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pic.twitter.com/c2KZbYl04Z — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) October 8, 2025 Meanwhile the number of years of median income to buy a home keeps growing continuously. pic.twitter.com/jG0uuKJAYy — Aeraryum (@Aeraryum) October 9, 2025 The shutdown is now in week two and Washington’s gone silent. No jobs data, no CPI, no Treasury reports, the Fed is flying blind. Prediction …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Political pressure on the budget showdown will mount. ACA Plan Costs Expected to Jump The Wall Street Journal discusses ACA Costs and Subsidies Premiums for ACA plans are expected to increase steeply in most states next year, with many insurers hiking rates 20% or more, due largely to higher spending …
This is what real accountability looks like. For years the system has been built to protect the bureaucracy and punish the people who actually keep the country moving. President Trump made it clear that government should serve the American people, not the other way around. When… — John Basilone 🇺🇸 🦅 (@hardcharger0811) October 8, 2025 …
Savanah Hernandez at the WH Antifa summit yesterday.pic.twitter.com/05S0U0lSO3 — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 9, 2025
🚨 HUGE ANTI-ICE PROTEST FORMING IN CHICAGO. VIDEO: @AZ_Intel_ pic.twitter.com/ztMBB0pgmY — Maine (@TheMaineWonk) October 9, 2025 BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening. Keep it up! pic.twitter.com/dsyCj7X5MH — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 9, 2025 Hundreds of folks hit the streets in downtown Chicago yesterday afternoon, October 8, marching down …
The car market just lost half a million sales in one month. Tricolor, a lender with 65 dealerships filed for bankruptcy. Bosch is cutting 13,000 jobs. Delinquencies hit a 15-year high. But here’s the thing: the real crisis isn’t the sales numbers. Because what’s actually happening is millions of Americans are trapped. The average car …
by David Haggith Word of the dollar’s demise as it goes to zero is no longer greatly exaggerated. The dollar is now coughing and choking like an old man with one foot in his grave. Gold is rallying because it is measured in declining dollar values and because it is the safe haven of choice …
Brown University’s Cost of War Project has released a shocking report demonstrating that since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel the United States has spent up to $34 billion dollars to assist Israel on its multiple wars in the region. Millions have been displaced, with multi-hundreds of thousand casualties. Also today: Russia/US rapprochement is …
Something is cooking byu/mindracer inconspiracy Trump is well known for TACO. He may drop it at the exact moment when he needs the support most, just like he will eventually reverse some tariffs over time.
Housing markets "freeze" before they crash. Why? Because its an illiquid market primarily owned by broke morons who can't do basic math. https://t.co/5DlojhK7My pic.twitter.com/rjnEclAoap — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) October 8, 2025 Homebuyers Are Canceling Deals at a Record Rate. Here’s Why. Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on the ‘wrong track’ and it’s …
Cartel gunmen in Mexico put up two banners addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel and other officials from the U.S. and Mexico, threatening U.S. citizens living in the Cabo San Lucas and San Jose areas. The threats point to the U.S. getting involved in the cartel’s turf war in Sinaloa and Baja California. The banner …
‘Epstein bomb set to drop — nobody wants to defend Trump’: 100 GOP Reps to mutiny, congressman warns A Democratic congressman claimed that a staggering number of his GOP colleagues are ready to defy Donald Trump over the release of the Epstein files because they don’t want ‘to defend a pedo-protector.’ California Rep. Eric Swalwell …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, Consumer credit is weak in nominal terms and negative in real terms. Nominal Consumer Credit, Data from the Fed, Chart by Mish Nominal consumer credit has started to flatline. In real terms, credit is declining. Real Consumer Credit in Billions of Dollars Real Consumer Credit Data from the Fed, …
via Salt_Yak_3866 Bitcoin is not a store of value so don’t believe that lie. Bitcoin’s Store-of-Value Illusion is exactly why the masses should walk away. They say Bitcoin is the future. A store of value. A replacement for fiat. But when you look closely – not at the myth, but at the math – it …
