"Are You Stupid?": Watch Trump Blast Leftist Media Over Biden Immigration Debacle "Are You Stupid?": Watch Trump Blast Leftist Media Over Biden Immigration Debacle https://modernity.news/2025/11/28/watch-trump-blasts-reporter-are-you-stupid/ President Trump refused to play the games of the leftist media Thursday, at one point going off on a reporter, labelling them a “stupid person.” image The reporter asked Trump “Why are you blaming Biden?! [for the DC National Guard attack]” TRUMP responded, “Are you a STUPID PERSON?” adding, “Because they LET HIM IN,” referring to the Afghan national suspect. “Are you STUPID? They came on a plane with thousands who shouldn’t be here,” Trump continued, adding “And you’re just asking questions ’cause you’re a stupid person!” “And there’s a law passed where it’s almost IMPOSSIBLE to get them out. You can’t get them out once they get in!” Trump further blasted. 🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump goes BERSERK on the fake news 🔥🔥 "Why are you blaming Biden?! [for the DC National Guard attack]" TRUMP: "Are you a STUPID PERSON?" "Because they LET HIM IN. Are you STUPID? They came on a plane with THOUSANDS who shouldn't be here. And you're… — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) As we earlier highlighted, somewhere in the region of 85 THOUSAND Afghans entered the U.S. under Biden, with a basically non-existent vetting process. Earlier in the briefing, the President had to deliver the awful news that 20 year old U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of Summersville, West Virginia has passed away after the horrific attack. 🚨 NOW - PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We have no greater national security priority than ensuring that we have full control over the people that enter and remain in our country. For the most part, WE DON'T WANT THEM!" SEND THEM BACK. ALL. — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) Trump further urged, “We have no greater national security priority than ensuring that we have full control over the people that enter and remain in our country. For the most part, we don’t want them.” Fri, 11/28/2025 - 09:05
Trump Says South Africa Won't Be Invited To 2026 Miami G20 Summit Trump Says South Africa Won't Be Invited To 2026 Miami G20 Summit U.S. President Donald Trump said South Africa won’t be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Florida, after the United States boycotted this year’s gathering in Johannesburg. “At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony,” Trump https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115617700844849134 in a Nov. 26 post on Truth Social. “Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year.” In the post, Trump also accused the South African government of “killing white people” and “randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,” which he said was the reason Washington boycotted this year’s summit. “South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately,” he added. image , the presidency of the G20 rotates. South Africa assumed it in December 2024 and will hold it through November, after which the United States will assume the role. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office Trump’s missive as a “regrettable statement,” and said that not inviting his country to next year’s summit was a punitive measure. The office said the U.S. president was spreading “misinformation and distortions” about South Africa. “As the United States was not present at the summit, instruments of the G20 Presidency were duly handover [sic] to a US Embassy official at the Headquarters of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation,” Ramaphosa’s office said in the statement. The office said South Africa “is a member of the G20 in its own name and right” and that its membership of the group “is at the behest of all other members.” “South Africa is a sovereign constitutional democratic country and does not appreciate insults from another country about its worth in participating in global platforms,” his office added, saying that it will “never insult another country.” During the G20 meeting in Johannesburg, leaders adopted a 📄.pdf on Nov. 22 to address climate concerns and other global issues despite U.S. objections. The declaration, drafted without input from the United States, “can’t be renegotiated,” Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, told reporters at the time. image (Front row, L–R) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Angolan President and Chairperson of the African Union João Lourenço, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pose for a group photo on the opening day of the Group of 20 leaders' summit, in Johannesburg on Nov. 22, 2025. Gianluigi Guercia/AP The White House in response that South Africa had “weaponized” its leadership of the group. G20 declarations are usually made by unanimous consent. The United States had offered to send the U.S. chargé d'affaires for the handover. South Africa rejected that offer. Magwenya said that the South African president “will not hand over to a junior embassy official the presidency of the G20.” “It’s a breach of protocol that is not going to be accommodated,” Magwenya added. Trump had announced that he would not be attending the G20 event this year on Nov. 7, repeating accusations of human rights abuses against white South Africans. “It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115510666739916664 in a post on Truth Social at the time. “Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated. No U.S. Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue.” South African officials at the time called the president’s remarks regrettable and denied allegations of persecution. “The characterisation of Afrikaners as an exclusively white group is ahistorical,” South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation said in a Nov. 8 . “Furthermore, the claim that this community faces persecution, is not substantiated by fact.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the State Dining Room at the White House on Oct. 8, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP Photo U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also a meeting of G20 foreign ministers held in South Africa in February. Since taking office, Trump has criticized South Africa’s domestic and foreign policies,  that Israel committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. Israel denies the accusations. Since the end of apartheid, Pretoria has implemented what it calls affirmative action and Black Economic Empowerment policies, but the South African government has   seizing land belonging to white citizens. The next G20 summit will take place at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida, in December 2026. Fri, 11/28/2025 - 08:55
Guard Member Dies After Potential DC 'Terrorist' Attack; Trump Pushes Emergency Migration Freeze Amid Homeland Threat Guard Member Dies After Potential DC 'Terrorist' Attack; Trump Pushes Emergency Migration Freeze Amid Homeland Threat The Thanksgiving-week attack down the street from the White House - perpetrated by an Afghan national with prior ties to the U.S. military and intelligence community, such as the CIA - has heightened national-security concerns following the fatality of one West Virginia Guardsman and the critical wounding of another, driving renewed scrutiny of the Biden-Harris regime's post-2021 Afghan intake policies (with minimal vetting) amid growing concerns that nation-killing open-border policies flooded the country with pre-trained terrorists. 🇺🇸 https://twitter.com/hashtag/Washington?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw — PatriotMike6671 (@MikeThomas6671) Late Thursday, President Trump revealed that U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, originally from Webster Springs, West Virginia, died after being shot by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the U.S. in 2021 under the Biden-Harris regime's "Operation Allies Welcome." We are devastated to confirm the death of our own, Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, who was shot in the line of duty near the Farragut Square Metro Station Wednesday. Spc. Beckstrom was pronounced dead at MedStar Washington Hospital on Nov. 27, by wounds incurred during the shooting. — WV National Guard (@WVNationalGuard) The president also mentioned U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition after the savage attack that is being investigated as . "As you know, the other young man is fighting for his life," Trump said during a call with service members. "He's in very bad shape. He's fighting for his life, and hopefully we'll get better news with respect to him." Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe are fighting for their lives in the hospital after an islamic illegal alien shot them while they were protecting our country. Democrats don’t want us to pray and get mad when we ask for prayers. Please say a prayer for these heroes 🙏🏻 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) See this.  