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The Border Crisis Is Over. “Bi-den! Bi-den! Bi-den! Bi-den! Bi-den!” “They should let us pass. We are calling out to Mexico and the U.S. and to Biden, the new U.S. president, to remind him of the presidential campaign promises he made, to make him aware we are here,” said one of them, Raul Pino Gonzalez …
I don’t even know where to start with this one. Every time this woman opens her mouth, she says something dumber than the last time she spoke. Yes, you may have guessed that I’m talking about the most obnoxious person in politics at the moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). Apparently, Crockett was the guest speaker …
French far right floats toppling government in wake of Le Pen verdict. Two high-ranking officials from France’s biggest far-right party publicly opened the door on Monday to bringing down the government a week after Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and subsequently barred from running for president. National Rally President Jordan Bardella and party …
BREAKING🚨🇺🇸 Madison Square Garden Entertainment has Filed to LEAVE Delaware and Redomesticate in Nevada Another Day, Another Departure… pic.twitter.com/iMkdjuGuJc — Leave Delaware (@LeaveDelaware) April 7, 2025 More: “In the official proxy statement, reasons for leaving include more predictability and certainty in decision-making; and reducing the risk of opportunistic litigation against the Company, and its directors …
Some truth telling on tariffs. This is going to hurt the middle class way more than Wall St. Seriously give this a listen pic.twitter.com/ibDE8NgfmV — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) April 8, 2025 “What will China do? – a show stopper stimulus plan – start selling $760 Billion Treasury Bills – limit supply chain tech equipment to …
S&P 500 erases 4.5% rally, marking biggest bull trap of 2025 The BULL trap: We just witnessed the biggest bull trap of 2025 with the S&P 500 erasing a ~4.5% rally in ~3 hours. Between 10:30 AM ET and 3:15 PM ET, the S&P 500 erased -$2.3 TRILLION of market cap. Bull traps are TEXTBOOK …
2/ The US stock market is in full panic mode In our last YouTube video, we said there was still plenty of short-term downside risk Which is why we removed most of our exposure to US stocks during the recent bounce pic.twitter.com/xtKKEFKVuU — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) April 7, 2025 4/ This isn’t doom and gloom, …
by Mike Shedlock Economists expected a $15.0 billion rise in consumer credit. The Fed reported -$0.8 billion. The Bloomberg Econoday consensus outlook “Expected up another strong $15.0 billion in February after rising by $18.1 billion in January.” January was revised from $18.1 billion to $8.9 billion. That’s a net miss of $25 billion. Real Consumer …
🚨🇺🇸TRUMP: SOUTH KOREA TO RESTORE MILITARY PAYMENTS, PURSUE MASSIVE LNG & PIPELINE DEALS “I just had a great call with the Acting President of South Korea. We talked about their tremendous and unsustainable Surplus, Tariffs, Shipbuilding, large scale purchase of U.S. LNG, their… https://t.co/n5x8BocwzX pic.twitter.com/7nG1IfPUTC — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 8, 2025 Trump touts ‘great …
All the ladies. Republicans: Please stop voting for, electing or nominating women for ANYTHING. WILL YOU NEVER LEARN? https://t.co/UQuGjws1A5 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 8, 2025 I warned you. https://t.co/UzWVSZetAz — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 8, 2025 Justice Barrett joined the 3 liberals on the court to rule against Trump using Alien Enemies Act for …
Talk about a shift in sentiment: The 10-year note yield now pushing above 4.20% while the S&P 500 falls -4.5% in 3 hours. Yields are ABOVE levels seen before "Liberation Day." Once again, bond markets are telling us something. pic.twitter.com/zOQcikVObA — Adam Kobeissi (@TKL_Adam) April 8, 2025 FHA delinquencies are skyrocketing, 15.11% of all FHA …
Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration turned its chainsaws on the Department of Energy (DOE), cutting, canceling, or pausing a handful of onerous regulations set to hobble household and commercial appliances. Anyone who’s coughed up a small fortune for a barely functional machine lately knows the stakes. My 30-year-old Bosch dishwasher was a marvel—efficient, precise—scouring …
A group known as Skywatcher is expected to release new video of UFOs it has been “summoning” through a signaling system akin to a dog whistle, investigative journalist Ross Coulthart tells “NewsNation Prime.” He adds: “They claim to have been able to recover video of nine different shapes.” https://t.co/TyGUwPRKu6 — Skywatcher (@SkywatcherHQ) January 23, 2025 …
Politico was surprised that countries are not quickly raising their tariffs. Trading partners wonder what pain level he will sustain and who must concede first. The bottom line is that when it comes to Trump today, “We don’t know what the pain threshold is,” said Brian Gardner, chief Washington policy strategist for investment banking firm Stifel …
