Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
More than 4,000 migrants are now arriving in New York City every week, and the Adams administration says it needs to limit shelter stays even further to make room. “It’s not if, it’s when people are going to be sleeping on our streets,” Mayor said. Migrant families with children will now only be allowed to …
BREAKING Ally Bank, a major player in auto lending space, is beginning headcount reductions. Email below from its President of Dealer Services: pic.twitter.com/QnA8TsC5g5 — Car Dealership Guy (@GuyDealership) September 29, 2023
via Mike Shedlock: This phony budget crisis will end the same way it always does, with a Republican cave-in. But a House Speakership is on the line this time. That ups the popcorn rating index a bit more than normal. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Proposal 8% spending cut for domestic agencies Resumption of border wall …
Recently, there have been special policies targeting Hong Kong people in Mainland China. Personal accounts have been frozen under various pretenses such as “suspected illicit money.” The threshold for withdrawing money has also been “raised,” taking up to a few days. When you go to an ATM to draw money, you must wait for at …
via reuters: Thousands of Burning Man attendees readied to make their “exodus” on Monday as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of a party around its flaming effigy namesake. Rain over the weekend turned the once hard-packed ground to pudding. One person died at the …
It’s Official: 🇦🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷🇦🇷🇪🇬🇪🇹 The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Argentina, Egypt, and Ethiopia have received an official invitation to join the BRICS bloc. Their membership will begin on Jan 1, 2024, said South Africa’s head Cyril Ramaphosa. pic.twitter.com/9HPrRyvV38 — 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) August 24, 2023
by squaremild “Reports of COVID” F*CK YOU. Page 2 — https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1693676011399819553/photo/2 https://www.ajc.com/education/atlanta-college-reinstates-covid-19-mask-mandate-as-students-return-to-city/VRAZSDSKJ5B2DG4L7D6I7GCR7I/ A week after classes began, Morris Brown College is once again requiring students and employees to wear face masks on campus. New York hospital reinstates mask mandate amid COVID-19 uptick “Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., reinstated a mask mandate Aug. 17 amid …
Imagine opening your door for an Amazon delivery and seeing your order of foot odor pads without a box – just as your nosy neighbor walks by. That scenario may play out sooner than you think as Amazon begins testing box-less deliveries in 2023. The retail delivery behemoth says it will ramp up efforts to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gXUl1E-Sc Have you noticed that delivery delays are becoming a lot more frequent recently? That’s because a new set of supply chain disruptions are impacting the shipping and trucking industry right now. Both maritime and road transportation companies are facing labor and capacity issues, increased costs, and bankruptcies in recent months, and these problems are …
It wasn’t a day-late April Fool’s joke when we reported on April 2 that the long-dreaded, already-market-damaging “ban” on the sale of incandescent light bulbs was mere months away. Perhaps because the idea of constitutionality has, for some time now, seemingly been banned in America, the incandescent “ban” takes effect on August 1, though Energy Secretary Jennifer …
WASHINGTON (TND) — Schools are taking on social media giants including Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, asserting that the platforms have caused their students harm – particularly regarding issues like cyberbullying and mental health issues linked to social media usage. Approximately 200 school districts have joined the lawsuit against the platforms’ parent companies so far, which has been …
RFK JR: “A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity — It is the beginning of totalitarianism. There's never been a time in history when we look back, and the guys who were censoring people were the good guys.” pic.twitter.com/4jZEAAVEvn — ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) July 20, 2023 MASSIE: “Wow, the irony …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJKDMYy9ZM A car market crash of epic proportions is already in motion, according to new data released by Manheim Market Insights and Cox Automotive. In June, car prices faced a record drop, marking the end of two years of hefty increases. Used vehicles saw the biggest monthly declines since the pandemic boom, while new cars …
Bankrupt FTX is moving ahead with efforts to revive its flagship international cryptocurrency exchange, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing CEO John Ray. The company “has begun the process of soliciting interested parties to the reboot of the FTX.com exchange,” Ray said, according to the Journal’s report. The failed crypto company has been …
There is just too much at stake now for the Obamunists, the Deep State, and the WEF for this to be allowed to fail. After the propaganda surges, the emptying of the treasuries of Europe and America, countries moving away from the dollar, and most importantly, the US Presidential Race beginning, they simply cannot afford …
Air Defender, NATO’s largest Air “Defense” exercise ever held, surpassing even the 80’s era REGORGERs, begins in just 72 hours…. If NATO is going to Intervene in Ukraine, it will happen in the next seven days. Based on just the confirmed Ukie losses alone, that are much higher than expected at this point, and the …
A son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years, began a hunger strike Saturday to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. Hannibal Gaddafi has been held in Lebanon since 2015 after he was kidnapped from neighboring Syria where he had been living as …
