#Spending

LLMs

@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

1 hour ago

Anthropic’s $100 Billion Revenue Run Rate Signals a New Era in the AI Business Wars Anthropic has reached a $100 billion annualized revenue run rate, a roughly 50x increase from a year ago, drama...

#AIDeveloper #AI #enterprise #spending #Amazon #Web […]

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Richard Michael Blaber

@rmblaber1956.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-is-winning-its-wa... "The #Trump administration’s latest #budget proposal calls for a gigantic increase in #military #spending combined with severe #cuts to #social programs. But... it also calls for debilitating reductions in #research #funding […]

Lithos Media

@lithos-media.bsky.social

1 day ago

Food and recreation push up Australian spending in February - Sydney (7 April) Australian households spent A$71 billion on goods and services in February, up 4.6% on the year because of increased recreational and food purchases, despite consumer confidence souring over the month.

Read more at Lithos Chronicle: www.lithos.media/p/food-and-r...

#spending #ABS #household #economy #recreation #GDP #data #consumerconfidence #consumer #confidence #fuel

Roman Piso

@romanpiso.bsky.social

1 day ago

Millions of Americans paid billions in tariffs later ruled illegal — and they won’t see a dime back The $175 billion rebate system only returns money to importers — leaving low- and middle-income families and small businesses with nothing.

#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social #Economy #Affordability #Prices #Costs #Expenses #Finance #Budget #Budgeting #Spending #Tariffs #Trump

Exactly! 🤬

www.yahoo.com/finance/econ...

Brian O'Blivion 🅰️👁

@boblivion.bsky.social

1 day ago

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #povertybyamerica #desmond #poverty #america #usa #politics #wealth #teachers #spending #public #education #opportunity #children #priorities

Vote In Or Out

@voteinorout.bsky.social

4 days ago

voteinorout on Instagram: "The Trump administration is proposing sweeping cuts across healthcare, education, housing, and research while boosting Pentagon spending to as much as $1.5 trillion under a wartime economy strategy. #DonaldTrump #Budget #Economy #Spending The proposal includes over $8B in cuts to public schools, $5B from NIH medical research, $4B from EV infrastructure, and $2B from clean water systems, along with $1B+ reductions in job training, housing, and NOAA programs. Additional cuts target school meals, homelessness programs, small business funding, NASA, and international partnerships. The shift redirects resources away from domestic programs toward military spending, impacting healthcare access, education systems, and local economic support nationwide. — NEWS: Trump is looking to make massive cuts to programs you rely on. Follow @aaronparnas for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson" 64 likes, 6 comments - voteinorout on April 4, 2026: "The Trump administration is proposing sweeping cuts across healthcare, education, housing, and research while boosting Pentagon spending to as much as $1.5 trillion under a wartime economy strategy. #DonaldTrump #Budget #Economy #Spending The proposal includes over $8B in cuts to public schools, $5B from NIH medical research, $4B from EV infrastructure, and $2B from clean water systems, along with $1B+ reductions in job training, housing, and NOAA programs. Additional cuts target school meals, homelessness programs, small business funding, NASA, and international partnerships. The shift redirects resources away from domestic programs toward military spending, impacting healthcare access, education systems, and local economic support nationwide. — NEWS: Trump is looking to make massive cuts to programs you rely on. Follow @aaronparnas for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

The Trump administration is proposing sweeping cuts across healthcare, education, housing, and research while boosting Pentagon spending to as much as $1.5 trillion under a wartime economy strategy. #DonaldTrump #Budget #Economy #Spending

The proposal includes over $8B in cuts to public schools,...

Grandpa Gregg

@grandpagregg.bsky.social

4 days ago

Experience is a good quality!!
#Defense #Military #Spending

Nonilex

@nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

4 days ago

#Trump also asked lawmakers to increase federal funding for #border enforcement & mass #deportations.

In the days before releasing the initial details of his plan, Trump & aides framed the proposed increase for #defense in urgent terms, citing a need to restock munitions & supplies as the #war […]

Nonilex

@nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

4 days ago

Together, the ideas sum to a fiscal blueprint that could add trillions of dollars to the brimming federal #debt over the next decade, if lawmakers translate Trump’s full vision into #law without other changes to federal #spending.

