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Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla: Our oncology drugs will be blockbuster ones “Seagen acquisition and oncology. It is what it is our new Covid. So we did what we did with Covid. We are very proud, we saved the world, but it is behind us now. We want to do once more and I …
by confoundedinterest17 Manufacturer’s Durable Goods New Orders growth peaked in April 2021, thanks in part to M2 Money Growth peaking in February 2021. And its been all downhill since then. Preliminary March data showed a slightly better than expected 2.6% MoM rise (2.5% exp) in the headline orders print. However, thanks to the downward revisions, Durable goods …
by confoundedinterest17 Come feel the noise! After steady growth in 1-unit housing starts under Trump, housing starts have been eratic under Biden despite the foreign invasion force of millions … of low wage workers. The roller-coaster ride in housing permits, starts, and completions in the last few months is set to continue today… and ‘surprise’ they …
Here we go again: BREAKING: Bird flu has infected a dairy herd in Ohio for the first time and was detected in additional herds in Kansas and New Mexico, according to the U.S. government, expanding an outbreak in cows that has raised concerns about possible risks to humans. – Reuters pic.twitter.com/WnoOo4Yy8F — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) …
Bill Maher slammed the MSM and powers that be for attacking and shaming those who dared question COVID restrictions during the pandemic. "A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be correct." pic.twitter.com/8v42EdCxiL — Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) March 31, 2024 AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS: Bill Maher Mercilessly …
by Glenn Reynolds THE MAJORITY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS WERE REVEALED AS CORRUPT, ENTITLED, AND INEPT: Harvard Tramples the Truth: When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn’t the university’s guiding principle. Harvard and the wider scientific community have much work to do to deserve and regain public trust. The first steps are the restoration of …
by confoundedinterest17 In statistics we talk about “jump processes.” Like Federal government spending every time there is a financial crisis like the subprime crisis of 2008-2009 and the Covid lockdowns of 2020. Each crisis brought a jump in the level of spending and jump in Federal debt. Federal debt under Biden started at $27.7 trillion and is …
Closing in on the four years since much of the world seemed to shut down during the initial global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped the five-day isolation guideline for the virus. According to the CDC, the guidelines for COVID-19 are now in line with those of influenza, RSV and …
FIRST ON FOX: Democrat-run states and cities across the country that have been inundated with illegal immigrants in recent months previously earmarked tens of millions of dollars in COVID-19 financial assistance programs to support “undocumented residents.” According to a Fox News Digital review of state and local programs, Democrat governors and mayors earmarked at least …
(Reuters) -The U.S. CDC plans to drop its five-day COVID-19 isolation recommendations under new guidance planned by the agency, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The health agency plans to recommend people who test positive for COVID-19 to take a call on when to end isolation based on their symptoms. People with mild and improving …
by Michael Do you remember the supply chain problems that we experienced during the darkest days of the COVID pandemic? Well, now we are being warned that the crisis in the Red Sea could actually disrupt global supply chains to an even greater degree. Needless to say, this comes at a really bad time because …
Want to avoid Covid? Go VEGAN: Scientists claim plant-based diet may cut risk of catching virus by over a third amid spread of new Juno variant Going vegan could cut your risk of catching Covid, if questionable new research is to be believed. Experts discovered vegetarians and people on a plant-based diet were 39 per …
COVID class-action splurge continues: GWU university near White House pays $5M for shutting down class. Class-action lawyers may have frowned when Cornell University agreed to pay just $3 million last fall to settle a lawsuit seeking tuition refunds from its shutdown of classroom instruction early in the COVID-19 pandemic – a far cry from …
via mises.org: According to the latest monthly statement from the Treasury Department, the total budget deficit for the 2024 fiscal year (which began October 1) has already risen above $380 billion. The new total, which includes the months of October and November, puts the US on track for a total annual deficit of more than …
by confoundedinterest17 C’mon Joe. The media has always reported bad news. Warm and fuzzy doesn’t anger people, but bad news does! And under Bidenomics, there has been a lot of bad news. President Biden railed against corporate media before he and several family members headed by helicopter to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the …
by confoundedinterest17 US factory orders are back in red. Factory orders tumbled even more than expected, down 3.6% MoM – the biggest drop since the COVID lockdowns (April 2020). September was also revised lower (making October’s decline even worse) from +2.8% MoM to +2.3% MoM… Source: Bloomberg The big monthly decline and revisions dragged orders down 2.1% YoY (the …
by confoundedinterest17 Joe Biden has a new name: the crypt keeper. As in the person through his economic screw-ups is causing a massive inflow to cryptos. Anticipation of an eventual US spot Bitcoin ETF – which Bloomberg’s analysts assign a 90% probability of being approved by the SEC in January. as well as surging prices, …
The government’s response to Covid violated our constitutional rights, including the first, fourth, fifth, and seventh amendments. It was a militarized and monetized response; health was never the priority.
