab accident as the pandemic’s cause, science writer Amy Maxmen quoted Vincent Munster, a virologist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in...
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