🚨 NEW INFORMATION ABOUT WASHINGTON, DC TERROR ATTACK According to multiple national security, military, and law enforcement sources speaking to RedState on condition of anonymity, the biometric database is being accessed to identify all of Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s contacts, all… — Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) Shortly after the terror attack, Trump requested an additional 500 National Guard troops for the Washington, D.C. area. This made it very clear that the deployment nationwide was never just about clearing homeless encampments or deterring violent street crime. The fact that military forces are now being positioned on the ground in additional numbers only suggests a broader security threat, precisely like the one that unfolded earlier this week, or remember at the start of the year, the New Orleans truck-ramming attack. During the Biden-Harris regime, roughly 90,000 Afghan nationals entered the U.S. under Operation Allies Refuge (OAR) and Operation Allies Welcome (OAW). There have been significant concerns that vetting protocols for these third-worlders were significantly degraded, creating a high-confidence risk that individuals with prior militant training or hostile intent also poured in by the thousands. The threat extends beyond the OAR and OAW migrants, encompassing the broader Biden-Harris open-border policies that facilitated tens of millions of migrants to enter the country during the same period with limited to no vetting, thereby expanding the potential pool of high-risk individuals to an ungodly number that could be in the tens of thousands. Former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams recently warned on the Shawn Ryan Show about " ." Earlier this week, Adams , "It's past time @DHSgov stops playing pretend and finally raises the terrorism threat level in this country. We have more than 10,000 Islamist terrorists on our soil, and they cannot keep looking the other way. They don't get to pad their stats by slapping the terrorist label on everyday criminals while ignoring the actual extremists already here. This is dereliction — full stop." It’s past time stops playing pretend and finally raises the terrorism threat level in this country. We have more than 10,000 Islamist terrorists on our soil, and they cannot keep looking the other way. They don’t get to pad their stats by slapping the terrorist label on… — Sarah Adams (@TPASarah) After speaking with troops, President Trump posted on X late Thursday that he will "permanently pause migration from all Third World countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover." He also pledged to "terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden's Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization." Trump concludes the post, saying, "Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation." A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) The broader context here of the Guard deployment – and now additional forces set to hit the ground – makes it increasingly clear that the White House has been bracing for potential Islamist terrorist attacks enabled by the thousands who entered during the Biden-Harris years. Meanwhile, Democrats face horrible optics as their billionaire-funded aligned NGOs, radical left-wing judges, and unhinged progressive lawmakers worked this entire year to shield criminal migrants from removal, even at the expense of national security. This pattern of suicidal empathy observed spreading like a disease in the Democratic Party is one of the causes for a crisis now surfacing on U.S. soil. The attack also shows that Trump's aggressive deportation agenda was not only justified but will soon go into hyperdrive. Fri, 11/28/2025 - 08:05
This Is The Income Needed To Join The Top 1% In Every State This Is The Income Needed To Join The Top 1% In Every State What it takes to join the top 1% of earners varies across the United States. This map, highlights the income floor required to enter the wealthiest bracket in each state for 2025. The spread is wide, stretching from over $1 million at the top to barely $400,000 in less wealthy states. High-paying industries like finance, technology, and professional services cluster in coastal states, pushing top incomes even higher. Meanwhile, states with smaller economies and lower costs of living require far less to reach the elite group. image The data for this visualization comes from  . It ranks all 50 states by the annual income required to enter the top 1%, based on tax return data. The table below also includes the number of households in this bracket and the corresponding income floor for the top 5%. Where You Need the Most to Join the 1% Connecticut tops the list with a $1,056,996 income floor, making it the only state above the $1 million mark. Rank State Top 1% of earners # of top 1% returns Top 5% of earners 1 Connecticut $1,056,996 16,917 $362,263 2 Massachusetts $965,170 32,795 $378,434 3 California $905,396 175,045 $353,073 4 New Jersey $901,082 43,042 $367,108 5 New York $891,640 91,840 $307,753 6 Florida $859,381 105,101 $281,811 7 Washington $819,101 35,597 $355,767 8 Colorado $772,989 27,685 $318,659 9 Wyoming $771,369 2,611 $255,320 10 Texas $743,955 128,130 $284,661 11 New Hampshire $735,374 6,796 $311,145 12 Illinois $731,202 56,794 $292,729 13 Nevada $703,713 14,754 $248,739 14 Virginia $701,792 39,103 $314,694 15 North Dakota $695,759 3,431 $272,755 16 Utah $690,548 13,991 $270,645 