Elon Musk“They basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud. And they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government. I guess they're bad people and bad people will do bad things." pic.twitter.com/8xYKEvve6R — Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) April 8, 2025
China has furiously hit back at JD Vance, calling him ‘ignorant and impolite’ after the Vice President’s comments about the country’s economy. Mr Vance quipped that the global markets were fuelled by “Chinese peasants”, with Beijing issuing a blistering response. China has been left infuriated as Vance’s comments spread like wildfire on the Chinese internet. …
Cambodia is being hit with the biggest single nation tariff rate of all, at 49%. This has major implications for its factories, now in a fight to survive the next few months if the tariffs are implemented, as retail partners freeze orders. Its one million workers, many of whom are women at the low-end of …
The CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels in Mexico and beyond as the Trump administration moves to make taking on the cartels a major priority for the intelligence agency, according to a US official and three people briefed on the matter. The review does not indicate President Donald Trump …
Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data In a scathing ruling on Thursday, a federal judge wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.” A federal judge on Thursday barred U.S. DOGE Service employees from accessing sensitive …
At the stroke of midnight, Trump pulled the trigger. A 104 percent tariff wall has now slammed down on Chinese imports. This isn’t a policy tweak. It’s a declaration. The trade war is no longer rhetorical or symbolic. It is real. It is active. It is total. The United States has just taken a sledgehammer …
“JPMorgan today lowered its price target on Amazon $AMZN to $220 from $270 while maintaining its Overweight rating JPMorgan lowered its price target on Google $GOOGL to $180 from $220 while maintaining its Overweight rating JPMorgan lowered its price target on $META to $610 from $725 while maintaining its Overweight rating JPMorgan lowered its price …
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed three gun control bills on Thursday. The bills ban certain gun mods, make gun shops post clearer warnings, and change how gun sales are tracked. S744/A436 bans pistol converters from semi-automatic pistols. The law adds pistol converters to the list of devices—like bump stocks, trigger …
This is incredibly bad. What the IRS would be saying to millions of people, if they cave to Trump’s extraordinary demands, is “don’t file your taxes, because if you do, we’ll use it against you.” It would undermine and blow up generations of trust-building. It’s madness. https://t.co/KR5abzy7Me — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 5, 2025
In the largest single deployment of stealth bombers in U.S. history, the Pentagon has sent six B-2 “Spirit” aircraft to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The long-range bombers, which are uniquely suited to evade Iranian air defenses and can carry America’s most potent bunker busting weapons, flew in from Missouri last week in a …
Marjorie Taylor Greene makes huge stock market play just days before tariffs announced Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to know that the stock market was about to crash, as just days before the market meltdown she pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the market and invested in treasury bills instead. This move came just …
Growing opposition among hard-line House conservatives to the Senate’s framework for advancing President Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda is threatening to make this week’s vote one of the heaviest lifts yet for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). At least 10 House Republicans have said they will vote “no” on the measure, and a handful of others have …
In the largest single deployment of stealth bombers in U.S. history, the Pentagon has sent six B-2 “Spirit” aircraft to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The long-range bombers, which are uniquely suited to evade Iranian air defenses and can carry America’s most potent bunker busting weapons, flew in from Missouri last week in a …
When Amy Isabel Davidson was born six weeks ago surgeons in her delivery room broke down in tears of joy. The little girl made history by becoming the first child in Britain to be born from a womb transplant — in an organ donated by her aunt to her mother. Amy was delivered by NHS …
DONALD Trump is reportedly planning to splash a whopping $100 million on a huge military parade that will snake through the streets of Washington DC on his birthday. For years, the president is said to have had his eyes on a full-blown military show displaying the US might, but has failed to put up a …
