This janitor turned his lunch breaks into $8 million.

He started with nothing in rural Vermont.

But every day for decades, he did one thing.

Here's his simple strategy that embarrassed Wall Street pros:🧵
But the real story isn't just the money...

It's how a man pumping gas and sweeping floors quietly built a fortune.

While hedge fund managers blew up their funds?

Ronald Read was getting rich in silence.

His strategy was so simple, most investors refuse to believe it works:

In 1997, Apple was about to go bankrupt.

But ONE man saved them from disaster.

It was not Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.

It was their BIGGEST competitor and worst enemy.

Here's why Bill Gates saved his biggest rival from death:🧵 Picture this: 1997.

Apple's stock had hit around $13 per share.

Cash reserves were critically low.

Wall Street analysts openly discussed the company's potential collapse.

The company that popularized the personal computer was in trouble...

Steve Jobs' college roommate went to jail for selling LSD.

But he turned his addiction into $4.3 BILLION when he got out.

No production. No revenue. Just a hole in the ground in Canada.

Here's how Robert Friedland built history's most SHOCKING fortune:🧵 Born in Chicago to Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany, Friedland's early life was marked by academic potential & dangerous rebellion.

At Bowdoin College, authorities caught him with a large quantity of LSD.

He was convicted on drug charges & served time in prison.

He...

This man built a $20B empire without showing his face.

He's richer than Warren Buffett.

But for decades, no one even knew what he looked like.

He destroyed H&M, reinvented retail, & stayed invisible for decades.

Here's how he crushed the fashion industry from the shadows:🧵
First, some context about this phantom billionaire.

Amancio Ortega is worth over $69 billion.

That makes him one of the wealthiest people alive.

Yet he's only been in a handful of interviews in his entire career.

Most people can't even pronounce his name correctly.

America just lost the AI race in the most embarrassing way possible.

We have the best chips and SMARTEST engineers in the world.

But China beat us with something so basic, it's humiliating.

Here's how Chinese AI is destroying America (& it's not what you think):🧵 First, some perspective.

AI doesn't just need computer chips and data centers.

It needs massive amounts of electricity.

More than any computing era in history.

And America's aging power grid simply can't handle what's coming.

In 2024, Amazon betrayed 130 MILLION Prime users.

Why? Because they wanted to steal $13.9 BILLION in profits.

But when one company tried to stop them...

Amazon started a silent war to DESTROY them.

Here's the buried story of how Amazon betrayed its customers: Let's start with betrayal.

For years, Amazon Prime was the golden promise:
"Pay $139/year, get ad-free everything."

Then 2024 hit. Suddenly, ads were everywhere.
Want ad-free? Pay ANOTHER $2.99/month.

Customers felt scammed. But Amazon had a master plan...

This kid arrived in America at age 9.

To survive, he washed dishes and cleaned toilets.

Now he runs the world's richest company worth $3.3 TRILLION.

Here's how one poor immigrant changed the world of technology: In 1972, a 9-year-old immigrant arrives in Tacoma, Washington.

He lives with his uncle while his family gets settled.

The family later moves near Portland, Oregon.

His first job? Dishwasher at Denny's.

He worked his way up to waiter, but something bigger was brewing...

Jensen Huang just gave a WILD speech:

- How one AI computer can process more data than the entire internet
- How NVIDIA plans to kill 50 MILLION jobs with AI agents
- Why Biden failed (& why Trump's doing a better job)

But here's the most terrifying moment no one understood:🧵 People missed the most important part of Jensen's Computex keynote.

It wasn't about GeForce cards or gaming performance.

It was about a fundamental shift in how our economy works.

Here's what he revealed that people should have paid close attention to...

On April 7, Powell held a SECRET emergency meeting.

He banned remote access & gave members only 72 hours to join.

The next day, billionaires pulled cash from saving accounts.

And now, banks are cutting rates.

Here's why your money is at risk (& what to do before June 30): First, let's talk about what really happened on April 7.

The Federal Reserve held an unusual closed-door meeting, citing legal exemption of the Government in the Sunshine Act.

This exemption allows them to meet secretly to discuss the stability of banks.

But there's more...

Apple and Microsoft are just noise.

The real monopoly is a company that controls 62 MILLION developers.

Wall Street still thinks they just make chips.

But their grip on AI is so tight, even Google depends on them.

Here's who they are (& how they can make you rich): 🧵 So, who is this company that has 62M developers trapped in their ecosystem?

It's NVIDIA. But you don't know why they're so powerful.

They have no real compeition, but that's not all...

A hacker broke into Trump's secret chats in minutes.

He found officials sharing secret military plans with their families.

This destroyed Trump's national security team.

Here's how he exposed an Israeli company in Trump's scandal: Defense Pete Hagseth revealed attack plans in Yemen.

