According to the Wall Street Journal, the S&P 500’s information-technology sector has dropped 20% in 2022, its worst start to a year since 2002. Its gap with the broader S&P 500, down 14%, is the largest since 2004. Some investors, haunted by the 2000 dot-com bust, are bracing for bigger losses ahead. The declines have prompted investors to pull a record $7.6 billion out of technology-focused mutual funds and exchange-traded funds this year through April.
In a jaw-dropping twist that reeks of conspiracy, Virginia Giuffre, the fearless accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, was found dead at her remote Western Australia farm on April 25, 2025, in what authorities hastily labeled a suicide. The 41-year-old mother of three, who bravely exposed the sordid underbelly of Epstein’s sex trafficking empire, allegedly took her own life just months after a bizarre car crash she claimed nearly killed her.