17 South Dakota $687,190 4,062 $255,851 18 Maryland $677,543 29,040 $304,250 19 Minnesota $671,408 26,423 $285,607 20 Georgia $662,821 46,220 $267,958 21 Montana $656,830 5,101 $251,774 22 Pennsylvania $655,636 58,541 $272,141 23 Arizona $641,262 31,872 $261,362 24 North Carolina $640,783 46,525 $268,730 25 Tennessee $638,299 30,531 $247,765 26 Idaho $627,839 8,145 $249,451 27 Kansas $609,946 12,643 $253,834 28 Nebraska $603,899 8,660 $251,139 29 Rhode Island $603,162 5,224 $258,276 30 Oregon $603,006 19,053 $270,877 31 Alaska $586,381 3,223 $266,499 32 Vermont $583,559 3,123 $249,931 33 South Carolina $580,600 23,203 $241,531 34 Delaware $578,580 4,726 $260,787 35 Wisconsin $566,711 27,293 $242,066 36 Michigan $561,582 45,218 $241,403 37 Hawaii $561,147 6,472 $249,850 38 Missouri $559,043 26,898 $237,461 39 Iowa $554,046 13,821 $241,591 40 Louisiana $551,125 18,593 $225,674 41 Maine $550,936 6,618 $236,338 42 Ohio $550,724 53,103 $232,196 43 Oklahoma $544,679 16,106 $224,074 44 Alabama $532,600 20,185 $226,634 45 Indiana $531,332 30,120 $227,098 46 Arkansas $517,761 12,198 $217,087 47 Kentucky $496,281 18,395 $215,196 48 New Mexico $451,639 9,310 $211,101 49 Mississippi $439,479 11,731 $195,171 50 West Virginia $416,310 7,316 $196,335 Massachusetts ($965,170) and California ($905,396) follow in second and third place, both supported by large, high-skill job markets. States in the Northeast and along the West Coast dominate the top positions due to dense economic activity and elevated earnings in specialized industries. Middle-Tier States Still Require High Earnings States like Colorado, Washington, and Virginia sit in the upper-middle tier, requiring between $700,000 and $820,000 to qualify for the top 1%. These states benefit from fast-growing metropolitan areas, strong tech or government-driven employment, and rising household incomes. Even in energy-focused states such as Wyoming and North Dakota, the income floors exceed $690,000, showing how pockets of high-paying industries influence overall thresholds. The Most Affordable States for Top 1% Status At the bottom of the ranking, West Virginia’s $416,310 threshold is the lowest in the country, followed by Mississippi ($439,479) and New Mexico ($451,639). Lower  , smaller urban job markets, and fewer high-paying industry clusters contribute to these more modest thresholds. If you enjoyed today’s post, check out   on Voronoi, the new app from Visual Capitalist. Fri, 11/28/2025 - 07:45
CME Futures Go Dark After Cooling Failure At Chicago Data Center; Traders Angered: "We're Flying Dark" CME Futures Go Dark After Cooling Failure At Chicago Data Center; Traders Angered: "We're Flying Dark"  A major "cooling issue" at data centers operated by CyrusOne forced the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to halt futures and options trading early Friday morning, disrupting activity across equities, FX, Treasuries, energy, and agricultural markets.   image "Due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centers, our markets are currently halted. Support is working to resolve the issue in the near term and will advise clients of Pre-Open details as soon as they are available," CME wrote on X late Thursday night.  Due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne data centers, our markets are currently halted. Support is working to resolve the issue in the near term and will advise clients of Pre-Open details as soon as they are available. — CME Group (@CMEGroup) CME provided an update around 0500 ET, indicating, "BrokerTec EU markets are open and trading. All other CME Group markets remain halted due to a data center cooling issue at CyrusOne. We will provide updates as they are available."  BrokerTec EU markets are open and trading. All other CME Group markets remain halted due to a data center cooling issue at CyrusOne. We will provide updates as they are available. — CME Group (@CMEGroup) The disruption, now longer than a similar 2019 outage, paralyzed CME's Globex platform, prompting traders to describe conditions as "flying dark" as liquidity, price discovery, and market signaling disappeared in seconds. Exchanges connected to CME, including CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, and even the Gulf Mercantile Exchange, also experienced disruptions. CME has not provided a reopening time. Thomas Helaine, head of equity sales at TP ICAP Europe in Paris, told Bloomberg the outage is "a bit like flying dark," adding, "When you're trading cash equity like us, US futures give you an indication of where the market is going before the open. I can only imagine how complicated it must be for derivatives desks." UBS equity trader Ed Abraham told clients, "Liquidity has reduced even more after the CME halted trading of commodities futures and options due to a cooling issue at a data center, providing no timeline for when the issue would be fixed. APAC."  "Traders sitting with a position are certainly quite angry," said Gnanasekar Thiagarajan, head of trading and hedging strategies at Kaleesuwari Intercontinental. Nick Twidale, chief analyst at AT Global Markets in Sydney, noted that traders "will be switching to alternative liquidity tools where they can. We've lost one of the market's major liquidity sources. This heightens the risk of exacerbated moves if a big event occurs." The outage creates headaches for traders as they roll monthly contracts, leaving positions frozen. With US markets reopening for a shortened post-Thanksgiving session, broader equity markets in Europe and Asia were rather muted.  Also, the outage highlights the extent to which CME serves as a backbone of global markets, where one data center cooling issue can ripple across exchanges worldwide. Silver had to get cooled off — marc friedrich (@marcfriedrich7) German analyst Marc Friedrich joked at CME's X post, " ."  Fri, 11/28/2025 - 06:40
After October's 'Liquidation Day' Collapse, ADL Are The 3 Most Important Letters In Crypto After October's 'Liquidation Day' Collapse, ADL Are The 3 Most Important Letters In Crypto Hyperliquid Activates Cross-Margin Auto-Deleveraging for the First Time: What Are HLP and ADL? In October 2025, Hyperliquid, one of the leading decentralized perpetual futures exchanges, triggered its cross-margin Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) mechanism for the first time in over two years of operation. image This event signals an extremely volatile market moment — one where even the platform’s own insurance vault (HLP) couldn’t fully absorb liquidation risk. To understand what this means, we need to unpack two key components of Hyperliquid’s risk architecture: HLP and ADL. 1. What Is HLP? The Protocol Vault as the System’s Safety Net HLP stands for Hyperliquid Protocol Vault — essentially a shared liquidity and backstop pool built into the protocol. Think of it as a public insurance fund or a community vault that anyone can deposit assets into. The funds in HLP serve two main purposes: 1. Provide market liquidity – It helps keep order books liquid, tightening spreads and enabling smoother trading. 2. Act as a backstop during liquidations – When a trader’s position is forcibly liquidated and the market lacks buyers or sellers to absorb the trade, HLP steps in. It takes over the losing position’s remaining collateral and assumes the exposure. In simple terms, HLP acts as a “public good” mechanism — ensuring that even during severe market shocks, the system remains solvent (no negative equity or bad debt). Analogy: The Backup Player in a Casino Imagine Hyperliquid as a massive on-chain casino where everyone’s betting on BTC’s price. If a player loses all their chips, they must be removed from the table. But if no one wants to take over that seat, the HLP vault acts like the casino owner’s backup player, stepping in with its own money to keep the game running. To reduce risk concentration, the protocol splits HLP into several child vaults, each covering different markets or assets. 2. What Is ADL? The Final Line of Defense: Auto-Deleveraging ADL, or Auto-Deleveraging, stands for the system’s last-resort risk control mechanism.It only triggers when both regular liquidations and HLP backstops fail. Why Is Liquidation Needed? In perpetual futures markets, every long position (betting on price increase) must have a matching short position (betting on a decrease).Each trader provides margin — collateral that ensures they can cover potential losses. When prices move sharply, losing positions can deplete their margin. To prevent “negative balances,” the system must force-liquidate them — effectively selling or offsetting their positions so that the winner gets paid and the market stays balanced. Without liquidation, the platform could go insolvent — something no exchange, centralized or decentralized, can afford. 3. The Three-Step Liquidation Waterfall Hyperliquid’s liquidation process can be visualized as a three-step waterfall: image This third step, rarely used, was just triggered for the first time — showing the system’s self-balancing mechanisms working under stress. 