Amazing how many banks it takes to run a neo bank. 🤣

🚨 NEW: Over 1 million Americans age 65+ are now living with unrelated roommates as rent costs continue to surge. Many seniors who worked their entire lives are now forced to split housing just to afford basic living expenses. https://t.co/D9PYaUdQEF

🚨 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: Poland’s 🇵🇱 homegrown payments champion BLIK is discussing a potential Warsaw IPO, at a ~$2B valuation. According to Bloomberg, the owners of Blik (operated by Polski Standard Platnosci) have held preliminary talks about listing the company on the Warsaw

Married and own a home by 30 years old in the US 1960: 52% 1970: 48% 1980: 45% 1990: 43% 2000: 35% 2010: 25% 2025: 12%

BREAKING: US housing market reaches most “unaffordable” level in history, per St. Louis Fed report.

Coming soon to a TJ Maxx near you...

Canada's men's curling team was accused of cheating Friday night. How lame are you to cheat at curling?

American Pharmacy Worker gives a behind the scenes look at our healthcare system He shows a medication costs less than $4 to dispense Since the patient has insurance, the insurance company makes them charge $97 US Health Insurance companies should be prosecuted

💳 Visa and Mastercard just closed another strong year. But the quality of growth is quietly shifting.. Visa and Mastercard delivered solid FY2025 results: • GDV up 7% (Visa) and 9% (Mastercard) • Net revenue up 12% and 16% respectively • Value-added services increasingly

Wendy's to close between 5% and 6% of its US restaurants, or roughly 298 to 358 locations, in first half of the year.

Morning view.

My view this morning …

Some early morning eye candy for you Appalachian (layer) cake lovers out there to start this spicy weekend off right. 📍Grayson Highlands, VA

AI adoption curves are outpacing labor reabsorption (we can't replace jobs fast enough).

In the 80s and 90s, Al Bundy was considered fat and poor. Let that sink in.

Crew Dragon launching astronauts to the ISS this morning - flying by Virginia! 📌 Earlysville, VA 5:20am

Greetings from the French West Indies.

Home sales fell 8.4% in January, the biggest monthly decline since February 2022, after snowstorms and low consumer confidence slowed a housing market that was showing signs of recovery.

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro adopted what now looks like an “underpromise and overdeliver” strategy. He asked the public to lower expectations because of mass deportations of non-citizens working illegally, saying future numbers that don’t reach six figures shouldn’t

The US govt is the largest predatory lender in the world, preying on teenagers, saddling them with outsized, non-dischargeable debt and enabling a wealth transfer from American youth to college administrators. This is the easiest affordability crisis piece to solve (contd)...

Middle and lower income households are tapped… no growth in retail sales during December…