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Chomping at the Bitcoin; Anthropic “Ads are coming to AI, but not Claude” and Amazon is Spending HOW MUCH on AI? Design
Big money, big myths, and big strategic pivots dominate today’s headlines. Amazon’s decision to supercharge AI spending has rattled investors and reignited concerns about the true cost of the artificial-intelligence arms race. Bitcoin’s latest slump is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with its once-sacred reputation as a hedge against inflation and fiscal excess. In the AI wars, Anthropic is drawing a bold line against advertising with a Super Bowl ad that subtly pokes O
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GPU’s By Intel, Google’s Annual Revenue Tops $400 Billion, and Burry’s Doomsday Bitcoin Report EV Design
Intel just signaled a late but serious push into GPUs , betting it can still muscle its way into the AI hardware boom . At the same time, Alphabet smashed through $400 billion in annual revenue as AI-fueled growth turns Google into a $4 trillion titan. Meanwhile, Michael Burry is sounding the alarm on Bitcoin’s slide and the “sickening scenarios” it could trigger across markets, and French prosecutors just raided Elon Musk’s X over deepfake and abuse content . Big tech f
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Trillion-Dollar Retail, AI Panic, Nintendo’s Comeback, and China Hits the Brakes on EV Design
Walmart just crashed into the trillion-dollar club, proving old-school retail can become a tech-powered growth machine. At the same time, AI fear wiped $300 billion off software and data stocks as investors started pricing in disruption, not just upside. Meanwhile, Nintendo’s Switch completed one of the biggest comeback stories in gaming history, and China just drew a hard safety line on futuristic EV design by banning hidden door handles after deadly incidents. Big mon
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Your "Investment" Is Probably a Gamble. Here's How to Know for Sure.
The Differences between Dice, Deals & Dividends; "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” John Maynard Keynes I commonly get consulted for investment proposals, whereby people are asking of me where I believe is best for them to deploy their capital in order to get a financial return, and the first thing that I ask [after strongly indicating that I am not a financial advisor, and the entire conversation isn’t financial advice] what their time
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From Manger to Markets: An analysis of Christmas’ Commercial Takeover
Has Capitalism Devoured Christmas? Underneath the bustle of the German Christmas markets, the pouring of mulled wine and hot chocolate, the wrapping of selected trinkets, and the voices of the choir singing Christmas carols, is the faint, almost imperceptible, constant pinging of successful transactions, whether it be Apple Pay, Google Pay, cash, or a physical card. That sound is the evidence of the “Golden Quarter” in full swing, and the silent prevalence of the second r
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The Stock Market Isn’t The Economy, and Neither is Inflation.
An analysis of the diverging economic reality of Wall Street v Main Street “ For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. ” Matt 25:29 ESV In April of this year (2025) Trump sent shockwaves when he announced tariffs on his so-called Liberation Day, with many news outlets reporting that there was about $8.5 trillion wiped out in the value of financial assets on the stock mark
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Chomping at the Bitcoin; Anthropic “Ads are coming to AI, but not Claude” and Amazon is Spending HOW MUCH on AI? Design
Big money, big myths, and big strategic pivots dominate today’s headlines. Amazon’s decision to supercharge AI spending has rattled investors and reignited concerns about the true cost of the artificial-intelligence arms race. Bitcoin’s latest slump is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with its once-sacred reputation as a hedge against inflation and fiscal excess. In the AI wars, Anthropic is drawing a bold line against advertising with a Super Bowl ad that subtly pokes O
5 min read
GPU’s By Intel, Google’s Annual Revenue Tops $400 Billion, and Burry’s Doomsday Bitcoin Report EV Design
Intel just signaled a late but serious push into GPUs , betting it can still muscle its way into the AI hardware boom . At the same time, Alphabet smashed through $400 billion in annual revenue as AI-fueled growth turns Google into a $4 trillion titan. Meanwhile, Michael Burry is sounding the alarm on Bitcoin’s slide and the “sickening scenarios” it could trigger across markets, and French prosecutors just raided Elon Musk’s X over deepfake and abuse content . Big tech f
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Saudi Arabia Opens Its Markets, Discord Quietly Preps an IPO, Jamie Dimon Cashes In, and Siemens Deepens Its AI Bet With Nvidia
7th January 2025 Global capital flows took center stage as Saudi Arabia moved to fully open its financial markets to foreign investors, a milestone in the kingdom’s push to wean itself off oil. In the U.S., chat platform Discord quietly filed for a potential IPO, testing investor appetite as public listings slowly regain momentum. On Wall Street, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon reportedly pocketed a $770 million windfall in 2025, underscoring how bank executives benefited from a ral
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