Former Bush administration official Catherine Austin Fitts on how America’s leaders gave up on the country in the 1990s, began stealing trillions and built a digital prison to control the population.
(by NOOR AL-SIBAI)Researchers have found that ChatGPT “power users,” or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
Bessent’s Grand Strategy: Use Tariff Negotiations To Isolate China From The Rest Of The World
(Zero Hedge) Yesterday, president Trump laid out the stakes in the ever-escalating trading war between the US and China, in typical laconic fashion: “We may want countries to choose between us and China” (a topic discussed further here), with the White House adding that “The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us.”
Trump’s tariff push signals a reckoning with soaring debt, trade imbalances, and China’s rise — disruption now, he argues, is the price of avoiding collapse later.
(story byAbby Schultz) Volatility and uncertainty fueled a 12% drop in global art sales last year, led by fewer purchases of the priciest works, per the 2025 Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. The drop, to $57.5 billion in 2024, follows a 4% decline in 2023.