Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
by B3stAuD1t0rofA11tiME Every American is technically insolvent when you factor in the National Debt That doesn’t even include unfunded liabilities like insolvent banks that will fail Sure it was smart when everyone refinanced and a great deal for the homeowner but a shitty deal for the lender Homeowners are on the hook anyway for the …
Holy fuck, the government went from "you get free shit" to "you not only get free shit, but its upper middle class free shit, but don't worry taxpayers got the tab" https://t.co/4YIFNxqmLl — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) October 24, 2023 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/RZHc2c2bFY — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) October 25, 2023
“US officials say” always mean CIA/someone wants you to know/believe. These things should be read with a grain of salt. Take into account that all those “crises” were specifically manufactured by the US itself, and from history we know that the US starts a war during serious economical turmoil to get rid of inflationary pressure. …
Yes, this is pretty bad and unsustainable…CBO:Federal Debt Held by the PublicPercentage of GDP pic.twitter.com/2v1YjHLUKX — David Sommers (@dgsommersmkts) October 19, 2023 “Central bankers don’t like to predict storms because everyone knows that if they say a storm is coming, then it’s probably going to be a hurricane…” Inside Job — Nikolay Kolarov, CFA (@libertniko) …
via ZH: The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a bill that will give local and state police the authority to arrest illegal migrants by making it a state crime to cross illegally into the United States. The bill, SB11, enables law enforcement to arrest those who violate the law. Under current law, state and local authorities must seek federal …
A WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice is a notice required by the federal WARN Act in the United States, which mandates that employers with 100 or more employees provide at least 60 days advance written notice of a plant closing or mass layoff affecting 50… — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) October 12, 2023
by confoundedinterest17 Joe Biden is the Buzz Lightyear of the economy … and not in a good way. Under Biden and the Congressional spending sprees, the US debt is going to infinity … and beyond! Twenty days. That’s how long it took the Biden administration to add another half-trillion dollars to the national debt. Bidenomics …
How can we get FTBs onto the housing ladder?@AngelaRayner “Let’s make taxpayers insure taxpayers mortgages. If taxpayers don’t pay the mortgage, then taxpayers pay it” So basically Angela, you wanna turn us taxpayers into a giant Credit Default Swap? You ppl are dangerous. https://t.co/mBuif4m1Tz — Mike Cosgrove (@mikecosgrove) October 8, 2023
The Federal Reserve’s failure to acknowledge the inflationary impact of soaring home prices and its interest rate policies have created a housing market crisis with significant affordability challenges for many Americans. Is this a joke? pic.twitter.com/f3it1Xv6Hg — Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 5, 2023 Clearly, they don't want people buying homes. — Dr Vincent Sativa (@PhantomByteAI) October …
Hear the answers from Professor Sandberg and Professor Olle Kampe. “The mRNA given is very transient” “The amount of side effects noted to date is extremely limited, so I don’t think it’s a major concern” “Well it can’t be integrated into the nucleus, into the DNA, and that’s a safety precaution.” “The effects noted are …
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 digital and programmable. They want …
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
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 in direct and mainly indirect …
"47% of my income goes to rent currently" "I could never buy a home; I currently don't save any money" How will this younger generation ever be able to afford anything? 🔊 … 🚨🚨🚨 Cost of living for rent and food has gotten too far ahead of real income. It doesn’t matter if… pic.twitter.com/KjF7IQKw57 — …
JUST IN: Woke Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley appears to slam former President Donald Trump in his retirement speech, calling Trump a "wannabe dictator." Milley, who once arguably committed treason by promising China he would alert them of a US attack, also accused Trump of… pic.twitter.com/Rl83P12TQn — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 29, 2023 Retiring Chairman …
Cost-of-Living Stress Fuels Crime Wave in Australia, New Zealand (Bloomberg) — A man strolls out of a New Zealand supermarket carrying bags stuffed with nine stolen legs of lamb. Another pushes out a shopping cart stacked with NZ$1,500 ($896) of pilfered corned beef and mayonnaise. Yet another smashes a security guard in the face with …
via venturebeat: Google Bard, the search giant’s conversational AI product, underwent a big update last week that earned mixed reviews. But this week, another, older Bard feature is coming under scrutiny: SEO consultant Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially exposing information …
🇷🇺 Elon Musk is 100% correct to point out that Putin’s concern over Nazism in Ukraine is not “Russian disinformation.” https://t.co/bLmIyKwi7x — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) September 26, 2023 🇨🇦 Canada must be de-Nazified pic.twitter.com/a4XerYZDkp — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) September 27, 2023 In every bad news, there is a good news. After #NaziGate the …
If you don’t see the game being played by the Oligarchs on you by now you never will. This is how all empires end, completely captured by the Military Industrial Complex as Eisenhower warned us about. If you think voting for the tools of Empire like Democrats & Republicans… https://t.co/B30G5q2qwQ — Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) September …
Mystery Grows as Nearly 50 School Children Have Gone Missing in Cleveland in 30 Days and Over 1,000 This Year
Bankruptcy filings have recently reached levels on par with the 2008 Great Recession and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. https://apolloacademy.com/bankruptcies-rising/ His source appears to be this and it only refers to companies with over $50 million in liabilities. So the y-axis is the number of companies filing for bankruptcy, so a peak of an average of …
The Pentagon is part of the government. If the Government shuts down the Pentagon shuts down. The Pentagon can’t exempt itself from a Shutdown. h/t 2201992
by Chris Black Everything can be taken away from you and your life ended without warning. I doubt Danny Masterson ever imagined he would one day be forced to serve a life sentence for engaging in 90s/early 2000s lad culture heavily promoted everywhere back then. Today, all these borderline personality disordered zoomer girls who want …
We’re supposed to believe that other politicians don’t say “whatever it takes to fulfill [their] desires and thirst for power.” I don’t like the way the abnormalization of Trump has come at the cost of stifling our capacity to critique other politicians. The others may be more “normal” than Trump, but since when is …
At the risk of stating the obvious, I don’t know what’s going on with every part of this platform all the time, but our policy worldwide is to fight for maximum freedom of speech under the law. Anyone working for X Corp who does not operate according to this principle will be… https://t.co/9gkIOnF8hu — Elon …
Bill Gates… “You don’t have a choice, you act like you have a choice”… “Normalcy *only* returns when we’ve largely vaccinated the entire global population” pic.twitter.com/RqZuLgWk6J — Pelham (@Resist_05) September 13, 2023
by Qplus17 Britain is working on a new law where people can get 1 year in prison if they don't meet Net Zero goals and reduce their energy consumption. Remember when I warned that climate lockdowns would be coming? — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) September 12, 2023
A medicine used by millions of Americans for a stuffy nose does not work, a Food and Drug Administration panel ruled today. Phenylephrine is the most common active compound in over-the-counter drugs like Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion, Sudafed PE, and Tylenol Cold and Flu Severe Day & Night. But an FDA panel said after a …
via extremetech: NASA’s cost estimates at each stage have been very optimistic, and the GAO objects to the agency’s decision to monitor cost via the five-year production and operations cost estimate. The GAO report says these are poor tools to control costs, and NASA hasn’t even been consistent about updating the five-year estimates. So far, …
