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Home prices grew more quickly than usual at the end of 2023 to finish at an all-time high. It’s a side effect of the market for existing homes that dried up as mortgage rates rose. Prices rose 6.1% from year-ago levels in the S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller Home Price Indices, which tracks prices in 20 …
Banks Must Do More on Counterparty Risks, Fed’s Barr Says (Bloomberg) — Wall Street lenders must do more to spot risks from firms they do business with as the Federal Reserve steps up oversight of counterparty risks, according to the central bank’s vice chair for supervision. Michael Barr said Tuesday that banks should bolster how …
SPC just upgraded. Convective Cap beginning to break along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Monster jet overhead. Stay tuned for a very active evening. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html Day 1 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1026 AM CST Tue Feb 27 2024 Valid 271630Z – 281200Z …THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS …
You are now warned: In 2018, Ed Pierson decided that he could no longer work as a senior manager for Boeing’s 737 MAX program. At the company’s production facility in Renton, Washington, he had watched as employee morale plummeted and oversight and assembly procedures faltered. He told his superiors but retired soon after. But then …
This happens literally every recession. Almost verbatim to 2007. Because lagging indicators haven't happened, there won't be a recession. No, you're just following the wrong indicators. https://t.co/xeL1VzHFq5 pic.twitter.com/NweH9HGy1K — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 27, 2024
IT’S BEEN 30 YEARS SINCE FOOD ATE UP THIS MUCH OF YOUR INCOME The last time Americans spent this much of their money on food, George H.W. Bush was in office, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” was in theaters and C+C Music Factory was rocking the Billboard charts. Source:… pic.twitter.com/9CMWtL8RiF — Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) February 27, …
MicroStrategy insiders sold shares worth $128 mln YTD. Historically they had good timing with selling stocks. h/t mrmrmrj
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of BRICS countries are set to hold a meeting on Tuesday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo at the sidelines of the G20 ministerial summit. The meeting will also see the first participation participation of new BRICS members who officially joined the organization at the start of this year. A wide …
Trump hilariously mocks Biden getting lost on stage 🤣 pic.twitter.com/DaRevLwYUc — The Night Warrior (@WarriorNight007) February 27, 2024
If this isn’t suspicious I don’t know what is , isn’t it about time they put out an official statement about what’s going on ? “The Prince of Wales has pulled out of a reading at a memorial service for his father’s second cousin King Constantine of Greece ‘for personal reasons’. Queen Camilla is set …
via Matthew Piepenburg It’s almost comical to watch policy makers of all stripes and country codes caught in a corner yet pretending we don’t notice. Children In Charge I’m reminded of the kid with his hand in the cookie jar while pretending his parents can’t see him—denying his guilt despite the crumbs falling from his …
“The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat for endangered fish.” The dams are part of the Klamath project, a series of seven dams built in the 1910’s and 1920’s in the Klamath Basin to bring electricity and …
WATCH: Virginia Lt. Gov. @WinsomeSears refers to transgender State Senator Danica Roem as "sir." He then storms out of the room and the senate went into two recesses. Sears then came back out and said "I am not here to upset anyone. I am here to do the job that the people of… pic.twitter.com/WYbRP2h5EA — …
Arizona House Speaker Ben Tomas introduced on Monday his tough immigration bill that would crack down on businesses hiring illegal immigrants.
The D.C. Bar’s case against Jeff Clark is part of a widespread and well-funded effort by Democrats to make it illegal to be a Republican lawyer. Trump-era Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark won a big victory against Democrat lawfare on Monday when the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled he did not have to comply …
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A 100 percent worse?!? What soes that even mean? Phones out for 5 hours instead of 3? Or did he mean 100 times worse? The recent AT&T network outage, which affected millions of cell phones and access to emergency services across America, would pale in comparison to a cyberattack from China, according to a prominent Republican who …
Anything to get Joe re-elected bro — Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) February 27, 2024
Brazil has put the Bermuda triangle of international diplomacy – reform of the United Nations and other multilateral bodies – at the heart of its presidency of the G20, arguing that the war in Gaza and shifts in the economic power balance finally make change possible. A two-day meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Rio …
You’re now paying 4 cents more per gallon at the gas station after an increase in California’s gasoline excise tax went into effect at the start of the new fiscal year July 1. The annual bump is due to the passage in 2017 of Senate Bill 1 — commonly called the gas tax — that …
Median performance in the following 13 and 26 weeks is +2.0% and +5.5%, respectively, but this has happened so rarely in the last 50 years, it is hard to argue we should draw any conclusions from it. h/t mrmrmrj
“Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis (D.) on Wednesday secured over $600,000 in taxpayer funds to buy her staff a fleet of brand new cars—even though lawmakers don’t know what she plans to use them for. Four of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners’ Democratic members voted to approve Willis’s request, with one Democrat joining …
IRS Official Alex Mena SPRINTS a mile down 7th avenue in NYC after O’Keefe shows footage of him calling the IRS AI programs ‘unconstitutional’ Mena then attempted to hide by standing in a shadowy doorway on Commerce Street, before O’Keefe found him and Mena began running again. Mena, who said he works with Criminal Investigations …
BUDAPEST — At last, Sweden will get to join NATO. Sweden cleared the final hurdle to become the military alliance’s 32nd member after Hungary — the last holdout among the countries — held a parliamentary vote to approve the move. In recent years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed Sweden away from its decades of military …
I borrowed $4M in derivatives to invest. Too crazy? byu/Dry-Drink inwallstreetbets
(Bloomberg) — Chinese hedge funds were looking forward to a holiday break from the market turmoil when trouble started brewing last month. One manager had his short-selling orders abruptly rejected by brokers. Another was cut off from the stock market completely. Regulators turned up on trading floors at multiple funds to monitor transactions in person. …
They say sex is the key to a happy marriage – and now science suggests it’s true. Orgasms rewire the brain in ways that encourage long-term bonding, according to new research. A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory mapped the brains of male and female voles …
March is bringing more than just the promise of spring; it’s also delivering a dose of economic tension as regional banks find themselves in a pressure cooker. High-interest rates coupled with challenges in the commercial real estate market have set the stage for a financial storm, and the expiration of a short-term federal loan program …
Argentine President Javier Milei said on Thursday evening that he will present a bill to Congress to punish with jail time any Central Bank official that issues money to the National Treasury to finance fiscal deficits. Milei, in an interview with the news channel Todo Noticias, said that the intention is to define the practice …
AOC laments the results of one-party rule and Bidenomics: "Rent in New York City, just like across the rest of this country, has gotten out of control. Our housing crisis has gotten to such epic proportions!" pic.twitter.com/3JptMsMfag — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 26, 2024