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NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WHITE HOUSE.pic.twitter.com/lr7vigFwnp — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 28, 2025
South Carolina is scheduled next week to be the first state in 15 years and only the third in 49 to carry out an execution by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, 67, is on death row for the 2001 beating death with a baseball bat of his former girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County. He confessed that …
Efforts to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine were left in tatters following President Trump’s confrontational White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which erupted into one of the most remarkable Oval Office scenes in years. Zelensky arrived at the White House on Friday with the hopes of signing a critical minerals …
Two years ago, there was a railway accident that had a toll of 57 people dead. The government tried immediately to clean up and cover up with cement the accident site because it seems that one of the trains was transporting some illegal substances that are used for oil/gas adulteration and which caused a huge …
Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have called a sudden truce with the cryptocurrency industry, bringing an end to years of legal conflict… On February 13, a federal judge granted a joint request by the SEC and Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, to pause their ongoing litigation while they await new rules …
Workers of the USAID are complaining about the Department of Government Efficiency Shutting down their department due to waste, abuse, and corruption. They are organizing “sit-ins” and protests in Washington DC, to get screen time crying on national tv.
by Martin Armstrong There are calls for Britain to rejoin the European Union, with Parliament expected to debate matters on March 24. Nigel Farage worked tirelessly to protect Britain from Brussels. The latest proposal for Britain to rejoin the European Union is nothing short of economic suicide. This is not about what’s best for Britain—it’s about the …
By Graham Summers, MBA | Chief Market Strategist The markets are setting up for a big test. If they fail, we’re in for some REAL fireworks in stocks. I’ve been bullish on stocks for most of the last few weeks, but yesterday’s price action, combined with how the weekly candles are setting up, is changing everything. …
With mass Trump-era layoffs, adversaries see vulnerable, bitter ex-officials as prime recruitment targets. 🚨U.S. INTEL: RUSSIA AND CHINA RECRUITING FIRED US OFFICIALS U.S. intelligence warns that Russia and China are aggressively recruiting recently fired federal employees, particularly those with security clearances. With the Trump administration conducting mass layoffs,… https://t.co/vMzKgSzwRK pic.twitter.com/utJkUxs1hU — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February …
by Mike Shedlock As borrowers struggle to keep up with car payments, auto lenders offer payment extensions to keep those loans from going bad. Car Dealership Guy reports Auto Lenders Increasingly Turn to Payment Extensions. Payment Extension Trap 60+ day auto loan delinquencies in the subprime cohort (less credit-worthy borrowers) hit 6.56% in December 2024—the highest …
by David Haggith No small changes in the news today, but deep troubles rumbling up toward the surface from times past that will easily be made worse by times coming. Deep fear hovers over the stock market. The Dow tumbled, Warren Buffet fled the S&P500 stocks he had been advocating, and the Nasdaq fell off …
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Mortgage payments now make up 40% of the average household income – the highest levels in over 30 years By the classic rule of keeping payments under a third of income, about 70% of Americans today can’t afford a mortgage Housing affordability is at a breaking point pic.twitter.com/qwn079KFPb — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) February 27, 2025 …
The richest 1% of Americans own more stocks than the other 99%. The biggest difference between the average investor and the top 1% is how much of their portfolio is allocated to stocks. The bottom 50% of the households have only 4% invested in equities compared to an incredible 61% for the top 1%. For the …
by Michael We haven’t seen an economic shift of this magnitude in a long time. Four years of “Bidenomics” absolutely devastated the U.S. economy, and that is one of the primary reasons why Kamala Harris lost the election. The American people truly hate what has happened to the economy, and they are desperate for change. …
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending for another year certain sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, according to documents released by the White House on Thursday. Initially imposed in 2014 following Crimea’s reunification with Russia, the measures have been expanded through multiple executive orders and are now extended for another …
February 25, 2025 The FDIC began disclosing the aggregate assets of banks on the “Problem Bank List” at year-end 1990, an addition to the preexisting practice of reporting only the number of problem banks. Since then, changes in the industry over the past 35 years have made it comparatively easier to identify a large bank …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dramatically reshaping the federal government while the GOP-led Congress has passed a budget resolution to dramatically cut spending while also cutting taxes. What will the impact of these significant moves be on the economy, and will they help forestall an economic collapse driven by the rampant borrowing and money …
SHOT and CHASER. Joy Behar falsely claimed on the View today that Elon Musk supported apartheid in South Africa. Later in the show, she attempted to walk back her comments admitting that she didn’t know if they were true and said “don’t be suing me, okay, Elon?” 🚨 SHOT and CHASER. Joy Behar falsely claimed …
The “special relationship” between the US and the UK got awkward Thursday, when Vice President JD Vance confronted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office over the longtime American ally’s weakening of freedom of speech. Earlier this month, at the Munich Security Conference, Vance had riled European opinion by decrying what he called …
.@SecretaryTurner: "We have a DOGE task force at HUD. We found $260M in savings in contracts. $4M of that was in DEI contracts… which has nothing to do with the mission of HUD. And also, an additional $1.9B in misplaced funds." pic.twitter.com/JlkMd26Y6z — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 27, 2025
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr did not address a social media post by President Trump demanding Comcast be forced to pay “vast sums” to the federal government when asked repeatedly about the post Thursday. While appearing at a media summit hosted by the news outlet Semafor, Carr said he had not seen the …