Fox: Roasted coffee prices are up 22% in the past year. There's a 50% tariff on coffee from Brazil. That's the nation's biggest coffee supplier. Great job, Donald pic.twitter.com/fo3AFQYskq — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 8, 2025 Found on facebook. byu/Quick_Assignment_725 ininflation Fox Business dropped this bombshell on September 15, calling out how roasted coffee …
Russian Ruble has gained nearly 40% against the U.S. Dollar this year byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts h/t RobertBartus
Masked ICE sniper shoots a priest in the eye with a pepper ball while he is pleading with them at a protest near Chicago. byu/I_may_have_weed inPublicFreakout
BREAKING: The man who spit in a Border Patrol agent’s face outside ICE Portland has now been charged with FELONY ASSAULT of a federal law enforcement officer, @MrAndyNgo reports FAFO, loser. Leftist Jay Boyce, 38, is facing up to EIGHT YEARS in prison if convicted. “Nobody spits on the brave men and women of federal …
BREAKING: President Trump rants about transitioning children in front of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose child allegedly identifies as “non-binary.” pic.twitter.com/x7KDAYpWKC — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) October 8, 2025 EXCLUSIVE: Mark Carney sent his eldest daughter Sasha Carney to discredited U.K. Tavistock Transgender Clinic pic.twitter.com/7Ht5PMgswK — Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) March 17, 2025 Well, there’s no …
OK. So we repeal Obamacare What happens next? What do the 44-45 million current Obamacare clients do for Health insurance? I do favor removing all Non citizens from the program. And suspect were they to be removed that the system would probably be a lot more functional. — Angie Pratt (@ArkansasAngie) October 8, 2025 Health …
by confoundedinterest17 Feelin’ stronger for the most part. Mortgage applications decreased 4.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending October 3, 2025. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 4.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted …
Drone Light Show in China Ends in Chaos: A drone and #fireworks display in Liuyang, China, turned #disastrous as hundreds of #drones malfunctioned and fell from the sky, some in flames. Sparks hit the crowd and started a small forest fire. Officials say no one was injured!… pic.twitter.com/Gda8MbGmyq — Amitav Bhattacharjee (@bamitav) October 5, 2025
I looked up this lady's restaurants and there are so many bad reviews and local forums talking about her antics for the last 6 years. From political messages on her signs to dirty conditions to stealing money from bartenders. It appears she is/was running for some office. — Kimberly (@KimberinSC) October 8, 2025
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Wealth and mortality in retirement have now been quantified. People making over $120,000 in retirement live an average of 9 years longer. pic.twitter.com/ucyskNPOgP — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 8, 2025 Access to better healthcare is my guess. Better foods. Etc — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 8, 2025
Details remain scant about an unspecified U.S. Air Force aircraft, widely believed to be a drone of some kind, which came down in southern Nevada not far from Area 51 nearly two weeks ago. Whether the aircraft was ever actually inside Area 51’s highly restricted airspace, also known as “The Box,” is unknown. The mishap …
He signed that bill into law in 2019 requiring back pay for federal workers during lapses. He doesn’t even know that law exists or that he signed it. OMB is scrubbing all references to it in their shutdown guidance documents. — Camille MacKenzie (@CamRMacKenzie) October 7, 2025 Collins: So if your position is what they …
The EU needs to eat a much schnitzel and sausage as possible. The US will be having some nice steak. pic.twitter.com/nkdFsl2snm — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) October 8, 2025 This is inaccurate, they approved banning words like “veggie burger” to limit meat descriptions to products containing actual meat. The goal is to protect farmers from big food. …
SENATE MASSACRE: What unfolded in the United States Senate today wasn’t a hearing – it was the complete annihilation of the Democrat establishment. Gary Franchi reports from the Next News Network’s RAW FEED as Attorney General Pam Bondi walked into that chamber and systematically destroyed every senator who dared challenge her. One woman versus the …
