65,000 Small German Retail Stores Have Disappeared As Economic Downturn Hits Europe's 'Powerhouse'

"Stocks Should Go Up, Not Down": Trump Rages At Market Reaction To 'Great' Jobs Report Global capital markets are a mess following this morning's hotter than expected rise in US employment. Nasdaq is down 2%... Yields are spiking dramatically... The dollar is rampaging higher... And Gold (and bitcoin) are getting clubbed like a baby seal... All of which prompted President Trump to exclaim that "stocks should go up, not down" on the back of a strong jobs report: It appears the President has not been watching for the last couple of decades as The Fed has...

Indigenous Nonsense Authored by Spyridon Andrews via American Greatness, When the dust settles hundreds of years from now and people begin to assess the hows and whys of Western decline, the issue of colonialism will figure prominently. We are traveling from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende with “The Professor,” a San Miguel resident who makes extra money by driving tourists from Mexico City to San Miguel. The title of professor is honorary. He is a self-taught scholar, a writer, and a highly intelligent man who works odd jobs around San...

Wall Street Keeps Testing AI Traders, But Most Are Still Underperforming Recent trading competitions suggest large language models are still unreliable portfolio managers, according to Bloomberg. Tests involving models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI have often delivered underwhelming results: many lost money, traded excessively, and made erratic decisions despite receiving identical prompts. In several cases, models appeared unable to stick to coherent strategies for more than a few trading sessions. Bloomberg writes that one of the clearest examples came from Alpha Arena, a competition created by startup Nof1. Eight models were...