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by Mike Shedlock For the 10th consecutive year, Illinois lost population. Only West Virginia was worse. Illinois Population Drops 10 Consecutive Years The Illinois Policy Institute reports 10th Consecutive Year of Population Decline. Surveys of those who have left the state – where taxes are not a response option – showed the major reasons Illinoisans have chosen to …
Ah yes, just what we all love on a Saturday morning. Math! Can you correctly answer this SAT question? pic.twitter.com/CWUdl8U4hL — Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) December 10, 2023 h/t Dan
Geert Wilders has begun the process of halting the fake refugee invasion into the Netherlands. Next step, mass deportations. https://t.co/ihwU64OWzZ — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 15, 2023
Despite a surge in mortgage rates, home prices continued to rise, registering a 3.9% increase in September compared to the previous year, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index. This growth coincided with a climb in the 30-year fixed mortgage rate towards 8%. While rents show signs of easing, home prices are currently nearly 10% …
via breitbart: Special Counsel Jack Smith, in a search warrant sent to X, formerly Twitter, requested a vast swathe of information about the account of former President Donald J. Trump, as well as information on the millions of accounts that interacted with it — even those that liked a tweet by Trump in the timeframe …
Attorneys for the Justice Department have revealed documents connected to their search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account, indicating that prosecutors collected a massive collection of data about the former President’s social media activity—including information on every account that liked, followed, or retweeted him. The extensively redacted search warrant was revealed as a result of a judge’s …
by DAVID HAGGITH Photo by Quan Nguyen on Unsplash While I’m going to wait until the weekend in my “Deeper Dive” to lay out what really happened in beneath the surface of CPI and what an outright lie that report is so that I can let my head cool before writing, I’ll note that one normally soft-spoken economist …
The housing market appears to be spiraling. Many homeowners, even the affluent ones, seem desperate to sell their properties, some resorting to significant price slashes. For instance, a listing in Houston has seen a substantial -12% price cut, yet it remains unsold. This echoes a broader trend: Wall Street investors are shedding their homes in …
via thetruthaboutguns: From the NRA-ILA . . . Is there anyone or anything that professional ranter, former progressive pillow company executive, and anti-gun activist David Hogg hasn’t blamed for gun crime? The NRA, predictably, has been pretty much at the top of his list (for instance, here, here, and here), but to date, the admittedly far-from-complete list also includes . …
Passengers returning from overseas flights to Kennedy Airport will now have the opportunity to be tested for more than 30 pathogens, including flu and RSV, under the expansion of a 2021 pilot program announced Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The initiative, which will last several months, is part of the CDC’s …
No, this is NOT Gaza ….This is LEBANON tonight…. 🚨No, this is NOT Gaza This is LEBANON tonight pic.twitter.com/DLstWd16dC — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 7, 2023 LEBANON UNDER FIRE pic.twitter.com/xOJ990CYa8 — Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) November 7, 2023 Lebanon is bringing out the big guns For the first time, they have activated their air defense system …
Everyone was tricked into dumping their volatility positions at the worst possible time. — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 25, 2023 #recession … #StockMarket Bubble edition#volatility #VIX 📈 😬 https://t.co/xm7BJe63zl pic.twitter.com/8ibL9o05JU — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) October 25, 2023 #recession … #StockMarket Bubble edition#smallcaps $IWM #RTY_F 📉 🥶 https://t.co/N7GtyHGPEb — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) October 25, 2023 Jeremy Grantham: …
Sen. Josh Hawley instantly dresses down squirming Biden swamp bureaucrat during LIVE hearing If you ever wondered how DC works, Sen. Hawley just exposed it for you🔥 pic.twitter.com/GtWu2osCIV — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 19, 2023
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) …
by Martin Armstrong We have a MAJOR problem with this special counsel, Jack Smith. He sought a gag order to prevent Trump from criticizing President Biden. That had absolutely NOTHING to do with his criminal case. As Epoch Times has pointed out, Smith charged Trump and used grand juries from Washington because 60%+ have responded that they would find Trump guilty …
https://t.co/jLEmm1XthJ — Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 14, 2023 https://t.co/z3zSbdp1CH — Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 14, 2023 h/t Simian_Stacker
In the last 24 hours: – Mortgage rates hit +8.09%– Credit card interest rate hits record high– Car loan interest rate hits highest since 2001– Oil prices jump highest in 6 months– China planning +$137 billion stimulus– War continues on in Israel But guess what? Stocks are… — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) October 10, 2023 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RTLHpVwzmI If you’re worried about your finances, you’re far from alone. U.S. banks are warning that a credit crisis worse than 2008 is on the horizon, and it is coming at the worst possible time for American families. Credit card issuers are about to tighten lending standards even further, making it more difficult for consumers …
John Cusack thinks it’s insane people don’t want all their assets taxed to death. A wealth tax is an idea that seemingly gets debated every few years. The idea is pretty simple on the surface. People are hit with an extra federal tax on assets they own (houses, stock portfolios, 401K, etc) and inheritances in …
The #UNGA High-level meeting on universal health coverage is about to start. We call on leaders to ramp up their actions towards to make the #HealthForAll promise a reality! pic.twitter.com/mo5vh1RkAc — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) September 21, 2023 Remember, you pay high taxes in the US so Europe and Canada can pay less for their …
An Ural Airlines flight was forced to perform an emergency landing in a field in Novosibirsk region. An Airbus A320 en route from Sochi to Omsk declared a mid-flight emergency on Tuesday morning and was redirected to an alternate airfield in Novosibirsk, but failed to reach it, emergency services told Russian media. The aircraft was …
We just met with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, at the Serbian Embassy in Budapest. Here’s what happened. pic.twitter.com/R4fcTMBTlV — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 20, 2023 Cold War / Arms Race of the 80s destroyed the Russian Economy. What goes around comes around. Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s trillion-dollar spending spree has ruined our …
Project Veritas’ account on X sent out an “SOS” claiming the new CEO “just fired us all.” https://twitter.com/thebias_news/status/1692276236981264739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Apparently the new CEO at @Project_Veritas has fired the entire staff pic.twitter.com/GxJrpVQBbE — Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeaceful) August 17, 2023 h/t Terminally Dispelled
Federal Judge Orders Southwest Airlines Attorneys To Take Conservative Christian Group’s Religious Training. “Three senior attorneys for Southwest Airlines have been ordered to take an eight-hour religious liberty training offered by the conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom after a judge said they failed to follow his orders following a flight attendant’s free speech case. U.S. …
United Parcel Service Inc. has become a hot employer since its union last month secured $30 billion in new money over a five-year contract. Online jobs board Indeed Inc. saw a more than 50% increase in searches with “UPS” or “United Parcel Service” in the job title the week after the deal announcement, according to …
🇳🇪🇺🇸 BREAKING: The revolutionary government of Niger has responded to the suspension of US aid by telling the US: “We don’t want your money, use it to fund a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland.” pic.twitter.com/fgCdN5eiMy — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) August 8, 2023
Perfect for who? Oh wait I know 👇 pic.twitter.com/pwSqCLIvL5 — Mr. D (@Dalernaz) August 1, 2023 Good Morning Everyone! Fitch just gave the U.S. a credit rating haircut – from AAA to AA+! They point to “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years”. They also highlight the rising government deficit, which it anticipates “will …
On top of printing $4 trillion, the Fed lowered rates to 0% overnight in March 2020. Now, we have the fastest rate hike campaign in history. It’s unclear if zero interest rate policy was a net positive. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 31, 2023 …
