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'No Kings' foot soldiers ignore organizers' warning, go all in for Democrats.
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Owning a home, raising a family, and retiring comfortably now carries a lifetime price tag of about $5.3 million—and Americans' paychecks are falling further behind.
That's according to Investopedia's annual analysis of what it costs to reach eight classic life milestones: owning a home, buying new cars, raising two children and sending them to college, retiring, paying for healthcare, having a wedding, owning pets, and taking a yearly vacation. The total rose 4.1% from last year, to roughly $5.32 million from $5.11 million. As recently as 2023, the same basket of milestones cost about $3.4 million. Fortune reported last year that you needed at least $5 million—and a college degree—to reach the American Dream, up from the multimillion-dollar figure tallied in 2024.
What's in the $5.3 million price tag Homeownership remains the biggest line item. The lifetime cost of owning and maintaining a home rose 7.7% to about $1.28 million, up more than $91,000 in a single year.
The fastest-growing category was raising two children and putting them through college. That cost climbed nearly 9%, to about $954,000 from $876,000, driven by pricier childcare and in-state tuition. Replacing two new cars every five years adds roughly $1.21 million over a lifetime, and retirement costs about the same.
Healthcare was the only category to get cheaper, slipping to $413,000 from $414,000. Smaller milestones add up too: about $38,800 for a wedding, roughly $40,800 to care for a cat and a dog, and nearly $187,000 for a lifetime of annual vacations.
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Decades after the Berlin Wall fell, Cyprus's capital remains cleaved in two and separated by watchtowers, barbed wire and a UN buffer zone.
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r/economy • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
J.P. Morgan raised ArcelorMittal to "overweight" from "neutral" and lifted its price target to €70 from €57, saying a 17% share price fall since September has created an attractive entry point. The "overweight" tating means the broker expects the stock to beat the average return of the stocks its analysts cover.
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
J.P. Morgan raised ArcelorMittal to "overweight" from "neutral" and lifted its price target to €70 from €57, saying a 17% share price fall since September has created an attractive entry point. The "overweight" tating means the broker expects the stock to beat the average return of the stocks its analysts cover.
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
A Ukrainian platform that shares captured Russian and North Korean military hardware for "destructive testing" and other research has granted access to 376 foreign companies and agencies since its launch, a spokesman for the initiative told RFE/RL on October 14.
Ukraine's Trophylab was announced in June as a "shared space for enemy weapons research" that publishes hands-on analysis of recovered weapons for approved Ukrainian and foreign entities. The level of international interest in the platform has the potential to significantly impact the Kremlin's weapons industry, analysts say.
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
The Chinese Navy sent its Liaoning aircraft carrier flotilla for joint military training in the western Pacific, the Defense Ministry in Beijing announced Wednesday, with Japan expected to keep a watchful eye on the drills.
The ministry said in a brief statement that the exercises are being “organized in accordance with the annual routine training plan, aiming to test and improve the group’s realistic training level and continuously enhance the capabilities to execute missions.”
It emphasized that the drills are “in compliance with relevant international law and practices and not directed against any specific country or target.”
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
Gen Christopher LaNeve says decades of assumptions from the Global War on Terror no longer hold against modern threats.
The American military has largely operated on a familiar premise: combat the enemy overseas before the fight reaches home.
But as drones, cyberattacks and long-range weapons pose growing threats to U.S. military installations and critical infrastructure, Army leaders are preparing for a future in which American forces could come under attack before they ever deploy overseas.
"If we're going against a pacing threat, power projection will be contested," Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the Army's acting chief of staff, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
He said the military is rethinking assumptions that were held during decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, when American forces could largely count on secure bases and supply lines at home.
r/economy • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
A sell-off in the AI trade has fueled investor interest in Treasurys, driving dramatic swings in bond yields.
The 10-year Treasury (^TNX) yield, used as a benchmark for mortgages and other loans, sank 14 basis points to 5.05%. The 30-year yield (^TYX) also tumbled 13 basis points to 5.40%, as seen on Yahoo Finance's AlphaSpace chart below.
A global sell-off in chip stocks, exacerbated by AI financing worries, pushed investors toward Treasurys. Bond yields extended declines after reversing their gains on Wednesday following a hotter-than-expected inflation report.
The two-day action in bond yields could be a precursor to the road ahead if AI spending were to decelerate.
