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Shein's Profit Fell 67% and the Stock Has Lost a Third of Its Value Since the IPO. The Loophole Era Is Over.
The first report card since Shein's Hong Kong debut shows what happens when a business built on duty-free shipping and cheap air freight loses both in the same year.
Free Game NewsConsumer Confidence Just Hit a 12-Year Low, and This Time the 'I'm Fine' Part Cracked Too
The Conference Board's index tumbled to 81.9 in September, the weakest reading since 2014. All year Americans said their own lives were okay while the country headed for a ditch. In September, both halves of that sentence turned bleak at once.
Free Game NewsThe Gas Tax Holiday Is Back, Right on Schedule for Election Day
Since the Iran war sent fuel prices to record highs, six states have cut or frozen gas taxes and two governor's races now feature dueling holiday plans. The relief is real but small, the road money is real and large, and the calendar is doing a lot of the talking.
Free Game NewsICE Came to Cattle Country. The Bill Goes to Everyone Who Eats Beef.
Immigration sweeps around southwest Kansas packing plants emptied kill floors, stranded thousands of cattle, and exposed the immigrant labor model underneath America's record-priced beef.
Free Game NewsTrump's 100% Drug Tariff Forgives Any Drugmaker With a Shovel in the Ground
Starting October 1, imported branded pharmaceuticals face a 100% tariff unless the manufacturer is building a U.S. plant. The bill won't arrive at a customs desk. It will arrive in your premiums, your Medicare costs, and your pharmacy receipt.
Free Game NewsAmazon's Prime Settlement Just Got Bigger
A federal court approved an expansion of the FTC's $2.5 billion Prime settlement this week. The refund cap quadrupled, eligibility widened, and the claims process is dead. If Amazon's cancellation maze ever ate your money, a check may already be on the way.
Free Game NewsOracle Declares an Act of God Over a Power Problem It Signed Up to Solve
The force majeure notice on New Mexico's Project Jupiter data center lets Oracle delay payments while insisting everything is on schedule. The $18 billion in debt behind the project is already trading like nobody believes that.
Free Game NewsThe Bond Market Just Delivered Its Own Rate Hike, and Your Mortgage Is Footing the Bill
Long-term Treasury yields have hit levels last seen before the financial crisis, one week after the Fed's first hike since 2023. One quiet reason: the AI building boom is borrowing against the same pool of money you are.
Free Game NewsTrump Out-Traded All of Congress Combined. The Ban He Endorses Covers Everyone but Him.
A Bloomberg analysis found the president's accounts made roughly 28,700 trades in 17 months, about 80 per market day. The congressional trading ban he champions exempts the one office with the most power to move markets.
Free Game NewsSan Francisco Sues to Stop the President's $100,000-a-Month News Feed
Truth Social's 'Truth API' sells millisecond head starts on market-moving presidential posts. A major city government is now asking a court to shut it down, and the man who profits most sits in the Oval Office.
Free Game NewsOpenAI Expects to Burn $278 Billion by 2030
A leaked company presentation shows the largest planned cash burn in corporate history. The same week, the debt and the workers propping up the AI buildout started to show cracks.
Free Game NewsDoes The AI Boom Come With Higher Electric Bills For Americans?
A 417-to-3 House vote, a presidential push, and $18 billion of marked-down Oracle debt landed in the same week. The fight over who pays for artificial intelligence has officially started.
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