“Cyber Threat Intelligence League” reportedly intended to implement “cognitive security,” which involves “preventing malefactors from hacking people’s beliefs.” The public-private efforts to restrict and suppress purported “mis-, dis- and malinformation” across tech platforms started almost immediately after the surprise election of Donald Trump in 2016, ramped up a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, and included …
People who wore protective masks were found to be more likely to contract COVID-19 infections than those who didn’t, according to a recent Norwegian study. Among individuals who “never or almost never” wore masks, 8.6 percent tested positive. That rose to 15 percent among participants who “sometimes” used masks, and to 15.1 percent among those …
Ministers were accused of a cover-up last night after it was revealed that soldiers did secretly spy on British critics of the Government’s response to Covid. The release of new documents contradict official assertions that a shadowy Army unit had only been monitoring foreign powers. The Mail on Sunday revealed earlier this year that military …
With COVID-19 cases rising once again New South Wales, the state’s health authority is encouraging residents to return to habits from the height of the pandemic to limit the spread of the virus. NSW Health announced yesterday that cases have risen in the fortnight to November 4, with just over 11 per cent of PCR …
JUST IN – Anthony Fauci-run lab in U.S. state of Montana used tax payer money to experiment with coronavirus strain shipped in from China's Wuhan a year before Covid pandemic began, Daily Mail reports — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 31, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1719481043491647666 h/t DOORBERT
GLADSTONE, NJ —Massive layoffs will soon be underway as Pfizer will be cutting nearly 800 people from its Gladstone location in the coming new year. Pfizer will lay off 791 employees on Feb. 12, 2024, from its Somerset County corporate office, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification(WARN) Notice shared by the New Jersey …
by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics new theme song is “Addicted To Gov.” Bidenomics needs lots of Federal spending and borrowing to survive. But all this spending and borrowing is causing rapid price increases and other distortions. The US Federal government just added $600 billion in debt in ONE MONTH. And The Fed’s have borrowed $10.47 TRILLION since Covid in Q1 …
“Long colds” can be a thing in the same way that “long Covid” is, with some people experiencing prolonged symptoms after an initial infection, according to a UK study. Common long cold symptoms included a cough, stomach pain and diarrhoea. The findings come from 10,171 adults who completed questionnaires. More work is needed to understand …
The Biden Administration is rewriting the history of COVID. Today, the head of OSHA claimed "we didn't demand that anyone be fired" despite issuing a worker vaccine mandate for 84 million Americans that was struck down by the Supreme Court. Previously, HHS Secretary Becerra… pic.twitter.com/Pi3O8oUgtt — Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) September 27, 2023
via cryptopolitan: The World Trade Monitor, an analytical tool from the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, adds to this gloomy narrative with its June data showing a 2.4% contraction. The implication is evident: the world is slowing down. Post-pandemic, economies had briefly rallied, driven by a surging demand for global goods exports. But alas, …