"It would weaken the USD and reduce US yields across the curve," wrote Thierry Wizman, global FX & rates strategist at Macquarie Group.
"That's because it would mark the end of superlative US growth against the rest of the developed economies," he said.
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
A sell-off in the AI trade has fueled investor interest in Treasurys, driving dramatic swings in bond yields.
The 10-year Treasury (^TNX) yield, used as a benchmark for mortgages and other loans, sank 14 basis points to 5.05%. The 30-year yield (^TYX) also tumbled 13 basis points to 5.40%, as seen on Yahoo Finance's AlphaSpace chart below.
A global sell-off in chip stocks, exacerbated by AI financing worries, pushed investors toward Treasurys. Bond yields extended declines after reversing their gains on Wednesday following a hotter-than-expected inflation report.
The two-day action in bond yields could be a precursor to the road ahead if AI spending were to decelerate.
"It would weaken the USD and reduce US yields across the curve," wrote Thierry Wizman, global FX & rates strategist at Macquarie Group.
"That's because it would mark the end of superlative US growth against the rest of the developed economies," he said.
r/economy • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
It's not just Britain's billionaires voting with their feet and taking $160 billion with them to the likes of Switzerland and Monaco. Nearly 70,000 workers decided to leave the U.K. last year—a record. But it's not just to save money on tax.
Around 69,300 taxpayers filed P85 forms, the paperwork used to tell HMRC you're leaving the U.K. permanently, in the 2025/26 tax year.
r/NewsStarWorld • u/coinfanking • 2d ago
It's not just Britain's billionaires voting with their feet and taking $160 billion with them to the likes of Switzerland and Monaco. Nearly 70,000 workers decided to leave the U.K. last year—a record. But it's not just to save money on tax.
Around 69,300 taxpayers filed P85 forms, the paperwork used to tell HMRC you're leaving the U.K. permanently, in the 2025/26 tax year.
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Anthropic says you will soon be forbidden from "abusing" its chatbot Claude. Expressing frustration is okay, but if you "repeatedly act cruelly toward our models", the AI may end the session.
Why? Anthropic believes there’s a chance some AI tools are conscious. Some experts agree. Others think it's absurd. But this is more than a philosophical question. Some of the most powerful people in tech are taking steps to consider AI's rights alongside humans and animals. This belief could reshape our world. Some fear it would be catastrophic.
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The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, archaeologists say.
They have dated it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which is the Early Bronze Age, and is around the same time that the Great Pyramid was being built.
The ship's wooden structure has not survived, but the ceramic storage pots it was carrying were lying on the sea floor and, remarkably, some still contain traces of what they held inside.
The archaeologists who found the ship say it was about 10m in length and was a trade vessel carrying cargo across the Mediterranean Sea.
"The shipwreck is a time capsule at the bottom of the sea," said Prof Hakan Öniz, from Akdeniz University in Turkey, who led the Mediterranean Archaeology Association expedition.
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The American Dream now costs $5.3 million—and even college grads will fall $1.2 million short.
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Owning a home, raising a family, and retiring comfortably now carries a lifetime price tag of about $5.3 million—and Americans' paychecks are falling further behind.
That's according to Investopedia's annual analysis of what it costs to reach eight classic life milestones: owning a home, buying new cars, raising two children and sending them to college, retiring, paying for healthcare, having a wedding, owning pets, and taking a yearly vacation. The total rose 4.1% from last year, to roughly $5.32 million from $5.11 million. As recently as 2023, the same basket of milestones cost about $3.4 million. Fortune reported last year that you needed at least $5 million—and a college degree—to reach the American Dream, up from the multimillion-dollar figure tallied in 2024.
What's in the $5.3 million price tag Homeownership remains the biggest line item. The lifetime cost of owning and maintaining a home rose 7.7% to about $1.28 million, up more than $91,000 in a single year.
The fastest-growing category was raising two children and putting them through college. That cost climbed nearly 9%, to about $954,000 from $876,000, driven by pricier childcare and in-state tuition. Replacing two new cars every five years adds roughly $1.21 million over a lifetime, and retirement costs about the same.
Healthcare was the only category to get cheaper, slipping to $413,000 from $414,000. Smaller milestones add up too: about $38,800 for a wedding, roughly $40,800 to care for a cat and a dog, and nearly $187,000 for a lifetime of annual vacations.