4. How ADL Works in Practice When a losing side’s margin is completely wiped out and HLP can’t cover the residual loss, the system initiates forced deleveraging from the profitable side. ● Triggered Side: The losing party (e.g., long positions during a crash). ● Providing Side: The winning party (e.g., shorts making large profits). The system automatically ranks all profitable traders based on: Profit × Leverage × Position Size Those with the highest profit and leverage are first in line for forced position reduction — they get partially closed at the current mark price, realizing their gains early. Why “Punish” Winners? It’s not about punishment — it’s about maintaining systemic balance. If no one remains to take the losing side of the contract, the exchange must close out part of the winning side to prevent imbalance. Analogy: It’s like an oversold flight. The airline first offers incentives for volunteers to step off (market + HLP).When no one volunteers, it forces the biggest seat-holders — the “first-class whales” — to leave. Unfair? Maybe. Necessary? Absolutely — otherwise the plane can’t take off. 5. Why ADL Matters — and What It Tells Us ADL is a crisis-only mechanism, designed to protect solvency in extreme market conditions. ● For the platform, it ensures the perpetual futures system never goes bankrupt. ● For traders, it’s a reminder: even if you’re winning big, high leverage exposes you to forced deleveraging. ● For the ecosystem, it demonstrates the maturity of on-chain risk governance — markets that can self-liquidate without external bailouts. 6. The Bigger Picture: A Necessary Imperfection ADL is not a bug; it’s a safety fuse. It doesn’t penalize success — it ensures survival. In a leveraged zero-sum system, when volatility dries up liquidity, someone must step out to keep the game fair and solvent. ADL guarantees that the perpetual futures market — however chaotic — can keep operating.In that sense, an ADL event isn’t a failure. It’s a sign that the market has reached its stress limit and the protocol has handled it — automatically, transparently, and without human intervention. Fri, 11/28/2025 - 06:30
The Dangers Of AI: Visualizing The Top Risks Companies Face The Dangers Of AI: Visualizing The Top Risks Companies Face Companies are rushing to implement AI, but it’s not all smooth sailing. More than half of businesses say the dangers of AI have led to at least one negative consequence. But which issues plague businesses the most? This infographic, breaks down the most common risks. image It’s a preview of the brand-new executive guide from Terzo and Visual Capitalist, . The Top Dangers of AI Inaccuracy is the biggest risk companies report, with almost a third experiencing a negative consequence at least once. image Source: McKinsey, online survey of 1,753 participants conducted June 25 to July 29, 2025. The other dangers of AI are reported on a much lower scale. Explainability, which is the ability for people to understand an AI system’s inner workings, has affected half as many companies as inaccuracy has. The Knock-On Effects of Errors AI inaccuracy can lead to much bigger issues. It undermines trust in AI systems, causes operational inefficiencies, and can lead to flawed strategic decisions. When AI generates incorrect outputs, the damage is often amplified through cascading processes. It also has the potential to create legal issues. As the Harvard Law School recently pointed out, many insurance companies are adding limitations or . This means that leaders may not be covered under traditional Directors & Officers policies for any liabilities that arise from AI errors. Next Steps for Leaders Many companies have started taking steps to combat the dangers of AI. In fact, 54% of businesses are actively working to mitigate AI inaccuracies. Leaders can take charge by ensuring their teams have humans in the loop to review AI’s output before it is used.  See the data behind AI’s errors and how to get 99% accuracy in the free executive guide, . Fri, 11/28/2025 - 05:45
Mapping Global Real Estate Bubble Risk In 2025 Mapping Global Real Estate Bubble Risk In 2025 Globally, real estate markets have been cooling over the last few years, with high mortgage rates and unaffordable prices affecting demand in many cities. However, while housing bubble risks have eased across many markets, home prices in real estate hotspots like Miami and Tokyo continue to rise, inflating their bubble risk. This infographic, . image Where Housing Markets Look Most Overheated UBS’ Real Estate Bubble Index evaluates housing markets around the world using a range of indicators, including price-to-income ratios, price-to-rent ratios, and trends in mortgage lending and construction activity. Cities are classified into three broad categories based on their index score: Bubble Risk: >1.5 Overvalued: 0.5 to 1.5 Fairly Valued: -0.5 to 0.5 Below is the full 2025 ranking of cities by UBS’s Bubble Index score, along with the annual real price change: Rank City Bubble Risk Index Score Annual real home price change (2024 to 2025) 1 Miami 1.73 1.9% 2 Tokyo 1.59 5.7% 3 Zurich 1.55 5.0% 4 Los Angeles 1.11 0.9% 5 Dubai 1.09 11.1% 6 Amsterdam 1.06 1.2% 7 Geneva 1.05 4.1% 8 Toronto 0.8 -7.5% 9 Sydney 0.8 0.8% 10 Madrid 0.77 13.6% 11 Frankfurt 0.76 -1.2% 12 Vancouver 0.76 -5.9% 13 Munich 0.64 1.4% 14 Singapore 0.55 2.6% 15 Hong Kong 0.44 -7.9% 16 London 0.34 -2.1% 17 San Francisco 0.28 -2.6% 18 New York 0.26 -1.5% 19 Paris 0.25 0.1% 20 Milan 0.01 -2.7% 21 São Paulo -0.1 0.0% The majority of cities in the index saw their bubble risk decline  , with Toronto and Hong Kong experiencing the largest drops. However, bubble risk rose in Miami, which ranks highest with an index score of 1.73, supported by rising home prices. Tokyo and Zurich also sit above the critical 1.5 threshold. Meanwhile, several real estate markets fall into the overvalued range but remain below the bubble-risk territory. These include Madrid, which saw the strongest rise in real home prices, up 13.6% from 2024 to 2025.  