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Futures Rebound With Cash Markets Closed; Gold, Bitcoin Jump While US cash markets are closed for the July 4th holiday, stocks around the world rebounded from yesterday's momentum rout as the latest round of jitters about the AI trade subsided, with Europe’s benchmark rising to an all-time high. S&P futures rose 0.3% and Nasdaq 100 futures rebounded 1.2% in thin holiday trading after South Korean memory giants SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics recovered, helping to drive a 2% rally in Asian shares after earlier tumbling with SK Hynix plunging as much as 30% from its all...

Researchers Theorize That Our Brains Are Building The Universe Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Developments in quantum physics and consciousness research are prompting scientists to reconsider the fundamental nature of reality. Several recent discussions highlight theories proposing that conscious experience may play a far more fundamental role than previously thought — potentially generating space-time itself. Popular Mechanics covered a provocative theory suggesting consciousness could be foundational. A bold theory suggests that consciousness generates space—meaning reality isn’t what it seems. Read the full story at the link below. 🔗: https://t.co/qEVnaL3yRL pic.twitter.com/EAKK5onbhA — Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) May 12,...

The Money Printers Fueling Socialism's Rise Authored by David Stockman via the Brownstone Institute, Here's a graph the Keynesians, statists, and Wall Street gamblers - yes, we repeat ourselves - would prefer not to explain. At the same time, it also explains why socialism at this late date in history - and after all its abysmal failures the world over - is having some kind of dubious second coming in America. During the last three decades the national savings rate (red line) has essentially collapsed, having fallen from 6.3% of GDP in...