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27 Apr 2026

The US government is accepting donations to pay off its $39 trillion debt.

If someone donated $1 million every single day it would take 106,849 years to pay it off. Human civilization is only 5,000 years old. Source: Bull Theory, FRED

27 Apr 2026

Defense stocks are getting crushed during this war.

Source: Jim Bianco, Biancoresearch, Hedgeye

27 Apr 2026

Hard to believe these numbers are month to date gains...

Source: TrendSpider

27 Apr 2026

On March 30, the S&P 500 was down 7% in 2026, the 12th worst start to a year in history.

After one of the biggest 4-week rallies ever, it's now up +5% YTD and above the average year at this point in time (+3%). There is no impossible in markets. Source: Charlie Bilello

27 Apr 2026

OpenAI has long been the leader for paid usage by U.S. businesses, but Anthropic has closed the gap with tools like Claude Code and Cowork 🤖

This graphic explores the share of U.S. businesses paying for AI models from different providers, with the data from Ramp. Source: Visual Capitalist

27 Apr 2026

OPENAI AND MICROSOFT $MSFT JUST ANNOUNCED AN AMENDED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

Here's what changes: ➡️ Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI ➡️OpenAI can now serve its products to customers across any cloud provider ➡️Microsoft continues to participate in OpenAI's growth as a major shareholder and retains a license to OpenAI IP through 2032 ➡️Revenue share payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 Source Reuters / Evan on X

24 Apr 2026

Don't be Yahoo

Source: naiive

24 Apr 2026

Dollar Use in Global Trade Rose to New Highs Amid War, Swift Says

Source: Bloomberg

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