#Trump urged #Congress to approve the new #defense money, >$1.1 […]

Nonilex

@nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

4 days ago

With the #US at #war with #Iran & embroiled in conflicts around the world, the White House said on Friday that it would ask #Congress to approve about $1.5 trillion for #defense in the 2027 fiscal year. If enacted, that amount would set #military #spending at its highest level in history.

The […]

Prime Rate

@fedprimerate.com

5 days ago

Retail Sales During FEBRUARY 2026: +0.6% M/M > Year-On-Year Change: +3.71% < MORE: >> https://economy.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Hard-Data--Shopping-Retail-and-Food--Services-Sales--Report--FEBRUARY--2026.html << MORE: >> http://bit.ly/Consumer-USA << #Shopping #Economy #FedPrimeRate #Retailers #Consumers #RetailSales #Consumer #Spending #Consumerism #ConsumerSpending #Commerce #Trade #Retail #Sales #Money #USA #America #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesofAmerica #Business

Retail Sales During FEBRUARY 2026: +0.6% M/M

> Year-On-Year Change: +3.71% <

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MORE: > bit.ly/Consumer-USA <

#Shopping #Economy #FedPrimeRate #Retailers #Consumers #RetailSales #Consumer #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Commerce #Trade

✨ Video Curator ✨

@videocurator.bsky.social

5 days ago

BREAKING: Trump is reportedly planning to shift the US economy towards a war-based model, prioritizing defense spending over domestic projects. This could have major implications for healthcare and other essential services in 2027.

Credit: @aaronparnas.bsky.social | Source

#Military #Spending

Scott Pfitzinger

@pfitzinger.bsky.social

5 days ago

State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead.of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” Who wants to tell him that 68,000 Americans die each year because they can’t afford healthcare, and U.S. military spending accounts for over 50% of the total federal budget?

Exactly!

#priorities #politics #Iran #spending #healthcare

spacex

@spacex.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

6 days ago

Artemis II Launches a New Era of Lunar Exploration On December 14, 1972, Eugene Cernan became the last human to walk on the moon. More than 53 years later, NASA is finally—cautiously—taking the first steps toward sending astronauts back. The four-person crew of Artemis II took flight on April 1 at 6:35 P.M**.** If successful, the mission will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on an approximately 10-day journey around the moon. They will not land on the lunar surface, but NASA expects the crew to go at least 248,655 miles from Earth—the farthest humans have ever traveled from our planet, exceeding the record set by Apollo 13. Artemis II is a critical test flight. It marks the first time astronauts will fly aboard NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and _Orion_ spacecraft, and it is the first real test of _Orion_ 's life-support systems with humans on board. It is less a triumphant return to the moon than a high-stakes systems check. The road has been anything but smooth. In 2021, NASA's inspector general estimated that the agency's total Artemis spending would reach $93 billion through FY 2025, while also warning that a 2024 lunar return was unrealistic. That now looks like a massive understatement. Artemis II is only now taking off from the pad in spring 2026. Even the price tag remains unclear. In 2021, the inspector general claimed that NASA lacked a credible Artemis-wide cost estimate and projected the production and operations cost of a single SLS/_Orion_ launch at about $4.1 billion for the early missions. In February, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman claimed that over the next seven years, the agency will spend an additional $20 billion to build a moon base. It's unclear if that moon base project will be entirely separate from the Artemis missions. Artemis II is no longer simply paving the way for Artemis III to land astronauts on the moon. Under NASA's updated 2026 plan, Artemis III has been downgraded—or repurposed—into a low-Earth-orbit test mission in 2027, meant to rehearse rendezvousing and docking with one or both commercial landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin. NASA's first Artemis lunar landing is now Artemis IV, targeted for early 2028, and the agency says the actual landing provider will depend on which commercial system is ready first. That matters because the bottleneck is no longer just NASA. The return to the lunar surface now depends heavily on commercial hardware that is still in development. The seventh, eighth, and ninth Starship flights in 2025 all experienced mishaps, though SpaceX plans to test Starship again as soon as this week. NASA's revised plan reflects that uncertainty: Instead of tying the first landing to a single contractor on a fixed timeline, it has shifted to a more flexible approach built around whichever lander proves ready. Humanity's long-awaited return to the lunar surface is still coming—but later, and under a very different architecture than NASA originally sold. Artemis now looks less like Apollo with better branding and more like a sprawling hybrid program in which NASA sets goals, subsidizes infrastructure, and relies on private firms to make the crucial pieces work. Whether that model is prudent or unnecessary is the real debate. NASA moved toward public-private partnerships because commercial space was moving faster than the agency could on its own. But the private space sector is no longer fragile. It is competitive, ambitious, and increasingly capable of pursuing lunar missions on its own terms. If the goal is to get humans back to the moon, Washington should not manage the whole enterprise. It may simply need to get out of the way.