And he did this in a "fake signal" chat (owned by an Israeli company).

The chat included his brother, his wife, and his personal attorney.

But that's not all...

Apple's new update just destroyed META's $10 BILLION empire.

So Zuckerberg got desperate for a solution...

That's why he decided to SPY on 3 BILLION people secretly.

Here's the (almost illegal) genius move that saved META from collapse:🧵 Meta just lost $10 billion when Apple let users block tracking.

So they created AI "assistants" to help with your work.

But I discovered something terrifying in their code that no one's talking about.

Here's how they're using AI to spy on 3 billion people:

Elon Musk just tried to buy OpenAI for $97 BILLION.

But his offer was designed to fail from the start.

It's a legal trap to force OpenAI to lose their funding.

Here's how Elon Musk plans to DESTROY OpenAI and Sam Altman: In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI with a bold mission:

Create artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity.

Not corporations.
Not profits.
Everyone.

But 9 years later, things changed completely...

This is Steven Bartlett.

He's a college dropout who built Spotify's 5th biggest podcast.

Not by chasing celebrities or paying for big names.

But by using ONE mind hack that makes billionaires beg to talk to him.

Here's how he makes leaders crack on camera:🧵 He began in September 2017 reading his own diary entries about entrepreneurship.

His first guest was an unknown web designer named Mark Stringer.

So how did he turn a hobby into a media empire that attracts leaders?

Elon Musk knew Trump's tariffs would destroy car-makers.

So he built factories in America while Ford & GM bought car parts from China.

Now Americans will pay $4400 more for a car—unless they buy a Tesla.

Here's how Elon plans to STEAL Ford & General Motor's market share:🧵 Modern car companies have a dirty secret:

Ford gets 40% of their parts from outside the US.
GM is even worse - 55% foreign parts. (Mostly from China & Mexico).

So, to protect American cars...
Trump hit Detroit car companies the hardest.

But not everyone...

Banks just made houses $14,400 more expensive for us while they prepare for a crash.

But they ignored ONE crucial thing about regular buyers.

When the market turns, new homeowners will get a rare chance.

Here's when the prices will collapse (& how to beat the banks this time): When homebuilders show confidence, we should pay attention.

Throughout history, their actions predict broader economic shifts.

Today's data shows they may have overplayed their hand.

Let's dissect what's happening:

China & Saudi Arabia just started a bidding war with American companies.

Not over land or oil, but over something far more dangerous.

A resource that controls what you see online.

But Nvidia owns 96% of this resource.

Here's what it is (& why it will decide how people think): The resource I'm talking about is fuel for AI. The chips that power it.

These chips are the backbone of AI & information control.

The Nations that control the most processing power will control the future.

But most people don't know why this matters to them...

Donald Trump thought he was smarter than his Harvard advisor.

So he ignored his advisor's warning & raised China’s tariff from 2% to 54%.

Now Americans have to pay $3,800 per year–just to cover Trump’s mess.

Here's how Trump's arrogant error is DESTROYING America's economy:🧵 It started with a brilliant plan:
Harvard economist Stephen Miran designed Trump’s trade policy.

His idea? Use tariffs to:
• Bring in money for the U.S..
• Keep prices stable for Americans.
• Push other countries to trade fairly.

But something went terribly wrong...

This unknown college professor just exposed Wall Street.
He revealed that:

• Banks keep the top 4% of stocks for themselves
• They dump the rest on you and me
• They've been doing it for 97 years

I spent hours studying his work.
Here are the 5 tricks banks use to rob you:🧵 The data comes from a detailed study by Professor Hendrik Bessembinder.

He analyzed US stock returns from 1926 to 2023 of 25,782 stocks.

He found: 96% of stocks significantly UNDERPERFORM Treasury bills.

But most people never learn this truth about the markets...

Trump just revealed the biggest Tariff hike since 1909.

Markets are crashing, small businesses are scared, inflation is rising.

Everything's getting more expensive.

And if you don't adjust, you'll get hurt.

Here are 4 ways to save your wallet from Trump's Tariffs: Trump announced crazy tariffs that shocked the world:

- 54% on China, 46% on Vietnam.
- 25% on South Korea, 24% on Japan.
- and 20% on European allies.

Plus a universal 10% tariff on ALL imports.

How did the market react? Complete panic.

In 1992, Wall Street vultures scammed my widowed mother.

She almost lost $1.5 MILLION until I saw her being targeted.

So I spent the next 30 years exposing Wall Street's tricks.

Here's how I won 2 Pulitzer prizes revealing their schemes: 🧵 It started with a phone call.

After building a successful business in LA, my father had just passed away.

Within months, aggressive brokers from a major Wall Street firm targeted my mother.

But what they did next made my blood boil...