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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZNBFcp1uw Job Hunting In 2025 Is HARD! Where Are All the Jobs? Unemployment CRISIS – TikTok Rants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVWlqLWh6E
by Mike Shedlock The GDPnow Nowcast for the first quarter took a dive on February 14. Weather-related utility production lessened the blow. GDPNow data from the Atlanta Fed, chart by Mish There were three significant reports on February 14: Retail Sales, Industrial Production, and Import-Export Prices. Import-Export Prices did not seem to matter. Contributions to …
Experts have sounded the alarm about blockbuster weight loss drugs like Ozempic leaving users blind. Several studies have linked the shots to conditions that cause inflammation and block blood flow to the eye, causing severe and sometimes permanent vision loss. Researchers have detailed nine new reports of US patients who went blind after taking semaglutide …
Congress and @doge should obliterate grants that claim to combat "mis-," "dis-," or "malinformation." These Orwellian terms identify government censorship. Americans shouldn’t be funding government efforts to deprive them of their own right to speak freely. pic.twitter.com/Z3TpXY5MaW — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 15, 2025 It’s time to defend our voices, not let bureaucrats redefine reality …
There is literally zero foreign investment into China right now. Just straight outflows for 24 months straight now. Nobody on earth trusts Xi with their money. And you shouldn’t. pic.twitter.com/i5tPJ8hJde — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) February 15, 2025
– $10M for “Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision” – $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills” – $2.3M for “strengthening independent voices in Cambodia” – $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre – $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub” – $14M for “improving public procurement” …
“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing …
Natalie Winters has just destroyed Zuckerbucks! pic.twitter.com/rd1YfHDDrh — Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) February 14, 2025 ZELENSKY WILL NOT MEET WITH PUTIN TO NEGOTIATE PEACE. Zelensky says he will only meet with Putin after there is a peace agreement in place with Trump and Europe — in other words, Zelensky wants Putin to have no part …
WASHINGTON—In a bid to get ahead of what could be drastic cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, some parts of the military are preparing lists of weapons they have long wanted to cancel but couldn’t get past lawmakers seeking to protect spending in their districts. DOGE members are expected at the Defense Department …
Some federal employees who have been laid off were reportedly given only 30 minutes to pack their belongings and vacate federal offices. Federal agencies were ordered by Donald Trump to fire mostly probationary staff, with as many as 200,000 workers set to be affected and some made to rush off the premises, the Washington Post …
Thank you @MikeBenzCyber for bringing this to light. USAID is about as swampy as it gets. pic.twitter.com/3LwF2e68ej — Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) February 13, 2025
Trump and Musk standing side by side is the nightmare the establishment never wanted. The media tried to drive a wedge between them, but they failed. These are two men who didn’t need to fight for America—but they did anyway. President Trump discusses how legacy media attempted and failed to drive he and Elon Musk …
Recent official inflation reports are disheartening. What’s worse, they simply don’t reflect the reality faced by everyday American families. Today we take a deep dive into how inflation itself, the official headline CPI, is measured. What if we’ve been measuring the wrong things? By Peter Reagan I hate to be the bearer of bad news, …
By Charles Kennedy U.S. President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office an executive order to unleash America’s energy by easing the barriers to oil and gas extraction and production and revoking a series of climate orders by President Biden. As pledged in the campaign and widely expected to take place on President Trump’s …
In today’s forecast, we’re tracking a huge winter storm this weekend, followed by what could be the coldest weather in years next week! This weekend’s storm will bring heavy snow from the Central Plains to the Northeast, while the South faces a severe weather outbreak, with the risk of damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes. …
🚨BREAKING: President Trump signs Executive Order cutting ALL federal funding to schools that mandate the COVID vaccine. pic.twitter.com/kkUs20407X — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 14, 2025 President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order halting federal funds for schools that require students to be vaccinated against coronavirus before they can attend classes in person. Trump’s administration has …
DEMOCRAT DEAN PHILLIPS BLOWS UP CNN NARRATIVE.pic.twitter.com/NrqiGHp0SU — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 14, 2025
What if I told you America’s consumers just pulled the trigger on a warning so colossal it could rewrite the global economy?
NEW: NY Attorney General Letitia James rages after payments to the state of New York were halted by the Trump administration. I can't imagine what life must be like for this woman. She went from thinking she would put the final nail in the coffin for Trump to now being sued by… pic.twitter.com/aplsMVfWFn — Collin …
WATCH: Fox’s @marcthiessen: “It was Barack Obama who founded DOGE, the U.S. DOGE service, which under Obama was the U.S. digital service that brought in tech bro’s – kids from Google – as presidential innovation fellows and deployed them in his words as ‘swat teams’ to the… pic.twitter.com/19mpKfo5P0 — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) February 14, …
January saw a sharp pullback in consumer spending, suggesting a potential slowdown in economic growth, according to a Commerce Department report released Friday. Retail sales dropped 0.9% for the month, following an upwardly revised 0.7% gain in December.. Much worse than the expected 0.2% dip. These figures are adjusted for seasonality but not inflation, which …
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JD Vance just said what European leaders refuse to acknowledge—their mass immigration policies are a betrayal of their own citizens. No one voted to flood their countries with millions of unvetted migrants, but they did vote for Brexit, for sovereignty, for leaders who promised to protect their homes and their futures. Yet the globalist elite …
Home prices in the USA have increased from $25,800 in 1971 to $419,200 in 2024. Over this same period of time household income has also increased but at a much slower rate. For this reason when looking at historical home affordability a common ratio is the home price to income ratio. This ratio allows us …
After 45-years gold has finally set a new all-time high. h/t @ISABELNET_SA pic.twitter.com/VguT0bNHvV — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) February 14, 2025
Before Trump’s inauguration? Silence. After? Suddenly, “egg prices” are a national crisis. CNN and MSNBC went from ignoring the issue to hammering it non-stop, not because they care about working-class families, but because they need a narrative to attack Trump. Where was this energy when prices skyrocketed under Biden? It’s not journalism—it’s propaganda, plain and …
A single drone, a high-explosive warhead, and a direct hit on Chernobyl’s protective shelter. Think about that. If this was an intentional act by Russia, it’s an unprecedented gamble with global consequences. But if not—if this was a miscalculation, a rogue strike, or something deeper happening behind the scenes—then what the hell is going on? …
