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Will arrest anyone who trespasses. Feds can remove their gear and only allowed to enter if there’s a medical emergency. Anyone, including Feds, who breach will be arrested. #BREAKING The state of Texas has seized all city property along the riverfront at the border in the Eagle Pass area under governors emergency powers, including federal …
Trump just posted this on Truth Social. 😄 pic.twitter.com/psLldkfiGr — AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) January 12, 2024 h/t DOORBERT
by mark000 Some article on FT: The Fed has already started down the path to resuming quantitative easing. The question is whether they do so before, or after, upending the highly-leverage hedge fund basis trade that has been supporting the Treasury market. This time around, QT has been complicated by the presence of large amounts …
In the midst of holiday festivities that captivated the attention of many, a seismic shift silently unfolded within the intricate web of the global banking sector. The evolving narrative tells a tale of banks tightening their fists, shutting down branches, and adapting to the evolving digital landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBtYaE3vhrU
NYC’s officials just approved a bill to ban background checks for apartment rentals. Is this a good idea?
Add in the buy now pay later loans at checkout, the subprime auto loans, the payday loans. The loan sharks never had it so good. Another new all-time high for consumer credit card interest rates pic.twitter.com/BWeavhTbEO — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) January 10, 2024 Yeah. Moreover, serious delinquencies have been rapidly rising. In some age …
Rand Paul to Finally Break Silence on Presidential Race, Teases “Something Important to Say” Friday Morning I’ve stayed out of the Republican Presidential Primary so far – but I’ve seen enough. That’s why tomorrow morning I will have something important to say. Don’t miss it! pic.twitter.com/HBnMnSy4Bc — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 11, 2024
WARREN, Ohio (WJW) — A Trumbull County grand jury has declined to indict a Warren woman facing a felony charge of abuse of a corpse after miscarrying at home. The grand jury on Thursday afternoon issued a “no-bill” on Brittany Watts’ case. That means the grand jury voted not to indict Watts. Watts’ attorney, Traci Timko, told …
Government deficit spending is projected to skyrocket over the coming decades according to government agencies. Is this an inevitable debt crisis that is waiting to happen? This video dives into charts and data to understand whether that is the case.
by Chris Black I wish Hunter would run for president instead of his daddy. I’d vote for him, fr fr no cap. How can Hunter Biden just walk out of a hearing like this? Because he knows he can pic.twitter.com/7tzQx7StZH — Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) January 10, 2024 He showed up and then stormed out. Alpha af. …
The tunneling has affected the building’s structural integrity. Apparently the tunnels went to four other buildings. There is also a detailed explanation of what and why the tunneling was done. h/t Lynyrd Skynyrd
Welcome to NATO. Swedish defense officials’ warning to brace for war as the nation nears NATO membership has prompted some panic and caused supplies to fly off shelves, according to reports. “For a nation for whom peace has been a pleasant companion for almost 210 years, the idea that it is an immoveable constant is …
Meta’s Instagram started off the new year by telling at least 60 workers their jobs were disappearing, sources told Business Insider. The change at the popular platform happened this week and affected technical program managers across the Instagram organization, according to two people familiar with the company and a post to Blind, an app popular …
Why are they hiding these centers? https://t.co/EsJUPAHYI0 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 11, 2024
🚨JUST IN: Microsoft overtakes Apple to become the largest publicly traded company in the world by market cap. "I am the captain now"$MSFT pic.twitter.com/P6R3CEB7G3 — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) January 11, 2024 h/t DesmondMilesDant
via Mike Shedlock: Total consumer credit, revolving credit, and credit card interest rates all hit new record highs in November. Consumer credit data from the Fed, chart by Mish Adjusted for inflation, revolving credit is approaching the record high hit during the Great Recession. Revolving Consumer Credit in Billions of Dollars Nominal and Real In …
By Graham Summers, MBA The U.S. passed a debt ceiling resolution in May of 2023. Both the GOP and the Democrats claimed victory for the deal, but the reality is the government won and Americans were screwed. How do I know this? It took the U.S. 232 years to generate its first $10 trillion in …
The Chicago Public Schools inspector general is raising red flags about potential waste and fraud — particularly in areas where the district has spent more than $2 billion in federal COVID recovery money. In his annual report out Tuesday, CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher also outlined eight cases of substantiated sexual abuse of staff on …
MACOMB, MI – The Michigan Republican Party (MIGOP) executive committee met on Jan. 6 and performed all the steps defined by the GOP bylaws to remove Kristina Karamo as state chair. They appointed co-chair Malinda Pego as interim chair. Karamo claims the meeting was “illegitimate” and “illegal” and continues to represent herself as the only …
I look forward to those Harvard students who were removed/punished for one or two counts of plagiarism suing for damages and/or reinstatement. It turns out that 50 counts is the actual cutoff. — JerseyGio (@JerseyGio) January 10, 2024 “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to …
Diversity is making our military weaker and our country less safe. No one wants to put their life on the line so that a man who thinks he’s a woman can wear a dress in the military. The same thing is happening with our police. NYPD is the smallest it’s been since the mid-90s. — …
Twitch, the livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, said on Wednesday that it was laying off hundreds of workers, the latest in a number of companies announcing cuts in their workforce this week. But experts tell Newsweek that the job losses do not signal that mass layoffs are set to hit the U.S. economy in the …
Former President Donald Trump reacts to President Biden saying political violence is ‘never acceptable.’
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., tells ‘The Story’ why his deal with Senate Democrats was the right move.
Just when all zombie companies hoped that rates go down in time for them to roll debt pic.twitter.com/EjdXNOAirz — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) January 11, 2024 Breaking: December Inflation Comes in Hot Inflation higher than expected and breaks trend in recent months of reduced inflation. Breaking: US CPI Inflation Situation – Headline CPI comes in …
