When people hear the words *private credit stress*, they usually imagine small, struggling companies loaded with debt--businesses most investors have never heard of.
Domino's Pizza posted its softest US comparable-sales growth in five quarters as inflation and the national average price for regular gasoline above $4 a gallon pressured working-poor consumers.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the $10,000 Mazda Flair Americans aren't allowed to buy. It's not the only one we're not allowed to buy. If you lived in Japan, you could buy a brand-new Honda Fit for just a little bit more than $11,000.
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Naveen Athrappully
Small business Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings jumped 50 percent in the first half of 2026 from the same period last year, signaling pressure on business owners.
This Bloomberg chart captures the AI capital cycle in a single elegant construction, taking the combined quarterly free cash flow of the five hyperscalers, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, and subtracting the free cash flow of the two c
Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world's most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and representative government forever
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Naveen Athrappully
The Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have signed a memorandum to counter lawfare targeting rural communities, ranchers, farmers, and small businesses.
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Via American Greatness
The Denmark-based toy company LEGO is facing criticism after promoting Pride-themed content on social media and its website. Parents accused the company of introducing LGBT themes to a brand primarily marketed to children.
This is what most Tesla shareholders are still missing. Tesla/SpaceX/xAI have a massive advantage in power (natural gas turbines + solar + batteries + Virtual Power Plants).
On Wednesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp delivered a blistering critique of frontier AI labs, accusing them of having an "effing insane" business model that leaves enterprises paying escalating token costs for limited value while risking their proprietar
SpaceX's IPO was a gargantuan event by any measure: US$75 billion proceeds raised, over US$2 trillion enterprise value, and an almost US$29 trillion total addressable market to feast on.
Iconic chicken-wing chain Hooters, famous for buxom waitresses wearing skimpy orange and white uniforms, appears to be throwing in the towel on its 35-year struggle to stay politically incorrect.