in supply. Where Real Estate Bubble Risk Declined in 2025 Several housing markets are undergoing corrections after the post-pandemic uproar in prices. Toronto, one of the world’s   housing markets, has seen its bubble risk score fall sharply, accompanied by a -7.5% real home price decline. Hong Kong saw an even larger drop in price levels, at -7.9%, pushing it into the fairly-valued category. Other cities, including Vancouver, Frankfurt, London, and San Francisco, also reported price declines as affordability constraints and higher borrowing costs weighed on demand. To learn more about this topic, see   on the world’s most expensive housing markets on Voronoi. Fri, 11/28/2025 - 04:15
Britain's Official COVID Handling Inquiry Blames "Toxic Culture" For A Late Lockdown Britain's Official COVID Handling Inquiry Blames "Toxic Culture" For A Late Lockdown Last week, Britain’s official inquiry into the government’s handling of COVID released its second  . image Despite spending £192 million, interviewing 166 witnesses, and publishing more than 1,000 pages already, the most expensive public inquiry in British history (£160,000 per day) cherry-picks four persons to blame, blames these four persons for a “toxic and chaotic culture,” and cherry-picks evidence in support of earlier preventive measures and lockdown. Note 1 to Britain’s elite: Four people don’t make a “culture” in a government of more than half a million full-time servants and politicians! Note 2 to Britain’s elite: Groups have processes and structures too, not just cultures. Procedurally, why was the government making decisions about lockdown without a cost-benefit analysis, even in the Treasury,   to the then Chancellor (Rishi Sunak)? The report quotes Dominic Cummings making the same complaint, but leaves it hanging. Structurally, should the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies have led policy-making, gone public with information in opposition to the administration it advised, and even https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063127241309071  against ministers who don’t “follow the science?” The inquiry doesn’t ask these questions. The report betrays an annoying ignorance of risk management. It uses the word “could” 151 times, “might” 70 times, and “possibly” or “possible” 69 times. These are the words that lawyers and politicians love (for their open-endedness). These are the same words that consumers of risk estimates hate (for their open-endedness). An asteroid “could” and “might” destroy the earth. Now what? The word “unlikely” is used just twice. The word “likely” is used 79 times, but, as we shall see, some of the report’s estimates of “likely” are based on already-discredited models. The COVID inquiry is typical of British official inquiries. For decades, British official inquiries into healthcare have identified a “toxic culture,” associated this culture with a few scapegoats or political enemies, and ignored structure and process. In <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/heal-our-hospitals/10118381/A-blame-and-gag-culture-in-the-NHS-is-bad-for-patients.html" rel="nofollow">2013</a>, Julie Mellor, then the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), criticized the NHS for a “toxic cocktail” of a “culture of defensiveness” and “a failure to listen to feedback.” Later that year, a clinical professor completed an inquiry into safety within the wider NHS, which   a “zero harm” culture, a legal duty for all healthcare workers to admit their mistakes, and “minimum staffing levels.” In 2014, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt 📄.pdf  an “open culture that learns from errors and corrects them,” following the example of the airline industry (a false analogy, incidentally). In 2015, Parliament’s Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) “<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmpubadm/886/886.pdf" rel="nofollow">commend[ed]</a> the Secretary of State’s determination to tackle the culture of blame and defensiveness.” Criticizing “culture” is a way of avoiding accountability for the people and institutions you like. Culture is an attribute of a group, so it is no one person’s fault, except anyone you want to scapegoat. The people who run official inquiries are politicians, lawyers, and public servants who know nothing of organizational design but know