#Space #Astronauts #Government #Spending #NASA

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spacex

@spacex.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

6 days ago

Artemis II Launches a New Era of Lunar Exploration Artemis might return astronauts to the moon, but only after years of delays and a price tag far exceeding the government’s projections. On Decem...

#Space #Astronauts #Government #Spending #NASA

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Prime Rate

@fedprimerate.com

6 days ago

Consumer Confidence Index - MARCH, 2026: 91.8 > Previous Month (revised): 91.0 < MORE: >> https://money.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA--Soft--Data--Consumer--Confidence--Index--CCI---MARCH---2026.html << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/Consumer-USA << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/-C-C- << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--CC-- << #Economy #ConsumerConfidence #FedPrimeRate #Trade #USA #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #TheConferenceBoard #ConferenceBoard #FamilyFinances #Finances #JobOpenings #InterestRates #Consumer #Income #PersonalIncome

Consumer Confidence Index - MARCH, 2026: 91.8

MORE: >> money.fedprimerate.com/2026/04/USA-... <<

MORE: > bit.ly/-C-C- <

#ConsumerConfidence #FedPrimeRate #Trade #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #Finances #InterestRates #Consumer #Income

Fay Thompson, Author/Artist

@faythompsonauthor.bsky.social

1 week ago

Sell off extra stuff you own but don't use. Empty your hoarded junk. Clean out your closets. Organize what you have. Notice what you actually use. Notice what is decor or seasonal or trendy. Do you want a successful novel more than that trinket? Change.

#writingcommunity #booksky #spending #habits

AutumnE56

@autumn55.bsky.social

1 week ago

What Public Records Reveal About College Football’s Spending Launched last fall, the newsletter FOIAball digs into the inner workings of college athletics departments, shedding light on spending and other off-the-field issues.

Sickening.

What #Public #Records #Reveal About #College #Football’s #Spending

Launched last fall, the #newsletter #FOIAball digs into the inner workings of college athletics departments, shedding light on spending and other off-the-field issues.

Prime Rate

@fedprimerate.com

1 week ago

Index of Consumer Sentiment - FINAL - MARCH 2026: 53.3 MORE: >> https://money.fedprimerate.com/2026/03/USA--Soft-Data--Consumer--Sentiment--FINAL--Results--MARCH--2026.html << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--C-- << MORE: >> https://bit.ly/--CS-- << #Economy #ConsumerSentiment #Commerce #Shopping #FedPrimeRate #Trade #USA #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #America #Inflation #FamilyFinances #Finances #InterestRates #TheFed #Consumer #Income #PersonalIncome

Index of Consumer Sentiment - FINAL - MARCH 2026: 53.3

MORE: >> money.fedprimerate.com/2026/03/USA-... <<

#ConsumerSentiment #Commerce #Shopping #FedPrimeRate #Trade #Consumers #Jobs #Employment #Business #Spending #ConsumerSpending #Inflation #Finances #InterestRates #Consumer #Income

Libertarians + MMT (Modern Monetary Theory)

@libertarian-mmt.bsky.social

1 week ago

MMT Basics: From Adam Smith to MMT: Why Spending Creates Savings, Not the Other Way Around Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) shows why spending creates savings – it’s not the other way around

"MMT Basics: From Adam Smith to MMT: Why Spending Creates Savings, Not the Other Way Around

"Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) shows why #spending creates #savings – it’s not the other way around..."

mmt101.substack.com/p/mmt-basics...

Sidse AEgidius

@saegidius.bsky.social

1 week ago

Donald Trump’s gold tab exceeds $100 million YouTube video by Aaron Parnas

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#Trump #Spending #Tax-dollars

Hey, Apple..? Do you do "self-filling, mood-commanded wallets" for citizens, too? - Or is it only trophies for a bribes?

youtube.com/shorts/6Su2i...

myParliament.ca

@myparliament.bsky.social

1 week ago

Have you ever seen the government work this fast? What do you think this was for? 😂

#canadapolitics #cdnpol #parliament #government #breakingnews #taxpayer #politics #canada #ottawa #meme #news #budget #spending

Christopher-J (aka Eustach the Wanderer)

@chrjcar.bsky.social

1 week ago

Canada clears NATO's 2% bar after years of lagging | CBC News Canada has finally met NATO’s two per cent defence spending target, buoyed by a $9.3 billion surge and internal accounting changes. The long-elusive milestone fulfills Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pro...

