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ELON: As the mayor said, New York is running out of hotel rooms, so what’s next?
As the mayor said, New York is running out of hotel rooms, so what’s next? https://t.co/2JABfKEAX3 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 2, 2023
Canada had Pride month June, then extended till September as “ Pride Season”. October is now 2SLGBTQQIA+ Month
Pride Month/Canada/Date (2023) Thu, 1 Jun 2023 – Fri, 30 Jun 2023 Turned into …. ‘June to September is Pride Season in Canada, a time to celebrate 2SLGBTQI+ people (that is, people who are Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex, or who use other terms related to sexual …
Is TLT Hitting its Bottom? My Play for the Upcoming Rebound.
by bitkogan Throughout 2023, TLT has been on everyone’s radar, with hopes of a resurgence. The fund has consistently drawn interest, attracting a whopping $16.68 billion since the year’s start, nearly doubling its assets. Yet, it’s mostly been a downhill journey. While it’s a stretch to claim today as the …
America Last – “If Putin thinks he can outlast us, he’s wrong. We will have another package of aid for Ukraine soon.”
“If Putin thinks he can outlast us, he's wrong. We will have another package of aid for Ukraine soon." Im sure Putin is shaking in his boots🙄 Meanwhile America falling from within. pic.twitter.com/dVOJRS6hZP — Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) October 2, 2023
Uh….NO WE DON’T! Bank for International Settlements – ‘People want their money to be digital and programmable’
Speech by Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS Snippet from his speech “Cash use is declining.1 Users are increasingly demanding new forms of money. Advances in digital services are highlighting shortcomings in existing systems, while raising expectations about what money should do. People want their money to be …
‘This is as awkward as it sounds! The higher the debt-to-GDP ratio, the LOWER yields.’
The Bank of Japan, which holds a staggering 47% of ALL outstanding Japanese government #debt, has announced additional bond purchases to push #yields lower. This is as awkward as it sounds!The higher the debt-to-GDP ratio, the LOWER yields. pic.twitter.com/vAL0qWM87f — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) October 2, 2023 When your perspective is …
Why I believe Apple’s stock buybacks are misallocation of resources.
by winterc1 Apple has one of the weirdest financial statements in the stock market, with PBR=45 and PER=30. This means the company’s yearly profit is greater than the equity it holds. In fact, despite being one of the most profitable company in the world, Apple’s equity has decreased from $140B …
Panama canal reduces daily ship traffic by 3%, 18% in the last two years.
PANAMA CITY (AP) — The Panama Canal announced Saturday it will reduce the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day, from 32 in August, due to a drought that has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks. That compares to daily averages …
Hedge funds to sell up to $30 billion of stocks soon, potentially exacerbating the recent downward move in shares
via reuters: LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Hedge funds using computers to trade equities are expecting to start selling to the tune of $20 billion to $30 billion in the next two weeks given retreating stock markets, a UBS (UBSG.S) note seen by Reuters shows. Hedge funds using algorithms to …
Disney Is Getting Absolutely Wiped Out, Empty Parks Signal Collapse Is Coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7TgnOXEsY Disney Is Getting Absolutely Wiped Out, Empty Parks Signal Collapse Is Coming Disney is indeed in deep trouble. The entertainment favorite that dominated our screens for longer than we even care to remember is now getting absolutely wiped out. The beloved Mickey Mouse was not the solution to the …
Globalism Will Fail If You Don’t Have a Non Stop Flood of Cheap Slave Labor Pouring In
by Chris Black American business can’t or won’t pay what the price of labor is actually worth. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html
Is The US Military Laying The Groundwork To Reinstitute The Draft?
Authored by Zachary Yost via The Mises Institute, The most recent edition of the US Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the US military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average …
AOC Explains and Makes Excuses for Democrat That Pulled the Fire Alarm.