a lot about smearing political enemies. Moreover, while they cherry-pick a few to throw under the bus, they avoid the unfitness of the wider elite they represent. Baroness Heather Hallett’s inquiry into Britain’s handling of COVID falls into the same pattern. She’s a lawyer and a politician. She never called any witnesses who could have educated her in organizational design or political science. Nevertheless, she brought all sorts of bad assumptions, myths, and habits of thinking about organizations and politics. Hallett’s assumptions, myths, and habits are typical of the progressive-socialist consensus. Hallett’s report blames a “toxic and chaotic culture” on four people: the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his special adviser Dominic Cummings, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock, and the Permanent Secretary for Health—now Keir Starmer’s Cabinet Secretary—Sir Chris Wormald. The inquiry criticizes Wormald for a “failure to rein in” Hancock’s tendency to over-promise, which suggests that Hallett wishes that unelected government servants were as bold as Aristotle’s unelected philosopher-kings. Hallett wishes Wormald had been bold enough to drive earlier restrictions on British freedoms. Outside of Britain’s government, the inquiry criticizes Nicola Sturgeon for over-promising, in June 2020, that Scotland could drive COVID “as far as we can towards total elimination” (despite an open border with England). Yet beyond these convenient scapegoats, the inquiry doesn’t help us avoid similar missteps in the future—apart from: Don’t employ Johnson, Cummings, Hancock, Wormald, or Sturgeon. Don’t allow a “toxic and chaotic culture.” Impose restrictions earlier, even though the https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-covid-inquiry-like-the-covid-event-was-a-whopping-waste-of-money/ . The report “rejects the criticism” of the imposition of lockdown in 2020. Moreover, the report criticizes the government’s decision against lockdown in 2021 (when the Omicron variant appeared), because “the UK government’s approach in this period was, once again, overly optimistic.” Yet the same report hypocritically claims not to be advocating for lockdowns and to be mindful of the economic losses, social costs, missed education, and loss of liberties. Hallett criticizes the government’s failure to predict all the losses and costs but also claims that lockdowns could have been https://sptr.eomail5.com/f/a/qVrF_lv6KhNGLSGbOAYE2g~~/AAAHURA~/cQJYhMgHoir3H6ithcs2XZPECFjY_klhN9st9kr0SJFWmhBo39y4ucNVNvlUjY4twfVH_r7-8D2dps8DMXjBNiHYNy5fX_ufcIY9kRfTBqzZh8wXiETsKOGuSYg9V4ojr_u-M1IvGAN_T-NcfgbdF74FJjSz03qqa8utlcXj_So~  had “stringent restrictions” been imposed earlier than 16 March 2020. The inquiry ignores the possibility that voluntary behavioral adjustment would have produced the same outcomes in Britain. Google mobility data   that Britons had reduced movement before the lockdown was announced. Instead, the report claims that earlier https://archive.is/HNVSa , self-isolation, face coverings, and respiratory hygiene could have stopped the need for a lockdown if introduced earlier. The report does not admit that The   took too long to develop and never worked properly. Home   were unreliable. Compliance with self-isolation tended to extremes of either  . Cloth   as promised. Respiratory hygiene is a moral hazard (you might cover your cough, but plenty of people sitting next to you do not). Moreover, Hallett does not admit any issue linkage or ulterior motive behind these restrictions. Lord Frost (then Johnson’s chief adviser on Europe)   that “a turning point for me was being in a meeting in mid-2020 in which we were told that masks had no meaningful effect but should be required anyway ‘to remind everyone we were in a pandemic.’” Hallett claims that once these “stringent restrictions” failed, lockdown was inevitable. Moreover, Hallett claims that 23,000 lives could have been saved if lockdown had been imposed a week earlier—a conclusion derived solely from a model that had always   casualties. Hallett dismisses Sweden’s choice against lockdown, as if Sweden’s choice was for freedom over safety. Hallett never called to witness the academics who had already https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecaf.12611  that Sweden experienced fewer deaths and lower costs per capita, even adjusting for demographics. The Telegraph  : “I see that if you give lawyers £200m and ask them to focus solely on the first wave, they decide we should have made the first wave as small as possible.” The problem with British governance is that we are ruled by unaccountable non-experts. These same people are both unqualified and disincentivized to reveal the unaccountability and non-expertise within the class they inhabit. Fri, 11/28/2025 - 03:30
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