#Canada has finally met the #NATO 2% defence #spending target, buoyed by $9.3B surge and internal accounting changes. It fulfills PM Mark Carney promise under intense allied pressure, but comes as NATO shifts goalposts farther and scrutiny turns to how money is spent.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

SearchEngine

@searchengine.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

Apple’s $500 Billion American Bet: Manufacturing Pledge or Tariff Shield? Apple's $500 billion U.S. investment pledge blends $400 million in new spending with years of pre-existing commitment...

#ManufacturingPro #Apple #$500 #billion #spending #Apple […]

[Original post on webpronews.com]

SearchEngine

@searchengine.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

The Hard Hat Economy: How AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Infrastructure Is Reshaping America’s Blue-Collar Workforce America's AI boom is generating massive demand for blue-collar workers —...

#AITrends #AI #infrastructure #AI #spending #blue-collar #jobs #data […]

[Original post on webpronews.com]

Paul David Drabble

@pauldaviddrabble.co.uk

1 week ago

A #bleak #morning these #portraits for a story about #defence #spending new careers in #Sheffield #steel industry and how Natalie is the 4th ge to join #Sheffield_Forgemasters www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...
©Paul David Drabble
#Photography #Storytelling #Photojournalism #PhotographyNorth

OneWhiteRaven

@1whiteraven06.bsky.social

1 week ago

Spend the money at home lol #duet #iran #war #spending #war #maga #petehegseth #liar #fraud #idiot
youtube.com/shorts/7h1Dg...

Fay Thompson, Author/Artist

@faythompsonauthor.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Store your Press Kit as both .docx and later a .pdf file. You will be updating this kit over time so be organized. Your bio should list any awards or credits you have that will interest people. This should include notable sales of your short fiction.

#writingcommunity #booksky #presskit #spending

Me WiseMagic 🎸

@wisemagic.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Spend the money at home lol #duet #iran #war #spending #war #maga #petehegseth #liar #fraud #idiot YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk

Spend the money at home lol #duet #iran #war #spending #war #maga #petehegseth #liar #fraud #idiot

www.youtube.com/shorts/7h1Dg...

Vote In Or Out

@voteinorout.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

voteinorout on Instagram: "#Raytheon’s multibillion dollar missile contracts are fueling debate over U.S. priorities, as critics question funding for defense systems while domestic programs face cuts. #Defense #Spending #Politics He cites an $8.4 billion contract and a $267 million award for SM-3 interceptor missiles, estimating about $11.6 million per interceptor. These systems are part of U.S. and allied missile defense networks, including deployments tied to Israel and Gulf partners. The criticism connects this spending to broader concerns about U.S. alliances and human rights records in countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, while contrasting it with domestic policy debates, including reported reductions in SNAP funding that affects millions of Americans. — $20bn/year cut from SNAP yet we can give Raytheon $8.4bn for more missiles. Follow @quadzillahikes for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson" 35 likes, 0 comments - voteinorout on March 22, 2026: "#Raytheon’s multibillion dollar missile contracts are fueling debate over U.S. priorities, as critics question funding for defense systems while domestic programs face cuts. #Defense #Spending #Politics He cites an $8.4 billion contract and a $267 million award for SM-3 interceptor missiles, estimating about $11.6 million per interceptor. These systems are part of U.S. and allied missile defense networks, including deployments tied to Israel and Gulf partners. The criticism connects this spending to broader concerns about U.S. alliances and human rights records in countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, while contrasting it with domestic policy debates, including reported reductions in SNAP funding that affects millions of Americans. — $20bn/year cut from SNAP yet we can give Raytheon $8.4bn for more missiles. Follow @quadzillahikes for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

#Raytheon’s multibillion dollar missile contracts are fueling debate over U.S. priorities, as critics question funding for defense systems while domestic programs face cuts. #Defense #Spending #Politics

He cites an $8.4 billion contract and a $267 million award for SM-3 interceptor missiles, est...