The stupidity has gone full-tard times 1000x “Code of the District of Columbia § 22–1319. False alarms and false reports; hoax weapons. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully or knowingly give a false alarm of fire within the District of Columbia, and any person …
Guy Pulls Gun On Repo Man
Allot of strapped people out there cant pay the bills. Its getting worse. Having your car repossessed isn’t a fun situation, and while it usually can be avoided, sometimes people are in genuinely bad financial situations where it can’t be helped. Even if that’s the case, pulling a gun on the …
China has the capacity to build PLA combat ships at 200 times the rate that the US can, per leaked US Navy intelligence
China’s shipbuilding capacity is 232 times greater than the US, per leaked US Navy intelligence. A leaked US Navy briefing slide with the information circulated online in July, per The War Zone, an online newsletter. The slide was titled “PLAN vs. USN Naval Force Laydown,” and appeared to be marked …
YOU DON’T SAY: Biden admin quietly released study showing green energy receives far more subsidies than fossil fuels.
via foxnews: The report — authored by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) and published in August — represents the first of its kind since 2018. The EIA analyzed data from 2016 through 2022, and determined that, during that time period, the federal government doled out $183.3 billion …
Plus-size travel influencer calls on hotels to enlarge HALLWAYS to help fat guests
Plus-size travel influencer who demanded other passengers pay for obese flyers' extra seats now calls on hotels to enlarge HALLWAYS to help fat guests https://t.co/5TFhJZuYBn I fly All Airlines going my way. For them it is all about the weight not the Size. — ROY GENE MEARS (@ojusojin10) October 2, …
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Top confirmed – Goldman offloading bags to retail
Stock market looks bad. Head & shoulders pattern is completed. Carsh month of October is here. Too many economic headwinds to even begin to list. I think the rug pull is here tards. $ES_F S&P 500 Futures in the red this morning despite an initial gap up on government shutdown …
How Great Is Our Economy If The Bottom 50%’s Share Of The Nation’s Wealth Has Plummeted Since 2009?
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated from 2009 to the present. Longtime readers know I’ve covered America’s soaring wealth and income inequality for many years, and so …
Analysts concerned about weakness in the consumer
US Consumer Spending Is Signaling Pain Ahead: Credit Weekly (Bloomberg) — The US consumer is starting to buckle as rising gas prices crimp spending and the delinquency rate on credit cards reaches the highest level in more than a decade. And that’s before student loan payments restart in October. A …
Wells Fargo bank investigators believed Hunter Biden was involved with ‘sex trafficking ring’ and falsified checks to pay prostitutes
JUST IN – Hunter Biden was suspected of hiring prostitutes from an "Eastern European sex trafficking ring" and falsifying checks to pay the women, Treasury documents reveal.https://t.co/OhlJz5JiKf — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 2, 2023 EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden was suspected of hiring prostitutes from ‘Eastern European sex trafficking ring’ during drug binges …
Bidenomics/Covid Increased Federal Outlays By 30% From January 2020, M2 Money UP 36% (US Debt Tops $33 Trillion With $194 Trillion In Unfunded Liabilities)
by confoundedinterest17 Well, it looks like Ukraine’s army is surrending in droves to Russian forces. Maybe this will end Biden’s obsession with doling billions of dollars to Ukraine. Nah, Biden will continue doling out billions to Ukraine, but this time it will be to rebuild Ukraine (while major US cities …
It’s hard to follow the science when the science follows the party line…
How ‘Preapproved Narratives’ Corrupt Science: Especially in climate and Covid research, abuse of peer review and self-censorship abound. Scientists were aghast last month when Patrick Brown, climate director at the Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley, Calif., acknowledged that he’d censored one of his studies to increase his odds of getting …
This is entirely rational if you expect runaway inflation…
Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow: Concerts, trips and designer handbags are taking priority over saving for a home or rainy day. Ibby Hussain, who works in marketing for a financial communications firm, says the Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment he and his fiancée rent for $3,000 a month would …
10 Fast Food Chains Are in Serious Financial Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMmPItqPM9c Even in the best economy, the restaurant industry is all about struggle. Margins are incredibly tight and even the slightest change in one statistic can make life miserable for the finest of establishments. Restaurants have been taken down by rising food prices, lower walk-in customers, government investigations, and fast …
Driver Intentionally Crashes SUV Into New Jersey Police Station While Blasting Guns N’ Roses “Welcome To The Jungle” (VIDEO)
WABC 7 reported:INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) — A driver in New Jersey plowed into a police station. The SUV burst through a wall in Independence Township in Warren County. Police identified the driver as John Hargreaves. Police say Hargreaves intentionally crashed as he blasted the song ‘Welcome to the …